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    Details: This insightful collection of essays is a commentary on the last six years of the Middle East peace process, in which Edward Said has been virtually a lone voice in the West supporting the rights of the Palestinian people. Said questions the efficacy of Arafat's leadership, which...

    Details: Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951.In 1851, Britain was the dominant economic power in an increasingly global economy. The...

  Details: In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large...

   Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century,New AsianMarxisms collects essays by a diverse group of scholars―historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists―who offer a range of studies of the Marxist heritage focusing on Korea, Japan, India, and...

    Details: This is a concise introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the last millennium bc: Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded by Seleucus around 300 bc and defeated...

Author: Smith, Jim Edition: 1 Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 368 Release Date: 13-08-2002 Details: A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war.How close did the Japanese come to not...

   

Author: Bradford, Ernle Brand: The History Press   Details: Ernle Bradford is a great historian of the Mediterranean and its peoples. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War with The Odyssey always at the foot of his bunk. Having settled in Malta after the war, he...

    Details: Around the turn of the nineteenth century, the north-western littoral of India—largely comprising of Gujarat, Kathiawad, Cutch and Sind—was battered by piratical raids. These attacks disrupted coastal trade and embarrassed the English East India Company by defying the very boundaries of law and sovereignty that the Company...

  Brand: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications Edition: Illustrated Binding: paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 448 Release Date: 05-12-2007 Part Number: Illustrated Details: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Sweeping across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature shows that, from the moment of their conception, modern ecological...

  Details: Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy to carry. It can be an ideal gift to yourself and to your loved ones....

  Details: Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the book ‘The Discovery of India’, during his imprisonment at Ahmednagar fort for participating in the Quit India Movement (1942 – 1946). The book was written during Nehru’s four years of confinement to solitude in prison and is his way of paying an homage to...

  Brand: Cambridge University Press Edition: 2 Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 271 Release Date: 14-02-2011 Part Number: YES4278598 Details: Jane Austen's stock in the popular marketplace has never been higher, while academic studies continue to uncover new aspects of her engagement with her world. This fully updated edition of...

  Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 148 Release Date: 01-12-2008 Details: Continuum s Reader s Guides are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy. Each book explores the major themes, historical and philosophical context and key passages of a major philosophical text, guiding the reader towards a...

  Details: Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy to carry. It can be an ideal gift to yourself and to your loved ones....

  Brand: Orient Blackswan Features: Book - a concise history of indian literature in english Language: english Binding: paperback Binding: paperback Release Date: 01-01-2017 EAN: 9788178244846 Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches

  Features: Language Published: English Binding: unknown_binding Part Number: 10438 EAN: 9789390035861 Package Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches Languages: English

  Brand: PEARSON EDUCATION   Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 424 Release Date: 01-01-2014 Details: Modern India provides an insight into the historiography of India and its freedom struggle from the colonial era to the year of Independence. It uses archival data from various sources and collates it with new...

  Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 240 Release Date: 29-05-2012 Details: America's economic growth for the past three decades has been largely attributed to the willingness of Chinese laborers to slave away in factories. As China begins to take on a more significant role in international affairs and as commodity...

    Details: The primary purpose of this book is to present some of the key economic concepts that have guided economic thinking in the last century and to identify which of these concepts will continue to direct economic thought in the coming decades. This book is written in an...

This book is written as much for the general reader interested in India's antiquity and its pioneering archaeologists, as for students of the history of archaeology, colonialism, and constructions of the past. It breaks colonial archaeology down into its specific constituents and examines the ideas, impulses, tensions, and individual contributions...

      Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 102 Release Date: 02-04-2018 Details: This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influences the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for...

  Brand: Cambridge University Press Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 302 Release Date: 19-08-2003 Details: The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan: The Rise in Civilization in India and Pakistan EAN: 9788185618722 Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches Languages: English

Basham presents a survey of Indian culture, covering aspects such as religion, philosophy, social organisation, literature, art, architecture, music and science. This book deals with the influence of Indian civilisation on the world and details of the political history of the region to provide a chronological framework for the non-specialist.

This Fissured Land, first published in 1992, presents an interpretative history ecological history of the Indian subcontinent. It offers a theory of ecological prudence and profligacy, testing this theory across the wide sweep of South Asian history. The book especially focuses on the use and abuse of forest resources. In...

Written by two of the leading scholars in film studies, Film History: An Introduction is a comprehensive, global survey of the medium that covers the development of every genre in film, from drama and comedy to documentary and experimental. As with the authors' bestselling Film Art: An Introduction (now in...

    Number Of Pages: 370 Release Date: 01-12-1982 Details: This book covers the major topics of modern world history in a clear and concise style. After a general introduction, themes are developed in more detail, with headings, key words, and phrases underlined. With its easy to follow cross-referencing and...

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    Features: New Mint Condition Dispatch same day for order received before 12 noon Guaranteed packaging No quibbles returns Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 523 Release Date: 01-01-2004 Part Number: 4 maps Details: From Plassey To Partition: A History of Modern India begins with the disintegration and downfall of...

  Features: 536 Binding: Paperback Release Date: 01-12-2024 EAN: 9788122911732

    Binding: Paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 208 Release Date: 03-07-1985 EAN: 9780140225754 Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches Languages: english

  Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 240 Release Date: 28-05-1987 EAN: 9780140227192 Package Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.0 x 0.7 inches Languages: english

  Edition: Reprint Edition. Binding: paperback Release Date: 01-07-1965 Part Number: 9780140207118 EAN: 9780140207118 Package Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 0.7 inches Languages: English

    Features: Used Book in Good Condition Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 432 Release Date: 04-12-1984 Details: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution EAN: 9780140551471 Package Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches Languages: English

      Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 224 Release Date: 30-10-1991 Details: In this collection of 15 essays the author of "The Ancient Greeks" and "The World of Odysseus" highlights aspects of the ancient world ranging from Minoan Crete to the decline of the Roman Empire 20 centuries later....

      Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 464 Release Date: 01-12-1997 Details: Product Description The last of nine volumes in a major new Penguin History of Britain. Written from a broad and considered perspective, each self-contained volume forms a compelling narrative history which blends scholarship with insight. Not only...