History

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...

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  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...

  Binding: paperback EAN: 9780416716702

  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...

  Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780230323988 Package Dimensions: 4.3 x 3.3 x 0.8 inches Languages: english

        Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 304 Release Date: 01-12-1990 Part Number: 9780140138368 Details: This second volume of a classic introduction to India's history deals with the Mughal and British periods, tracing the continuities that pervaded them. Mughal rule is seen as the precondition for the modern...

    Release Date: 01-12-2011 Details: The earliest coinage of India is known as Punch-marked coins ranging in date from C. 6th Century EC to 3rd Century BC. They were mostly of silver. The bent-bar coins from Taxila form a destined class of Punch-marked coins. The Kushana rulers issues a...

  Brand: National Book Trust   Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 218 Release Date: 01-12-2018 Details: National Culture of India [paperback] S Abid Husain [Jan 01, 2000]… EAN: 9788123701462 Package Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches Languages: English

      Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 216 Release Date: 08-11-2012 Details: Substantially modified and enlarged version of Author's Ancient India: An Introductory Outline (1977). Surveys the major developments in India's social, economic and cultural history up to the end of the ancient period and the beginning of the...

    Binding: Paperback Release Date: 01-12-2011 EAN: 9789350071434

  Brand: Cambridge University Press Edition: Illustrated Binding: paperback Format: Illustrated Number Of Pages: 216 Release Date: 01-12-1998 Details: One fifth of the world's people live in India and Pakistan. Looking back on their first fifty years of independence, leading specialists on South Asia assess their progress and problems, their...

    Binding: Paperback Number Of Pages: 387 Release Date: 20-10-2006 Details: India's Ancient Past is a comprehensive work that captures the historical strides from neolithic and chalcolithic times to Harappan civilization, Vedic times, rise of Mauryas, Gupta's. Satvahanas right up to the times of Harshavardhana. Rise and fall of...

  Details: The work explores the craft of the historian from a number of different angles and discusses what constitutes history and how it should be configured and created in literary form by the historian. The scope of the work is broad across space and time: in one chapter, for...

      Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 1088 Release Date: 29-09-2024 Part Number: Spectrum आधुनिक भारत का इतिहास 2024 Details: पुस्तक के बारे में...पुर्तगालियों के आगमन—भारत में आने वाले प्रथम यूरोपियन जिन्होंने भारत में अपने शक्ति केंद्र स्थापित किए—ने इस विशाल भू-भाग की कोलाहलपूर्ण स्थिति को उजागर किया। यद्यपि...