British in India, Hardcover

Reducere. Modern day kids Annie and Nico go on a magical history tour to find out how modern-day India became the way it is. Much of which is due to one man ...

William Somerset Maugham, CH (25 January 1874 - 16 December 1965), better known as W. Somerset Maugham, was an English playwright, novelist, and sh...

Reducere. Shashi Tharoor is the wizard of words. In Tharoorosaurus, he shares fifty-three examples from his vocabulary: unusual words from every letter of th...

DescriptionA revelatory memoir about sex, oppression, and the universal struggle for justice. From his time as a child in 1960s India, Siddharth Du...

It is the searing month of June. The rebellion against the British has just begun and Awadh is up in flames. Hindus and Muslims have joined hands t...

Reducere. Designed for parents and elementary/middle grade students (grades 4-8) to share together, The Story of the World, Volume 4 Revised Edition: The Mod...

The murder of a shipping clerk . . . the strange disappearance of trusted friends . . . rumors of corruption within the powerful East India Company...

DescriptionThe 3rd Afghan War in 1919 was the only time that the Afghans invaded British India during Britain's long history of conflict in Afghani...

Reducere. Mahatma Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. both shook, and changed, the world, in their quest for peace among all people, but what threads ...

Reducere. Khaldoun Fansa is an Aleppo native who was displaced by the Syrian Civil War. For many years he worked as an architect who managed restoration of A...

After writing Elementary Geography for earlier grades, Ms Mason wrote this book, the second in her series of five readers, to teach students about ...

Reducere. Forster connects personal relationships with the politics of colonialism through the story of the Englishwoman Adela Quested, the Indian Dr. Aziz, ...

For fans of all ages, legendary British writer Rudyard Kipling's complete collection of enchanting fables set in India--the basis of the beloved an...

Reducere. Rudyard Kipling's Kim is the tale of an Irish orphan raised as an Indian vagabond on the rough streets of colonial Lahore. Young Kimball O'Hara's c...

Reducere. The author of the Reese Witherspoon Book Club selection Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows follows her acclaimed America debut with this life-affirm...

It's Chris Jagger's turn to lift the lid on one of the most colorful and exotic periods in British cultural history. He unrolls an insider's tale o...

- The latest volume of the best portraits from around the world to accompany a globe-touring exhibition, held during 2021-2022. Dates and locations...

Following a bloody, violent struggle, in 1971 East Pakistan became the independent state of Bangladesh. Caught in the midst of this conflict were t...

The firm of Royal Enfield was one of the best-known names of the British motorcycle industry, but curiously its products have never received the ad...

In 1850, the legendary Koh-i-noor diamond, gem of Eastern potentates, was transferred from the Punjab in India and, in an elaborate ceremony, place...

Bombay's first female lawyer, Perveen Mistry, is compelled to bring justice to the family of a murdered female Parsi student just as Bombay's stree...

Lord Lansdowne (1845-1927) was one of the last hereditary aristocrats to wield power by virtue of his birth--and he used it to establish himself as...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of India, then keep reading...India is a land of mystery, richness, and deep spiritual discovery. E...

Reducere. Designed for parents and elementary/middle grade students (grades 4-8) to share together, The Story of the World, Volume 4 Revised Edition: The Mod...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of India, then keep reading...Three captivating manuscripts in one book: History of India: A Captiv...

How did an ancient Indian spiritual discipline turn into a $20+ billion-a-year mainstay of the global wellness industry? What happened along yoga's...

Reducere. The Moonstone is a stunning yellow diamond the size of a bird's egg that glows like the harvest moon and harbors a flaw in its brilliant depths. In...

DescriptionA Search in Secret India is the story of Paul Brunton's journey around India, living among yogis, mystics and gurus, some of whom he fou...

Reducere. The intimate story of a unique marriage spanning the heights of British glamour and power that descends into infidelity, manipulation, and disaster...

Reducere. The idea of this book is that language is too interesting to be enjoyed exclusively by linguists.This is undoubtedly unfair to linguists--not peopl...

Reducere. The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine is the latest installment in the Beatles Album Series by Beatles historian Bruce Spizer. The ...

DescriptionTwo years before T E Lawrence received orders to travel to the Hejaz to liaise with the leader of the Arab Revolt, other British officer...

A ground-breaking account of British and French efforts to channel their eighteenth-century geopolitical rivalry into peaceful commercial competiti...

In the mid-19th century, as new routes opened up, a new generation of travelers embarked on excursions to India, China and Japan. Globetrotters--le...

This stunning and witty collection of contemporary art maps from artist Adam Dant offers a unique view of British history and society today. Award-...

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to...

The first collection of vegetarian recipes from culinary legend Elizabeth David Elizabeth David revolutionized British cooking, her recipes bringin...

Reducere. Peter Hathaway Capstick died in 1996. At the time of his death, the world-renowned adventure writer was putting the finishing touches on this, a st...

Reducere. In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map for...

Reducere. As a young writer living in Lahore during the time of the British Raj, Rudyard Kipling (1865--1936) was possessed by an enormous subject--India--an...

Reducere. The compelling story of a trek across an exotic land-and the sinister consequencesIt was an SS mission led by two complex individuals-one who was u...

DescriptionFighting the People's War is an unprecedented, panoramic history of the 'citizen armies' of the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, India...

Reducere. Together in one place, this is a collection of most important works of Bhagat Singh, the Indian communist revolutionary who was executed by the Bri...

Reducere. This book brings together more than 75 colour illustrations of the Great Exhibition of 1851, produced by several contemporary Victorian artists, fo...

Style icon India Hicks's charming take on entertaining, featuring dreamy tablescapes, found centerpieces, and enjoyable family anecdotes. Daughter ...

How India's Constitution came into being and instituted democracy after independence from British rule.Britain's justification for colonial rule in...

As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company offi...

- This book covers all early Indian objects (pre-600 AD) held by the Department of Eastern Art in the Ashmolean Museum- Contains previously unpubli...

Reducere. In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain's 'conscious and deliberate bleeding of India... was the] greatest c...

A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today's international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1939 Hitler went to war not just with Great Britain; he also went to war with the whole of the British Empire, the greatest empire th...

A look at the painting traditions of northwestern India in the eighteenth century, and what they reveal about the political and artistic changes of...

Reducere. Debunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone or marginal frontier, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first M...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Nobel Laureate in Physics, was a towering figure in 20th century physics, but remained a highly private man. The many l...

Reducere. A comprehensive monograph of artistic travel at the height of British imperial power. Kenneth McConkey takes us around the world to show how Britis...