The Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India, Paperback - Somaditya Banerjee

This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian ...

Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the ...

Can a subject be sovereign in a hegemony? Can creativity be reined in by forces of empire? Studying closely the oral narrations and writings of fou...

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Reducere. Foreword by James ScottThis classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonia...

A History of Modern India - Ishita Banerjee-Dube

DescriptionWhen thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for I...

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Reducere. What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? Ranajit Guha points out that the colonial state in South Asia was fundamentally different from th...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Dwaipayan BanerjeeIllustration(s): 9 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 288Publication date: ...

Modern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the influence...

In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee ...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Shi'a Islam in Colonial India: Religion, Community and Sectarianism - Justin Jones

Reducere. A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis ...

Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India: Trials of an Interracial Family - Chandra Mallampalli

In the 1960s and 1970s, a team of leading architects established a new type of collective housing in the London Borough of Camden. In place of towe...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter PesicIllustration(s): 143 figuresNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 231 x 28Cover...

This study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. This Element will look at this ph...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

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William Bennett's moral guide for children, "A Book of Virtues", was a national bestseller. Yet, many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, ...

Reducere. Acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, returns with a lacerating analysis of the history of st...

A gripping and fast-paced narrative, Pulizer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik tells the story of the titanic battle between two giants of the Gilded Ag...

Reducere. Chosen as one of the top history book of the year by The Economist From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of...

The only textbook to support study of the National 4 & 5 History topic The Making of Modern Britain 1880-1951Publisher: Hodder EducationAuthor(s): ...

The Political Philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal: Islam and Nationalism in Late Colonial India - Iqbal Singh Sevea

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Mark MazowerNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 166 x 240 x 44Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of sh...

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This account of the life of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel follows his beginnings in the Lower East Side of New York to his role in the development of the...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Takaaki InuzukaIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorTranslator: Haruko LauriePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x...

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spik...

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Col...

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Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...

Reducere. During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate, " a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived...

Reducere. From the former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, the first biography of advertising maverick David OgilvyFamous for his colorful personality and formidable ...

Reducere. When this work - one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields - first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of th...

Shows how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal chang...

The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: "It wouldn't have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around." ... H...

Celluloid Classicism provides a rich and detailed history of two important modern South Indian cultural forms: Tamil Cinema and Bharatanatyam dance.

Reducere. DescriptionThough the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occu...

Reducere. Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudevill...