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  • Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World

    Medicine, Material Culture and Trade, 1600-2000

    Edited by Dr Anne Gerritsen, Burton Cleetus ...
    Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging existing approaches to knowledge, power and the market, it defines 'therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • India's Environmental History—A Reader

    Vol. 1: From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period; Vol. 2: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation

    by Mahesh Rangarajan, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
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  • The Social Edge

    The Power of Sympathy Groups for our Health, Wealth and Sustainable Future

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  • Disease and Medicine in World History

    by Sheldon Watts ...
    Series series Themes in World History
    Disease and Medicine in World History is a concise introduction to diverse ideas about diseases and their treatment throughout the world. Drawing on case studies from ancient Egypt to present-day America, Asia and Europe, this survey discusses concepts of sickness and forms of treatment in many cultures.Sheldon Watts shows that many medical practices in the past were shaped as much by philosophers ... Read more

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  • Water Culture in South Asia: Bangladesh Perspectives

    by shanchett ...
    "Water is life" in Bangladesh. Based on five researchers' long-term involvement with water development programs in eight districts, this book introduces the reader to the vast range of meanings that water has in this South Asian country, where village women struggle daily for access to safe supplies. Mythology, ancient sciences, folklore, and language provide a rich cultural foundation sustaining ... Read more

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  • India and the British Empire

    Edited by Douglas M. Peers, Nandini Gooptu ...
    Series series Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
    South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Gender in History

    Global Perspectives

    by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks ...
    A concise yet comprehensive account of the roles and influences of gender over the millennia, featuring new and updated content throughoutGender in History: Global Perspectives, Third Edition, explores the construction and evolution of gender in many of the world’s cultures from the Paleolithic era to the COVID pandemic of the twenty-first century. Broad in geographic and topical scope, this ... Read more

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  • Empire's Garden

    Assam and the Making of India

    by Jayeeta Sharma ...
    Series series Radical perspectives
    In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. In ... Read more

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  • Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

    The Making of Calcutta

    by Debjani Bhattacharyya ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing ... Read more

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  • Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820–1932

    by Tim Allender ...
    Series Book 136 - Studies in Imperialism
    This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over this long period of study. Drawing on a rich documentary record from archives in the United Kingdom, India, ... Read more

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  • Culture, Health and Disease

    Social and cultural influences on health programmes in developing countries

    Edited by Margaret Read ...
    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are ... Read more

    $73.99 USD