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  • The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

    by Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of history, modernity, and globalization. The burden of The Climate of History in a Planetary Age is to grapple with what this means and to confront humanities scholars with ideas they have been reluctant to ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Provincializing Europe

    Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition

    by Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of capitalist transition in non-Western countries. This imaginary Europe, Dipesh Chakrabarty argues, is built into the social sciences. The very idea of historicizing carries with it some peculiarly ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Calling of History

    Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth

    by Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    A leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870–1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American Historical Association. By the end of his lifetime, however, he had been marginalized by the Indian history establishment, as postcolonial historians embraced alternative approaches in the name of democracy and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cosmopolitanism

    Edited by Carol A. Breckenridge, Sheldon Pollock, Homi K. Bhabha, Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    As the final installment of *Public Culture’*s Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism—or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one’s particular society. With contributions from distinguished scholars in disciplines such as literary studies, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this volume recenters the history and theory ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Crises of Civilization

    Exploring Global and Planetary Histories

    by Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    The world created by the legacies of empire and colonialism now confronts some deep crises of civility, precipitated by globalization and climate change. In this volume, Dipesh Chakrabarty examines these distinct—but interrelated—issues side by side. Varied ideas of civilization and humanism have shaped notions of a global humanity in the lingering twilight of the European empires. Detailing these ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • New Earth Histories

    Geo-Cosmologies and the Making of the Modern World

    Edited by Alison Bashford, Emily M. Kern, Adam Bobbette ...
    A kaleidoscopic rethinking of how we come to know the earth.This book brings the history of the geosciences and world cosmologies together, exploring many traditions, including Chinese, Pacific, Islamic, South and Southeast Asian conceptions of the earth’s origin and makeup. Together the chapters ask: How have different ideas about the sacred, animate, and earthly changed modern environmental ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • One Planet, Many Worlds

    The Climate Parallax

    by Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    Series series The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
    A historian offers a unique look at the pandemic, climate change, and the human versus nonhuman.Climate change represents a deep conundrum for humans. It is difficult for humans to give up the unequal and yet accelerating pursuit of a good life based on an insatiable appetite for energy sourced mainly from fossil fuel. But the same pursuit, scientists insist, damages the geobiological system that ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Postcolonial Economies

    by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Wendy Larner, Roger Lee, Doctor Pat Noxolo, Eiman Zein-Elabdin, Nitasha Kaul, Christine Sylvester, Hilary Lim, Cathy McIlwaine ...
    Postcolonial approaches to understanding economies are of increasing academic and political significance as questions about the nature of globalisation, transnational flows of capital and workers and the making and re-making of territorial borders assume centre stage in debates about contemporary economies and policy.Despite the growing academic and political urgency in understanding how 'other' ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century

    Two Views

    by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ranajit Das Gupta ...
    Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta’s Some Aspects of the Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century presents a sharply posed conversation between them in October 1981 on working-class consciousness in Bengal. The arguments posited here show that rather than being a direct, mechanical outcome of the capitalistic mode of production, working class consciousness is a process. Asking ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Historical Teleologies in the Modern World

    Edited by Henning Trüper, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Sanjay Subrahmanyam ...
    Series series Europe’s Legacy in the Modern World
    Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history – the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process – in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial

    by David Arnold, C.A. Bayly, Tom Brass, Dipesh Chakrabarty ...
    Series series Mappings Series
    Inspired by Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of “history from below.” Later on, the project shifted from its social history origins by drawing upon an eclectic group of thinkers that included Edward Said, Roland Barthes, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    by Wade Davis ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In ... Read more

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