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  • The International Handbook on the Sociology of Education

    An International Assessment of New Research and Theory

    by Siikka Aapola, Jason Chang, A B. Dijkstra, Jaap Dronkers, Tuula Gordon, Honario Martin Izquierdo, Ingrid Jonsson, Steve Jordan, Yaacov J. Katz, John P. Keeves, Katja Komonen, David Konstantinovski, Alkistis Kontoyianni, Elina Lahelma, Peter Lang, David MacLennan, Isabel Menezes, Almudena Moreno Minguez, Martin D. Munk, Sean Neill, Jules Peschar, Sally Power, Arja Puurula, Zhang Renjie, Shlomo Romi, Lawrence J. Saha, Antonio Teodoro, Raf Vanderstraeten, Lisa Vasileiou, Lennart Vriens, Geoff Whitty, Gad Yair ...
    The twentieth century has been marked by the expansion of educational opportunities worldwide. It has been the century of education, and the role of the state in the promotion of public education has been decisive. Yet, at the millennium's turn efforts to diminish the role of the state are rapidly changing education, especially in terms of its role in democracy. This comprehensive handbook offers ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Law, Disorder and the Colonial State

    Corruption in Burma c.1900

    by J. Saha ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In this original study British rule in Burma is examined through quotidian acts of corruption. Saha outlines a novel way to study the colonial state as it was experienced in everyday life, revealing a complex world of state practices where legality and illegality were inseparable: the informal world upon which formal colonial power rested. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Inheritance of Loss

    by Kiran Desai ...
    Winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award, Kiran Desai’s extraordinary novel of love and loss, now reissued with a new introduction by the authorPublished to astonishing acclaim, The Inheritance of Loss heralds Kiran Desai as one of our most insightful novelists. In a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, an embittered ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • India

    A Short History

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series A Short History
    India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • A History of Bangladesh

    by Willem van Schendel ...
    Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose history is little known to the wider world. A country chiefly famous in the West for media images of poverty, underdevelopment, and natural disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's history reveals the country's vibrant, colourful past and its diverse culture as it navigates the extraordinary twists ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Princely India and the British

    Political Development and the Operation of Empire

    by Caroline Keen ...
    In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Gender and Violence in British India

    The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919

    by R. McLain ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Burden of History

    Assam and the Partition—Unresolved Issues

    by Udayon Misra ...
    The Partition of India left in its wake far-reaching consequences for the northeastern state of Assam. Appearing to be caught in a time warp, the region continues to grapple with questions that engaged the public mind more than seven decades ago, before and immediately after the Partition. Alarmingly, issues such as immigration, demographic change, language, and identity have not only retained ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Myanmar

    A Political History

    by Nehginpao Kipgen ...
    Myanmar, since its independence from the British in 1948, has witnessed decades of military dictatorship, a plethora of ethnic and political problems, and an arduous struggle to political normalcy and democracy. Reinventing its place in international trade, diplomacy, and geo-strategy, Myanmar today presents a complex picture—and how it engages with its own history plays an important part in this ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Indian Muslim Minorities and the 1857 Rebellion

    Religion, Rebels and Jihad

    by Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst ...
    While jihad has been the subject of countless studies in the wake of recent terrorist attacks, scholarship on the topic has so far paid little attention to South Asian Islam and, more specifically, its place in South Asian history. Seeking to fill some gaps in the historiography, Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst examines the effects of the 1857 Rebellion (long taught in Britain as the 'Indian Mutiny') ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Bangladesh

    A Political History since Independence

    by Ali Riaz ...
    Bangladesh is a country of paradoxes. The eighth most populous country of the world, it has attracted considerable attention from the international media and western policy-makers in recent years, often for the wrong reasons: corruption, natural disasters caused by its precarious geographical location, and volatile political situations with several military coups, following its independence from ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Race, Religion and Law in Colonial India

    Trials of an Interracial Family

    by Chandra Mallampalli ...
    Series Book 19 - Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
    How did British rule in India transform persons from lower social classes? Could Indians from such classes rise in the world by marrying Europeans and embracing their religion and customs? This book explores such questions by examining the intriguing story of an interracial family who lived in southern India in the mid-nineteenth century. The family, which consisted of two untouchable brothers, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD