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  • Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900

    by Sumit Guha, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five hundred years when successive empires struggled to harness lands and peoples to their agendas across Asia. Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400–1900 ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Tribe and State in Asia through Twenty-Five Centuries

    by Sumit Guha ...
    Series series Asia Shorts
    Every literate person today will encounter the word “tribe” in many settings. What does this word mean? When and how did its use begin? Is it a good label for any contemporary social organization? Is it relevant for policymakers to think with? Academics have often critiqued its use, but that has not suppressed its ubiquity. Why?This book offers answers to all the above. In order to keep it ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Tribe and State in Asia through Twenty-Five Centuries

    by Sumit Guha ...
    Series series Asia Shorts
    Every literate person today will encounter the word “tribe” in many settings. What does this word mean? When and how did its use begin? Is it a good label for any contemporary social organization? Is it relevant for policymakers to think with? Academics have often critiqued its use, but that has not suppressed its ubiquity. Why?This book offers answers to all the above. In order to keep it ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia

    Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800

    by Sumit Guha, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Sunjay Subrahmanyam ...
    In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed South Asian cultures, particularly how Western modes of thought became dominant, requires knowing ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

    by Sumit Guha, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...
    Series series Global South Asia
    In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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    A New History of Humanity

    by David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
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  • The Origins of Political Order

    From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

    by Francis Fukuyama ...
    A landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 titleVirtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that ... Read more

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  • Empires of the Silk Road

    A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

    by Christopher I. Beckwith ...
    The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and ... Read more

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  • Why the West Rules—for Now

    The Patterns of History, and What They Reveal About the Future

    by Ian Morris ...
    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year"A remarkable book . . . an important book—one that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start right here."— The EconomistSometime around 1750, English entrepreneurs unleashed the astounding energies of steam and coal, and the world was forever changed. The emergence of ... Read more

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  • Day of Empire

    How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall

    by Amy Chua ...
    In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires—or hyperpowers—rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliant chapter-length studies, she examines the most powerful cultures in history—from the ancient empires of Persia and China to the recent global empires of England and the United States—and reveals the reasons behind their success, as well as the ... Read more

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  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

    by James C. Scott ...
    For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge ... Read more

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  • The Silk Road

    A Very Short Introduction

    by James A. Millward ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short Introduction illuminates the historical background against which the silk road flourished, ... Read more

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