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  • India: The Ancient Past

    A History of the Indian Subcontinent from c. 7000 BCE to CE 1200

    de Burjor Avari ...
    India: The Ancient Past provides a clear and systematic introduction to the cultural, political, economic, social and geographical history of ancient India from the time of the pre-Harappan culture nine thousand years ago up until the beginning of the second millennium of the Common Era. The book engages with methodological and controversial issues by examining key themes such as the Indus ... Leer más

    Antes $66.99 USD Ahora $59.99 USD

  • Islamic Civilization in South Asia

    A History of Muslim Power and Presence in the Indian Subcontinent

    de Burjor Avari ...
    Muslims have been present in South Asia for 14 centuries. Nearly 40% of the people of this vast land mass follow the religion of Islam, and Muslim contribution to the cultural heritage of the sub-continent has been extensive. This textbook provides both undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as the general reader, with a comprehensive account of the history of Islam in India, ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Garden of Truth

    Knowledge, Love, and Action

    de Seyyed Hossein Nasr ...
    The headlines are filled with the politics of Islam, but there is another side to the world's fastest-growing religion. Sufism is the poetry and mysticism of Islam. This mystical movement from the early ninth century rejects worship motivated by the desire for heavenly reward or the fear of punishment, insisting rather on the love of God as the only valid form of adoration. Sufism has made ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Pakistan

    A Hard Country

    de Anatol Lieven ...
    **A sophisticated look at Pakistan—one of the most overlooked, yet vastly consequential, countries of modern times“Lieven’s eye for detail, command of subcontinental history and old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting make this in many ways an excellent primer on Pakistan.” —Wall Street JournalNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Daily Telegraph and The Independent**Since Pakistan’s formation as a ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Three Famines

    Starvation and Politics

    de Thomas Keneally ...
    Famine may be triggered by nature but its outcome arises from politics and ideology. In Three Famines, award-winning author Thomas Keneally uncovers the troubling truth -- that sustained widespread hunger is historically the outcome of government neglect and individual venality. Through the lens of three of the most disastrous famines in modern history -- the potato famine in Ireland, the famine ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Indian Mutiny

    de Julian Spilsbury ...
    An epic true story of treachery, revenge and courageThe Indian Mutiny is a real page-turner, an epic story with surprising modern parallels. Fomer army officer-turned-TV scriptwriter, Julian Spilsbury is the ideal author to take us back to the desperate summer of 1857 when thousands of Indian soldiers mutinied. They murdered their officers, hunted down the women and children and burned and ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Wave of Destruction

    The Stories of Four Families and History's Deadliest Tsunami

    de Erich Krauss ...
    This exquisitely written book puts a human face on the tragedy of 2004's Southeast Asian tsunami through the heartbreaking and heroic stories of four who survived this cataclysmic natural disaster.Erich Krauss arrived in the Thai village of Nam Keam on a relief truck 12 days after an underwater earthquake of unimaginable magnitude erupted across the ocean floor and unleashed a tsunami that ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • In the Valley of Mist

    Kashmir: One Family In A Changing World

    de Justine Hardy ...
    A personal, moving, and vibrant picture of one of the most beautiful and troubled places in the world, described through the experiences of one family, whose fortunes have changed dramatically with those of the region.If there is a paradise on earth, it is definitely here, here and only here," said the early seventeenth-century Mughal Emperor Jehangir when describing the Kashmir Valley. But for ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The Modern Spirit of Asia

    The Spiritual and the Secular in China and India

    de Peter van der Veer ...
    A comparative look at religion and spirituality in postcolonial China and IndiaThe Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in unique and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins with nineteenth-century imperial history, exploring how Western ... Leer más

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  • Kathmandu

    de Thomas Bell ...
    One of the greatest cities of the Himalaya, Kathmandu, Nepal, is a unique blend of thousand-year-old cultural practices and accelerated urban development. In this book, Thomas Bell recounts his experiences from his many years in the city—exploring in the process the rich history of Kathmandu and its many instances of self-reinvention.Closed to the outside world until 1951 and trapped in a medieval ... Leer más

    $16.59 USD

  • Thin Places

    A Pilgrimage Home

    de Ann Armbrecht ...
    Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one might finally come home, a particular paradox in a culture that lacks deep ties to the natural world. During the 1990s, Ann Armbrecht, an American anthropologist, made several trips to northeastern Nepal to research how the Yamphu Rai acquired, farmed, and held onto their land; how they perceived their area ... Leer más

    $31.49 USD

  • Mumbai Fables

    de Gyan Prakash ...
    A sweeping cultural history of India’s largest cityA place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires and ambitions. Mumbai Fables explores the mythic ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD