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  • Ocean as Method

    Thinking with the Maritime

    by Dilip M Menon, Nishat Zaidi, Simi Malhotra, Saarah Jappie ...
    Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels ring alarm bells across the world, the chapters in the volume argue that it is time to think through oceans to realign ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • Globalisation In World History

    by A G Hopkins ...
    Globalisation was the buzzword of the 1990s; it promises to become even more important in the first decade of the new century. There is now a flood of literature on the economics, politics and sociology of globalization, and regular commentary in the serious daily and weekly press.Virtually all of this discussion makes assumptions, and frequently explicit claims, about the novelty of globalisation ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Melayu

    The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness

    Edited by Maznah Mohamad, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied ...
    People within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word Melayu, which can be loosely translated as Malayness. Questions of whether the Filipinos are properly called "Malay", or the Mon-Khmer speaking Orang Asli in Malaysia, can generate heated debates. So too can the question of whether it is appropriate to speak of a kebangsaan Melayu (Malay as nationality) as ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • In Asian Waters

    Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

    by Eric Tagliacozzo ...
    A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan—grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Rule of the Clan

    What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals About the Future of Individual Freedom

    by Mark S. Weiner ...
    A revealing look at the role kin-based societies have played throughout history and around the worldA lively, wide-ranging meditation on human development that offers surprising lessons for the future of modern individualism, The Rule of the Clan examines the constitutional principles and cultural institutions of kin-based societies, from medieval Iceland to modern Pakistan.Mark S. Weiner, an ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Intellectuals in Developing Societies

    by Syed Hussein Alatas ...
    First published in 1977. During a time of reflection after the author’s withdrawal from active politics after four years of effort in Malaysia to promote an alternative to the present government this book was written. His experience as the national chairman of an opposition party, between 1968 and 1971, and presence in the Malaysian Senate in 1971 brought him face to face with problems that were ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Family

    A World History

    by Mary Jo Maynes, Ann Waltner ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    People have always lived in families, but what that means has varied dramatically across time and cultures. The family is not a "natural" phenomenon but an institution with a dynamic history stretching 10,000 years into the past. Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner tell the story of this fundamental unit from the beginnings of domestication and human settlement. They consider the codification of rules ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • People of the Maldive Islands

    by Clarence Maloney ...
    This book is an engagingly told cultural historical narrative of the island nation of the Maldive Islands from the earliest references in Indian and European classics. It also narrates the story of the settlement by people from South India and Sri Lanka, and their later conversion to Islam. The second half of the book is an anthropological perspective of life as it was in the mid-1970s, with ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Oceanic Histories

    Edited by David Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram ...
    Series series Cambridge Oceanic Histories
    Oceanic Histories is the first comprehensive account of world history focused not on the land but viewed through the 70% of the Earth's surface covered by water. Leading historians trace the history of the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans and seas, from the Arctic and the Baltic to the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan/Korea's East Sea, over the longue durée. Individual chapters trace the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Wild Fictions

    Essays on Literature, Empire, and the Environment

    by Amitav Ghosh ...
    From the 2025 recipient of the Pak Kyongni Prize, often referred to as Korea's Nobel Prize in Literature.A collection of essays on themes central to Ghosh's work: imperialism and decolonization, climate change, and the stories of ordinary people making lives amid these historical forces.Wild Fictions brings together Amitav Ghosh's extraordinary writings on subjects that have obsessed him over the ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • After the Fact

    Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist

    by Clifford Geertz ...
    Series series The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures
    "Suppose," Clifford Geertz suggests, "having entangled yourself every now and again over four decades or so in the goings-on in two provincial towns, one a Southeast Asian bend in the road, one a North African outpost and passage point, you wished to say something about how those goings-on had changed." A narrative presents itself, a tour of indices and trends, perhaps a memoir? None, however, ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Words in Motion

    Toward a Global Lexicon

    by Itty Abraham ...
    On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD