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  • Hobson-Jobson

    The Definitive Glossary of British India

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'A glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive.' Hobson-Jobson is a unique work of maverick scholarship. Compiled in 1886 by two India enthusiasts, it documents the words and phrases that entered English from Arabic, Persian, Indian, and Chinese sources - and vice versa. Described by Salman Rushdie as 'the ... Leer más

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  • A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words And Phrases

    Hobson-Jobson

    Reprint of the second (1939) edition of the work that is still the standard source-book of the Anglo-Indian language. ... Leer más

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  • Imagined Communities

    Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

    **This world-famous work on the origins and development of nationalism examines what drives people to live, die, and kill in the name of nations.“One of the greatest.” —London Review of Books“Anderson transformed the study of nationalism.” —The New York Times“Boldly original.” —Guardian**The full magnitude of Benedict Anderson’s intellectual achievement is still being appreciated and debated. ... Leer más

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  • Local Histories/Global Designs

    Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking

    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of ... Leer más

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  • Fight or Flight

    Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire

    de Martin Thomas ...
    Although shattered by war, in 1945 Britain and France still controlled the world's two largest colonial empires, with imperial territories stretched over four continents. And they appeared determined to keep them: the roll-call of British and French politicians, soldiers, settlers and writers who promised in word and print at this time to defend their colonial possessions at all costs is a long ... Leer más

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  • The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Meursault Investigation with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, which is a sort of epilogue to Camus’ novel The Stranger. It raises interesting questions about the Algerian identity and the French occupation, as it focuses on the family of ‘the Arab’ ... Leer más

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  • Not Like a Native Speaker

    On Languaging as a Postcolonial Experience

    de Rey Chow ...
    Although the era of European colonialism has long passed, misgivings about the inequality of the encounters between European and non-European languages persist in many parts of the postcolonial world. This unfinished state of affairs, this lingering historical experience of being caught among unequal languages, is the subject of Rey Chow's book. A diverse group of personae, never before assembled ... Leer más

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  • A History of the Mahrattas

    In Three Volumes

    A History of the Mahrattas: In Three Volumes by James Grant Duff.The want of a complete history of the rise, progress, and decline of our immediate predecessors in conquest, the Mahrattas, has been long felt by all persons conversant with the affairs of India; in so much, that it is very generally acknowledged, we cannot fully understand the means by which our own vast empire in that quarter was ... Leer más

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  • King Solomon's Mines

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Don't you see that we are buried alive?' When Allan Quatermain is approached by Sir Henry Curtis and his friend Captain Good to search for Sir Henry's missing brother, deep in the African interior, he agrees to lead their expedition. Quatermain has a map to the fabled King Solomon's Mines, whose treasure the missing man sought to attain. Their journey takes them to Kukuanaland, where they find a ... Leer más

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  • The Right of Self-Determination of Peoples

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    Series series Human Rights in History
    The right of self-determination of peoples holds out the promise of sovereign statehood for all peoples and a domination-free international order. But it also harbors the danger of state fragmentation that can threaten international stability if claims of self-determination lead to secessions. Covering both the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century independence movements in the Americas ... Leer más

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  • Inside the Seraglio

    Private Lives of the Sultans in Istanbul

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    This is the story of the House of Osman, the imperial dynasty that ruled the Ottoman Empire for more than seven centuries, an empire that once stretched from central Europe to North Africa and from Persia to the Adriatic. The capital of this empire was Istanbul, ancient Byzantium, a city that stands astride Europe and Asia on the Bosphorus. And it was in the great palace of Topkapi Sarayi that the ... Leer más

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  • The Chartist General

    Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same man would later provoke a war and conquer Sind. In this first-ever scholarly biography of Napier, ... Leer más

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