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  • Churchill, Roosevelt and India

    Propaganda During World War II

    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
    As the United States was drawn into the Second World War, pressure grew from a number of nations for India’s independence. Prime Minister Churchill, in Britain's name, engaged deliberately in propaganda in the United States to persuade the American public and, through it, President Roosevelt that India should not be granted self-government at that time. Weigold adroitly unravels the reasons why ... Leer más

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  • The Sewing Circle

    Hollywood's Greatest Secret—Female Stars Who Loved Other Women

    de Axel Madsen ...
    Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck—to name a few—maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to studio publicity departments. But off the set, all three box office divas were involved in "lavender" marriages (marriages of convenience, often to gay men) or remained stoically single ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge History of India: Volume 1, Ancient India

    de E.J. Rapson ...
    The Cambridge History of India, Ancient India is an authoritative history of India from the beginning of history until the time after Alexander the Greats conquest. 26 chapters and over 500 full-length pages discuss topics such as the geography of India, the ethnic origins of its people, the history of the Aryans and the Jains, and Indias interactions with Greece, Persia, Scythia, and Parthia. ... Leer más

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  • The Moghul

    de Thomas Hoover ...
    THE MOGHUL was immediately a European bestseller, optioned by Indian producers who commissioned a six-hour mini-series, then Canadian producers with the BBC.Based on real people (ca. 1620) – THE MOGHUL begins in a rip-roaring sea battle north of Bombay in which the vastly out-gunned adventurer, Brian Hawksworth, ship's captain and emissary of King James, blows away a flotilla of Portuguese ... Leer más

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  • The Sikhs of the Punjab

    de J. S. Grewal ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of India
    In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human settlements in the region until the fifteenth century and the emergence of the Punjabi language as the basis ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Poles in India 1942-1948

    This Indian adventure is intrinsically linked to World War II: after the deportations to the Soviet Union a group of Poles found safe refuge in India, where they would stay until the end of the War , hoping to return to their own country. Unfortunately the Yalta Agreements made that impossible. Very few people went back to Communist Poland; the great majority scattering throughout the Western ... Leer más

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  • Tamil Brahmans

    The Making of a Middle-Class Caste

    " An impressive biography. . . . [A] standard reference in the scholarship of Tamil Nadu and the conundrum of caste and class." — American AnthropologistA cruise along the streets of Chennai—or Silicon Valley—filled with professional young Indian men and women, reveals the new face of India. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a global visibility of rapid economic advancement and ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Metabolic Living

    Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India

    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Flowers in the Wall

    Truth and Reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and Melanesia

    Edición de David Webster ...
    Series Libro 1 - Global Indigenous Issues
    Truth and reconciliation is complex, complicated, and ongoing. Although the operational phases of truth commissions have been well examined, the efforts to establish these commissions and the struggle to put their recommendations into effect are often overlooked. Flowers in the Wall explores the experience of truth and reconciliation in Timor-Leste, Indonesia, and the Solomon Islands. It examines ... Leer más

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  • Democratic Transition and Security in Pakistan

    Edición de Shaun Gregory ...
    Series series Asian Security Studies
    This volume examines the trajectory of Pakistan’s democratic transition and the implications of this change for its security.In May 2013, for the first time in its 66-year history, Pakistan saw an elected government complete a full term in office and transfer power through the ballot box to another civilian government. At this important moment in Pakistan’s history, this collection brings together ... Leer más

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  • Specters of Mother India

    The Global Restructuring of an Empire

    Series series Radical Perspectives
    Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of Mother India, an exposé written by the American journalist Katherine Mayo. Mother India provided graphic details of a variety of social ills in ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Household

    Informal Order around the Hearth

    Some people dwell alone, many in family-based households, and an adventuresome few in communes. The Household is the first book to systematically lay bare the internal dynamics of these and other home arrangements. Legal underpinnings, social considerations, and economic constraints all influence how household participants select their homemates and govern their interactions around the hearth. ... Leer más

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