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• Publisher: Haymarket Books • Publisher Imprint: Haymarket Books • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis important book critically engages with the dynamics of caste in the politics of West Bengal, which unlike other parts of India has remained relati...

• Author(s): Rab Houston • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralScotland's past is too often seen through a film of myths and misconceptions. In this Very Short Intr...

• Author(s): Jim Bennett • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Maritime History & PiracyFrom the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navi...

• Author(s): Nina Sabnani • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book leads us on a journey to uncover the myths and mysteries of the unique oral-storytelling tradition o...

• Author(s): Whelen, Colonel Townsend • Publisher: Nelson Press • Publisher Imprint: Nelson Press • BISAC: GeneralThis vintage text contains a comprehensive handbook on small bore rifle shooting, with information on equipment, marksmanship, targe...

• Author(s): Donald Bloxham • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: World - GeneralThe growth of scholarship on the pressing problem of genocide shows no sign of abating. This volume takes stock of Genocide Studies in all i...

• Author(s): Essar Batool | Ifrah Butt | Samreena Mushtaq • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralOn a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of t...

• Author(s): Cotman, Arnold • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Revolutionary

• Author(s): Vikram Sampath • Publisher: Vintage Books • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaOver two centuries have passed since his death on 4 May 1799, yet Tipu Sultan's contested legacy continues to perplex India and...

• Author(s): Prathama Banerjee • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaThe essays in this volume explore the myriad ways in which caste (varna and jati) has been theorized and critiqu...

• Author(s): Kyle Harper • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Social HistoryA sweeping germ's-eye view of history from human origins to global pandemics Plagues Upon the Earth is a monum...

• Author(s): Amandeep Sandhu • Publisher: Penguin • Publisher Imprint: Penguin • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaUnlike people born in Panjab who have a direct connection with, and hence a memory of the land, I have no liminal or ta...

• Author(s): Jonathan Rice • Publisher: Wisden • Publisher Imprint: Wisden • BISAC: Social HistoryA selection from Wisden's Notes By The Editor--the forthright opinions that changed cricket, its laws, its players and its history. "The Editor of W...

• Author(s): Barry Strauss • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Schuster • BISAC: Military - StrategyBestselling author and historian Barry Strauss compares the way the three greatest generals of the ancient world wa...

• Author(s): Sudarshan Ramabadran • Publisher: India Penguin • Publisher Imprint: India Penguin • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralFeaturing original research and analysis on historical and contemporary figures such as B.R. Ambedkar, Babu Jagjivan Ra...

• Author(s): Nausheen Jaffery • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: General Books • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaAn Indian princess left behind a contribution to a varied legacy which is still a vibrant part of our ...

• Author(s): Uttam Kumar Sinha • Publisher: Vintage Books • Publisher Imprint: Vintage Books • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralIndus Basin Uninterrupted, with an easy narration and rich archival material, brings alive a meandering journey of peace, ...

• Author(s): James B. Stockdale • Publisher: Hoover Institution Press • Publisher Imprint: Hoover Institution Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaWhen physical disability from combat wounds brought about Jim Stockdale's early retirement from mili...

• Author(s): Leo Tolstoy • Publisher: Sanage Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Sanage Publishing • BISAC: Asia - South - General

• Author(s): John Romer • Publisher: Penguin Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Group • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe final chapter in the definitive, three-volume history of the world's first known state Archaeologist John Romer has spent a lifetim...

• Author(s): Piotr Butowski • Publisher: Key Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Key Publishing • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThe Ka-50 (NATO reporting name: Hokum A) helicopter made its maiden flight 40 years ago on 17 June 1982. After und...

• Author(s): Ian Spring • Publisher: Greenhill Books • Publisher Imprint: Greenhill Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General"A marvellous collection of original wartime colour photos...For both historians and modellers, the va...

• Author(s): Hugh Kennedy • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - MedievalWhereas the Roman Empire took over 200 years to reach its fullest extent, the Arab armies overran the whole Middle East, North Af...

• Author(s): John M. Jennings • Publisher: Reaktion Books • Publisher Imprint: Reaktion Books • BISAC: Military - GeneralSpanning countries and centuries, a "how-not-to" guide to leadership that reveals the most maladroit military commanders in h...

• Author(s): Sheila Fitzpatrick • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Russia - GeneralThe Russian Revolution had a decisive impact on the history of the twentieth century. In the year...

• Author(s): John Milton • Publisher: William Collins • Publisher Imprint: William Collins • BISAC: GeneralHarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.'Greedily she engorged without restraint, And knew not ea...

• Author(s): Philipp Ther • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: World - GeneralWhen the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole...

• Author(s): Michael Kerrigan • Publisher: Amber Books • Publisher Imprint: Amber Books • BISAC: World - GeneralHistory of the World provides a sumptuous, pictorial guide to the most significant events in human history, from the Bronze Age to the...

• Author(s): Brian Groom • Publisher: Harpernorth • Publisher Imprint: Harpernorth • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - 21st CenturyA rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made it A Financial Times Book of the Year ...

• Author(s): Robert Burton • Publisher: Carcanet Press • Publisher Imprint: Carcanet Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor ...

• Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - South - IndiaHow do writing and literacy reshape the ways a language and its literature are imagined? If All the World Were Paper explores this...

• Author(s): Kevin Kenny • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Social HistoryWhat does diaspora mean? Until quite recently, the word had a specific and restricted meaning, referring p...

• Author(s): Kavita Puri • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralUPDATED FOR THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF PARTITION 'Puri does profound and elegant work bringing forgotten narrative...

• Author(s): Peter Bogucki • Publisher: Reaktion Books • Publisher Imprint: Reaktion Books • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralBeginning in the Stone Age and continuing through the collapse of the Roman empire, a fascinating exploration of the increasing c...

• Author(s): Thomas Newdick • Publisher: Amber Books • Publisher Imprint: Amber Books • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceMilitary Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft of the last hundred years. The book includes all ...

• Author(s): Will Fowler • Publisher: Lorenz Books • Publisher Imprint: Lorenz Books • BISAC: Military - WeaponsAn illustrated historical guide to over 500 military, law enforcement and antique firearms. This fully updated encyclopedia of small ...

• Author(s): Tamim Ansary • Publisher: PublicAffairs • Publisher Imprint: PublicAffairs • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaBy the author of Destiny Disrupted: an enlightening, accessible history of modern Afghanistan from the Afghan point of view, showi...

• Author(s): Andy Copestake • Publisher: Helion & Company • Publisher Imprint: Helion & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralBy the middle of the eighteenth century, the Mughal Empire in India was in serious decline. The rulers ...

• Author(s): Noel Malcolm • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceFrom the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers...

• Author(s): Thucydides • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - General"The greatest historian that ever lived." Such was Macaulay's assessment of Thucydides (c. 460-400 BC) and his...

• Author(s): Peter Furtado • Publisher: Thames & Hudson • Publisher Imprint: Thames & Hudson • BISAC: EssaysPlague, pestilence, and pandemics have been a part of the human story from the beginning and have been reflected in art and writin...

• Author(s): Calum E. Douglas • Publisher: HarperTempest • Publisher Imprint: HarperTempest • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThe piston engines that powered Second World War fighters, the men who designed them, and the secret intelligence ...

• Author(s): Michael Harriot • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin • Publisher Imprint: Houghton Mifflin • BISAC: Social HistoryNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINEE * AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HI...

• Author(s): Ilan Pappe • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & Palestine"The most eloquent writer on Palestinian history" reveals the myths and reality behind the state of Israel and the Israeli-Palestin...

• Author(s): Stuart Hadaway • Publisher: Shire Publications • Publisher Imprint: Shire Publications • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceAn illustrated introduction to the military airfields of Britain and the essential roles they played in th...

• Author(s): Herodotus • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions • Publisher Imprint: Wordsworth Editions • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralTranslated with Notes by George Rawlinson. With an Introduction by Tom Griffith.Herodotus (c480-c425) is 'The Father of His...

• Author(s): Pamela Mensch • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: PhilosophersEveryone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step ...

• Author(s): Shashi Tharoor • Publisher: Manchester University Press • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralA household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country's most important figures,...

• Author(s): Herodotus • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction • BISAC: Ancient - Greece"The father of history," as Cicero called him, and a writer possessed of remarkable narrative gifts, enormo...

• Author(s): Nick Middleton • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Historical GeographyDeserts make up a third of the planet's land surface, but if you picture a desert, what comes to m...

• Author(s): Nile Green • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company • Publisher Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company • BISAC: World - GeneralIn the highbrow literary circles of the mid-twentieth century, a father and son spread seductive accounts of a...

• Author(s): Friedrich Engels • Publisher: Princeton UP • Publisher Imprint: Prince UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralCompiles the significant writings of Marx and Engels in an attempt to trace the origins and meaning of class...

• Author(s): Richard Freiherr Von Rosen • Publisher: Greenhill Books • Publisher Imprint: Greenhill Books • BISAC: MilitaryRichard Freiherr von Rosen was a highly decorated Wehrmacht soldier and outstanding panzer commander. His memoirs are richl...

• Author(s): Francis Crosby • Publisher: Lorenz Books • Publisher Imprint: Lorenz Books • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThis historical directory of bombers includes detailed information about every craft with over 300 identification phot...

• Author(s): Dipesh Chakrabarty • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: HistoriographyFirst published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical...

• Author(s): Amanda H. Podany • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThe ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization"--and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Sy...

• Author(s): John Boardman • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Ancient - RomeIn less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. This authoritative a...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Roberts • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Russia - GeneralA compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library "[A] fascinating new study."--Mi...

• Author(s): Donald Wright • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Americas (North Central South West Indies)Canada is not one nation, but three: English Canada, Quebec, and First Nations. Yet as a countr...