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Hitler Versus Stalin: The Eastern Front 1943 - 1944: Kursk to Bagration
Nik Cornish
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• Author(s): Nik Cornish • Publisher: Pen & Sword Books • Publisher Imprint: Pen & Sword Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe third volume in Nik Cornish's photographic history of the Second World War on the Eas...
View full detailsThe Oxford History of the Book
Raven
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• Author(s): Raven • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Social HistorybHistories you can trust./b In 14 original essays, The Oxford History of the Book reveals the history of books i...
View full detailsThe Junkers Ju87 Stuka
Martin Derry
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• Author(s): Martin Derry • Publisher: Pen & Sword Books • Publisher Imprint: Pen & Sword Books • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThe Junkers Ju 87 'Stuka' (a contraction of the German word Sturzkampfflugzeug, ie dive bomber) was ar...
View full detailsThe Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Helicopters: A Guide to Over 80 Years of Rotorcraft, from the First Types Deployed in World War II to the Spe
Francis Crosby
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• Author(s): Francis Crosby • Publisher: Lorenz Books • Publisher Imprint: Lorenz Books • BISAC: Military - Aviation & SpaceThis fully up-to-date reference book provides an authoritative overview of the military helicopter. It begins with a d...
View full detailsAlexander the Great: The Anabasis and the Indica
Martin Hammond
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• Author(s): Martin Hammond • Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press (UK) • BISAC: Ancient - Greece"He was a man like no other man has ever been" In twelve years that changed the world, Alexander the ...
View full detailsGypsies of Britain
Janet Keet-Black
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• Author(s): Janet Keet-Black • Publisher: Shire Publications • Publisher Imprint: Shire Publications • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralThis title tells the story of the Romany Gypsies in Britain. Where they came from, how they arrived. It...
View full detailsRoman Britain (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Peter Salway
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• Author(s): Peter Salway • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralFor four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portuga...
View full details1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
Roger Crowley
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• Author(s): Roger Crowley • Publisher: Hyperion Books • Publisher Imprint: Hyperion Books • BISAC: Europe - MedievalA gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today. The fall of Constantinopl...
View full detailsWhat Is History, Now?
Suzannah Lipscomb
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• Author(s): Suzannah Lipscomb • Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson • Publisher Imprint: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson • BISAC: World - GeneralThis groundbreaking new collection addresses the burning issue of how we interpret histor...
View full detailsRise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
Ronen Bergman
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• Author(s): Ronen Bergman • Publisher: Random House Trade • Publisher Imprint: Random House Trade • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The first definitive history of Israel's targeted killing programs, which ...
View full detailsA City Disrupted: Walking the Pathways of Memory and History in Lahore
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• Publisher: New Press • Publisher Imprint: New Press • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralA stunning history of Pakistan's cultural and intellectual capital, from one of the preeminent scholars of South AsiaThe city of Lahore was more than one thousa...
View full detailsA Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America
Tony Horwitz
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• Author(s): Tony Horwitz • Publisher: Picador USA • Publisher Imprint: Picador USA • BISAC: Expeditions & Discoveries A Voyage Long and Strange is a rich mixture of scholarship and modern-day adventure that brings the forgotten first chapter...
View full detailsOn the Psychology of Military Incompetence
Norman F. Dixon
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• Author(s): Norman F. Dixon • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralA classic study of military leadership uncovering why generals fail The Crimea, the Boer War, the Somme,...
View full detailsThe Spartans: The World of the Warrior-Heroes of Ancient Greece
Paul Cartledge
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• Author(s): Paul Cartledge • Publisher: Vintage • Publisher Imprint: Vintage • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceFrom the Inside FlapThe Spartans were a society of warrior-heroes who were the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline, self-s...
View full detailsMossad: The Greatest Missions of the Israeli Secret Service
Michael Bar-Zohar
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• Author(s): Michael Bar-Zohar • Publisher: Ecco Press • Publisher Imprint: Ecco Press • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineFrom the Back CoverMossad unveils the defining and most dangerous operations, unknown heroes, and mysterious agent...
View full detailsThe Birds of America
John James Audubon
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• Author(s): John James Audubon • Publisher: Prestel Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Prestel Publishing • BISAC: GeneralThe celebrated and highly valued natural history classic, now fully reproduced for the 1st time with an introduction by world-...
View full detailsThe Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Victor Davis Hanson
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• Author(s): Victor Davis Hanson • Publisher: Simon & Schuster • Publisher Imprint: Simon & Sc • Subject: History • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - GeneralThucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a poss...
View full detailsThe Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War
Victor Davis Hanson
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• Author(s): Victor Davis Hanson • Publisher: Free Press • Publisher Imprint: Free Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThucydides called his account of two decades of war between Athens and Sparta "a possession for all time," and indeed it is the firs...
View full detailsBlood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
Bob Drury
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• Author(s): Bob Drury • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin • Publisher Imprint: St. Martin's Griffin • BISAC: HistoricalThe Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller "[The] authors' finest work to date." --Wall Street JournalThe explosiv...
View full detailsThe Rise of Rome: The Making of the World's Greatest Empire
Anthony Everitt
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• Author(s): Anthony Everitt • Publisher: Random House Trade • Publisher Imprint: Random House Trade • BISAC: Ancient - RomeNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE KANSAS CITY STAR From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed ...
View full detailsOblomov
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov
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• Author(s): Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov • Publisher: Alma Books • Publisher Imprint: Alma Books • BISAC: GeneralFirst published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces a...
View full detailsThe Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
Iain McGilchrist
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• Author(s): Iain McGilchrist • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Human Anatomy & PhysiologyA pioneering exploration of the differences between the brain's right and left hemi...
View full detailsDisorder
Thompson
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• Author(s): Thompson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyGetting to grips with the overlapping geopolitical, economic, and political crises fac...
View full detailsA History of the World in 6 Glasses
Tom Standage
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• Author(s): Tom Standage • Publisher: Walker & Company • Publisher Imprint: Walker & Company • BISAC: World - GeneralNew York Times Bestseller * The inspiration for the TV series starring Dan Aykroyd "There aren't many books this enterta...
View full detailsDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
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• Author(s): Edward Gibbon • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions • Publisher Imprint: Wordsworth Editions • BISAC: Ancient - RomeGibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English h...
View full detailsThe Japanese Mind: Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
Roger J. Davies
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• Author(s): Roger J. Davies • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • Subject: Tourism, Travel Guide & Hospitality • BISAC: Asia - JapanIn The Japanese Mind, Roger Davies offers Westerners an insightful guide to understanding the uniqu...
View full detailsThe Fall Of The Moghul Empire
Henry George Keene
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• Author(s): Henry George Keene • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: HistoryThe Fall of the Moghul Empire by Henry George Keene offers a compelling exploration of the decline of the Moghuls. Set against the backdrop of e...
View full detailsA European Experience of the Mughal Orient
Alam Muzaffar & Seema Alavi/Seema Alavi
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• Author(s): Alam Muzaffar & Seema Alavi/Seema Alavi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: HistoryThis book offers a much-needed alternative perspective (coming from Persian sources) on European constructions of Ind...
View full detailsAncient To Modern Religion, Power, and Community in India
Banerjee-Dube Ishita & Saurabh Dube/Saurabh Dube
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• Author(s): Banerjee-Dube Ishita & Saurabh Dube/Saurabh Dube • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: HistoryReligion, power, and community are major issues in twenty-first century India. Ancient to Modern analyses th...
View full detailsThe Muslims of India
Noorani A.G.
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• Author(s): Noorani A.G. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book provides an interesting mix of documents highlighting the history of Muslim participation in Indian politi...
View full detailsThe Mughal State, 1526-1750 1526-1750
Alam Muzaffar & Subrahmanyam Sanjay (Editors)/Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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• Author(s): Alam Muzaffar & Subrahmanyam Sanjay (Editors)/Sanjay Subrahmanyam • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UPThe Mughal state has, since the time of its existence, exercised a compelling effect on observers. A rich hist...
View full detailsThe Use and Abuse of Nature
Gadgil Madhav & Guha Ramachandra/Ramachandra Guha
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• Author(s): Gadgil Madhav & Guha Ramachandra/Ramachandra Guha • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThis is an omnibus edition of two books that have radically altered our understanding of Indi...
View full detailsImages And Contexts The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India
Raina Dhruv
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• Author(s): Raina Dhruv • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoryThis volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. Focussing on several strands from the...
View full detailsSentiment And Self Richard Blechynden's Calcutta diaries, 1791-1822
Robb Peter/Peter (Peter G.) Robb
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• Author(s): Robb Peter/Peter (Peter G.) Robb • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: HistoricalRichard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its comp...
View full detailsAgricultural Production and South Asian History
Ludden David
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• Author(s): Ludden David • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaUpdated with a new preface and an additional biography, this second edition examines the agricultural production in colonial Ind...
View full detailsImage & Representatiion (Oip) Stories of Muslim Lives in India
Hasan Mushirul/ Asaduddin M. (Editors)
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• Author(s): Hasan Mushirul/ Asaduddin M. (Editors) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: HistoryBringing together short stories that have Muslims and intercommunity relationships in the Indian subcontinent as their sub...
View full detailsAncient India NEW RESEARCH (OIP)
Singh Upinder & Nayanjot Lahiri/Nayanjot Lahiri
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• Author(s): Singh Upinder & Nayanjot Lahiri/Nayanjot Lahiri • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume brings together new writings on different aspects of ancient Indian history like gend...
View full detailsA Moral Reckoning
Hasan Mushirul
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• Author(s): Hasan Mushirul • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis volume discusses the lives of five significant and influential figures of nineteenth-century Delhi -- Mohamma...
View full detailsKashmir’s Contested Pasts (OIP)
Zutshi Chitralekha
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• Author(s): Zutshi Chitralekha • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralA pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversa...
View full detailsSufism, Culture, And Politics Culture
Aquil Raziuddin
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• Author(s): Aquil Raziuddin • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Islam - SufiThis book provides a political history of north India under Afghan rulers in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Focusing on int...
View full detailsSocial And Religious Reform The Hindus of British India
Sen Amiya P
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• Author(s): Sen Amiya P • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis volume, part of the 'Debates in Indian History and Society' series identifies the major issues within the histor...
View full detailsDelhi
SpearPercivalNarayani Gupta & Laura Sykes, Narayani Gupta
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• Author(s): SpearPercivalNarayani Gupta & Laura Sykes | Narayani Gupta • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralFirst published in 1943, Percival Spear’s Delhi: Its Monuments and...
View full detailsThe Gallic War
Julius Caesar Carolyn Hammond
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• Author(s): Julius Caesar Carolyn Hammond • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Military - GeneralThe Gallic War, published on the eve of the civil war which led to the end of the Roman Republic, is an...
View full detailsGhazals of Ghalib
Ahmed Aijaz (Editor)
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• Author(s): Ahmed Aijaz (Editor) • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UPThis imaginative approach to the work of the Urdu poet Ghalib (1797-1869) presents highly original renderings, made by seven well-known American ...
View full detailsWho'S Who In The Roman World
John Hazel
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• Author(s): John Hazel • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: ReferenceWho's Who in the Roman World is a wide-ranging biographical survey of one of the greatest civilizations in history. Cove...
View full detailsViews of Modern Rome 5000-Puzz
Ravensburger
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• Author(s): Ravensburger • Publisher: Ravensburger • Publisher Imprint: Ravensburger • Subject: History • BISAC: Role Playing & Fantasy
A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
To Be Confirmed
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• Author(s): To Be Confirmed • Publisher: Atria Books • Publisher Imprint: Atria Books • BISAC: HistoricalA PEOPLE BOOK OF THE WEEK WINNER OF THE JQ-WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE "A haunting tribute to survivors and those lost forever--and a reminder, ...
View full detailsTree Tops
Corbett Jim
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• Author(s): Corbett Jim • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: HistoryThe last book written by the late big-game hunter Jim Corbett tells of his final days living in the Kenyan game reserves. Although containing vivid d...
View full detailsThe Trials Of Spinoza
Tariq Ali
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• Author(s): Tariq Ali • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: History • BISAC: Theater - GeneralBaruch Spinoza (1632-77) is considered one of the great rationalist thinkers of the seventeenth century. His magnum ...
View full detailsThe Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal
Bhattacharya Tithi
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• Author(s): Bhattacharya Tithi • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis book is about the intellegentsia in nineteenth-century Bengal. It analyzes why--from the second half of t...
View full detailsThe Seir Mutaqherin, or Review of Modern Times, Vol. 4: Being an History of India, from the Year 11
Seid-Gholam-Hossein-Khan, Seid-Gholam-Ho
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• Author(s): Seid-Gholam-Hossein-Khan, Seid-Gholam-Ho • Publisher: Forgotten Books • Publisher Imprint: Forgotten Books • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - GeneralExcerpt from The S ir Mutaqherin, or Review of Modern Times, Vol. 4: Being an Histor...
View full detailsThe Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb :
Ali M. Athar
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• Author(s): Ali M. Athar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Asia - South - GeneralThis paperback edition of a classic not only tests a number of popular hypotheses about the Mughal Empire during the reign of Aurangzeb...
View full detailsThe Habsburg Empire (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Martyn Rady
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• Author(s): Martyn Rady • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryThe Habsburgs are the most famous dynasty in continental Europe. From the thirteenth to the twentieth centuri...
View full detailsThe Bahmani Sufis: Their Spiritual, Intellectual and Sociopolitical Role in Medieval Deccan, AD 1300 to 1538
Mohammed Suleman Siddiqi
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• Author(s): Mohammed Suleman Siddiqi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History
The 1857 Rebellion : Debates in Indian History and Society
Pati Biswamoy (Ed)
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• Author(s): Pati Biswamoy (Ed) • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Revolutions, Uprisings & RebellionsThis volume brings together seminal writings on the rebellion of 1857, including out-of-print...
View full detailsSwarnalata
Tilottoma Misra
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• Author(s): Tilottoma Misra • Publisher: Zubaan • Publisher Imprint: Zubaan • Subject: History
Stages of Transmutation: Science Fiction Biology and Environmental Posthumanism
Tom Idema
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• Author(s): Tom Idema • Publisher: T&F • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyStages of Transmutation: Science Fiction, Biology, and Environmental Posthumanism develops the theoretical perspective of environment...
View full detailsPolitical Economy of Colonial and Post-Colonial India
Aditya Mukherjee
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• Author(s): Aditya Mukherjee • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History
Orientalism, Empire and National Culture
Michael S. Dodson
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• Author(s): Michael S. Dodson • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Foundation • Subject: History
Mughal Painting
Sp Verma
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• Author(s): Sp Verma • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: History - GeneralIn Mughal Painting, the author provides a detailed survey of the sixteenth-seventeenth century painting under the Mughal Empe...
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