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About the Book Known for his brilliantly dark fictional visions, L szl Krasznahorkai is one of the most respected European writers of his generatio...

About the Book A stupendous feat of reportage.-Ron Powers, cowriter of Flags of Our Fathers Praise for Desperate Hours ""Goldstein's book is packed...

About the Book A stupendous feat of reportage.-Ron Powers, cowriter of Flags of Our Fathers Praise for Desperate Hours ""Goldstein's book is packed...

About the Book Many books have been written on the fascinating and chequered history of the city of Delhi. Few, however, have the breadth and scope...

About the Book Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in th...

About the Book The German 'Blitz' that followed the Battle of Britain killed tens of thousands and laid waste to large areas of many British cities...

About the Book Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates t...

About the Book A preeminent historian examines World War II's turning point On June 6, 1944, Allied troops landed at five Normandy beaches, precede...

David Blunkett has never been a conventional politician - or personality. Blind since childhood, seemingly a traditional 'old Labour' councillor in...

What haunts the city? Why is there so much pessimism in our urban lives? And how does this physical and psychological insecurity of relentless comp...

About the Book Curing Madness? focusses on the institutional and non-institutional histories of madness in colonial north India. It proves that 'ma...

About the Book In this book, the prominent poet and author Kishwar Naheed presents a fascinating account of Pakistan's rich and varied cultural lan...

Cultural Pasts collects essays on a range of subjects in early Indian history. Its focus is on historiography and the changing dimensions of social...

About the Book This is a revised edition of R. C. Smail's classic account of the military achievements of the Crusaders in the context of a 'feudal...

About the Book The book provides insights into the society, polity, and literary ethos of Pakistan within the broader South Asian context. An attem...

About the Book Sectarian murder, torture, bloody power struggles and racketeering are what for many define their image of the Ulster Defence Associ...

About the Book This book demonstrates that American agricultural development was far more dynamic than generally portrayed. In the two centuries be...

About the Book Cosmopolitan theory suggests that we should shift our moral attention from the local to the global. Richard Vernon argues, however, ...

Indian nationalism has been a contested space over the last century. Claims and counter-claims have been advanced regarding its nature for long now...

About the Book A stirring tale of adventure and tragedy "They brought balls of spun cotton and parrots and javelins and other little things that it...

Coconuts have been around for longer than Homo sapiens; they have been turned into art, taken part in religious rituals and been a sign of wealth a...

About the Book What can war tell us about empire? Climate of Conquest is built around this question. Here the author eschews the conventional way o...

About the Book Building on the best-selling tradition of previous editions, Classical Mythology, Ninth Edition, is the most comprehensive survey of...

About the Book Most of us grew up with the knowledge that India had been a British colony--the jewel in the crown of the Raj. Even those with sligh...

About the Book GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748622269); An historical introduction to the varieties of citizenship in Britain, starting i...

This new and revised edition of Christian–Jewish Relations 1000–1300 expands its survey of medieval Christian–Jewish relations in England, Spain, F...

About the Book How does an image become iconic? In Christ to Coke, eminent art historian Martin Kemp offers a highly original look at the main type...

Chola Migrations reproduces, in an accordion format, the large 6.75 feet high by 72.5 feet long mural done by Krishen Khanna in pencil. It is a cel...

About the Book Henry Lansdell was one of the great travellers of the Victorian age. Unlike many explorers of the time, Lansdell was open to differe...

About the Book How does China invest abroad? What is the easiest way for that country to effectively institute corporate governance? How can China ...

About the Book A CHINESE-INDIAN SCHOLAR'S VISION OF THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF CHINA DEVOID OF CHINA-BRAGGING OR CHINA-BASHING... In this en...

Chimes of Freedom: Bob Dylan and the 60s Author Profile : Mike Marqusee was born in New York City in 1953, emigrated to Britain in 1971 and has liv...

About the Book Chile Since Independence brings together four chapters from Volumes 3, 5, and 8 of The Cambridge History of Latin America to provide...

About the Book Following the release of Chichester - A Contemporary View in 1994, Chichester - A Millennium View looks at the following six years o...

About the Book The same week in February 1836 that Charles Dickens was hired to write his first novel, The Pickwick Papers, the first railway line ...

About the Book Charan Singh was born 23 December 1902 "in an ordinary peasant farmers home tinder a thatched roof supported by kachcha mud walls, w...

About the Book Featuring new historical and ethnographic research on China and Southeast Asia, this book explores how power and violence have shape...

About the Book This is a fresh attempt at historically reconstructing on a popular and accessible level, the life and times of the medieval Hindu -...

About the Book The book seeks to situate caste as a discursive category in the discussion of Partition in Bengal. In conventional narratives of Par...

About the Book One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry ...

About the Book This book is the first to describe the role of business interest groups, also known as pressure groups, in the development of Brazil...

About the Book European empires disintegrated during the twentieth century, leaving newly-formed postcolonial states in their wake. In this turbule...

About the Book Buildings of Empire takes the reader on an exciting journey through thirteen territories of the British Empire. From Dublin Castle t...

About the Book A freedom fighter's telling account of the exploitation of India by the East India Company. In 1929, Pandit Sunderlal's original wo...

About the Book This is a study of the British state's generation, suppression and manipulation of news to further foreign policy goals during the e...

About the Book The origins of the post of Prime Minister can be traced back to the eighteenth century when Sir Robert Walpole became the monarch's ...

About the Book This volume publishes official reports written for the Foreign Office by British envoys to the German States in the nineteenth centu...