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  • Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan

    par Markus Daechsel ...
    This is a highly original account of the design and development of Pakistan's capital city; one of the most iconic and ambitious urban reconstruction projects of the twentieth century. Balancing archival research with fresh, theoretical insights, Markus Daechsel surveys the successes and failures of Greek urbanist Constantinos A. Doxiadis's most ambitious endeavour, Islamabad, analysing how the ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Self-Expression

    The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan

    par Markus Daechsel ...
    Collections series Royal Asiatic Society Books
    The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with world events, people also came to understand politics as a question of personal morality and achievement. In other words, politics was about ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

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    par Yasser Elsheshtawy ...
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    Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city’s urban development.With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai’s ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

  • Freedom from Fear

    And Other Writings

    par Aung San Suu Kyi ...
    Freedom from Fear - collected writings from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu KyiAung San Suu Kyi's collected writings - edited by her late husband, whom the ruling military junta prevented from visiting Burma as he was dying of cancer - reflects her greatest hopes and fears for her fellow Burmese people, and her concern about the need for international co-operation in the continuing fight ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The City

    A World History

    par Andrew Lees ...
    Collections series New Oxford World History
    The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • The War of the Running Dogs

    Malaya 1948-1960

    par Noel Barber ...
    Collections series W&N Military
    'A splendid, exciting book' Daily Mirror'The story of the first all-out struggle in Asia between Communism and the West, vividly told in an exciting and engrossing book' Sunday ExpressOnly three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • History of India, Volume 5: The Mohammedan Period as Described by its Own Historians

    par Sir Henry Miers Elliot, Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes Table of ContentsSir Henry Miers Elliots History of India Volume 5: The Mohammedan Period as Described by its Own Historians discusses the Moslem conquest of India, from the 7th to 17th centuries. Among the historical accounts are Tamerlanes Account of His Invasion of India, and Babars memoirs. A table of contents is included. ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD

  • Setting the Desert on Fire

    T.E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-18

    par James Barr ...
    _______________'Packs as much punch as one of Lawrence's train-blowing explosives' - Sunday Times'Barr's cogent, vividly written book puts Lawrence centre stage but does not lose sight of the uprising's larger historical context' - Financial Times'[Barr] introduces fresh materials to give new context to Lawrence and the present difficulties in Iraq' - The Times<stro... ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • Princely India and the British

    Political Development and the Operation of Empire

    par Caroline Keen ...
    In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD

  • Victor Two

    Inside Iraq: the Crucial SAS Mission

    par Peter Crossland ...
    The Israeli government was persuaded at the last minute not to enter the Gulf War when they were told that it was the SAS who were hunting for Scud missiles and disrupting Iraqi communications. The SAS forces inside Iraq comprised two half-squadrons (30 men each with vehicles) and three much smaller foot patrols, one of which had the call sign, "Bravo Two Zero".;Corporal Terence Clayton, known as ... En savoir plus

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  • India's Ancient Past

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    This book presents a complete and accessible description of the history of early India. It starts by discussing the origins and growth of civilizations, empires, and religions. It also deals with the geographical, ecological, and linguistic backgrounds, and looks at specific cultures of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, and Vedic periods, as well as at the Harappan civilization. In addition, the rise ... En savoir plus

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  • India and the Islamic Heartlands

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    Based on the chance survival of a remarkable cache of documents, India and the Islamic Heartlands recaptures a vanished and forgotten world from the eighteenth century spanning much of today's Middle East and South Asia. Gagan D. S. Sood focuses on ordinary people - traders, pilgrims, bankers, clerics, brokers, and scribes, among others - who were engaged in activities marked by large distances ... En savoir plus

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