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  • Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900

    par Sumit Guha, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Collections series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapesThe perception, valuation, and manipulation of human environments all have their own layered histories. So Sumit Guha argues in this sweeping examination of a pivotal five hundred years when successive empires struggled to harness lands and peoples to their agendas across Asia. Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400–1900 ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Tribe and State in Asia through Twenty-Five Centuries

    par Sumit Guha ...
    Collections series Asia Shorts
    Every literate person today will encounter the word “tribe” in many settings. What does this word mean? When and how did its use begin? Is it a good label for any contemporary social organization? Is it relevant for policymakers to think with? Academics have often critiqued its use, but that has not suppressed its ubiquity. Why?This book offers answers to all the above. In order to keep it ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Tribe and State in Asia through Twenty-Five Centuries

    par Sumit Guha ...
    Collections series Asia Shorts
    Every literate person today will encounter the word “tribe” in many settings. What does this word mean? When and how did its use begin? Is it a good label for any contemporary social organization? Is it relevant for policymakers to think with? Academics have often critiqued its use, but that has not suppressed its ubiquity. Why?This book offers answers to all the above. In order to keep it ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

    par Sumit Guha, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...
    Collections series Global South Asia
    In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic ... En savoir plus

    $35.99 CAD

  • Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia

    Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800

    par Sumit Guha, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Sunjay Subrahmanyam ...
    In the past two decades, scholars have transformed our understanding of the interactions between India and the West since the consolidation of British power on the subcontinent around 1800. While acknowledging the merits of this scholarship, Sheldon Pollock argues that knowing how colonialism changed South Asian cultures, particularly how Western modes of thought became dominant, requires knowing ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

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    par David Graeber, David Wengrow ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERRenowned activist and public intellectual David Graeber teams up with professor of comparative archaeology David Wengrow to deliver a trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution--from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state," political violence, and social ... En savoir plus

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  • The Origins of Political Order

    From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution

    par Francis Fukuyama ...
    A landmark history of the origins of modern democratic societies by one of our most important political thinkers.A New York Times Notable Book for 2011A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 TitleA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 titleVirtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Empires of the Silk Road

    A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present

    par Christopher I. Beckwith ...
    The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking of the origins, history, and significance of this major world region. Christopher Beckwith describes the rise and fall of the great Central Eurasian empires, including those of the Scythians, Attila the Hun, the Turks and Tibetans, and Genghis Khan and ... En savoir plus

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  • Day of Empire

    How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance--and Why They Fall

    par Amy Chua ...
    In this sweeping history, bestselling author Amy Chua explains how globally dominant empires—or hyperpowers—rise and why they fall. In a series of brilliant chapter-length studies, she examines the most powerful cultures in history—from the ancient empires of Persia and China to the recent global empires of England and the United States—and reveals the reasons behind their success, as well as the ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

    par James C. Scott ...
    For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Silk Road

    A Very Short Introduction

    par James A. Millward ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short Introduction illuminates the historical background against which the silk road flourished, ... En savoir plus

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  • A Concise History of the World

    par Merry Wiesner-Hanks ...
    Collections series Cambridge Concise Histories
    This book tells the story of humankind as producers and reproducers from the Paleolithic to the present. Renowned social and cultural historian Merry Wiesner-Hanks brings a new perspective to world history by examining social and cultural developments across the globe, including families and kin groups, social and gender hierarchies, sexuality, race and ethnicity, labor, religion, consumption, and ... En savoir plus

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