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Canal Irrigation in British India: Perspectives on Technological Change in a Peasant Economy by Ian Stone 9780521526630
RRP: €36.88€33.65Although one of the acknowledged achievements of the British Raj was the extensive construction of irrigation works, their effects have to date been little studied by historians. In this book Dr Stone has undertaken the first full-scale study of the... -
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire by Seema Alavi 9780674735330
RRP: €54.68€44.14Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire recovers the stories of five Indian Muslim scholars who, in the aftermath of the uprising of 1857, were hunted by British authorities, fled their homes in India for such destinations as Cairo, Mecca, and... -
Kashmir's Contested Pasts: Narratives, Sacred Geographies, and the Historical Imagination by Chitralekha Zutshi 9780199481347
RRP: €13.08€11.80Kashmir's Contested Pasts is a long history of the historical imagination in Kashmir. It explores the articulation, within Kashmir's multilingual historical tradition, of the idea of Kashmir and the idea of history in conversation with each other... -
Constructing Islam on the Indus: The Material History of the Suhrawardi Sufi Order, 1200-1500 AD Hasan Ali Khan 9781107062900
RRP: €85.67€77.91This book represents the first serious consideration of Ismaili-Shia esotericism in material and architectural terms, as well as of pre-modern conceptions of religious plurality in rituals and astrology. Sufism has long been reckoned to have connections... -
Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia by Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
RRP: €29.74€25.79Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing... -
Making the Modern Slum: The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay by Sheetal Chhabria
RRP: €33.31€28.73In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British... -
Translating Wisdom: Hindu-Muslim Intellectual Interactions in Early Modern South Asia by Shankar Nair
RRP: €35.70€27.72A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. During the height of Muslim power in Mughal South Asia, Hindu and Muslim scholars worked collaboratively to translate a large body of Hindu Sanskrit texts into the... -
Kashmir: History, Politics, Representation by Chitralekha Zutshi 9781108402101
RRP: €32.12€27.13On the seventieth anniversary of Indian independence, Partition, and the creation of Pakistan, this ground breaking collection brings together fourteen cutting-edge scholarly essays on multiple aspects of both the region and the issue of Kashmir. While... -
Society, Medicine and Politics in Colonial India by Biswamoy Pati
RRP: €47.59€41.72The history of medicine and disease in colonial India remains a dynamic and innovative field of research, covering many facets of health, from government policy to local therapeutics. This volume presents a selection of essays examining varied aspects of... -
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India by David Arnold
RRP: €27.36€23.28Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India... -
Making Kantha, Making Home: Women at Work in Colonial Bengal by Pika Ghosh 9780295746999
€66.82In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers,... -
Stages of Capital: Law, Culture, and Market Governance in Late Colonial India by Ritu Birla
RRP: €28.55€25.28In Stages of Capital, Ritu Birla brings research on nonwestern capitalisms into conversation with postcolonial studies to illuminate the historical roots of India's market society. Between 1870 and 1930, the British regime in India implemented a barrage... -
From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab by Pippa Virdee
RRP: €89.25€80.61This book revisits the partition of the British Indian province of Punjab, its attendant violence and, as a consequence, the divided and dislocated Punjabi lives. Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), it... -
Oxford Reading Tree: Floppy's Phonics Decoding Practice: Oxford Level 5: I Spy a Reptile! by Isabel Thomas 9781382030656
RRP: €6.90€4.89Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each stage of the Floppy's Phonics teaching programme, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable stories are 100% matched to the phonic... -
The Language of the Taj Mahal: Islam, Prayer, and the Religion of Shah Jahan by Michael D. Calabria 9780755637898
€34.93The Taj Mahal, built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1592-1666 CE) as a mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal (1593-1631 CE), is considered exceptional in the history of world architecture.This book provides a deeper understanding of the Taj Mahal and... -
India's Revolutionary Inheritance: Politics and the Promise of Bhagat Singh by Chris Moffat
RRP: €36.88€30.29What do anti-colonial histories mean for politics in contemporary India? How can we understand a political terrain that appears crowded with the dead, heroic figures from past struggles who call the living to account and demand action? What role do these... -
The United States History Abstract: Major Crises in American History by Joseph A Bagnall 9780757596575
€120.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757596575Author Joseph A BagnallFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. -
The Dandy Annual: 2021 by 9781845358150 [USED COPY]
RRP: €10.70€3.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845358150Format HardbackPage Count 112Imprint D.C.Thomson & Co LtdPublisher D.C.Thomson & Co LtdWeight(grams) 570gDimensions(mm) 285mm * 215mm * 6mm -
The Mind's Limit by Sebastian M Wypart 9781398440913
RRP: €33.31€33.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398440913Author Sebastian M WypartFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g -
Cincinnati Reds by Ted Coleman 9781634945035
RRP: €35.69€22.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634945035Author Ted ColemanFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Press Room EditionsPublisher Press Room EditionsWeight(grams) 177g -
Detroit Red Wings by Brendan Flynn 9781634944915
RRP: €38.07€23.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781634944915Author Brendan FlynnFormat HardbackPage Count 32Imprint Press Room EditionsPublisher Press Room EditionsWeight(grams) 177g -
Anisha's Adventures: Magic in Bangladesh Moinul Islam 9781398411678
RRP: €11.89€9.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398411678Author Moinul IslamFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers -
Tete a Tete: Drawings by Annette Messager 9781912122493
RRP: €41.65€27.45The first comprehensive collection of Annette Messager's drawings, including 150 works made over the last ten years, which constitute an invaluable lexicon to the mind and work of a trailblazing iconoclast. Messager redefined the role of women making... -
Six Days of Sistine by Richard Perry 9781913802042
RRP: €21.41€18.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913802042Author Richard PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Markosia Enterprises LtdPublisher Markosia Enterprises LtdDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm... -
Hinterland: Spring: 2022 Andrew Kenrick 9781913861674
RRP: €11.90€8.33Writer Phillip Lopate described the essay as 'an open-ended adventure, an invitation to doubt and self-surprise'. The essays in this special issue use the form as a platform to allow a multitude of voices to ring clear, inviting us to explore topics as... -
Mozzies Vs Flies by Sarah Speedie 9781922503541
RRP: €8.32€6.10In a small dusty town, in the sweltering heat, two rival gangs had control of the streets. Fuzz and the Flies ruled the town in the light. While the Mozzies and Cozzie took over at night. When the School Barbeque is scheduled for 5.30pm - how do these... -
Oxford International Primary Science: Teacher Guide 5: Oxford International Primary Science Teacher Guide 5 by Deborah Roberts 9781382017367
RRP: €61.87€58.35A complete six-year primary Science course that takes an enquiry-based, active learning approach to teaching young learners the skills they need to think like scientists. A* Students learn to think creatively through answering questions about the world... -
Campigli and the Etruscans: A Pagan Happiness Franco Calarota 9788836649341
RRP: €41.65€26.69"A pagan happiness entered my paintings in the spirit of both my subjects and work, which became freer and more lyrical". These are the words used by Massimo Campigli himself to describe his visit to the Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome in 1928. He... -
South Asia Unbound: New International Histories of the Subcontinent Berenice Guyot-Rechard 9789087284091
RRP: €139.23€132.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789087284091Author Berenice Guyot-RechardFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Leiden University PressPublisher Leiden University Press -
The Child and the State in India: Child Labor and Education Policy in Comparative Perspective by Myron Weiner
RRP: €53.55€42.03India has the largest number of non-schoolgoing working children in the world. Why has the government not removed them from the labor force and required that they attend school, as have the governments of all developed and many developing countries? To... -
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier by Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
RRP: €28.55€24.80Most histories of nineteenth-century Afghanistan argue that the country remained immune to the colonialism emanating from British India because, militarily, Afghan defenders were successful in keeping out British imperial invaders. However, despite these... -
Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War by Jayita Sarkar
RRP: €26.17€22.84India's nuclear program is often misunderstood as an inward-looking endeavor of secretive technocrats. In Ploughshares and Swords, Jayita Sarkar challenges this received wisdom, narrating a global story of India's nuclear program during its first forty... -
A Local History of Global Capital: Jute and Peasant Life in the Bengal Delta by Tariq Omar Ali 9780691170237
RRP: €53.55€42.03Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed... -
The ‘Early Medieval' Origins of India by Manu V. Devadevan 9781108748513
RRP: €35.69€31.34India is generally regarded as a civilization with a set of intrinsic attributes that emerged in the age of the Vedas or, better still, in the Harappan times. In recent decades, historical studies have moved away from rigid perspectives of singularity in... -
Heroic Shāktism: The Cult of Durgā in Ancient Indian Kingship by Bihani Sarkar 9780197266106
€105.24Heroic Saktism is the belief that a good king and a true warrior must worship the goddess Durga, the form and substance of kingship. This belief formed the bedrock of ancient Indian practices of cultivating political power. Wildly dangerous and serenely... -
Delhi's Meatscapes: Muslim Butchers in a Transforming Mega City by Zarin Ahmad 9780199477807
RRP: €45.21€41.25Tracing the journey of meat from the farm to the meat shop and other workspaces of the butcher within the multi-sited margins in Delhi, the current volume intimately follows the lives of Qureshi butchers and other meat sector workers in this transforming... -
Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry by Samita Sen 9780521453639
RRP: €107.10€96.90Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts -... -
The Economy of Modern India: From 1860 to the Twenty-First Century by B. R. Tomlinson
RRP: €29.74€25.20Rapid economic growth has put India at the centre of current debates about the future of the global economy. In this fully revised and updated text, B. R. Tomlinson provides a comprehensive and wide-ranging account of the Indian economy over the last 150... -
Imagining Childhood, Improving Children: The Emergence of an ‘Avuncular’ State in Late Colonial South India by Catriona Ellis 9781009215206
RRP: €119.00€106.96From as early as the 1920s, state policy towards children in South India was framed through the lens of a universal ideal of modern childhood. This reflected the participation of policy makers and civil society activists in global discourses of... -
Crescent and Delta: The Bangladesh Story by David Urch 9780955464249
RRP: €23.80€17.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955464249Author David UrchFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint The University of Buckingham PressPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams)...