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Cosmopolitanism by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780822328995
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $49.24As the final installment of Public Culture's Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism-or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one's... -
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age by Dipesh Chakrabarty
RRP: $161.85Booksplease Price: $156.23For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of... -
The Climate of History in a Planetary Age Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780226732862
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $44.46For the past decade, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty has been one of the most influential scholars addressing the meaning of climate change. Climate change, he argues, upends long-standing ideas of... -
Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies by Dipesh Chakrabarty
Booksplease Price: $48.36In Habitations of Modernity, Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories... -
One Planet, Many Worlds - The Climate Parallax Dipesh Chakrabarty 9781684581573
Booksplease Price: $41.05A historian offers a unique look at the pandemic, climate change, and the human versus nonhuman. Climate change represents a deep conundrum for humans. It is difficult for humans to give up the... -
Habitations of Modernity: Essays in the Wake of Subaltern Studies by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780226100388
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.74In Habitations of Modernity, Dipesh Chakrabarty explores the complexities of modernism in India and seeks principles of humaneness grounded in everyday life that may elude grand political theories... -
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition by Dipesh Chakrabarty
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $49.18First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of... -
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780691070308
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $89.80Dipesh Chakrabarty combines a history of the jute-mill workers of Calcutta with a fresh look at labor history in Marxist scholarship. Opposing a reductionist view of culture and consciousness, he... -
The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780226100449
Booksplease Price: $179.24Features a leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American... -
The Calling of History: Sir Jadunath Sarkar and His Empire of Truth by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780226100456
Booksplease Price: $52.03Features a leading scholar in early twentieth-century India, Sir Jadunath Sarkar (1870-1958) was knighted in 1929 and became the first Indian historian to gain honorary membership in the American... -
Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century: Two Views by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780199486670
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $17.30Part of the 'Occasional Papers' series of CSSSC, this essay is a brief, and sharply posed, exchange between Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta on working class consciousness in Bengal. it... -
Unish Shotoke Banglar Shromik Itihaser Koyekti Dik: Duti Porjacholona by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780199490974
Booksplease Price: $13.85Part of the 'Occasional Papers' series of CSSSC, this essay is a brief, and sharply posed, exchange between Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta on working class consciousness in Bengal. it... -
Dipesh Chakrabarty and the Global South: Subaltern Studies, Postcolonial Perspectives, and the Anthropocene Saurabh Dube (Professor-Researcher, Distinguished Category, El Colegio de Mexico.) 9781032081786
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37Over the last four decades, Dipesh Chakrabarty's astonishingly wide-ranging scholarship has elaborated a range of important issues, especially those of modernity, identity, and politics - in dialogue... -
Reversibility – Politics under Conditions of Uncertainty Harmut Behr 9780228020844
RRP: $177.45Booksplease Price: $137.48Western modernity is characterized by instrumental relations between humans and nature, as well as between humans themselves, that have caused irreversible environmental and social exploitation and... -
The Happiness Fantasy Carl Cederstroem (New School for Social Research) 9781509523818
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.29In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederstroem traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald... -
The Happiness Fantasy Carl Cederstroem (New School for Social Research) 9781509523801
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $70.88In this devastatingly witty new book, Carl Cederstroem traces our present-day conception of happiness from its roots in early-twentieth-century European psychiatry, to the Beat generation, to Ronald... -
European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism by Noa K. Ha 9781526178718
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $45.90This multidisciplinary collection of scholarship rethinks European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions... -
Against New Materialisms by Dr Benjamin Boysen 9781350172876
Booksplease Price: $176.61The first comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms including speculative realism, new materialism, Object-oriented ontology and actor-network theory. One of the most... -
LA+ Environment Karen M’Closkey 9781966515067
RRP: $44.75Booksplease Price: $31.98The idea of "environment" is foundational to landscape architecture - as backdrop, as surround, as something to help save. But what is the environment, or an environment? First and foremost, it is a... -
Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity David Bennett 9780415121590
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $75.72The idea of the nation is globally in crisis, but multiculturalism has often seemed to name a specifically national debate. Multicultural States challenges the national focus of these debates by... -
On Modern Indian Sensibilities: Culture, Politics, History Ishita Banerjee-Dube 9780367890353
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $82.37This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture, politics, and history - and their intersections - in eastern India from the 16th to the 20th century. Focusing especially on Assam,... -
Climate Change and the Production of Knowledge by Ian Baucom 9780822368625
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $20.30Though the causes and effects of climate change pervade our everyday lives-the air we breathe, the food we eat, the objects we use-the way the discourse of climate change influences how we make... -
Questions Of Modernity by Timothy Mitchell 9780816631346
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $36.62Well-known contributors offer an illuminating look at how modernity develops in non-Western contexts.Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty-which meant assigning a different and... -
Against New Materialisms Dr Benjamin Boysen 9781350331082
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $56.49The first comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms including speculative realism, new materialism, Object-oriented ontology and actor-network theory. One of the... -
How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene by Travis Holloway
Booksplease Price: $24.53Assessing the dawn of the Anthropocene era, a poet and philosopher asks: How do we live at the end of the world? The end of the Holocene era is marked not just by melting glaciers or epic droughts,... -
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial by Vinayak Chaturvedi
Booksplease Price: $51.64Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists... -
Christian Moderns: Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter by Webb Keane 9780520246522
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $54.29Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb... -
Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950 by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar 9780521592345
RRP: $167.68Booksplease Price: $159.94In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr... -
The Anthropocene and the Global Environmental Crisis: Rethinking modernity in a new epoch Clive Hamilton (Charles Sturt University, Australia.) 9781138821248
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.29The Anthropocene, in which humankind has become a geological force, is a major scientific proposal; but it also means that the conceptions of the natural and social worlds on which sociology,... -
Imperial Power and Popular Politics: Class, Resistance and the State in India, 1850-1950 by Rajnarayan Chandavarkar 9780521596923
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $81.16In this series of interconnected essays, Rajnarayan Chandavarkar offers a powerful revisionist analysis of the relationship between class and politics in India between the Mutiny and Independence. Dr... -
Europe and Its Boundaries: Words and Worlds, Within and Beyond by Andrew Davison 9780739135716
Booksplease Price: $199.89Is it possible to rearticulate the relationship between Europe and its others in non-colonizing ways? Europe and Its Boundaries reflects upon this question, first by exploring several philosophical... -
Decolonizing Images: A New History of Photographic Cultures in Egypt by Ronnie Close 9781526165954
RRP: $165.75Booksplease Price: $146.64The 2011 revolution put Egypt at the centre of discussions around radical transformations in global photographic cultures. But Egypt and photography share a longer, richer history rarely included in... -
At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West by Jackie Assayag 9780253216366
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.07During the past two decades, at the same time that the South Asian presence in the U.S. and Europe has become an increasingly visible part of mainstream social life and popular culture, scholars of... -
What Is Global History? by Sebastian Conrad
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.80Until very recently, historians have looked at the past with the tools of the nineteenth century. But globalization has fundamentally altered our ways of knowing, and it is no longer possible to... -
Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility by Michael D. Gordin 9780691146980
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $64.00The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that... -
Historical Knowledge, Historical Error: A Contemporary Guide to Practice by Allan Megill
Booksplease Price: $55.67In the past thirty years, historians have broadened the scope of their discipline to include many previously neglected topics and perspectives. They have chronicled language, madness, gender, and... -
The Origins of Modern Historiography in India: Antiquarianism and Philology, 1780-1880 by Rama Sundari Mantena 9781349343782
Booksplease Price: $91.14This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting, surveying, and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices, this book traces the colonial... -
The Anthropocene and Popular Culture Lee Barron 9781835491874
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.80The Anthropocene and Popular Culture examines the proposition that geology and humanity have connected to constitute a new epoch: the Anthropocene. Critically exploring the nature, present and... -
Empire and Nation: Selected Essays by Partha Chatterjee 9780231152211
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.59Partha Chatterjee is one of the world's greatest living theorists on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of nationalism. Beginning in the 1980s, his work, particularly within the... -
Without History: Subaltern Studies, the Zapatista Insurgency, and the Specter of History by 9780822960652
RRP: $95.45Booksplease Price: $88.88On December 22, 1997, forty-five unarmed members of the indigenous organization Las Abejas (The Bees) were massacred during a prayer meeting in the village of Acteal, Mexico. The members of Las...