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Postcolonial Studies and Beyond by Ania Loomba 9780822335238
Booksplease Price: £39.92An interdisciplinary collection of essays designed to map out a wide-ranging and productive future for postcolonial studies, this volume assesses the current state of the field and points toward its... -
Cricket, Public Culture and the Making of Postcolonial Calcutta by Souvik Naha
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63What prompts common people to kill a guard and rob an office they thought had some tickets for a Test match? Why does a scholar of medieval Bengali literature remark, 'Had life been a sport, it would... -
Historical Teleologies in the Modern World by Henning Truper 9781474221078
Booksplease Price: £37.72Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history - the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed... -
The Eurocentric Conception of World Politics: Western International Theory, 1760-2010 by John M. Hobson 9781107604544
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.75John Hobson claims that throughout its history most international theory has been embedded within various forms of Eurocentrism. Rather than producing value-free and universalist theories of... -
Modernism after Postcolonialism: Toward a Nonterritorial Comparative Literature by Mara de Gennaro 9781421439464
RRP: £75.50Booksplease Price: £54.73A polemical reaction against a trend in global modernist studies which still privileges European and Anglophone texts.Existing studies of literary modernism generally read Anglophone Atlantic texts... -
The Slaying of Meghanada: A Ramayana from Colonial Bengal by Michael Madhusudan Datta 9780195167993
Booksplease Price: £55.68"The poem is rising into splendid popularity. Some say it is better than Milton-but that is all bosh-nothing can be better than Milton; many say it licks Kalidasa; I have no objection to that. I... -
Globalization and Planetary Ethics: New Terrains of Consciousness Simi Malhotra 9781032497730
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £37.99This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of consciousness that need to be negotiated towards a... -
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor by Sandro Mezzadra 9780822354871
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.10Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation,... -
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor by Sandro Mezzadra
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.66Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation,... -
Reset Modernity! by Bruno Latour
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £34.13Texts and images document the disconnection between modernity and ecological crisis: do we need to reset modernity's operating system? Modernity has had so many meanings and tries to combine so many... -
Dialogues with Contemporary Political Theorists by Gary Browning 9780230303058
Booksplease Price: £46.28A lively and engaging collection which explains the various strands of political theory, identifies key futures trends and explores the foundations of contemporary debate. Features interviews with... -
Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan - The Archaeology of Things in the Late Tokugawa and Early Meiji Periods Hiroyuki Suzuki 9781606067420
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93"Originally published in Japanese, Antiquarians of Nineteenth-Century Japan looks at the approach toward object-based research across the late Tokugawa and early Meiji periods, which were typically... -
Van Gogh and the End of Nature Michael Lobel 9780300274363
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £26.66A groundbreaking reassessment that foregrounds Van Gogh's profound engagement with the industrial age while making his work newly relevant for our world today Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is most... -
Beyond Belief: India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism by Srirupa Roy
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in... -
Unconditional Equality: Gandhi's Religion of Resistance by Ajay Skaria 9780816698660
Booksplease Price: £30.68Unconditional Equality examines Mahatma Gandhi's critique of liberal ideas of freedom and equality and his own practice of a freedom and equality organized around religion. It reconceives satyagraha... -
White Love and Other Events in Filipino History by Vicente L. Rafael 9780822325420
Booksplease Price: £34.23In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino... -
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain by Nicholas B. Dirks 9780674027244
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.28Many have told of the East India Company's extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but... -
The Visual Culture Reader Nicholas Mirzoeff (New York University) 9780415782623
RRP: £70.99Booksplease Price: £66.79Ten years after the last edition, this thoroughly revised and updated third edition of The Visual Culture Reader highlights the transformed and expanded nature of globalized visual cultures. It... -
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Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi 9780822337034 [USED COPY]
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £9.02"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy... -
European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism by Noa K. Ha 9781526158437
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £51.83This multidisciplinary collection of scholarship rethinks European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions... -
Subjugate the Earth: The Beginning and End of Human Mastery over Nature Philipp Blom 9781509561322
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.93Subjugate the Earth traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it. Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization, the idea of subjugating the... -
White Love and Other Events in Filipino History by Vicente L. Rafael
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20In this wide-ranging cultural and political history of Filipinos and the Philippines, Vicente L. Rafael examines the period from the onset of U.S. colonialism in 1898 to the emergence of a Filipino... -
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48"If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." So E. M. Forster famously observed in his Two Cheers for Democracy... -
Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World by Thomas Blom Hansen 9780691121192
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £41.689/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries... -
Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation by Brian Massumi 9780822328827
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £68.32Although the body has been the focus of much contemporary cultural theory, the models that are typically applied neglect the most salient characteristics of embodied existence-movement, affect, and... -
Historical Understanding: Past, Present and Future by Dr. Zoltan Boldizsar Simon
Booksplease Price: £29.91The first decades of the new century shake old certainties. In a whirlwind of profound changes, do we have more history or less? Does history overwhelm us in all domains of life or is historical... -
Defiant Earth: The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene Clive Hamilton 9781509519750
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.21Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene - one in which the serene and clement... -
The Impossible Indian: Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence by Faisal Devji 9780674066724
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £32.60The Impossible Indian offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursuit of a global vision that went far beyond a... -
Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India by Sanjay Seth 9780822341055
Booksplease Price: £33.91Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge "traveled" to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India's... -
Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time by Kathleen Davis
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty... -
Claiming the People's Past: Populist Politics of History in the Twenty-First Century Berber Bevernage 9781009453639
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £81.72This book offers a global and systematic overview of populist politics of history in the twenty-first century. An international group of scholars interrogates how and why populists engage with the... -
Acrobat by Nabaneeta Dev Sen
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.61A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of... -
Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times by Tobias Menely
RRP: £93.99Booksplease Price: £83.69Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic... -
Anthropocene Reading: Literary History in Geologic Times by Tobias Menely 9780271078731
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £24.76Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human "signature" appears in the lithostratigraphic... -
Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy by Aishwary Kumar 9780804791953
RRP: £64.00Booksplease Price: £52.69B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two figures whose thought and legacies have most strongly shaped the contours of Indian democracy, are... -
Chronos: The West Confronts Time by Francois Hartog
RRP: £117.00Booksplease Price: £91.46As omnipresent as it is ungraspable, time has always inspired and eluded attempts to comprehend it. For the early Christians, for the twenty-first-century world, how have past and future been woven... -
The Crisis of Secularism in India by Anuradha Dingwaney Needham 9780822338468
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.62While secularism has been integral to India's democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are now being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and... -
The Future as Catastrophe: Imagining Disaster in the Modern Age by Eva Horn
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £97.55Why do we have the constant feeling that disaster is looming? Beyond the images of atomic apocalypse that have haunted us for decades, we are dazzled now by an array of possible catastrophe... -
Debating New Approaches to History Professor Marek Tamm (Tallinn University, Estonia) 9781474281928
Booksplease Price: £29.05With its innovative format, Debating New Approaches to History addresses issues currently at the top of the discipline's theoretical and methodological agenda. In its chapters, leading historians of... -
The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability Annette Kehnel 9781800816251
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £16.75'[It] reminds us that history can be a treasure trove - if one looks in the right places and asks the right questions' Peter Frankopan, author of Silk Roads 'A must-read' Lyndal Roper, Regius...