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The Climate of History in a Planetary Age Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780226732862
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £22.80For 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... -
Rethinking Working-Class History: Bengal 1890-1940 by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780691070308
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.05Dipesh 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... -
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition by Dipesh Chakrabarty
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £25.22First 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... -
Unish Shotoke Banglar Shromik Itihaser Koyekti Dik: Duti Porjacholona by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780199490974
Booksplease Price: £7.10Part 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... -
Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century: Two Views by Dipesh Chakrabarty 9780199486670
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.87Part 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... -
The Happiness Fantasy Carl Cederstroem (New School for Social Research) 9781509523818
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.89In 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... -
Climate Change and the Production of Knowledge by Ian Baucom 9780822368625
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41Though 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... -
How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene by Travis Holloway
Booksplease Price: £12.58Assessing 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,... -
At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West by Jackie Assayag 9780253216366
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £14.91During 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... -
Politics and the Anthropocene Duncan Kelly 9781509534203
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.48The Anthropocene has become central to understanding the intimate connections between human life and the natural environment, but it has fractured our sense of time and possibility. What implications... -
![Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India by William Mazzarella 9780822331094 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9909142/10925673/9780822331094__24965.1786475883.jpg?c=1 "Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India by William Mazzarella 9780822331094 [USED COPY]")
Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India by William Mazzarella 9780822331094 [USED COPY]
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £10.00A leading Bombay advertising agency justifies as traditionally Indian the highly eroticized images it produces to promote the KamaSutra condom brand. Another agency struggles to reconcile the global... -
Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India by William Mazzarella 9780822331452
Booksplease Price: £39.28A leading Bombay advertising agency justifies as traditionally Indian the highly eroticized images it produces to promote the KamaSutra condom brand. Another agency struggles to reconcile the global... -
![Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora by Kandice Chuh 9780822327295 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9919200/10935731/9780822327295__77198.1786484780.jpg?c=1 "Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora by Kandice Chuh 9780822327295 [USED COPY]")
Orientations: Mapping Studies in the Asian Diaspora by Kandice Chuh 9780822327295 [USED COPY]
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £8.77Asian and Asian American studies emerged, respectively, from Cold War and social protest ideologies. Yet, in the context of contemporary globalization, can these ideological distinctions remain in... -
Land Sickness by N Schultz
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.89As a heatwave hits Paris, the author's entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his... -
Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India by Craig Jeffrey 9780804770743
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68Social and economic changes around the globe have propelled increasing numbers of people into situations of chronic waiting, where promised access to political freedoms, social goods, or economic... -
![Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles by Saurabh Dube 9780822333258 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9907312/10923843/9780822333258__32719.1786474415.jpg?c=1 "Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles by Saurabh Dube 9780822333258 [USED COPY]")
Stitches on Time: Colonial Textures and Postcolonial Tangles by Saurabh Dube 9780822333258 [USED COPY]
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £16.84Destined to become a key work of subaltern studies and a crucial intervention in postcolonial scholarship, Stitches on Time probes the relationships between empire and modernity, nation and history,... -
The Secret Life of Another Indian Nationalism: Transitions from the Pax Britannica to the Pax Americana by Shail Mayaram
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63Nationalism is among the most influential ideas that has shaped the 'Metamorphoses of the Political' in the long twentieth century. This book focuses on exclusivist Indian nationalism and identifies... -
Tea Environments and Plantation Culture: Imperial Disarray in Eastern India by Arnab Dey 9781108471305
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.14Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal,... -
Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Western India, 1700-1960 by Prachi Deshpande 9780231124867
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £54.45The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in... -
![Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi 9780822337034 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6584371/6661292/9780822337034__80306.1738900772.jpg?c=1 "Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siecle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship by Leela Gandhi 9780822337034 [USED COPY]")
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... -
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... -
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... -
Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia: Explorations in the Intellectual History of India and Tibet, 1500-1800 by Sheldon Pollock 9780822349044
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In 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... -
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing 9781503637320
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.99Nature has gone feral. How can we re-attune ourselves to the new nature? A field guide can help. While the global scientific community recently made headlines by ruling the Anthropocene-an era many... -
![How To Save Our Planet: The Facts by Mark A. Maslin 9780241472521 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9789392/10805965/9780241472521__93106.1782281264.jpg?c=1 "How To Save Our Planet: The Facts by Mark A. Maslin 9780241472521 [USED COPY]")
How To Save Our Planet: The Facts by Mark A. Maslin 9780241472521 [USED COPY]
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £4.25'Punchy and to the point. No beating around the bush. This brilliant book contains all the information we need to have in our back pocket in order to move forward' Christiana Figueres, Former... -
This Sacred Life: Humanity's Place in a Wounded World by Norman Wirzba 9781009012584
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £20.82In a time of climate change, environmental degradation, and social injustice, the question of the value and purpose of human life has become urgent. What are the grounds for hope in a wounded world?... -
The History Manifesto by Jo Guldi 9781107432437
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £15.68How should historians speak truth to power - and why does it matter? Why is five hundred years better than five months or five years as a planning horizon? And why is history - especially long-term... -
How To Save Our Planet: The Facts by Mark A. Maslin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'Punchy and to the point. No beating around the bush. This brilliant book contains all the information we need to have in our back pocket in order to move forward' Christiana Figueres, Former...