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Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-06-29
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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A major historical study of the global arms trade, revolving around the transfer of small arms from metropolitan Europe to the turbulent frontiers of Indian Ocean societies during the 'long' nineteenth century (c.1780-1914).
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-06-12
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Alarms amongst the Uzbeks - Alexander BurnesOf all the "forbidden" cities (Timbuktu, Mecca, Lhasa, Riyadh and so on) none enjoyed a more fearsome reputation that Bukhara in Uzbekistan. The first British Indian expedition, that of William Moorcroft in 1819-26, had never...
Editeur :
Robinson
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2012-06-07
Collection :
Mammoth Books
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This classic provides a comprehensive account of the hstory of the Mauryas with a special emphasis on the reign and activities of Asoka. It examines the sources, socio-economic conditions, administration, Dhamma, foreign relations, and the decline of the Mauryas.This...
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OUP India
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2012-04-16
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Women and Malay Voices examines Malay literature by Chinese peranakan authors in the Dutch East Indies between 1915 and 1940. The narratives, some of them based on sensational murder trials reported in the news, offer insights into women’s lives and experiences and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-27
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This 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 conditions of the production of 'sources,' the forging of a new historical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-02-14
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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The success of the first four editions shows that this book fills a vacuum for readers who wish to learn about the countries of South-East Asia. Recent years have seen a number of important developments all of which are covered here. With the global climate becoming...
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Wiley
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2012-02-03
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The first book to tell the strange and fascinating story of General Zhang Xue-liang, the Chinese-Manchurian 'Young Marshall' - a man who left an indelible mark on the history of modern China, but few know his story. Unlocking the mystery of this man's life, Aron...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-01-17
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Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, the nineteenth century encounter between East Asia and the Western world has been narrated as a legal encounter. Commercial treaties--negotiated by diplomats and focused on trade--framed the relationships among...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-01-11
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How and why do some places in the world become symbols of illusive paradise, and what does this mean for their residents? Moving between anthropology, tourism, and the increasingly influential cultural heritage movement, Partners in Paradise examines the origins of a...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-12-22
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Stalingrad in the jungle: the battle that doomed the French Empire and led America into VietnamIn winter 1953-54 the French army in Vietnam challenged its elusive enemy, General Giap's Viet Minh, to pitched battle. Ten thousand French paras and légionnaires, with...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2011-12-01
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The book shows how the study of the evolving discourse employed during a political process spanning more than a decade can provide insights for critical discourse analysis, on the one hand, and understanding of a real world political process on the other, thereby...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-12-01
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Between 1910 and 1945 Korea was subjected to Japanese colonial rule. Monuments, Memory, and Identity investigates ways how postcolonial South Korea commemorated this difficult past in light of changing political and social conditions, and against the background of the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-11-04
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'an Indian household can no more be governed peacefully, without dignity and prestige, than an Indian Empire'
InThe Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner provide practical, and often highly opinionated, advice...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-10-13
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'an Indian household can no more be governed peacefully, without dignity and prestige, than an Indian Empire'
InThe Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner provide practical, and often highly opinionated, advice...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-10-13
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This book examines the relationship between colonial anxieties about personal behavior, gender, morality, and colonial rule in India during the first century of British rule, when the East India Company governed India rather than the British State directly, focusing on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-09-12
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This book examines the impact of classical Chinese literature on Mao Zedong’s political rhetoric and his vision of a tripolar geopolitical landscape at the peak of the Cold War. The historical novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms, in which two weaker sovereign powers...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-18
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Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred landscapes...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-15
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History
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The inspiration for this book arose from the opening of the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus route on 7 April 2005, the first direct link between the two parts of divided Kashmir since 1947.The original impetus for change in the region arose not from politicians but from...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-08-12
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Written by leading scholars in the field, this book provides new insights, based on original research, into the full spectrum of modern Japanese political-religious activity: from the prewar uses of Shinto in shaping the modern imperial nation-state to the postwar 'new...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2011-08-09
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