Télécharger le livre :  Thuggee

Based largely on new material, this book examines thuggee as a type of banditry, emerging in a specific socio-economic and geographic context. The British usually described the thugs as fanatic assassins and Kali-worshippers, yet Wagner argues that the history of...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-07-12
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture

Orientalist research has most often been characterised as an integral element of the European will-to-power over the Asian world. This study seeks to nuance this view, and asserts that British Orientalism in India was also an inherently complex and unstable enterprise,...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-02-15
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Autobiography, Travel and Postnational Identity

This book examines concepts of travel in the autobiographies of leading Indian nationalists in order to show how nationalism is grounded in notions of individual selfhood, and how the writing of autobiography, fused with the genre of the travelogue, played a key role in...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2007-01-18
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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Télécharger le livre :  Decolonizing International Health

This book offers a history of international public health spanning the colonial and post-colonial eras. The volume focuses on India and the transnational networks connecting developments in India with Southeast Asia, and the wider world and contributes to debates on...
Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2006-10-10
Collection : Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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