wyszukanych pozycji: 16
Fire, Pestilence, and Death: St. Louis, 1849
ISBN: 9781883982935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. St Louis 1849. 35 halftones
St Louis 1849. 35 halftones
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The Marathas 1600-1818
ISBN: 9780521268837 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this book, Dr. Stewart Gordon presents the first comprehensive history of the Maratha polity, which was an important regional kingdom in the seventeenth century and the largest political entity of eighteenth century India. He focuses on the origins of the elite families, problems of legitimacy and loyalty, military organization and change, and the development of administration, tax collection and religious patronage. Through the use of a vast array of documents, the author also gives a picture of everyday life in the Maratha polity.
In this book, Dr. Stewart Gordon presents the first comprehensive history of the Maratha polity, which was an important regional kingdom in the sevent...
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549,96 zł |
The Marathas 1600-1818
ISBN: 9780521033169 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this book, Dr. Stewart Gordon presents the first comprehensive history of the Maratha polity, which was an important regional kingdom in the seventeenth century and the largest political entity of eighteenth century India. He focuses on the origins of the elite families, problems of legitimacy and loyalty, military organization and change, and the development of administration, tax collection and religious patronage. Through the use of a vast array of documents, the author also gives a picture of everyday life in the Maratha polity.
In this book, Dr. Stewart Gordon presents the first comprehensive history of the Maratha polity, which was an important regional kingdom in the sevent...
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154,38 zł |
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India
ISBN: 9780521563192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. David Arnold's wide-ranging analysis combines a discussion of all three fields across the entire colonial period--from the 1860s through to Independence--offering both a survey of recent scholarship and an original overview. Arnold assesses the role of science in the making of colonial India and in the fashioning of Indian responses to British rule.
Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the rei...
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451,11 zł |
Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India
ISBN: 9780521617185 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. David Arnold's wide-ranging analysis combines a discussion of all three fields across the entire colonial period--from the 1860s through to Independence--offering both a survey of recent scholarship and an original overview. Arnold assesses the role of science in the making of colonial India and in the fashioning of Indian responses to British rule.
Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the rei...
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154,38 zł |
Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
ISBN: 9780521250924 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism and seeks to reassess the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism. It discusses new views of the "decline of the Mughals" and the role of the Indian capitalists in the expansion of the English East India Company's trade and urban settlements. It considers the reasons for the inability of indigenous states to withstand the British, but also highlights the relative failure of the...
This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the period...
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Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire
ISBN: 9780521386500 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the period of India's transition to colonialism and seeks to reassess the role of Indians in the politics and economics of early colonialism. It discusses new views of the "decline of the Mughals" and the role of the Indian capitalists in the expansion of the English East India Company's trade and urban settlements. It considers the reasons for the inability of indigenous states to withstand the British, but also highlights the relative failure of the...
This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the period...
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119,92 zł |
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
ISBN: 9780521798426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life. This volume explores the emergence of ideas and practices that gave rise to the so-called "caste-society." Using a historical and anthropological approach, the author frames her analysis in the context of India's economic and social order, interpreting caste as a contingent and variable response to changes in India's political landscape through the colonial conquest. The book's wide-ranging analysis offers one of the most powerful statements ever written on caste in South Asia.
The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life. This volume explores the emergence of ideas and pr...
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159,46 zł |
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
ISBN: 9780521264341 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life. This volume explores the emergence of ideas and practices that gave rise to the so-called "caste-society." Using a historical and anthropological approach, the author frames her analysis in the context of India's economic and social order, interpreting caste as a contingent and variable response to changes in India's political landscape through the colonial conquest. The book's wide-ranging analysis offers one of the most powerful statements ever written on caste in South Asia.
The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life. This volume explores the emergence of ideas and pr...
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525,25 zł |
The Portuguese in India
ISBN: 9780521028509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Portuguese were the first European imperial power in Asia. Dr. Pearson's volume of the History is a clear account of their activities in India and the Indian Ocean from the sixteenth century onwards that is written squarely from an Indian point of view. Laying particular stress on social, economic, and religious interaction between Portuguese and Indians, the author argues that the Portuguese had a more limited impact on everyday life in India than is sometimes supposed. Their imperial effort was characterized more by reciprocity and interaction than by an unilateral imposition of...
The Portuguese were the first European imperial power in Asia. Dr. Pearson's volume of the History is a clear account of their activities in India and...
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154,38 zł |
The Mughal Empire
ISBN: 9780521251198 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume traces the history of this magnificent empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. Richards stresses the dynamic quality of Mughal territorial expansion, their institutional innovations in land revenue, coinage and military organization, ideological change and the relationship between the emperors and Islam. He also analyzes institutions particular to the Mughal empire, such as the jagir system, and explores Mughal India's links with the early modern world.
The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume traces the history of this magnificent empire from ...
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549,96 zł |
The Mughal Empire
ISBN: 9780521566032 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume traces the history of this magnificent empire from its creation in 1526 to its breakup in 1720. Richards stresses the dynamic quality of Mughal territorial expansion, their institutional innovations in land revenue, coinage and military organization, ideological change and the relationship between the emperors and Islam. He also analyzes institutions particular to the Mughal empire, such as the jagir system, and explores Mughal India's links with the early modern world.
The Mughal empire was one of the largest centralized states in the premodern world and this volume traces the history of this magnificent empire from ...
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139,69 zł |
Ideologies of the Raj
ISBN: 9780521395472 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Thomas Metcalf's fascinating study examines the ways the British sought to legitimate their rule over India. He demonstrates that the principles the British devised incorporated contradictory visions of India, yet together they made the authority of the Raj lawful. Students of modern India and the British Empire will find this book relevant and accessible.
Thomas Metcalf's fascinating study examines the ways the British sought to legitimate their rule over India. He demonstrates that the principles the B...
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Women in Modern India
ISBN: 9780521653770 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The author traces the history of Indian women from the nineteenth century under colonial rule, to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed their lives, enabling them to take part in public life. Through the women's own accounts, the author has compiled an accessible and immediate record of their achievements over the past two centuries, which will be of interest to students of South Asia and to anyone concerned with women and their history.
The author traces the history of Indian women from the nineteenth century under colonial rule, to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins...
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129,81 zł |
Mughal and Rajput Painting
ISBN: 9780521400275 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Mughals seized political power in north India in 1526 and became the most important artistically active Muslim dynasty on the subcontinent. In this richly illustrated work, Dr. Milo Beach shows how Mughal patronage of the arts was radically innovative for the Indian context and profoundly altered the character of painting in the Rajput Hindu areas of north India. He reveals the different styles and subjects of Mughal and Rajput painting and the interplay of the two traditions. Beach also explores the tolerance each showed toward outside influence and change, demonstrating a uniquely...
The Mughals seized political power in north India in 1526 and became the most important artistically active Muslim dynasty on the subcontinent. In thi...
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451,11 zł |
The Sikhs of the Punjab
ISBN: 9780521637640 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This important new contribution to the New Cambridge History of India examines chronologically the entire span of Sikh history from prehistoric times to the present day. In an introductory chapter, Professor Grewal surveys the changing pattern of human settlements in the Punjab until the fifteenth century and the emergence of the Punjabi language as the basis of regional articulation. Subsequent chapters explore the life and beliefs of Guru Nanak--the founder of Sikhism; the extension and modification of his ideas by his successors; the increasing number and composition of their followers and...
This important new contribution to the New Cambridge History of India examines chronologically the entire span of Sikh history from prehistoric times ...
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144,64 zł |