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Gandhi's Dilemma in War and Independence (Paperback): Ranabir Samaddar Gandhi's Dilemma in War and Independence (Paperback)
Ranabir Samaddar
R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the socio-political milieu of the forties in India, the most contentious decade of the last century, ravaged with war, the Quit India movement, famine, partition and the civil war, the author draws our attention to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the father of the Indian Independence Movement, who, as he puts it, 'symbolised the conflicts and paradoxes of that time of transition'. As one critically examines Gandhi's views during the period of India's passage to political independence on issues such as war, decolonisation, nationalist challenge, state sovereignty, problems of governance and so on, a pertinent question surfaces: was Gandhi as confident in his political agenda and methods as history has asserted to the present day? Gandhi, again a satyagrahi, an ardent propagator of non-violent resistance to injustice throughout his life, appears in the eyes of the Englishmen, as an extremist and saboteur of the Allied democratic cause in the World War II. Using his scholarly acumen, the author unveils a new dimension to Gandhi's towering personality with the suggestion that time was closing down on him. It was a situation of classic aporia, when exit from the problem that Gandhi struggled to escape from became impossible in its own terms.

Notes of Dissent - Essays on Indian History (Hardcover): Kesavan Veluthat Notes of Dissent - Essays on Indian History (Hardcover)
Kesavan Veluthat
R1,378 Discovery Miles 13 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Sumerians - A Captivating Guide to Ancient Sumerian History, Sumerian Mythology and the Mesopotamian Empire of the Sumer... Sumerians - A Captivating Guide to Ancient Sumerian History, Sumerian Mythology and the Mesopotamian Empire of the Sumer Civilization (Hardcover)
Captivating History
R717 R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Georg Buhler's Contribution to Indology (Hardcover): Amruta Natu Georg Buhler's Contribution to Indology (Hardcover)
Amruta Natu
R3,370 Discovery Miles 33 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book deals with the life and pioneering work of Georg Buhler in the various fields of Indology. It argues that Buhler's interactions with the 19th c. India influenced his approach as a researcher and in turn his methodology which then followed his self-developed path of Ethno-Indology. The work is a result of study for the doctoral degree of the Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, India. Along with source materials available in India, the author consulted those in Germany and Austria.

Tsar and Sultan - Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover): Victor Taki Tsar and Sultan - Russian Encounters with the Ottoman Empire (Hardcover)
Victor Taki
R4,582 Discovery Miles 45 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Tsar and Sultan offers a unique insight into Russian Orientalism as the intellectual force behind Russian-Ottoman encounters. Through war diaries and memoirs, accounts of captivity and diplomatic correspondences, Victor Taki's analysis of military documents demonstrates a crucial aspect of Russia's discovery of the Orient based on its rivalry with the Ottoman Empire. Narratives depicting the brutal realities of Russian-Turkish military conflicts influenced the Orientalisation of the Ottoman Empire. In turn, Russian identity was built as the counter-image to the demonised Turk. This book explains the significance of Russian Orientalism on Russian identity and national policies of westernisation. Students of both European and Middle East studies will appreciate Taki's unique approach to Russian-Turkish relations and their influence on Eurasian history.

Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Hardcover): Assaf Shelleg Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History (Hardcover)
Assaf Shelleg
R2,361 Discovery Miles 23 610 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History revolutionizes the study of modern Israeli art music by tracking the surprising itineraries of Jewish art music in the move from Europe to Mandatory Palestine and Israel. Leaving behind cliches about East and West, Arab and Jew, this book provocatively exposes the legacies of European antisemitism and religious Judaism in the making of Israeli art music.
Shelleg introduces the reader to various aesthetic dilemmas involved in the emergence of modern Jewish art music, ranging from auto-exoticism through the hues of self-hatred to the disarticulation of Jewish musical markers. He then considers part of this musics' translocation to Mandatory Palestine, studying its discourse with Hebrew culture, and composers' grappling with modern and Zionist images of the self. Unlike previous efforts in the field, Shelleg unearths the mechanism of what he calls "Zionist musical onomatopoeias," but more importantly their dilution by the non-western Arab Jewish oral musical traditions (the same traditions Hebrew culture sought to westernize and secularize).
And what had begun with composers' movement towards the musical properties of non-western Jewish musical traditions grew in the 60s and 70s to a dialectical return to exilic Jewish cultures. In the aftermath of the Six-Day War, which reaffirmed Zionism's redemptive and expansionist messages, Israeli composers (re)embraced precisely the exilic Jewish music that emphasized Judaism's syncretic qualities rather than its territorial characteristics. In the 70s, therefore, while religious Zionist circles translated theology into politics and territorial maximalism, Israeli composers deterritorialized the national discourse by a growing return to the spaces shared by Jews and non-Jews, devoid of Zionist appropriations."

U.S. Policy Toward Syria - 1949 to 1958 (Hardcover): Ibraheem Saeed Albaidhani U.S. Policy Toward Syria - 1949 to 1958 (Hardcover)
Ibraheem Saeed Albaidhani
R786 Discovery Miles 7 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Mobilization, Factionalization and Destruction of Mass Movements in the Cultural Revolution - A Social Movement Perspective... Mobilization, Factionalization and Destruction of Mass Movements in the Cultural Revolution - A Social Movement Perspective (Hardcover)
Joshua Zhang, Philip Monte, James Wright
R3,668 Discovery Miles 36 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Memoirs of Naim Bey - Turkish Official Documents Relating to the Deportations and Massacres of Armenians (Hardcover): Aram... The Memoirs of Naim Bey - Turkish Official Documents Relating to the Deportations and Massacres of Armenians (Hardcover)
Aram Andonian; Contributions by Naim Bey; Introduction by Viscount Gladstone
R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Taliban - Afghanistan's Most Lethal Insurgents (Hardcover): Mark Silinsky The Taliban - Afghanistan's Most Lethal Insurgents (Hardcover)
Mark Silinsky
R1,942 Discovery Miles 19 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Understand the complexities of the most lethal insurgent group of America's longest war-the Taliban. Battle hardened, tribally oriented, and deeply committed to its cause, the Taliban has proven itself resourceful, adaptable, and often successful. As such, the Taliban presents a counterinsurgency puzzle for which the United States has yet to identify effective military tactics, information operations, and Coalition developmental policies. Written by one of the Department of the Army's leading intelligence and military analysts on the Taliban, this book covers the group's complete history, including its formation, ideology, and political power, as well as the origins of its current conflict with the United States. The work carefully analyzes the agenda, capabilities, and support base of the Taliban; forecasts the group's likely course of action to retake Afghanistan; and details the Coalition forces' probable counterinsurgency responses. Author Mark Silinsky also reviews the successes and failures of the latest U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine to extrapolate the best strategies for future counterinsurgency campaigns. Provides insights from an author with academic training in politics and economics as well as a 30-year defense intelligence community background, including serving as an Army analyst in Afghanistan Presents information recently obtained under the Freedom of Information Act Analyzes the tribal, religious, political, and international elements of the greater Taliban problem

The Origins of Ancient Vietnam (Hardcover): Nam C Kim The Origins of Ancient Vietnam (Hardcover)
Nam C Kim
R3,297 Discovery Miles 32 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Long believed to be the cradle of Vietnamese civilization, the Red River Delta of Vietnam has been referenced by Vietnamese and Chinese writers for centuries, many recording colorful tales and legends about the region's prehistory. One of the most enduring accounts relates the story of the Au Lac Kingdom and its capital, known as Co Loa. According to legend, the city was founded during the third century BC and massive rampart walls protected its seat of power. Over the past two millennia, Co Loa has become emblematic of an important foundational era for Vietnamese civilization. Today, the ramparts of this ancient city still stand in silent testament to the power of past societies. However, there are ongoing debates about the origins of the site, the validity of legendary accounts, and the link between the prehistoric past with later Vietnamese society. Recent decades of archaeology in the region have provided a new dimension to further explore these issues, and to elucidate the underpinnings of civilization in northern Vietnam. Nam C. Kim's The Origins of Ancient Vietnam explores the origins of an ancient state in northern Vietnam, an area long believed to be the cradle of Vietnamese civilization. In doing so, it analyzes the archaeological record and the impact of new information on extant legends about the region and its history. Additionally, Kim presents the archaeological case for this momentous development, placing Co Loa within a wider archaeological consideration of emergent cities, states, and civilizations.

Italians in Africa and the Japanese in South East Asia - Stark Differences and Surprising Similarities in the Age of Expansion... Italians in Africa and the Japanese in South East Asia - Stark Differences and Surprising Similarities in the Age of Expansion (Hardcover)
Nikolaos Mavropoulos
R2,821 Discovery Miles 28 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The comparison of early Italy's and Japan's colonialism is without precedence. The majority of studies on Italian and Japanese expansion refer to the 1930-1940s period (fascist/totalitarian era) when Japan annexed Manchuria (1931) and Italy Ethiopia (1936). The first formative and crucial steps that paved the way for this expansion have been neglected. This analysis covers a range of social, political and economic parameters illuminating the diversity but also the common ground of the nature and aspirations of Japan's and Italy's early colonial systems. The two states alongside the Great Powers of the era expanded in the name of humanism and civilization but in reality in a way typically imperialistic, they sought territorial compensations, financial privileges and prestige. A parallel and deeper understanding of the nineteenth century socio-cultural-psychological parameters, such as tradition, mentality, and religion that shaped and explain the later ideological framework of Rome's and Tokyo's expansionist disposition, has never been attempted before. This monograph offers a detailed examination of the phenomenon of colonialism by examining the issue from two different angles. The study contributes to the understanding of Italy's and Japan's early imperial expansion. In addition, it traces the origins of these states' similar and common historical evolution in late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century.

Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature - Intertextuality in The Story of the Stone (Hardcover): I-Hsien... Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature - Intertextuality in The Story of the Stone (Hardcover)
I-Hsien Wu
R2,586 Discovery Miles 25 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tibet in Agony - Lhasa 1959 (Hardcover): Jianglin Li Tibet in Agony - Lhasa 1959 (Hardcover)
Jianglin Li; Translated by Susan Wilf
R980 Discovery Miles 9 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Chinese Communist government has twice invoked large-scale military might to crush popular uprisings in capital cities. The second incident-the notorious massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989-is well known. The first, thirty years earlier in Tibet, remains little understood today. Yet in wages of destruction, bloodshed, and trampling of human rights, the tragic toll of March 1959 surpassed Tiananmen. Tibet in Agony provides the first clear historical account of the Chinese crackdown in Lhasa. Sifting facts from the distortions of propaganda and partisan politics, Jianglin Li reconstructs a chronology of events that lays to rest lingering questions about what happened in those fate-filled days and why. Her story begins with throngs of Tibetan demonstrators who-fearful that Chinese authorities were planning to abduct the Dalai Lama, their beloved leader-formed a protective ring around his palace. On the night of March 17, he fled in disguise, only to reemerge in India weeks later to set up a government in exile. But no peaceful resolution awaited Tibet. The Chinese army soon began shelling Lhasa, inflicting thousands of casualties and ravaging heritage sites in the bombardment and the infantry onslaught that followed. Unable to resist this show of force, the Tibetans capitulated, putting Mao Zedong in a position to fulfill his long-cherished dream of bringing Tibet under the Communist yoke. Li's extensive investigation, including eyewitness interviews and examination of classified government records, tells a gripping story of a crisis whose aftershocks continue to rattle the region today.

The Loochoo Islands (Hardcover): Charles S. Leavenworth The Loochoo Islands (Hardcover)
Charles S. Leavenworth
R894 Discovery Miles 8 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bombay Place-names and Street-names - an Excursion Into the By-ways of the History of Bombay City (Hardcover): Samuel T (Samuel... Bombay Place-names and Street-names - an Excursion Into the By-ways of the History of Bombay City (Hardcover)
Samuel T (Samuel Townsend) Sheppard
R859 Discovery Miles 8 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bridge to the New Testament - A Comprehensive Guide to the Forgotten Years of the Inter-Testament Period (Hardcover): Denny... The Bridge to the New Testament - A Comprehensive Guide to the Forgotten Years of the Inter-Testament Period (Hardcover)
Denny Sissom
R2,121 Discovery Miles 21 210 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Rifle and Spear With the Rajpoots - Being the Narrative of a Winter's Travel and Sport in Northern India (Hardcover): Nora... Rifle and Spear With the Rajpoots - Being the Narrative of a Winter's Travel and Sport in Northern India (Hardcover)
Nora Beatrice Blyth Gardner
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Winter Pilgrimage - Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year... A Winter Pilgrimage - Being an Account of Travels Through Palestine, Italy, and the Island of Cyprus, Accomplished in the Year 1900 (Hardcover)
H Rider (Henry Rider) 1856 Haggard
R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The House of Seleucus; Volume 1 (Hardcover): Edwyn Robert Bevan The House of Seleucus; Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Edwyn Robert Bevan
R972 Discovery Miles 9 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Silencing of Jesuit Figurist Joseph de Premare in Eighteenth-Century China (Hardcover): D.E. Mungello The Silencing of Jesuit Figurist Joseph de Premare in Eighteenth-Century China (Hardcover)
D.E. Mungello
R2,258 Discovery Miles 22 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The image of a voice in the wilderness evokes an outcast who has been condemned and banished by society. That image fits the scholar-priest Joseph de Premare who spent the last thirty-eight years of his life (1698-1736) mainly in remote areas of China. He was condemned to silence by not only his religious superiors, but also by intellectuals in Europe. He was silenced because his Figurist theories were regarded as dangerous and implausible. And yet the irony of this silencing is that Father Premare was one of the most knowledgeable Sinologists of all time. As a missionary in towns in the southern province of Jiangxi, he was freed from many pastoral duties by an assisting catechist and able to devote himself to intensive study of Chinese texts. He was practically a scholar-hermit who left the urban, politicized atmosphere of Beijing after only two years to return to Jiangxi province. There he cultivated Chinese literati who helped him assemble a remarkable collection of classical texts. He was prolific in producing a wide body of works in philology, history, philosophy, religion and drama. Faced by critics who were claiming that Chinese culture was alien to Christianity, Premare joined the effort led by his fellow Jesuit Joachim Bouvet to save the Christian mission in China from destruction. The Figurists were radical in arguing that the ancient Chinese texts, like the Old Testament, anticipated the coming of Christ long before his birth. They claimed that Chinese commentators erred in viewing these ancient texts as records of history when in fact they were works of metaphorical and figurative meaning. Influenced by a Chinese scholar, Premare made a philological analysis of Chinese characters to explain his theory. When Figurism was condemned by his religious superiors, Premare attempted to circumvent their prohibition by sending his manuscripts to the proto-Sinologist Etienne Fourmont in Paris, asking that they be published anonymously. Fourmont criticized Premare's theories and failed to publish them. By the time of his death, Premare had sent most of his manuscripts to Paris where they remained buried for many years.

The Political Economy of News in China - Manufacturing Harmony (Hardcover): Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman The Political Economy of News in China - Manufacturing Harmony (Hardcover)
Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
R2,441 Discovery Miles 24 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Political Economy of News in China: Manufacturing Harmony is the first full-scale application of Herman and Chomsky's classic propaganda model to the news media content of a country with a system that is not outwardly similar to the United States. Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman examines the news media of the People's Republic of China using the five filters of the original model. He asks provocative questions concerning the nature of media ownership, the effect of government or private ownership on media content, the elite-centered nature news sourcing patterns, the benefits and costs of having active special interest groups to influence news coverage, the continued usefulness of the concepts of censorship and propaganda, the ability of advertisers to indirectly influence news production, and the potential increase of pro-capitalist, pro-consumerist ideology and nationalism in Chinese news media. This book will appeal to scholars of international media and journalism.

In My Head - From Pilot to Prison Camps (Hardcover): Peggie Sinders In My Head - From Pilot to Prison Camps (Hardcover)
Peggie Sinders; As told by Thanh Chau
R555 Discovery Miles 5 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The History of Afghanistan, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Meredith L. Runion The History of Afghanistan, 2nd Edition (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Meredith L. Runion
R2,115 Discovery Miles 21 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This chronological account traces the history of Afghanistan from pre-civilization to present-day events and considers the future of democracy in Afghanistan. For centuries, Afghanistan has endured control by a gamut of political regimes as a result of its strategic location along the trade route between Asia and the Middle East. The area has been at the center of constant conflict and only in recent years has recovered from the vestiges of warfare. The second edition of this popular reference offers a fresh glimpse at the country, showing modern Afghanistan to be a melting pot of cultures, tribes, and political influences all under the guiding belief of Islam. In addition to thorough coverage of the country's political, economic, and cultural history, the book provides students with an account of recent events in Afghanistan since 2007, such as the death of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan and the removal of NATO soldiers. Other changes include a revised timeline, an updated glossary, additions to the notable figures appendix, and an expanded bibliography that includes electronic resources. Includes an additional chapter on the events of the past 10 years, covering modern Afghanistan and its people Features Operation Neptune Spear, the Central Intelligence Agency-led operation responsible for the death of Osama bin Laden Provides an updated timeline of key events, including those that have occurred since the first edition

The Political Economy of Reforms and the Remaking of the Proletarian Class in China, 1980s-2010s - Demystifying China's... The Political Economy of Reforms and the Remaking of the Proletarian Class in China, 1980s-2010s - Demystifying China's Society and Social Classes in the Post-Mao Era (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2023)
Shan (Shanne) Huang
R3,623 Discovery Miles 36 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book comprehensively investigates the position of China's working class between the 1980s and 2010s and considers the consequences of economic reforms in historical perspective. It argues the case that, far from the illusion during the Maoist period that a new society had been established where the working classes held greater political and economic autonomy, economic reforms in the post-Mao era have led to the return of traditional Marxist proletariats in China. The book demonstrates how the reforms of Deng Xiaoping have led to increased economic efficiency at the expense of economic equality through an extensive case study of an SOE (state-owned enterprise) in Sichuan Province as well as wider discussions of the emergence of state capitalism on both a micro and macroeconomic level. The book also discusses workers' protests during these periods of economic reform to reflect the reformation of class consciousness in post-Mao China, drawing on Marx's concept of a transition from a 'class-in-itself' to a 'class-for-itself'. It will be valuable reading for students and scholars of Chinese economic and social history, as well as political economy, sociology, and politics.

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