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13 produkter
Autobiography of an Archive
A Scholar's Passage to India
Inbunden, 2015
2609 kr
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The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than …
Autobiography of an Archive
A Scholar's Passage to India
Häftad, 2015
360 kr
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The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than …
Colonialism and Culture
Häftad, 1992
395 kr
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Colonialism and Culture, edited by Nicholas B. Dirks, is an insightful exploration of the intricate relationship between colonialism and cultural transformation. The book features contributions that reflect how colonialism reshaped cultural identities and expressions across the globe, and how it …
Colonialism and Culture
E-bok, 2025
1175 kr
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Colonialism and Culture, edited by Nicholas B. Dirks, is an insightful exploration of the intricate relationship between colonialism and cultural transformation. The book features contributions that reflect how colonialism reshaped cultural identities and expressions across the globe, and how it …
The Hollow Crown
Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom
Häftad, 2007
813 kr
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A pioneering piece of ethnohistory, The Hollow Crown uses a variety of interdisciplinary means to reconstruct the sociocultural history of a warrior polity in south India between the fourteenth and the twentieth centuries. Central to the book is the belief that comparative sociology has …
Scandal of Empire
India and the Creation of Imperial Britain
Häftad, 2008
289 kr
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Many have told of the East India Company’s extraordinary excesses in eighteenth-century India, of the plunder that made its directors fabulously wealthy and able to buy British land and titles, but this is only a fraction of the story. When one of these men—Warren Hastings—was put on trial by …
In Near Ruins
Cultural Theory at the End of the Century
Häftad, 1998
288 kr
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A group of leading scholars considers the current state of cultural analysis.If culture is suspect, what of cultural theory? At a moment when culture’s traditional caretakers-humanism, philosophy, anthropology, and the nation-state-are undergoing crisis and mutation, this volume charts the tensions …
City of Intellect
The Uses and Abuses of the University
Häftad, 2025
393 kr
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During his four years as the tenth Chancellor of Berkeley (2013-17), Nicholas B. Dirks was confronted by crises arguably more challenging than those faced by any other college administrator in the contemporary period. This thoughtfully candid book, emerging from deep reflection on his turbulent …
City of Intellect
The Uses and Abuses of the University
Inbunden, 2023
806 kr
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During his four years as the tenth Chancellor of Berkeley (2013-17), Nicholas B. Dirks was confronted by crises arguably more challenging than those faced by any other college administrator in the contemporary period. This thoughtfully candid book, emerging from deep reflection on his turbulent …
Hollow Crown
Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom
Häftad, 1993
565 kr
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A groundbreaking work that challenged conventional wisdom and set the standard for the study of Indian society
Colonialism and Culture
Inbunden, 1992
1231 kr
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Provides new and important perspectives on the complex character of colonial history
