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44 produkter
Midnight in Sicily
Av Peter Robb
Häftad, 2015
155 kr
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Peter Robb's journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern Italy's legacy of political corruption and violent crime. Taking the trial of seven-times Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, for alleged Mafia involvement as its starting point, …
Street Fight in Naples
A City's Unseen History
Av Peter Robb
Häftad, 2012
210 kr
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Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. It is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. In 1503, Naples was the Mediterranean capital of Spain's world empire and the base for the Christian struggle with Islam. It was a …
Institutions and Ideologies
A SOAS South Asia Reader
Häftad, 1995
371 kr
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Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.
Sex and Sensibility
Richard Blechynden's Calcutta Diaries, 1791-1822
Av Peter Robb
Inbunden, 2011
547 kr
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Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sentiment and Self) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday life.While Sentiment and …
History of India
Av Peter Robb
Inbunden, 2011
1389 kr
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This fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India's rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, medieval and especially modern India. Peter Robb's accessible study analyses India's civilizations, empires and regions through the ages, and …
History of India
Av Peter Robb
Häftad, 2011
429 kr
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This fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India's rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, medieval and especially modern India. Peter Robb's accessible study analyses India's civilizations, empires and regions through the ages, and …
History of India
Av Peter Robb
E-bok, 2017
466 kr
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This fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India''s rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, medieval and especially modern India. Peter Robb''s accessible study analyses India''s civilizations, empires and regions through the ages, …
Midnight in Sicily
On Art, Food, History, Travel, and La Cosa Nostra
Av Peter Robb
Häftad, 2007
307 kr
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Agrarian Development in Colonial India
The British and Bihar
Av Peter Robb
Inbunden, 2021
2586 kr
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This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870–1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and maps the impact of legal, administrative and scientific interventions to rural conditions and norms …
Institutions and Ideologies
A SOAS South Asia Reader
Inbunden, 1995
2512 kr
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Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.
Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India
Japanese Perspectives
Av Peter Robb, Kaoru Sugihara m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
2586 kr
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The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian comparative perspective for the understanding of Indian history.
Ancient Rights and Future Comfort
Bihar, the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, and British Rule in India
Av Peter Robb
Inbunden, 1997
2586 kr
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This book analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India, by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy. It argues that the great rent law debate and the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885 helped constitute a revolution in the effective aims of …
death in Brazil
Av Peter Robb
Häftad, 2005
179 kr
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Delving into Brazil's baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the late nineteenth century. Even today, Brazil is a nation of almost unimaginable distance between its …
Agrarian Development in Colonial India
The British and Bihar
Av Peter Robb
E-bok, 2021
785 kr
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This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870–1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and maps the impact of legal, administrative and scientific interventions to rural conditions and …
Agrarian Development in Colonial India
The British and Bihar
Av Peter Robb
E-bok, 2021
785 kr
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This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870–1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and maps the impact of legal, administrative and scientific interventions to rural conditions and …
Rural India
Land, Power and Society Under British Rule
Av Peter Robb
E-bok, 2023
607 kr
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First published in 1983, Rural India intends to provide pictures of Indian rural society in the past, from the standpoint of relationships and exchanges between the countryside and the more general physical and cultural context of which it is a part. A predominant theme is control over land and …
Rural India
Land, Power and Society Under British Rule
Av Peter Robb
E-bok, 2023
593 kr
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First published in 1983, Rural India intends to provide pictures of Indian rural society in the past, from the standpoint of relationships and exchanges between the countryside and the more general physical and cultural context of which it is a part. A predominant theme is control over land and …
Rural South Asia
Linkages, Change and Development
Av Peter Robb
E-bok, 2023
554 kr
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First published in 1983, Rural South Asia examines questions of change and development in terms of linkages between localities and the outside world. The authors examine the response specifically to the introduction of a ‘modern’ features of production, the importance of physical, cultural and …
Rural South Asia
Linkages, Change and Development
Av Peter Robb
E-bok, 2023
554 kr
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First published in 1983, Rural South Asia examines questions of change and development in terms of linkages between localities and the outside world. The authors examine the response specifically to the introduction of a ‘modern’ features of production, the importance of physical, cultural and …
Rule, Protest, Identity
Aspects of Modern South Asia
E-bok, 2023
618 kr
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First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia. Its concern is with the diversity of the region, to suggest how its study may be enriched by the juxtaposition of various disciplines, and in particular through the examination of familiar subjects …
Rule, Protest, Identity
Aspects of Modern South Asia
E-bok, 2023
618 kr
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First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia. Its concern is with the diversity of the region, to suggest how its study may be enriched by the juxtaposition of various disciplines, and in particular through the examination of familiar subjects …
Agrarian Development in Colonial India
The British and Bihar
Av Peter Robb
Häftad, 2023
667 kr
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This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870–1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and maps the impact of legal, administrative and scientific interventions to rural conditions and norms …
Rural India
Land, Power and Society Under British Rule
Av Peter Robb
Inbunden, 2023
2197 kr
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First published in 1983, Rural India intends to provide pictures of Indian rural society in the past, from the standpoint of relationships and exchanges between the countryside and the more general physical and cultural context of which it is a part. A predominant theme is control over land and …
Rural South Asia
Linkages, Change and Development
Av Peter Robb
Inbunden, 2023
1882 kr
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First published in 1983, Rural South Asia examines questions of change and development in terms of linkages between localities and the outside world. The authors examine the response specifically to the introduction of a ‘modern’ features of production, the importance of physical, cultural and …
Rural South Asia
Linkages, Change and Development
Av Peter Robb
Häftad, 2025
487 kr
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First published in 1983, Rural South Asia examines questions of change and development in terms of linkages between localities and the outside world. The authors examine the response specifically to the introduction of a ‘modern’ features of production, the importance of physical, cultural and …
Rule, Protest, Identity
Aspects of Modern South Asia
Inbunden, 2023
1749 kr
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First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia. Its concern is with the diversity of the region, to suggest how its study may be enriched by the juxtaposition of various disciplines, and in particular through the examination of familiar subjects …
Rule, Protest, Identity
Aspects of Modern South Asia
Häftad, 2025
527 kr
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First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia. Its concern is with the diversity of the region, to suggest how its study may be enriched by the juxtaposition of various disciplines, and in particular through the examination of familiar subjects …
On Time
Encounters between India and Europe in Early Calcutta
Av Peter Robb
E-bok, 2026
1030 kr
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This book explores the intersection of public and private temporal systems. Examining Calcutta between 1780 and 1830, it reveals how time functioned as both a regulatory mechanism of emerging colonial governance and a deeply personal construct that continued to reflect pre-colonial norms and …
On Time
Encounters between India and Europe in Early Calcutta
Av Peter Robb
E-bok, 2026
1030 kr
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This book explores the intersection of public and private temporal systems. Examining Calcutta between 1780 and 1830, it reveals how time functioned as both a regulatory mechanism of emerging colonial governance and a deeply personal construct that continued to reflect pre-colonial norms and …
On Time
Encounters between India and Europe in Early Calcutta
Av Peter Robb
Inbunden, 2026
2586 kr
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This book explores the intersection of public and private temporal systems. Examining Calcutta between 1780 and 1830, it reveals how time functioned as both a regulatory mechanism of emerging colonial governance and a deeply personal construct that continued to reflect pre-colonial norms and …
