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India After Gandhi: The History of the World’s Largest Democracy
ISBN13: 9780060958589
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Product Description Amagisterial account of the pains, the struggles, the humiliations, and the glories of the world’s largest and least likely democracy, Ramachandra Guha’s India After Gandhi is a breathtaking chronicle of the brutal conflicts that have rocked a giant nation and the extraordinary factors that [...]
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Columbia History of the World
Columbia History of the World
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The Oxford History of World Cinema
Product DescriptionFrom its humble beginnings as a novelty in a handful of cities, cinema has risen to become a billion-dollar industry and the most spectacular and original contemporary art form. In The Oxford History of World Cinema, an international team of film historians traces the history of this enduringly popular entertainment medium. Covering all aspects [...]
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A Naval History Of World War I
Product DescriptionThis book aims to provide a definitive work on the First World War at sea. It aims to cover, in a single volume, many aspects of the naval war and to treat the conflict, from the viewpoints of “all” the participants rather than just the Anglo-German perspective.A Naval History of World War I represents [...]
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Empires of the Word: A Language History of the World
ISBN13: 9780060935726
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Product Description Nicholas Ostler’s Empires of the Word is the first history of the world’s great tongues, gloriously celebrating the wonder of words that binds communities together and makes possible both the living of a common history and the telling of it. From the uncanny resilience [...]
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