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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
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John Keble in Context
Edited by Kirstie Blair
A unique and timely volume, offering the first major reassessment of Keble's work for several decades.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311461
November 2004
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£115.00 / $115.00A unique and timely volume, offering the first major reassessment of Keble’s work for several decades.
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A History Of Russia Volume 2
Since 1855
Walter G. Moss
Moss's engaging historical account includes full treatment of politics, economics, foreign affairs and wars, and also of everyday life, women, legal developments, religion, literature, art and popular culture. This fully-revised edition features new text and illustrations.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781843310341
October 2004
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£39.95 / $39.95Moss’s engaging historical account includes full treatment of politics, economics, foreign affairs and wars, and also of everyday life, women, legal developments, religion, literature, art and popular culture. This fully-revised edition features new text and illustrations.
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Empowering Visions
The Politics of Representation in Hindu Nationalism
Christiane Brosius
An examination of the politics of representation in Hindu nationalism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311348
October 2004
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£115.00 / $115.00An examination of the politics of representation in Hindu nationalism.
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Reflective Laughter
Aspects of Humour in Russian Culture
Edited by Lesley Milne
A witty overview of humour in Russian culture.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781843311195
September 2004
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£29.95 / $29.95A witty overview of humour in Russian culture.
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Homelands
War, Population and Statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918-1924
Edited by Nick Baron, Peter Gatrell
A comprehensive study of war, population and statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918–1924.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311201
August 2004
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£115.00 / $115.00A comprehensive study of war, population and statehood in Eastern Europe and Russia, 1918–1924.
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The Making Of Christian Communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Edited by Mark F. Williams
This volume explores the idea that survival of the Christian faith depended upon the making of these communities, of which the Christians of this period were themselves acutely – and sometimes acrimoniously – aware.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781898855774
July 2004
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£27.50 / $27.50This volume explores the idea that survival of the Christian faith depended upon the making of these communities, of which the Christians of this period were themselves acutely – and sometimes acrimoniously – aware.
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The Bengal Borderland
Beyond State and Nation in South Asia
Willem van Schendel
A look at South Asia beyond state and nation.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311447
April 2004
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£115.00 / $115.00A look at South Asia beyond state and nation.
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Colonialism as Civilizing Mission
Cultural Ideology in British India
Edited by Harald Fischer-Tiné, Michael Mann
A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology, programmes, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310914
March 2004
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£115.00 / $115.00A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology, programmes, expressions and consequences of the British ‘civilizing mission’ in South Asia.
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Outsiders Looking In
The Rossettis Then and Now
Edited by David Clifford, Laurence Roussillon
A fascinating and comprehensive review of the position of the Rossettis within the social and cultural maelstrom of Victorian London.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311058
January 2004
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£115.00 / $115.00A fascinating and comprehensive review of the position of the Rossettis within the social and cultural maelstrom of Victorian London.
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Confronting the Body
The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
Edited by James H. Mills, Satadru Sen
A key South Asian Studies title that brings together some of the best new writing on physicality in colonial India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310327
January 2004
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£115.00 / $115.00A key South Asian Studies title that brings together some of the best new writing on physicality in colonial India.
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Unsettled Accounts
Money and Narrative in the Novels of George Gissing
Simon J. James
Gissing's work reveals an unhappy accommodation with money's underwriting of human existence and culture, and how daily life in all its forms – moral, intellectual, familial and erotic – is transcended or made irrelevant by its commodification.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311072
December 2003
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£115.00 / $115.00Gissing’s work reveals an unhappy accommodation with money’s underwriting of human existence and culture, and how daily life in all its forms – moral, intellectual, familial and erotic – is transcended or made irrelevant by its commodification.
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Victorian Sensation
Or the Spectacular, the Shocking and the Scandalous in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Michael Diamond
A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310761
August 2003
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£115.00 / $115.00A captivating look at the origins of our own tabloid culture in the salacious and titillating media of the Victorian era.
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A History of Russia Volume 1
To 1917
Walter G. Moss
A comprehensive and accessible history of the culture, people and politics of this vast and enigmatic nation.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781843310235
July 2003
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£39.95 / $39.95A comprehensive and accessible history of the culture, people and politics of this vast and enigmatic nation.
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Jane Austen and the Morality of Conversation
Bharat Tandon
An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen's work, a highly respected and engaging critical study.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843311010
March 2003
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£115.00 / $115.00An ingeniously innovative analysis of Jane Austen’s work, a highly respected and engaging critical study.
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Congress Politics in Bengal 1919-1939
Srilata Chatterjee
In examining the nature of the interaction between institutional politics as represented by the Congress and popular politics in Bengal between 1919 and 1939, this book is a significant and original contribution to current research in the field.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310631
January 2003
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£115.00 / $115.00In examining the nature of the interaction between institutional politics as represented by the Congress and popular politics in Bengal between 1919 and 1939, this book is a significant and original contribution to current research in the field.
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Confronting Colonialism
Resistance and Modernization under Haidar Ali and Tipu Sultan
Edited by Irfan Habib
A rare insight into a turning point of Indian history, commemorating the second centenary of Tipu's final battle against the British at Sriranagapatnam in 1799.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310600
September 2002
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£115.00 / $115.00A rare insight into a turning point of Indian history, commemorating the second centenary of Tipu’s final battle against the British at Sriranagapatnam in 1799.
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Essays in Indian History
Towards a Marxist Perception
Irfan Habib
This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310617
September 2002
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib’s essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.
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Inventing Subjects
Studies in Hegemony, Patriarchy and Colonialism
Himani Bannerji
A Marxist-Feminist perspective on the development of socio-cultural formations in colonial India.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310723
August 2002
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£115.00 / $115.00A Marxist-Feminist perspective on the development of socio-cultural formations in colonial India.
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Coolitude
An Anthology of the Indian Labour Diaspora
Marina Carter, Khal Torabully
A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310037
July 2002
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£115.00 / $115.00A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.
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Culture, Ideology, Hegemony
Intellectuals and Social Consciousness in Colonial India
K. N. Panikkar
Meticulously researched and lucidly argued, this analysis is illuminated by a rare sensitivity to the nature of class formation and class values, as well as to the material conditions of human existence.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310525
July 2002
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£115.00 / $115.00Meticulously researched and lucidly argued, this analysis is illuminated by a rare sensitivity to the nature of class formation and class values, as well as to the material conditions of human existence.
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The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh
Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940
Gyanendra Pandey
Investigates the social contradictions, class forces and efforts at political organization that lay behind the powerful nationalist movement in Uttar Pradesh the 1920s and '30s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310563
July 2002
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£115.00 / $115.00Investigates the social contradictions, class forces and efforts at political organization that lay behind the powerful nationalist movement in Uttar Pradesh the 1920s and ’30s.
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Mapping Histories
Essays Presented to Ravinder Kumar
Edited by Neera Chandhoke
A collection of historical and contemporary studies on India, which deal with diverse themes from religion to the environment, cultural studies to feminism.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310501
June 2002
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£115.00 / $115.00A collection of historical and contemporary studies on India, which deal with diverse themes from religion to the environment, cultural studies to feminism.
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The Making of History
Essays Presented to Irfan Habib
Edited by K. N. Panikkar, Terence J. Byres, Utsa Patnaik
This volume comprises essays from scholars around the world representing the wide range of Habib's interests and contributions.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781843310532
May 2002
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume comprises essays from scholars around the world representing the wide range of Habib’s interests and contributions.
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Russia in the Age of Alexander II, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky
Walter G. Moss
A vibrant, enthralling account of Russia's most fascinating period of history.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781898855590
March 2002
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£29.95 / $29.95A vibrant, enthralling account of Russia’s most fascinating period of history.