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Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewing the fashionable binaries of resistance and...
Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
The articles in this collection provide an alternative view of Middle Eastern history by focusing on the oppressed and the excluded, offering a challenge to the usual elite narratives. The collection is unique in its historical depth - ranging from the medieval period to the present - and its...
Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in 1979, The Second Coming is an experiment in the writing of popular history – a contribution to the history of the people who have no history and an exploration of some of the ideas, beliefs and ways of thinking of ordinary men and women in the late eighteenth and first half of...
Published January 29th 2012 by Routledge
Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
This book examines the process of secularization in the Middle East in the late 19th and early 20th century through an analysis of the transformation and abolition of Islamic Caliphate. Focusing on debates in both the center of the Caliphate and its periphery, the author argues that the...
Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History
The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship explores the relationship between home, household headship and enterprise in Victorian London. It examines the notions of duty, honor and suitability in how women’s ventures are represented by themselves and others and engages in a comparison of the...
Published January 11th 2012 by Routledge
Series: Pathfinders
The book explores the various stages of Shyamji Krishnavarma’s life in India and abroad. Particular emphasis is placed on his role as cultural mediator who exerted a formative influence, on both the European view of India as well as the Indian reception of Western political thought....
Published December 30th 2011 by Routledge India
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens people and that can marginalize newcomers. Living in the City tries to understand what pulls people to the city since the High Middle Ages, focusing on...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
Most investigations of foreign-born migrants emphasize the successful adjustment and settlement of newcomers. Yet suicide, heavy drinking, violence, family separations, and domestic disharmony were but a few of the possible struggles experienced by those who relocated abroad in the nineteenth and...
Published December 21st 2011 by Routledge
Series: Islamic Studies Series
The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the Muslim Middle East, focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, when the nature of divine as well as human power was under...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Revivals
First published in 1979, The Transformation of England discusses the creation in late eighteenth century England of the industrial system and thereby the present world. Professor Mathias poses questions about the nature of industrialization, social change and historical explanation, issues that are...
Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
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