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Ascending India and its State Capacity Extraction, Violence, and Legitimacy

Ganguly Sumit, Thompson William R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300215922, Yale University Press, February 2017
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.

A comprehensive and revealing account of the ongoing struggles and instability of India's political and economic institutions India's ascent as a formidable power on the world stage and its geopolitical ramifications have received much attention in r...

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Asia

Asian America A Primary Source Reader

Schlund-Vials Cathy J., Wong K. Scott, Chang Jason Oliver

ISBN: PB: 9780300195446, Yale University Press, January 2017
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

An essential collection that brings together the core primary texts of the Asian American experience in one volume An essential volume for the growing academic discipline of Asian American studies, this collection of core primary texts draws from a w...

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Islam

Age of Transition Byzantine Culture in the Islamic World

Evans Helen C., Humphrey Lyle, Brody Lisa, Snow Carol, Bleiberg Edward, Fine Stephen, Labatt Annie, Sinai Hieromonk Justin, Nees Lawrence, Schick Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780300211115, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2015
160 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 150 colour illus.

In 2012 the Metropolitan Museum of Art presented "Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition", a groundbreaking exhibition that explored the transformations and continuities in the Byzantine Empire from the 7th to the 9th century. During this time of his...

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Political Science

Anti-Marcos Struggle Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines

Thompson Mark R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300184150, Yale University Press, November 2011
274 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

The Philippine dictatorship of Ferdinand E. Marcos was characterized by family-based rule and corruption. This sultanistic regime-in which the ruler exercised power freely, without loyalty to any ideology or institution-had to be brought down because...

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Asia

Art of Not Being Governed An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

Scott James C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300169171, Yale University Press, January 2011
464 pp., 22.9x15.5 cm, 7 maps, 2 black&white illus.

For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them – slavery, co...

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Law

Asian Legal Revivals Lawyers in the Shadow of Empire

Dezalay Yves, Garth Bryant G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226144634, ISBN: HB: 9780226144627, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

More than a decade ago, before globalization became a buzzword, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth established themselves as leading analysts of how that process has shaped the legal profession. Drawing upon the insights of Pierre Bourdieu, "Asian Lega...

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Military

Armed Militias of South Asia Fundamentalists. Maoists and Separatists

Jaffrelot Christophe, Gayer Laurent

ISBN: PB: 9781850659778, Hurst Publishers, November 2009
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! There seems to be no end to the growing number of victims of civil war, terrorism, guerrilla warfare and military repression on the Indian subcontinent, despite the absence of interstate wars over the past ten years. These conf...

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Asia

Amritsar Voices from Between India and Pakistan

Talbot Ian, Tatla Darshan Singh

ISBN: PB: 9781905422333, ISBN: HB: 9781905422326, Seagull Books, December 2006
264 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

The city of Amritsar stands on the volatile border between India and Pakistan. It has been a focus for political and religious conflict since the partition of 1947. "Amritsar" brings together 25 first-hand accounts of life in a city at the epicentre...

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Anthropology

Asian Mythologies

ISBN: PB: 9780226064567, University of Chicago Press, May 1993
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, halftones throughout

These 130 articles explore mythologies in societies from India to Japan. Among the many topics are Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Indonesian rites of passage, Chinese cosmology and demons, and Japanese conceptions of t...

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