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  | | Emergency Chronicles(Illustrated) Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point by Gyan Prakash Hardcover, 456 Pages, Published 2019 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18672-6, ISBN: 0-691-18672-3 "The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern IndiaOn the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights and rounding up her political opponents in midnight raids across the country. In the twenty-one harrowing months that followed, her regime unleashed a brutal campaign of coercion and intimidation, arresting and torturing people by the tens of ..." |
 | | Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash Paperback, 408 Pages, Published 2011 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-15317-9, ISBN: 0-691-15317-5 "A place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires and ambitions. Mumbai Fables explores the mythic inner life of this legendary city as seen by its inhabitants, journalists, planners, writer ..." |
 | | Noir Urbanisms Dystopic Images of the Modern City (Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University) by Gyan Prakash, Princeton University Press Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2010 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-14644-7, ISBN: 0-691-14644-6 " Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, literature, sociology, and architecture. It focuses on visual forms of dystopic representation--because the history of the modern city is ..." |
 | | After Colonialism Imperial Histories and Postcolonial Displacements by Gyan Prakash Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1994 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-03742-4, ISBN: 0-691-03742-6 " After Colonialism offers a fresh look at the history of colonialism and the changes in knowledge, disciplines, and identities produced by the imperial experience. Ranging across disciplines--from history to anthropology to literary studies--and across regions--from India to Palestine to Latin America to Europe--the essays in this volume reexamine colonialism and its aftermath. Leading literary scholars, historians, and anthropo ..." |
 | | Bonded Histories(Updated) Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India (Cambridge South Asian Studies) by Gyan Prakash Paperback, 268 Pages, Published 2003 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-52658-6, ISBN: 0-521-52658-2 "To the modern world, the notions that freedom is an innate condition of human beings and that money possesses the power to bind people appear as natural facts. Bonded Histories traces the historical processes by which these notions became established as dominant discourses in India during colonial rule and continued into post-colonial India. Gyan Prakash locates the formulation of these discourses in the history of bonded labour in sout ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(4th Edition) A History of the World: 600 to1850 (Fourth Edition) (Vol. B) by Robert L. Tignor, Peter Brown, Jeremy Adelman, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Stephen Aron, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Michael Tsin Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92211-0, ISBN: 0-393-92211-1 "A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edi ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(4th Edition) A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Fourth Edition) (Vol. One-Volume) by Robert Tignor, Dr Peter Brown, Jeremy Adelman, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Aron, Brent Shaw, Xinru Liu, Associate Professor Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Michael Tsin, Stephen Kotkin, Gyan Prakash Paperback, 1,008 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-12376-0, ISBN: 0-393-12376-6 "A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edi ..." |
 | | Another Reason(Updated) Science and the Imagination of Modern India by Gyan Prakash Paperback, 344 Pages, Published 1999 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-00453-2, ISBN: 0-691-00453-6 " Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing today, explores in fresh and unexpected ways the complexities, contradictions, and profound importance of this relationship in the history of the subcontinent. He reveals how science served simultaneously as an instrument of empir ..." |
 | | The Spaces of the Modern City Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life (Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University) by Gyan Prakash, Kevin Michael Kruse, Kevin M. Kruse Paperback, 472 Pages, Published 2008 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-13343-0, ISBN: 0-691-13343-3 "By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. The Spaces of the Modern City historicizes the contemporary discussion of urbanism, highlighting the local and global breadth of the city landscape. This interdisciplinary collection ex ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(Fifth) From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, 5e by Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Stephen Aron, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Michael Tsin Paperback, 1,040 Pages, Published 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-66802-5, ISBN: 0-393-66802-9 "Streamlined chapters, innovative pedagogy, and NEW scholarship, with expanded coverage of environmental history, make the Fifth Edition the most accessible and relevant yet." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources(2nd Edition) by Elizabeth Pollard, Clifford Rosenberg, Robert Tignor, Alan Karras, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin Paperback, 630 Pages, Published 2019 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-66855-1, ISBN: 0-393-66855-X "A streamlined and simplified global history The most global text for world history is also unmatched in drawing connections and comparisons across time and place. With a new compact format, engaging design, and built-in reader, this edition improves accessibility while strengthening history skill development. Expanded coverage of environmental history, new interactive History Skills Tutorials, a new Interactive Instructor’s Guide, and I ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(4th Edition) A History of the World: From 1000 CE to the Present (Fourth Edition) (Vol. 2) by Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Stephen Aron, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Michael Tsin Paperback, 624 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company Abridged ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92209-7, ISBN: 0-393-92209-X "A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edi ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(4th Edition) A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Fourth Edition) (Vol. One-Volume) by Robert Tignor, Dr Peter Brown, Jeremy Adelman, Benjamin A. Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Brent D. Shaw, Xinru Liu, Holly Pittman, Michael Tsin, Associate Professor Suzanne Marchand, Gyan Prakash, Stephen Aron, Suzanne L. Marchand Paperback, 1,008 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92207-3, ISBN: 0-393-92207-3 "A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edi ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(4th Edition) A History of the World: Beginnings Through the Fifteenth Century (Fourth Edition) (Vol. 1) by Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Stephen Aron, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Michael Tsin Paperback, 552 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92208-0, ISBN: 0-393-92208-1 "A truly global approach to world history built around significant world history stories. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to nineteenth-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and others. The Fourth Edi ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(3rd Edition) A History of the World: From the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Third Edition) (Vol. One-Volume) by Robert L. Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Professor Stephen Aron, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Stephen Kotkin, Xinru Liu, Suzanne Marchand, Holly Pittman, Gyan Prakash, Brent Shaw, Michael Tsin Paperback, 992 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-14971-5, ISBN: 0-393-14971-4 "The most global approach to world history, now more streamlined and accessible.Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to 19th-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and more. In the Third Edition, the text h ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(3rd Edition) A History of the World: From 1000 CE to the Present (Third Edition) (Vol. 2) by Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Suzanne L. Marchand, Stephen Kotkin, Gyan Prakash, Michael Tsin Paperback, 480 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-93494-6, ISBN: 0-393-93494-2 "The most global approach to world history, now more streamlined and accessible. Worlds Together, Worlds Apart is organized around major world history stories and themes: the emergence of cities, the building of the Silk Road, the spread of major religions, the spread of the Black Death, the Age of Exploration, alternatives to 19th-century capitalism, the rise of modern nation-states and empires, and more. In the Third Edition, the text ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(2nd Edition) A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, Second Edition by Robert L. Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Stephen Kotkin, Suzanne Marchand, Peter Brown, Benjamin Elman, Michael Tsin, Gyan Prakash, Xinru Liu, Holly Pittman, Brent Shaw Hardcover, 1,072 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92547-0, ISBN: 0-393-92547-1 "True to its title, this uniquely integrated text highlights the stories and themes in world history that tied cultures and regions together, and in some cases, drove them apart. In this second edition, the book's non-Eurocentric approach continues with expansions of the original eleven world history "turning point" stories from the modern period to include ten more "turning point" stories from the earlier periods of world histo ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(2nd Edition) A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present (Second Edition) (Vol. 2: The Mongol Empire to the Present) by Robert L. Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Suzanne Marchand, Stephen Kotkin, Gyan Prakash, Michael Tsin Paperback, 640 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-92549-4, ISBN: 0-393-92549-8 "True to its title, this uniquely integrated text highlights the stories and themes in world history that tied cultures and regions together, and in some cases, drove them apart.In this second edition, the book's non-Eurocentric approach continues with expansions of the original eleven world history "turning point" stories from the modern period to include ten more "turning point" stories from the earlier periods of world history ..." |
 | | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart(1st Edition) A History of the Modern World from the Mongol Empire to the Present by Robert L. Tignor, W. W. Norton, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, Stephen Kokin, Suxanne Marchand, Gyan Prakash, Michael Tsin, Suzanne Marchand, Stephen Kotkin, 罗伯特•提格诺, 杰里米•阿德尔曼, 史蒂芬•奥隆, 史蒂芬•高京, 苏珊娜•马向, 吉安•普拉卡什 Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2002 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-97746-2, ISBN: 0-393-97746-3 "This provocative narrative history dramatically departs from the standard "rise of the West" storyline that has driven world historiography for a century. A stellar group of historians paint a decidedly different modern world history, one in which the rise of the West was not predetermined and where global integration has manifested itself in fits and starts rather than as a smooth process over the last seven centuries. This fresh inter ..." |
 | | Utopia/Dystopia Conditions of Historical Possibility by Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, Michael D. Gordin, Princeton University Press Paperback, 312 Pages, Published 2010 by Princeton University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-691-14698-0, ISBN: 0-691-14698-5 "The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that have yet to be realized. Utopia/Dystopia offers a fresh approach to these ideas. Rather than locate utopias in grandiose programs of future totality, the book treats these concepts as historically grounded categories and examines how individu ..." |
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