Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)
By: Ranajit Guha
3.93
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? Ranajit Guha points out that the colonial state i…
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1. How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
By: Walter Rodney , Vincent Harding
4.42
Format: 312 pages, Paperback
The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa spring… read more
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"It was economics that Europe should invest in Africa and control the continent's raw materials and labour. It was racism which confirmed the decision that form of control should be direct colonial ru…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"On any basic figure of the Africans landed alive in the Americas, one would have to make several extensions- starting with a calculation to cover mortality in transshipment. The Atlantic crossing, or…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"There was a period when the capitalist system increased the well-being of significant numbers of people as a by-product of seeking out profits for a few, but today the quests for profits comes into s…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
"Governor Cameroon of Tanganyika in the 1920s was known as a "progressive" governor. But when he was attacked for trying to preserve the African personality in the educational system, he denied the ch…"-Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
2. Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.28
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman journeys along a slave route in Ghana, following the trail of … read more
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"To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to c…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"Why was it I sometimes felt as weary of America as if I too had landed in what was now South Carolina in 1526 or in Jamestown in 1619? Was it the tug of all the lost mothers and orphaned children? Or…"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
"If slavery persists as an issue in the political life of black America, it is not because of an antiquarian obsession with bygone days or the burden of a too-long memory, but because black lives are …"-Saidiya Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route
3. Orientalism
By: None , Edward W. Said
4.12
Format: 424 pages, Paperback
More than three decades after its first publication, Edward Said's groundbreaking critique of the W… read more
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"Toda época y toda sociedad recrea sus «otros»."-None, Orientalism
"الإستشرق في جوهره مذهب سياسي فُرِضَ فَرْضاً على الشرق لأن الشرق كان أضعف من الغرب، وإنه تجاهل اختلاف الشرق الراجع إلى ضعفه."-None, Orientalism
"It seems a common human failing to prefer the schematic authority of a text to the disorientations of direct encounters with the human."-None, Orientalism
"إن مناقشات الشرق كانت تتسم بالغياب الكامل للشرق، لكن المرء يحس بأن المستشرق ومايقوله حاضران، ومع ذلك فيجب ألا ننسى أن الذي يمكِّن المستشرق من الحضور هو الغياب الفعلي للشرق."-None, Orientalism
4. The Wretched of the Earth
By: Jean-Paul Sartre , Richard Philcox , Frantz Fanon , Homi K. Bhabha
4.32
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Fr… read more
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"إن لجوءك إلى لُغة تكنيكيَّة معناه أنّك قرَّرتَ أن تَعُدَّ الجماهير جاهلة"-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"Everything can be explained to the people, on the single condition that you want them to understand."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"The business of obscuring language is a mask behind which stands the much greater business of plunder."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
"إن المناضل ليدرك في كثير من الأحيان أن عمله لا أن يقاتل القوى العدوة فحسب، بل كذلك حبات اليأس المتبلورة في جسم المستعمَر."-Jean-Paul Sartre, The Wretched of the Earth
5. The Nation & Its Fragments: Colonial & Postcolonial Histories
By: Partha Chatterjee
3.78
Format: 479 pages, Hardcover
In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results o… read more
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6. Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World
By: Frederick Cooper , Ann Laura Stoler
3.82
Format: None pages, Paperback
Starting with the premise that Europe was made by its imperial projects as much as colonial encount… read more
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7. Martial Races: The Military, Race and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914
By: Heather E. Streets-Salter
3.95
Format: 254 pages, Hardcover
This book explores how and why Scottish Highlanders, Punjabi Sikhs, and Nepalese Gurkhas became ide… read more
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8. Culture and Imperialism
By: None
4.44
Format: None pages, Paperback
A landmark work from the intellectually auspicious author of Orientalism that explores the long-ove… read more
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- politics
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9. Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
By: Dipesh Chakrabarty
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Paperback
First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europeaddresses the mythi… read more
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10. The Idea of the Muslim World: A Global Intellectual History
By: Cemil Aydin
3.10
Format: 151 pages, Hardcover
When President Barack Obama visited Cairo in 2009 to deliver an address to Muslims worldwide, he fo… read more
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11. Colonial Masculinity: The 'Manly Englishman' and the' Effeminate Bengali' in the Late Nineteenth Century
By: Mrinalini Sinha
3.69
Format: 88 pages, Paperback
Colonial masculinity places masculinity at the centre of colonial and nationalist politics in the l… read more
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12. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
By: Ilan Pappé
3.98
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Since the Holocaust, it has been almost impossible to hide large-scale crimes against humanity. In … read more
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13. Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India
By: None
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon ha… read more
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14. Specters of Marx
By: Jacques Derrida , Peggy Kamuf , None
3.78
Format: 80 pages, Paperback
Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic conc… read more
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15. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
By: Kenneth Pomeranz
3.97
Format: 12 pages, Paperback
The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustain… read more
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16. Black Skin, White Masks
By: Frantz Fanon , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
A major influence on international civil rights, anticolonial, and black consciousness movement, Bl… read more
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17. The Invention of Tradition
By: Hugh R. Trevor-Roper , David Cannadine , Eric J. Hobsbawm , Prys Morgan , None , None
2.56
Format: 201 pages, Paperback
Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanction… read more
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18. The Condition of the Working Class in England
By: Friedrich Engels
4.17
Format: 267 pages, Paperback
The Condition of the Working Class is the best-known work of Engels, and in many ways still the bes… read more
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19. Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
By: Isabel Wilkerson
4.53
Format: 544 pages, Hardcover
The Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of The Warmth of Other Suns examines the unspoken ca… read more
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"The price of privilege is the moral duty to act when one sees another person treated unfairly. And the least that a person in the dominant caste can do is not make the pain any worse."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"A caste system is an artificial construction, a fixed and embedded ranking of human value that sets the presumed supremacy of one group against the presumed inferiority of other groups."-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"[Scapegoating] blames societal ills on the groups with the least power and the least say in how the country operates while allowing the larger framework and those who control and reap the dividends o…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
"To dehumanize another human being is not merely to declare that someone is not human, and it does not happen by accident. It is a process, a programming. It takes energy and reinforcement to deny wha…"-Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
20. Grass
By: Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
4.52
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
This true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women’s live… read more
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"Frágiles ramas que tiemblan en las postrimerías del largo invierno. Dentro albergan la energía de una vida nueva que pronto brotará y abrirá grietas en la corteza La tierra despertará de su hibernaci…"-Keum Suk Gendry-Kim, Grass
21. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
By: Shoshana Zuboff
4.06
Format: 691 pages, Hardcover
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unpre… read more
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"This is the existential contradiction of the second modernity that defines our conditions of existence: we want to exercise control over our own lives, but everywhere that control is thwarted. Indivi…"-Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power
22. Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
By: Adom Getachew
4.12
Format: 289 pages, Kindle Edition
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard hi… read more
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23. Liberalism and Empire: A Study in Nineteenth-Century British Liberal Thought
By: Uday Singh Mehta
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
We take liberalism to be a set of ideas committed to political rights and self-determination, yet i… read more
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24. Time's Monster: History, Conscience and Britain's Empire
By: Priya Satia
3.99
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An award-winning author reconsiders the role of historians in political debate. For generations,… read more
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25. Dominance without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India (Convergences: Inventories of the Present)
By: Ranajit Guha
3.93
Format: 268 pages, Paperback
What is colonialism and what is a colonial state? Ranajit Guha points out that the colonial state i… read more
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- india
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- post colonial
26. Recovering Liberties: Indian Thought in the Age of Liberalism and Empire (Ideas in Context, Series Number 100)
By: C.A. Bayly
3.64
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
One of the world's leading historians examines the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from … read more
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27. A People's Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Histories of Economic Life)
By: Rohit de
4.15
Format: 312 pages, Hardcover
It has long been contended that the Indian Constitution of 1950, a document in English created by e… read more
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28. Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India
By: Gyan Prakash
3.73
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonia… read more
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29. The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
By: Thenmozhi Soundararajan
4.45
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded … read more
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"Systems of faith are systems before they are places of faith. They are made by people and share the flaws of their builders."-Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
"People in the West need to know that most of the spiritual, intellectual, and cultural products of South Asia are tainted by Brahmanism. What may have offered you liberation and healing also causes c…"-Thenmozhi Soundararajan, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
30. Mapping an Empire: The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843
By: Matthew H. Edney
3.46
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial … read more
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31. Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Theory Q)
By: Anjali Arondekar
4.13
Format: 176 pages, Hardcover
In Abundance , Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundatio… read more
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