Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India.
By: Nicholas B. Dirks
3.77
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, ca…
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1. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
By: Michel-Rolph Trouillot
4.36
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Placing the West's failure to acknowledge the most successful slave revolt in history alongside den… read more
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- history
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"I find it hard to harness respect for those who genuinely believe that postmodernity, whatever it may be, allows us to claim no roots."-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
"We are never as steeped in history as when we pretend not to be, but if we stop pretending we may gain in understanding what we lose in false innocence. Naiveté is often an excuse for those who exerc…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But not…"-Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History
2. 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
3. On the Road
By: Jack Kerouac
3.61
Format: 307 pages, Paperback
A quintessential novel of America & the Beat Generation On the Road chronicles Jack Kerouac's years… read more
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"We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301)."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."-Jack Kerouac, On the Road
4. The Buried Giant
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.58
Format: 317 pages, Hardcover
"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's… read more
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"Are you still there, Axl?"-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"The Giant, once well buried, now stirs."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
"A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant
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- india
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6. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- politics
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7. 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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8. Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
By: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
3.75
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
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9. Discourse on Colonialism
By: Robin D.G. Kelley , Aimé Césaire , Joan Pinkham
3.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"Cesaire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a… read more
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10. The Annihilation of Caste
By: B.R. Ambedkar
3.50
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
"What the Communist Manifesto is to the capitalist world, Annihilation of Caste is to India." --Ana… read more
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11. Of Grammatology
By: Jacques Derrida , Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
3.40
Format: None pages, Paperback
Jacques Derrida's revolutionary theories about deconstruction, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and s… read more
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12. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
What makes people love and die for nations, as well as hate and kill in their name? While many stud… read more
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13. Mythologies
By: Roland Barthes , Annette Lavers
4.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
"No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis," Roland Barthes wrote in his pref… read more
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14. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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15. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning t… read more
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- history
- nonfiction
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- anthropology
"An urban space where the police are the sole agents of order is a very dangerous place."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"Just as the general design of the city militates against an autonomous public life, so the design of the residential city militates against individuality."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"The authorized histories of revolutions, as Milovan Djilas points out, “describe the revolution as if it were the fruit of the previously planned action of its leaders."-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
"After seizing state power, the victors have a powerful interest in moving the revolution out of the streets and into the museums and schoolbooks as quick as possible, lest the people decide to repeat…"-James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
16. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
By: Robin D.G. Kelley
4.25
Format: None pages, Paperback
Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of th… read more
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17. The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study
By: J. Jack Halberstam , Fred Moten , Stefano Harney
3.95
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black… read more
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18. Season of Migration to the North
By: Tayeb Salih , Denys Johnson-Davies
3.72
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
After years of study in Europe, the young narrator of Season of Migration to the North returns to h… read more
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"شفق المغيب ليس دماً ، ولكنه حناء في قدم المرأة"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"لا يعنيني أن كان للحياة معنى أو لم يكن لها معنى."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"You are entitled to wonder and to doubt - you're free."-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
"أشباح الليل تتبخر مع الفجر ، وحمى النهار تبرد مع نسيم الليل"-Tayeb Salih, Season of Migration to the North
19. Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam
By: None
3.79
Format: 1 pages, Paperback
In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in th… read more
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20. Capitalism & Slavery
By: Eric Williams , None
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and m… read more
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21. India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
By: J. Sai Deepak
4.46
Format: 472 pages, Hardcover
India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of Europea… read more
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"The spiritual character of the relationship between indigeneity and nature is an emotion that the coloniser can at best exoticise but can never relate to."-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
"Rest of the world was not living in the Dark Ages before Pax Europaea or European Peace, and will certainly not plunge into ignorance and darkness after the demise of Pax Europaea. Therefore, it is t…"-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
"Until a decolonial approach is employed by experts and ‘intellectuals’, we will continue to see the entrenchment of colonialised identities and fissures, which began with an anti-Brahmin slant but wh…"-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
"The ‘modern’, ‘rational’, ‘scientific’, Christian European coloniser could not get himself to acknowledge that the lived experience and traditional knowledge of native societies gathered over millenn…"-J. Sai Deepak, India that is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, Constitution
22. Gun Island
By: Amitav Ghosh
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition
Alternate cover edition of ASIN B07DNDDFLD Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns De… read more
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"That the world of today presents all the symptoms of demonic possession."-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island
"... there was a land of sugar, where everything was sweet; and also a country made of cloth, and an island of chains."-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island
"People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless."-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island
"Sometimes, said Moyna, it seemed as though both land and water were turning against those who lived in the Sunderbans."-Amitav Ghosh, Gun Island
23. The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
By: Catherine Nixey
4.06
Format: 363 pages, Kindle Edition
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and… read more
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"Un mártir podía empezar el día de su muerte como una de las personas de más baja categoría en el imperio y acabar como una de las más eminentes en el cielo."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"El cristianismo contó a las generaciones posteriores que su victoria sobre el viejo mundo fue celebrada por todas, y las siguientes generaciones lo creyeron."-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"For every classical work that sat comfortably with Christian minds and morals, there was another that grated unbearably on them. ‘Carmen 16’ by the poet Catullus was a particular thorn. This poem ope…"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
"The very memory that there was any opposition at all to Christianity faded. The idea that philosophers might have fought fiercely, with all they had, against Christianity was – is – passed over. The …"-Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
24. India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation (Bharat Trilogy #2)
By: J. Sai Deepak
4.63
Format: 568 pages, Hardcover
India, Bharat and Pakistan, the second book of the Bharat Trilogy, takes the discussion forward fro… read more
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25. The Ideological Origins of the British Empire (Ideas in Context, Series Number 59)
By: David Armitage
3.41
Format: 258 pages, Hardcover
David Armitage presents the first comprehensive history of British conceptions of empire for half a… read more
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26. A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France
By: Jennifer Pitts
3.66
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
A dramatic shift in British and French ideas about empire unfolded in the sixty years straddling th… read more
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27. 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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28. The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 4, Part 3: Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
By: Susan Bayly
3.61
Format: 444 pages, Paperback
The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life.… read more
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29. Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India.
By: Nicholas B. Dirks
3.77
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
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30. The Anarchy of Black Religion: A Mystic Song (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)
By: J. Kameron Carter
4.56
Format: 216 pages, Hardcover
In The Anarchy of Black Religion , J. Kameron Carter examines the deeper philosophical, theological… read more
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31. Savarkar and the Making of Hindutva
By: Janaki Bakhle
3.63
Format: 520 pages, Hardcover
A monumental intellectual history of the pivotal figure of Hindu nationalism Vinayak Damodar Savar… read more
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