The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain
By: Bernard Porter
3.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nine…
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1. 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
2. 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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3. Hard Times
By: Charles Dickens , Gage McWeeny
4.33
Format: 308 pages, Paperback
Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, edited by Jeff Nunokawa, in… read more
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4. 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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5. Mary Barton
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Shirley Foster
3.91
Format: 241 pages, Paperback
This is Elizabeth Gaskell's first novel, a widely acclaimed work based on the actual murder, in 183… read more
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6. Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge: The British in India
By: None
3.36
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Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon ha… read more
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7. Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.95
Format: 145 pages, Paperback
Recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have reinforced the central importance of … read more
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8. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
By: Benedict Anderson
3.77
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9. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
By: James C. Scott
4.20
Format: 461 pages, Paperback
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"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
10. Sybil, or the Two Nations
By: Benjamin Disraeli
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
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11. The Civilizing Process
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3.00
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The Civilizing Processstands out as Norbert Elias' greatest work, tracing the "civilizing" of manne… read more
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12. The History of Emotions: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
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3.93
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13. Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India
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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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14. Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
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3.38
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
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15. The Absent-Minded Imperialists: Empire, Society, and Culture in Britain
By: Bernard Porter
3.47
Format: None pages, Paperback
The British empire was a huge enterprise. To foreigners it more or less defined Britain in the nine… read more
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