Prison construction was among the most important infrastructural changes brought about by British rule in India. It introduced India to a radically new system of punishment based on the spatial experience of architecture as confinement. Unlike prison...Loe edasi...
A leading genocide scholar explores the history of Zionism, Israel s lurch towards extreme oppression and violence, and why it stands accused of crimes against humanityEssential BOOKLISTAnyone disturbed and frightened by our current moral and inte...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040889794)
This book systematically examines Chinese astroarchaeology from the Neolithic period onward, aiming to reconstruct premodern knowledge systems and articulate the intellectual foundations of traditional Chinese culture.As an interdisciplinary field, C...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040834787)
What if regions were not just governed spaces but imagined ones? Imagining Regions: Hegemony and Emancipation in Europe and Asia offers a fresh perspective on regionalism by shifting the focus from institutional structures to regional imagination-the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9781040836910)
What if regions were not just governed spaces but imagined ones? Imagining Regions: Hegemony and Emancipation in Europe and Asia offers a fresh perspective on regionalism by shifting the focus from institutional structures to regional imagination-the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040889879)
This book systematically examines Chinese astroarchaeology from the Neolithic period onward, aiming to reconstruct premodern knowledge systems and articulate the intellectual foundations of traditional Chinese culture.As an interdisciplinary field, C...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300289534)
A major new history of revolutionary Iran, from the 1940s to the present Irans revolution in 1979 shook the world. The Pahlavi dynasty came crashing down, and the Islamic Republic rose in its place. But what led to this seismic event? How did the...Loe edasi...
Sari: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520425156)
The Monster in Your Path is an original and provocative look at why the global Left stumbles when dealing with historical structures of subordination like caste or race. Sharika Thiranagama examines rural communities in the South Indian state of Kera...Loe edasi...
Sari: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520425156)
The Monster in Your Path is an original and provocative look at why the global Left stumbles when dealing with historical structures of subordination like caste or race. Sharika Thiranagama examines rural communities in the South Indian state of Kera...Loe edasi...
As bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli leaders foretold the magnitude of horrors to come. But the US media was quick to downplay, obscure, and...Loe edasi...
As bombs rained down on Gaza in October 2023, images of mass death and destruction gripped the world, and openly genocidal statements from Israeli leaders foretold the magnitude of horrors to come. But the US media was quick to downplay, obscure, and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040597859)
Trans People in India: A Decade after NALSA offers a multidisciplinary exploration of transgender identity and activism in India, tracing its cultural, legal, and political evolution.The book situates trans identity within cosmogenic, mythological, a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040888148)
This book explores the post-harem lives of Ottoman palace women who, unlike valide sultans, mothers of princes (sehzades), or imperial princesses (hanim sultans), lost their formal prominence after the death of the reigning sultan and have remained l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040888193)
This book explores the post-harem lives of Ottoman palace women who, unlike valide sultans, mothers of princes (sehzades), or imperial princesses (hanim sultans), lost their formal prominence after the death of the reigning sultan and have remained l...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040652299)
Trans People in India: A Decade after NALSA offers a multidisciplinary exploration of transgender identity and activism in India, tracing its cultural, legal, and political evolution.The book situates trans identity within cosmogenic, mythological, a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646483)
In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over the meanings and outlines of citizenship. Dur...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646483)
In 1975, Kuwaiti workers orchestrated arguably the most powerful citizen-led movement for noncitizen rights in the history of the Persian Gulf. Their efforts built on decades of wide-ranging struggle over the meanings and outlines of citizenship. Dur...Loe edasi...
This dynamic exploration of two key modes of visual culture - fashion and photography - in 19th-century Istanbul contributes to an expanding body of research on fashion and the dressed body outside the Euro-American context. Based on meticulous analy...Loe edasi...
This dynamic exploration of two key modes of visual culture - fashion and photography - in 19th-century Istanbul contributes to an expanding body of research on fashion and the dressed body outside the Euro-American context. Based on meticulous analy...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231551007)
In Mongolian Buddhism, texts, rituals, and images are deeply interwoven, yet they are typically studied separately. This book is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of Mongolian Buddhism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231551007)
In Mongolian Buddhism, texts, rituals, and images are deeply interwoven, yet they are typically studied separately. This book is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary exploration of Mongolian Buddhism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520416659)
Egypts Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypts Mediterranean coast. Egypts port cities mediated the geo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520416659)
Egypts Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypts Mediterranean coast. Egypts port cities mediated the geo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691279817)
An entertaining introduction to ancient Chinese thinkersand what they can teach us about todays most pressing political questions in China and beyondChinas most original, diverse, and fascinating political debates took place more than two millennia...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691279817)
An entertaining introduction to ancient Chinese thinkersand what they can teach us about todays most pressing political questions in China and beyondChinas most original, diverse, and fascinating political debates took place more than two millennia...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646346)
Needs That Bind reconsiders the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire and the construction of new regimes in the decade after World War I, to understand the consequential connections that remained among the new republican regime in Turkey and neighboring...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646346)
Needs That Bind reconsiders the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire and the construction of new regimes in the decade after World War I, to understand the consequential connections that remained among the new republican regime in Turkey and neighboring...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040455777)
This book demonstrates that Rabindranath Tagore, the poet-educator, was an intensely political figure with a distinctive vision of politics.Its innovative approach treats the educational pedagogy of Tagore practised at his ashram in Santiniketan as t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Apr-2026, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis, ISBN-13: 9781040718407)
This book demonstrates that Rabindranath Tagore, the poet-educator, was an intensely political figure with a distinctive vision of politics.Its innovative approach treats the educational pedagogy of Tagore practised at his ashram in Santiniketan as t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Apr-2026, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197827529)
A detailed account of the siege and fall of Constantinople in 1453, a watershed year that closed the book, once and for all, on the Roman Empire and confirmed for Europeans their worst fears about an expanding Ottoman Empire. Anthony Kaldellis offe...Loe edasi...
