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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World, US Edition

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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World, US Edition

Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World, US Edition by David Van Reybrouck
English | April 9th, 2024 | ISBN: 1324073691 | 656 pages | True EPUB | 26.31 MB

From the internationally best-selling writer, a masterful account of the epic revolution that sparked the decolonization of the modern world.

Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations

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Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations

Holy War: How Vasco da Gama's Epic Voyages Turned the Tide in a Centuries-Old Clash of Civilizations by Nigel Cliff
English | September 6th, 2011 | ISBN: 0061735124 | 560 pages | True EPUB | 17.37 MB

A sweeping historical epic and a radical new interpretation of Vasco da Gama’s groundbreaking voyages, seen as a turning point in the struggle between Christianity and Islam

The Shortest History of India: From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy—A Retelling for Our Times

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The Shortest History of India: From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy—A Retelling for Our Times

The Shortest History of India: From the World's Oldest Civilization to Its Largest Democracy—A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History) by John Zubrzycki
English | November 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1615199977 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 10.56 MB

5,000 years of history—from the Bhagavad Gitā to Bollywood—fill this masterful portrait of the world’s most populous nation and a rising global power. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read.

Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India (South Asia in Motion)

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Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India (South Asia in Motion)

Brand New Nation: Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India (South Asia in Motion) by Ravinder Kaur
English | May 25th, 2023 | ISBN: 1503612597, 1503612244 | 360 pages | True EPUB | 14.31 MB

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year: “A hugely thoughtful and innovative analysis of the phenomenon known as ‘India Inc.’.” —Sumathi Ramaswamy, author of The Goddess and the Nation

India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World

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India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World

India and the Silk Roads: The History of a Trading World by Jagjeet Lally
English | December 23rd, 2021 | ISBN: 0197581072 | 432 pages | True EPUB | 7.76 MB

India's caravan trade with central Asia was at the heart of the complex web of routes making up the Silk Roads. But what was the fate of these overland connections in the ages of sail and steam? Jagjeet Lally sets out to answer this question by bringing the world of caravan trade to life—a world of merchants, mercenaries, pastoralists and pilgrims, but also of kings, bureaucrats and their subjects in the countryside and towns.

Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism

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Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism

Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism by Philip J. Stern
English | May 16th, 2023 | ISBN: 0674988124 | 408 pages | True EPUB | 38.35 MB

An award-winning historian places the corporation—more than the Crown—at the heart of British colonialism, arguing that companies built and governed global empire, raising questions about public and private power that were just as troubling four hundred years ago as they are today.

The Siddhāntasundara of Jñānarāja: An English Translation with Commentary

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The Siddhāntasundara of Jñānarāja: An English Translation with Commentary

The Siddhāntasundara of Jñānarāja: An English Translation with Commentary by Toke Lindegaard Knudsen
English | October 20th, 2014 | ISBN: 1421414422 | 376 pages | True EPUB | 7.89 MB

The first English translation of this major work of classical Indian astronomy and mathematics.

Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire

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Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire

Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire by Nandini Das
English | April 4th, 2023 | ISBN: 163936322X | 400 pages | True EPUB | 32.49 MB

A profound and ground-breaking approach to one of the most important encounters in the history of colonialism: the British arrival in India in the early seventeenth century.

The Shortest History of India (Shortest Histories)

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The Shortest History of India (Shortest Histories)

The Shortest History of India (Shortest Histories) by John Zubrzycki
English | March 7th, 2023 | ISBN: 1913083349 | 326 pages | True EPUB | 5.47 MB

'A masterpiece of compression… conveys 5,000 years of history with flair and authority' JOHN KEAY

Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths

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Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths

Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths by Taylor C. Sherman
English | October 11th, 2022 | ISBN: 0691222584 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 8.48 MB

An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in India

Bose: The Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist

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Bose: The Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist

Chandrachur Ghose, "Bose: The Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 0670096008 | 448 pages | EPUB | 5.1 MB

1368: China and the Making of the Modern World

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1368: China and the Making of the Modern World

1368: China and the Making of the Modern World by Ali Humayun Akhtar
English | July 12th, 2022 | ISBN: 1503627470 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 26.37 MB

A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world.

The Corner Shop: Shopkeepers, the Sharmas and the making of modern Britain

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The Corner Shop: Shopkeepers, the Sharmas and the making of modern Britain

Babita Sharma, "The Corner Shop: Shopkeepers, the Sharmas and the making of modern Britain"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1473673224. 1473673232 | 352 pages | MOBI | 0.43 MB

The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army

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The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army

The 1945 Burma Campaign and the Transformation of the British Indian Army by Raymond Callahan, Daniel Marston
English | April 21st, 2021 | ISBN: 0700630414 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 4.87 MB

In 1945, the Indian British XIV Army inflicted on the Imperial Japanese Army in Burma the worst defeat in its history. That campaign, the most brilliant and original operational maneuver conducted by any British general in the twentieth century, largely forgotten until now, is a full and fresh account utilizing a full range of materials, from personal accounts to archival holdings—including the bits the official historians left out, such as the attempt by a jealous British Guards officer to have Slim sacked at the conclusion of the campaign.

Palaces of the Raj: Magnificence and Misery of the Lord Sahibs

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Palaces of the Raj: Magnificence and Misery of the Lord Sahibs

Mark Bence-Jones, "Palaces of the Raj: Magnificence and Misery of the Lord Sahibs"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138293423, 1138293423 | 242 pages | EPUB | 5.6 MB