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Published by Picador, 2013
ISBN 10: 1250037719ISBN 13: 9781250037718
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Published by Allen Lane, 2012
ISBN 10: 0241954673ISBN 13: 9780241954676
Seller: Housing Works Online Bookstore, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Light general wear. May have light notes/highlighting. Shelfwear minor bruised edges on cover Paperback.
Published by Doubleday Canada, 2012
ISBN 10: 0385676107ISBN 13: 9780385676106
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Published by Penguin Books Ltd, 2013
ISBN 10: 0241954665ISBN 13: 9780241954669
Seller: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Published by Picador, 2013
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Softcover. Condition: new. About the AuthorPankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire, Age of Anger, and several other books. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and writes regularly for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and The New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.Product DescriptionA Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTING THE THINKERS WHOSE IDEAS SHAPED CONTEMPORARY CHINA, INDIA, AND THE MUSLIM WORLDA little more than a century ago, independent thinkers across Asia sought to frame a distinct intellectual tradition that would inspire the continent's rise to dominance. Yet this did not come to pass, and today those thinkers-Tagore, Gandhi, and later Nehru in India; Liang Qichao and Sun Yat-sen in China; Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire-are seen as outsiders within the main anticolonial tradition. But as Pankaj Mishra demonstrates in this enthralling portrait of like minds, Asia's revolt against the West is not the one led by faith-fired terrorists and thwarted peasants; rather, it is rooted in the ideas of these once renowned intellectuals. Now, when the ascendency of Asia seems possible as never before, From the Ruins of Empire is as necessary as it is timely-a book indispensable to our understanding of the world and our place in it.ReviewReverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population, from Turkey to China.Amazing. -Orhan PamukEssential reading for everyone who is interested in the processes of change that have led to the emergence of today's Asia. -Amitav Ghosh, The Wall Street JournalTimely and important.An astute and entertaining synthesis of these neglected histories. -Hari Kunzru, The New York Times Book ReviewFrom the Ruins of Empire retains the power to instruct and even to shock. It provides us with an exciting glimpse of the vast and still largely unexplored terrain of anticolonial thought that shaped so much of the post-Western world in which we now live. -Financial Times (London)Subtle, erudite, and entertaining. -The EconomistHistory is sometimes a contest of narratives. Here Pankaj Mishra looks back on the 19th and 20th centuries through the work of three Asian thinkers: Jamal al-Din Afghani, Liang Qichao and Rabindranath Tagore. The story that emerges is quite different from that which most Western readers have come to accept. Enormously ambitious but thoroughly readable, this book is essential reading for everyone who is interested in the processes of change that have led to the emergence of today's Asia. -Amitav Ghosh, author of Sea of Poppies and River of SmokeWith uncommon empathy, Mishra has excavated a range of ideas, existential debates, and spiritual struggles set in motion by Asia's rude collision with the West, leading to outcomes no one could have predicted but which, after his account, seem more comprehensible--and that is no mean achievement. Above all, Mishra sheds new light on an important part of our collective journey, the inner and outer turmoil we inhabited, the price we paid, and what we did to each other along the way. We might yet learn from it and redeem ourselves in some measure. -Namit Arora, 3 Quarks DailyAfter Edward Said's masterpiece Orientalism, From the Ruins of Empire offers another bracing view of the history of the modern world. Pankaj Mishra, a brilliant author of wide learning, takes us through, with his skillful and captivating narration, interlinked historical events across Japan, China, Turkey, Iran, India, Egypt, and Vietnam, opening up a fresh dialogue with and between such major Asian reformers, intellectuals, and revolutionaries as Liang Qichao, Tagore, Jamal al-din al-Afghani, and Sun Yatsen. -Wang Hui, author of China's New Order and The Rise of Modern Chine.
Published by Anchor Canada, 2014
ISBN 10: 0385676123ISBN 13: 9780385676120
Seller: BookEnds Bookstore & Curiosities, Ojai, CA, U.S.A.
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. As New condition Softcover includes several b/w photographs, Notes and Index, 356 pages. The exception to the condition is a remainder dot on the bottom of the text block.
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Published by Penguin Books, Limited, 2012
ISBN 10: 1846144787ISBN 13: 9781846144783
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
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Published by 2012 First edition, Allen Lane., 2012
Seller: Verandah Books, Sherborne, United Kingdom
356pp. Index. The intellectual history of Asian nationalism from the Indian Mutiny to al-Qaeda. A long study of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani. Very good indeed but lacks dustwrapper.
Published by Allen Lane for Penguin, London 2012, 2012
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
23.0 x 15.0cms, 356pp, b/w illusts, very good+ paperback & cover This book sees Europe's age of imperialism through the eyes of the journalists, poets, radicals and charismatics who created the ideas that doomed the empires and created Asia's powerful nations.
Published by London. Penguin., 2013
Seller: HENNWACK - Berlins größtes Antiquariat, Berlin, Germany
1. Auflage. 8vo. 356 S. OKt. Einband leicht fleckig und minimal berieben, sonst sehr gut erhalten. Sprache: englisch.