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Born against a background of privation and civil war, divided along lines of caste, class, language and religion, independent India emerged, somehow, as a united ...
Now a major motion picture starring Dame Judi Dench, Ali Fazal and Eddie Izzard, directed by Stephen Frears. 'A tale of Empire and intrigue brought ...
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Iris Origo's most famous book, her classic study of the life and times of a medieval Italian merchant
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An epic work of Russian history from a major new talent
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The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But ...
In this gripping and haunting narrative, a renowned psychiatrist sheds new light on the psychology of the war criminals at Nuremberg
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A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan
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Georges Lefebvre was one of the most highly-regarded historians of the 20th century - and a key reason for the high reputation he enjoys can be ...
Claude Levi-Strauss is probably the most complex anthropological theorist of all time. His work continues to influence present-day thinkers in his field, but he is ...
Clifford Geertz has been called `the most original anthropologist of his generation' - and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and ...
Tony Judt decided to write Postwar in 1989, the year the collapse of the Soviet Union provided European history with a rare example of a ...
For many centuries, the history of the crusades, as written by Western historians, was based solidly on Western sources. Evidence from the Islamic societies that ...
