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Royals and Rebels

Atwal, Priya
Royals and Rebels
In late-eighteenth-century India, the glory of the Mughal emperors was fading, and ambitious newcomers seized power, changing the political map forever. Enter the legendary Maharajah Ranjit Singh, whose Sikh Empire stretched throughout northwestern India into Afghanistan and Tibet. Priya Atwal shines fresh light on this long-lost kingdom, looking beyond its founding father to restore the queens and princes to the story of this empire's spectac...

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Violence and Social Transformation in Libya

Collombier, Virginie / Lacher, Wolfram
Violence and Social Transformation in Libya
Ten years after Libya descended into conflict, the contours of a new society are emerging. How has violence remade the country--what has happened to inter-community and inter-personal relations, to social hierarchies and elite composition? Which new groups, networks and identities have formed through conflict, and how has this transformed power structures, modes of capital accumulation and governance at the local and national levels? How has t...

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Anarchy or Chaos

Laursen, Ole Birk
Anarchy or Chaos
In this fascinating biography of the Indian revolutionary M. P. T. Acharya (1887-1954), Ole Birk Laursen uncovers the remarkable transnational networks, movements and activities of India's most important anticolonial anarchist in the twentieth century. Driven by the urge for complete freedom from colonialism, authoritarianism, fascism and militarism, which are rooted in the idea and politics of the nation-state, Acharya fought for an internati...

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Pop Convergence

Gabrillo
Pop Convergence
Pop Convergence explores the dynamic and fascinating history of Manila's entertainment industry at the turn of the twenty-first century. Taking a close look at the production and reception of popular media, author James Gabrillo offers fascinating insights through the use of archival recordings, close readings of multimedia, and multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, including dozens of interviews with artists, producers, critics, and audiences.

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