Illustrated History Modern India

Gold, Ann Grodzins and Gujar, Bhoju Ram. In the Time of Trees and Sorrows Nature, Power, and Memory In Rajasthan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
Book Spine has been cut by what appears to have been a box cutter. ; Illustrated: Black & White Photographs. Unused/Unread/Unmarked Book. Pages clean, white and crisp. ; B&W Photographs; 403 pages; In the Time of Trees and Sorrows showcases peasants' memories of everyday life in North India under royal rule before Indian Independence and their musings on the contrast between the old days and the unprecedented shifts that a half century has wrought. It is an oral history of the former Kingdom of Sawar in the modern state of Rajasthan, India, as it was from the 1930s to the 1950s. Based on testimonies from the 1990s, the book stands as a polyvocal account of the radical political and environmental changes the region and its people have faced in the twentieth century. Not just the story of modernity from the perspective of a rural village, these interviews and author commentaries narrate a relatively sudden transformation for this small community from subjection to a local despot and to a remote colonial power to citizenship in a modern postcolonial democracy. Unlike other recent studies of Rajasthan, whose former princes continue to fascinate particularly the Western imagination, the current study gives voice exclusively to former subjects who endured the double oppression of colonial and regional rulers. Gold and Gujar thus place subjective subaltern experiences of daily rural routines, manifestations of power relations, and sweeping changes to the environment (after the fall of kings) that turned lush forests into a barren landscape on equal footing with historical "fact" and archival sources. Ambiguous, complex, and culturally laden as it is in Western thought, the concept of nature is queried in this ethnographic text. For persons in Sawar the environment is not only a means of sustenance; its deterioration is linked to human morality and to power, both royal and devine. The framing questions of the South Asian history revealed through memories are: What was it like in the time of kings? and What happened to the trees? This book will interest specialists of South Asian history, anthropology, subaltern studies, and the environment. 0822328089.

First American Edition; 1st Hardcover Printing, Hardcover, Illustrated by Gold, Ann Grodzins. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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P.J. Marshall: The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire, Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2001 ; weicher Einband / soft cover ISBN: 0-521-00254-0
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Up to World War II and beyond, the British ruled over a vast empire. Modern western attitudes towards the imperial past tend either towards nostalgia for British power or revulsion at what seem to be the abuses of that power. The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire adopts neither of these approaches. It aims to create historical understanding about the British empire on the assumption that such understanding is important for any informed appreciation of the modern world. Through striking illustration and a text written by leading experts, this book examines the experience of colonialism in North America, India, Africa, Australia, and the Caribbean, as well as the impact of the empire on Britain itself. Emphasis is placed on social and cultural history, including slavery, trade, religion, art, and the movement of ideas. How did the British rule their empire? Who benefited economically from the empire? And who lost? Contents Introduction: the world shaped by empire P. J. Marshall; Part I. The History of Empire: 1. The British empire at the end of the eighteenth century P. J. Marshall; 2. 1783-1870: an expanding empire P. J. Marshall; 3. 1870-1918: the empire under threat P. J. Marshall; 4. 1918 to the 1960s: keeping afloat P. J. Marshall; Part II. The Life of the Empire: 5. For richer, for poorer? David Fieldhouse; 6. Power, authority, and freedom A. J. Stockwell; 7. Empires in the mind Andrew Porter; 8. Imperial towns and cities Thomas R. Metcalf; 9. British emigration and new identities Ged Martin and Benjamin E. Kline; 10. The diaspora of the Africans and the Asians P. J. Marshall; 11. Art and the empire John M. Mackenzie; Part III. The Imperial Experience: 12. Imperial Britain P. J. Marshall; 13. Australia K. S. Inglis; 14. Africa Toyin Falola; 15. British rule in India: an assessment Tapan Raychaudhuri; Conclusion: Empire in retrospect P. J. Marshall; Reference Guide: British imperial territories from 1783; Further reading; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Index. Printed Pages: 400 with 80 half-tones, 120 colour plates and 12 maps. Paperback

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GASCOIGNE,BAMBER: WORLD THEATRE AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, LONDON,EBURY PRESS,FIRST EDITION 1968

1st ed. 260x195mm approx,green boards with gilt lettering,moss feps,335 pgs, no inscp to book,d/j,dustjacket not clipped[70s],illustrated with 290 monochrome ,32 plates in colour and a brilliant text this book brings to life theatrical performances over a period of 4,000 years ranging from Japan and China through India and Ancient Greece,to the European countries and the USA. The author former drama critic for the observer and the Spectator and sucessful chairman of tv's University Challenge.. he studied at Yale School of Drama and did research on the modern theatre at Cambridge;the author of Twentieth Century Drama.also written a number of tv documentaries.While researching this book the author worked in some 70 museums and librairies in 9 countries.;- Bibliography,the beginings[old woodcut/engravings],the classical,the East,Middle Ages,Renaissance,Golden age,European,nineteenth century,modern theatre. VG+/VG

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Simonds, John Cameron; McEnnis, John T. (prefaces by T. V. Powderly; Judge T. M. Cooley; and George May Powell): THE STORY OF MANUAL (Labour) LABOR IN ALL LANDS AND AGES, Chicago R. S. Peale 1887
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(xxxiv) 715 pp. Brown cloth illustrated in dark brown, green and gilt on the front panel; illustrated in dark brown on the spine; decorated endpapers; headband; illustrated with engraved portraits along with charts and diagrams; colour frontis. The full title is: THE STORY OF MANUAL LABOR IN ALL LANDS AND AGES: Its Past Condition Present Progress and Hope for the Future - The Lights and Shadows of History in Contrast. A Complete Pen Picture of the Wage Worker from a Social Political and Economical Standpoint together with an Account of the Unions Guilds and Associations Organized for His Benefit and Protection. Light rubbing on the corners with some fading on the front panel; some darkening around the edges of the text block; the first few pages and the last few pages have some foxing; the front hinge is a bit loose near the bottom; the rear hinge is tight; gutters intact. The Chapters are: Part One: Labor in the Orient: India; China; Japan. Part Two: Labor in Antiquity: Egypt; Palestine; Chaldea and Assyria; Persia; Greece; Tyre - Sidon - Carthage; Rome. Part Three: Labor in the Middle Ages: General Survey; Italy; Spain; Germany; France; England. Part Four: Labor in the Modern World: Germany; England; Scotland; Wales; Ireland; France; Belgium; Spain; Portugal; Italy; Austro-Hungary; Holland; Switzerland; Scandinavia; Russia; Modern Greece; The Ottoman Empire; Modern Persia. Part Five: Labor in America: Introduction; The Colonies; Free America; The Nineteenth Century; The Formative Period; The New Era; The Events of 1886; The Field of the Trades Union; Strikes in Theory and Practice; The Rivals of American Labor; The Army of the Discontented by T. A. Powderly; Mexico; Central America; The West Indies; South America. Part Six: Guilds and Trades Unions: Merchant Guilds; Craft Guilds; Decline of the Craft Guilds; English Trades Unions; Continental Trades Unions; Labor Unions in the United States; The Knights of Labor; and Labor Unions in the United States - Concluded. First Edition Hard Cover 8vo

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