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Empire News
(July 2021)
The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India
Priti Joshi - Author
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The Left Hand of Capital
(June 2021)
Neoliberalism and the Left in Chile
Fernando Ignacio Leiva - Author
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Original and comprehensive examination of Chilean political and economic development since the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990.
In The Left Hand of Capital, Fernando Ignacio Leiva provides a theoretically grounded analysis of the last thirty years of socioeconomic policies in Chile, beginning at the end of the Pinochet military regime in 1990. He skillful...(Read More) |
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The Rorty-Habermas Debate
(May 2021)
Toward Freedom as Responsibility
Marcin Kilanowski - Author
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Argues that out of the confrontation between Rorty and Habermas, we might be able to find a new way to think about the kind of politics we need today.
The Rorty-Habermas debate has been written on widely, but a full treatment of its importance had to wait until now. We have some historical distance from this exchange, which extended over three decades, and which touches upon the ce...(Read More) |
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Édouard Glissant, Philosopher
(April 2021)
Heraclitus and Hegel in the Whole-World
Alexandre Leupin - Author
Andrew Brown - Translator
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Translation of Alexandre Leupin’s award-winning study of Édouard Glissant’s entire work in relation to philosophy.
One of the greatest writers of the late twentieth century, Édouard Glissant’s body of work covers multiple genres and addresses many cogent contemporary problems, such as borders, multiculturalism, postcolonial and decolonial studies, and global humanities. Édouard ...(Read More) |
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Identities in Flux
(February 2021)
Race, Migration, and Citizenship in Brazil
Niyi Afolabi - Author
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Reevaluates the significance of iconic Afro-Brazilian figures, from slavery to post-abolition.
Drawing on historical and cultural approaches to race relations, Identities in Flux examines iconic Afro-Brazilian figures and theorizes how they have been appropriated to either support or contest a utopian vision of multiculturalism. Zumbi dos Palmares, the leader of a runaway s...(Read More) |
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Partition's Legacies
(January 2021)
Joya Chatterji - Author
David Washbrook - Introduction
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Essays on modern Indian history and the legacy of Partition.
Partition’s Legacies offers a selection of Joya Chatterji’s finest and most influential essays. “Partition, nation-making, frontiers, refugees, minority formation, and categories of citizenship have been my preoccupations,” she writes in the preface, and these are also the major themes of this book.
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The Muslim World in Modern South Asia
(January 2021)
Power, Authority, Knowledge
Francis Robinson - Author
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Sets out the challenges presented to Muslim societies by Western dominance over the past two hundred years, and explores Muslim responses, particularly in the context of South Asia.
Over the past two hundred years, two great processes have shaped Muslim societies: Western domination and the industrial capitalism that came with it, and the Islamic revival that preceded the Western ...(Read More) |
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Till Kingdom Come
(January 2021)
Medieval Hinduism in the Modern Himalaya
Lokesh Ohri - Author
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The first book to offer a detailed framework, a fine-grained history, and an analytically nuanced understanding of one of the rarest branches of Hindu worship.
Hinduism, as is well known, has taken a multitude of shapes and forms. Some Hindu “little traditions” have remained obscure or understudied to this day due to their regional remoteness. One such offshoot is the influential ...(Read More) |
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