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Award-winning historian Dalrymple presents a brilliantly researched, evocatively written study of the fall of the Raj and the beginning of the British occupation of India.

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LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE'Beautifully written, ridiculously erudite, warm and open-hearted' The Times'Compelling and poignant' Guardian'This is travel writing at its best' Observer Internationally bestselling William Dalrymple takes ...

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WINNER OF THE DUFF COOPER MEMORIAL PRIZE | LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE'Indispensable reading on both India and the Empire' Daily Telegraph'Brims with life, colour and complexity . . . outstanding' Evening Standard'A compulsively readab...

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2013'As taut and richly embroidered as a great novel . . . a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph'Dazzling' Sunday Times | 'Magnificent' Guardian | 'Sparkling' Daily TelegraphA towering history of the first Afghan...

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THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY T...

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THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR A revolutionary new history of the diffusion of Indian ideas, from the award-winning, bestselling author and co-host of the chart-topping Empire podcast Richly woven, highly readable...

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Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times Dynamic, original and supremely readable Maya Jasanoff, Guardian The first comprehensive and auth...

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'Riveting. This highly readable and entertaining book ... finally sets the record straight on the history of the Koh-i-Noor' Tarquin Hall, Sunday Times'Dynamic, original and supremely readable' Maya Jasanoff, GuardianThe first comprehensive and au...

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THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY T...

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How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals?As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of ...

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Great writers, artists, musicians and thinkers in British life say what Europe means to them: an outpouring of love and sadness. With pieces from Frank Cottrell Boyce, Melvyn Bragg, Margaret Drabble, Alan Hollinghurst, Will Hutton, Holly Johnson, ...

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How are great turning points in history experienced by individuals? As Britain pulls away from Europe great British writers come together to give voice to their innermost feelings. These writers include novelists, writers of books for children, of...

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The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. Major religions that rose to dominate Earth's largest contin...

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Located on the west coast of India along the Arabian Sea, Goa officially became an Indian state in 1987 after nearly five hundred years of Portuguese rule. This conflict of cultures is captured by Indian photographer Prabuddha Dasgupta in "Ed...

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Theodore Dalrymple pulls no punches when it comes to political correctness and culture... and why should he? These selected essays will stir and educate us on cultural relativism... Take for example the following quotes from the book: On Germaine ...

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The Best Travel Writing 2010 is the seventh volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global...

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Excerpta Ex Diversis Litteris Missionariorum - Ab anno 1638, ad annum 1677 - Extracts From Different letters of missionaries. From the year 1638 to the year 1677 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1877. Hansebooks is ...

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For the Use of Lord's Day Schools - Two scripture catechisms. I. For children who are just begun to read distinctly. II. For those about eleven or twelve years of age is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1788. Hansebook...

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The name of Dalrymple: - With the genealogy of one branch of the family in the United States is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1878. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research an...

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A History of Christ - For the Use of the Unlearned is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1787. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking...

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Steve McCurry - die Farben und Gesichter Indiens Steve McCurry nimmt den Betrachter mit auf eine unvergessliche Reise ins exotische Herz Indiens. Ein stimmungsvoller Bildband für Reisende, Träumer und Liebhaber des indischen Subkontinents. Der leg...

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Ein Buch ganz nah am Herzen der indischen Kultur. Neun faszinierende Portrÿts aus dem heutigen Indien - neun Menschen auf höchst unterschiedlichen spirituellen Wegen in einer Gesellschaft , in der sich Globalisierung, Alltagsleben und Religion i...

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2010 erhielt Jaroslav Poncar den Auftrag vom Centrum für internationale Migration und Entwicklung (CIM), das kulturelle Erbe Afghanistans fotografisch zu dokumentieren. Während eines Jahres hat er das Land, dessen Bild in den Medien und der öffent...

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En la primavera de 1839, tropas británicas invadÿan por primera vez Afganistán para exorcizar la fantasmal amenaza rusa sobre la India que angustiaba a polÿticos incompetentes y entusiasmaba a lobistas sin escrúpulos y que se vino a definir c...

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En 1765, la Compañÿa de las Indias Orientales derrocó al joven emperador mogol y puso en su lugar un gobierno controlado por mercaderes ingleses que extorsionaba impuestos merced a su ejército privado. Fue este el momento que señaló la trans...

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Una lóbrega tarde de noviembre de 1862, un rústico féretro recibÿa sepultura en medio de un escalofriante silencio, sin lamentos ni panegÿricos por orden expresa del comisionado británico: «No debe quedar rastro que distinga el lugar donde ...

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IN THE SPRING OF 1839, THE BRITISH INVADED AFGHANISTAN FOR THE FIRST TIME. LED BY LANCERS IN SCARLET CLOAKS AND PLUMED SHAKOS, NEARLY 20,000 BRITISH AND EAST INDIA COMPANY TROOPS POURED THROUGH THE HIGH MOUNTAIN PASSES AND RE-ESTABLISHED ON THE TH...

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