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Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland: Rajput Identity during the Early Colonial Encounter

Author:Moran Ari
Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
Abstract: This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred o…

Pacific Islanders Under German Rule: A Study in the Meaning of Colonial Resistance

Author:J. Hempenstall Pete
Publisher:ANU Press
Abstract: This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders res…

Colonial Legacies

Author:Booth Anne E
Publisher:University of Hawai'i Press
Abstract: Taiwan and South Korea, both former Japanese colonies, achieved rapid growth and industrialization …

Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas

Author:Hofman Corinne L., Keehnen Floris W.M.
Publisher:Brill
Abstract: Material Encounters and Indigenous Transformations in the Early Colonial Americas brings together 1…

Written Culture in a Colonial Context

Author:Delmas Adrien, Penn Nige
Publisher:UCT Press
Abstract: There is very little in the modern literature on the history of written culture that describes the …

Medical Missionaries and Colonial Knowledge in West Africa and Europe, 1885-1914

Author:Ratschiller Nasim Linda Mari
Publisher:Springer Nature
Abstract: This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, he…

Mapping Water in Dominica

Author:Hauser Mark
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Abstract: "Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/ 9780295748733 ~ ~Dominica, a place once described as “Nature’s I…

The Renaissance of Shi'i Islam

Author:Esots Janis, Daftary Farhad
Publisher:Bloomsbury Academic
Abstract: The renaissance of Shi’i Islam began in the 9th/15th century when the Ismailis experienced the Anju…

The Dragoman Renaissance

Author:Rothman E. Natalie
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Abstract: In The Dragoman Renaissance E. Natalie Rothman traces how Istanbul-based diplomatic translator-inte…

Conservation of plant genes II : utilization of ancient and modern DNA

Author: Adams, Robert P. - Dna Bank-Net. Meeting Missouri Botanical Garden)
Publisher:St Louis,Missouri Botanical Garden 1994
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