Fierce Enigmas

Author : Srinath Raghavan
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541698819

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Fierce Enigmas by Srinath Raghavan Pdf

The two-hundred-year history of the United States' involvement in South Asia--the key to understanding contemporary American policy in the region South Asia looms large in American foreign policy. Over the past two decades, we have spent billions of dollars and thousands of human lives in the region, to seemingly little effect. As Srinath Raghavan reveals in Fierce Enigmas, this should not surprise us. For 230 years, America's engagement with India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan has been characterized by short-term thinking and unintended consequences. Beginning with American traders in India in the eighteenth century, the region has become a locus for American efforts--secular and religious--to remake the world in its image. The definitive history of US involvement in South Asia, Fierce Enigmas is also a clarion call to fundamentally rethink our approach to the region.

Author : Amit Das Gupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000244588

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The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy, 1923–1961 by Amit Das Gupta Pdf

This book provides an authoritative account of the first significant overseas diplomatic missions and forays made by Indian civil servants. It recounts the key events in the formative decades of Indian foreign policy and looks at the prominent figures who were at the centre of this decisive period of change. The book explores the history and evolution of the civil and foreign services in India during the last leg of British rule and the following era of post-independence Nehruvian politics. Rich in archival material, it looks at official files, correspondences and diaries documenting the terms served by the pioneers of Indian diplomacy, Girja Shankar Bajpai, K.P.S. Menon and Subimal Dutt, in Africa, China, the USSR and other countries and their relationship with the Indian political leadership. The book also analyses and pieces together the activities, strategies, worldviews and contributions of the first administrators and diplomats who shaped India’s approach to foreign policy and its relationship with other political powers. An essential read for researchers and academics, this book will be a useful resource for students of international relations, foreign policy, political science and modern Indian history, especially those interested in the history of Indian foreign affairs. It will also be of great use to general readers who are interested in the history of politics and diplomacy in India and South Asia. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Laura Doyle
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822388739

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Freedom's Empire by Laura Doyle Pdf

In this pathbreaking work of scholarship, Laura Doyle reveals the central, formative role of race in the development of a transnational, English-language literature over three centuries. Identifying a recurring freedom plot organized around an Atlantic Ocean crossing, Doyle shows how this plot structures the texts of both African-Atlantic and Anglo-Atlantic writers and how it takes shape by way of submerged intertextual exchanges between the two traditions. For Anglo-Atlantic writers, Doyle locates the origins of this narrative in the seventeenth century. She argues that members of Parliament, religious refugees, and new Atlantic merchants together generated a racial rhetoric by which the English fashioned themselves as a “native,” “freedom-loving,” “Anglo-Saxon” people struggling against a tyrannical foreign king. Stories of a near ruinous yet triumphant Atlantic passage to freedom came to provide the narrative expression of this heroic Anglo-Saxon identity—in novels, memoirs, pamphlets, and national histories. At the same time, as Doyle traces through figures such as Friday in Robinson Crusoe, and through gothic and seduction narratives of ruin and captivity, these texts covertly register, distort, or appropriate the black Atlantic experience. African-Atlantic authors seize back the freedom plot, placing their agency at the origin of both their own and whites’ survival on the Atlantic. They also shrewdly expose the ways that their narratives have been “framed” by the Anglo-Atlantic tradition, even though their labor has provided the enabling condition for that tradition. Doyle brings together authors often separated by nation, race, and period, including Aphra Behn, Eliza Haywood, Olaudah Equiano, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Wilson, Pauline Hopkins, George Eliot, and Nella Larsen. In so doing, she reassesses the strategies of early women novelists, reinterprets the significance of rape and incest in the novel, and measures the power of race in the modern English-language imagination.

Author : Eric Wertheimer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0521622298

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Imagined Empires by Eric Wertheimer Pdf

A 1999 study of the influence of South American culture on early American culture, in particular literature.

Author : Rajeshwari Dutt,Nico Slate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000988390

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India in the World by Rajeshwari Dutt,Nico Slate Pdf

If we look back at world history in the past five hundred years, it is evident that Indian ideas, peoples, and goods helped drive world connections. From the quest to reach the Indies that drove Iberian rulers to fund costly expeditions that ultimately connected the Old World with the Americas to Gandhi’s creed of non-violence that created transnational resistance movements, India has been crucial to world history. In what ways have the movement of goods, people, and ideas from India served to connect the world? Conversely, how has India’s global history shaped the many boundaries and inequalities that have divided the world despite—and at times because of—the transnational connections often lumped together under the aegis of globalization? Through its emphasis on both linkages and boundaries, India in the World examines the range of connections between India and the world in a truly global perspective.

Author : Andrzej Warminski
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780816612390

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Readings in Interpretation by Andrzej Warminski Pdf

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : EHC:148101069120X

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Leaves of Grass: Including Sands at Seventy, Good-bye My Fancy, Old Age Echoes and A Backward Glance O'er Travel'd Roads by Walt Whitman Pdf

Author : Robert B. Rakove
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231558426

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Days of Opportunity by Robert B. Rakove Pdf

Long before the 1979 Soviet invasion, the United States was closely concerned with Afghanistan. For much of the twentieth century, American diplomats, policy makers, businesspeople, and experts took part in the Afghan struggle to modernize, delivered vital aid, and involved themselves in Kabul’s conflicts with its neighbors. For their own part, many Afghans embraced the potential benefits of political and commercial ties with the United States. Yet these relationships ultimately helped make the country a Cold War battleground. Robert B. Rakove sheds new light on the little-known and often surprising history of U.S. engagement in Afghanistan from the 1920s to the Soviet invasion, tracing its evolution and exploring its lasting consequences. Days of Opportunity chronicles the battle for influence in Kabul, as Americans contended with vigorous communist bloc competition and the independent ambitions of successive Afghan governments. Rakove examines the phases of peaceful Cold War competition, including development assistance, cultural diplomacy, and disaster relief. He demonstrates that Americans feared the “loss” of Afghanistan to Soviet influence—and were never simply bystanders, playing pivotal roles in the country’s political life. The ensuing collision of U.S., Soviet, and Afghan ambitions transformed the country—and ultimately led it, and the world, toward calamity. Harnessing extensive research in U.S. and international archives, Days of Opportunity unveils the remarkable and tragic history of American involvement in Afghanistan.

Author : Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson,Arthur Hugh Evelyn Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015066083190

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The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse by Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson,Arthur Hugh Evelyn Lee Pdf

Author : Charlotte Brontë;Walt Whitman;Jane Austen
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Popular Classic Collection: Jane Eyre/ Leaves of Grass/ Pride and Prejudice by Charlotte Brontë;Walt Whitman;Jane Austen Pdf

This Combo Collection (Set of 3 Books) includes All-time Bestseller Books. This anthology contains: Jane Eyre Leaves of Grass Pride and Prejudice

Author : Richard Moss, MD
Publisher : New World Library
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781577317944

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The Mandala of Being by Richard Moss, MD Pdf

The Mandala of Being shows us why and how we habitually obstruct our innate potential for what Richard Moss calls radical aliveness, a life of authenticity, overflowing energy, and joy. In these pages, Richard Moss gives us an effective practice that is readily incorporated into day-to-day life. It illustrates that there are in fact only four places our minds ever go when we leave the Now — the past, the future, judgments of ourselves, and judgments of others. It allows us to trace precisely the path we have taken away from our most authentic and essential being whenever we are not fully present, and simultaneously shows us the way home. Drawing from his profound self-realization and more than three decades of working with people of diverse backgrounds, Richard Moss accompanies and encourages the reader on a journey toward freedom from fear and any other limiting or threatening feeling. Deep self-understanding, inner ease, spontaneous healing, more fulfilling relationships, and enhanced creativity are all wonderful blessings that can arise from reading and reflecting on The Mandala of Being.

Author : Rudra Chaudhuri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000486759

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War and Peace in Contemporary India by Rudra Chaudhuri Pdf

War and Peace in Contemporary India examines the importance of institutions and the role played by international actors in crucial episodes of India’s strategic history. The contributions trace India’s tryst with war and peace from immediately before the foundation of the contemporary Indian state, to the last military conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999. The focus of the chapters included in this edited volume is as much on India as it is on Pakistan and China, its opponents in war. The chapters offer a fresh take on the creation of India as a regional military power, and her approach to War and Peace in the post-independence period. Importantly, it advances the broader work on Indian strategic history during the Cold War and after, an otherwise under-studied intellectual landscape. The book offers fresh insights based on archival work, as well as a closer conceptual reading of Indian, British and American decision making at times of war and peace in contemporary India. This book will be of great interest to scholars, researchers and students interested in strategic studies, diplomatic and military history, international diplomacy, as well as Indian history and politics. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies.

Author : James Bissett Pratt
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781596055278

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India and Its Faiths by James Bissett Pratt Pdf

Looking to gain fresh insights into the psychology of religion, James Bissett Pratt traveled to India, packing little more than a gift of extraordinary human sympathy. It was Pratt's interest in psychology, and his lack of training in oriental classics, that gives this book such a personal approach. India and Its Faiths is sprinkled with numerous first-hand observations and seeks to present Indian religious life as it was at the beginning of the 20th century. Pratt's striking work did much to make India's religions come alive for the first time for many Western readers. JAMES BISSETT PRATT (1875 -1944) was a professor of philosophy at Williams College and a world traveler. Best known for his works on religion, Pratt spent four summers and three sabbatical years in Europe and the East. He admitted to a serious case of wanderlust, which he documented in diaries and photographs.

Author : Walt Whitman
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 2428 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:8596547792789

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The Complete Works of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman Pdf

Good Press presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Walt Whitman collection: Poetry: Leaves of Grass (The Original 1855 Edition): Song of Myself A Song for Occupations To Think of Time The Sleepers I Sing the Body Electric Faces Song of the Answerer Europe the 72d and 73d Years of These States A Boston Ballad There Was a Child Went Forth Who Learns My Lesson Complete Great Are the Myths Leaves of Grass (The Final Edition): Inscriptions Starting from Paumanok Song of Myself Children of Adam Calamus Salut au Monde! Song of the Open Road Crossing Brooklyn Ferry Song of the Answerer Our Old Feuillage A Song of Joys Song of the Broad-Axe Song of the Exposition Song of the Redwood-Tree A Song for Occupations A Song of the Rolling Earth Birds of Passage A Broadway Pageant Sea-Drift By the Roadside Drum-Taps Memories of President Lincoln By Blue Ontario's Shore Autumn Rivulets Proud Music of the Storm Passage to India Prayer of Columbus The Sleepers To Think of Time Whispers of Heavenly Death Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood From Noon to Starry Night Songs of Parting Sands at Seventy Good-Bye My Fancy Other Poems Novels: Franklin Evans Life and Adventures of Jack Engle Short Stories: The Half-Breed Bervance; or, Father and Son The Tomb-Blossoms The Last of the Sacred Army The Child-Ghost Reuben's Last Wish A Legend of Life and Love The Angel of Tears The Death of Wind-Foot The Madman Eris; A Spirit Record My Boys and Girls The Fireman's Dream The Little Sleighers Shirval: A Tale of Jerusalem Richard Parker's Widow Some Fact-Romances The Shadow and the Light of a Young Man's Soul Other Works: Manly Health and Training Specimen Days Collect Notes Left Over Pieces in Early Youth November Boughs Good-Bye My Fancy Some Laggards Yet Letters: The Wound Dresser The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman

Author : Harold Aspiz
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817313777

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So Long! Walt Whitman's Poetry of Death by Harold Aspiz Pdf

Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly Song of Myself and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life is a consequence of his central concern: the ever presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife.