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  • Indigenous Modernities

    Negotiating Architecture and Urbanism

    de Jyoti Hosagrahar ...
    Series series Architext
    This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and meaning. Through a focused study of Delhi, the author challenges prevalent assumptions in architecture and urbanism to identify an interpretation of modernism that goes beyond conventional understanding.Part one reflects on transformations and ... Leer más

    $87,667 CLP

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  • A Concise History of Modern India

    de Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through ... Leer más

    $27,067 CLP

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  • Museums Matter

    In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

    de James Cuno ...
    Series series Campbell Lectures
    The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society’s growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in recent years, museums have been under attack, with critics arguing that they are little more than relics and promoters of imperialism. ... Leer más

    Antes $14,925 CLP Ahora $13,361 CLP

  • The Social Life of Things

    Commodities in Cultural Perspective

    Edición de Arjun Appadurai ...
    The meaning that people attribute to things necessarily derives from human transactions and motivations, particularly from how those things are used and circulated. The contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Focusing on culturally defined aspects of exchange and socially regulated processes of ... Leer más

    $29,604 CLP

  • Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not

    Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850

    de Prasannan Parthasarathi ...
    Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not provides a striking new answer to the classic question of why Europe industrialised from the late eighteenth century and Asia did not. Drawing significantly from the case of India, Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more alike than different, both characterized by ... Leer más

    $32,988 CLP

  • Whose Culture?

    The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities

    Edición de James Cuno ...
    The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and ... Leer más

    $22,243 CLP

  • The City in South Asia

    de James Heitzman ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Asia's Great Cities
    The macro-region of South Asia – including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – today supports one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cities, but as James Heitzman argues in the first comprehensive treatment of urban South Asia, this has been the case for at least 5,000 years.With a strong emphasis on the production of space and periodic excursions into literature, art and ... Leer más

    $71,163 CLP

  • The Slow Boil

    Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai

    de Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they offer. In The Slow Boil, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria draws on his long-term fieldwork with these ... Leer más

    Antes $26,457 CLP Ahora $23,683 CLP

  • The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History

    Edición de Peter Clark ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind's greatest collective achievements over time, and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the past? How have historic urban patterns impacted on those of the contemporary world? And what were the key drivers in the roller ... Leer más

    $52,906 CLP

  • Everyday Technology

    Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

    de David Arnold ...
    In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India one of the leading economies in our globalized world. Few would question ... Leer más

    $3,412 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • India in the World Economy

    From Antiquity to the Present

    de Tirthankar Roy ...
    Series Libro 10 - New Approaches to Asian History
    Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the economic life of India since antiquity. Its long coastline has afforded convenient access to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships formed in the exchange of commodities ranging from textiles to military technology and from opium to indigo. In a journey across two thousand years, this enthralling book, written by a leading South Asian ... Leer más

    $38,062 CLP

  • Appropriating the Past

    Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology

    Edición de Geoffrey Scarre, Robin Coningham ...
    In this book an international team of archaeologists, philosophers, lawyers and heritage professionals addresses significant ethical questions about the rights to access, manage and interpret the material remains of the past. The chapters explore competing claims to interpret and appropriate the past and the major ethical issues associated with them, including handling the sacred; contested rights ... Leer más

    $34,679 CLP