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‘What I Saw in America’ is an eloquent record of the polymath G. K. Chesterton’s experiences on a lecture tour of the US in 1921. This is a persuasive, revealing and essential work that overflows with wry humour, sympathy and intelligence playing devilishly against an irrepressible mischievousness.

A comprehensive exploration into the fractious historical and contemporary relationship of these two influential political powers.

A clear and concise guide to Latin designed to lead students between the ages of 14 to 18 through a series of illustrative examples, readings, vocabulary lists, and translation exercises, and onto mastery of the language.

The first ever book on Mumbai written in the Marathi language, this is a historically fascinating and revealing urban biography of nineteenth-century India.

In this remarkable, expansive text, Peter Nolan explores the impact of the domineering economic phenomenon on our personal and social liberties.

This timely collection of essays from Peter Nolan offers deep insight into the challenges faced in integrating China with the global political economy.

An enthralling analysis of the defining social and political events of the twentieth century.

This dictionary-novel of dictatorship is a thrilling personal journey behind the Iron Curtain – and like nothing you have read before.

Through oral histories, interviews and fictional retellings, 'Bengal Partition Stories' unearths and articulates the collective memories of a people traumatised by the brutal division of their homeland.

Special Economic Zones (SEZs), introduced in February 2006, are one of the stiffest challenges for India's economic policy reforms. The emotionally charged debate on SEZs has often produced inflexible positions on either side. The unusually strong public reaction has also forced policymakers to revisit several aspects of the policy in recent months. As the first book on India's SEZs, this volume examines different popular perceptions - both good and bad - surrounding these zones.

‘Martyr As Bridegroom: A Folk Representation of Bhagat Singh’ is written from the viewpoint of vernacular Punjabi culture and tries to tread on the marginalized path of vernacular culture as a methodology of a historian's craft. The book seeks to understand the manner in which Punjabis constructed the image of Bhagat Singh in their literature.

Special Economic Zones (SEZs), introduced in February 2006, are one of the stiffest challenges for India's economic policy reforms. The emotionally charged debate on SEZs has often produced inflexible positions on either side. The unusually strong public reaction has also forced policymakers to revisit several aspects of the policy in recent months. As the first book on India's SEZs, this volume examines different popular perceptions - both good and bad - surrounding these zones.