Waiting On Empire
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Waiting On Empire
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Author : Arunima Datta
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-07-04
Waiting On Empire written by Arunima Datta and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-04 with History categories.
The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both the colonizers and the colonized. Waiting on Empire focuses on a largely forgotten group in this story of movement and migration: South Asian travelling ayahs (servants and nannies), who travelled between India and Britain and often found themselves destitute in Britain as they struggled to find their way home to South Asia. Delving into the stories of individual ayahs from a wide range of sources, Arunima Datta illuminates their brave struggle to assert their rights, showing how ayahs negotiated their precarious employment conditions, capitalized on social sympathy amongst some sections of the British population, and confronted or collaborated with various British institutions and individuals to demand justice and humane treatment. In doing so, Datta re-imagines the experience of waiting. Waiting is a recurrent human experience, yet it is often marginalized. It takes a particular form within complex bureaucratized societies in which the marginalized inevitably wait upon those with power over them. Those who wait are often discounted as passive, inactive victims. This book shows that, in spite of their precarious position, the travelling ayahs of the British empire were far from this stereotype.
Fleeting Agencies
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Author : Arunima Datta
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-30
Fleeting Agencies written by Arunima Datta and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-30 with Business & Economics categories.
Critically examines the agency and history of long-silenced coolie women and their role in colonial economy and transnational movements.
Waiting For The Barbarians
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Author : J. M. Coetzee
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2017-01-03
Waiting For The Barbarians written by J. M. Coetzee and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-03 with Fiction categories.
A modern classic by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee. His latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. For decades the Magistrate has been a loyal servant of the Empire, running the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement and ignoring the impending war with the barbarians. When interrogation experts arrive, however, he witnesses the Empire's cruel and unjust treatment of prisoners of war. Jolted into sympathy for their victims, he commits a quixotic act of rebellion that brands him an enemy of the state. J. M. Coetzee's prize-winning novel is a startling allegory of the war between opressor and opressed. The Magistrate is not simply a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times; his situation is that of all men living in unbearable complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency. Mark Rylance (Wolf Hall, Bridge of Spies), Ciro Guerra and producer Michael Fitzgerald are teaming up to to bring J.M. Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians to the big screen.
The Great Empire
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Author : J.b. Melo
language : en
Publisher: Bubok
Release Date : 2020-06-09
The Great Empire written by J.b. Melo and has been published by Bubok this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-09 with Fiction categories.
Waiting For The Barbarians
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Author : J. M. Coetzee
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-02
Waiting For The Barbarians written by J. M. Coetzee and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-02 with Fiction categories.
Four modern classics by the great South African writer, J. M. Coetzee, re-released with stylish new covers and accompanied by introductions from some of Australia’s brightest writing talents
A Memory Called Empire
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Author : Arkady Martine
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2019-04-04
A Memory Called Empire written by Arkady Martine and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-04 with Fiction categories.
Winner of the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novel. Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire is one of the hottest science fiction debuts around. For those who loved Ann Leckie's epic space opera Ancillary Justice, Tamsyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth and Iain M. Banks’s Culture novels. Shortlisted for the 2020 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Shortlisted for the 2019 Goodreads Choice Awards. In a war of lies she seeks the truth . . . Ambassador Mahit Dzmare travels to the Teixcalaanli Empire’s interstellar capital, eager to take up her new post. Yet when she arrives, she discovers her predecessor was murdered. But no one will admit his death wasn’t accidental – and she might be next. Now Mahit must navigate the capital’s enticing yet deadly halls of power, to discover dangerous truths. And while she hunts for the killer, Mahit must somehow prevent the rapacious Empire from annexing her home: a small, fiercely independent mining station. As she sinks deeper into an alien culture that is all too seductive, Mahit engages in intrigues of her own. For she’s hiding an extraordinary technological secret, one which might destroy her station and its way of life. Or it might save them from annihilation. A Memory Called Empire is followed by A Desolation Called Peace in the Teixcalaan duology. 'A Memory Called Empire perfectly balances action and intrigue with matters of empire and identity. All-round brilliant space opera, I absolutely loved it' – Ann Leckie, author of Ancillary Justice ‘Contender for debut of the year’ - SFX Magazine
Russia In World History
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Author : Choi Chatterjee
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-01-27
Russia In World History written by Choi Chatterjee and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-01-27 with History categories.
Russia in World History uses a comparative framework to understand Russian history in a global context. The book challenges the idea of Russia as an outlier of European civilization by examining select themes in modern Russian history alongside cases drawn from the British Empire. Choi Chatterjee analyzes the concepts of nation and empire, selfhood and subjectivity, socialism and capitalism, and revolution and the world order in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. In doing so she rethinks many historical narratives that bluntly posit a liberal West against a repressive, authoritarian Russia. Instead Chatterjee argues for a wider perspective which reveals that imperial practices relating to the appropriation of human and natural resources were shared across European empires, both East and West. Incorporating the stories of famous thinkers, such as Leo Tolstoy, Emma Goldman, Wangari Maathai, Arundhati Roy, among others. This unique interpretation of modern Russia is knitted together from the varied lives and experiences of those individuals who challenged the status quo and promoted a different way of thinking. This is a ground-breaking book with big and provocative ideas about the history of the modern world, and will be vital reading for students of both modern Russian and world history.
Waiting For The Barbarians
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Waiting For The Barbarians written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Feature films categories.
The Magistrate of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire, looks forward to an easy retirement, until the arrival of Colonel Joll. His task is to report on the activities of the barbarians and on the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which leads the Magistrate to question his loyalty to the empire.
Empire In Black And Gold
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Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2008-07-25
Empire In Black And Gold written by Adrian Tchaikovsky and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-25 with Fiction categories.
Empire in Black and Gold is the first instalment in the critically-acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The days of peace are over . . . The Lowlands’ city states have lived in peace for decades, hailed as bastions of civilization. Yet that peace is about to end. A distant empire has been conquering neighbours with highly trained soldiers and sophisticated combat techniques. And the city states are its desirable new prize. Only the ageing Stenwold Maker – spymaster, artificer and statesman – foresees the threat, as the empires’ armies march ever closer. So it falls upon his shoulders to open the eyes of the cities’ leaders. He sees that war will sweep through their lands, destroying everything in its path. But to warn his people, he must stay alive. Empire in Black and Gold is followed by the second book in the Shadows of the Apt series, Dragonfly Falling.
The Cambridge Introduction To J M Coetzee
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Author : Dominic Head
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-26
The Cambridge Introduction To J M Coetzee written by Dominic Head and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-26 with Literary Criticism categories.
The South African novelist and Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee is widely studied around the world and attracts considerable critical attention. With the publication of Disgrace Coetzee began to enjoy popular as well as critical acclaim, but his work can be as challenging as it is impressive. This book is addressed to students and readers of Coetzee: it is an up-to-date survey of the writer's fiction and context, written accessibly for those new to his work. All of the fiction is discussed, and the brooding presence of the political situation in South Africa, during the first part of his career, is given serious attention in a comprehensive account of the author's main influences. The revealing strand of confessional writing in the latter half of Coetzee's career is given full consideration. This Introduction will help new readers understand and appreciate one of the most important and challenging authors in contemporary literature.