From the Ruins of Empire : The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
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Remaking of Asia - A Story of Engagement
"From the Ruins of Empire" is a well-researched and thoroughly engaging book that offers a powerful account of how Asian nations remade themselves after the British rule. It explores the vast intellectual effort that was required for Asia to recover, and the role played by journalists, poets, radicals and charismatics in creating the ideas that are behind the powerful Asian nations of the twenty-first century. If you're interested in the history of Asia, the role of the West in shaping it and the birth of Asian nationalism, then this book is definitely worth a read.
From the Ruins of Empire : The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia
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ISBN: 9780241954676
Authors:
Pankaj Mishra
Publisher: Allen Lane
Date of Publication: 2012-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Topics:
Politics,
Biography,
World History,
Politics,
Asia,
Political Science,
Biography,
History
Goodreads rating: 3.96
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Viewed in the West as a time of self-confident progress, the Victorian period was experienced by Asians as a catastrophe. As the British gunned down the last heirs to the Mughal Empire or burned down the Summer Palace in Beijing, it was clear that for Asia to recover a new way of thinking was needed. Pankaj Mishra re-tells the history of the past two centuries, showing how a remarkable, disparate group of thinkers, journalists, radicals and charismatics emerged from the ruins of empire to create an unstoppable Asian renaissance, one whose ideas lie behind everything from the Chinese Communist Party to the Muslim Brotherhood, and have made our world what it is today.
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