Inglorious Empire (ePub)

Name: Inglorious Empire
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 90433756
Price: 10.00 CHF
Availability: OnlineOnly

What the British Did to India (Sprache: Englisch)

Autor: Shashi Tharoor

Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "Inglorious Empire".

Merken

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor

...

Mehr zum Inhalt Family Sharing Autorenporträt Video

eBook (ePub) Fr. 10.00

Taschenbuch Fr. 17.90

sofort als Download lieferbar

Bestellnummer: 90433756

Printausgabe Fr. 17.90

eBook (ePub) Fr. 10.00

inkl. MwSt.

Download bestellen

Verschenken

Kreditkarte, Paypal, Rechnung
Kostenloser tolino webreader

Produktdetails

Produktbeschreibung
Autorenporträt
eBook Hilfe
Biblio. Angaben / Produktdetails
Download-DRM Infos
Family Sharing

Produktinformationen zu „Inglorious Empire (ePub)“

The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor

'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to the heart of the darkness that drives all empires ... laying bare the grim, and high, cost of the British Empire for its former subjects. An essential read' Financial Times

In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. The Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation.

British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial 'gift' - from the railways to the rule of law - was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.

In this bold and incisive reassessment of colonialism, Tharoor exposes to devastating effect the inglorious reality of Britain's stained Indian legacy.

Autoren-Porträt von Shashi Tharoor

SHASHI THAROOR is the bestselling author of twenty books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a noted critic and columnist. His books include the pathbreaking satire The Great Indian Novel (1989), the classic India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997), the bestselling An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India, for which he won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2016, for Books (Non-Fiction), and The Paradoxical Prime Minister: Narendra Modi and His India. He has been Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Minister of State for Human Resource Development and Minister of State for External Affairs in the Government of India. He is a three-time member of the Lok Sabha from Thiruvananthapuram and chairs the Parliament Information
Technology committee. He has won numerous literary awards, including a national Sahitya Akademi award, a Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. He was awarded the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, India's highest honour for overseas Indians, in 2004, and honoured as New Age Politician of the Year (2010) by NDTV.

eBook Hilfe

Informationen und Hilfe zu eBooks hier klicken!

Bibliographische Angaben

Autor: Shashi Tharoor
2018, Englisch
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN-10: 0241331455
ISBN-13: 9780241331453
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2018

Abhängig von Bildschirmgrösse und eingestellter Schriftgrösse kann die Seitenzahl auf Ihrem Lesegerät variieren.

eBook Informationen

Dateiformat: ePub
Grösse: 1.98 MB
Mit Kopierschutz
Vorlesefunktion

Sprache:

Englisch

Kopierschutz

Dieses eBook können Sie uneingeschränkt auf allen Geräten der tolino Familie lesen. Zum Lesen auf sonstigen eReadern und am PC benötigen Sie eine Adobe ID.

Family Sharing

eBooks und Audiobooks (Hörbuch-Downloads) mit der Familie teilen und gemeinsam geniessen. Mehr Infos hier.

Kommentar zu "Inglorious Empire"

Schreiben Sie einen Kommentar zu "Inglorious Empire".

0 Gebrauchte Artikel zu „Inglorious Empire“

Zustand	Preis	Porto	Zahlung	Verkäufer	Rating