Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political Economy
8 best books like Modern South Asia: History, Culture and Political Economy (Sugata Bose): Dreamers, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Wretched of the Earth, Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia, The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, World Order, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
| Author | Yuyi Morales |
| ISBN | 0823440559 |
Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story in this picture-book tribute to the transformative power of hope . . . and reading.
In 1994, Yuyi Morales left her home in Xalapa, Mexico and came to the US with her infant son. She left behind nearly everything she owned, but she didn't come empty-handed.
She...
| Author | Friedrich Nietzsche |
Horror movies never frightened me in the same way certain works of literature and film did. Reading through Zarathustra as a teenager was a singularly powerful experience; the work defies categorization or genre, time or place. I was warned that Nietzsche was dangerous for young readers (like Machiavelli)...
The Wretched of the Earth
| Author | Frantz Fanon |
| ISBN | 0802141323 |
A distinguished psychiatrist from Martinique who took part in the Algerian Nationalist Movement, Frantz Fanon was one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history. Fanon's masterwork is a classic alongside Edward Said's Orientalism...
Descent into Chaos: The United States & the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan & Central Asia
| Author | Ahmed Rashid |
| ISBN | 0670019704 |
Even more than a decade after its publication Descent Into Chaos is a must read for anyone interested in ongoing events in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the central Asian “stans” that make up one of the most politically volatile areas on earth. Rashid is both a journalist and a participant, having been...
| Author | Yasmin Khan |
| ISBN | 0300120788 |
The Partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom—through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. Instead, the geographical divide brought displacement and death, and it benefited the few at the expense...
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
| Author | Samuel P. Huntington |
| ISBN | 0684844419 |
"Sam Huntington, one of the West's most eminent political scientists, presents a challenging framework for understanding the realities of global politics in the next century. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is one of the most important books to have emerged since the end...
| Author | Henry Kissinger |
| ISBN | 1594206147 |
Henry Kissinger offers in World Order a deep meditation on the roots of international harmony and global disorder. Drawing on his experience as one of the foremost statesmen of the modern era—advising presidents, traveling the world, observing and shaping the central foreign policy events of...
Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
| Author | Graham Allison |
| ISBN | 0544935276 |
CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides’s Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece,...
