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From the Ruins of Empire
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- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
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A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to frame a distinctly Asian intellectual tradition that would inform and inspire the continent's anticipated rise to dominance. Asian dominance did not come to pass, and those thinkers - Tagore, Gandhi, and later Nehru in India; Liang Qichao and Sun Yatsen in China; Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim in the ruins of the Ottoman Empire - are seen as outriders from the main anticolonial tradition. But Pankaj Mishra shows that it was otherwise in this stereotype-shattering book. His enthralling group portrait of like minds scattered across a vast continent makes clear that modern Asia's revolt against the West is not the one led by faith-fired terrorists and thwarted peasants but one with deep roots in the work of thinkers who devised a view of life that was neither modern nor antimodern, neither colonialist nor anticolonialist. In broad, deep, dramatic chapters, Mishra tells the stories of these figures, unpacks their philosophies, and reveals their shared goal of a greater Asia.
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The Supreme Court's rulings have shaped American life and justice and allowed Americans to retain basic freedoms such as privacy, free speech, and the right to a fair trial. This revised and updated edition of Michael G. Trachtman's riveting work includes 10 important cases from 2010 to 2015.
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Nice review overall.
- By "freeindeed4ever" on 02-10-20
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Inglorious Empire
- What the British Did to India
- By: Shashi Tharoor
- Narrated by: Shashi Tharoor
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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In the 18th 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. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannons, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalized 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 on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" was designed in Britain's interests alone.
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An entertaining and provocative history
- By James Moseley on 01-07-20
By: Shashi Tharoor
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom
- America and China, 1776 to the Present
- By: John Pomfret
- Narrated by: Tom Perkins
- Length: 30 hrs and 3 mins
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Our relationship with China remains one of the most complex and rapidly evolving and is perhaps one of the most important to our nation's future. Here, John Pomfret, the author of the best-selling Chinese Lessons, takes us deep into these two countries' shared history and illuminates in vibrant, stunning detail every major event, relationship, and ongoing development that has affected diplomacy between these two booming, influential nations.
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Indispensable for understanding the US China relationship
- By D. Keith on 03-12-17
By: John Pomfret
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Run and Hide
- A Novel
- By: Pankaj Mishra
- Narrated by: Mikhail Sen
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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Growing up in a small railway town, Arun always dreamed of escape. His acceptance at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, enabled through great sacrifice by his low-caste parents, is seemingly his golden ticket out of a life plagued by everyday cruelties and deprivations. At the predominantly male campus, he meets two students from similar backgrounds. Unlike Arun - scarred by his childhood, and an uneasy interloper among go-getters - they possess the sheer will and confidence to break through merciless social barriers.
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Disjointed narrative
- By Anonymous User on 04-13-22
By: Pankaj Mishra
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Against the Grain
- Lessons from the Outliers
- By: Pankaj Mishra
- Narrated by: Anuj Datta
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
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Dive deep into the minds of those who dared to defy convention in Against the Grain, a compelling exploration of wisdom, vulnerability and visionary thinking. Through conversations with luminaries like A.R. Rahman, Uday Kotak, Nandan Nilekani, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Naval Ravikant and many more, this book reveals what it takes to carve your own path, defy norms and truly embrace your uniqueness.
By: Pankaj Mishra
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Muhammad
- A Prophet for Our Time
- By: Karen Armstrong
- Narrated by: Karen Armstrong
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
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From the best-selling author of Islam: A Short History comes an important addition to the Eminent Lives book series. A former Roman Catholic nun and winner of a Muslim Public Affairs Council Media Award, Karen Armstrong shows how Muhammad's life can teach us a great deal about our world. More is known about Muhammad than any other major religion founder, yet he remains mysterious.
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down to the man
- By David S. on 05-10-12
By: Karen Armstrong
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Legacy of Violence
- A History of the British Empire
- By: Caroline Elkins
- Narrated by: Adam Barr
- Length: 31 hrs and 36 mins
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From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country's pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe.
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Great ideas, but very disappointing execution
- By Luc Rey-Bellet on 09-05-22
By: Caroline Elkins
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China
- A History
- By: John Keay
- Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
- Length: 25 hrs and 30 mins
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Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past. Keay's authoritative history examines 5,000 years in China, from the time of the Three Dynasties through Chairman Mao and the current economic transformation of the country.
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Needs new narrator
- By Betty on 10-16-16
By: John Keay
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The Fall of the Ottomans
- The Great War in the Middle East
- By: Eugene Rogan
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 17 hrs and 25 mins
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In The Fall of the Ottomans, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan brings the First World War and its immediate aftermath in the Middle East to vivid life, uncovering the often ignored story of the region's crucial role in the conflict.
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Great Book About A Little Known Part of WWI
- By Nostromo on 06-08-15
By: Eugene Rogan
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The Modern Scholar
- Six Months That Changed the World: The Paris Peace Conference of 1919
- By: Dr. Margaret MacMillan
- Narrated by: Dr. Margaret MacMillan
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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The world will never see another peace conference like the one which took place in Paris in 1919. For six months, the world's major leaders - including Woodrow Wilson, president of the United States, David Lloyd George, prime minister of Great Britain, and Georges Clemenceau, prime minister of France - met to discuss the peace settlements which were to end World War One.
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Best Audible Title Yet
- By Jon on 04-05-10
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- Aaron L. M. Goodwin
- 11-03-23
Fascinating and increasingly relevant
The content of this book fills a huge gap in my own understanding of anti-imperialism and the struggles in Asian regions. The synthesis and flow of the information is fantastic. The narration is a bit dry at times. Overall I recommend it.
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- Aaron
- 04-17-19
Age of Anger is superior, but this is quite good
The level of genuinely novel synthesis Mishra offered in Age of Anger makes it the finer book, but I am grateful for this history of counter-imperialist intellectuals. The sentence craft and clarity are every bit as good in this book as his previous, and I learned a great deal from it as well. My only real regret is that Mishra confines his attention largely to Asia, and I think the book could have benefited by looking at African, Latin American, and First Nations intellectual responses to the model of Western modernity.
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- Sara Robinson
- 06-12-18
Excellent Overview of Development of Modern Eastern Political Philosophy
Summarizes the prevailing attitude towards the West in Muslim and Asian countries that arose in response to imperialism and colonialism.
Provides an illuminating look into the mindset and worldview of non-Western peoples.
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- Oscar C. Huerta
- 03-18-19
Breathtaking Scale, Cohesion and Vision of Asian History
As a former Christian worker in Central Asia for nearly a decade after the fall of Soviet Communism, I astonished by how little I understood of Asian animus against the West. My heart was torn since, in the name of “democracy and free market economy”, Western nations have mistreated the East so cruelly since since well before the 19th century. I gained a new appreciation for the hurt and indignation felt by Asians from the Middle East to the Pacific Islands. Thank you, Pankaj, for your fluid prose and comprehensive reading of heroic thinkers, philosophers and activists from the East. The extremely concise Epilogue in particular is written with unusual clarity and circumspection of Asia’s need for a new unifying vision apart from Western materialistic and consumptive self-centeredness. Derek Perkins’s narration is nothing short of masterful, even pronouncing foreign words in more than a dozen diverse languages with precision and beauty.
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- Ultima Gaina
- 01-31-23
A waste of Derik Perkins' vacation skills
Poor ideological content, peppered with a praise of autocratic regimes as an alternative to freedom and liberty, justified by nationalism and religion. The author position is understandable since it is rooted into colonial era frustrations, but it's outdated in the modern world.
An unfortunate waste of Derik Perkins's excellent naration skills (reason for buying this book).
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