From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Mishra, Pankaj

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781250037718)

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From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Mishra, Pankaj

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia

$21.00
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Mishra, Pankaj

From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia

$21.00
Format: Paperback
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A Financial Times and The Economist Best Book of the Year and a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

A SURPRISING, GRIPPING NARRATIVE DEPICTING THE THINKERS WHOSE IDEAS SHAPED CONTEMPORARY CHINA, INDIA, AND THE MUSLIM WORLD

A little more than a century ago, independent thinkers across Asia sought to frame a distinct intellectual tradition that would inspire the continent's rise to dominance. Yet this did not come to pass, and today those thinkers--Tagore, Gandhi, and later Nehru in India; Liang Qichao and Sun Yat-sen in China; Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire--are seen as outsiders within the main anticolonial tradition. But as Pankaj Mishra demonstrates in this enthralling portrait of like minds, Asia's revolt against the West is not the one led by faith-fired terrorists and thwarted peasants; rather, it is rooted in the ideas of these once renowned intellectuals. Now, when the ascendency of Asia seems possible as never before, From the Ruins of Empire is as necessary as it is timely--a book indispensable to our understanding of the world and our place in it.

Author: Pankaj Mishra
ISBN-10: 1250037719
ISBN-13: 9781250037718
Publisher: Picador USA
Language: English
Published: 08/27/2013
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/06/2013 pg. 28
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Pankaj Mishra was born in India in 1969 and lives in London and Mashobra, India. The author of An End to Suffering (FSG, 2004) and Temptations of the West (FSG, 2006), as well as a novel, The Romantics, he writes for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, and The Guardian.

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