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  • Hating Empire Properly

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    halvklotband, 2013, Engelska, ISBN 9780823251803

    In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how

  • People's Car

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    halvklotband, 2018, Engelska, ISBN 9780823282425

    India is witnessing a unique moment in populism, with sentiments divided between economic reforms that promise fast industrialization and protests that thwart such

  • The Doctor and Mrs. A.

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    halvklotband, 2019, Engelska, ISBN 9780823286676

    In the years leading up to India’s independence, a young Punjabi woman, ill at ease in her marriage and eager for personal and national freedom, sat down with psychiatrist Dev

  • Fictitious Capital

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    halvklotband, 2017, Engelska, ISBN 9780823276028

    The ups and downs of silk, cotton, and stocks syncopated with serialized novels in the late-nineteenth-century Arabic press: Time itself was changing. Novels of debt,

  • Stealing Home

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    halvklotband, 1998, Engelska, ISBN 9780823211883

    Stealing Home is an at times witty, at times grave, at times hopeful, and at times cynical, but always thought-provoking collection of autobiographical essays. This book is a man's

  • Israeli Preoccupations

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    halvklotband, 1994, Engelska, ISBN 9780823215461

    Ranging from the critical and adversarial to the credulous and celebratory, this collection of articles calculates a running tab of persistent Israeli preoccupations, chiefly,

  • Post-Mandarin

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    halvklotband, 2017, Engelska, ISBN 9780823273133

    Post-Mandarin offers an engaging look at a cohort of Vietnamese intellectuals who adopted European fields of knowledge, a new Romanized alphabet, and print media—all of which were

  • We Are All Close

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    halvklotband, 1989, Engelska, ISBN 9780823212231

    A collection of conversations, held over a period of five years, between Chertok (an American-born writer who has lived in Israel since 1977) and eighteen leading Israeli authors.