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

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

Pankaj Mishra

368 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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A surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world     A little more than a century ago, as the Japanese navy annihilated the giant Russian one at the Battle of Tsushima, or...

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