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

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From pankaj mishra, author the successful temptations of the west and butter chicken in ludhiana, comes a provocative account of how china, india and the muslim world are remaking the world in their own imagethe victorian period, viewed in the west as a time of self-confident progress, was experienced by asians as a catastrophe as the british gunned down the last heirs to the mughal empire, burned down the summer palace in beijing, or humiliated the bankrupt rulers of the ottoman empire, it was clear that for asia to recover a vast intellectual effort would be requiredpankaj mishras fascinating, highly entertaining new book tells the story of a remarkable group of men from across the continent who met the challenge of the west incessantly travelling, questioning and agonising, they both hated the west and recognised that an asian renaissance needed to be fuelled in part by engagement with the enemy through many setbacks and wrong turns, a powerful, contradictory and ultimately unstoppable series of ideas were created that now lie behind everything from the chinese communist party to al qaeda, from indian nationalism to the muslim brotherhoodmishra allows the reader to see the events of two centuries anew, through the eyes of the journalists, poets, radicals and charismatics who criss-crossed europe and asia and created the ideas which lie behind the powerful asian nations of the twenty-first century

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Pankaj Mishra is the author of Age of Anger and several other books. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, and writes regularly for the Guardian, the London Review of Books, and the New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.
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"Well-researched and crisply written, this scintillating work will help American readers understand the political and intellectual roots of Islamism and other non- and anti-Western thought in Asia today." ---Publishers Weekly Starred Review

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  • PublisherAllen Lane
  • Publication date2012
  • ISBN 10 1846144787
  • ISBN 13 9781846144783
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages368
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