LIBROS DEL AUTOR: brian stoddart

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  • The Madras Miasma
    Brian Stoddart
    Superintendent Chris Le Fanu heads a special 1920s Crime Unit in the Indian city of Madras but is in conflict with Commissioner Arthur Jepson who despises the Unit’s use of investigative methods pioneered by Austrian criminologist Hans Gross. With nationalist demands rising, the European community wants hardline police action and his colleagues in the force prefer repression o...
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    13,81 €

  • Land, Water, Language and Politics in Andhra
    Brian Stoddart
    This book explains how access to and use of land, water and language helped shape Andhra politics in India from 1850 down to the present day. After independence, the debate over land reform and policies on irrigation has shaped the fortunes of various governments, while the debate over the make-up of the language-based state has stimulated separatist movements like the one in s...
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    94,93 €

  • Cricket and Empire (RLE Sports Studies)
    Brian Stoddart / Ric Sissons
    A great depression, worsening Anglo-Australian relations, the declining British Empire and the challenge from an Australia striving to find a national identity are the context which explain bodyline and its repercussions. Bodyline was a watershed in the history of cricket. This book offers a radical reappraisal of bodyline which challenges the official interpretations of the ev...
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    88,54 €

  • A House in Damascus
    Brian Stoddart
    As Syria confronts an uncertain future, A House in Damascus seeks to balance the Western view with the lives and views of the everyday people living in the world’s oldest continuing capital city Drawn from the author’s experiences occurring immediately before the 2011-2012 social and political upheaval, each story traces the Old City of Damascus and its people’s present through...
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    19,29 €