Customer Review: In this outstanding book, Professor Bayly studies the world crises of 1776-1820 and 1848-65, and the great acceleration of 1890-1914, when imperial rivalries, industrialisation and urbanisation really took off. He allows, "Lenin's view that what we are calling here the great acceleration after... more info
Customer Review: This book covers the historiography of how Indian developed in the British Empire up through the Mutiny in 1857. The rise of British dominance in the Punjab as well as the surrounding countryside is broken up by category and analyzed through the relevant literature at the time. This book does a... more info
Customer Review: I cannot imagine a more relavant book for busy pastors than this. There is condensed wisdom to be found here from those who have obviously wrestled with the many issues that face us these days. The editors asume that faithfulness to scripture regarding manhood and womanhood is itself 'leadership'.... more info
Customer Review: IMPERIAL MERIDIAN is the most important synthetic contribution to the historiography of the British Empire since AFRICA AND THE VICTORIANS. Much more than this, it succeeds in connecting social and political developments in the Asian interior, North America and the West Indies, the British Isles... more info
Customer Review: This dense, rich work gives both the "big picture" and the fine details of the sea changes in British intelligence in India. It is very thorough; it would be hard for either a serious high school student or a serious researcher to consult this work for even 10 minutes without coming away with... more info
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