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Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis.A New York Times Notable Book of 2017How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world--from American shooters and ISIS to Donald Trump, ...Show more
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra
$48.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Modernity, secularism, development, and progress have long been viewed by the powerful few as benign ideals for the many. Today, however, botched experiments in nation-building, democracy, industrialization and urbanization visibly scar much of the world. As once happened in Europe, the wider embrace of ...Show more
From the Ruins of Empire - The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra
$37.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
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, original thinkers across Asia, working independently, sought to ...Show more
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