A journey through the history, culture and mean streets of Naples by the acclaimed bestselling author of Midnight in Sicily and M.

This text analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy.

Explores the connections between agrarian policy, revenue, and property law, and commercial production; and the emergence of political identities. This collection investigates issues like economic development, tenancy acts, peasant stratification…

This book sheds new light on the dynamics of the colonial encounter between Britain and India. It highlights how various analytical approaches to this encounter can be creatively mobilised to…

A collection of 15 articles providing up-to-date introductory information on South Asia. This book focuses primarily on religious, social and political perspectives and the need for a multi-disciplinary approach. This…

The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian…

Volume 13 deals with the interaction of music and politics, considering a broad range of genres, authors, composers, and artists in Germany since the nineteenth century.