Itty Abraham: 2 books
How India Became Territorial
Foreign Policy, Diaspora, Geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
Why do countries go to war over disputed lands? Why do they fight even when the territories in question are economically and strategically worthless? Drawing on critical approaches to international relations, political geography, international law, and social history, and based on a close examination...
Words in Motion
Toward a Global Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the...