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Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Opening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1918 traces the Mahatma?s life over the three decades preceding his assassination. Drawing on new archival materials, acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha follows Gandhi?s struggle to deliver India fromBritish rule, to forge harmonious relations between India?s Hindus and Muslims, to end the pernicious practice of untouchability,...
Series
Criterion collection volume 422
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008], ©2008
Language
English
Description
A dramatic history of Aisin-Gioro "Henry" Pu Yi, who at the age of three became the last of the Emperors of China. Chronicles his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, as the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; and his exploitation by the invading Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo from 1932 to 1945. He returned to public life in 1959, just another peasant worker in...
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