Willem van Schendel (Universiteit van Amsterdam)

A History of Bangladesh

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This revised and updated edition reveals the vibrant, colourful past of Bangladesh, chiefly known in the West through media images of poverty, underdevelopment and disasters. Based on the latest academic research and richly illustrated, this is a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 458
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9781108462464
• ISBN-10: 1108462464
• Artikelnr.: 59484282

Autorenporträt

Willem van Schendel served as Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
List of Maps and Figures
Acknowledgements
Timeline
Preface to second edition
Introduction
Part I. The Long View
1. A land of water and silt
2. Jungle, fields, cities and states
3. A region of multiple frontiers
4. The delta as a crossroads
Part II. Colonial Encounters
5. From the Mughal empire to the British empire
6. British legacies
7. A closing agrarian frontier
8. Colonial conflicts
9. Towards Partition
10. Partition
11. Population exchange
Part III. Becoming East Pakistan
12. The Pakistan experiment
13. Pakistan falls apart
14. East Pakistani livelihoods
15. The roots of aid dependence
16. A new elite and cultural renewal
Part IV. War and the Birth of Bangladesh
17. Armed conflict
18. A state is born
19. Imagining a new nation
Part V. Independent Bangladesh
20. Shaping a political system
21. The triumph of identity politics
22. Transnational linkages
23. Boom or bust?
24. Gender movements
25. A national culture?
Conclusions
Bangladesh district maps
Key political figures since 1947
Glossary of Bengali terms
Notes
Bibliography
Index