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A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food
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With its enormous variety of cuisines, food materials, and dishes, Indian food has become popular all over the world. The dominant flavor of this gastronomic Companion is historical, and drawing on a variety of sources – literature, archaeology, epigraphic records, anthropology, philology, and botanical and genetic studies – it offers a gamut of interesting facts pertaining to the origins and evolution of Indian food. There are separate chapters on prehistoric cooking methods, regional cuisines, the theories and classification of foods, as codified by ancient Indian doctors, customs and rituals, the etymology of food-words, and the shift towards vegetarianism with the advent of Buddhism and Jainism. This companion outlines the enormous variety of cuisines, food materials and dishes that collectively fall under the term Indian food.
A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century
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A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India is the most comprehensive textbook yet for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It introduces students to original sources such as ancient texts, artefacts, inscriptions and coins, illustrating how historians construct history on their basis. Its clear and balanced explanation of concepts and historical debates enables students to independently evaluate evidence, arguments and theories. This remarkable textbook allows the reader to visualize and understand the rich and varied remains of India s ancient past, transforming the process of discovering that past into an exciting experience.
A History of Capitalism, 1500-2000
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The Conquest Of The Americas Inaugurated The Slow Accumulation Of Resources And The Imperceptible Structural Transformations That Culminated In The Industrial Revolution. From That Moment On, Capitalism Grew And Expanded With A Dynamism And Adaptability Even Profiting From Wars And Managing To Rebound After A Series Of Devastating Economic Crises.In This Highly-Anticipated Updated Edition, Michel Beaud Extends One Of The Major Strengths Of The Original: The Interweaving Of Social, Political, And Economic Factors In The Context Of History Which Has Been Simultaneously Economic And Political And Ideological; Simultaneously National And Multinational; Simultaneously Liberating And Oppressive, Destructive And Creative. .Beaud Provides An Analysis Of The Developments Of Capitalism In The Last Twenty Years, Including Globalization, The Accelerating Speed Of Capital Transfer, And The Collapse Of The Soviet Empire And The Subsequent Absorption Of Its Population Into The World Market, To Whose Benefit, And At Whose Expense.
A History of Christianity
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Christianity, one of the world’s great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organization and spirituality, but how it has changed politics and human society. Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. He is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. He presents the development of Christian history differently from any of his predecessors. He shows how, after a semblance of unity in its earliest centuries, the Christian church divided during the next 1400 years into three increasingly distanced parts, of which the western Church was by no means always the most important: he observ