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A Tale of Two Revolts: India's Mutiny and The American Civil War

Autor Rajmohan Gandhi
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 iul 2011
Two wars - the 1857 Revolt in India and the American Civil War - seemingly fought for very different reasons, occurred at opposite ends of the globe in the middle of the nineteenth century. But they were both fought in a world still dominated by Great Britain and the battle cry in both conflicts was freedom. Rajmohan Gandhi brings the drama of both wars to one stage in A Tale of Two Revolts. He deftly reconstructs events from the point of view of William Howard Russell - an Irishman who was also perhaps the world's first war correspondent - and uncovers significant connections between the histories of the United States, Britain and India. The result is a tale of two revolts, three countries and one century. Into this fascinating story Rajmohan Gandhi weaves the choices of three towering figures of world history - Karl Marx, Leo Tolstoy and Abraham Lincoln - to show the continuities between the nineteenth century and the world we live in today.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781906598853
ISBN-10: 1906598851
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: HAUS PUBLISHING
Colecția Haus Publishing
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Rajmohan Gandhi is a research professor at the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a former parliamentarian in India, the author of the award-winning biography Gandhi (Haus, 2010). He is the grandson of the Mahatma Gandhi.

Cuprins

Preface
 
1. Britannia Rules the Waves
India, England and America, 1850-57
 
2. Galloping Fury
India, 1857
 
3. ‘Half-Devil and Half-Child’
England, America and India, 1857-59
 
4. Lincoln’s Rise to Power
America, 1857-61
 
5. America Sheds Its Blood
The Civil War, 1861-65
 
6. Connections
The Two Revolts; and India, 1860 to 1900
 
Notes
 
Bibliography
 
Index