Libros de William Dalrymple

La Vía Dorada. Cómo La India Antigua Transformó El Mundo

• 464 páginas
• Desde el establecimiento de los sultanatos en la Baja Edad Media a la instauración del Raj británico, la India se vio impregnada de poderosas influencias culturales foráneas que transformaron religiosa, cultural y lingüíst...

La Anarquía

• 560 páginas
• En 1765, la Compañía de las Indias Orientales derrocó al joven emperador mogol y puso en su lugar un gobierno controlado por mercaderes ingleses que extorsionaba impuestos merced a su ejército privado. Fue este el momento que...

El Retorno De Un Rey

• 560 páginas
• En la primavera de 1839, tropas británicas invadían por primera vez Afganistán para exorcizar la fantasmal amenaza rusa sobre la India que angustiaba a políticos incompetentes y entusiasmaba a lobistas sin escrúpulos...

El último Mogol. El Ocaso De Los Emperadores De La India 1857

• 560 páginas
• de la historia de la India. En 1857, fue la bendición de Zafar a una rebelión entre los cipayos de la Compañía la que transformó lo que en principio parecía un simple motín en el levantamiento más...

Nueve Vidas

• 392 páginas
• Un monje budista empuña las armas para resistir la invasión china del Tíbet, y el resto de su vida intenta expiar esa violencia estampando las mejores banderas de oración de la India. Una monja jainista pone a prueba su desapeg...

Koh-i-noor

• The first comprehensive and authoritative history of the Koh-i-Noor, arguably the most..

The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, And The Pillage Of An Empire

• 576 páginas
• In August 1765, the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and set up, in his stead, a government run by English traders who collected taxes through means of a private army. Over the course of the next 47 years, the company's reach grew...

Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting For The East India Company

• 192 páginas
• As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. Published to coincide with the first...

Last Mughal

The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World

• 432 páginas
• The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia's under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it.

The Anarchy

• 522 páginas
• THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India .. A book of beauty' - Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India...

Tacticks. By Lieutenant Colonel William Dalrymple, Of The Queen’s Royal Regiment Of Foot

• The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution...

The Acts Of The Apostles Made Easy To The Young And Unlearned, By A Short Paraphrase, Notes And Reflections. By William Dalrymple,

• 294 páginas
• The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution...

For The Use Of Lord’s Day Schools

• For the Use of Lord’s Day Schools - Two scripture catechisms. I. For children who are just begun to read distinctly. II. For those about eleven or twelve years of age is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1788....

David Bailey: Bailey's Naga Hills

• 160 páginas
• This book is David Bailey's portrayal of the landscapes and personalities of the mystical and densely forested Naga Hills, part of the complex mountain barrier between India and Myanmar (Burma), and home to the Naga tribes, "those with pierced...

Migration

• 100 páginas
• Theodore Dalrymple pulls no punches when it comes to political correctness and culture.. and why should he? These selected essays will stir and educate us on cultural relativism.. Take for example the following quotes from the book: On Germaine Greer:...

Return Of A King

• 608 páginas
• From William Dalrymple--award-winning historian, journalist and travel writer--a masterly retelling of what was perhaps the West's greatest imperial disaster in the East, and an important parable of neocolonial ambition, folly and hubris that has striking...

Return Of A King

• A Best Book of the Year: The Economist, Slate, Kirkus ReviewsIn

The Last Mughal: The Fall Of A Dynasty: Delhi, 1857

• In this evocative study of the fall of the Mughal Empire and the beginning of the Raj,..

From The Holy Mountain

• In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a..