War minus the shooting : a journey through south Asia during cricket's World Cup 9780434003815, 0434003816

Combining personal reflection and social observation, this work paints a complex portrait of a sub-continent in ferment,

1,017 131 24MB

English Pages [300] Year 1996

War minus the shooting : a journey through south Asia during cricket's World Cup
9780434003815, 0434003816

In A Minor Apocalypse, Robert Blobaum explores the social and cultural history of Warsaw's "forgotten war"

194 42 4MB Read more

When Roland Regan and Frederick Mauriello went off to fight the Germans in World War II, they packed cameras and notepap

187 88 5MB Read more

The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the

363 8 4MB Read more

893 123 1MB Read more

1,494 95 3MB Read more

A history of life in one South Carolina city during the American Civil War, featuring personal stories from those who we

180 44 2MB Read more

An engaging book of journeys to the South Indian temple towns of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Beyond the Go

415 65 2MB Read more

It was a commonly expressed view during the First World War that the conflict had seen a major revival of 'supersti

1,267 92 53MB Read more

There is no sporting event more popular than the World Cup. For one month every four years, hundreds of millions of peop

911 49 2MB Read more

It was a commonly expressed view during the First World War that the conflict had seen a major revival of "supersti

163 15 2MB Read more