ebooks Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodern Critiques of Science and Hindu Nationalism in India by Meera Nanda in History

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In this masterly work of synthesis and reinterpretation; Timothy Keegan looks anew at the relatively neglected period of South African history before the mineral age- in particular the years of British rule up to the 1850s- and decisively establishes its importance in the shaping of South African society. For whereas a previous generation of historians saw the twentieth-century racial state emerging from forces unleashed by the mineral revolution; Keegan argues that its roots lie in an earlier period; when the cape was first inegrated into the British empire of free trade of the early nineteenth century.