{"product_id":"from-the-ruins-of-empire-the-revolt-against-the-west-and-the-remaking-of-asia-9781250037718","title":"From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePankaj Mishra's \u003ci\u003eFrom the Ruins of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e offers a surprising, gripping narrative depicting the thinkers whose ideas shaped contemporary China, India, and the Muslim world.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA little more than a century ago, independent thinkers across Asia sought to frame a distinct intellectual tradition that would inspire the continent's rise to dominance. Yet this did not come to pass, and today those thinkers--Tagore, Gandhi, and later Nehru in India; Liang Qichao and Sun Yat-sen in China; Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and Abdurreshi al Ibrahim of the Ottoman Empire--are seen as outsiders within the main anticolonial tradition. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut as Mishra demonstrates in this enthralling portrait of like minds, Asia's revolt against the West is not the one led by faith-fired terrorists and thwarted peasants; rather, it is rooted in the ideas of these once renowned intellectuals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow, when the ascendency of Asia seems possible as never before, \u003ci\u003eFrom the Ruins of Empire\u003c\/i\u003e is as necessary as it is timely--a book indispensable to our understanding of the world and our place in it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-500206\"\u003ePankaj Mishra\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/27\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250037718\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250037719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL011000\"\u003eInternational Relations | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POL\"\u003ePolitical Science\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POL033000\"\u003eGlobalization\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-HIS\"\u003eHistory\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-HIS003000\"\u003eAsia | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePankaj Mishra was born in India in 1969 and lives in London and Mashobra, India. The author of \u003ci\u003eAn End to Suffering \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2004) and \u003ci\u003eTemptations of the West \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 2006), as well as a novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Romantics, \u003c\/i\u003ehe writes for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42686555652333,"sku":"9781250037718","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/from-the-ruins-of-empire-the-revolt-against-the-west-and-the-remaking-of-asia-9781250037718","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}