Pippa Virdee (Reader in Moder Reader in Modern South Asian History

Broschiertes Buch

Pakistan

A Very Short Introduction

Beschreibung

Pippa Virdee considers the history of Pakistan, created as a new nation state in 1947, placing it in the context of the region's four-thousand-year-old pre-colonial heritage. She discusses Pakistan's religion and society, the state and the military, popular culture, language and literature, as well as its relationship with the rest of the world.

Autor

Dr. Pippa Virdee is a reader in Modern South Asian History at De Montfort University. Virdee is the author of From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab (CUP, 2017), and Coming to Coventry, Stories from the South Asian Pioneers (Herbert Gallery, 2006), and is co-editor of Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), with P. Panayi.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 170mm x 107mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 134g
• ISBN-13: 9780198847076
• ISBN-10: 0198847076
• Artikelnr.: 61343341