TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mishra,Pankaj
TI  - From the ruins of empire: the revolt against the West and the remaking of Asia 
SN  - 9781250037718
PY  - 2012///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - East and West
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Asia
KW  - Civilization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-340) and index; Asia subordinated --; Egypt :'the beginning of a series of great misfortunes'; The slow battering of India and China; The new global hierarchy --; The strange odyssey of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani --; An insignificant man in rough garments; The'sick man' of Europe and his dangerous self-therapy; Egypt : the polemicist emerges; Beyond self-strengthening : the origins of pan-Islamism and nationalism; The European interlude; Apotheosis in Persia; In a golden cage : al-Afghani's last days in Istanbul; The long aftermath --; Liang Qichao's China and the fate of Asia --; The enviable but inimitable rise of Japan; The first impulses of reform; Japan and the perils of exile; The Boxer Rising : more lessons from defeat; Pan-Asianism : the pleasures of cosmopolitanism; Liang and democracy in America; The temptations of autocracy and revolution --; 1919,'changing the history of the world' --; The United States and its promises of self-determination; Liberal internationalism or liberal imperialism?; Making the world unsafe for democracy; The decline of the West? --; Rabindranath Tagore in East Asia, the man from the lost country --; Asia remade --; The sting in the tail : pan-Asianism and military decolonization; Intellectual decolonization : the rise of neo-traditionalists; The triumphs of the nation-state : Turkey, the sick man, revives; 'The Chinese people have stood up'; The rise of the'rest' --; An ambiguous revenge
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