{"product_id":"from-the-ruins-of-empire-the-revolt-against-the-west-and-the-remaking-of-asia-1","title":"From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia","description":"\u003ch1\u003eFrom the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia\u003c\/h1\u003ePankaj Mishra,Pankaj Mishra\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Picador USA\u003cbr\u003eAugust 27 2013\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781250037718\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 1250037719\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \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","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390797578285,"sku":"WHS-7d2c57c0d3394f95995084383a6fd9b7","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_3ef0dc65-1b59-4c66-8d9e-9c7911def44b.jpg?v=1787347400","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/from-the-ruins-of-empire-the-revolt-against-the-west-and-the-remaking-of-asia-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}