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His follow-up \u003cem\u003eAge of Anger\u003c\/em\u003e (2017) is a sweeping intellectual history of the resentment and nihilism that fuels modern politics from ISIS to Trump. His other essential works include \u003cem\u003eTemptations of the West\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAn End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World\u003c\/em\u003e, and the essay collection \u003cem\u003eBland Fanatics\u003c\/em\u003e. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how we got here.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"india-in-mind","title":"India in Mind: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis superb anthology, edited and with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra, gives us some of the finest writings on India by foreigners over the past two centuries. From Mark Twain’s puzzled fascination with Indian castes and customs to J.R. 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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. But 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. Now, when the ascendency of Asia seems possible as never before, From the Ruins of Empire is as necessary as it is timely―a book indispensable to our understanding of the world and our place in it. 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But they overlooked the demand for self-determination - and not just relief from poverty.Renowned economist and author of The White Man's Burden William Easterly examines how the demand for agency has always been at the heart of debates on development. Spanning four centuries of global history, Easterly argues that commerce, rather than conquest, provide equal rights as well as prosperity. 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