Kathmandu

Tomas Bell (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

463 Seiten

2016
Haus Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-910376-38-6 (ISBN)

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Kathmandu is the greatest city of the Himalaya; a place where unique cultural practices that died out in India a thousand years ago have survived. It is a carnival of sexual license and hypocrisy, a jewel of world art, a hotbed of communist revolution, a paradigm of failed democracy, a case study in bungled Western intervention, and an environmental catastrophe.

Kathmandu’s rapid modernisation is an extreme version of what is happening in many traditional societies with the destabilising spirits of consumer aspiration, individuality, egalitarianism, communism and democracy. Erudite, entertaining and accessible, this is the fascinating chronicle of a unique city.

THOMAS BELL studied at Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art before moving to Kathmandu to cover the civil war in Nepal for the Daily Telegraph and The Economist.

Photos and Illustrations // xiii

Preface // xviii

PART I - THE BEGINNINGS // 1

PART II - THE REVOLUTIONS // 153

PART III - WITHOUT END // 353

Epilogue // 447

Notes // 466

Bibliography // 499

Acknowledgements // 514

Index // 516

Erscheinungsdatum	30.03.2016
Zusatzinfo	36
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	165 x 240 mm
Gewicht	1130 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Reiseführer ► Asien ► Indien
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	1-910376-38-8 / 1910376388
ISBN-13	978-1-910376-38-6 / 9781910376386
Zustand	Neuware