{"product_id":"the-anarchy-william-dalrymple","title":"The Anarchy (William Dalrymple)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE TOP 5 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eFINANCIAL TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e OBSERVER,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eTIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India\u003c\/b\u003e . \u003cb\u003eA book of beauty\u003c\/b\u003e' -  \u003cb\u003eGerard DeGroot, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e  William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eWilliam Dalrymple is one of Britain's great historians and the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Road\u003c\/i\u003e, the Wolfson Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eWhite Mughals\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Mughal\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eReturn of a King, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Anarchy\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the Cundill History Prize and one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2019. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003eYoung British Writer of the Year Award, the Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards, and been awarded five honorary doctorates. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton, Brown and All Souls, University of Oxford. He writes regularly for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e. In 2018 he was presented with the prestigious President's Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. He is the co-host of chart-topping podcast \u003ci\u003eEmpire \u003c\/i\u003ewith Anita Anand. William lives with his wife and three children on a goat farm outside Delhi.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 576 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63437501497693,"sku":"K080913535","price":14.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/223345-8091353500001A.jpg?v=1771132817","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/the-anarchy-william-dalrymple","provider":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}