Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 233 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-88612-3. Relatively little is known or understood about Bangladesh by outsiders. Since its hard-won independence from Pakistan in 1971, it has been ravaged by economic and environmental disasters. Only recently has the country begun to emerge as a fragile, but functioning, parliamentary democracy, relatively...
Harvard University Press, 2013. — 358 p. — ISBN: 978-0-674-72864-6. The war of 1971 was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since its partition in 1947. At one swoop, it led to the creation of Bangladesh, and it tilted the balance of power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. The Line of Control in Kashmir, the nuclearization of...
Routledge, 2011. — 183 p. — (Routledge contemporary South Asia series; 33). — ISBN: 978-0-415-57673-4. The past decade has seen a marked policy focus upon Bangladesh, home to nearly 150 million Muslims; it has attracted the attention of the world due to weak governance and the rising tide of Islamist violence. This book provides a broadranging analysis of the growth and impact...
I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd, 2016. — 317 p. — (International Library of Twentieth Century History; 72). — ISBN: 978-1-78076-741-3. Bangladesh is a country of paradoxes. The eighth most populous country of the world, it has attracted considerable attention from the international media and western policy-makers in recent years, often for the wrong reasons: corruption, natural disasters...
Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006. — 224 p. — (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks). — ISBN: 9780807830215. Highlighting the dynamic, pluralistic nature of Islamic civilization, Sufia Uddin examines the complex history of Islamic state formation in Bangladesh, formerly the eastern part of the Indian province of Bengal. Uddin focuses on significant...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 347 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-86174-8. Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose history is little known to the wider world. A country chiefly famous in the West for media images of poverty, underdevelopment, and natural disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's history reveals the country's...
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