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Summary: Historian Michael Wood chronicles the history of the Indian subcontinent, focusing especially on the diversity of its peoples, cultures and landscapes. The world's largest democracy and a rising economic giant, India is now as well known across the globe for its mastery of computer technology as it is for its many-armed gods and its famous spiritual traditions. But India is also the world's...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Vision International 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STO

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STO

Herman, Arthur

Summary: A dual portrait of Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi describes their fierce, forty-year struggle against each other for the future of Indian independence, from the outbreak of the Great War to the end of World War II, detailing their dramatic influence on each other, as well as their lasting legacy for the British empire and the future course of modern history.Historian Arthur Herman sheds...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.035 HER

Mukerjee, Madhusree.

Summary: Examines Winston Churchill's efforts to defeat the freedom movement in India during World War II, comparing his actions in Europe to the decisions he made between 1940 and 1944, which resulted in the deaths of more than three million men, women, and children in India.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 954.0359 MUK

Herman, Arthur

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Herman shows how Gandhi and Churchill's 40-year rivalry revolutionized India and the British Empire, paving the way for a new era. Gandhi championed India's independence, Churchill the British Empire.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 325.5409 HER

Goodheart, Adam

Summary: "A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. As the web of modernity draws ever closer, the island represents the last chapter in the Age of Discovery-the final holdout in a completely connected world. In...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Godine 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8959 GOO

Cobb, Daniel M.

Summary: Join the Smithsonian Institution to discover the rich history of native Americans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 NAT

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD NAT

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