Peter Robb is an Australian author. He was born in the Toorak, Melbourne in 1946 and has lived in Australia, New Zealand, Italy and Brazil. His first book, Midnight in Sicily, won the Victorian Premier”s Literary Prize for non-fiction in 1997.His second book, M, a biography of the Italian artist Caravaggio, provoked controversy on its publication in Britain in 2000. A Death in Brazil, his fourth novel, was named The Age”s non-fiction book of the year for 2004. He has taught at the University of Melbourne, the University of Oulu in Finland and the Instituto Universitario Orientale in Naples.
23 Ebooks by Peter Robb
Peter Robb: Minuit en Sicile
Partez à la rencontre des secrets les plus sombres de la Sicile Au sud de l’Italie, la Sicile – une île aux paysages arides, aux côtes magnifiques et aux trésors artistiques uniques – attire …
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French
€16.99
Peter Robb: Sex and Sensibility
Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sentiment and Self) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along …
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English
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€31.02
Peter Robb: Sentiment and Self
Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sex and Sensibility) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along …
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English
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€31.02
Robb Peter Robb: History of India
This fresh and up-to-date interpretation of India’s rich and extraordinary history, written by a leading authority in the field, explores themes in ancient, medieval and especially modern India. …
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€31.46
David Arnold & Peter Robb: Institutions and Ideologies
Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the …
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€14.98
David Arnold & Peter Robb: Institutions and Ideologies
Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the …
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€14.98
Peter Robb & Kaoru Sugihara: Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India
The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian …
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€53.70
Peter Robb & Kaoru Sugihara: Local Agrarian Societies in Colonial India
The first systematic attempt to introduce a full range of Japanese scholarship on the agrarian history of British India to the English-language reader. Suggests the fundamental importance of an Asian …
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DRM
€53.68
Peter (Emeritus Professor, SOAS South Asia Institute, London, UK) Robb: Ancient Rights and Future Comfort
This book analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India, by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy. It argues that the great rent law …
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€56.13
Peter (Emeritus Professor, SOAS South Asia Institute, London, UK) Robb: Ancient Rights and Future Comfort
This book analyses the character of British rule in nineteenth-century India, by focusing on the underlying ideas and the practical repercussions of agrarian policy. It argues that the great rent law …
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DRM
€56.18
Peter Robb: Midnight in Sicily
Peter Robb”s journey into the dark heart of Sicily uses history, painting, literature and food to shed light on southern Italy”s legacy of political corruption and violent crime. Taking the trial …
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€9.49
Robb Peter Robb: Street Fight in Naples
Naples is always a shock, flaunting beauty and squalor like nowhere else. Naples is the only city in Europe whose ancient past still lives in its irrepressible people. Their ancestors came from all …
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English
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€17.17
Paul Durcan & Peter Robb: Christmas Day
For most of us Christmas is the season of huge helpings of good food, good drink, and with luck, good cheer, as the rituals of cracker-pulling, present-giving and happy or sulphurous family reunions …
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English
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€8.99
Peter Robb: Lives
In Lives, an extraordinary writer encounters some remarkable people – and evokes their inner worlds. Peter Robb has an uncanny ability to get under the skin of his profile subjects: to show them in a …
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English
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€20.36
Robb Peter Robb: Death in Brazil
Delving into Brazil’s baroque past, Peter Robb writes about its history of slavery and the richly multicultural but disturbed society that was left in its wake when the practice was abolished in the …
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English
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€12.99
Peter Robb: Agrarian Development in Colonial India
This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870-1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and …
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English
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€43.86
Peter Robb: Agrarian Development in Colonial India
This book looks at agriculture, development, poverty and British rule in India, especially in the Patna Division in Bihar between c.1870-1920. It traces the economic influence of British policies and …
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English
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€43.86
Peter (Emeritus Professor, SOAS South Asia Institute, London, UK) Robb: Rural India
First published in 1983, Rural India intends to provide pictures of Indian rural society in the past, from the standpoint of relationships and exchanges between the countryside and the more general p …
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€61.19
Peter (Emeritus Professor, SOAS South Asia Institute, London, UK) Robb: Rural India
First published in 1983, Rural India intends to provide pictures of Indian rural society in the past, from the standpoint of relationships and exchanges between the countryside and the more general p …
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€61.23
Peter (Emeritus Professor, SOAS South Asia Institute, London, UK) Robb: Rural South Asia
First published in 1983, Rural South Asia examines questions of change and development in terms of linkages between localities and the outside world. The authors examine the response specifically to …
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€61.38
Peter (Emeritus Professor, SOAS South Asia Institute, London, UK) Robb: Rural South Asia
First published in 1983, Rural South Asia examines questions of change and development in terms of linkages between localities and the outside world. The authors examine the response specifically to …
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€61.32
Peter (Emeritus Professor, SOAS South Asia Institute, London, UK) Robb & David (South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK) Taylor: Rule, Protest, Identity
First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia. Its concern is with the diversity of the region, to suggest how its study may be enriched by the juxt …
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€61.12
Peter (Emeritus Professor, SOAS South Asia Institute, London, UK) Robb & David (South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK) Taylor: Rule, Protest, Identity
First published in 1978, Rural, Protest, Identity consists of eleven essays on modern South Asia. Its concern is with the diversity of the region, to suggest how its study may be enriched by the juxt …
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€60.78
