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Authored Books

Arnold, David (2005) The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape and Science, 1800-1856. New Delhi: Permanent Black.

Arnold, David (2002) The Age of Discovery 1400-1600 (2nd edition). London: Routledge.

Arnold, David (2002) Gandhi. Lisboa: Editorial Inquerito (Mem Martins).

Arnold, David (2001) Gandhi. Harlow: Longman.

Arnold, David (2000) La Naturaleza Como Problema Histórico: El Medio, La Cultura Y La Expansión de Europa. México: Fondo De Cultura Económica.

Arnold, David (2000) Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Arnold, David (1996) The Problem of Nature: Environment, Culture and European Expansion. Oxford: Blackwell.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Arnold, David and Blackburn, Stuart H., eds. (2004) Telling lives in India : biography, autobiography, and life history. Bloomington: Indiana University Press ; Permanent Black (New Delhi).

Shackle, Christopher and Arnold, David, eds. (2003) SOAS Since the Sixties. London: SOAS University of London.

Arnold, David and Robb, Peter, eds. (1993) Institutions and Ideologies. A SOAS South Asia Reader. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press. (Collected papers on South Asia, no. 10)

Book Chapters

Arnold, David (2005) 'Envisioning the Tropics: Joseph Hooker in India and the Himalayas, 1848-1850.' In: Driver, F. and Martin, L., (eds.), Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, pp. 211-234.

Arnold, David (2004) 'Hodgson, Hooker and the Himalayan Frontier, 1848-50.' In: Waterhouse, David, (ed.), In The Origin of Himalayan Studies: Brian Hodgson in Kathmandu and Darjeeling, 1820-1858. London: Curzon-Routledge, pp. 189-205.

Orsini, Francesca (2004) 'The Reticent Autobiographer. Mahadevi Varma's Writings.' In: Arnold, David and Blackburn, Stuart H., (eds.), Telling Lives in India. Biography, Autobiography, and Life History. Delhi / Bangalore: Permanent Black, pp. 54-82.

Shackle, Christopher (2003) 'Introduction: SOAS at the Crossroads (with David Arnold), Language Studies: A Play in Three Acts.' In: Arnold, David and Shackle, Christopher, (eds.), SOAS Since the Sixties. London: SOAS University of London, pp. 1-19.

Peel, J.D.Y. (2003) 'The arts and humanities: between history and ethnography.' In: Arnold, David and Shackle, Christopher, (eds.), SOAS Since the Sixties. London: SOAS University of London, pp. 87-108.

Arnold, David and Sarkar, Sumit (2002) 'In search of rational remedies: Homeopathy in ninettenth century Bengal.' In: Waltraud, Ernst, (ed.), Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000. London: Routledge, pp. 40-57.

Osella, Caroline and Osella, Filippo (2002) 'Once upon a time in the West? Narrating modernity in Kerala, South India.' In: Parry, Jacqui and Arnold, David, (eds.), Life Stories in South Asia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Arnold, David (2001) 'Bodies of Knowledge/Highways of Steel: Science and Technology in Modern India.' In: Kerr, Ian J., (ed.), Railways in Modern India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 262-67.

Arnold, David (2001) 'Disease, Resistance, and India's Ecological Frontier, 1770-1947.' In: Scott, James C. and Bhatt, N., (eds.), Agrarian Studies: Synthetic Work at the Cutting Edge. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. 186-205.

Arnold, David (2000) 'Disease, resistance and India, Ecological Frontier, 1770-1947.' In: Pati, Biswamoy, (ed.), Issues in Modern Indian History: For Sumit Sarkar. Mumbai: Popular Prakashan, pp. 1-22.

Arnold, David (2000) 'Food Riots Revisited: Popular Protest and Moral Economy in Nineteenth-Century India.' In: Randall, A, (ed.), Moral Economy and Popular Protest: Crowds Conflict and Authority. New York: Macmillan, pp. 123-146.

Arnold, David (2000) 'Gramsci and Peasant Subalternity in India.' In: Chaturv, V, (ed.), Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial. London: Verso, pp. 24-49.

Robb, Peter (1993) 'Ideas in agrarian history: some observations on the British and nineteenth-century Bihar.' In: Arnold, David and Robb, Peter, (eds.), Institutions and Ideologies. A SOAS South Asia Reader. Richmond, Surrey: Curzon Press, pp. 201-223. (Collected papers on South Asia, no. 10)

Menski, Werner F (1993) 'Legal pluralism in the Hindu marriage.' In: Arnold, David and Robb, Peter, (eds.), Institutions and ideologies: a SOAS South Asia reader. London: Routledge, pp. 148-164.

Journal Article

Arnold, David (2005) 'Agriculture and "Improvement" in Early Colonial India: A Pre- History of Development.' Journal of Agrarian Change, 5 (4). pp. 505-525.

Arnold, David (2005) 'Europe, Technology, and Colonialism in the 20th Century.' History and Technology, 21 (1). pp. 85-106.

Arnold, David (2004) 'Race, Place and Bodily Difference in Early Nineteenth-Century India.' Historical Research, 77 (196). pp. 254-273.

Arnold, David (2000) '"Illusory Riches": Representations of the Tropical World, 1840-1950.' Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 21 (1). pp. 6-18.

Arnold, David (1998) 'India's Place in the Tropical World, 1770-1930.' Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 26 (1). pp. 1-21.