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Brexit means exit, but what exactly will we be leaving behind? Entry into the European Community in 1973 was a momentous event - one which had seis...

Reducere. In the 'encyclopaedic' fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, incl...

Reducere. Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan - which comprise large parts of today's Central Asia - have long been an important frontier zone. In the lat...

How are forbidden histories told and transmitted among young people in Israel/Palestine? What can their stories teach us about their everyday exper...

On the 29th of June 2014 ISIS declared the establishment of a caliphate stretching across territories in Iraq and Syria. In response, Operation Inh...

From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist...

From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist...

How did the early Christians manage to establish a religion and institution which, despite persecution, flourished and grew? How did their initial ...

Reducere. "Outlaw Masters of Japanese Film" offers an extraordinary close-up of the hitherto overlooked golden age of Japanese cult, action and exploitation ...

Reducere. Nasir al-Din Tusi, the renowned Shi'i scholar of the 13th century, produced a range of writings in different fields of learning under Ismaili patro...

After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs. Today, there are thought to b...

Reducere. The Library of Alexandria was one of the greatest cultural adornments of the late ancient world, containing thousands of scrolls of Greek, Hebrew a...

Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-198...

Britain is facing big security challenges in the 2020s. The decade to come will not be as favourable as the two past decades. For a country as 'glo...

Never in the lifetime of most British adults has there been such uncertainty about the future of the political and governing institutions of the st...

This is the first book to take seriously (though not too seriously) the surprisingly neglected role of humour in art. "Art and Laughter" looks back...

Reducere. Almost from the moment, some five centuries ago, that their religion was founded in the Punjab by Guru Nanak, Sikhs have enjoyed a distinctive iden...

The advent of photography opened new worlds to 19th-century viewers, who became able to visualize themselves, their immediate surroundings, their c...

Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in fron...

The Kuwaiti population includes around 100, 000 people - approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals -whose legal status is contested. Often...

In 1974 the Greek colonels ousted the Greek-Cypriot leader of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, and Turkey retaliated by invading and seizing a third of...

Reducere. The environmental, the economic - and indeed the political - impact of the catastrophic 2010 blowout of BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico has highlig...

Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power -- in the tradition of past Turkish l...

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire...

Reducere. 'Clear-eyed and illuminating.' Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State and National Security Advisor 'A rich, superbly researched, balanced hist...

DescriptionThe modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethnic - ...

Here is an important new examination of the work of American German Jewish artist Eva Hesse, one of the most significant figures in twentieth centu...

The Christian faith has the allegiance of one third of the human race. It has succeeded in influencing civilization to such a degree that we now ta...

DescriptionIn this lavishly illustrated work, Zeina Maasri tells the tumultuous story of the struggle for Lebanon through the poster wars which rag...

This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the ...

The Emirate of Kuwait hardly resembles the city-State it was at the start of the 20th century. The discovery of oil in 1938 rapidly transformed the...

In his writing on the 'mirror stage', the psychoanalytic theorist Jacques Lacan describes the female body as lacking: a mere symptom of man, an obj...

In 1479, the Venetian painter Gentile Bellini arrived at the Ottoman court in Istanbul, where he produced his celebrated portrait of Sultan Mehmed ...

Reducere. A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger cultural tra...

Reducere. DescriptionAsadollah Alam, an urbane aristocrat from the oldest of Iran's great families, was the Sha's most trusted friend and confidant. As Prime...

Description'History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon', said Napoleon. Yet the actual writing of history, especi...

After the overthrow of the Qadhafi regime in 2011, Libya witnessed a dramatic breakdown of centralized power. Countless local factions carved up th...

DescriptionThe vast military campaigns in Africa during World War I were among the most ambitious of the Great War. Many histories, however, have r...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationOf profound importance in late antiquity, the Sasanian Empire is almost completely unkno...

DescriptionWhen I had finished the old lady spoke softly: "It takes great strength to open such a heavy door." At the start of the twentieth centur...

This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization o...

Reducere. China is now the most powerful country on earth. Its manufacturing underpins the world's economy; its military is growing at the fastest rate of an...

DescriptionReception studies have transformed the classics. Many more literary and cultural texts are now regarded as 'valid' for classical study. ...

Reducere. Ali Shari ati is, for many, the ideological father of the Iranian revolution. A charismatic leader and teacher, his radical blend of Islam and Marx...

What do ""Abu Sindi, "" ""Timothy Sean McCormack, "" ""Saro, "" and ""Commander Avo"" all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian...

The revolutionary year of 1958 epitomizes the height of the social uprisings, military coups, and civil wars that erupted across the Middle East an...

The forces of globalization have transformed the world economically, but in the West politics is becoming increasingly fractured as living standard...

Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' - these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career ...

The world is currently witnessing an Arctic Scramble as the major powers compete to demarcate and occupy Arctic territory. The region is known to b...

Rupert Murdoch's extraordinary career has no parallel. His control of Fox news, which so successfully supports the Trump presidency, is a key force...

The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate - but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone an...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin visited London on six occasions at the beginning of the twentieth century and it was in this city, where Marx wrote Das Kapit...

DescriptionSent to the Middle East by Woodrow Wilson to ascertain the viability of self-determination in the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, the Kin...

From 1501, when the first slaves arrived in Hispaniola, until the nineteenth century, some twelve million people were abducted from west Africa and...

DescriptionAs the situation in Israel/Palestine seems to become ever more intractable and protracted, the need for new ways of looking at recent de...

DescriptionThis is the first single-authored book in English on the photographer Claude Cahun, whose work was rediscovered in the 1980s. Doy moves ...

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage FoundationIt proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum...

Reducere. Jan Svankmajer wrote this remarkable book on tactile art when he stopped directing films and experimented intensively with tactile art after repeat...

Where the implications of war and peace are open to question, the possibility of change depends more on politics than economics. This book asks whe...

Based on unprecedented access to Kurdish-governed areas of Syria, including exclusive interviews with administration officials and civilian surveys...

Reducere. Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. Type is the message bearer: an art-form that impinges upon every l...

DescriptionFor South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formati...

DescriptionFor many years, Ottomanist historians have been accustomed to study the Ottoman Empire and/or its constituent regions as entities insula...

DescriptionVivien Leigh was perhaps the most iconic actress of the twentieth century. As Scarlett O'Hara and Blanche Du Bois she took on some of th...

Reducere. Now recognized as the standard work on the subject, Realm of St Stephen is a comprehensive history of medieval Eastern and Central Europe. P l Enge...

DescriptionWhether they focus on the bewitching song of the Sirens, his cunning escape from the cave of the terrifying one-eyed Cyclops, or the ven...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Cyclades are the quintessential Greek isles, renowned for the beauty of their seascapes, their historical monuments, and a unique wa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard Stoneman""How can a man become a god?"" So enquired Alexander the Great of the Brahmin sages of India. And how did ...

Contributor(s): Author: Tim MurithiAuthor: Tony KarboThe African Union has been a major factor in establishing peace, security, and development in ...

Reducere. Lina Khatib examines the cinematic depictions of major political issues, from the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Gulf War, to Islamic fundamentalism,...