Iran: A Modern History, Paperback - Abbas Amanat

DescriptionA masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventiona...

What is the kimono? Everyday garment? Art object? Symbol of Japan? As this book shows, the kimono has served all of these roles, its meaning changi...

DescriptionIn the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a ser...

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

Contributor(s): Author: Michael M. GunterThe Kurds are America's most reliable allies in the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, in a region whos...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Neil (De Montfort University, UK) CarterNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 15...

Reducere. In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institutio...

Reducere. What role does Qatar play in the Middle East, and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the ruling Al-Thani family shaped Qatar fr...

A history and consideration of the way of life on Ireland's offshore islands, shattering cheerful illusions of life at the edge of Europe, past and...

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

DescriptionIn a radical reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces the country's traumatic journey from the mid-nineteenth cent...

Considers the factors that have shaped Iran and the Iranian identity through history, providing a reinterpretation of the country's history and pol...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - A hugely ambitious, "delightfully readable, genuinely informative" portrait (The New York Times) of the...

DescriptionFrom encounters with Western powers in the nineteenth century through to a Constitutional Revolution at the beginning of the twentieth c...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael (Independent Scholar, UK) DillonIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: 512Publication ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael (Independent Scholar, UK) DillonIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: 512Publication ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Randi GreenModern history completes and updates the previous four books, giving the remaining pieces of the puzzle to grasp...

The story of how humiliation has been used as a means of coercion and control in the modern age - from the shaving of the heads of alleged women co...

The forty years of Iran's embattled position, commitment to a nuclear programme, and the speculations that the revolution is running down proving t...

This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story b...

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...

Antiquarian interest in the Roman period mosaics of Britain began in the 16th century. This book is the first to explore responses and attitudes to...

Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey ...

An important, urgently needed book--a hugely ambitious, illuminating portrait of the two-century long entwined history of Iran and America, and the...

This is the story of the real Argo and one of the six Americans who escaped the 1979 capture of the American Embassy in Iran. The author explains w...

DescriptionToday over 12 million people are stateless and millions more are refugees or displaced persons. Mira Siegelberg shows how the much-conte...

A recent coinage within international relations, "nation branding" designates the process of highlighting a country's positive characteristics for ...

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism ...

Reducere. Not long after her father died, Afsaneh Najmabadi discovered that her father had a secret second family and that she had a sister she never knew ab...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...