Judges and Generals in the Making of Modern Egypt. How Institutions Sustain and Undermine Authoritarian Regimes, Paperback - Mahmoud Hamad

This cross-disciplinary book provides a historically grounded explanation for the rise and demise of authoritarianism. It is the first study of Egy...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

Khaled Fahmy offers a new interpretation of modern Egyptian history and the rise of Egyptian nationalism in a theoretically informed study. The boo...

Reducere. How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political...

Privately-held property (land and buildings) and the growth of the propertied middle class presents an anomaly in authoritarian states. This book u...

How far are Americans willing to go to force each other to fall in line?According to the establishment media, the intelligentsia, and our political...

The only introduction to cover the full spectrum of political systems, from democracy to dictatorship and the growing number of systems that fall b...

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Originally a chapter in the Handbook of Political Science, this analysis develops the fundamental distinction between totalitarian and authoritaria...

Publisher: World Scientific Europe LtdAuthor(s): Grigorii V (European Univ At St Petersburg, Russia) GolosovNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2...

Diasporas can undermine authoritarian regimes from abroad, but when and how do they become transnational forces for change? By comparing diaspora a...

This book is is first comprehensive history of te United States' World War II generals between the wars, covering not only their lives and careers ...

Providing an in-depth study of the construction of foreign policy in developing countries, Martin Mullins takes an original line of both a post-pos...

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Reducere. A sparkling account of the nineteenth-century reinvention of Paris as the most beautiful, exciting city in the world In 1853, French emperor Louis ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, a team of leading architects established a new type of collective housing in the London Borough of Camden. In place of towe...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter PesicIllustration(s): 143 figuresNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 231 x 28Cover...

Reducere. For many years scholars have sought to explain why the European states that emerged in the period before the French Revolution developed along such...

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William Bennett's moral guide for children, "A Book of Virtues", was a national bestseller. Yet, many continue to associate virtue with a prudish, ...

Reducere. Acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, returns with a lacerating analysis of the history of st...

Adopting a broader conception of politics which focuses on daily interactions between the state and society, this study offers a fresh interpretati...

A gripping and fast-paced narrative, Pulizer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik tells the story of the titanic battle between two giants of the Gilded Ag...

Reducere. Chosen as one of the top history book of the year by The Economist From one of our leading historians, an important new history of the Greek War of...

This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian ...

The only textbook to support study of the National 4 & 5 History topic The Making of Modern Britain 1880-1951Publisher: Hodder EducationAuthor(s): ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Victor SeowIllustration(s): 25 halftonesNumber of pages: 376Collection: Studies of the Weather...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Mark MazowerNumber of pages: 608Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 166 x 240 x 44Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

In 1869, when the final spike was driven into the Transcontinental Railroad, few were prepared for its seismic aftershocks. Once a hodgepodge of sh...

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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 ...

This account of the life of Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel follows his beginnings in the Lower East Side of New York to his role in the development of the...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Takaaki InuzukaIllustration(s): Illustrations, colorTranslator: Haruko LauriePublication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x...

Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Hiltzik, the epic tale of the clash for supremacy between America's railroad titans In 1869, when the final spik...

This book offers a new global history of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, exploring the conflict both within and beyond the framework of the Col...

Reducere. In October 1839, a Windsor cabinet meeting votes to begin the first Opium War against China. Bureaucratic fumbling, military missteps, and a health...

Reducere. During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate, " a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived...

Reducere. From the former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, the first biography of advertising maverick David OgilvyFamous for his colorful personality and formidable ...

Reducere. When this work - one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields - first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of th...

Shows how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal chang...

Egypt has undergone significant economic liberalization under the auspices of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, USAID, and the Europ...

Reducere. Internationally known as a writer, hostess, and patron of the arts of the twentieth century, Mabel Dodge Luhan (1879-1962) is not known for her exp...

A guide to modern times that explores the challenges living in the 21st century can pose to our mental wellbeing.Publisher: The School of Life Pres...

The Sunday Times Bestseller 'Seasoned Whitehall watchers often remark: "It wouldn't have been like this if Jeremy Heywood were still around." ... H...