Lumbering State, Restless Society. Egypt in the Modern Era, Paperback - Amr Adly

Lumbering State, Restless Society offers a comprehensive and compelling understanding of modern Egypt. Nathan J. Brown, Shimaa Hatab, and Amr Adly ...

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

In the 19th century, when gender roles were more confining, the dominant forms of psychosomatic illness were paralysis and hysteria. Today, when pe...

Populism, on both the right and the left, has spread like wildfire throughout Europe and the United States and is making inroads in other parts of ...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): James T. LapsleyNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 24Cover type:...

Reducere. There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, y...

Reducere. Newly updated with chapter on 1918 Spanish flu and 2020 Coronavirus. In today's world conspiracy theories abound. What is the actual history of fal...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressIllustration(s): tables & figuresNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 157 x 234 x 20Cover type: Ha...

John W. O'Malley works out a remarkable guide to the intellectual and historical developments behind the concepts of Catholic reform, the Counter R...

The world is in a second nuclear age in which regional powers play an increasingly prominent role. These states have small nuclear arsenals, often ...

When celebrity aviator Harry Atwood made the first aeroplane flight over Bangor in 1912, observers were astonished. It was a sign that the city had...

Reducere. Welche Rolle spielten Kunstwerke im Geflecht der rasch wechselnden politischen Allianzen der Frühen Neuzeit? Dieser Frage gehen die interdisziplinä...

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The first detailed and comprehensive record of the warship losses of the last 100 years. Much original research from primary sources. Indexes and c...

Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press LtdAuthor(s): Lamont DeHaven KingIllustration(s): maps; mapsNumber of pages: 244Publication date: 2006Dimensions:...

Explores the lives of five pharaohs who ruled Egypt with absolute power, shining a new light on the country's 3, 000-year empire and its meaning to...

Reducere. Aristotle towers over Western philosophy and science as no other single person does. As they have come down to us, Aristotle's works comprise a ver...

This book revisits the central issue of how propaganda was understood within China's Communist Party system. The contributions to this volume captu...

Offers a theoretical rumination on the question asked in countless blogs and opinion pieces of the last decade: Why are we so obsessed with true cr...

Reducere. John Haines spent the better part of two decades traveling the world: biking through Tibet, kayaking the length of the Niger River, taking the Tran...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): OEzge Baykan (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) CalafatoIllustration(s): 110 colour illusNum...

Reducere. Confronted by a crisis in black American leadership, state-sanctioned violence against black communities, and colorblind laws that trap black Ameri...

Presents essays mapping the history of relief parcels sent to Jewish prisoners during World War II. More than Parcels: Wartime Aid for Jews in Nazi...

Exploring popular culture and national identity in post-revolutionary Iran, this accessible and innovative book based on multi-disciplinary researc...

Arta atentiei in era moderna - Diana Vultur

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

Explores the political, social, and economic place occupied by the coffee industry in contemporary Costa Rican history. Lowell Gudmundson explores ...

Reducere. DescriptionJames J. Corbett and Joe Choynski were destined to spill each other's blood.In the beginning, the boxing legends were simply two lads sc...

Classified: Secrecy and the State in Modern Britain - Christopher Moran

Publisher: Pennsylvania State University PressNumber of pages: 350Collection: Medieval & Renaissance Literary StudiesPublication date: 2021Dimensio...

From large-scale cattle farming to water pollution, meat-- more than any other food--has had an enormous impact on our environment. Historically, A...

Reducere. In the familiar tale of mass migration to France from 1880 onwards, we know very little about the hundreds of thousands of women who formed a criti...

Reducere. Restless Spirits is a collection of previously unpublished plays by contemporary Assiniboine playwright William S. Yellow Robe Jr. Including one fu...

Reducere. In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of G...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 242 x 30Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Anita (Unive...

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