The Last Ottoman Generation and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Paperback - Michael Provence

Reducere. The modern Middle East emerged out of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, when Britain and France partitioned the Ottoman Arab lands into several n...

Reducere. The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the impo...

A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC's long-serving correspondent in the region.Publisher: Pan M...

National Jewish Book AwardIn Israel and the West it is called the Six Day War. In the Arab world, it is known as the June War, or simply as "the Se...

Reducere. Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. So...

Reducere. This book discusses the emergence of the modern Middle East over the last two centuries, starting with the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt in 1798, to...

A clear and concise explanation of the complex historical, religious, political and military factors involved.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAutho...

Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of the male perspective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. The text investigates the ways in which ...

This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

The Making of the Modern Christmas - J. M. Golby

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jonathan ParryIllustration(s): 7 maps.Number of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 2...

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Reducere. Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred years. Though associated with...

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Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and ...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ali Humayun AkhtarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23Cover type: Ha...

Contributor(s): Author: Betty S. AndersonA History of the Modern Middle East offers a comprehensive assessment of the region, stretching from the f...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Susan (University of Auckland, New Zealand) WatsonNumber of pages: 336Collection: Contemporary Studi...

Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world - through the advance of written constitutions.Illustrations: 1 x 16 pp pla...

Reducere. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the ...

What drives the drug trade, and how has it come to be what it is today? A global history of the acquisition of progressively more potent means of a...

Knowledge Worlds reconceives the university as a media complex through which knowledge is made, conveyed, and withheld. Reinhold Martin argues that...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

Reducere. A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second h...

In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman tells the story of the factory and examines how it has refl...

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Reducere. Joseph Arthur Simon's The Greatest of All Leathernecks is the first comprehensive biography of John Archer Lejeune (1867-1942), a Louisiana native ...

A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today's international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial ...

An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and inte...

Award-winning historian Linda Colley re-examines the making of the modern world through the advance of written constitutions.Publisher: Profile Boo...

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

The Middle East represents the greatest threat to world peace. A clear and concise explanation of the complex historical, religious, political and ...

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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 ...

Reducere. In 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders....

Description"Flawless . . . Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the Middle East."--Robert...

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...

In 2003, the author arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. In this book, she unravels th...

The history of the computer is entwined with that of the modern world and most famously with the life of one man, Alan Turing. How did this device,...

Reducere. It is rare for an individual in history to have successfully made such a mark on their world that people are still talking about them centuries aft...

Reducere. Many students learn about the Middle East through a sprinkling of information and generalizations deriving largely from media treatments of current...

A compelling account of the crucial year in post-war history, in the tradition of Margaret MacMillan's award-winning and bestselling }The Peacemake...

The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805–1927 - C. I. Hamilton

Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China's War o...