The Making of an Alliance. The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship, New ed, Paperback - David (University of Sussex) Tal

An accessible re-evaluation of the US-Israel relationship, this book provides critical background on the origins and development of the 'special' r...

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Reducere. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award's Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History.A necessary and unprecedented account of America's cha...

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This is a revisionist account of the origins of the British Empire in Asia in the early modern period. David Veevers shows that it was the integrat...

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Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): David RodmanNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 234 x 154 x 14Cover type: HardbackRede...

Explores the concepts of authorship, artistic originality, skill, craftsmanship and the creative act. This title highlights the vital role that ski...

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This book is about the origins of agriculture and plant domestication that occurred in the Neolithic Near East 10, 500 years ago. It is directed no...

This book by a leading authority on Anglo-Japanese relations reconsiders the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 betwe...

David Martin is one of the most distinguished writers on Christianity and society in modern times; his many influential writings and broadcasts ran...

A new perspective on the US-Israel bond.Illustrations: 12 b&w photos, 1 map, 2 graphs, 1 table

Kyle J. Gardner reveals how colonial border-making practices in the Himalayas transformed a historical crossroads into a disputed borderland and ge...

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This Element argues that community-initiated migrant heritage harbours the potential to challenge and expand state-sanctioned renderings of multicu...

The book is necessary reading for political theorists and scholars interested in democracy and the welfare state, providing a new analysis of the r...

Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States and Saudi Arabia have built a close but often troubled alliance. In this critical history, Victo...

Reducere. Eric Helleiner's new book provides a powerful corrective to conventional accounts of the negotiations at Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, in 1944. The...

Enter the cross-cultural tale of gusto and enchantment, adaptation and loss, preserving the old ways of making a life. Presented in six acts with i...

DescriptionMunich, 1972. In the men's 400-metre freestyle race, America's Rick DeMont beats Australia's Brad Cooper by a hundredth of a second. It'...

Reducere. Despite decades of international diplomatic efforts, a solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict is still as elusive as ever, forcing us to ask t...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): David SmailNumber of pages: 250Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 154 x 230 x 21Cover type: Paperback / so...

DescriptionThis book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern ...

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated for the creation of a Jewish state env...

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A landmark work of cultural history that tells the story of how four young poets, John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, James Schuyler, and Kenneth Koch, rei...

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Aimed at scholars and laypersons interested in the Bible and the foundational concepts of Judaism and Christianity, this book offers a new paradigm...

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

Documents that process, challenging common myths - including the importance of a popular anchor, and television's inability to communicate non-visu...

The New Book of Lists: The Original Compendium of Curious Information, Paperback

Contributor(s): Author: Gerald Horne Illuminates how the preservation of slavery was a motivating factor for the Revolutionary War The successful 1...

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Walter Edward Reginald Pratley, known to his family as Reg, was a Berkshire farm boy with a dream. He wanted to escape the everyday and experience ...

Eighth Sister No MorePublisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Paul P. MarthersNumber of pages: 268Collection: History of Schools and Schoolin...

Looking into the economics of American Protestantism, this work examines how churches have raised and spent money since colonial times and consider...

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume focuses broadly on the history of the social welfare reform work of nineteenth-century African American women who founded in...

This book presents a remarkable picture of the men and machines that played such an important part in the early history of flight.Illustrations: Ap...

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How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, A...

Organizing Against Democracy illuminates answers to the question of how far-right parties try to establish roots in democratic societies. Ellinas e...

Chronicling the transformative historical moment when Americans began to reimagine their nation as one strengthened by the diverse faiths of its pe...