Mellanösterns historia

"e;She has a gift for people; she has an eye for places."e; - The TimesThe Incense Route is one of the most ancient and important highways in the world. It was once a rival to the Silk Road, at a time when faith in the mystic power of ince...

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To understand Iraq, and the dynamics at work there, it is essential to know the country''s history. This is self-evident to the point of being a cliché. But 12,000 years of history can be intimidating. In Understanding Iraq, one of the world''s m...

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This work makes detailed studies and extensive use of Ottoman chancery documents, aiming to fill many gaps in the historical record. It sets out to answer such questions as: how did the Ottomans run their empire? How did they view Lebanon? What we...

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The Western Shores of Turkey is the distillation of a succession of journeys that John Freely made along this coast - an odyssey spanning a quarter of a century.The Western coast of Turkey has captivated travellers for centuries. With its dramatic...

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An extraordinary and provocative examination of one of history's great unsolved mysteries: who - or what - was Jesus?The Gospels provide no direct answers and both the life of Jesus as it has been recorded for us and the teachings and activities o...

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''So we left without glory but without disaster '' Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, the last High Commissioner of the Federation of South Arabia In 1967, 139 years after their arrival in Aden, the British withdrew from the southern tip of the Arabian Penin...

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Interest and fascination in Achaemenid Persia has burgeoned in recent years. It is time for a major new appraisal of the glorious civilization founded by Cyrus the Great and continued by his successors, the Great Kings Darius I, Xerxes and Artaxer...

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The grand narrative of "e;The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building"e; is that of the essential continuity of the late Ottoman Empire with the Republic of Turkey that was founded in 1923. Erik J. Zurcher shows that Kemal's 'ideological too...

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Muhammad Musaddiq was the first of the great charismatic anti-colonial campaigners of the post-war world. As Prime Minister of Iran between 1951 and 1953 he nationalised the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, led the nation''s defiant attempt to run its o...

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This text looks at the process by which the Arab community of Haifa was transformed during a crucial period in the history of modern Palestine by British mandatory rule, the advent of Zionism and internal dynamics. The author considers the social ...

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