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Cross-Cultural Trade in World History
Av Philip D. Curtin, Edmund Iii Burke
Häftad, 1984
485 kr
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A single theme is pursued in this book - the trade between peoples of differing cultures through world history. Extending from the ancient world to the coming of the commercial revolution, Professor Curtin's discussion encompasses a broad and diverse group of trading relationships. Drawing on …
The Palestinian Liberation Organisation
People, Power and Politics
Av Helena Cobban, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
569 kr
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This is a comprehensive political analysis of the PLO. A correspondent in Beirut from 1976 to 1981, Helena Cobban has been able to study developments at close quarters and use documentary sources and first-hand recollections which have never been included in previous Western analyses of the …
Between Battles and Ballots
Israeli Military in Politics
Av Yoram Peri, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
566 kr
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The protracted Arab-Israeli war and the central importance of security to Israel have given a major role to senior military personnel. Yoram Peri, a former adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Rabin, demonstrates in this book that state control over the military in Israel has been weak, and a pattern …
Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Av Judith E. Tucker, Edmund Iii Burke
Häftad, 2002
789 kr
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The nineteenth century in Egypt was a period of rapid social and economic change, brought about by the country's developing ties with the European economy. Focusing on lower-class women, this study traces changes in the work role and family life of peasant women in the countryside and craftswomen …
War's Other Voices
Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War
Av Miriam Cooke, Roger Owen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
1677 kr
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This book challenges the assumption that men write of war, women of the hearth. The Lebanese war has seen the publication of many more works of fiction by women than by men. Miriam Cooke has termed these women the Beirut Decentrists, as they are decentred or excluded from both literary canon and …
The End of Empire in the Middle East
Britain's Relinquishment of Power in her Last Three Arab Dependencies
Av Glen Balfour-Paul, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 1994
938 kr
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The End of Empire in the Middle Eastis an original and perceptive study of Britain's withdrawal from her last Arab dependencies - the Sudan in 1956, South West Arabia in 1967 and the Gulf in 1971 - based upon a combination of first hand experience and extensive research. Glen Balfour-Paul opens by …
The Making of Contemporary Algeria, 1830-1987
Av Mahfoud Bennoune, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
356 kr
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In 1962, after the war of independence, the new rulers of Algeria inherited a country which had both the manpower and the financial resources needed for development, because of its reserves of oil and natural gas. During the last 26 years there have been discussions and experiments revolving around …
Jordan in the 1967 War
Av Samir A. Mutawi, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
538 kr
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Jordan was the most deeply affected of all the Arab nations by Israel's victory in the 1967 war, in which huge tracts of Arab land, including the West Bank, Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights, came under Israel's control. Yet this is the first study to consider the war from the …
Medicine and Power in Tunisia, 1780-1900
Av Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
566 kr
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Severe epidemics of plague, cholera, and typhus swept across Tunisia between the years 1780 and 1900. The society was galvanized into action: medical practitioners, religious authorities, and political leaders all tried to deal with the deadly crises. Muslims had, over many centuries, evolved ideas …
The Renewal of Islamic Law
Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf and the Shi'i International
Av Chibli Mallat, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
523 kr
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This is the first comprehensive study of the life and works of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - an Iraqi scholar who made an important contribution to the renewal of Islamic law and politics in the contemporary Middle East. Executed in 1980, Sadr was the most articulate thinker and a major political actor …
Urban Notables and Arab Nationalism
The Politics of Damascus 1860-1920
Av Philip S. Khoury, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
574 kr
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No idea has captured the imagination or expressed the hopes of Arabs in the twentieth century as has Arab nationalism, and perhaps no subject has received so much attention from historians of the Middle East. But, while many historians have explored its intellectual sources, few have considered the …
State and Society in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Av Ehud R. Toledano, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
935 kr
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Previous studies of nineteenth-century Egypt have often been premature in identifying the existence of an independent nation state. In a way which will permanently affect our view of Egyptian history, this book argues that in the mid-nineteenth-century period Egypt was still an Ottoman province, …
Water and Power
The Politics of a Scarce Resource in the Jordan River Basin
Av Miriam R. Lowi, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 1995
569 kr
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Why do states in arid regions fail to co-operate in sharing water resources when co-operation would appear to be in their mutual interest? Through in-depth analysis of the history and current status of the dispute over the Jordan River basin, Miriam Lowi explores the answers to these critical …
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
Essays in Atlantic History
Av Philip D. Curtin, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1341 kr
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Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Much more than an …
The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex
Essays in Atlantic History
Av Philip D. Curtin, Edmund Iii Burke
Häftad, 1998
426 kr
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Over a period of several centuries, Europeans developed an intricate system of plantation agriculture overseas which was quite different from the agricultural system used at home. Though the plantation complex centered on the American tropics, its influence was much wider. Much more than an …
Law and Colonial Cultures
Legal Regimes in World History, 1400-1900
Av Lauren Benton, Edmund Iii Burke
Inbunden, 2001
1677 kr
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Advances an interesting perspective in world history, arguing that institutions and culture - and not just the global economy - serve as important elements of international order. Focusing on colonial legal politics and the interrelation of local and indigenous cultural contests and institutional …
Revolution and Foreign Policy
The Case of South Yemen, 1967-1987
Av Fred Halliday, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
1000 kr
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This book is a study of the foreign policy of South Yemen, the most radical of Arab states, from the time of its independence from Britain in 1967 until 1987. It covers relations with the west, including the USA, and with the USSR and China, and also highlights South Yemen's conflicts with its …
Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution
Av Donald Quataert, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
687 kr
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This book uncovers the rich, fascinating and complex world of Ottoman manufacturing and manufacturers in the age of the European industrial revolution. Using a wealth of sources from Ottoman, European and American archives, Professor Donald Quataert explores the technological methods of producing …
Cairo University and the Making of Modern Egypt
Av Donald Malcolm Reid, III Burke, Edmund m. fl.
Häftad, 2002
955 kr
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Cairo University has been crucially important in shaping the national life of modern Egypt. It has educated much of the political, professional and cultural elite: doctors and lawyers, novelists and philosophers, bankers and prime ministers have all studied there. Founded in 1908 and for many years …
