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Jordan, the United States and the Middle East Peace Process, 1974-1991
Häftad, 2007
527 kr
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On 31 July 1988 King Hussain of Jordan renounced all administrative and legal ties with the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the River Jordan, initiating a turning point in the Middle East peace process. In this study, Madiha Madfai explores Jordan's role in the USA's peacemaking efforts during the …
Nomads and Settlers in Syria and Jordan, 1800-1980
Häftad, 2009
601 kr
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This book is about the land and people of parts of the interior of Syria and Jordan. At the beginning of the nineteenth century most of the people were nomads and only a small proportion of the land was cultivated. Today nomads are few, peasants are numerous and nearly all the land that will bear a …
Iran and the Cold War
The Azerbaijan Crisis of 1946
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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The Azerbaijan crisis of 1946 represented a landmark in the early stages of the Cold War and played a major role in shaping the future course of Iran's political development. In this book, originally published in 1992, Louise Fawcett presents a comprehensive study of the five-year struggle for …
Merchants of Essaouira
Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco, 1844-1886
Häftad, 2009
667 kr
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Essaouira was founded n 1764 by Sultan Sidi Muhammad b. Abdullah as his port for developing trade with Europe. Through a group of Jewish middlemen, it served as a link between Europe, Morocco and su-Saharan Africa. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries its fame rivalled Tripoli, Tunis and …
The Imamate Tradition of Oman
Häftad, 2009
732 kr
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At the core of this book is an attempt to explain a conflict in Oman in the 1950s and 1960s between two claimants to authority: the Imam of the Ibadi sect in the interior and the Sultan with his capital at Muscat on the coast. The crisis, precipitated by two rival oil companies, acquired wider …
The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820-1913
Trade, Investment and Production
Av Sevket Pamuk
Häftad, 2010
586 kr
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Originally published in 1987, this book examines the consequences of the nineteenth-century economic penetration of Europe into the Ottoman Empire. Professor Pamuk makes subtle use of a very wide range of sources encompassing the statistics of most of the European countries and Ottoman records not …
Womanpower
The Arab Debate on Women at Work
Av Nadia Hijab
Häftad, 1988
266 kr
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Womanpower unveils the lively but little-reported debate on women's position in the modern Arab world. It paints a picture drawn from individual stories as well as from national development programmes and attempts to explain why the process of social change in the region has been slow and uneven by …
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 …
Egypt in the Reign of Muhammad Ali
Av Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot
Häftad, 1984
955 kr
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This account of Egyptian society in the reign of Muhammad Ali traces the beginnings of the nation state in Egypt. It considers Muhammad Ali as part of a social group whose economic interests led them in the direction of trade with Europe as a means of raising money for further investments. They …
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 …
Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan
Av Olivier Roy
Häftad, 1990
435 kr
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In this new edition, Olivier Roy expands his penetrating study of the history, ideology and structures of the Afghan resistance movement to mid-1989. He examines the evolution of the military and political situation inside Afghanistan during the last years of the Soviet presence and discusses …
King Abdullah, Britain and the Making of Jordan
Häftad, 1990
691 kr
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King Abdullah played an active role in the partition of Palestine and, as a result, has always been viewed as one of the most controversial figures in modern Middle East history. This book is the first in-depth study of the historical and personal circumstances that made him so. Born in Mecca in …
Jordan, the United States and the Middle East Peace Process, 1974-1991
Inbunden, 1993
1563 kr
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On 31 July 1988 King Hussain of Jordan renounced all administrative and legal ties with the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the River Jordan, initiating a turning point in the Middle East peace process. In this study, Madiha Madfai explores Jordan's role in the USA's peacemaking efforts during the …
Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution
Inbunden, 1993
1962 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 …
Oil and Politics in the Gulf
Rulers and Merchants in Kuwait and Qatar
Av Jill Crystal
Häftad, 1995
368 kr
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This book asks why in recent years the social and economic upheavals in Kuwait and Qatar have been accompanied by a remarkable political continuity. Professor Crystal investigates this apparent anomaly by examining the impact of oil on the formation and destruction of political coalitions and state …
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 …
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 …
