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Media and Politics in the Southern Mediterranean
Communicating Power in Transition after 2011
Häftad, 2022
718 kr
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This edited volume presents ground-breaking empirical research on the media in political transition in Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco. Focusing on developments in the wake of the region’s upheavals in 2011, it offers a new theoretical framework for understanding mediascapes in the confessional and …
Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa
State, Oil and Agriculture
Av George Joffé, Richard Schofield
Häftad, 2023
646 kr
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Celebrating the work of Keith McLachlan, a well-known and much-admired geographer of the Middle East and North Africa, this book combines three interrelated topics that define the region. The Middle East has been integral to the growth of the global oil industry, an aspect of its evolution since …
Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil
A Frenchman between France and North Africa
Inbunden, 2004
2578 kr
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This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings …
Lebanon
The Politics of Frustration - The Failed Coup of 1961
Av Adel Beshara
Inbunden, 2004
2578 kr
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Lebanon examines the ideological, political and social underpinnings of the attempted coup against General Chihab's government in Lebanon in 1961. The author analyzes the role of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, the history of the army in Lebanon and it role in Lebanese politics and the …
Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Av John Wright
Inbunden, 2007
2586 kr
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This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign …
Managing Instability in Algeria
Elites and Political Change since 1995
Inbunden, 2007
2512 kr
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This topical new book seeks to understand the relationship between elite dynamics and strategies and the lack of profound political change in Algeria after 1995, when the country’s military rulers returned to electoral processes.Using evidence from extensive fieldwork, Isabelle Werenfels exposes …
Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco
Inbunden, 2007
2512 kr
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Taking Morocco as its focus, this book looks at the political change in the country since 1990. It places particular emphasis on key topics, such as civil society, human rights and reform, as vital issues for understanding the developments in the contemporary Middle East.
War and Peace in Qajar Persia
Implications Past and Present
Inbunden, 2008
2586 kr
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With new and existing evidence being reconsidered, this edited collection takes a multidisciplinary approach to discussing the Qajar system within the context of the wars that engulfed it and the periods of peace that ensued. It throws new light on the decision-making processes, the restraints on …
Creation of Saudi Arabia
Ibn Saud and British Imperial Policy, 1914-1927
Inbunden, 2009
2586 kr
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Overturning previous interpretations that see the territorial expansion of the Saudi state between 1915 and 1926 as the result of an aggressive Wahhabi ideology carried out by a politically ambitious Ibn Saud, this book explores the links between Saudi territorial expansion and British Imperial …
Managing Instability in Algeria
Elites and Political Change since 1995
Häftad, 2009
747 kr
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This topical new book seeks to understand the relationship between elite dynamics and strategies and the lack of profound political change in Algeria after 1995, when the country’s military rulers returned to electoral processes.Using evidence from extensive fieldwork, Isabelle Werenfels exposes …
Islamist Radicalisation in North Africa
Politics and Process
Av George Joffe
Inbunden, 2011
2504 kr
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In the current climate of political extremism and violence, much attention has been directed towards "radicalisation" as the reasons behind such courses of action, along with a conviction that those who are radicalised represent an irrational deviation from the conventionally accepted norms of …
Lebanon
The Politics of Frustration - The Failed Coup of 1961
Av Adel Beshara
Häftad, 2011
934 kr
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Lebanon examines the ideological, political and social underpinnings of the attempted coup against General Chihab's government in Lebanon in 1961. The author analyzes the role of the Syrian Socialist Nationalist Party, the history of the army in Lebanon and it role in Lebanese politics and the …
Britain and Morocco During the Embassy of John Drummond Hay
Häftad, 2010
770 kr
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This translation provides fascinating insights into a critical period in Moroccan history and Moroccan-British relations during the nineteenth century. Using the life and work of the British representative in Tangier, John Drummond Hay, an individual who personally experienced the relations between …
Assassination of Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil
A Frenchman between France and North Africa
Häftad, 2011
793 kr
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This is a political biography of the French industrialist and political activist Jacques Lemaigre Dubreuil (1894-1955), president of the Taxpayers' Federation in the 1930s, entrepreneur in wartime France and Africa, organizer of the 'Group of Five' in Algiers which prepared for the Allied landings …
Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Av John Wright
Häftad, 2010
770 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign …
Civil Society and Political Change in Morocco
Häftad, 2011
747 kr
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Taking Morocco as its focus, this book looks at the political change in the country since 1990. It places particular emphasis on key topics, such as civil society, human rights and reform, as vital issues for understanding the developments in the contemporary Middle East.
Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco
Inbunden, 2013
2578 kr
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Exploring the concept of ‘colonial cultures,’ this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies. Challenging both the colonial vulgate, and the nationalist paradigm, Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco, examines the lesser known …
Creation of Saudi Arabia
Ibn Saud and British Imperial Policy, 1914-1927
Häftad, 2013
934 kr
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Overturning previous interpretations that see the territorial expansion of the Saudi state between 1915 and 1926 as the result of an aggressive Wahhabi ideology carried out by a politically ambitious Ibn Saud, this book explores the links between Saudi territorial expansion and British Imperial …
Technology, Tradition and Survival
Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia
Av Richard Tapper, Keith McLachlan
Häftad, 2002
283 kr
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The contributors address the history, originality, variety and sophistication of traditional science, technology and material culture in the Middle East and Central Asia, their influence on the history of Europe and the West, and the threat posed by modern Western technologies.
Technology, Tradition and Survival
Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia
Av Richard Tapper, Keith McLachlan
Inbunden, 2002
762 kr
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The contributors address the history, originality, variety and sophistication of traditional science, technology and material culture in the Middle East and Central Asia, their influence on the history of Europe and the West, and the threat posed by modern Western technologies.
French Military Rule in Morocco
Colonialism and its Consequences
Inbunden, 1999
2578 kr
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This analysis of French colonial ideology and interest in Morocco delineates the manner in which the agents of the protectorate regime sought to conquer the country and control its indigenous inhabitants. Numerous comparative perspectives are offered, placing the French policy towards Morocco in a …
North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World
From the Almoravids to the Algerian War
Inbunden, 2001
2578 kr
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Long regarded as the preserve of French scholars and Francophone audiences due to its significance to France's colonial empire, North Africa is increasingly recognized for its own singular importance as a crossover region. Situated where Islamic, Mediterranean, African, and European histories …
Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History
The Living Medina in the Maghrib
Inbunden, 2001
2578 kr
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This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of …
Britain and Morocco During the Embassy of John Drummond Hay
Inbunden, 2005
2504 kr
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This translation provides fascinating insights into a critical period in Moroccan history and Moroccan-British relations during the nineteenth century. Using the life and work of the British representative in Tangier, John Drummond Hay, an individual who personally experienced the relations between …
Tribe and Society in Rural Morocco
Häftad, 2000
1038 kr
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An anthropological study of Berber society and particularly the Rifian tribes of Morocoo, a Muslim society. This book deals with the background of these tribes, their settlement in various areas and contemporary issues.
North Africa, Islam and the Mediterranean World
From the Almoravids to the Algerian War
Häftad, 2001
934 kr
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Long regarded as the preserve of French scholars and Francophone audiences due to its significance to France's colonial empire, North Africa is increasingly recognized for its own singular importance as a crossover region. Situated where Islamic, Mediterranean, African, and European histories …
Walled Arab City in Literature, Architecture and History
The Living Medina in the Maghrib
Häftad, 2001
934 kr
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This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the medina, the traditional walled Arab city of North Africa. The medina becomes a concrete case study for comparative explorations of general questions about the social use of urban space by opening up fields of research at the intersection of …
Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa
Häftad, 2003
1278 kr
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The essays in this volume explore the complexities of the relationship between states, social groups and individuals in contemporary North Africa, as expressed through the politics, culture and history of nationhood.From Morocco to Libya, from bankers to refugees, from colonialism to globalisation, …
Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco
Häftad, 2017
814 kr
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Exploring the concept of ‘colonial cultures,’ this book analyses how these cultures both transformed, and were transformed by, their various societies. Challenging both the colonial vulgate, and the nationalist paradigm, Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco, examines the lesser known …
Geographic Realities in the Middle East and North Africa
State, Oil and Agriculture
Av George Joffé, Richard Schofield
Inbunden, 2020
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Celebrating the work of Keith McLachlan, a well-known and much-admired geographer of the Middle East and North Africa, this book combines three interrelated topics that define the region. The Middle East has been integral to the growth of the global oil industry, an aspect of its evolution since …
