Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 144 p. The Central Asian republics have been commanding attention in news rooms around the world since gaining independence in 1991. Importantly, foreign-policy makers and many international relations experts in Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Istanbul and recently, Washington, D C , have been claiming that this region, its resources, and its transportation...
Pambazuka Press, 2009 — 209 p. The current global economic crisis resurges the debate on aid to Africa — the largest global recipient — and this comprehensive volume explores the premise, history, and foundation upon which the concept of aid is based. It considers aid's relationship to the broader development discourse in Africa, the politics and power dynamics of aid...
Ohio University Press, 2020. — 224 p. An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe's unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual entities across the African continent, from the ancient past to the present. Achebe...
Ohio University Press, 2020. — 224 p. An unapologetically African-centered monograph that reveals physical and spiritual forms and systems of female power and leadership in African cultures. Nwando Achebe's unparalleled study documents elite females, female principles, and female spiritual entities across the African continent, from the ancient past to the present. Achebe...
Scarecrow Press, 2005. — 505 p. Madagascar, widely known as the "Great Island," is just off the coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, but in many ways it hardly resembles its mainland neighbors. Its flora and fauna are quite distinct, and the folkways and culture of its population are intriguingly different from that of the continental countries.This revised and expanded edition...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. — 416 p. From antiquity to the nineteenth century, the royal hunt was a vital component of the political cultures of the Middle East, India, Central Asia, and China. Besides marking elite status, royal hunts functioned as inspection tours and imperial progresses, a means of asserting kingly authority over the countryside. The hunt was, in...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. — 276 p. The problem The argument Depression and the Internationalization of Public Health The limits of colonial medicine The internationalization of public health Two visions of rural hygiene Bandung, 1937 The ‘modernist’ challenge War and the Rise of Disease Control DDT and disease control Building expertise Planning for the health of the world A...
University of Hawaii Press, 2016. — 396 p. Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the Sea of Japan, has been a core region of international trade for millennia, but during the long seventeenth century (1550 to 1700), the...
2nd Edition — Atlantic Books, 2017. — 1232 p. The end of World War II signaled the end of the European African empires. In 1945, four African countries were independent; by 1963, 30 African states created the Organization of African Unity. The 1960s were a time of optimism as Africans enjoyed their new independence, witnessed increases in prosperity and prepared to tackle their...
3rd Edition — Routledge, 2019. — 498 p. Authoritative and comprehensive, The History of Africa provides an accessible narrative from earliest prehistory to the present day, with unusual attention paid to the ordinary lives of Africans. This survey includes a wealth of indigenous ideas, African concepts, and traditional outlooks that have escaped the writing of African history...
New York: Palgrave, 2001. — 217 p. Book talks about postcolonial lefacy of military and armed type of legislative power in Africa, and how warlords become an official social leaders. Foreword by Professor Richard W. Hull Introduction by Professor Okey Onyejekwe Africa’s Recent Colonial Past, 1900-1970 Africa’s Armed Forces in Retrospect: The History of the Colonial and...
Routledge, 1998. — 151 p. — (War and Society; Vol. 4). — ISBN: 90-5699-583-9. Examining conflict and warfare in Chad from both historic and contemporary perspectives, Mario Azevedo explores not only how violence has permeated and become almost an intrinsic part of the fabric of the central-eastern Sudanic societies, but how foreign interference from centuries ago to the...
Scarecrow Press, 2004. — 331 p. A Portuguese colony since 1498, Mozambique became independent on June 25, 1975, following a ten-year war of liberation. The new nation remained relatively obscure for most scholars, and Azevedo's work fills a vacuum in the sources, tracing the development of modern Mozambique from earliest times to the present and treating the Africans not as...
Beacon Press, 2005. — 304 p. A remarkable effort to present the slave trade from a perspective very different from what we are used to...People like Anne Bailey make us uncomfortable, which is all to the good.--Daniel Lazare, The Nation "Bailey is not afraid to ask difficult questions...[She] expands and troubles our understanding of the African diaspora. In this fine and...
ASIN: 1611477875. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Annotated Edition (2016). ISBN-10: 9781611477870. ISBN-13: 978-1611477870. Exile in the Maghreb: Jews under Islam, Sources and Documents, 997-1912. The Exile in the Maghreb entails the first attempt at describing the historical reality of the legal and social condition of the Jews in the Muslim countries of North Africa...
Routledge, 1994. — 309 p. List of Figures, Maps and Tables Conventions and Abbreviations Prelude to the rise of the Albusaidi Dynasty in East Africa Oman’s links with India and East Africa: historical problems and perspectives The importance of commerce to the early Albusaidi rulers The emergence of British policy towards Oman: 1798–1804 British policy towards Oman under the...
Routledge, 2009. — 269 p. This book examines why the government led by Harold Macmillan remained ready to use military force to prop up the regime of King Hussein. Blackwell provides new historical insights into the origins of the Anglo-American use of military power to protect their interests in the Middle East. Introduction : Jordan, Suez and the decline of British influence...
Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2003. — 124 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section eight. Central Asia ; vol. 9). — ISBN: 90-04-12321-0. Bibliographical notes. General legend. Maps: The principal geographical features and provinces. Major archeological sites. Central Asia at the time of Alexander the Great (4th century B.C.). 3rd-2nd centuries B.C.: Parthia, Bactria,...
Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2003. — 124 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section eight. Central Asia ; vol. 9). — ISBN: 90-04-12321-0. Bibliographical notes. General legend. Maps: The principal geographical features and provinces. Major archeological sites. Central Asia at the time of Alexander the Great (4th century B.C.). 3rd-2nd centuries B.C.: Parthia, Bactria,...
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2007. – 160 p. Contents: – Series Foreword by Frank W. Thackeray and John E. Findling. –Acknowledgments. – Timeline of Historical Events. – The Land and People of Kuwait. – Desert Origins and Settlement (ca. 3000 b.c.e.–1756 c.e.). – Desert Sheikhdom (1756–1899). – British Protectorate (1899–1961). – Independence and Nationhood (1961–1990). –...
Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006. - 400 p. In The Brief History of the Middle East author Christopher Catherwood attempts to show how our entire world is ultimately shaped by events that have unfolded or have their origin in the Middle East. Catherwood insists that, unless we allow ignorance to blind us which to a certain extent it already has the Middle East must not be viewed...
London: Karnak House, 1989. — 202 p. A Historical Account of Matriarchy. Criticism on the clasical theory of a universal Matriarchy. History of Patriarchy and Matriarchy. Anomalies noticed in the three zones and their explanation. A Comparison of other aspects of the Northern amd Meridional Cultures.
Blackwell Publishing, 2005. — 624 p. A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region.. A fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of the Middle East. Comprises 26 newly-commissioned essays by leading international scholars. Primarily focused on the modern and contemporary...
South Africa, Capitil Printing, 2002. — 440 p. Globally, the concept of colonial rule became increasingly questioned and was losing its hold on the world. Sometimes this was as a result of protest from the colonised, and in other cases, due to a change in stance, and subsequent withdrawal, by the coloniser. As was the world norm, many countries in Africa gained independence in...
4th ed. — Westview Press, 2009. — 640 p. — ISBN 978-0-8133-4374-7. This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the American invasion of Iraq and Iran’s new influence in the region. After introducing the reader to the region’s history from the...
6th Edition — Westview Press, 2016. — 624 p. A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign policies. Built around a framework of political history, while also carefully...
Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013. Sierra Leone’s unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of historical investigation since the 1950s. Much of the scholarship produced in subsequent decades has focused on the “Krio,” descendants of freed slaves from the West Indies, North America,...
Second Edition. — Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990. — 254 p. — (Area Handbook Series). Since the publication of the Area Handbook for Chad in 1972, Chadian society has experienced almost uninterrupted turmoil. The government in power in 1972, which was dominated by southern ethnic groups, fell to a military coup d'etat in 1975. By 1978 an insurgent group,...
Chelsea House Publications, 2009. — 152 p. — (Great Empires of the Past). Beginning about 1200 CE, the Mali, Songhay, and Ghana empires spread their sequential influence across the western horn of Africa, making advances in trade, language, culture, and economy. Influenced heavily by Islam in their later periods, these empires flourished and grew under a series of powerful...
London: Dean & Co., 1846. — [xix], 393 p., [30] leaves of plates. illus., 2 fold. maps. The Chinese are believed to have been, from very remote times, fond of reading and literary pursuits; yet, as far as our present information extends, they do not appear to possess any regular authentic history of the early state of their ancient empire. From the earliest times, it seems to...
Marshall Cavendish International, 2014. — 452 p. — ISBN10: 981436102X; ISBN13: 978-9814361026. A History of Southeast Asia narrates the history of the region from earliest recorded times until today, covering present-day Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, the Philippines, Indonesia and East Timor. Concisely written and filled with...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 512 p. — ISBN10: 1107403952 / ISBN13: 978-1107403956. The eight hundred years between the first Roman conquests and the conquest of Islam saw a rich, constantly shifting blend of languages and writing systems, legal structures, religious practices and beliefs in the Near East. While the different ethnic groups and cultural forms often clashed...
New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. — 147 p. This volume offers perspectives from the general public in post-Soviet Central Asia and reconsiders the meaning and the legacy of Soviet administration in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. This study emphasizes that the way in which people in Central Asia reconcile their Soviet past to a great extent refers to the three-fold...
3rd Ed. — Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2019. — 717 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Africa). — ISBN10: 0810871866, 13 978-0810871861. Côte d’Ivoire remains one of the most intriguing countries in sub-Saharan Africa. It appeared well on its way to becoming a model of development under its single political party and charismatic founding father, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, when it...
Longman Group United Kingdom, 1978 - 336 p. This text is designed for students preparing for O Level history, offering an examination of some of the major trends and events in West African history from AD 1000-1800. ISBN10: 0582603404 ISBN13: 9780582603400 (eng)
Zed Books, 2016. — 256 p. — ISBN 9781783605323. How do people live in a country that has experienced rebellions and state-organised repressions for decades and that is still marked by routine forms of violence and impunity? What do combatants do when they are not mobilised for war? Drawing on over ten years of fieldwork conducted in Chad, Marielle Debos explains how living by...
Scarecrow Press, 1997. — 656 p. — ISBN: 978-0810832534. One of Africa's largest yet least known countries, Chad has a rich pre-colonial heritage and a turbulent recent political history. This latest edition of the Historical Dictionary of Chad features new tables that list important statistics on its economic conditions - principal crops, gross domestic product, public...
Scarecrow Press, 1996 - 420 p. ISBN: 978-0810830738 Togo is a small West African country nestled between Benin and Ghana, extending from its narrow coastline 320 miles inland to Burkina Faso. Although the country's phosphate production has given it a modicum of economic stability, Togo remains politically unstable. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Togo expands...
Bloomington: Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies, 2001. — xvi; p. Indiana University Uralic and Altaic Series (Denis Sinor, editor), Volume CLXVII. ISBN: 0-933070-48-9 The twelve articles presented here are offered in honor Bregel by scholars from Europe and North America who devotion to the study of Central Asian history and civilization; contributor...
ABC-CLIO, 2019. — 477 p. — ISBN10: 1576079198, 13 978-1576079195. The first work to offer 5,000 years of authoritative historical coverage of ancient and modern cities in the Middle East and North Africa — from their founding to the present — highlighting each city's cultural, social, political, and economic significance.
3rd Edition — Cengage Learning, 2013. — 600 p. Both comprehensive and captivating, East Asia: A Cultural, Social, and Political History , 3rd Edition, features the latest scholarship on the cultural, political, economic, and intellectual history of China, Japan, and Korea - giving special emphasis to gender and material culture. Full color inserts on such topics as food,...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 231 p. — ISBN: 978-1-107-00149-7. Written in a style attractive to non-specialists, this book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe, and South...
Oxford University Press, 2016 — 241 p. — ISBN10: 0190224614, ISBN13: 978-0190224615 The street protests that erupted in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread quickly throughout the Middle East surprised not only the entrenched dictators of the region but also international observers who collectively had taken for granted the durability of Middle Eastern authoritarianism....
Scarecrow Press, Inc.m 2006. — 249 p. Editor’s Foreword. Jon Woronoff. Map. Chronology. The dictionary. A Kings (Bami) of Burundi. B Postcolonial Prime Ministers. C Postcolonial Presidents.
London: C. Hurst & Co (Publishers) Ltd., 1999. — 350 p. Liberia has been one of Africa’s most violent trouble spots. During the 1990s thousands of teenage fighters laid siege to the capital and the world took notice. Since then Liberia has been through devastating civil upheaval. What began as a civil conflict has spread to other West African nations as well. Stephen Ellis...
Salma K. Jayyusi (tr.). — London; New York: I.B.Tauris, 2010. — 320 p. The Arabian Peninsula was the cradle of many civilizations, and is the heartland of all Muslims throughout the world. Many studies and books have already been published on this theme, and Arabia continues to command the attention of academia. But because of the language in which they are written, many...
London: I. B. Tauris, 2002. — 384 p. — ISBN10: 1860647677 ISBN13: 9781860647673. When the Ottoman empire restored direct rule over Yemen, it resulted in an onslaught of foreign encroachments by British and Italian client tribes and chieftans in the Arabian peninsula. In this concise account of the history of the political rivalries confronting Ottoman Yemen, Caesar E. Farah...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 280 p. From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration in the fifteenth, Africa was at the center of a vibrant exchange of goods and ideas. It was an African golden age in which places like Ghana, Nubia, and Zimbabwe became the crossroads of civilizations, and where African royals, thinkers, and artists...
New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. — 323 p. The book has been designed to offer a unique, updated and comprehensive study of Communist parties in the Middle East, based on a theoretical framework of analysis, substantial empirical research and archive documentation.
Routledge, 2019. — 246 p. Rome, Persia, and Arabia traces the enormous impact that the Great Powers of antiquity exerted on Arabia and the Arabs, between the arrival of Roman forces in the Middle East in 63 BC and the death of the Prophet Muhammad in AD 632. Richly illustrated and covering a vast area from the fertile lands of South Arabia to the bleak deserts of Iraq and...
University Press of Florida, 2002. — 408 p. The Persian Gulf and Turkey The Legacy of Iraq’s Past and the Promise of Its Future Judith S. Yaphe Iran: Slouching toward the Twenty-first Century Shaul Bakhash The Arabian Peninsula Monarchies from Camp David I to Camp David II F. Gregory Gause III From Swamp to Backyard: The Middle East in Turkish Foreign Policy Malik Mufti The...
Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 1989. — 588 p. This book provides thesis about fundamental conflict for the Middle East between great power, World War One battles to conquere and rule for Middle East and the intellectual time-bombs, hidden behind peacuful agreements that ended the Great War.
International Center for Peace Initiatives, 2004. - 112 p. The Context. Basic Statistical Data. Heads of Government _ Past and Present. Bilateral Meetings between Heads of Government of India and Pakistan. Timeline of India-Pakistan Relations. Swing Model of India-Pakistan Relations. Backgrounder. Human Costs of Four Wars. Conflict over Siachen. Costs of Confrontation in 2002....
Scarecrow Press, 2006. — 346 p. This new edition is based primarily on recent research on the country, but covers the earliest known inhabitants, the colonial era, and the period of independence including the very confusing turmoil of the recent past. The chronology briefly traces its history and the introduction provides an essential overview of all the recent developments in...
Scarecrow Press, 1994. — 465 p. Presents the additional Gabon's results of new research on the period between 1914 and 1940. Also synthesizes data about the transformations that have occurred since 1967 under Gabon's President Omar Bongo, including the upheavals of 1990-1991.
Budapest: Helikon Kiadó, 1988. — 159 o. — (A múlt születése). African kingdoms. Richly illustrated album in good quality (in Hungarian). Fekete-Afrika múltjának megismeréséhez ez ideig kevés olyan felfedezés járult hozzá, „mint amilyenek beragyogják más kontinensek régészetének történetét. A felfedezők nem botlottak eltűnt városok romjaiba a trópusi erdőben, s kevés régészre...
London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. – 324 p. This study, written from the perspective of political sociology, represents the first comparative examination of Central Asian communal and political organisation before and after the tsarist conquest of the region. It covers Turkman, Kyrgyz, Kazakh and other tribal societies, analyses the patrimonial state structures of the Emirate of...
Ankara: TÜRK KÜLTÜRÜNÜ ARAŞTIRMA ENSTİTÜSÜ YAYINLARI : 147 Seri IX, 1997 - 412 s. Türk kültür tarihinin en önemli eserlerinden biri de Kaşgarlı Mahmud’un yazmış olduğu ‘Divânu Lugat’it-Türk’ adlı eserdir. XI. yüzyıl Türk dünyası kültür hayatını en küçük nüansına kadar ele alıp tanıtan bu abidevi eser, Reşat Genç’in dönemin sosyal, kültürel ve ekonomik bakımdan incelenmesiyle...
The American University in Cairo Press; 1 edition — October 1, 2012 — 320 p. — ASIN: B00GZN74BO / ISBN: 978-977-416-529-0 The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical...
Public Affairs, 2019. — 336 p. Unflinching dispatches of an embedded war reporter covering ISIS and the unlikely alliance of forces who came together to defeat it. The battle to defeat ISIS was an unremittingly brutal and dystopian struggle, a multi-sided war of gritty local commandos and militias. Mike Giglio takes readers to the heart of this shifting, uncertain conflict,...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 208 p. — (New Oxford world history). This book explores how world historical processes, from changes in environment to the movement of peoples and ideas, have shaped and continue to shape the history of South Asia and its place in the wider world. As the region has continually proved able to draw inspiration from its traditional patterns of life...
University of Nebraska Press, 2006. — 265 p. French West Africa and Its Place in the Vichy Colonial Idea Setting the Stage for Vichy: French West Africa on the Eve of World War II “A Source of Pride and Greatness”: The Place of the Empire in Vichy Ideology The National Revolution in French West Africa Vichy Settles In: Administrative Changes and Continuity Spreading the...
Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1992. — xiv; 483 p. Ethnogenesis and state-formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East. ISSN: 0177-4743; ISBN: 3-447-03Z74-X We shall be dealing with groups that were (and sorne still are) primarily pastoral nomads. That is, their fundamental economie activity was livestock production which was carried out through the...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 178 p. — (The New Oxford World History). — ISBN: 978-0-19-533819-5. A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including...
Westview Press, 2009. - 576 p. 9th Edition The ninth edition of this widely acclaimed text by Arthur Goldschmidt Jr. and Lawrence Davidson has been extensively revised to reflect the latest scholarship and the most recent events in the Middle East. As an introduction to the history of this turbulent region from the beginnings of Islam to the present day, the book is...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 520 p. Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including Arabic...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 520 p. Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including Arabic...
Da Capo Press, 2009. — 256 p. While European civilization stagnated in the "Dark Ages," Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked together by a web of spiritual, commercial, and intellectual connections, the distant regions of Asia's vast civilization, from Arabia to China, hummed with trade, international diplomacy, and the exchange of...
I.B. Tauris, 2010. — 257 p. "Orientalism and Conspiracy" explores fully for the first time the relationship between the sometimes controversial concept of Orientalism, as developed by Edward Said, and contemporary conspiracy theories, and includes Robert Irwin's fascinating survey of the role of secret societies in orientalist mythology. The authors offer a comprehensive and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 432 p. The French invaded Algeria in 1830, and found a landscape rich in Roman remains, which they proceeded to re-use to support the constructions such as fortresses, barracks and hospitals needed to fight the natives (who continued to object to their presence), and to house the various colonisation projects with which they intended to...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981. — 260 p. Much literature on Africa was published in the Soviet Union: in 1981, the USSR Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Africa alone published some twenty books and hundreds of articles on questions of the economic and social development of African countries, their politics, ideology, and international relations. The scope of research being...
Scarecrow Press, 1994. — 724 p. Namibia is not one of the largest or most important African states, but it has attracted more attention than most. The reason is obvious. It was a crucial test case in decolonization of southern Africa and the struggle continued for years. Now that Namibia is independent, it can only be hoped that the interest will be sustained in one of Africa's...
Scarecrow Press, 1998. — 571 p. This nineteenth volume in the African Historical Dictionaries series is devoted to Zambia - a country whose south-central location on the African continent makes it an essential link between independent states of Central, East and West Africa and southern Africa region. Its crucial political position has made it vulnerable to many pressures,...
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1970. — 398 p. Attila and the Huns, Jenghiz Khan and the Mongols, Tamerlane and the Golden Horde — these almost legendary names are familiar to the educated layman. Unquestionably, he has also read of the Hungarians, and the Bulgars, and the Ottoman Turks. If he has an interest in ancient history, he may have an acquaintance with the...
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1970. — 687 p. Attila and the Huns, Jenghiz Khan and the Mongols, Tamerlane and the Golden Horde — these almost legendary names are familiar to the educated layman. Unquestionably, he has also read of the Hungarians, and the Bulgars, and the Ottoman Turks. If he has an interest in ancient history, he may have an acquaintance with the...
Scarecrow Press, 1991. — 164 p. Jordan has been at the crossroads of Middle East events since Biblical times. In contemporary times, the recent Persian Gulf crisis and the long-simmering Arab-Israeli conflict have thrust Jordan into a troublesome but crucial role. But despite its unstable setting, it has experienced remarkably stable leadership since 1953, King Hussein has...
Hong Kong University Press, 2011. — 444 p. Astride the historical maritime silk routes linking India to China, premodern East and Southeast Asia can be viewed as a global region in the making over a long period. Intense Asian commerce in spices, silks, and ceramics placed the region in the forefront of global economic history prior to the age of imperialism. Alongside the...
Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2009. — 185 p. Introduction: New Paths of Colonial History Hans Hägerdal The Future of the Past, the Past of the Future: History in Southeast Asia Vincent Houben European Adventurers and Changes in the Indian Military System Ram Krishna Tandon The Exile of the Liurai: A Historiographical Case Study from Timor Hans Hägerdal Africans in Asia:...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2011. — 398 p. This comprehensive history provides a fresh interpretation of Southeast Asia from 100 to 1500, when major social and economic developments foundational to modern societies took place on the mainland (Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam) and the island world (Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines). Kenneth R. Hall explores...
Harvard University Press, 1998. — 294 p. Since his assassination in 1828, King Shaka Zulu - founder of the powerful Zulu kingdom and leader of the army that nearly toppled British colonial rule in South Africa - has made his empire in popular imaginations throughout Africa and the West. Shaka is today the hero of Zulu nationalism, the centerpiece of Inkatha ideology, a demon of...
Kegan Paul International, 1994. — 365 p. Maps An Interpretation of the Concept of the "Islamic City"Alasashi Historical Overview 1830-1880 1880-1904 1904-1920 1920-1956 (1962) 1956 (1962) -1970 Recent Trends The Concept of the "Islamic City" WaqfEndowment Guilds Iisba Ulama The Jews Saints' Cults Social History Urban Architecture and Planning Population, Trade, and Urban-rural...
Histoire Presse, 2013. — 100 p. — (L'Histoire. Les Collections. n°58) Décembre 2012: les derniers mausolées islamiques de Tombouctou sont détruits par des islamistes.Et AQMI interpelle la France à propos des otages toujours retenus. Dès l'époque romaine, puis avec l'islamisation au Moyen Age, la conquête coloniale à partir du XIXe siècle, les combats du XXe, le Sahara a été à...
The Teaching Company, 2014. — 456 p. The word "barbarian" quickly conjures images of Attila the Hun and Genghis Khan. Yet few people realize these men belong to a succession of nomadic warriors who emerged from the Eurasian steppes to conquer civilizations. It's a part of ancient and medieval history that's often overlooked, but for an accurate view of how the world evolved,...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 241 p. Map of Sierra Leone The Rise and Wane of Krio Dominance, 1787–1951 Key Players in a Deceptively Quiet Decolonisation,1951–1961 Immediate and Severe Challenges: Democracy and Coups,1961–1968 The Choices of Siaka Stevens: Violence, Patronage and the One-Party State, 1968–1991 Civil War and the Incendiary Debates Over its...
Cambridge University Press 1988. — 256 p. Map 1859-1898: The XIX century origins of French Islam policy French Islamic policy in Senegal and Algeria 1898-1912: The fear of Islam The fear of Islam Education policy and Islam French Islamic policy in crisis: the Futa Jallon 1909-1912 French scholarship and the definition of Islam noir Scholar-administrators and the definition of...
Zed Books, 2010. — 192 p. — ISBN10: 1848133197, ISBN13: 9781848133198. This book looks at thirty years of Neoliberalism in Africa. Not merely an economic shock or a quick process of "structural adjustment," Neoliberalism has been a historic shift in Africa's development politics and policy. As an ideology, Neoliberalism looks beyond the mere market economy towards a market...
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003. — 312 p. Note on Transliteration Appendix: Origin Myths of the Factions Bilateral Factionalism in Ottoman Egypt Bir Varmıs¸, Bir Yokmus¸: Folklore and Binary Oppositions in the Factional Origin Myths Sa˜d and Haram: The Factions’ Bedouin Equivalents The Yemeni Connection to Egypt’s Factions Red and White: The Colors of the...
Brealey Publishing, 2007. — 304 p. Experience the beautifully written tale of a hapless young artist, a beat-up pick-up called Yasmine, and an extraordinary journey across the world. Misadventure in the Middle East: Travels as Tramp, Artist and Spy by Henry Hemming creates a portrait of the post-9/11 Middle East that transports the reader into the human heart of the region....
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. — 317 p. — (ICAS Publications series, Edited Volumes 14). — ISBN: 9789089643247. This important overview explores the connections between Singapore’s past with historical developments worldwide until present day. The contributors analyze Singapore as a city-state seeking to provide an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2001 - 400 p. This volume sets out a new paradigm that increases our understanding of African culture and the forces that led to its transformation during the period of the Atlantic slave trade and beyond, putting long due emphasis on the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the United States, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Focusing...
Overlook Duckworth, 2009. — 448 p. In this comprehensive new treatment, renowned political writer and historian Dilip Hiro places the politics, peoples, and cultural background of this critical region firmly into the context of current international focus. Hiro's account provides a fast-moving and well-sourced genealogy of the Central Asian republics' political and economic...
Report and papers of the meeting of experts organized by Unesco at Port Louis, Mauritius, from 15 to 19 July 1974. — Unesco, 1980. — 192 p. — (The general history of Africa: studies and documents; 3). — ISBN: 92-3-101740-3. Published in the series 'The General History of Africa: Studies and Documents', the present volume contains the working documents and the Report of the...
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998. — 200 p. Prologue: "The Traders Are Kidnapping. Our People". Walking into fire. "I Shall Not Give Up the Chase". The Fox Crosses the Stream. The Magnificent Cake. "The Treaties Must Grant Us Everything". From Florida to Berlin. Under the Yacht Club Flag. The First Heretic. Where There Aren't No Ten Commandments. Meeting Mr. Kurtz. The Wood That...
Scarecrow Press, 1995. — 488 p. — ISBN: 978-0810871717. The fourth edition reflects the addition of coauthor Houngnikpo (National Defense Univ.) to a dictionary (3rd ed., 1995; 2nd ed., CH, Sep'88, 26-0017) previously written by Decalo (Univ. of Natal, Durban). This new edition evidences significant editorial changes, including new entries, along with the expansion of some...
Berkeley, California University Press, 1993 - 683 p. The Modern Mitltlie East. A Reader emerged from a series of conversations over the years with one of the most famous scholars of California university Albert Hourani. Book talks about Middle East people from XVIII to the middle of XX century and helds some topics about nationalism, economy and culture events that shaped and...
Faber and Faber, 2010. — ISBN: 978-0-571-26559-6. Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises, the history of the Arab world has been little known and poorly understood in the West. One reason may be that, for more than half a century, there has been no up-to-date single volume work that chronicles the story of Arab...
Bruxelles: Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, 1984. — 83 p. Hulstaert G. Materials on the ancient history of the Mongo people (in French) Table des matieres: Nom de l'ethnie. Identité de l'ethnie. Les migrations. Ethnogenese. Relations intertribales. Relations avec les voisins.
Scarecrow Press, 1997. — 588 p. — ISBN: 978-0810860940. Sitting on the cusp between Mediterranean and sub-Saharan Africa, Niger is in many ways a remarkable place, blending in the harsh Sahelian environment a great diversity of cultures and lifestyles to make up a poor but resilient nation. The country was established in the early 20th century in what used to be the busy...
Lanham, Maryland - Toronto - Oxford: The Scarecrow Press, 2006. — xxxviii + 319 p. — (Historical dictionaries of peoples and cultures 5). — ISBN13: 978-0-8108-5452-9, ISBN10: 0-8108-5452-X. The Berbers are the remnants of the original inhabitants of North Africa, presently living in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, where they account for much of the population, and Burkina...
Scarecrow Press, 1996. — 363 p. Imperato, drawing upon recent scholarship, expands his coverage of pre-colonial Malian history. This edition contains a detailed and up-to-date chronology of Malian history, a dozen tables, six detailed maps, a list of abbreviations and acronyms, and an extensive cross-referenced dictionary. The extensive dictionary is inclusive, scholars of...
The University of Wisconsin Press, 1988. — 281 p. — ISBN: 978-0-299-11780-1. While the world's attention has been focused on the spectacular economic success of Japan and Korea, the less developed countries of Asia have often been neglected. Asian Development closes the gap. In nontechnical style and with minimal mathematics, it presents an in-depth perspective on the economic...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 258 p. This book is a vivid history of Madagascar from the pre-colonial era to decolonization, examining a set of French colonial projects and perceptions that revolve around issues of power, vulnerability, health, conflict, control and identity. It focuses on three lines of inquiry: the relationship between domination and health fears, the island’s...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. — 201 p. This book focuses on US-UK relations with Jordan for the entire period of King Hussein's reign, explaining Hussein's successes and failures, while emphasizing the declining influence of London and the rising influence of Washington.
Scarecrow Press, 2001. — 560 p. This third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Malawi is a greatly expanded and updated version of early ones. Containing over 1000 entries, it is the most extensive single-volume reference book on Malawi covering a broad range of fields, including war, disease, the rise and fall of state systems, religious socio-political movements, natural...
Fairleigh Dickinson University, 2012. — 238 p. Colonization Women and education Human trafficking Relations with Africa Afghanistan Armenia Cyprus Egypt Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Marocco and Western Sahara Oman Qatar Saudi Arabia Somalia South Sudan Syria Turkey Yemen
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 425 p. Revolution, reform, and resilience comprise the respective fortunes of modern Iran, Turkey, and Egypt. Although the countries all experienced coups with remarkably similar ambitions, each followed a very different trajectory. Iran became an absolutist monarchy that was overthrown from below, Turkey evolved into a limited democracy, and...
Columbia University Press, 2010. — 239 p. From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 246 p. Tables and Figures page Introduction: Extraterritoriality in British Legal Imperialism Positive Law and Sovereignty Extraterritoriality and Legal Imperialism Japan’s Rapid Rise to Sovereignty The Ottoman Empire’s Elusive Dream of Sovereignty China’s Struggle for Sovereignty Conclusion: American Legal Imperialism –Extraterritoriality Today
Basic Books, 2016. — 336 p. From a preeminent scholar of Islamic history, the authoritative history of caliphates from their beginnings in the 7th century to the modern day In Caliphate , Islamic historian Hugh Kennedy dissects the idea of the caliphate and its history, and explores how it became used and abused today. Contrary to popular belief, there is no one enduring...
BRILL, 2011 - 294 p. ISBN10: 9004202609 ISBN13: 9789004202603 (eng) Product Description: This book examines the history and contemporary living conditions of Chagossians who were evicted from the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean to make way for a strategic U.S. military base. Initially part of colonial Mauritius, Chagos was integrated into a new colony named the British...
Nations in Transition Facts On File, Inc. 132 West 31st Street New York NY 10001 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data This new volume in the Nations in Transition series examines the problems confronting the five Central Asian Republics — Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan — as they adjust to their relatively new status as independent...
Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005. — 247 p. — Frank Cass, 1981. reedition The Growth of the Settlement Trade The Administration Sultan Muhsin Sultan ‘Ali Sultan Fadl Appendix: Rassam
Brill, 2011. — 314 p. Note on Transliteration and Date Conversion Maps The ‘Return of the Turks’: The Campaigns of 1871–73 and the Context of Tanẓīmāt Imperialism Imperial Visions: Knowledge Production, Empire, and the Creation of Difference, 1849–75 ‘According to Their Customs and Dispositions’: Elaborating Politics of Difference in Ottoman Yemen, 1874–91 Struggling for a...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 536 p. This Handbook presents a broad yet nuanced portrait of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, its socio-political rifts, economic challenges, foreign policy priorities and historical complexities. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has traditionally been an oasis of peace and stability in the ever-turbulent Middle East. The political ambitions of...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. — 536 p. This Handbook presents a broad yet nuanced portrait of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, its socio-political rifts, economic challenges, foreign policy priorities and historical complexities. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan has traditionally been an oasis of peace and stability in the ever-turbulent Middle East. The political ambitions of...
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd, 2010. — 289 p. Introduction and Background to the Levant Company. Outline of Existing Literature. Sources and Proposed Methodology. Britain’s Relations with the Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century. Background to the Levant Company. The Company in the Seventeenth Century. The Company in the Eighteenth Century. The Administrators. Company Organization...
Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1967. — 128 p. Le Thanh Khoi. History of Southeast Asia (in French) Table des matières: L'Antiquité. Les Empires de l'archipel. Apogée et déclin des Khmers. Le "Nam Tien" vietnamien. L'unification de la Birmanie. L'essor Thai. La fin de l'Ancien Régime. La Renaissance nationale. L'édification des Etats nouveaux.
Istanbul: Kapı Yayınları, 2008. — VII, 727 s. — ISBN: 978-9944-486-63-7 Translation into Turkish based on the book: Lewis Bernard. From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East. Bu kitaptaki makalelerin hepsi şu ya da bu biçimde tarihle ilgilidir. Makaleleri başlıca üç grupta topluyorum: Geçmiş tarih hakkındaki makaleler, bugünkü tarih hakkındaki makaleler ve genel...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 454 p. Bernard Lewis is certainly one of the most articulate and prolific authorities on the subject of Islam and the Middle East. In this compendium of essays and speeches on the topic covering the last 60 years, Lewis makes a palpable contribution to the subject and gives us some much needed answers. Important points explain the Muslim...
6th edition. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. - 240 p. - ISBN: 0-19-280310-7 Now brought completely up to date, this classic study by one of the world's premier historians of the Middle East considers the achievement of the Arab peoples and their place in world history, from pre-Islamic times to the present-day. In a concise and readable account, Lewis examines the...
Sixth edition. – New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. – 240 p. Contents: – List of Maps. – Introduction. – Arabia Before Islam. – Muhammad and the Rise of Islam. – The Age of the Conquests. – The Arab Kingdom. – The Islamic Empire. – 'The Revolt of Islam'. – The Arabs in Europe. – Islamic Civilization. –The Arabs in Eclipse. –The Impact of the West. – Chronological Table....
Scribner, 1996. — 465 p. As the birthplace of three religions as and many civilizations, the Middle East has for centuries been a center of knowledge and ideas, of techniques and commodities, and, at times, of military and political power. With the historical -- and still growing -- importance of the Middle East in modern politics, historian Bernard Lewis's cogent and scholarly...
Oxford University Press, 1994. — 200 p. With this major revision of his classic The Middle East and the West (1964), a leading Middle East historian of our time offers a definitive and now more-timely-than-ever history of Western-Middle Eastern relations from the late seventeenth century to the present day. Fully revised to cover the volatile developments of the last three...
Ürümchi, Shinjang Xelq Neshriyati, 2002. — 586 b. Hazir 24 tarixning "Tarixi xatiriler" qisimining uyghurche we yilnamiliri terjimisi izahliri, éndéksliri bilen neshrdin chiqip, keng kitapxanlar bilen yüz körüshti. Bu munasiwet bilen bezi alaqidar mesililer üstide tégishlik izahatlarni bérip ötmekchimiz.
Cambridge University Press, 2003. - 510 p. ISBN10: 0521804965, ISBN13: 978-0521804967 In an ambitious effort to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, this study connects Southeast Asia to world history. Victor Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a pattern of...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 976 p. ISBN10: 0521530369, ISBN13: 978-0521530361 This book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a hitherto unrecognized pattern of political and cultural integration...
Scarecrow Press, 1996. — 642 p. Guinea-bissau, formerly Portuguese Gunea, is one of West Africa's smallest nations, but its history is unusually rich. The three major ethnic groups of West Africa -- Fula, Mande, and Senegambians -- are all represented there. The major regional kingdom of Kaabu was centered on the upper Guinea coast and was the site of the first meeting between...
The Scarecrow Press, 2004. — 511 p. — (Historical Dictionaries of Ancient Civilizations and Historical Eras, No. 10). — ISBN: 0-8108-4784-1. The Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia covers the period from the Paleolithic, all the periods of ancient Nubia (Predynastic, Kerma, Dynasty XXV, Napatan, Meroitic, Post-Meroitic) and to the end of medieval Christianity in...
Greenwood Press, 2007. — 280 p. In this detailed account of civilian lives during wartime in Asia, high school students, undergrads, and general readers alike can get a glimpse into the often dismal, but surprisingly resilient, lives led by ordinary people-those who did not go off to war but were powerfully affected by it nonetheless. How did people live on a day-to-day basis...
Bruxelles: Institut Royal Colonial Belge, 1940. — 164 p. Lothar R. P. L. Great Chronicle of Bomu (in French) Table des matières: Préface. Première pénétration au Bomu et installation chez Bangasso (de mai 1890 à mars 1891). Installations successives chez Bafai, Semio, Sassa, Tambura, Ndoruma et Mopoie (de fin 1890 à mai 1894). Les Français sur le haut Ubangi (juillet à décembre...
Monograph. — N.Y.: Columbia University Press, 2008. — 338 p. Laurence Louër, author of the critically acclaimed "To Be an Arab in Israel," brings her extensive knowledge of the Middle East to an analysis of the historical origins and present situation of militant Shia transnational networks. She focuses on three key countries in the gulf: Kuwait, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia,...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 383 p. During the 1890s, the ‘scramble for Africa’ created the new country of Uganda. This inland territory carved out by British agents first encompassed some twenty to thirty African kingdoms. In his magisterial new study, Anthony Low examines how and why the British were able to dominate these rulerships and establish a colonial...
Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969. — 423 p. Modern History of the Arab Countries by the prominent Arabist Vladimir Borisovich Lutsky is the first attempt in Russian or soviet literature to wrte a systematic history of the Arabs in modern times.
Cambridge University Press, 2009. - 496 p. This study is the first of its kind to examine the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade network system based on a case-study of the Wad Nun traders, who specialized in outfitting camel caravans in the nineteenth century. Through...
ABC-CLIO, Inc., USA, 2008. - 277 p. Language: English. This encyclopedia is about relations between India and Pakistan from 1947 to today, and it endeavors to trace and account for the principal vicissitudes in these relations in their several dimensions — political, military, economic, and cultural. It does not purport to be a detailed account of all aspects of India and/or...
Madeira Santos, Maria Emília Ph.D..1995.642 p. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT), Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (INEP). ISBN: 972 672 830 4. Colecção de três livros publicados respectivamente em 1991, 1995 e 2002.
Madeira Santos, Maria Emília Ph.D..2002.540 p. Instituto de Investigação Científica Tropical (IICT), Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa (INEP). ISBN: 972 672 915 7. Colecção de três livros publicadas respectivamente em 1991, 2001 e 2002.
Prometheus Books, 2017. — 175 p. Award-winning Australian intellectual Robert Manne presents an incisive analysis of the historical background and current ideology that motivates ISIS and their quest for domination in the Middle East and beyond. In the ongoing conflict with ISIS, military observers and regional experts have noted that it is just as important to understand its...
New York: Vendome Press, 1989. — 192 p. (Also published in 1988 in London as Sultans in Splendour: The Last Years of the Ottoman World .) In 1869, the Ottoman Sultan ruled a powerful empire stretching from the Danube to the Gulf. At its heart lay one of the largest and most cosmopolitan cities in the world: Constantinople, the city of the Sultans. By 1945 the Ottoman Sultans,...
Yale University Press, 2011. — 470 p. — ISBN: 978-0-300-17264-5. Levant is a book of cities. It describes three former centers of great wealth, pleasure, and freedom — Smyrna, Alexandria, and Beirut — cities of the Levant region along the eastern coast of the Mediterranean. In these key ports at the crossroads of East and West, against all expectations, cosmopolitanism and...
4th ed. — Penguin Books, 2013. — 592 p. — ISBN 978-0-698-15659-3. The definitive history of the Middle East, thoroughly revised and updated through 2012 . One of the most crucial, volatile, and complex regions of the modern world, the Middle East has long confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book, fully updated to 2012 and still the...
5th Ed. — Penguin Books, 2019. — 590 p. — ISBN: 978-0-718199-67-7. Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic book follows the historic struggles of the region over the last two hundred years, from Napoleon's assault on Egypt, through the slow decline and fall of the Ottoman Empire, to the painful emergence...
Routledge, 2007. — 286 p. Africa in the 21st Century: Toward a New Future brings together some of the finest Pan African and Afrocentric intellectuals to discuss the possibilities of a new future where the continent claims its own agency in response to the economic, social, political, and cultural problems which are found in every nation. The volume is structured around four...
Allen and Unwin, 2012. — 338 p. An award-winning journalist's writing on recent events in the Middle East, including the devastating Gaza Flotilla incident. It's been 10 years since Al-Qaeda demolished the World Trade Center, and Paul McGeough was in the streets of Manhattan on that fateful day. No journalist has monitored more closely the fallout from those destructive minutes...
Britannica, 2011. — 200 p. — ISBN10: 1615303979 Alternately identified with either the countries of the Mediterranean, those of the Middle East, or other African territories, the nations of northern Africa occupy a unique physical and historical place. After centuries of fielding various foreign invaders, northern Africans have absorbed and co-opted Greek, Roman, and Arab...
Springer, 1965. — 326 S. — ISBN: 978-3-540-03249-6. Das vorliegende Buch ist die zweite Veröffentlichung innerhalb der Reihe "Afrika-Studien", die über den rein wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Bereich hinausgeht und sich mit sozialwissenschaftliehen Fragen im weiten Sinne des Wortes befaßt. Es ist eine systematische und zum Teil kritisch-analytische Bestandsaufnahme der...
Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1960. — 382 p. Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile chronicles the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life personalities of such notable figures as...
Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1966. — 485 p. In 1879, armed only with their spears, their rawhide shields, and their incredible courage, the Zulus challenged the might of Victorian England and, initially, inflicted on the British the worst defeat a modern army has ever suffered at the hands of men without guns. This is the definitive account of the rise of the Zulu nation under the great...
Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1956. - 727 pgs. This is Volume 1 of a well researched work in two volumes that covers the beginnings of the early British regiments under trading companies up through full participation in the World Wars. The Central Africa Regiment, Uganda Rifles, and East Africa Rifles of the 1890's became the King's African Rifles which fought in German East Africa...
Aldershot: Gale & Polden, 1956. - 727 pgs. This is Volume 2 of a well researched work in two volumes that covers the beginnings of the early British regiments under trading companies up through full participation in the World Wars. The Central Africa Regiment, Uganda Rifles, and East Africa Rifles of the 1890's became the King's African Rifles which fought in German East Africa...
New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. - 347 p. Four hundred years ago, indigenous peoples occupied the vast region that today encompasses Korea, Manchuria, the Mongolian Plateau, and Eastern Siberia. Over time, these populations struggled to maintain autonomy as Russia, China, and Japan sought hegemony over the region. This atlas tracks the political configuration of...
University of Texas Press, 2009. — 355 p. North Africa has been a vital crossroads throughout history, serving as a connection between Africa, Asia, and Europe. Paradoxically, however, the region's historical significance has been chronically underestimated. In a book that may lead scholars to reimagine the concept of Western civilization, incorporating the role North African...
Lyon: Université Jean Moulin, 2017. — 138 p. Table des matières Introduction: le Moyen-Orient, un objet historiographique et ses mutations Le Moyen-Orient à l’heure des réformes (1876-1914) Le Moyen-Orient entre guerre(s) et révolution(s) (1914-1924) Une région dans un processus d’étatisation et de modernisation (1924-1948) La question palestinienne embrase le Moyen-Orient...
New York: International Publishers, 1975. - 96 p. Recent African history has exposed the close links between the interests of imperialism and neo-colonialism and the African bourgeoisie. This book reveals the nature and extent of the class struggle in Africa and sets it in the broad context of the African Revolution and the world socialist revolution. Origins of Class in...
Scarecrow Press, 1997 - 392 p. ISBN: 979-462-883-2 When Tanganyika became independent in 1961, the people were elated to be finally united behind a widely backed party, and looked toward growing with a relatively promising economy. The young state then merged with Zanzibar becoming the United Republic of Tanzania, thus demonstrating to the world a rare example of African unity....
5th revised ed. — Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 405 p. This book begins by looking at the peoples of Africa at the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and goes on to study the commercial and ideological penetration of Africa by the outside world. The partition and colonisation of Africa by the European powers are discussed, and there is comprehensive...
Cambridge University Press, 2001. — 251 p. — ISBN: 0 521 79024 7; 0 521 79372 6. This is a radically revised version of The African Middle Ages 1400-1800 , and the companion volume to the authors' well-known Africa since 1800. It follows the overall plan of the original, but now begins 150 years earlier, and considers recent literature in African historical studies. The earlier...
Lexington Books, 2009. — 245 p. The Caliphate Question examines British governmental files from the early to mid-twentieth century to examine the past approach of British policy-makers to questions of Islamic governance, particularly in relation to the office of the Caliph. In so doing it draws out pointers and questions that will help present-day policy-makers to create...
Scarecrow Press, 1994. — 164 p. Islands of stark contrasts and complex syncretisms, the Comoros hold a major key to the history of the western Indian Ocean area. Recent archaeological studies have confirmed that the islands were a crossroads of the region. Extensive long-distance maritime trade was recorded in oral histories and is reflected today in the cultures of the...
Routledge, 2013. — 376 p. The study of the history of Southeast Asia is still growing, evolving, deepening and changing as an academic field. Over the past few decades historians have added nuance to traditional topics such as Islam and nationalism, and created new ones, such as gender, globalization and the politics of memory. The Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian History...
Scarecrow Press, 1995. — 477 p. Since 1957, Ghana has experienced four republics and five military regimes. This dictionary attempts to outline the complex course of Ghana's history since the probable human habitation at Jiman, on the Oti River. This volume updates McFarland's 1984 edition, covering events through the beginning of the Fourth Republic in January 1993. It's...
Abacus Books, 1992. — 768 p. In 1880 the continent of Africa was largely unexplored by Europeans. Less than thirty years later, only Liberia and Ethiopia remained unconquered by them. The rest - 10 million square miles with 110 million bewildered new subjects - had been carved up by five European powers (and one extraordinary individual) in the name of Commerce, Christianity,...
Warszawa: Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, 1972. Tłumaczenie Klemens Kęplicz. Asia and Western Dominance. A Survey of the Vasco da Gama Epoch of Asian History. 1498 - 1945. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1959. Z książkami tego typu co "Azja a dominacja Zachodu" ani polski, ani też w ogóle europejski czytelnik nie miał możliwości stykać się zbyt często. Nie tylko dlatego, że autorem...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 294 p. While in the West 'the Caliphate" evokes overwhelmingly negative images, throughout Islamic history it has been regarded as the ideal Islamic polity. In the wake of the "Arab Spring" and the removal of long-standing dictators in the Middle East, in which the dominant discourse appears to be one of the compatibility of Islam and democracy,...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2004. — 352 p. — ISBN: 9004125949. From 1516 to 1830, the Barbary corsairs dominated the Ottoman provinces of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. The years between 1800-1820 were crucial. Until 1805, a spectacular revival of privateering allows the author to present the men, the practices and the results gained by the privateers. From 1805 to 1814, the...
2nd edition. — Routledge, 2010. — 380 p. This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and women's histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more traditional modernizing approaches, Ilan Pappe is concerned with the ideological...
Scarecrow Press, 1996. — 315 p. The core of this work, with more than 300 entries covering a wide variety of topics, is comprehensive and well written. Most academic and larger public libraries will want to acquire this compact overview of one of the least-studied countries in Africa. Mauritania is bordered by Senegal in the south, Mali in the east, Algeria in the far...
Frank Cass, 1982. — 198 p. Herbert Macaulay, Arthur Creech Jones and J.O.Balogun frontis. Introduction: Complacent Trusteeship of the Inter-War Years. The Re-definition of Imperial Principles in International and National Politics. Lord Hailey and Colonial Office Thought on African Policy. African Governors and the Making of Policy in Africa. Creech Jones and the Labour...
Scarecrow Press, 2008. — 406 p. The A to Z of the Gulf Arab States comes at a time when the world's attention is riveted on the Middle East. The small states covered in this volume — Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—possess about 20 percent of the world's total oil reserves. Beyond the strategic and economic importance conferred upon them by...
London and New York: Longman, 1986. — 250 p. The kaleidoscopic political changes during the years covered by this volume include the rise and fall of the Crusader states, the expansion of the Mongol empire, the rise of the Mamluk sultanate and of its ultimate conquerors, the Ottomans. To all of these Professor Holt is a clear and skilful guide. He principally utilises, and to...
Routledge, 2000 - 400 p. As a foreign correspondent, Scott Peterson witnessed firsthand Somalia's descent into war and its battle against US troops, the spiritual degeneration of Sudan's Holy War, and one of the most horrific events of the last half century: the genocide in Rwanda. In Me Against My Brother , he brings these events together for the first time to record a...
I. B. Tauris, 2009. - 784 p. ISBN: 1848850794. Empires at War gives a dramatic narrative account of how "Modern Asia" came into being. Ranging over the whole of Asia, from Japan to Pakistan, the modern history of this important region is placed in the context of the struggle between America and the Soviet Union. Francis Pike shows that America's domination of post-war Asia was...
Scarecrow Press, 1995. — 584 p. Uganda has now joined the list of countries covered by Scarecrow Press' series of Historical Dictionaries of Africa. An introductory essay provides an overview of the geography, demography, and economy of one of Africa's most scenically beautiful and diverse countries. The historical section of the introduction outlines Uganda's chequered...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 - 336 p. This edited collection surveys the history of the Persian Gulf from ancient times until the present day. Chapters by leading authorities summarize the internal history of the region and highlight the role outsiders, including the Portuguese, Dutch, Ottomans, British and Americans, have played there. A major theme is the unity and distinct...
London: Trident Press; Abu Dhabi: Sultan bin Zayed's Culture and Media Centre, 2012. — 219 p. — ISBN: 978-1-905486-57-1. In the Land of the Emirates’ provides an up-to-date account of the archaeology and history of the UAE. It is written by Daniel T. Potts, Edwin Cuthbert Hall Professor of Middle Eastern Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Comparatively few archaeologists...
Scarecrow Press, 1996. — 216 p. Written by three scholars with close ties to the country, the dictionary offers concise descriptive entries for Botswana's significant personalities, places, events, and institutions as well as its economy, society, ethnic groups, government, and culture. This book immediately enters the canon of the dozen or so essential works of reference on...
Penguin Books, 1998. — 816 p. — ISBN: 978-0-14-192693-3. Drawing on many years of African experience, John Reader has written a book of startling grandeur and scope that recreates the great panorama of African history, from the primeval cataclysms that formed the continent to the political upheavals facing much of the continent today. Reader tells the extraordinary story of...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 264 p. The mid twentieth century marked one of the greatest watersheds of Asian history, when a range of imperial constructs were declared to be nation-states, either by revolution or by decolonisation. Nationalism was the great alchemist, turning the base metal of empire into the gold of nations. To achieve such a transformation from the...
State University of New York Press, 2007. — 254 p. Chapter One Prologue: Of Irony and Empire Chapter Two African Conscripts/European Conflicts: Race, Memory, and the Lessons of War Chapter Three Ambiguous Adventure: Reading Cheikh Hamidou Kane Chapter Four Heimlich un-Heimlich: Of Home as Heterotopia in Salih, Tlili, and Mokeddem Chapter Five Epilogue: The Ends of Irony
Dar-Es-Salaam, Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications, London and Tanzanian Publishing House, 1973. — 453 p. Some Questions on Development What is Development What is Underdevelopment? How Africa Developed Before the Coming of the Europeans up to the 15th Century Africa’s Contribution to European Capitalist Development — the Pre-Colonial Period How Europe Became the Dominant Section of...
New York: Basic Books, 2011. — 758 p. — ISBN: 978-0465025046 In this definitive history of the modern Arab world, award-winning historian Eugene Rogan draws extensively on Arab sources and texts to place the Arab experience in its crucial historical context for the first time. Tracing five centuries of Arab history, Rogan reveals that there was an age when the Arabs set the...
New York: Basic Books, 2017. — 608 p. — ISBN: 978-0-465094-21-9. The internationally bestselling definitive history of the Arab world, named a best book of the year by the Financial Times, the Economist, and the Atlantic -- now updated to cover the latest developments in the Middle East. In this groundbreaking and comprehensive account of the Middle East, award-winning...
São Paulo, Editora e Livraria Instituto Paulo Freire, 2012. — 04:40:00. Romao J. E., Gadotti M. Paulo Freire and Amilcar Cabral: Decolonizing minds. Na década de 1970, Paulo Freire assessorou vários países da África que haviam se libertado da colonização europeia, cooperando na implantação de seus sistemas de ensino pós-coloniais. O processo de descolonização e reconstrução...
Routledge, 2011. — 253 p. This book argues that the role of the British East India Company in transforming warfare in South Asia has been overestimated. Although it agrees with conventional wisdom that, before the British, the nature of Indian society made it difficult for central authorities to establish themselves fully and develop a monopoly over armed force, the book argues...
The University of Chicago Press, 2012. — 355 p. Foreword by Frederick Cooper le mêtissage : a colonial social problem An Imperial Question A Threat to the Colonial Order “Reclassifying” the Métis the law takes up the “mêtis question” Nationality and Citizenship in the Colonial Situation The Controversy over “Fraudulent Recognitions” Investigating Paternity in the Colonies...
Routledge, 2016. — 230 p. — (Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe 24). The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the collapse of the Qing and Russian Empires were highly unusual, experimental and extremely interesting. The Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic established within the Soviet Union in 1923 and the...
Brussel: Koninklijke Academie voor Overzeese Wetenschappen, 1977. — 87 p. Salmon P. The Tetela revolt during the expedition to the upper reaches of Ituri in 1897. (in French) Table des matières: Le témoignage inédit du capitaine-commandant H. Bodart concernant l’expédition du Haut-Ituri. Autres témoignages concernant l’expédition du Haut-Ituri. Annexes.
Istanbul 2008. — 408 s. İçindekiler. Sosyal ve iktisadı hayat. vakıf ve din hizmetleri. Eğitim öğretiö faaliyetleri. Sağlık hizmetleri. Bayındırlık işleri. İdarı ve mülki düzenlemeler. Askeri faaliyetleri. Diplomasi.
UCT Press, 2011. — 143 p. In 1904, the indigenous Herero people of German South West Africa (now Namibia) rebelled against their German occupiers. In the following four years, the German army retaliated, killing between 60,000 and 100,000 Herero people, one of the worst atrocities ever. The history of the Herero genocide remains a key issue for many around the world partly...
Hurst, 2014. — 236 p. As late as the last quarter of the twentieth century, there were expectations that Islam's political and cultural influence would dissipate as the advance of westernization brought modernization and secularization in its wake. Not only has Islam failed to follow the trajectory pursued by variants of Christianity, namely confinement to the private sphere...
Routledge, 2015. - 463 p. The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates provides an overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural histories of the Middle East in the decades between the end of the First World War and the late 1940s, when Britain and France abandoned their Mandates. It also situates the history of the Mandates in their wider...
Praeger, 2000. — 239 p. Sicker explores the political history of the Middle East from antiquity to the Arab conquest from a geopolitical perspective. He argues that there are a number of relatively constant environmental factors that have helped condition-not determine-the course of Middle Eastern political history from ancient times to the present. These factors, primarily,...
Ürümchi, Shinjang Xelq Neshriyati, 2000. — 593 b. Hazir 24 tarixning "Tarixi xatiriler" qisimining uyghurche we yilnamiliri terjimisi izahliri, éndéksliri bilen neshrdin chiqip, keng kitapxanlar bilen yüz körüshti. Bu munasiwet bilen bezi alaqidar mesililer üstide tégishlik izahatlarni bérip ötmekchimiz.
Columbia University Press, 2007. — 273 p. In this groundbreaking work, social anthropologist David Sneath aggressively dispels the myths surrounding the history of steppe societies and proposes a new understanding of the nature and formation of the state. Since the colonial era, representations of Inner Asia have been dominated by images of fierce nomads organized into clans...
ABC-CLIO, 2017. — 818 p. — ISBN 9781598848366, ASIN 1598848364. Two volumes introduce the history of colonial wars in Africa and illustrate why African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan continue to experience ethnic, political, and religious violence in the early 21st century. Begins with a helpful introduction and overview of the...
Conseil National de la Révolution, Burkina Faso, C.D.R. 17 Mai 1984. — 24 p. General Statutes of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution, Burkina Faso (in French) Sommaire: Préambule. De la Définition et des Objectifs. De l’Organisation. Des attributions et des fonctionnements. De l’adhésion, des sanctions et de la dissolution. Ressources – Publications et Dispositions...
An Article. Genocide Studies and Prevention 1: 1. July, 2006. pp. 41–56. Dynamics of Genocide in Darfur and Rwanda Patterns of Violence Origins of Violence in Darfur Origins of Violence in Rwanda Theoretical Implications International Responses The Genocide Debate Domestic Constituencies Obstacles to Intervention
Allen&Unwin, 2003. — 289 p. Preface and acknowledgments The Chinese view of the world The Confucian worldview The Chinese way of war Empire and world order: Qin and Han Early relations Early Southeast Asia Expansion of contacts: trade and religion The special case of Vietnam Southeast Asia and the Song Mongol expansionism Mongol conquests The projection of Mongol power...
University of California Press, 1962. — 255 p. Arab Nationalism as an ideology and as a factor in Middle East politics is a recent development. After the First World War, politicians in Iraq and Syria enjoyed a certain measure of independent action and were able to exploit the rivalry of the Great Powers in the Middle East and began to attempt the creation of a state which...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 324 p. The Killer Trail tells the tale of one of the most notorious atrocities to take place during the European "scramble for Africa", a real life story of insane violence in the heart of an exotic continent that eerily prefigures fictional accounts such as The Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now. The Voulet-Chanoine mission left Dakar in 1898...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. - 672 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521355052 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521355056 Southeast Asia has long been seen as a unity, although other terms have been used to describe it: Further India, Little China, the Nanyang. The region has had a protracted maritime history. Confucianism, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism, Christianity are all represented. It has seen a...
Cambridge University Press, 1993. - 704 p. ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0521355060 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780521355063 This volume takes us into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from the late eighteenth century of the Christian era when most of the region was incorporated into European empires to the complexity and dramatic change of the post-World War II period. It covers the economic and...
Reports and papers of the meeting of experts organized by Unesco at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 31 January to 4 February 1978. — Unesco, 1979. — 330 p. — (The general history of Africa: studies and documents; 2). — ISBN: 92-3-101672-5. This second volume in the series 'The General History of Africa: Studies and Documents' presents the working documents, a summary report of...
New York; London: Encounter books, 2011. — 374 p. State within a state. Hanging with hezbollah. We know where you live. The shatter zone. Welcome to Hezbollahland. Something dark is coming. Everything could explode at any moment. The july war. Hezbollah’s putsch. From Jerusalem to Beirut. So this is our victory. The siege of ain ebel. The solution is in tehran. Guns in the...
London: NY. Zed Books Ltd., 2007. — 243 p. Since 1996 war has raged in the Congo while the world has looked away. Waves of armed conflict and atrocities against civilians have resulted in over three million casualties, making this one of the bloodiest yet least understood conflicts of recent times. In The Congo Wars Thomas Turner provides the first in-depth analysis of what...
University of California Press, 2012. — 272 p. A Note on Maps Humanitarianism and the Rise of the Eastern Question Mapping the Near East Humanitarian Diplomacy Missionary Philanthropy The Armenian Genocide and the Great War Smyrna’s Ashes Epilogue: From Near to Middle East
Belknap Press - Harvard University Press, 2019. — 536 p. One of the world’s most eminent scholars of East Asia reveals the important touchstones in the long history between China and Japan and argues that for the sake of world stability they must forge a new relationship for the twenty-first century. China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back...
The Radcliffe Press, 2009. — 241 p. Family Background. Malaya. Kenya Childhood. Preparatory School (Kenton College). Transition (King’s School, Canterbury). Starting a Career: Devonshire Course. Teso District. Long Leave. Ankole District. Refugees. Politics and Religion. Social Life and End of Tour. Guidance to ADCs on Changes to the Constitution. Handover Notes for Arms and...
New York: Routledge, 2006. - 252 p. Language: English. This collection of essays develops an international history of the Third Indochina War with participants from many different countries and scholarly traditions, building on fresh research of the last ten years, including new work carried out in Vietnam. The wars between Vietnam, China and Cambodia at the end of the 1970s...
2nd Edition — University of California Press, 2015. — 312 p. In this long-awaited second edition, Susan Whitfield broadens her exploration of the Silk Road and expands her rich and varied portrait of life along the great pre-modern trade routes of Eurasia. This new edition is comprehensively updated to support further understanding of themes relevant to global and comparative...
London: Maggs Bros, 2003. — 155 p. Books, maps, artifacts, artwork, photographs, manuscripts, articles, pamphlets, and ephemera from the Africana Library of Humphrey Winterton. Assembled over about 30 years, the collection depicts the breadth of African experience; documents African life; European life in Africa in all its manifestations; and the African landscape, in...
Polskie Towarzystwo Afrykanistyczne w Warszawie, 2013. — 249 s. — ISBN: 978-83-7401-434-2 Afryka przyciągała od zawsze uwagę historyków. Nazywana kolebką ludzkości, opisywana przez sławnych podróżników, takich jak Herodot czy Ibn Battuta, okazuje się kryć w sobie nieocenione źródła wiedzy. Jej historia jest nadzwyczaj pasjonująca, bowiem trudna do zbadania, wymaga wielkiej...
Polskie Towarzystwo Afrykanistyczne w Warszawie, 2013. — 281 s. — ISBN: 978-83-7401-429-8 Afryka przyciągała od zawsze uwagę historyków. Nazywana kolebką ludzkości, opisywana przez sławnych podróżników, takich jak Herodot czy Ibn Battuta, okazuje się kryć w sobie nieocenione źródła wiedzy. Jej historia jest nadzwyczaj pasjonująca, bowiem trudna do zbadania, wymaga wielkiej...
Routledge, 2007. — 240 p. — (History and Society in the Islamic World). 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 servitude...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 168 p. — (New Oxford World History). — ISBN10: 0195338103; ISBN13: 978-0195338102. The Silk Road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking East Asia with Central Asia, South Asia, and the Mediterranean world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural China and the steppe nomads during...
Kahire, El-Matbaatü'l-Arabiyye / El-Matbaatü'l-İtimad, 1929-1940. — 704 s. Bu kitap, Türkiyede alfabe inkilâbı senesinde tab'ına başlanmak üzere yazılmıştı. Eserin mezkûr sene zarfında tab'ı ikmal edilemiyeceği ve bilhassa muhtelif Asya memlektlerinde yaşıyan ve yeni Türk alfabesini öğrenmek imkânından mahrum Türkistanlı muhacirler tarafından okunacağı düşünüldüğünden eski...
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