Author: Powell, Eve M. Troutt Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This incisive study adds a new dimension to discussions of Egypt's nationalist response to the phenomenon of colonialism as well as to discussions of colonialism and nationalism in general. Eve M. Tro...
Author: Abrahamian,Ervand Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a reappraisal of Iran's modern history, Ervand Abrahamian traces its traumatic journey across the twentieth century, through the discovery of oil, imperial interventions, the rule of the Pahlavis a...
Author: Sirrs, Owen Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book analyzes how the Egyptian intelligence community has adapted to shifting national security threats since its inception 100 years ago. Starting in 1910, when the modern Egyptian in...
Author: Barfield, Thomas Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence...
Author: Barfield, Thomas Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the sixteenth century to the Taliban resurgence...
Author: Floor, Willem Publisher: Mage Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: AGRICULTURE was the mainstay of Iran's economy in the nineteenth century, yet little is known about it. Historians have rarely taken that important reality into account when writing on the economic or...
Author: Fiore, Massimiliano Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Between 1923 and 1934, Britain and Italy waged war by proxy in the Middle East. This book provides in-depth analysis of the factors leading to the interwar breakdown of Anglo-Italian relations. Enhanc...
Author: Filiu, Jean-Pierre Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""This brilliantly argued book turns conventional wisdom on its head. The source of Muslim anti-Semitism is more Western hate literature than Islamic scriptural or theological precedents. In stunning ...
Author: Faroqhi, Suraiya Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Suraiya Faroqhi's scholarly contribution to the field of Ottoman history has been prodigious. Her latest book represents a summation of that scholarship, an introduction to the state-of-the-art in Ott...
Author: Gabrieli, Francesco Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The recapture of Jerusalem, the siege of acre, the fall of Tripoli, the effect in Baghdad of events in Syria; these and other happenings were faithfully recorded by Arab historians during the two cent...
Author: Jamal, Amal Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: National minorities and their behaviour have become a central topic in comparative politics in the last few decades. Using the relationship between the state of Israel and the Arab national minority a...
Author: Jamal, Amal Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: National minorities and their behaviour have become a central topic in comparative politics in the last few decades. Using the relationship between the state of Israel and the Arab national minority a...
Author: Dawisha, Adeed Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Like a great dynasty that falls to ruin and is eventually remembered more for its faults than its feats, Arab nationalism is remembered mostly for its humiliating rout in the 1967 Six Day War, for int...
Author: N/A Publisher: Information Age Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Israeli history textbooks in the past contained many biases, distortions, and omissions concerning the depiction of Arabs and the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Today these misrepresentations a...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean are one of the most politically charged regions in which archaeology is implicated. Historically, they played a formative role in the birth of archaeology as ...
Author: Cohen, Hillel Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Inspired by stories he heard in the West Bank as a child, Hillel Cohen uncovers a hidden history in this extraordinary and beautifully written book-a history central to the narrative of the Israel-Pal...
Author: Scott, John C. Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: TOURS, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BATTLE IN HISTORY This is not a history book! It is not unlikely that this book will get me killed and I would not dismiss the danger to its publishers. If you have the c...
Author: Kassir, Samir Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work co...
Author: Gualtieri, Sarah Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This multifaceted study of Syrian immigration to the United States places Syrians- and Arabs more generally-at the center of discussions about race and racial formation from which they have long been ...
Author: Humphreys, R. Stephen Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Middle Easterners today are caught between memories of the past and frustrated hopes for the future. They struggle to find solutions to crises of economic stagnation, political gridlock, and cultural ...
Author: Kafadar, Cemal Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Cemal Kafadar offers a much more subtle and complex interpretation of the early Ottoman period than that provided by other historians. His careful analysis of medieval as well as modern historiography...
Author: Finkelstein, Norman G. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this long-awaited sequel to his international bestseller The Holocaust Industry, Norman G. Finkelstein moves from an iconoclastic interrogation of the new anti-Semitism to a meticulously researched...
Author: Philliou, Christine M. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beg...
Author: Philliou, Christine M. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beg...
Author: Morris, Benny Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Benny Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem was published in 1988. Its startling revelations about how and why 700,000 Palestinians left their homes and became refugees during the Arab-...
Author: N/A Publisher: Self-Help Publishers Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is a special report about Iran's nuclear ambitions and how the world would be look like if Iran acquires a WMD and how the world can stop them acquiring WMD. Tehran denies that it has military a...
Author: N/A Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1948, British troops withdrew from the Palestinian lands, ending over 30 years of the British Mandate of Palestine. Taking a fresh look at the years of the British mandate; its politics, economics,...
Author: Pigott, Peter Publisher: Dundurn Group Format: Adobe PDF
Description: To most of the world, Sudan means Darfur and the tragedy of atrocities and ethnic cleansing that has occurred there. Canada in Sudan introduces Canadians to this massive, troubled nation, telling the ...
Author: Blumi, Isa Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Chaos in Yemen challenges recent interpretations of Yemen's complex social, political and economic transformations since unification in 1990. By offering a new perspective to the violence afflicting t...
Author: Rabinowitz, Dan / Abu-Baker, Khawla Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This highly original historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the Palest...
Author: Cole, Juan R. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: this book Juan R. I. Cole challenges traditional elite-centered conceptions of the conflict that led to the British occupation of Egypt in September 1882. For a year before the British intervened, Egy...
Author: Nash, Geoffrey Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Comte Arthur de Gobineau is an important figure in the development of European Orientalism. This book makes available for the first time to an English reader the key writings of a hugely original nine...
Author: Lockman, Zachary Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Zachary Lockman's book offers a broad survey of the development of Western knowledge about Islam and the Middle East. Beginning with ancient Greek and Roman conceptions of the world, the book goes on ...
Author: Lockman, Zachary Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Zachary Lockmanís informed and thoughtful history of European Orientalism and U.S. Middle East studies, the ëclash of civilizationsí debate and Americaís involvement in the region has become a hig...
Author: Hajjar, Lisa Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Israel's military court system, a centerpiece of Israel's apparatus of control in the West Bank and Gaza since 1967, has prosecuted hundreds of thousands of Palestinians. This authoritative book provi...
Author: Zarinebaf, Fariba Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Farib...
Author: Zarinebaf, Fariba Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Farib...
Author: Throop, Susanna A. Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: To date, historians of the crusades have not thoroughly investigated the theme of crusading as an act of vengeance, despite its frequent appearance in crusading sources. This has led to inaccurate ass...
Author: Vasary, Istvan Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Cumans and the Tatars were nomadic warriors of the Eurasian steppe who exerted an enduring impact on the medieval Balkans. With this work, Istv·n V·s·ry presents the first extensive examination...
Author: Aronson, Shlomo Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a reappraisal of David Ben-Gurion's role in Jewish-Israeli history from the perspective of the twenty-first century, in the larger context of the Zionist 'renaissance', of which he wa...
Author: Abulhab, Saad D. Publisher: Blautopf Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is a comprehensive reference on the history of Arabic Language and script, which goes beyond the sole discussion of technical matters. It studies objectively the evidence presented by modern...
Author: Baron, Beth Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This original and historically rich book examines the influence of gender in shaping the Egyptian nation from the nineteenth century through the revolution of 1919 and into the 1940s. In Egypt as a Wo...
Author: Robinson, Chase F. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The study of early Islamic historical tradition has flourished in recent years with the emergence of a new and innovative scholarship no longer dependent on more traditional narratival approaches. Cha...
