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  • - A Modern History
    av Michael Gunter
    490 - 1 154,-

    Calling on more than 30 years of studying the Kurdish issue, numerous trips to the region, and many contacts among the Kurds, including almost all of their main leaders, Michael Gunter has written a short, but thorough history of the Kurds that is well documented, but very readable. This updated 2017 edition covers the latest events in Syria, Turkey and Iraq.

  • - and Other Writings by Robert Wedderburn
    av Robert Wedderburn
    366,-

    Robert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publications had an enormous impact in his time. His autobiography is a vital indictment of an execrable system.

  • - Two Tales of Sex, Magic, and Survival in Colonial Cartagena and Mexico City
    av Jonathan Schorsch
    1 132,-

    Explores the question of how free and enslaved Africans and secret Jews interacted in daily life. The book focuses on two stories that exemplify the sexual, religious and commercial contacts between the castes.

  • - The Untold Story of U-Boats, Spies, and Economic Warfare
    av Jose L. Bolivar Fresneda
    453 - 829,-

    The United States during World War II was unprepared for one of Germany's most destructive war efforts: a U-boat assault on Allied ships in the Caribbean that sank about 400 tankers and merchant ships, with few losses to the German submarine fleet.

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    438,-

    These six essays, three by art historians and three by specialists in Arabic and Persian literature, examine specific instances in which texts and images that would seem to have been intended as one cultural product have traditionally been studied separately.

  • - Empires, Peoples, and Faiths
     
    1 154,-

    The Caucasus as meeting point of East and West, Europe and Asia, Christiandom and Islam. The cultures include Greek, Slavic, Arabic, Turkish and Persian, just to name a few. It has served as realm of legend, myth, of wonderment and exotica. Yet at the same time the Caucasus can serve as mirror to the outside, at a site where one can trace the processes that have shaped the broader world.

  • - The Glory of Fez Under the Marinids
    av Maya Shatzmiller
    482,-

    Medieval Fez was a main centre of education, art, and commerce from the 13th to the 16th centuries after the Berber tribe of the Marinids seized power in Morocco and moved the capital from Marrakesh to Fez. Maya Shatzmiller draws a historical panorama of this era.

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    901,-

    Explores significant events in the naval history of the Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic and cultural life on the islands.

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    453,-

    Explores significant events in the naval history of the Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic and cultural life on the islands.

  • - A Divided Nation in Search of a State
    av Michael M. Gunter
    482 - 1 132,-

    In this updated and expanded edition of the 2016 The Kurds: A Modern History, Michael Gunter adds over 50 new pages that recount and analyze recent political, military, and economic events from 2016 to the end of 2018.

  • - Underground Societies in the Iberian Atlantic World
    av Jonathan Schorsch
    511,-

    Draws on protocols of the inquisition to create a panorama of the lives of free and enslaved people from Europe and Africa to Central and South America, including Conversos and freed Africans who were business partners and rivals, some involved in clandestine relations between dominated groups.

  • - Volume II: Historical Problems of Imperial Africa
     
    525,-

    The newly updated and expanded second volume in this fascinating series examines: The Partition of Africa; Collaboration or Resistance to European Rule in Africa; Colonial Rule in Africa; Educating the African Populations; Forging a National Identity; and Exploitation or Development in Africa.

  • - Colombian Man of Letters and Crusader for Hemispheric Unity
    av Jane Rausch
    843,-

    Santiago Perez Triana was a Colombian author, journalist, and diplomat who became one of the leading proponents of pan-American unity and crusaders against European intervention in the western hemisphere. He led a dramatic globetrotting life and became one of Latin America's best-known public figures, but his work has been largely overlooked in recent years, until the arrival of this biography.

  • - A Documentary History
    av Kwasi Konadu
    525,-

    25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and Ivory Coast, has established a legacy as widely known as its bright kente cloth. This first-of-its-kind collection features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives on the histories of the Akan peoples.

  • - A Historical Reader
    av Kwasi Konadu
    525,-

    A collection of key essays about the Akan people, their history, and their culture. The Akans are an ethnic group from West Africa, predominately Ghana and Togo, of roughly 25 million people. This volume features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives.

  • - What One Cemetery Can Tell Us about the Ottoman Empire
    av Douglas Scott Brookes & Ali Ziyrek
    482 - 1 472,-

    In vivid and engaging style, Douglas Brookes uses the royal tomb of Sultan Mahmud II as a window onto the past, exploring the insights the tomb reveals about Ottoman culture in its splendid last decades. Woven into the tale are the life stories of the Turkish royals and harem concubines interred in the mausoleum, and the illustrious Ottomans buried in the tomb's garden.

  • - Empires, Peoples, and Faiths
     
    490,-

    The Caucasus is a meeting point of East and West, Europe and Asia, Christiandom and Islam. The cultures include Greek, Slavic, Arabic, Turkish and Persian, just to name a few. It has served as realm of legend, myth, of wonderment and exotica. Yet at the same time the Caucasus can serve as mirror to the outside, at a site where one can trace the processes that have shaped the broader world.

  • - Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s
    av Olga Jimenez De Wagenheim
    525 - 1 154,-

    From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance against American colonial rule. While the male Nationalists have been celebrated as heroes in Puerto Rico, the women have gone unmentioned This book seeks to rescue the stories of the women who gave up their freedom in the quest to liberate their homeland.

  • - A History in Documents
    av Negin Nabavi
    525 - 1 154,-

    A translation of Iranian Documents from the early nineteenth century as to the 21st Century which shed light on aspects of political, social and intellectual history of modern Iran.

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    1 075,-

    These six essays, three by art historians and three by specialists in Arabic and Persian literature, examine specific instances in which texts and images that would seem to have been intended as one cultural product have traditionally been studied separately.

  • - A History in Documents
    av Rudolph Peters
    490 - 1 154,-

    This is an updated and expanded 2015 edition of a classic text on Muslim thinking about war and peace. The new edition includes a new introduction and translations of selected revelatory excerpts from ISIS texts about the treatment of POWs, guidelines on the ""management of barbarity"", fatwas in opposition to ISIS, and other key topics.

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    1 088,-

    Offers a full spectrum of emotionally charged theories. Each section presents a set of conflicting arguments to show the state of debates on these highly controversial issues. Extensive commentary by the editors leads the reader through this treasury of theories and dramatically highlights the development of the field.

  • - Between the Jihadi Hammer and the Iranian Anvil
    av Ali Al Shihabi
    432 - 1 154,-

  • av Ibn Battuta
    1 075,-

    Records the journey of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan jurist who travelled to the East, and offers fascinating details into the cultures and dynamics of the region, along with a first-hand account of increased globalisation due to the rise of Islam, and the relationship between the Western world, India, and China in the 14th century.

  • av Giran Fidan
    375 - 469,-

    Chronicles the observations of Chinese travellers who travelled to the Turkish Republic in the first quarter of the 20th century, and features the notes of historical figures including Shi Zhaoji, the first Chinese ambassador to the US, and Hu Hanmin, an early leader in the Kuomintang.

  • - A Pan-Caribbean Look at Slavery, Emancipation, and Colonialization
     
    1 169,-

    This is the first reader that goes beyond the fragmentation between Spanish, British, Dutch, and French Caribbean history to explain slavery, emancipation, colonization and decolonization in the region. The contributors to this pan-Caribbean approach are leading scholars in the field, including Franklin Knight and Luis Martinez-Fernandez.

  • - A Documentary History
     
    461,-

    The 25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and Ivory Coast, has established a legacy as widely known as its bright kente cloth. This first-of-its-kind collection features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives on the histories of the Akan peoples.

  • - A Panorama of Its People
    av Fernando Pico
    525,-

    Examines the ways in which developments in the courts and commercial centers of the Americas, Europe, and Africa have affected the common people of Puerto Rico, who have tried since the nineteenth century to take control of their political, social and economic lives.

  • - Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya
     
    490,-

    This central focus of this title is General China, the most important but controversial leader of the notorious Mau Mau rebellion that exploded in Kenya during the 1950s. We read the story through the lens of China, his memoirs - now published for the first time outside of Kenya - and archival sources, to understand important themes in African history.

  • - Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya
    av Myles Gregory Osborne
    1 472,-

    This central focus of this title is General China, the most important but controversial leader of the notorious Mau Mau rebellion that exploded in Kenya during the 1950s. We read the story through the lens of China, his memoirs - now published for the first time outside of Kenya - and archival sources, to understand important themes in African history.

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