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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938462306Author Jason Criss HowkFormat HardbackPage Count 678Imprint Old Stone PressPublisher Old Stone PressWeight(grams) 1066g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240917808Author Jerome Van Crowninshield SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240912773Author Charles MillingenFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Why do countries celebrate defining religious moments or significant events in their history, and how and why do their leaders select certain events for commemoration and not others? This book is the first systematic study of the role of celebrations and...

Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522-92) was a Flemish herbalist, diplomat and writer. In 1554, Ferdinand I, soon to be Holy Roman Emperor, dispatched him to Suleiman the Magnificent's court as an ambassador to the Ottoman empire, where Busbecq spent years...

The adventurous and unconventional Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839) set off to travel to the East in the early nineteenth century. She had been hostess to her uncle, British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger, and after his death she received a...

Cornish-born writer, traveller and controversialist James Silk Buckingham (1786-1855) spent much of his early life as a sailor in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean and went on to publish accounts of his extensive travels to India, Palestine and Persia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241487898Author Edmondo De AmicisFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

The Iranian revolution of 1979 not only had an impact on regional and international affairs, but was made possible by the world and time in which it unfolded. This multi-disciplinary volume presents this revolution within its transnational and global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945934339Author Charles Montagu DoughtyFormat HardbackPage Count 678Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1143g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241225148Author Frederick Arthur NealeFormat PaperbackPage Count 670Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Catastrophe and Exile in the Modern Palestinian Imagination explores the cultural memory of al-Nakba (1948 Israeli independence, or The Catastrophe as it is known in Palestine) and its significance to the modern Palestinian imagination. Ihab Saloul...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925937565Author Smbat SparapetFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Sophene Pty LtdPublisher Sophene Pty LtdWeight(grams) 517g

This book is a study of how feudalism works in a contemporary Arab society, examining the operations of the hierarchy of Lebanese warlords. The book shows how the warlords have adapted to changing economic conditions in Lebanon. Whereas power was...

Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe considers the various attitudes of European religious and secular writers towards Islam during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Examining works from England, France, Italy, the Holy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241703554Author Walter BesantFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241500771Author John Kerr CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical...

Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer (1841-1917), was a British statesman and colonial administrator. After a successful career in the War Office he was appointed the Controller General of Egypt in 1879. After the 1882 Anglo-Egyptian War, Baring became...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241518639Author Charles Dudley WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 502Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Since 1989 the history of Iraq has been one of the world's most traumatic. In this book, Thabit Abdullah places the Iraqi people at the centre of changes which began with the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, and ended with the current American-led occupation...

The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience, and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517). The book focuses on three less-explored but politically...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240924240Author Charles MassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940370453Author Sean AmbrizFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Mentor MilitaryPublisher Mentor MilitaryWeight(grams) 231g

John Lewis Burckhardt (1784-1817) was a Swiss explorer who is best remembered for his rediscovery of the ancient city of Petra, in Jordan. In 1809 he was commissioned by the African Association to discover the source of the River Niger. In preparation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241497552Author Charles Henry ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241515560Author Frederick Arthur BridgmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241154424Author Robert CarstairsFormat PaperbackImprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241500269Author AnonymousFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241562571Author John AitonFormat PaperbackPage Count 614Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781241372200Author Ivan Gavrilovich GolovinFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library,...

This four-volume edition of the Arabic text of the Journey of the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta (1304-68/9), with a French translation, was published in 1853-8. In 1325, Ibn Battuta, who came from a family of Islamic jurists in Tangier, set out to make...

Robert Walpole (1781-1856), great-nephew and namesake of Britain's first prime minister, was a classical scholar and clergyman. After graduating from Trinity College, Cambridge, he visited Greece and the Middle East. This work, first published in 1817...

This two-volume travelogue recounts the diplomatic mission through Central Asia and Russia undertaken by James Abbott (1807-96) in 1839. An officer in the Bengal Artillery, Abbott first travelled to Central Asia in 1838 and was soon drawn into the 'Great...

Combines analysis of transnational prostitution and traffic in women with a social history of the League of Nations and interwar globalization.Global Women, Colonial Ports is a transnational history of state-regulated prostitution in the Middle East and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781240924202Author Charles MassonFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint British Library, Historical Print EditionsPublisher British Library, Historical Print...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789368095187Author Marmaduke William PickthallFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Double 9 BooksPublisher Double 9 BooksWeight(grams) 227g

In a postmodern world of globalised capital, how does the concept of Orientalism inform understandings of cultural exchange? In this detailed and wide-ranging examination, Arab popular culture is explored in its relation to American culture and...

This volume, a contribution to the emergent interdisciplinary field of Kurdish Studies, is an engagement with the politics, culture and history of the Kurds. Sections of the book treat the Kurds in medieval and modern history, including the contemporary...

This powerful book exposes how gendered Orientalism is wielded to justify Western imperialism. Over the last ten years, Western governments and mainstream media have utilized concepts of white masculine supremacy and feminine helplessness, juxtaposed...