Editorial IBTauris
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-768-0
EAN 9781780767680
The early years of Syrian-US relations can be described as hopes dashed, hopes revived. Although American missionaries had visited the Middle East in the nineteenth century, it was not until after World War I that Syrian and US dignitaries met in an official capacity. The relationship had its ups-and-downs: warm under Woodrow Wilson; virtually non-existent ...
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Jerusalem
From the Ottomans to the British
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-708-6
EAN 9781780767086
In December 1917, British troops entered Jerusalem, thereby ending Ottoman rule and opening a new and important era in the history of Jerusalem. Roberto Mazza discusses the period of transition from Ottoman rule to the British administration, focusing on the socio-political changes from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, the impact of the First World ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 328 páginas
PVP: 19,95 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-681-2
EAN 9781780766812
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-688-1
EAN 9781780766881
With such tantalising chapters as "In Defence of Smuggling" and "Lunch with Homer" this witty, eye-opening tapestry of writings on travel and a life spent as one of the 20th century's most formidable adventuresses is Freya Stark at her luminous best. In chronological order, spanning an extraordinary 50 years, from 1919 to 1967, Stark's writings ...
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Reviving Phoenicia
The Search for Identity in Lebanon
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-779-6
EAN 9781780767796
This study follows the social, intellectual and political development of the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th. Asher Kaufman demonstrates the role played by the lay, liberal Syrian-Lebanese who resided in Beirut, Alexandria and America towards the end of the 19th century ...
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Inventing Peace
a dialogue on perception
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-693-5
EAN 9781780766935
Inventing Peace revolves around the question of how we look at the world, but do not see it when there is so much war, injustice, suffering and violence. What are the ethical and moral consequences of looking, but not seeing, and, most of all, what has become of the notion of peace in all this? ...
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Progressive Politics after the Crash
American Progressive Liberalism and European Social Democracy
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-764-2
EAN 9781780767642
Those who hoped the collapse of financial markets would usher in the end of neoliberalism and rehabilitate support for traditional social democratic policies programmes have been disappointed. It is not only the irrationality of markets which is the focus of public discontent, but the inefficiency of states and the inability of elected governments to humanise ...
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Left without a Future?
Social Justice in Anxious Times
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-661-4
EAN 9781780766614
The roots of the recent financial crisis can be found in the substantial changes which have affected British economy and society over the last three decades. In economic terms, the UK has transformed from a predominantly industrial to one led by services and creative industries, whilst society has also became less industrial with new class ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 31,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-845-9
EAN 9781848858459
'Islam in Europe' and 'Islamophobia' are subjects of vital global importance which currently preoccupy policy-makers and academics alike. Examining various European Muslim groups and institutions that have branched off from Islamic movements - including the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir and Jama'at-i Islami - this book outlines the configuration of social, political and religious processes that ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 28,90 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-445-0
EAN 9781780764450
From the turmoil and tragedy of the French Revolution to the rise and fall of the enigmatic figure of Napoleon Bonaparte, the history of France between 1789 and 1815 is one of the most enduringly fascinating - and widely-studied - periods of history. In this volume, the renowned historian William Doyle provides a new perspective ...
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Genius, Power and Magic
A Cultural History of Germany from Goethe to Wagner
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 228 páginas
PVP: 36,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-400-9
EAN 9781780764009
Before unification in 1871, Germany was a loose collection of variously sovereign principalities, nurtured on deep thought, fine music and hard rye bread, somewhat lacking in cultural cohesion. Yet between the end of the Thirty Years War and unification under Bismarck, Germany became the land of philosophers and poets, writers and composers. Roderick Cavaliero provides ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 18,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-813-8
EAN 9781848858138
Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something a mythic character, especially in the United States. From the Boston Tea Party to Paul Revere's ride to raise the countryside of New England against the march of the Redcoats; from the heroic resistance of the militia Minutemen ...
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Dante
The Poet, The Thinker, The Man
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-726-0
EAN 9781780767260
Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds made remarkable discoveries and unlocked previously hidden secrets about this greatest of Florentine poets. A fundamental enigma has tantalised readers of the 'Commedia' for seven centuries. Who ...
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Medicine
Antiquity and its Legacy
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84885-795-7
EAN 9781848857957
The image of the visionary Celt has captured the modern imagination. Whether it be the woad-painted pagan warrior fighting for his freedom against distant rulers (be they Roman, English or French), or the fanatical druid harrying Roman legionaries through the treacherous and mist-drenched forests of north Wales, the Celtic idea represents a proud and fierce ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84885-861-9
EAN 9781848858619
The Crimean War (1853-1856) was the first modern war. A vicious struggle between imperial Russia and an alliance of the British, French and Ottoman Empires, it was the first conflict to be reported first-hand in newspapers, painted by official war artists, recorded by telegraph and photographed by camera. In her new short history Trudi Tate ...
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Allies with the Infidel
The Ottoman and French Alliance in the Sixteenth Century
- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 31,85 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-497-9
EAN 9781780764979
In 1543, the Ottoman fleet appeared off the coast of France to bombard and lay siege to the city of Nice. The operation, under the command of Admiral Barbarossa, came in response to a request from Francois I of France for assistance from Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in France's struggle against Charles V, the Habsburg ...
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The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military and unexpectedly exposed the corrupt underside of imperialism - in the establishment of the first concentration camps, the shooting of Boer prisoners-of-war and the embezzlement of military supplies by British officers. This acclaimed book provides a complete history of the Boer War - from the first ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-512-9
EAN 9781780765129
Legendary philosopher and literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) developed concepts which are bywords within poststructuralist and new historicist literary criticism and philosophy yet have been under-utilised by artists, art historians and art critics. Deborah Haynes aims to adapt Bakhtin's concepts, particularly those developed in his later works, to an analysis of visual culture and art ...
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- IBTauris, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 15,35 €
ISBN 978-1-78076-240-1
EAN 9781780762401
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