Editorial Tauris Parke
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- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-655-4
EAN 9781848856554
Freya Stark first journeyed to Iraq in 1927. Seven years after the establishment of the British Mandate, the modern state was in its infancy and worlds apart from the country it has since become. During her many years in Iraq, Freya Stark was witness to the rise and fall of the British involvement in the ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-545-8
EAN 9781848855458
Gladiators and goddesses, philosophers and poets, epic battles and romantic landscapes - the classical world has for centuries captivated and inspired the west. But what provoked the shift from the western world's love-affair with classical Rome and its manifestation in the Renaissance, to the Hellenic world? The decisive switch in focus and taste from Rome ...
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Suez
Britain's End of Empire in the Middle East
- Tauris Parke, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 712 páginas
PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-533-5
EAN 9781848855335
This title includes a new Foreword by WM. Roger Louis. On 26 July 1956, the British Empire received a blow from which it would never recover.On this day, Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company, one of the gems of Britain's imperial portfolio. It was to be a fateful day for Britain ...
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Beyond Islam
A New Understanding of the Middle East
- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-070-5
EAN 9781848850705
In this magisterial work, Sami Zubaida draws on a distinguished career's worth of experience trying to understand the region to address the fundamental question in Middle East studies: what is the Middle East? He argues, controversially, that to see it through the prism of Islam, as it is conventionally viewed, is to completely misunderstand it. ...
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SAS: The First Secret Wars
The Unknown Years of Combat and Counter-insurgency
- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-566-3
EAN 9781848855663
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- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-459-8
EAN 9781848854598
What impact do issues of culture, religion and identity have on Turkey's chances of joining the EU? Are religious and cultural factors per se the primary obstacle to Turkish accession, or is it their interaction with other factors that is prolonging and complicating Turkey's progress towards EU membership? Mirela Bogdani here analyses the complex range ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 17,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-472-7
EAN 9781848854727
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- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-137-5
EAN 9781848851375
Exploring the rise of atheism as an explicit philosophical position, Hyman traces its development in the ideas of Descartes, Locke and Berkeley. He shows that, since in recent theology the concept of God which atheists negate is changing, the triumph of its advocates may not be quite as unequivocal as Hitchens and Dawkins would have ...
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The Virgin Queen
A Personal History of Elizabeth I
- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 15,59 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-555-7
EAN 9781848855557
The years of Elizabeth's childhood were troubled - fraught with danger and beset with the political and religious plots of those around her. At the age of two her mother, Anne Boleyn, was beheaded by her father, Henry VIII; Elizabeth was declared illegitimate and banished from the royal court. At 21, she was imprisoned in ...
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First Russia, then Tibet
Travels through a Changing World
- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 15,55 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-424-6
EAN 9781848854246
Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Lenin had just died, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror was yet to begin. Having taken the first commercial flight to India, ...
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The Station
Travels to the Holy Mountain
- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 15,59 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-507-6
EAN 9781848855076
Mount Athos, the spiritual heart of Eastern Orthodox Monasticism, is perhaps the most sacred and mysterious place in Greece: an autonomous state, where no woman can set foot, which has its own calendar and its own time. This ruggedly beautiful peninsula in Macedonia boasts a history that stretches back to Herodotus and has been a ...
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Trio
Inside the Blair, Brown, Mandelson Project
- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-445-1
EAN 9781848854451
Blair: charming, charismatic and a great communicator but undermined by an unshakeable conviction that he was right.Brown: in private, warm and witty; in public, an authoritative Chancellor but a wooden and curiously un-self-confident Prime Minister.Mandelson: for Blair, supreme courtier and chief adviser; for Brown, from arch-enemy to polished political life-saver.No one is better placed to ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-277-8
EAN 9781848852778
What turned Adolf Hitler, a relatively normal and apparently unexceptional young man, into the very personification of evil? To answer this question, acclaimed historian Brigitte Hamann has turned to the critical, formative, years that the young Hitler spent in Vienna. For it was here, behind the glittering curtain of artistic creativity, liberalism and prosperity, that ...
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- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-305-8
EAN 9781848853058
In 1763, Tobias Smollett set sail from Folkestone to Boulogne. He would not return to England for two years, during which time he travelled extensively - and in a notoriously ill-tempered fashion - through much of France and Italy. Smollett, seemed 'determined to be pleased with nothing' and was 'sardonic, satirical and decidedly gloomy'. In ...
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Taliban
The Power of Militant Islam in Afghanistan and Beyond
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The Greater Middle East and the Cold War
U.S. Foreign Policy under Eisenhower and Kennedy
- Tauris Parke, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 520 páginas
PVP: 29,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84885-261-7
EAN 9781848852617
At the height of the Cold War, the US sought to maintain power and influence in the Greater Middle East - the region from Morocco to India - in the context of a growing threat from Russia and the decline of British imperialism. This original and important study illuminates this tense period in international relations, ...
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