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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 16,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-8726-2
EAN 9780747587262
At 4pm on a dark, wet winter's evening in November 1862, a cheap coffin was buried in eerie silence: no lamentations, no panegyrics, for as the British Commissioner in charge of the funeral insisted, No vesting will remain to distinguish where the last of the Great Moghuls rests.' This Mughal was Bahadur Shah Zafar II, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,79 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-2569-9
EAN 9780745325699
This work presents a sensitive and insightful critique of the contradictions of Zionism. Joel Kovel argues that Israel is an incorrigible human rights offender because, by discriminating against Arabs, it is guilty of 'state-sponsored racism'. Like arpartheid South Africa, the best hope for peace in Israel is to return to the idea of a one-state ...
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'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our family, and for our family we are prepared to do anything - even die' - Haji Ali, Korphe Village Chief, Karakoram mountains, Pakistan. In 1993, after a ...
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'The Great War for Civilisation is written with passion and anger, a reporters eyewitness account of the Middle Easts history. All the most dangerous men of the past quarter century in the region - from Osama bin Laden to Ayatollah Khomeini, from Saddam to Ariel Sharon - come alive in these pages. Fisk has met ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 16,00 €
ISBN 978-0-349-11879-6
EAN 9780349118796
The brutal assasination of Commissioner Frederick Mackeson on British India's North-West Frontier in 1853 was a bloody and public declaration of a conflict that was to stretch well into the next one hundred and fifty years. The Wahhabi tribe, extreme Islamist fundamentalists, set out to restore purity to their faith by declaring violent jihad on ...
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PVP: 28,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84115-008-6
EAN 9781841150086
Robert Fisk's bestselling eyewitness account of the events that have shaped the Middle East is alive with vivid reporting and incisive historical analysis.The history of the Middle East is an epic story of tragedy, betrayal and world-shaking events. It is a story that Robert Fisk has been reporting for over thirty years. His masterful narrative ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 35,85 €
ISBN 978-1-86207-906-9
EAN 9781862079069
Since September 11 2001 not a day passes without stories about 'Islam' the religion of about one-fifth of humanity appearing in the media. The terrorists who hijacked four American airliners not only unleashed a 'War on Terrorism' by the United States and its allies, leading to the removal of two governments in Afghanistan and Iraq, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-562-3
EAN 9781844675623
Renowned critical theorist Susan Buck-Morss argues convincingly that a global public needs to think past the twin insanities of terrorism and counter-terrorism in order to dismantle regressive intellectual barriers. Surveying the widespread literature on the relationship of Islam to modernity, she reveals that there is surprising overlap where scholars commonly and simplistically see antithesis. "Thinking ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118804-1
EAN 9780141188041
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a ...
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The 22 essays assembled here were written between 1980 and 2003; most were published after Ashcar (politics and international relations, U. of Paris VIII) moved from Lebanon to France in 1983, when he became a regular contributor to the Marxist magazines Inprecor and International Viewpoint . Several have never been previously translated into English (from ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 16,89 €
ISBN 978-1-84511-123-6
EAN 9781845111236
To understand Iraq, and the dynamics at work there, it is essential to know the country's history. This is self-evident to the point of being a cliche. But 12,000 years of history can be intimidating. In "Understanding Iraq", one of the world's most respected Middle East historians provides a highly readable yet intelligent digest, taking ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 234 páginas
PVP: 27,44 €
ISBN 978-0-521-54782-6
EAN 9780521547826
The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines the major ...
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ISBN 978-0-374-52980-2
EAN 9780374529802
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From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, "The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity" brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs and a veritable feast of viewpoints. Out of these conflicting views spring a ...
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Libro · 361 páginas
PVP: 32,00 €
ISBN 978-0-521-68315-9
EAN 9780521683159
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7453-2055-7
EAN 9780745320557
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118742-6
EAN 9780141187426
For generations now, Edward W. Said's Orientalism has defined our understanding of colonialism and empire, and this Penguin Modern Classics edition contains a preface written by Said shortly before his death in 2003. In this highly-acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, considering orientalism as a powerful ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 96 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84176-220-3
EAN 9781841762203
At 1345hrs on 6 October 1973, Israeli spotters in the observation post atop Mount Hermon saw Syrian gunners below them removing the camouflage nets from their guns. Ten minutes later shells began to rain down on Israeli positions all along the Golan Heights The Yom Kippur War had begun. The shock Syrian attack caught the ...
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