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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 25,85 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21717-9
EAN 9780300217179
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil warMost accounts of Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war focus on a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the escalating violence. Christopher Phillips argues instead that the ...
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- Pan, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 472 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-909621-47-3
EAN 9781909621473
Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in 1325 from his native Tangier on a pilgrimage to Mecca. He did not return to Morocco for another twenty-nine years, travelling instead through more than forty countries on the modern map, covering seventy-five thousand miles and ...
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Iraq
A History
- Oneworld, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 24,60 €
ISBN 978-1-78074-949-5
EAN 9781780749495
In this insightful analysis, highly-respected expert John Robertson canvases the entirety of Iraq's rich history, from the seminal advances of its Neolithic inhabitants to the aftermath of the American-led invasion and Iraq today. Grounded in extensive research, this balanced account of a country and its people explores the greatness and grandeur of Iraq's achievements, the ...
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This book draws on extensive research , including participant observation ans interviews carried out by the author, to paint an intimate portrayal of the workings of the Muslim Brotherhood, which have been shrouded in mystety until now.
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- Henry Holt, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 38,35 €
ISBN 978-0-8050-9897-6
EAN 9780805098976
In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a ...
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- Granta Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 20,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78378-310-6
EAN 9781783783106
This is a book about Palestine today. It is neither apologetic nor romanticized, but a powerful and brilliantly realized scream of a book, scorching and tender, from a journalist whose anger and empathy burn through every word. Over the past three years, Ben Ehrenreich has shared the laughter, fury and sorrow of people in cities ...
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Egypt
Revolution and Counter-Revolution
- Pluto Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 29,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3551-3
EAN 9780745335513
Many obituaries have been written for Egypt's attempted revolution. But for Philip Marfleet, the revolution is an ongoing process best understood by examining the complex, changing relations among its principal actors. In Egypt, Marfleet gives a robust, wide-lens account of the political struggle unfolding from just before the Arab Spring of 2011 to the summer ...
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Shahnameh
The Persian Book of Kings
- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,15 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310832-0
EAN 9780143108320
Dick Davis, "our pre-eminent translator from the Persian" (Washington Post) has revised and expanded his highly-praised translation of Ferdowsi's masterpiece, including more than 100 pages of newly translated text. Davis's elegant combination of prose and verse allows the poetry of the Shanameh to sing its own tales directly, interspersed sparingly with clearly-marked explanations to ease ...
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- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 344 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-300-21531-1
EAN 9780300215311
Over the past two decades, the situation in Africa's largest country, Sudan, has progressively deteriorated: the country is in second position on the Failed States Index, a war in Darfur has claimed hundreds of thousands of deaths, President Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court, a forthcoming referendum on independence for Southern Sudan ...
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The Ottoman Endgame
War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923
- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9971-5
EAN 9780718199715
The Ottoman Endgame is the first, and definitive, single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, the book concludes with the establishment of Turkish independence in the Treaty of Lausanne, 1923. ...
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- Allen Lane, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 704 páginas
PVP: 41,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84614-310-6
EAN 9781846143106
The Vietnamese are in the unusual situation of being both colonizers themselves and the victims of colonization by others. Their country expanded, shrunk, split and sometimes disappeared, often under circumstances way beyond their control. Despite these often overwhelming pressures Vietnam has survived and is universally recognized as forming one of Asia's most striking and complex ...
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Black Flags : The Rise of Isis
Pullitzer 2016 General Non-Fiction
- Corgi, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 19,50 €
ISBN 978-0-552-17288-2
EAN 9780552172882
WINNER of the PULITZER PRIZE for NON-FICTION 2016. In a thrilling dramatic narrative, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Joby Warrick traces how the strain of militant Islam behind ISIS first arose in a remote Jordanian prison and spread to become the world's greatest threat. When the government of Jordan granted amnesty to a group of political prisoners ...
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The Mughals, British and Soviets all failed to subjugate Afghanistan, failures which offer valuable lessons for today. Taking a long historical perspective from 1520 to 2012, this volume examines the Mughal, British, Soviet and NATO efforts in Afghanistan, drawing on new archives and a synthesis of previous counter-insurgency experiences. Special emphasis is given to ecology, ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-1-4725-9071-8
EAN 9781472590718
Britain in the Middle East provides a comprehensive survey of British involvement in the Middle East, exploring their mutual construction and influence across the entire historical sweep of their relationship.In the 17th century, Britain was establishing trade links in the Middle East, using its position in India to increasingly exclude other European powers. Over the ...
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- IBTauris, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84885-850-3
EAN 9781848858503
The termination of the British Mandate in Palestine was a momentous turning point in Middle Eastern history, marked by the failure of the British to bring about a workable political composition between the Arab and Jewish communities, the subsequent referral of the problem to the United Nations and the emergence of the state of Israel, ...
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Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted ...
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- Verso Books, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78478-516-1
EAN 9781784785161
Since the upsurge of the Arab Spring in 2011, the Syrian civil war has claimed in excess of 200,000 lives, with an estimated 8 million Syrians, more than a third of the country's population, forced to flee their homes. Militant Sunni groups, such as ISIS, have taken control of large swathes of the nation. The ...
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- Random House UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84604-488-5
EAN 9781846044885
"One Of The First Political Classics Of The 21st Century." (Observer). "Extraordinarily Powerful, Poigant And Affecting. I Was Greatly Moved." (Michael Palin).Samar Yazbek was well known in her native Syria as a writer and a journalist but, in 2011, she fell foul of the Assad regime and was forced to flee. Since then, determined to ...
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The Morning they Came for Us
Dispatches from Syria
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 18,25 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-6829-4
EAN 9781408868294
In May of 2012, Janine di Giovanni travelled to Syria, marking the beginning of a long relationship with the country, as she began reporting from both sides of the conflict, witnessing its descent into one of the most brutal, internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught up in the ...
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Burning Country
Syrians in Revolution and War
- Pluto Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,10 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3622-0
EAN 9780745336220
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