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  • Backlash

    China's Struggle for Influence in Central Asia

    by Bradley Jardine, Edward Lemon ...
    Central Asia is at the forefront of China's efforts to assert itself as a major world power. Since 1991, Beijing has emerged as the region's main investor, creditor and trade partner, as well as an increasingly important security provider. But its growing influence has met opposition: in recent years, anti-China protests have erupted across Central Asia, threatening Beijing's shaky regional ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Critical Approaches to Security in Central Asia

    Edited by Edward Lemon ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    Central Asia remains on the periphery, both spatially and in people’s imaginations. When the region does attract international attention, it is often related to security issues, including terrorism, ethnic conflict and drug trafficking.This book brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplines including geography, anthropology, sociology and political science to discuss how citizens ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Tajikistan on the Move

    Statebuilding and Societal Transformations

    by Marlene Laruelle, Michele Commercio, Hafiz Boboyorov, Tim Epkenhans, Brent Hierman, Sophie Hohmann, Edward Lemon, Suzanne Levi-Sanchez, Parviz Mullojonov, Kirill Nourzhanov0, Sophie Roche1, Jesse Driscoll2, John Heathershaw3 ...
    Series series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan stood out for being the only post-Soviet country to recognize an Islamic party—the Islamic ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

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  • Operation Nemesis

    The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

    by Eric Bogosian ...
    A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide set in the context of Ottoman and Armenian history."A dramatic work of history that reads like a thriller." —Michael Bobelian, Los Angeles TimesIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an ... Read more

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  • Atatürk

    The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey

    by Andrew Mango ...
    A "superlative [and] exhaustively researched" biography of "one of the most complex and controversial figures in twentieth-century world history" ( Library Journal).Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan, and secured ... Read more

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  • The History of Saudi Arabia

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    How has Saudi Arabia managed to maintain its Arab and Islamic values while at the same time adopting Western technology and a market economy? How have its hereditary leaders, who govern with a mixture of political pragmatism and religious zeal, managed to maintain their power? This comprehensive history of Saudi Arabia from 1745 to the present provides insight into its culture and politics, its ... Read more

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  • A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology

    by Toby Wilkinson ...
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  • Osman's Dream

    The History of the Ottoman Empire

    by Caroline Finkel ...
    The definitive history of the Ottoman Empire“Lucid, judicious and enjoyable.” (Times Literary Supplement)The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and most influential empires in world history. Its reach extended to three continents and it survived for more than six centuries, but its history is too often colored by the memory of its bloody final throes on the battlefields of World War I.In this ... Read more

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  • Parting the Desert

    The Creation of the Suez Canal

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  • The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922

    by Donald Quataert ...
    Series Book 34 - New Approaches to European History
    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 trends during the latter years of the empire; it pays attention to gender issues ... Read more

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    A Short History

    by Norman Stone ...
    Series Book 1 - A Short History
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