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“michael e bonine”

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  • Is There a Middle East?

    The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept

    Edited by Michael E. Bonine, Abbas Amanat, Michael Ezekiel Gasper ...
    Is the idea of the "Middle East" simply a geopolitical construct conceived by the West to serve particular strategic and economic interests—or can we identify geographical, historical, cultural, and political patterns to indicate some sort of internal coherence to this label? While the term has achieved common usage, no one studying the region has yet addressed whether this conceptualization has ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia

    Monarchy, Revolution and the Legacy of Meles Zenawi

    by Gérard Prunier, Éloi Ficquet ...
    When we think of Ethiopia we tend to think in cliches: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the Falasha Jews, the epic reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, the Communist Revolution, famine and civil war. Among the countries of Africa it has a high profile yet is poorly known. How- ever all cliches contain within them a kernel of truth, and occlude much more. Today's Ethiopia (and its painfully liberated ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Forgotten Voices

    Power and Agency in Colonial and Postcolonial Libya

    by Ali Abdullatif Ahmida ...
    In Forgotten Voices, Ali Abdullatif Ahmida employs archival research, oral interviews and comparative analysis to rethink the history of colonial and nationalist categories and analyses of modern Libya. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Turkey, Islam, Nationalism, and Modernity: A History

    by Carter Vaughn Findley ...

    $28.99 USD

  • Military Control in Pakistan

    The Parallel State

    by Mazhar Aziz ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    This volume examines the role of the military, the most influential actor in Pakistan, and challenges conventional wisdom on the causes of political instability in this geographically important nuclear state.It rejects views that ethnic and religious cleavages and perceived economic or political mismanagement by civilian governments triggers military intervention in Pakistan. The study argues ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Modern Middle East

    A Social and Cultural History

    by Ilan Pappé ...
    This hugely successful, ground-breaking book is the first introductory textbook on the Modern Middle East to foreground the urban, rural, cultural and gender histories of the region over its political and economic history. Distancing himself from more traditional modernising approaches, Ilan Pappé is concerned with the ideological question of whom we investigate in the past rather than how we ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The People Want

    A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising

    by Gilbert Achcar ...
    Translated by G. M. Goshgarian ...
    'The people want' - thus began the slogans chanted by millions of protesters in 2011 in what was dubbed the 'Arab Spring'. ?While the protests revealed a long-suppressed craving for democracy, they also laid bare a deep structural crisis. In this landmark work, Middle East analyst Gilbert Achcar examines the socio-economic roots and political dynamics of the regional upheaval. He assesses the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Berber Identity Movement and the Challenge to North African States

    by Bruce Maddy-Weitzman ...
    Like many indigenous groups that have endured centuries of subordination, the Berber/Amazigh peoples of North Africa are demanding linguistic and cultural recognition and the redressing of injustices. Indeed, the movement seeks nothing less than a refashioning of the identity of North African states, a rewriting of their history, and a fundamental change in the basis of collective life. In so ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Colonial Effects

    The Making of National Identity in Jordan

    by Joseph Massad ...
    Colonial Effects analyzes the creation and definition of modern Jordanian identity. Massad studies two key institutions-- the law and the military--and uses them to create an original and precise analysis of the development of Jordanian national identity in the postcolonial period.Joseph A. Massad engages recent scholarly debates on nationalism and richly fulfills the analytical promise of Michel ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Nationalisms and Politics in Turkey

    Political Islam, Kemalism and the Kurdish Issue

    Edited by Marlies Casier, Joost Jongerden ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
    This book examines some of the most pressing issues facing the Turkish political establishment, in particular the issues of political Islam, and Kurdish and Turkish nationalisms. The authors explore the rationales of the main political actors in Turkey in order to increase our understanding of the ongoing debates over the secularist character of the Turkish Republic and over Turkey’s longstanding ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Nation and Religion

    by Fred Halliday ...
    This collection of essays offers a general analysis of the Middle East and more focused country-by-country examples. Nationalism and Islamism are re-examined to demonstrate their ongoing relevance and relationship to the present-day Arab context and identity. This is followed by a closer look at Islamist movements in Turkey, Iran and Tunisia and how these forces may either come to erode the ... Read more

    $16.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Modern Turkey

    Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950

    by Ugur Ümit Üngör ...
    The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge, management, and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD