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  • Minorities and the Modern Arab World

    New Perspectives

    by Joel Beinin, Alda Benjamen, David Bond, Liora R. Halperin, Yasmeen Hanoosh, Samuel Liebhaber, Hiroko Miyokawa, Jacob Norris, Aline Schlaepfer, Peter Sluglett, Lucia Volk ...
    Series series Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms
    In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in Minorities and the Modern Arab World seek to challenge this representation with a nuanced exploration of the ways in ... Read more

    $25.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living to Some Purpose

    Memoirs of a Secular Iraqi and Arab Statesman

    by Adnan Pachachi, Peter Sluglett ...
    Often described as Iraq’s elder statesman, Dr Adnan Pachachi has enjoyed one of the longest and most distinguished political careers of modern times, both domestically and on the world stage.In a life spanning nine decades, he has served his country as Ambassador to the United Nations and as Foreign Minister, and has worked tirelessly to establish a secular and anti-sectarian political culture in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Violent Radical Movements in the Arab World

    The Ideology and Politics of Non-State Actors

    Edited by Peter Sluglett, Victor Kattan ...
    Violent non-state actors have become almost endemic to political movements in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa. This book examines why they play such a key role and the different ways in which they have developed. Placing them in the context of the region, separate chapters cover the organizations that are currently active, including: The Muslim Brotherhood, The Islamic State in Iraq and ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • War and Diplomacy

    The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and the Treaty of Berlin

    by Peter Sluglett ...
    Series series Utah series in Middle East studies
    Combining different disciplinary perspectives, War and Diplomacy argues that the key events that portended the beginning of the end of the multiethnic Ottoman Empire were the The Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 and the Treaty of Berlin. The essays in this volume analyze how the war and the treaty permanently transformed the political landscape both in the Balkans and in the Caucasus. The treaty ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Atlas of Islamic History

    by Peter Sluglett, Andrew Currie ...
    This Atlas provides the main outlines of Islamic history from the immediate pre-Islamic period until the end of 1920, that is, before most parts of the Muslim world became sovereign nation states.Each map is accompanied by a text that contextualises, explains, and expands upon the map, and are fully cross-referenced. All of the maps are in full colour: 18 of them are double-page spreads, and 25 ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Voices of the Arab Spring

    Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions

    by Asaad Alsaleh ...
    Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Beginning in 2011, these stories offer unique access to the message that inspired citizens to act, their experiences during revolt, and the lessons they learned from some of the most dramatic changes and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Voices of the Arab Spring

    Personal Stories from the Arab Revolutions

    by Asaad Alsaleh ...
    Narrated by dozens of activists and everyday individuals, this book documents the unprecedented events that led to the collapse of dictatorial regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. Beginning in 2011, these stories offer unique access to the message that inspired citizens to act, their experiences during revolt, and the lessons they learned from some of the most dramatic changes and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Secession as an International Phenomenon

    From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements

    by Alan M. Wachman, Aleksandar Pavkovic, Andrés Reséndez, Bruno Coppieters, Charles B. Dew, Christopher Wellman, David Armitage, Frank Towers, Margaret Moore, Paul Kubicek, Paul Quigley, Peter Radan, Peter Sluglett, Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Robert Bonner, Stefan Zahlmann, Susan-Mary Grant, Terry Rugeley ...
    About half of today’s nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession.As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Writing The Modern History Of Iraq: Historiographical And Political Challenges

    by Riccardo Bocco, Hamit Bozarslan, Peter Sluglett, Jordi Tejel ...
    The modern history of Iraq is punctuated by a series of successive and radical ruptures (coups d'etat, changes of regime, military adventures and foreign invasions) whose chronological markers are relatively easy to identify. Although researchers cannot ignore these ruptures, they should also be encouraged to establish links between the moments when the breaks occur and the longue durée, in order ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • 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 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

  • 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