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  • Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan

    Anthropological Perspectives

    by M. Nazif Shahrani, Robert L. Canfield, Louis Dupree, David J. Katz, R. Lincoln Keiser, Thomas J. Barfield, Hugh Beattie, Richard Tapper, Bahram Tavakolian0, Jon W. Anderson1, Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper2, Nancy Dupree3 ...
    When originally published in 1984, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan provided the first focused consideration of the 1978 Saur Revolution and the subsequent Soviet invasion and occupation of the country. Nearly four decades later, its conclusions remain crucial to understanding Afghanistan today.In this much-anticipated re-release, Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan offers an ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Afghan Village Voices

    Stories from a Tribal Community

    by Richard Tapper, Nancy Lindisfarne-Tapper ...
    Afghanistan in the 20th century was virtually unknown in Europe and America. At peace until the 1970s, the country was seen as a remote and exotic land, visited only by adventurous tourists or researchers. Afghan Village Voices is a testament to this little-known period of peace and captures a society and culture now lost. Prepared by two of the most accomplished and well-known anthropologists of ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Tribe and State in Iran and Afghanistan (RLE Iran D)

    by Richard Tapper ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Iran
    In 1978 and 1979 revolutions in Afghanistan and Iran marked a shift in the balance of power in South West Asia and the world. Then, as now, the world is once more aware that tribalism is no anachronism in a struggle for political and cultural self-determination. This books provides historical and anthropological perspectives necessary to the eventual understanding of the events surrounding the ... Read more

    $265.00 USD

  • Technology, Tradition and Survival

    Aspects of Material Culture in the Middle East and Central Asia

    by Richard Tapper, Keith McLachlan ...
    Series series History and Society in the Islamic World
    The contributors address the history, originality, variety and sophistication of traditional science, technology and material culture in the Middle East and Central Asia, their influence on the history of Europe and the West, and the threat posed by modern Western technologies. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516–1918

    A Social and Cultural History

    by Bruce Masters ...
    The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of Ottoman rule over a vast area for several centuries required that some Arabs collaborate in the imperial ... Read more

    $27.89 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

    $30.59 USD

  • Becoming Turkish

    Nationalist Reforms and Cultural Negotiations in Early Republican Turkey 1923-1945

    by Hale Yilmaz ...
    Series series Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
    Becoming Turkish deepens our understanding of the modernist nation-building processes in post—Ottoman Turkey through a rare perspective that stresses social and cultural dimensions and everyday negotiations of the Kemalist reforms. Yilmaz asks how the reforms were mediated on the ground and how ordinary citizens received, reacted to, and experienced them. She traces the experiences of the ... Read more

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  • The Kurds

    A Contemporary Overview

    Edited by Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Stefan Sperl ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    The position of the 19 million Kurds is an extremely complex one. Their territory is divided between 5 sovereign states, none of which have a Kurdish majority. They speak widely divergent dialects, and are also divided by religious affiliations and social factors. It has taken the tragic and horrifying events in Iraq this year to bring the Kurds to the centre of the world stage, but their ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Modernity and Culture

    From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean

    Edited by Leila Fawaz, C. A. Bayly ...
    Between the 1890s and 1920s, cities in the vast region stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean were experiencing political, social, economic, and cultural changes that had been set in motion at least since the early nineteenth century. As the age of pre-colonial empires gave way to colonial and national states, there was a sense that a particular liberalism of culture and economy ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Kurdish Question Revisited

    Edited by Mohammed Shareef, Gareth Stansfield ...
    The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years. The contributors to The Kurdish Question Revisited offer insights into how this once seemingly intractable, immutable phenomenon is being transformed amid the new political realities of the Middle East. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Loom of Time

    Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China

    by Robert D. Kaplan ...
    **A stunning exploration of the Greater Middle East, where lasting stability has often seemed just out of reach but may hold the key to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century“Engaging . . . Even those who resist Kaplan’s tragic sensibility have much to learn from his look at the emerging Middle East and its recent history.”—National ReviewFINALIST FOR THE OVERSEAS PRESS CLUB’S ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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