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  • Walking Blind, Revised and Expanded Edition

    Essays on Faith

    by Robert L. Canfield ...
    In this collage of essays, Robert L. Canfield examines passages of the Bible that have informed his understanding of himself, his faith, his life, and his career. Its narratives, proclamations, claims, and promises have influenced his priorities, his preoccupations and public consciousness, and his approach to the deep questions that, on a subliminal level, vex all of us. In the biblical passages ... Read more

    $16.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jerusalem Burning

    The Terror and Promise of the “Wrath of Love”

    by Robert L. Canfield ...
    The Babylonian attack on Jerusalem in 587 BCE forced upon the Israelite survivors the realization that Yahweh, one of the gods they had venerated, was an overwhelming presence in their affairs. The attack on their city had been devastating, overturning virtually the only world they knew. Such a disaster had been prophesied by several prophets of Yahweh who had warned them against worshipping other ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Revolutions and Rebellions in Afghanistan

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by M. Nazif Shahrani, Robert L. Canfield ...
    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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Modern Afghanistan

    The Impact of 40 Years of War

    by Sonia Ahsan, Parul Bakhshi, Bashir Ahmed Ansari, Just Boedeker, Noah Coburn, Andrea Chiovenda, Melissa Kerr Chiovenda, Amin Saikal, Fahim Masoud, M. Farshid Alemi Hakimyar, Khalid Homayun Nadiri, Anna Larson, Kylea Liese, Mohammad Omar Shariki, Wazhmah Osman, Ahmad Shayeq Qassem, Timor Sharan, Trani Jean-Francois, Robert L. Canfield ...
    What impact does 40 years of war, violence, and military intervention have on a country and its people? As the "global war on terror" now stretches into the 21st century with no clear end in sight, Identity and Politics in Modern Afghanistan collects the work of interdisciplinary scholars, aid workers, and citizens to assess the impact of this prolonged conflict on Afghanistan. Nearly all of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ethnicity, Authority, and Power in Central Asia

    New Games Great and Small

    Edited by Robert L. Canfield, Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    The peoples of Greater Central Asia – not only Inner Asian states of Soviet Union but also those who share similar heritages in adjacent countries like Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iran, and the Chinese province of Xinjiang – have been drawn into more direct and immediate contact since the Soviet collapse. Infrastructural improvements, and the race by the great powers for access to the region’s vital ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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    This is a collection of essays written about the Arab revolts, and trying to answer the questions many people are raising: why did such revolts occur? Were they preceded by precursory signs? What role played the domestic political elite in toppling the dictators? What role played the foreign powers? What were the claims of the protesters? Were they manipulated? How about the political process that ... Read more

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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

  • Kurdish Nationalism and Political Islam in Turkey

    Kemalist Identity in Transition

    by Omer Taspinar ...
    Series series Middle East Studies: History, Politics & Law
    This text is an attempt to study Turkey's national and secular identity in light of the challenges posed by Kurdish nationalism and political Islam. ... Read more

    $67.99 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

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding Turkey's Kurdish Question

    by Djene Rhys Bajalan, Oral Çalislar, Umut Özkirimli, Cengiz Çandar, Kilic Bugra Kanat, Hugh Pope, Gökhan Bacik, Bezen B. Coskun, Mustafa Gurbuz, Dogan Koç, H. Akin Ünver, Joshua W. Walker, Fuat Keyman, Michael M. Gunter ...
    This edited volume, comprising chapters by leading academics and experts, aims to clarify the complexity of Turkey’s Kurdish question. The Kurdish question is a long-standing, protracted issue, which gained regional and international significance largely in the last thirty years. The Kurdish people who represent the largest ethnic minority in the Middle East without a state have demanded autonomy ... Read more

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  • Under the Drones

    Modern Lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Borderlands

    by Amin Tarzi, Gilles Dorronsoro, Sana Haroon, James Caron, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Thomas Ruttig, Lutz Rzehak, Faisal Devji, Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Farzana Shaikh, Jamal J. Elias, Fariba Nawa ...
    In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate real people on the ground, and to analyze the political, social, and economic forces that shape ... Read more

    $34.49 USD