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  • The Adventures of Ibn Battuta

    A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, With a New Preface

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    Ross Dunn here recounts the great traveler's remarkable career, interpreting it within the cultural and social context of Islamic society and giving the reader both a biography of an extraordinary personality and a study of the hemispheric dimensions of human interchange in medieval times. ... Leer más

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  • Resistance in the Desert

    Moroccan Responses to French Imperialism 1881-1912

    de Ross E. Dunn ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: World Empires
    This work, first published in 1977, is a study of African responses to European conquest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It centers on the Muslim pastoral tribes and oasis communities which inhabited southeastern Morocco, a semi-arid region on the northern fringe of the Sahara Desert. Between 1881 and 1912 the French army, advancing from Algeria, invaded and occupied this ... Leer más

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  • The New World History

    A Field Guide for Teachers and Researchers

    Series Libro 23 - California World History Library
    The New World History is a comprehensive volume of essays selected to enrich world history teaching and scholarship in this rapidly expanding field. The forty-four articles in this book take stock of the history, evolving literature, and current trajectories of new world history. These essays, together with the editors’ introductions to thematic chapters, encourage educators and students to ... Leer más

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  • A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire

    At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatile. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire now gives scholars and general readers a concise ... Leer más

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