France & Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1914
Author: John P. Spagnolo
Publisher: London : Ithaca Press for the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College Oxford
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13:
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Interlopers of Empire
Author: Andrew Arsan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014-01-06
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0190257172
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others have concentrated on the commercial activities of these migrants, casting them as archetypal middlemen, this work reconstructs not just their economic strategies, but also their social and political lives. Moreover, it examines the fraught responses of colonial Frenchmen to the unsettling presence of these interlopers of empire--responses which, with their echoes of metropolitan racism, helped to shape the ways in which Lebanese migrants represented themselves and justified their place in West Africa. This is a work which attempts not just to reshape broader understandings of diasporic life-of Janus-like existences lived in transit between distant locales, and de- pendent on the constant to-and-fro of people, news, and goods--but also to challenge the way we think about empires, and the relations between their constituent territories and diverse inhabitants.
Environmental Histories of the First World War
Author: Richard P. Tucker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-23
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 110862555X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis anthology surveys the ecological impacts of the First World War. Editors Richard P. Tucker, Tait Keller, J. R. McNeill, and Martin Schmidt bring together a list of experienced authors who explore the global interactions of states, armies, civilians, and the environment during the war. They show how the First World War ushered in enormous environmental changes, including the devastation of rural and urban environments, the consumption of strategic natural resources such as metals and petroleum, the impact of war on urban industry, and the disruption of agricultural landscapes leading to widespread famine. Taking a global perspective, Environmental Histories of the First World War presents the ecological consequences of the vast destructive power of the new weaponry and the close collaboration between militaries and civilian governments taking place during this time, showing how this war set trends for the rest of the century.
Africa, Asia, and South America Since 1800
Author: A. J. H. Latham
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780719018770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reference for graduate and undergraduate students presenting the bibliographic details and sometimes describing and evaluating the content of over 5,000 books in English, most published since 1945 and many quite recently, but also some earlier works of enduring importance. A section of works on all three continents is followed by sections on each, which first consider the continent as a whole, then each country, usually by chronological periods and topics such as economics, politics, and society. Indexed only by author and editor, but the table of contents is detailed enough to provide adequate access. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Concise Biographical Companion to Index Islamicus
Author: Wolfgang Behn
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2004-12-01
Total Pages: 732
ISBN-13: 9047414357
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis third and last of the three-volume Who’s Who in Islamic Studies presents the scholarly world at long last with its own biographical encyclopaedia. Taking as a starting point the inventory of authors from the renowned Index Islamicus, the author, Wolfgang Behn (Berlin), has systematically collected numerous data on the lives and works of the tens of thousands of authors listed in the Index Islamicus from 1665 to 1980. This Biographical Companion will be an indispensable reference tool for the serious student and scholar of Islamic Studies. It enables the user to quickly gain knowledge on the life, work, and professional background of almost every major and minor author, and thus to place each author in his/her proper perspective. A tremendous achievement and a true must for every library.
The Historical Formation of the Arab Nation (RLE: the Arab Nation)
Author: A. A. Duri
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0415622867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis set re-issues 4 volumes originally published between 1985 and 1991. They Examine the historical process of social formation that gave rise to the communal consciousness of the Arab nation and determined its sense of identityPresent detailed analysis of resources in the Arab world, including population, employment, oil and water suppliesDiscuss dimensions of Afro-Arab co-operation and the future of Afro-Arab RelationsAnalyse the relations between state and society in the Arab World.
Middle East Contemporary Survey, Vol. 8, 1983-84
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Publisher: The Moshe Dayan Center
Published:
Total Pages: 878
ISBN-13: 9789652240064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Persians Amongst the English
Author: Denis Wright
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 1985-12-31
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781850430025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Historical Formation of the Arab Nation (RLE: The Arab Nation)
Author: A A Duri
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1136251782
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive examination of the historical process of social formation that gave rise to the communal consciousness of the Arab nation and determined its sense of identity. It aims to provide a historical context for the assessment of prevailing concepts and suggests hypotheses for the development of modern Arab consciousness. The book firstly traces Arab origins and the formation of Arab societies after the emergence of Islam, assessing the perspectives and factors that shaped the rise of the Arab nation in both practical and intellectual terms. It then examines the beginning of the Arab awakening and the course of its development in the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth, focusing on the emergence of a nationalist perspective in the development of intellectual positions on patriotism and Arabism.
A History of Stability and Change in Lebanon
Author: Joseph Bayeh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-06-30
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1786732327
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLebanon is a country whose domestic politics have, even more than others in the region, been at the mercy of changes on the international stage. Having been under Ottoman and French rule in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the post-World War II era has seen Lebanon subjected to Israeli, Syrian and American interventions which have all threatened the county s stability as a state. Joseph Bayeh argues that it is this international dimension which holds the key to an in-depth understanding of the country. In support of this argument, Bayeh examines Lebanese history from its early days under the Ottomans to the present day in order to show how international shifts and conflicts have had their impact on Lebanon. With changes such as the fall of the Ottoman empire, the rise of US power after World War II, the end of the Cold War and the new focus on the region in the aftermath of 9/11, Lebanon has at various junctures been bolstered or undermined. Bayeh tracks all of this, offering insights into the workings of Lebanon s domestic politics which will appeal to researchers of the international relations of the Middle East and Lebanon s political history."
