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Surveys the history of the Fertile Crescent and the key factors that have shaped the Middle East conflict.
Author : Richard Allen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195017816
Surveys the history of the Fertile Crescent and the key factors that have shaped the Middle East conflict.
Author : R. Allen
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Richard Allen (Sir)
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Page : 686 pages
File Size : 37,90 MB
Release : 1974
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Author : Hans Kohn
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 42,75 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1000798119
First published in 1932, Nationalism and Imperialism in the Hither East seeks to present the history of Turkey, Egypt and Arabia in the decade where the political structures created by World War I and the Peace Conferences sought consolidation and the evolution of their own life. The story begins where, after the immediate consequences of the War had been liquidated, the civil and political administration of the several countries was established. This book is intended as contribution to the endeavour to understand the historical and sociological character of nationalism and of the forces which are determining the history of our own day. The social, political, and cultural movements in these countries, the struggle between imperialism and nationalism throw light upon the processes which extend far beyond the region under consideration. The language used is a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this republication. This book will be of interest to students of history, political science, international relations, and geography.
Author : John Marlowe
Publisher : London : Cresset Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,10 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Arabs
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Evolution of Arab nationalism from the Ottoman Empire to the present and changing power structure in the Middle East.
Author : D. K. Fieldhouse
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0191536962
The term 'Fertile Crescent' is commonly used as shorthand for the group of territories extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Here it is assumed to consist of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine. Much has been written on the history of these countries which were taken from the Ottoman empire after 1918 and became Mandates under the League of Nations. For the most part the histories of these countries have been handled either individually or as part of the history of Britain or France. In the first instance the emphasis has normally been on the development of nationalism and local resistance to alien control in a particular territory, leading to the modern successor state. In the second most studies have concentrated separately on how either France or Britain handled the great problems they inherited, seldom comparing their strategies. The aim of this book is to see the region as a whole and from both the European and indigenous points of view. The central argument is that the mandate system failed in its stated purpose of establishing stable democratic states out of what had been provinces or parts of provinces within the Ottoman empire. Rather it generated basically unstable polities and, in the special case of Palestine, one totally unresolved, and possibly unsolvable, conflict. The result was to leave the Middle East as perhaps the most volatile part of the world in the later twentieth century and beyond. The main purpose of the book is to examine why this was so.
Author : Regina Rowland
Publisher : ICAS Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1907905421
The Annual International Conference on Shi‘i Studies is organised by the Research and Publications Department of The Islamic College, London. The conference aims to provide a broad platform for scholars working in the field of Shi‘i Studies to present their latest research and to explore diverse opinions on Shi‘i thought, practice, and heritage. This book comprises a selection of papers from the third conference held on 6–7 May 2017.
Author : B. Grob-Fitzgibbon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 49,12 MB
Release : 2016-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0230300383
In this fresh and controversial account of Britain's end of empire, Grob-Fitzgibbon reveals that the British government developed a successful strategy of decolonization following the Second World War based on devolving power to indigenous peoples within the Commonwealth.
Author : Rajendra M. Abhyankar
Publisher : Academic Foundation
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9788171886166
Contributed articles presented at the National Conference on "West Asia and the Region: Defining India's Role" held at the Centre for West Asian Studies on Aug. 21-22, 2006.
Author : David Aberbach
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000708276
In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural nationalism common since the Middle Ages. As an edited work, the Bible includes texts mostly depicting long-gone historical eras extending over several centuries. Following on from Aberbach’s previous work National Poetry, Empires, and War, this book argues that works of this nature – notably the Mujo-Halil songs in Albania, the Irish stories of Cuchulain, the songs of the Nibelungen in Germany, or the Finnish legends collected in The Kalevala – have an ancient precedent in the Hebrew Bible (to which national literatures often allude and refer), a subject largely neglected in biblical studies. The self-critical element in the Hebrew Bible, common in later national literature, is examined as the basis of later anti-Semitism, as the Bible was not confined to Jews but was adopted in translation by many other national groups. With several dozen original translations from the Hebrew, this book highlights how the Bible influenced and was distorted by later national cultures. Written without jargon, this book is intended for the general reader, but is also an important contribution to the study of the Bible, nationalism, and Jewish history.