Ethnic category: 7100 books
The Kurds
A Nation on the Way to Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
The book is about the history and national movement and nationalism of the Kurdish nation who were divided by the victorious Allied Powers, Britain and France, in the first World War 1918. The Kurds and their country, Kurdistan were divided between Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. For about one century,...
Governing Post-Imperial Siberia and Mongolia, 1911-1924
Buddhism, Socialism and Nationalism in State and Autonomy Building
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2016
The governance arrangements put in place for Siberia and Mongolia after the collapse of the Qing and Russian Empires were highly unusual, experimental and extremely interesting. The Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic established within the Soviet Union in 1923 and the independent Mongolian...
The Chinese Revolution in the 1920s
Between Triumph and Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Based mainly on Russian and Chinese archival sources that have become available only since the early 1990s, the authors of this collection explore the main aspects of the Chinese Revolution in the crucial period of the 1920s, such as the United Front policy, the development of communism, the Guomindang...
Trade Unions in China
The Challenge of Labour Unrest
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
The transition from a command economy to a capitalist market economy has entirely altered the industrial landscape in which Chinese trade unions have to operate. This book focuses on how the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is reforming under current conditions and demonstrates that labour...
Havana Dreams
A Story of a Cuban Family
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
A fascinating, powerfully evocative story of four generations of Cuban women, through whose lives the author illuminates a vivid picture--both personal and historical--of Cuba in our century.
"When I want to read a culture," writes Wendy Gimbel in her prologue, "I listen to stories...
by Luis Urrea
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
By the Lake of Sleeping Children explores the post-NAFTA and Proposition 187 border purgatory of garbage pickers and dump dwellers, gawking tourists,and relief workers, fearsome coyotes and their desperate clientele. In sixteen indelible portraits, Urrea illuminates the horrors and the simple joys...
King of Cuba
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
A “darkly hilarious” (Elle) novel about a fictionalized Fidel Castro and an octogenarian Cuban exile obsessed with seeking revenge by the National Book Award finalist Cristina García, this “clever, well-conceived dual portrait shows what connects and divides Cubans inside and outside of the...
Scotch-Irish Life in the South Carolina Piedmont
Why They Wore Five Petticoats on Sunday
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
"Five Petticoats on Sunday" was originally published in 1962. The book was a collection of columns written by Caroline S. Coleman containing stories her grandmother told about the Fairview community and the South Carolina Piedmont. Coleman's granddaughters, Millie Coleman and Caroline Sherman, have expanded...
China After Socialism: In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia?
In the Footsteps of Eastern Europe or East Asia?
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Nine specialists from four continents address the following questions: is China moving toward the type of developmental state and sophisticated economic powerhouse associated with the East Asian miracle? does China's Leninist political system and the heritage of a state-run-heavy-industrial sector...
The Political Thought of Sayyid Qutb
The Theory of Jahiliyyah
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
This new book takes a literary approach in its study of Sayyid Qutb, one of the most significant political thinkers for contemporary Islamists and who has greatly influenced the likes of Osama Bin Laden. Executed by the Egyptian state in 1966, his books continue to be read and his theory of jahiliyya...
The Formative Period of Twelver Shi'ism
Hadith as Discourse Between Qum and Baghdad
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Shows how the frictions and disparities between the different pockets of believers scattered throughout the Eastern Islamic world in the late ninth and tenth centuries, the relations between each of these and the Abbasid political institution favoured the narration of different bodies of the Imams' traditions
Islam Without Allah?
The Rise of Religious Externalism in Safavid Iran
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This ground-breaking and controversial work locates the antecedents of today's Islamic 'fundamentalism' in 16th and 17th century Iran and the forced conversion of the Sunnite population of Iran to the largely alien doctrines of Twelver Shi'ism; the concomitant extirpation of Sufism and philosophy; and the gradual rise of the 'faqih' or jurist.
The Formation of Hanbalism
Piety into Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2002
Ahmad Ibn Hanbal (d. 855) was the eponymous founder of a school of law, and an influential intellectual who led the Baghdadi masses during the Inquisition. Owing to his status as a jurist, to the religious ideas he propounded and to his model way of life, he is perceived as one of the pivotal figures in the history of Islam and a revered hero to th
Italians in Chicago
1945-2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
More than 25,000 Italian immigrants came to Chicago after 1945. The story of their exodus and reestablishment in Chicago touches on war torn Italy, the renewal of family and paesani connections, the bureaucratic challenges of the restrictive quota system, the energy and spirit of the new immigrants,...