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Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World
Aid and Influence in the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
It was long assumed that the Soviet Union dictated Warsaw Pact policy in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America (known as the 'Third World' during the Cold War). Although the post-1991 opening of archives has demonstrated this to be untrue, there has still been no holistic volume examining...
Orwell and Marxism
The Political and Cultural Thinking of George Orwell
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Whether as a fighter in the Spanish Civil War, an advocate of patriotic Socialism or a left-wing opponent of the Soviet Union, George Orwell was the ultimate outsider in politics - insecure, scornful of orthodoxies, cussedly independent.
Best known today as the author of Animal Farm and Nineteen...
Muslim Rule in Medieval India
Power and Religion in the Delhi Sultanate
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2016
The Delhi Sultanate ruled northern India for over three centuries. The era, marked by the desecration of temples and construction of mosques from temple-rubble, is for many South Asians a lightning rod for debates on communalism, religious identity and inter-faith conflict. Using Persian and Arabic...
Hafiz and His Contemporaries
Poetry, Performance and Patronage in Fourteenth Century Iran
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 1390) remains an elusive and opaque character for many. In order to look behind the hyperbole that surrounds Hafiz's poetry and penetrate the quasi-hagiographical film that obscures the poet himself,...
Zion in Africa
The Jews of Zambia
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2017
This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community in central Africa. It tells the story of the coming of the first Jews to the area in the late 19th century, the heyday of the Jewish community in the mid-20th century, and its decline since Zambian independence. Dealing primarily...
Speedy Motor
Travels across Asia and the Middle East in a Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
In the summer of 1974, against the backdrop of the Lebanese Civil War, ceramics expert and Morgan sports car enthusiast John Carswell set off with his young family from their home in Beirut on an expedition across Asia and the Middle East. Their mode of transport was their beloved motor car, a Morgan...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2011
How did Iran remain distinctively Iranian in the centuries which followed the Arab Conquest? How did it retain its cultural distinctiveness after the displacement of Zoroastrianism - state religion of the Persian empire - by Islam? This latest volume in The Idea of Iran series traces that critical...
Technovisuality
Cultural Re-enchantment and the Experience of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2015
How should we regard the contemporary proliferation of images? Today, visual information is available as projected, printed and on-screen imagery, in the forms of video games, scientific data, virtual environments and architectural renderings. Fearful and anti-visualist responses to this phenomenon...
Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean
The Galley and Maritime Conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
In the century after 1530 the empires of the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere:: lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the salient feature of this conflict was a violent form of piracy practiced by the 'corsairs'...
Russia in the Time of Cholera
Disease under Romanovs and Soviets
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2018
As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs. Scholars have since argued that cholera eventually fell prey to better sanitation and strict quarantine under the Soviets, citing...
Reporting Genocide
Media, Mass Violence and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
The Western world's responses to genocide have been slow, unwieldly and sometimes unfit for purpose. So argues David Patrick in this essential new contribution to the aid and intervention debate. While the UK and US have historically been committed to the ideals of human rights, freedom and equality,...
Dragon Lords
The History and Legends of Viking England
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and more nuanced, stories; and these hidden tales...
Folk Fashion
Understanding Homemade Clothes
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
A dynamic resurgence in sewing and knitting is under way, with many people enjoying making and mending their own garments at home. However, stories abound of homemade clothes languishing at the back of the wardrobe. Amy Twigger Holroyd draws on ideas of fashion, culture and craft to explore makers'...
Media in Lebanon
Fragmentation and Conflict in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Lebanese society is famously, and even notoriously, fragmented, along both class and sectarian lines. Here, Nabil Dajani looks at how this societal division impacts on the nature of the mass media in Lebanon. Implementing the wider theory that the structure and content of mass media is unique to the...