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The Ottoman Empire And European Capitalism, 1820â€“1913 - Trade, Investment And Production

de Sevket Pamuk

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Originally published in 1987, this book examines the consequences of the nineteenth-century economic penetration of Europe into the Ottoman Empire. Professor Pamuk makes subtle use of a very wide range of sources encompassing the statistics of most of the European countries and Ottoman records not previously tapped for this purpose.
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Between Battles And Ballots - Israeli Military In Politics

de Yoram Peri

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Yoram Peri, a former adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Rabin, demonstrates in this book that state control over the military in Israel has been weak, and a pattern of civil-military partnership has emerged. This changing relationship involved the inner rivalries of Israel's Labour Party in particular.
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Nomads And Settlers In Syria And Jordan, 1800â€“1980

de Norman N. Lewis

48,67€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This study shows how the present situation came about as the state extended and strengthened its hold on the countryside, the economy of the country developed, landlords and peasants took up hitherto uncultivated land and nomads settled down to become farmers.
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Merchants Of Essaouira - Urban Society And Imperialism In Southwestern Morocco, 1844â€“1886

de Daniel J. Schroeter

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Essaouira was founded n 1764 by Sultan Sidi Muhammad b. Abdullah as his port for developing trade with Europe. This study of a specific city and region throws light on the problems of traditional societies in the age of European economic imperialism.
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The Imamate Tradition Of Oman

de John Craven Wilkinson

60,83€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 At the core of this book is an attempt to explain a conflict in Oman in the 1950s and 1960s between two claimants to authority: the Imam of the Ibadi sect and the Sultan.
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Iran And The Cold War - The Azerbaijan Crisis Of 1946

de Louise Lestrange (University Of Oxford) Fawcett

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This study is firmly located within the extensive international relations literature of the Cold War. Iran and the Cold War is an ideal text for students and specialists of both international relations and Middle East studies.
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Womanpower - The Arab Debate On Women At Work

de Nadia Hijab

25,69€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Womanpower unveils the lively but little-reported debate on women's position in the modern Arab world. It paints the picture from individual stories as well as national development programmes and attempts to explain why economic change in the region has been slow by linking it to political and economic developments.
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Urban Notables And Arab Nationalism - The Politics Of Damascus 1860â€“1920

de Philip S. Khoury

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This study attempts to correct the imbalance and, in the process, provides a fascinating interpretation of the rise of the ideology of nationalism within the Arab world. The book focuses on the social and political life of the great notable families of Ottoman Damascus, who, before World War I, played a crucial part in translating the idea into political action.
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Jordan, The United States And The Middle East Peace Process, 1974â€“1991

de Madiha Rashid Al Madfai

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this study, Madiha Madfai explores Jordan's role in the USA's peacemaking efforts during the Carter, Reagan and Bush administrations. She also examines the anger, anguish and frustration that lay behind the Jordanian decision.
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Oil And Politics In The Gulf - Rulers And Merchants In Kuwait And Qatar

de Jill (Auburn University, Alabama) Crystal

36,50€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book asks why in recent years the social and economic upheavals in Kuwait and Qatar have been accompanied by a remarkable political continuity. Professor Crystal investigates this apparent anomaly by examining the impact of oil on the formation and destruction of political coalitions and state institutions.
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Ottoman Manufacturing In The Age Of The Industrial Revolution

de Donald (State University Of New York, Binghamton) Quataert e Donald Quataert

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book uncovers the rich, fascinating and complex world of Ottoman manufacturing and manufacturers in the age of the European industrial revolution. Focusing on small-scale home and workshop production, the author refutes notions of a stagnating economy and shows an adaptive, innovative and vital industrial sector.
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Medicine And Power In Tunisia, 1780â€“1900

de Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 European economic and political expansion, which accelerated after the Napoleonic Wars, confronted Muslims not only withh a new source of political power but also with a new set of medical ideas. This study traces the medical confrontation through the society's response to epidemic disease.
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The End Of Empire In The Middle East - Britain'S Relinquishment Of Power In Her Last Three Arab Dependencies

de Glen (University Of Exeter) Balfour-Paul

74,35€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The End of Empire in the Middle East is an original and perceptive study of Britain's withdrawal from her last Arab dependencies - the Sudan, South West Arabia and the Gulf States. It is based on a combination of first hand experience and extensive research.
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King Abdullah, Britain And The Making Of Jordan

de Mary Christina (University Of Massachusetts, Amherst) Wilson

66,24€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 King Abdullah played an active role in the partition of Palestine and, as a result, has always been viewed as one of the most controversial figures in modern Middle East history. This book is the first in-depth study of the historical and personal circumstances that made him so.
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Revolution And Foreign Policy - The Case Of South Yemen, 1967â€“1987

de Fred Halliday

77,06€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book is a study of the foreign policy of South Yemen from the time of its independence from Britain in 1967 until 1987. It covers relations with the west, including the USA, and with the USSR and China, and also highlights South Yemen's conflicts with its neighbours, North Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Oman.
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Islam And Resistance In Afghanistan

de Olivier (Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (Cnrs), Paris) Roy

33,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this new edition, Olivier Roy expands his penetrating study of the history, ideology and structures of the Afghan resistance movement to mid-1989. The situation created by the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan is also explored, and in a new conclusion Professor Roy assesses to what extent the war has altered the traditional fabric of Afghan society.
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Women In Nineteenth-Century Egypt

de Judith E. Tucker

75,71€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 In this book the effects of the Egyptian process of state formation and colonial rule are discussed: the growth of the state apparatus, its social services and repressive means, brought new kinds of intervention into women's lives.
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Cairo University And The Making Of Modern Egypt

de Donald Malcolm (Georgia State University) Reid

75,71€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Cairo University has been crucially important in shaping the national life of modern Egypt. In this history, Professor Reid explains the university's part in the national quest for independence from Britain, in the perennial tension between secular and religious world-views, and in the push for a more egalitarian society.
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Jordan In The 1967 War

de Samir A. Mutawi

51,37€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Samir Mutawi's use of interviews with surviving Jordanian participants - politicians, military commanders, intelligence personnel and, most importantly, King Hussein - as well as Jordanian army records and books and memoirs in Arabic provides a new perspective on the war and on Jordan's position in the immediate post-war period.
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The Making Of Contemporary Algeria, 1830â€“1987

de Mahfoud Bennoune

33,80€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book gives a detailed account of the discussions and changes of policy and analyses the experiments and their results. Dr Bennoune argues that the rapid development of basic industries provides the only path by which countries in the Third World can hope to attain real independence, and that this policy demands a degree of public participation that only a democratic government can generate.
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State And Society In Mid-Nineteenth-Century Egypt

de Ehud R. Toledano

75,71€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Previous studies of nineteenth-century Egypt have often been premature in identifying the existence of an independent nation state. In a way which will permanently affect our view of Egyptian history, this book argues that in the mid-nineteenth-century period Egypt was still an Ottoman province, with a provincial Ottoman elite which was only gradually becoming Egyptian.
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Water And Power - The Politics Of A Scarce Resource In The Jordan River Basin

de Miriam R. (Trenton State College, New Jersey) Lowi

45,96€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Why do states in arid regions fail to co-operate in sharing water resources when co-operation would appear to be in their mutual interest? Through in-depth analysis of the history and current status of the dispute over the Jordan River basin, Miriam Lowi explores the answers to these critical questions.
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Egypt In The Reign Of Muhammad Ali

de Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot

75,71€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This account of Egyptian society in the reign of Muhammad Ali traces the beginnings of the nation state in Egypt. It considers Muhammad Ali as part of a social group whose economic interests led them in the direction of trade with Europe as a means of raising money for further investments.
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The Palestinian Liberation Organisation - People, Power And Politics

de Helena Cobban

44,61€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is a comprehensive political analysis of the PLO. The author has studied developments at close quarters and use documentary sources and first-hand recollections which have never been included in previous Western analyses of the movement.
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