Markus weiner publ nj (66 risultati)

Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnA collection of documents by black American slaves, written while enslaved or shortly after escape. The words recorded here express complexity and diversity of thought and feeling about slavery and being black, and offer glimpses .

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Condizione: New. Explores significant events in the naval history of the Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic and cultural life on the islands.KlappentextrnrnExplores significant events .

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. KlappentextSeveral civilizations have risen, flourished and fallen in the valley of the Nile, each with its own religion, language, culture, institutions and style of life. Yet beneath them all a certain basic unity persisted. In few fie.

Condizione: New. Robert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publications had an enormous impact in his time. His autobiography is a vital indictment of an execrable system.KlappentextrnrnRobert W.

Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnThe first general history of Jamaica to be written in almost 40 years. It differs significantly from earlier imperial&#8221 histories which have been written from the perspective of the coloniser and which have relegated Jamaica.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnA history of Central and South Africa. Beginning with the kingdoms of the Congo in the 14th and 15th century, and their histories, this volume analyzes the influence and pressures of the Portuguese, Catholic Church, and the slave .

Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnPresents an insightful analysis of Saudi Arabia s political stability in light of the mounting domestic and international challenges facing the country today. Directly addressing Saudi Arabia s inert monarchical ruling system, its.

Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnCentral Asia in ancient and medieval times was the crossroads of civilization, connecting China with the West. What we now call Central Asia was part of the empires conquered by Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Timur, and their success.

Condizione: New. These six essays, three by art historians and three by specialists in Arabic and Persian literature, examine specific instances in which texts and images that would seem to have been intended as one cultural product have traditionally been studied separately.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnRecords the journey of Ibn Battuta, a Moroccan jurist who travelled to the East, and offers fascinating details into the cultures and dynamics of the region, along with a first-hand account of increased globalisation due to the ri.

Condizione: New. The Kunstkammer was a display of art and oddities amassed by wealthy Europeans during the 16th to 18th centuries. This text explores the relations between art, science and scholarship in early modern Europe, advancing the view that the baroque Kunstkamm.

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Condizione: New. On May 30, 1961, a hail of bullets ended the life of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, known to his countrymen as The Goat , after 31 years of brutal rule over the Dominican Republic. This work is a minute-by-minute account of the plot to kill Truj.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnEmily Ruete was born in 1840 as Princess Sayyida of Zanzibar. Set against a backdrop of political intrigue in the great age of European colonialism, this memoir offers a portrait of 19th-century Arab and African life, not only in .

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnA study of slavery in ancient Greece and Italy. Sir Moses Finley discusses how slave societies came into being and considers the moral, social and economic underpinnings that allowed them to prosper. He also compares ancient slave.

Condizione: New. The 25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and Ivory Coast, has established a legacy as widely known as its bright kente cloth. This first-of-its-kind collection features a ne.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. This is an updated and expanded 2015 edition of a classic text on Muslim thinking about war and peace. The new edition includes a new introduction and translations of selected revelatory excerpts from ISIS texts about the treatment of POWs, guidelines on th.

Condizione: New. Perched between three continents - Africa, Asia, and Europe - the Levant is a crossroads of world history. This completely revised edition includes a special chapter on the convulsion in Syria since 2011, which has made the largest country in the Levant a t.

Condizione: New. For over one thousand years foreign powers, such as Arabs, Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, and now Chinese, interfered in African affairs to pursue economic and political gains. This book provides a brief outline of Africa s pre-colonial and colonial .

Condizione: New. In vivid and engaging style, Douglas Brookes uses the royal tomb of Sultan Mahmud II as a window onto the past, exploring the insights the tomb reveals about Ottoman culture in its splendid last decades. Woven into the tale are the life stories of the Turki.

Condizione: New. From the emergence of the first sugar plantations up until 1873, when slavery was abolished, the wealth amassed by many landowners in Puerto Rico derived mainly from the exploitation of slaves. But slavery generated its antithesis: disobedience, conspiracie.

Condizione: New. The Caucasus is a meeting point of East and West, Europe and Asia, Christiandom and Islam. The cultures include Greek, Slavic, Arabic, Turkish and Persian, just to name a few. It has served as realm of legend, myth, of wonderment and exotica. Yet at the sam.

Condizione: New. This central focus of this title is General China, the most important but controversial leader of the notorious Mau Mau rebellion that exploded in Kenya during the 1950s. We read the story through the lens of China, his memoirs - now published for the first.

Condizione: New. Calling on more than 30 years of studying the Kurdish issue, numerous trips to the region, and many contacts among the Kurds, including almost all of their main leaders, Michael Gunter has written a short, but thorough history of the Kurds that is well docu.