This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the ...
Until now, we have known very little of the lives of ordinary Middle Eastern men and women, despite extensive research on the modern Middle East. With this collection of essays, the life stories of peasants, villagers, pastoralists, and urbanites can finally be heard - no more will our view of the Middle East be seen only over the shoulders of the ...
Is the history of the modern world the history of Europe writ large? Or is it possible to situate the history of modernity as a world historical process apart from its origins in Western Europe? In this posthumous collection of essays, Marshall G. S. Hodgson challenges adherents of both Eurocentrism and multiculturalism to rethink the place of ...
Since around 1500 C.E., humans have shaped the global environment in ways that were previously unimaginable. Bringing together leading environmental historians and world historians, this book offers an overview of global environmental history throughout this remarkable 500-year period. In eleven essays, the contributors examine the connections ...
1839. In Nine Volumes. The works of Edmund Burke, British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker prominent in public life from 1765 to about 1795 and important in the history of political theory. He championed conservatism in opposition to Jacobinism in Reflections on the Revolution in France Contents: An account of the European ...
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling, PATAT 2002, held in Gent, Belgium in August 2002.The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical ...
1897. The text intends to provide teacher or student with the materials needed for a complete understanding of Conciliation with America, Edmund Burke's greatest speech. Contents: Acquaintance with Burke; Social Conditions; Political Conditions; Edmund Burke; Burke as a Statesman; Burke as an Orator; Burke as a Writer; Structure of the Speech on ...
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This is the first comprehensive study of the life and works of Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr - an Iraqi scholar who made an important contribution to the renewal of Islamic law and politics in the contemporary Middle East. Executed in 1980, Sadr was the most articulate thinker and a major political actor in the revival of Shi'i learning, which placed ...
Taken together the essays in this work not only provide new research essential to the study of Islamic societies and Muslim peoples, but also set a new standard for the concrete study of local situations and illuminate the forces shaping the history of modern Muslim societies. This collection is unique in its sophisticated interpretation of the ...
The protracted Arab-Israeli war and the central importance of security to Israel have given a major role to senior military personnel. 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 ...
Employing a cross-cultural approach, this book focuses on members from several generations of families who were products of two or more social worlds - the Afro-Brazilian Reboucas family; the West African Creole May family from Sierra Leone; and the Austrian-Jewish Zweig-Brettauer family.
Orientalism, as explored by Edward Said in 1978, was a far more complex phenomenon than many suspected, being homogenous along the lines of neither culture nor time. Instead, it is deeply embedded in the collective re-imaginings that were - and are - nationalism. The dozen essays in "Genealogies of Orientalism" argue that the critique of ...
Based on a wide reading of Arabic and European sources, this book attempts to extend deconstructive critique to historical and political analysis. The author interprets the modern West through a re-reading of Europe's colonial impact on 19th-century Europe.
This ambitious work has two novel goals: to overcome the extreme fragmentation of early Southeast Asian historiography, and to connect Southeast Asian to world history. Combining careful local research with wide-ranging theory Lieberman argues that over a thousand years, each of mainland Southeast Asia's great lowland corridors experienced a ...
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