This history of the countries where Arabic is the main language of speech and culture, stretching from Morocco to Iraq, covers the period from the 7th to the 10th century, when the new religion of Islam carried the Arabic language with it and created an Arabic Muslim world. The story is carried up to the 1980s and the author shows how Arab history ...
Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe. ...
This textbook assembles key writings on the modern history of the Middle East by some of the most distinguished specialists in the field. The book aims to meet the needs of a wide range of students. After a general introduction by Albert Hourani, the essays are arranged in four sections: reforming elites and changing relations with Europe 1789 ...
After the end of World War I, international pressures prevented the Allies from implementing direct colonial rule over the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Instead, the Allies created a system of mandates for the governance of the Middle East. France was assigned Lebanon and Syria, and Britain was assigned Iraq, Palestine, and ...
This book deals with the past relationship between Russia and the Chinese Eastern Periphery (Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao) - an area of study that received only marginal academic attention. The author has done extensive research into the topic, making use of materials collected from various archives. The book is full of illuminating details on how ...
Stelian Tanase includes excerpts from his diary recounting the surveillance of his activities during the late years of the Ceausescu regime. Tanase's book also includes a unique documentary collection of archival documents contained in the files of the Romanian security police.
In this second volume, Rusko Matulic continues to formulate a comprehensive bibliography of primarily published sources relating to the history, languages, literature, politics, government, religion, and social sciences of former Yugoslavia, including bibliographical materials on expatriates.
Ilie Serbanescu, a distinguished economist, launches a comprehensive study of the contemporary Romanian economy and its problems. He critically evaluates Romanian transition and the main issues facing the stability of the Romanian economy, and then proposes solutions to be undertaken by the Romanian government.
In this memoir, the famous Lithuanian writer Vanda Juknaite describes her life during the reemergence of an independent, democratic Lithuanian state in the early 1990s. Masterfully translated by Laima Sruoginis, Sruoginis' remarkable experiences recall the transition from communism to democracy with all its joys and difficulties.
Bernard Ivan Tamas lays out the history of the struggle for democracy in the early years of transition, addressing the problem of competence in party politics and democratization and the consequences of amateurism and inexperience.
Revised from the Hungarian original, this edition of The History tracks the domestic and international evolution of military higher education during a crucial historical period. These years saw Hungary rapidly switch from a post World War II democracy to a single-party dictatorship, a carbon copy of the Soviet Bolshevik system. Internationally, an ...
Katalin Kadar Lynn writes a political biography of the Hungarian politician Tibor Eckhardt, with special emphasis on his years in the United States when he was the leader of the Hungarian National Committee. This is a unique study of Hungarian emigre politics and American policies before Word War II and during the Cold War, via-a-vis Hungary and ...
Khalidi is one of the most influential Palestinian scholars and was the leader of the joint Palestinian-Jordanian delegation to the Middle East Peace Conference. He has been an outspoken critic of Middle Eastern politicians, including the Palestinians, and his essay "Thinking the Unthinkable" set out a vision of an independent Palestine that ...
This volume contains the letters of Konstancija Bra eniene written in Lithuania, East Germany, and Siberia between 1944 and 1946. It reveals a remarkable portrait of survival during the Cold War and post-Cold War period and adaptation to changing political conditions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Lithuania. It is reviewing a previous edition or ...
After the end of World War I, international pressures prevented the Allies from implementing direct colonial rule over the former Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Instead, the Allies created a system of mandates for the governance of the Middle East. France was assigned Lebanon and Syria, and Britain was assigned Iraq, Palestine, and ...
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