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Buried in the Red Dirt Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine
Bringing together a vivid array of analog and non-traditional sources, including colonial archives, newspaper reports, literature, oral histories, and interviews, Buried in the Red Dirt tells a story of life, death, reproduction and missing bodies and experiences during and since the British colonial period in Palestine. Using transnational feminist reading practices of existing and new archive…
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- 5
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- 9781009072854
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- vii, 288p, : ill,
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- -
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- 610.73092 FRA b
Houses built on sand : violence, sectarianism and revolution in the Middle East
The events of the Arab Uprisings posed an existential challenge to sovereign power across the Middle East. Whilst popular movements resulted in the toppling of authoritarian rule in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen, other regimes were able to withstand these pressures. This book questions why some regimes fell whilst others were able to survive. Drawing on the work of political theorists such as Agambe…
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- -
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- 9781526126474
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- x, 266 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 303.48330956 MAB h
The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)
In the thirteenth century, the Armenians of Greater Armenia and of the Armenian Kingdom in Cilicia were invaded by Mongol nomads of the Inner Asian steppe. The ensuing Mongol-Armenian relations were varied. The Greater Armenians became subjects of the Mongol Empire, whereas the Cilician Armenians, by entering into vassalage, became allies and furthered the Mongol conquests. In order to enhance …
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- 9789004186354
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- xiii, 267 p. : ill
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- 956.62014 DAS t
Impact of Formal and Informal Institutions on Economic Growth: A Case Study o…
Regarding the Arab region, GDP per capita virtually stagnated for more than 20 years from 1980. During the same period, GDP per capita in the world’s highly industrialized states further increased and the gap between the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and the highly developed countries widened. However, the differences between Arab countries and the Western states exist not only economic…
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- 9783631616161
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- xvi, 234 pages ; 22 cm.
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- Hohenheimer Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften, Band 65
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- 338.956 DOB i
Diamonds and war: state, capital and labor in British-ruled Palestine
Based on previously unexamined historical documents found in archives in Belgium, England, Israel, the Netherlands, and the United States, this book is the first in English to tell the story of the formation of one of the world’s main strongholds of diamond production and trade in Palestine during the 1930s and 1940s. The history of the diamond-cutting industry, characterized by a long-standi…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781789201178
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- xvi, 354p.: ill.
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- -
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- 338.477362309569409043 VRI d
Cyberresearch on the ancient Near East and neighboring regions : case studies…
CyberResearch on the Ancient Near East and Neighboring Regions provides case studies on archaeology, objects, cuneiform texts, and online publishing, digital archiving, and preservation. Eleven chapters present a rich array of material, spanning the fifth through the first millennium BCE, from Anatolia, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Iran. Customized cyber- and general glossaries support reader…
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- 9789004375086
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- xxviii, 458p. : ill.
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- -
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- 939.400285 CYB c
From scrolls to scrolling : sacred texts, materiality, and dynamic media cult…
Throughout history, the study of sacred texts has focused almost exclusively on the content and meaning of these writings. Such a focus obscures the fact that sacred texts are always embodied in particular material forms—from ancient scrolls to contemporary electronic devices. Using the digital turn as a starting point, this volume highlights material dimensions of the sacred texts of Judaism…
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- -
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- 9783110634440
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- XVII, 307 p.
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- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation, 12
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- 297 SCR s
Jihad and Islam in World War I. Studies on the Ottoman Jihad at the centenary…
This books investigates the background and nature of the Ottoman Jihad proclamation, but also its effects in the wider Middle East. It looks at the German hopes and British fears of a worldwide rising of Muslims in the colonial empires. It also discusses the fierce academic debates caused by the Jihad proclamation, in which the 1915 manifesto of Leiden Islam scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje …
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- -
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- 9789087282394
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- 357p. : ill.
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- -
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- 940.324561 JIH j
Understanding contemporary Islamic crises in the Middle East : the issues ben…
Over the past decade the Middle East has undergone huge geopolitical shifts, including widespread war and violence, the collapse of numerous regimes, a changing American role, a restored Russian presence, and the emergence of ISIS. In this book Graham Fuller addresses the character of these shifts and how they will shape the future of this tumultuous region as well as the role of major outside …
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- 9789087282677
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- 65p. : ill.
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- -
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- 340.09 FUL u
Finding Jerusalem : archaeology between science and ideology
Archaeological discoveries in Jerusalem capture worldwide attention in various media outlets. The continuing quest to discover the city’s physical remains is not simply an attempt to define Israel’s past or determine its historical legacy. In the context of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is also an attempt to legitimate—or undercut—national claims to sovereignty. Bridging …
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- -
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- 9780520968073
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- xxi, 248p. : ill.
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- -
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- 933.442 GAL f
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