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Tolstoy and his Disciples
The History of a Radical International Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
In the last thirty years of his life, Leo Tolstoy developed a moral philosophy that embraced pacifism, vegetarianism, the renunciation of private property, and a refusal to comply with the state. The transformation in his outlook led to his excommunication by the Orthodox Church, and the breakdown...
The Voice of England in the East
Stratford Canning and Diplomacy with the Ottoman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
In the age of the Great Powers, with Russia and France at war, and the Ottoman Empire at the height of its influence and majesty, the British diplomat Stratford Canning arrived in Constantinople. The cousin of George Canning, he would be Britain's representative in the power politics of the Middle...
America's Forgotten Middle East Initiative
The King-Crane Commission of 1919
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Sent to the Middle East by Woodrow Wilson to ascertain the viability of self-determination in the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, the King-Crane Commission of 1919 was America's first foray into the region. The commission's controversial recommendations included the rejection of the idea of a Jewish...
Iranian Jews in Israel
Between Persian Cultural Identity and Israeli Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
Recent, post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has of course gained the attention of international audiences who have been struck by its powerful, poetic and often explicitly political explorations. Yet mainstream, pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema, with a history stretching back to the early twentieth...
Beyond the Malachite Hills
A Life of Colonial Service and Business in the New Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009
What hope is there for Africa? Since the heady and hopeful days of decolonisation the story seems to be one of unrelenting disaster - revolution; brutal military dictatorship; ethnic conflict - even genocide; civil war; state-threatening corruption; economic failure; and, in places, the complete breakdown...
Raising Dust
A Cultural History of Dance in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
Dance in Palestine has a history as complex and contentious as the land itself. Dismissed as bacchantic madness by Bible tourists in the 19th Century, revived and glorified by Zionists, Pan-Arabists and Palestinian Nationalists in the 20th Century, and rejected by Islamic Reformists in the 21st Century...
Civil War and Democracy in West Africa
Conflict Resolution, Elections and Justice in Sierra Leone and Liberia
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2011
In the aftermath of explosive civil wars in Africa during the 1990s and 2000s, the establishment of multi-party elections has often been heralded by the West as signaling the culmination of the conflict and the beginning of a period of democratic rule. However, the outcomes of these elections are...
Mapping the Holy Land
The Foundation of a Scientific Cartography of Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Mapping the Holy Land provides a unique study of the cartography of the Holy Land during the formative period of its development. Through a detailed study of the work of three of the leading figures of the era - Augustus Petermann, Physical Geographer Royal to Queen Victoria; cartographer Charles...
The Dark Heart of Hitler's Europe
Nazi Rule in Poland Under the General Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
After the German and Soviet attack on Poland in 1939, vast swathes of Polish territory, including Warsaw and Kraków, fell under Nazi occupation in an administration which became known as the 'General Government'. The region was not directly incorporated into the Reich but was ruled by a German regime,...
by Stephen Conway
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something a mythic character, especially in the United States. From the Boston Tea...
Oil Shock
The 1973 Crisis and its Economic Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
The 'Oil Shock' of 1973 - the shift from the era of low-priced oil to the era of high-priced oil - was a turning point in the history of the 20th century. This book provides an analysis of the crisis and its global political and economic impact. It features contributions from a range of perspectives...
The Politics of Race in Britain and South Africa
Black British Solidarity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015
The postwar government of South Africa, led by H.F. Verwoerd, implemented wide-ranging racial segregation laws, beginning the open policy of apartheid in one of Africa's most prosperous and internationally influential states. During the apartheid era, the British government faced an uneasy dilemma:...
International Politics and the Northern Ireland Conflict
The USA, Diplomacy and the Troubles
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2016
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come? The end of life has never meant the extinction of hope. People perpetually have yearned for, and often been terrified by, continuance beyond the horizon of mortality. Ranging across time and space, Philip Almond here takes his readers on a remarkable...
The Dresden Firebombing
Memory and the Politics of Commemorating Destruction
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The firebombing of Dresden marks the terrible apex of the European bombing war. In just over two days in February 1945, over 1,300 heavy bombers from the RAF and the USAAF dropped nearly 4,000 tonnes of explosives on Dresden's civilian centre. Since the end of World War II, both the death toll and...