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Propaganda, Power and Persuasion
From World War I to Wikileaks
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2013
As Philip Taylor has written, 'The challenge (of the modern information age) is to ensure that no single propaganda source gains monopoly over the information and images that shape our thoughts. If this happens, the war propagandists will be back in business again.'
Propaganda came of age in...
The Crescent and the Eagle
Ottoman Rule, Islam and the Albanians, 1874-1913
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2006
The Crescent and the Eagle examines from an Ottoman perspective the awakening of Albanian national identity from the end of the 19th century to the outbreak of World War I – a period of intense nationalism in the Balkans. Drawing on Ottoman and European archival material, the book undermines the...
The I.B.Tauris History of Monasticism
The Western Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
From the earliest centuries of the church, asceticism and the contemplative life have been profoundly important aspects not just of western Christianity but of western civilization as a whole. For even as monasteries withdrew from the main currents of their societies they provided fertile soil and...
Shah Abbas
The Ruthless King Who Became an Iranian Legend
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
A ruthless autocrat who blinded and killed his own sons, but was revered as a hero by his own people. A brilliant warrior who restored his nation's pride and territorial integrity by waging war on the foreign occupying forces, but chose an English knight to be his ambassador in the West. An aesthete...
by Phill Bragg
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2014
In an antique, open-cockpit biplane, pilot Phill Bragg and his friend, Wayland Cooke, fly across the United States during the hot summer of 2012. After enduring delays for a whole year, they finally depart from northeastern North Carolina in search of old friends in Greensburg, Kansas, whose town...
The Berlin-Baghdad Railway and the Ottoman Empire
Industrialization, Imperial Germany and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Railway expansion was the great industrial project of the late 19th century, and the Great Powers built railways at speed and reaped great commercial benefits. The greatest imperial dream of all was to connect the might of Europe to the potential riches of the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. In...
The Makers of Modern Syria
The Rise and Fall of Syrian Democracy 1918-1958
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
In the aftermath of World War I Syria paved a path towards democracy. Initially as part of the French mandate in the Middle East and latterly as an independent republic, Syria put in place the instruments of democratic government that it was hoped would lead to a stable future. This book tells the...
General Introduction to Persian Literature
History of Persian Literature A, Vol I
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2008
Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has...
Kitchener
Hero and Anti-Hero
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916) is one of the most important figures in the history of the British Empire. Beginning as Royal Engineer in the 1870s he would end his career over forty years later as Secretary of State for War – the iconic figure of World War I recruitment...
The Church in the Early Middle Ages
The I.B.Tauris History of the Christian Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2007
The creation of a new history of the Church at the beginning of the third millennium is an ambitious but necessary project. Perhaps nowhere is it needed more than in re-describing the Church's development - its life and its thinking - in the period that followed the end of the 'early Church' in antiquity....
Christian Encounters with Iran
Engaging Muslim Thinkers after the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The interface between the current Shi'ite landscape and Christian thinking is of the greatest significance for the shifting political and religious dynamics of the Middle East. Sasan Tavassoli here examines Iranian Shi'ite thinkers' encounters with Christian thought since the Islamic revolution of...
Remembering the Great War
Writing and Publishing the Experiences of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The horrors and tragedies of the First World War produced some of the finest literature of the century: including Memoirs of an Infantry Officer; Goodbye to All That; the poetry of Wilfred Owen and Edward Thomas; and the novels of Ford Madox Ford. Collectively detailing every campaign and action,...
The New Frontiers of Jihad
Radical Islam in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2008
Following the terrorist attacks on London and Madrid, radical Islam is presumed to be an increasingly potent force in Europe. Yet beneath the media hysteria, very little is actually known about it. What radical movements are there? How do they operate? What is driving them? Who are their recruits?...
Palestine and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire
Modernization and the Path to Palestinian Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
During the final decades of Ottoman rule, Palestine was administratively divided into two states, Jerusalem and Beirut. Both provinces exhibited a strikingly cohesive history of modernisation, and as the Ottoman Empire began to recede, the education systems, taxation and bureaucracy which were left...