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The Monetary History of Iran
From the Safavids to the Qajars
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
The monetary history of a country provides important insights into its economic development, as well as its political and social history. This book is the first detailed study of Iran's monetary history from the advent of the Safavid dynasty in 1501 to the end of Qajar rule in 1925. Using an array...
A History of Stability and Change in Lebanon
Foreign Interventions and International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Lebanon is a country whose domestic politics have, even more than others in the region, been at the mercy of changes on the international stage. Having been under Ottoman and French rule in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, the post-World War II era has seen Lebanon subjected to Israeli,...
The Golden Age of Pantomime
Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Queen Victoria and her family loved the pantomime, so did her subjects of all classes.
The English Pantomime is one of the most popular, least analysed of all theatrical forms. It's been the festive mainstay of the English stage since the eighteenth century, and it has survived by its ability to evolve....
Attar and the Persian Sufi Tradition
The Art of Spiritual Flight
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Farid al-Din Attar (d. 1221) was the principal Muslim religious poet of the second half of the twelfth century. Best known for his masterpiece Mantiq al-tayr, or The Conference of Birds, his verse is still considered to be the finest example of Sufi love poetry in the Persian language after that of...
An Anthology of Philosophy in Persia, Vol. 5
From the School of Shiraz to the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
Persia is home to one of the few civilizations in the world that has had a continuous tradition of philosophical thought lasting more than two and a half millennia. From the time Zoroaster brought the Gathas, the sacred scripture of Zoroastrianism, until today, it has had a philosophical tradition...
Victorian Christianity at the Fin de Siècle
The Culture of English Religion in a Decadent Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2015
The period known as the fin de siècle (usually taken to mean the years between 1870 and 1914) was a fluid and unsettling epoch of endings and beginnings, as well as of new forms of creativity and anxiety. The end of the century has attracted much interest from scholars of literary and cultural studies,...
Ancient Geography
The Discovery of the World in Classical Greece and Rome
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
The last dedicated book on ancient geography was published more than sixty years ago. Since then new texts have appeared (such as the Artemidoros palimpsest), and new editions of existing texts (by geographical authorities who include Agatharchides, Eratosthenes, Pseudo-Skylax and Strabo) have been...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
From their ancestral heartland by the shores of the Aral Sea, the medieval Oghuz Turks marched westwards in search of dominion. Their conquests led to control of a Muslim empire that united the territories of the eastern Islamic world, melded Turkic and Persian influences and transported Persian culture...
Innovation and Empire in Turkey
Sultan Selim III and the Modernisation of the Ottoman Navy
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Ottoman naval technology underwent a transformation under the rule of Sultan Selim III. New types of sailing warships such as two- and three-decked galleons, frigates and corvettes began to dominate the Ottoman fleet, rendering the galley-type oared ships obsolete. This period saw technological innovations...
Sicily and the Enlightenment
The World of Domenico Caracciolo, Thinker and Reformer
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Dominico Caracciolo was an important figure on the eighteenth-century European stage, holding high office as a diplomat in London, Turin and Paris, and as viceroy and prime minister in the Two Sicilies. He was an inveterate letter-writer and his huge correspondence, with his diplomatic despatches...
The Land of the Green Man
A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog banks, druidic mistletoe and peculiar creatures that lurk, half-unseen, in the undergrowth, tantalising and teasing just at the...
A Forum for Peace
Daisaku Ikeda's Proposals to the UN
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Every year since 1983 the Buddhist leader and thinker, Daisaku Ikeda, has issued a peace proposal that presents solutions to a variety of global problems. While the proposals themselves are both wide-ranging and specific (covering topics as diverse as counter-terrorism relations; the prohibition of...
The Yeomen of the Guard and the Early Tudors
The Formation of a Royal Bodyguard
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2012
The Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard is the world's oldest surviving royal
bodyguard, having been founded by Henry VII in 1485. Today it is solely a ceremonial body,
but in the past it was also a true bodyguard and the nucleus of a fighting force at a time when
England...
Drawing Difference
Connections Between Gender and Drawing
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Drawing has been growing in recognition and stature within contemporary fine art since the mid-1970s. Simultaneously, feminist activism has been widespread, leading to the increased prominence of women artists, scholars, critics and curators and the wide acknowledgement of the crucial role played...