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  • The Meiji Restoration

    Japan as a Global Nation

    Edited by Harald Fuess, Robert Hellyer ...
    In world history, the Meiji Restoration of 1868 ranks as a revolutionary watershed, on a par with the American and French Revolutions. In this volume, leading historians from North America, Europe, and Japan employ global history in novel ways to offer fresh economic, social, political, cultural, and military perspectives on the Meiji Restoration and the subsequent creation of the modern Japanese ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Calvin Coolidge - The Man from Vermont

    by Claude M. Fuess ...
    This vintage book contains a detailed biography of Calvin Coolidge. John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (1872–1933) served as the President of the United States between 1923 and 1929. Originally a Republican lawyer from Vermont, he worked his way up the political ladder before becoming the governor of Massachusetts. He was elected as the vice president of the United States after his decisive response to the ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Court Cultures in the Muslim World

    Seventh to Nineteenth Centuries

    Edited by Albrecht Fuess, Jan-Peter Hartung ...
    Series series SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
    Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in academic research over recent decades, however, the field of Islamic court culture has so far been overlooked. This book provides a comparative perspective on the history of courtly culture in Muslim societies from the earliest times to the nineteenth century, and presents an extensive collection of ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Structural and Magnetic Phase Transitions in Minerals

    by G.H. Wolf, T. Brückel, S. Ghose, G. Dolino, E. Salje, W. Lottermoser, Y. Matsui, J.M.D. Coey0, P.M. Davidson1, B. Palosz2, B.P. Burton3, B. Wruck4, M.S.T. Bukowinski5, W. Prandl6, M. Matsui7, O. Ballet8, D.M. Sherman9, H. Fuess0 ...
    Series Book 7 - Advances in Physical Geochemistry

    $115.29 CAD

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  • Lost Enlightenment

    Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

    by S. Frederick Starr ...
    **"History is constantly being rewritten. This book reminds us that the center always changes.”—David ByrneThe forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacy**In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing ... Read more

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  • What Went Wrong?:Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

    Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response

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    For many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an outer darkness of barbarism and unbelief from which there was nothing to learn or to fear. And then everything changed, as the ... Read more

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  • Iran

    A Very Short Introduction

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    Ideas, People, and Events in the Middle East

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  • The Mongols and the Islamic World

    From Conquest to Conversion

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  • For Lust of Knowing

    The Orientalists and Their Enemies

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