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  • The Tribes of Albania

    History, Society and Culture

    by Robert Elsie ...
    Northern Albania and Montenegro are the only regions in Europe to have retained a true tribal society up to the mid-twentieth century. This book provides the first scholarly investigation of this tribal society, a pioneer work that offers a detailed survey of all the major Albanian-speaking tribes in Albania, Montenegro and Kosovo. Robert Elsie provides comprehensive material on the 69 different ... Read more

    $199.79 CAD

  • The Albanian Bektashi

    History and Culture of a Dervish Order in the Balkans

    by Robert Elsie ...
    The Bektashi dervish order is a Sufi Alevite sect found in Anatolia and the Balkans with a strong presence in Albania. In this, his final book, Robert Elsie analyses the Albanian Bektashi and considers their role in the country's history and society. Although much has been written on the Bektashi in Turkey, little has appeared on the Albanian branch of the sect. Robert Elsie considers the history ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Kosovo

    by Robert Elsie ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Europe
    As the seventh and probably last state to arise from the ruins of the former Yugoslavia, Kosovo is the newest country in Europe. For centuries, Kosovo, also known as Kosova, was part of the Ottoman Empire, and for most of the 20th century, it was a province of what was once Yugoslavia. After the military conflict in 1998-1999 and a period of administration by the United Nations, Kosovo declared ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of Albania

    by Robert Elsie ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Europe
    Albania is not well known by outsiders; it was deliberately closed to the outside world during the communist era. Now it has thankfully become free again, its borders are open and it can be visited, and it is increasingly integrating with the rest of Europe and beyond. Unfortunately, Albania has had its share of problems in the post-communist era; it's a land of destitution and despair, thanks in ... Read more

    $241.89 CAD

  • Enver Hoxha

    The Iron Fist of Albania

    by Blendi Fevziu ...
    Translated by Majlinda Nishku ...
    Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953. However, in one country - Albania - Stalinism survived virtually unscathed until 1990. The regime that the Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha led from 1944 until his death in 1985 was incomparably severe. Such was the reign of terror that no audible voice of ... Read more

    $26.29 CAD

  • The Elsie Drake Letters (aged 104)

    by Robert Popper, Elsie Drake ...
    Friday Night Dinner and Timewaster Letters creator Robert Popper's new book of brilliantly funny letters, from Britain's oldest letter writer.'Ridiculous, hilarious and sweet' GREG DAVIES'One of Britain's great comedy minds is at it again' AISLING BEA'I laughed till I cried' DAISY MAY COOPER''I howled with laughter' MATT LUCASAt 104 years of age, Mrs E... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Albanian Operation of the CIA and MI6, 1949-1953

    Conversations with Participants in a Venture Betrayed

    by Nicholas Bethell ...
    The Albanian Operation, carried out by British and American secret services from 1949 to 1953, was one of the first Western attempts to subvert a country behind the Iron Curtain. The British liaison officer for the project in Washington was Kim Philby, a Soviet double agent who sabotaged the whole venture. In all, about 300 agents and civilians are thought to have been killed in the disastrous ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Kosovo, A Documentary History

    From the Balkan Wars to World War II

    Edited by Robert Elsie, Bejtullah D. Destani ...
    The question of Kosovan sovereignty and independence has a history which stretches far back beyond the outbreak of war in 1998. This volume is a compilation of key documents on Kosovo from the first half of the twentieth century. These texts, including numerous diplomatic despatches from the British Foreign Office, deal initially with the Albanian uprising against Ottoman rule in the spring of ... Read more

    $50.79 CAD

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    The Elsie Drake Letters (aged 104)

    by Robert Popper, Elsie Drake ...
    Narrated by Robert Popper, Heather Long, Joe Eyre ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 29 min

    Friday Night Dinner and Timewaster Letters creator Robert Popper's new book of brilliantly funny letters, from Britain's oldest letter writer.'Ridiculous, hilarious and sweet' GREG DAVIES'One of Britain's great comedy minds is at it again' AISLING BEA'I laughed till I cried' DAISY MAY COOPER''I howled with laughter' MATT LUCASAt 104 years of age, Mrs E... ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Cost of Cool

    Austin's Tech Growth and the People Left Behind

    by Jon Roberts, Tracye McDaniel, Elsie L. Echeverri-Carroll, Evan Johnston, Jennifer Todd-Goynes ...
    Series series Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History
    The city of Austin consistently leads lists of fastest-growing and most-desirable places to live—a simultaneous source of pride and anxiety for residents. In The Cost of Cool: Austin’s Tech Growth and the People Left Behind, author Jon Roberts and his contributors investigate Austin’s evolving identity and tackle a question posed repeatedly by community and business leaders nationally: How did ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • The Discovery of Albania

    Travel Writing and Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century Balkans

    by Johann George von Hahn ...
    Translated by Robert Elsie ...
    Johann Georg von Hahn - a nineteenth-century Austrian diplomat and explorer - is generally considered to be the founder of Albanian Studies as a scholarly discipline. It was he who first studied the Balkan country and its people, and who brought them to the attention of the academic world. Despite this acclaim, his work has not been widely available in English until now. In this volume, Robert ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

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