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  • The Origins of the Civil War in Tajikistan

    Nationalism, Islamism, and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Space

    par Tim Epkenhans ...
    Collections series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    In May 1992 political and social tensions in the former Soviet Republic of Tajikistan escalated to a devastating civil war, which killed approximately 40,000-100,000 people and displaced more than one million. The enormous challenge of the Soviet Union’s disintegration compounded by inner-elite conflicts, ideological disputes and state failure triggered a downward spiral to one of the worst ... En savoir plus

    $78.99 CAD

  • Tajikistan on the Move

    Statebuilding and Societal Transformations

    par Marlene Laruelle, Michele Commercio, Hafiz Boboyorov, Tim Epkenhans, Brent Hierman, Sophie Hohmann, Edward Lemon, Suzanne Levi-Sanchez, Parviz Mullojonov, Kirill Nourzhanov0, Sophie Roche1, Jesse Driscoll2, John Heathershaw3 ...
    Collections series Contemporary Central Asia: Societies, Politics, and Cultures
    The southernmost and poorest state of the Eurasian space, Tajikistan collapsed immediately upon the fall of the Soviet Union and plunged into a bloody five-year civil war (1992–1997) that left more than 50,000 people dead and more than half a million displaced. After the 1997 Peace Agreements, Tajikistan stood out for being the only post-Soviet country to recognize an Islamic party—the Islamic ... En savoir plus

    $158.99 CAD

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    This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire.He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan and secured the ... En savoir plus

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  • Osman's Dream

    The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300–1923

    par Caroline Finkel ...
    The Ottoman chronicles recount that the first sultan, Osman, dreamt of the dynasty he would found - a tree, fully-formed, emerged from his navel, symbolising the vigour of his successors and the extent of their domains.This is the first book to tell the full story of the Ottoman dynasty that for six centuries held sway over territories stretching, at their greatest, from Hungary to the Persian ... En savoir plus

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  • Constantinople

    City of the World's Desire, 1453-1924

    par Philip Mansel ...
    Philip Mansel's highly acclaimed history absorbingly charts the interaction between the vibrantly cosmopolitan capital of Constantinople - the city of the world's desire - and its ruling family.In 1453, Mehmed the Conqueror entered Constantinople on a white horse, beginning an Ottoman love affair with the city that lasted until 1924, when the last Caliph hurriedly left on the Orient Express. For ... En savoir plus

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  • Operation Nemesis

    The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

    par Eric Bogosian ...
    A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide set in the context of Ottoman and Armenian history."A dramatic work of history that reads like a thriller." —Michael Bobelian, Los Angeles TimesIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an ... En savoir plus

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  • Atatürk

    The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey

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    A "superlative [and] exhaustively researched" biography of "one of the most complex and controversial figures in twentieth-century world history" ( Library Journal).Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan, and secured ... En savoir plus

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  • The History of Saudi Arabia

    par A M Vasilev ...
    How has Saudi Arabia managed to maintain its Arab and Islamic values while at the same time adopting Western technology and a market economy? How have its hereditary leaders, who govern with a mixture of political pragmatism and religious zeal, managed to maintain their power? This comprehensive history of Saudi Arabia from 1745 to the present provides insight into its culture and politics, its ... En savoir plus

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  • A World Beneath the Sands: The Golden Age of Egyptology

    par Toby Wilkinson ...
    A thrilling history of the West’s scramble for the riches of ancient Egypt by the foremost Egyptologist of our time.From the decipherment of hieroglyphics in 1822 to the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a hundred years later, the uncovering of Egypt’s ancient past took place in an atmosphere of grand adventure and international rivalry.In A World Beneath the ... En savoir plus

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  • Levant

    Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean

    par Philip Mansel ...
    Levant is a book of cities. It describes the role of Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut as windows on the world, escapes from nationality and tradition, centres of wealth, pleasure and freedom. By their mix of races and religions, they challenge stereotypes. France and Britain liberated the area through their schools, while conquering it through arms. They were not only manipulators but manipulated, ... En savoir plus

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  • Parting the Desert

    The Creation of the Suez Canal

    par Zachary Karabell ...
    Award-winning historian Zachary Karabell tells the epic story of the greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century--the building of the Suez Canal-- and shows how it changed the world.The dream was a waterway that would unite the East and the West, and the ambitious, energetic French diplomat and entrepreneur Ferdinand de Lesseps was the mastermind behind the project. Lesseps saw the project ... En savoir plus

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  • The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire

    par Alan Palmer ...
    Like Charles II, the sick man of Europe was 'an unconscionable time dying.' Time and time again from the seventeenth century observers predicted the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, yet it outlived all its rivals. As late as 1910 it straddled three continents. Unlike the Romanovs, Hohenzollerns or Habsburgs, the House of Osman was still recognised as an imperial dynasty during the peacemaking which ... En savoir plus

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