Barnett Rubin is widely recognized as America's leading scholar on Afghanistan
Synthesizes decades of research on Afghanistan into an accessible account of the country in the modern era
Makes k ... Read more
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The Natural History of Aleppo, published first as a single volume in 1756 and as a two-volume edition in 1794, by Scottish physicians to the British Levant Company in Aleppo, Alexander and Patrick Rus ... Read more
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Ibn Abi Usaybi'ah; Henrietta Sharp Cockrell; Geert Jan van Gelder
Pages
432 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
129 x 196 mm
Pub date
Jun 2020
Series
Oxford World's Classics
A critical and annotated edition translated by a team of scholars from the universities of Oxford and Warwick.
Covers notable physicians and scholars from the Greeks, Romans, Syriacs, and Indians ... Read more
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Azad Jammu & Kashmir: Polity, Politics, and Power-Sharing explores the opportunities and pitfalls of establishing democracy and legitimate governance in territories with disputed status, especially wh ... Read more
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In 1961 archaeologists discovered a family archive of legal papyri in a cave near the Dead Sea where their owner, the Jewish woman Babatha, had hidden them in 135 CE at the end of the Bar Kokhba revol ... Read more
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The Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered ... Read more
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T. E. Lawrence became world-famous as 'Lawrence of Arabia', after helping Sherif Hussein of Mecca gain independence from Turkey during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18. His achievements, however, would have ... Read more
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This book places Biruni in his historical and cultural context within the long-term history of medieval Eurasia. It outlines the course of Biruni's life, clarifying key questions about his association ... Read more
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The famous British philosopher and historian, R.G. Collingwood, suggested that a historian must reconstruct history by using 'historical imagination' to're-enact' the thought processes of historical p ... Read more
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British Imperialism and 'The Tribal Question' reconstructs the history of Britain's presence in the deserts of the interwar Middle East, making the case for its significance to scholars of imperialism ... Read more
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