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
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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.
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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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