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Boris Yeltsin: The Decade that Shook the World
2015 || Paperback || Boris Minaev || Vrije Uitgevers, De
The literature on Boris Yeltsin is vast. Memoirs have been produced not only by politicians - first-hand participants in the events, Yeltsin himself penned three volumes of recollections - but also assistants, press secretaries, political analysts, journalists, MPs, retired members of Gorbachev's Politburo, public figures now long forgotten, generals of special services and security service staff.Boris Minaev started working on Boris Yeltsin's biography when the politician was still alive. In...
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Political Exile in the Twentieth Century
Christian Democrats in Europe and the Americas
2021 || Hardcover || Wolfram Kaiser e.a. || Leuven University Press
This book focuses on the political exile of Catholic Christian Democrats during the global twentieth century, from the end of the First World War to the end of the Cold War. Transcending the common national approach, the present volume puts transnational perspectives at center stage and in doing so aspires to be a genuinely global and longitudinal study. Political Exile in the Global Twentieth Century includes chapters on continental European exile in the United Kingdom and North America thro...
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Debates on Islam & Society: Jihad and Islam in World War I
studies on the ottoman jihad on the centenary of snouck hurgronje’s “holy war made in germany”
|| Paperback || Erik-Jan Zürcher || Leiden University Press
The proclamation of Jihad by the Sultan-Caliph in Constantinople, after the Ottoman Empire's entry into World War I, made the headlines. This book investigates the background and nature of the Ottoman Jihad proclamation in addition to its effects in the wider Middle East - both among the Arabs and the Turks, and among Sunni Muslims as well as Shi'ites. It brings to light the German hopes for and British fears of a worldwide uprising of Muslims in the colonial empires at that time. Moreover, i...
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The western efforts in building and supporting the Iraqi State
2023 || Hardcover || Mohsin Shawkat || Brave New Books
This book
The subtitle of the book summarizes its content (Western efforts in building and supporting the Iraqi state).
The book is surveying the time period (1914-1958) in Iraq, highlighting the first steps in building the institutions of the Iraqi state, including education, health, transportation, agriculture, irrigation, survey, internal security, and others. The book follows the process of transferring administration from the hands of the British to the Iraqis, and from the military to ...
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Colonial Voices
The Anglo-African High Romance of Empire
2021 || Paperback || Gerald Monsman || Monbeaulivre.fr
Ever since the nineteenth-century the imperial romance has been understood, on some level, not merely as a self-evident genre of adventure capable of producing an aesthetic experience but as a political construction of ideological identifications and exclusions. There is a serious dearth of critical work on late-imperial writers of popular romances written about the Anglo-African colonies and the regions beyond their imperial frontiers. A growing interest in Africa now means that even the Ang...
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The Invasion of the South
Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Northern and Central Sumatra
2021 || Hardcover || Willem Remmelink || Leiden University Press || met inkijkexemplaar
Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). The present book completes the trilogy of English translations of the sections in the Senshi Sōsho series on the Japanese operations against the former Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). The first volume (The Invasion of the Dutch East Indies, 2015) details the army o...
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Revisualizing Slavery
Visual sources on slavery in the Indonesian Archipelago & Indian Ocean
2021 || Paperback || Wim Manuhutu e.a. || Ef & Ef Media
Revisualizing slavery explores the history of slavery in Asia by focusing on visual sources. The traditional image of slavery in Asia is shaped and dominated by words such as ‘mild’, ‘guilt’ and ‘domestic’. But this is shifting by new historical research that points precisely to the tougher sides and to similarities with the Atlantic slavery past
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Georgia
A story of encounters
2023 || Hardcover || Nino Simonishvili e.a. || Hannibal Books
First catalogue to offer an overview of Georgia’s rich cultural history
Thanks to its location between two continents, Georgia has traditionally formed a bridge between East and West. A Story of Encounters reflects the exceptional art, culture, and history of the country from the Neolithic to the eighteenth century. Especially in the “golden age” of united Georgia, between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries, the country experienced an unprecedented cultural and economic boom.
This bo...
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The Truth About the Wunderwaffe / druk 1
2012 || Paperback || Igor Witkowski || RVP Press
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE WUNDERWAFFE is about the Third Reich's weapons of last resort, but it is a book unlike any other on the subject. The author, a former military journalist, has done extensive research on three continents, in the archives of many countries, and he has uncovered a wealth of facts about weapons and weapons systems unknown to the general public. This book is very well documented, and most of the sources have never before been presented in any publication. The main section is an...