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This volume collects the writings of Richard Storry on contemporary issues and the history of Japan. This series of major works from the Japan Library features the collected writings of many of

Borneo In The Cold War 1950-1990 Hardcover

The Encyclopedia of African History contains around 1,000 entries covering the widest practicable range of topics in African history. It covers the whole continent of Africa-- not just sub-Saharan--from earliest times to

Life Stories of Undistinguished Americans As Told By Themselves (Hardcover)

Since the events of September 11, 2001, students and people everywhere are filled with questions about Islam. What do Muslims believe? Who is Osama bin Laden? What is a jihad? Even though

The Encyclopedia of Africa presents the most up-to-date and thorough reference on this region of ever-growing importance in world history, politics, and culture. Its core is comprised of the entries focusing on

This study of China's Great Leap Forward documents how Mao Zedong dominated and manipulated the policy process. The author discusses how the central ministries and the province of Guangdong implemented radical policies

This study of the high priesthood in ancient Israel, from the earliest local chief priests in the pre-monarchic period down to the Hasmonaean priest-kings in the first century BCE, discusses material from

This book evaluates the historical factors that produced the Boer people, and the political, religious and economic forces that maintain modern Afrikaner Nationalism. This last trek brings the Afrikaner back into multi-racial

This represents the first modern introduction to literary Ottoman available in English. The author has devised this textbook to provide a course of lessons, readings and exercises to take the student from

In this volume, eminent scholars from the Arab world, Asia, India, Pakistan, Western Europe, the USA and Canada present a fascinating and detailed picture of the archaeology of Bahrain in the Arabian

This book is a study of the seafaring communities of the Arabian Gulf and Oman in the past one hundred and fifty years. It is an analysis of the significance of the

The World Of The Revolutionary American Republic - Land Labor And The Conflict For A Continent (Hardcover)

The Routledge Handbook Of Muslim Iberia (Hardcover)

South America Central America And The Caribbean 2013 (Hardcover 21st New Edition)