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The Independence Of East Timor - Multi-Dimensional Perspectives - Occupation Resistance And International Political Activism (Paperback),9781845194918

For a thousand years an extraordinary empire made possible Europe's transition to the modern world: Byzantium. This book presents the grand sweeps of Byzantine history, from the founding of its magnificent capital

The sudden, huge price hikes in Middle Eastern oil in late 1973 yielded, almost overnight, an enormous flow of resources to states and societies that could not have anticipated such instant affluence.

De Vries traces the evolution of an 'industrious revolution' that fundamentally altered the material cultures of Europe and North America.