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  • Politics and Power in the Maghreb

    Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring

    The overthrow of the regime of President Ben Ali in Tunisia on 14 January 2011 took the world by surprise. The popular revolt in this small Arab country and the effect it had on the wider Arab world prompted questions as to why there had been so little awareness of it up until that point. It also revealed a more general lack of knowledge about the surrounding western part of the Arab world, or the ... Leer más

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    Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide

    The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire's Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar.In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had expanded his empire from western Asia to southeastern Europe and North Africa. To secure control of the Mediterranean between these territories and ... Leer más

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  • White Gold

    The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and Islam's One Million White Slaves

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    Giles Milton's White Gold tells the true story of white European slaves in eighteenth century Algiers, Tunis, and Morocco."An elegantly discursive retelling . . . customarily elegant prose." --Simon Winchester, The Boston GlobeIn the summer of 1716, a Cornish cabin boy named Thomas Pellow and fifty-one of his comrades were captured at sea by Barbary corsairs. Their captors--Ali Hakem and his ... Leer más

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  • The Race for Timbuktu

    The Story of Gordon Laing and the Race

    In the first decades of the nineteenth century, no place burned more brightly in the imagination of European geographers––and fortune hunters––than the lost city of Timbuktu. Africa's legendary City of Gold, not visited by Europeans since the Middle Ages, held the promise of wealth and fame for the first explorer to make it there. In 1824, the French Geographical Society offered a cash prize to ... Leer más

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  • Algerian White

    A Narrative

    de Assia Djebar ...
    Traducido por David Kelley, Marjolijn de Jager ...
    In Algerian White, Assia Djebar weaves a tapestry of the epic and bloody ongoing struggle in her country between Islamic fundamentalism and the post-colonial civil society. Many Algerian writers and intellectuals have died tragically and violently since the 1956 struggle for independence. They include three beloved friends of Djebar: Mahfoud Boucebi, a psychiatrist; M'Hamed Boukhobza, a ... Leer más

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  • Eagles over Gazala

    Air Battles in North Africa May-June 1942

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  • With Lawrence in Arabia

    de Lowell Thomas ...
    One day not long after Allenby had captured Jerusalem, I happened to be in front of a bazaar stall on Christian Street, remonstrating with a fat old Turkish shopkeeper who was attempting to relieve me of twenty piasters for a handful of dates. My attention was suddenly drawn to a group of Arabs walking in the direction of the Damascus Gate. The fact that they were Arabs was not what caused me to ... Leer más

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  • The Battle of Algiers

    Algeria’s Fight for Independence

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    Series series History
    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the events of the Battle of Algiers in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Battle of Algiers. The Battle of Algiers was a painful episode in the Algerian War, in which Algeria fought for independence from the colonial power France. Although France ultimately secured a victory in the ... Leer más

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  • Medicine and the Saints

    Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956

    The colonial encounter between France and Morocco took place not only in the political realm but also in the realm of medicine. Because the body politic and the physical body are intimately linked, French efforts to colonize Morocco took place in and through the body. Starting from this original premise, Medicine and the Saints traces a history of colonial embodiment in Morocco through a series of ... Leer más

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  • The Burning Shores

    Inside the Battle for the New Libya

    A riveting, beautifully crafted account of Libya after Qadhafi's tyrannical reign.The death of Colonel Muammar Qadhafi freed Libya from forty-two years of despotic rule, raising hopes for a new era. But in the aftermath, the country descended into bitter rivalries and civil war, paving the way for the Islamic State and a catastrophic migrant crisis.In a fast-paced narrative that blends frontline ... Leer más

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  • Kitchener as Proconsul of Egypt, 1911-1914

    Series series History (R0)
    This book covers the tenure of Kitchener as Proconsul in Egypt in the years preceding the First World War. Based mostly on unpublished sources – including government records and private papers – it not only fills a gap in the life and career of Kitchener, the most famous soldier in Britain since Wellington, but it also deals with an important but practically unknown period in Egyptian history. ... Leer más

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  • The Canary Islands

    A Cultural History

    Traditional guidebooks give straightforward advice on what to do and where to go, but in this remarkable cultural history, celebrated journalist and Canary Islands native Juan Cruz Ruiz offers something much more—a fusion of literature and travel that will captivate both globetrotters and interested readers looking for a more intimate exploration of this rich archipelago, which is part of Spain, ... Leer más

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