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Fakhri Al-Barudi, Sami Moubayed
The Life and Memoirs of Fakhri al-Barudi

Syria's tumultuous twentieth century through the life of a central figure in Syrian politicsBorn into an aristocratic Damascene family in 1889, Fakhri al-Barudi was a household name in Syria, universally …

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Al-J&,
The Turks and the Caliphal Army

A defense of Abbasid military policy from a powerhouse of Arabic lettersIn the aftermath of a bitter civil war in 3rd/9th-century Baghdad, the Abbasid caliph al-Muʿtaṣim began purchasing Turkish slaves to…

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Muhsin J. Al-Musawi
Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery

"How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding literary authenticity across Arabic and Islamic culture over seven centuries. …

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Moudhy Al-Rashid
Between Two Rivers

Thousands of years ago, in a part of the world we now call ancient Mesopotamia, people began writing things down for the very first time.What they left behind, in a vast region between the Tigris and Euph…

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Samer Al-Saber
A Movement's Promise

"Starting in the 1970s, Palestinian theater flourished as part of a Palestinian cultural spring. In the absence of local radio, television, and uncensored journalism, theater production became the le…

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Samer Al-Saber
A Movement's Promise

"Starting in the 1970s, Palestinian theater flourished as part of a Palestinian cultural spring. In the absence of local radio, television, and uncensored journalism, theater production became the le…

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Muzaffar Alam, Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Mirrors of Empire

Approaches the history of the Mughal Empire at the level of human experience, through a diverse group of autobiographical narratives. Starting from 1526, the Mughals ruled over much of India for three cen…

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Alexandra P. Alberda, Njabulo Chipangura, Lara Choksey
Race, Genetics, History

This Element, about historical practice and genetics, seeks to understand what is at stake in presenting, preserving, and articulating the past in the present. Historical practice is both conceptual and m…

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Alexandra P. Alberda, Njabulo Chipangura, Lara Choksey
Race, Genetics, History

This Element, about historical practice and genetics, seeks to understand what is at stake in presenting, preserving, and articulating the past in the present. Historical practice is both conceptual and m…

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Marcus Oliver Golding Albrecht
Foreign Petroleum Companies and National Development in Venezuela, 1936-1976

This book uncovers how foreign oil firms, particularly the Creole Petroleum Corporation, embedded themselves deeply in Venezuelan society between 1936 and 1976 by embracing an ambitious and unusually expa…

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Jonas Albrecht
The Moral and Market Economies of Bread

Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations

From the 1770s the Vienna bread market was rocked by a series of politico-economic and technological changes that questioned the way this everyday foodstuff was sold and produced. In this book, Jonas Albr…

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Svetlana Alexievich,
Chernobyl Prayer

From Svetlana Alexievich, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for Literature: a devastating human history of the Chernobyl reactor disaster, now in an emotive new translation.First there is the voice of the fi…

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Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

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Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

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Tahaney Alghrani
Wayward Girls in Victorian and Edwardian England

Exploring the reform and regulation of juvenile females in the Victorian and early Edwardian era, this book presents the first-hand experiences of incarcerated girls to shed new light on youth criminalisa…

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Huseyn Aliyev
Who Fights for Governments?

Exploring why, when and under which circumstances individuals decide to take up arms mobilizing for pro-government militias, Huseyn Aliyev draws on insights from long-standing ethnographic fieldwork among…

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Feras Alkabani
Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the Arabic-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change in attitudes towards sexuality. Notions of 'respectability', 'propriety' and 'sexual morality' …

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Ryan L Allen
Adventures in the Archaic

Examines how four intellectuals with ties to the French social sciences articulated a new primitivist sensibility between 1945 and 1975.We tend to associate primitivism with the nostalgic idealization of …

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Matthew Allen
Drink and Democracy

Intoxicating Histories

Drink and Democracy traces the development of democratic ideas in a corner of the nineteenth-century British Empire through the history of drinking and temperance.

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T. D. Allman
In France Profound

From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author's life and discoveries in an ancient town in "Deep France," from nearby prehistor…

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