Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia

EDWARD A. (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, USA) Alpers ; Gwyn Campbell ; Michael (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Salman

ISBN: 9780415771511 | Hardcover

This important collection of essays examines the history and impact of the abolition of the slave trade and slavery in the Indian Ocean World, a regio... Meer informatie

Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia

EDWARD A. (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, USA) Alpers ; Gwyn Campbell ; Michael (University of California, Los Angeles, USA) Salman

Reeks: Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures

ISBN: 9781138985285 | Paperback

This volume examines the various abolitionist impulses in the Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and assesses their eff... Meer informatie

Amsterdam voor vijf duiten per dag

Maarten Hell&, Emma Los

ISBN: 9789025300692 | Paperback

Reis door de tijd naar het einde van de zeventiende eeuw en bewonder de magnifieke stadspaleizen aan de door bomen ontzoomde grachten. Verbaas je over... Meer informatie

The New Middle East

James L. (Professor, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles) Gelvin

Reeks: What Everyone Needs To Know®

ISBN: 9780197622087 | Hardcover

In the revised and expanded second edition of The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know, renowned Middle East scholar James L. Gelvin explains ... Meer informatie

The New Middle East

James (Professor, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles) Gelvin

Reeks: What Everyone Needs To Know®

ISBN: 9780197622094 | Paperback

In the revised and expanded second edition of The New Middle East: What Everyone Needs to Know, renowned Middle East scholar James L. Gelvin explains ... Meer informatie

De Canon van Amsterdam

P. de Rooy ; E. Los

ISBN: 9789085066835 | Paperback

De canon van AmsterdamNa de canon van de Nederlandse geschiedenis is er nu ook de canon van Amsterdam: vijftig vensters met evenzoveel hoogtepunten ui... Meer informatie

Volume 5, Tome III: Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and Modern Traditions - Literature, Drama and Music

JON (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, California, USA) Stewart

Reeks: Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources

ISBN: 9781138266018 | Paperback

... Meer informatie

Volume 8, Tome II: Kierkegaard's International Reception - Southern, Central and Eastern Europe

JON (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, California, USA) Stewart

Reeks: Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources

ISBN: 9781138273276 | Paperback

Although Kierkegaard's reception was initially more or less limited to Scandinavia, it has for a long time now been a highly international affair. As ... Meer informatie

Volume 6, Tome III: Kierkegaard and His German Contemporaries - Literature and Aesthetics

JON (UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Los Angeles, California, USA) Stewart

Reeks: Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources

ISBN: 9781138265608 | Paperback

This volume explores in detail Kierkegaard's various relations to his German contemporaries. Kierkegaard read German fluently and made extensive use o... Meer informatie

An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe

Los Angeles) Berend Ivan (university Of California

ISBN: 9781107030701 | Hardcover

Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This ... Meer informatie

Social Memory and State Formation in Early China

Los Angeles) Li Min (university Of California

ISBN: 9781107141452 | Hardcover

In this book, Li Min proposes a new paradigm for the foundation and emergence of the classical tradition in early China, from the late Neolithic throu... Meer informatie

The Periodic Table: A Very Short Introduction

Eric R. (Lecturer in Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles) Scerri

Reeks: Very Short Introductions

ISBN: 9780198842323 | Paperback

Eric R. Scerri presents a modern and fresh exploration of this fundamental topic in the physical sciences, considering the deeper implications of the ... Meer informatie

Onuitwisbaar

Edward Snowden

ISBN: 9789463820691 | Paperback

In 2013 schokte de 29-jarige Edward Snowden de wereld toen hij brak met de Amerikaanse geheime diensten en onthulde dat ze in het allergrootste geheim... Meer informatie

The Ancient Near East: A Very Short Introduction

Amanda H. (Professor and Chair of History, Professor and Chair of History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Los Angeles, Ca, Usa) Podany

ISBN: 9780195377996 | Paperback

The ancient Near East is known as the "cradle of civilization" - and for good reason. Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia were home to an extraordinarily... Meer informatie

The Thousand and One Nights in Arabic Literature and Society

Richard (University of California, Los Angeles) Hovannisian ; Georges (University of California, Los Angeles) Sabagh

Reeks: Levi Della Vida Symposia

ISBN: 9780521573979 | Hardcover

This book successfully defies the view that The Thousand and One Nights is not worthy of serious literary debate.... Meer informatie

Colonial America: A Very Short Introduction

Alan (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of California at Davis, Davis, Ca, Usa) Taylor

ISBN: 9780199766239 | Paperback

In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Taylor presents the current scholarly understanding of colonial America to a broader audience. He focuses on the... Meer informatie

East Africa and the Indian Ocean

Edward A. Alpers

ISBN: 9781558764538 | Paperback

For centuries East Africa had an integral place within the Indian Ocean world. While slave trading, slave raiding and their consequences provide one t... Meer informatie

East Africa and the Indian Ocean

Edward A. Alpers

ISBN: 9781558764521 | Hardcover

For centuries East Africa had an integral place within the Indian Ocean world. While slave trading, slave raiding and their consequences provide one t... Meer informatie

The Shah's Imperial Celebrations of 1971

Robert (University of California, Los Angeles, Usa) Steele

ISBN: 9781838604172 | Hardcover

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by... Meer informatie

Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century

Nile (University of California, Los Angeles, Usa) Green

Reeks: Routledge Sufi Series

ISBN: 9780415549882 | Paperback

Nile Green reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society compr... Meer informatie