Lawrence of Arabia and the War in the Desert 1916-18, Johnson Robert
Автор: Barr James Название: Lords of the Desert ISBN: 1471139808 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781471139802 Издательство: Simon&Schuster UK Рейтинг: Цена: 10990.00 T Наличие на складе: Заказано в издательстве. Описание: Between 1945 and 1970, America replaced Britain as the dominant power in the Middle East in an extraordinary role reversal. Lords of the Desert tells this story.
In the mid-nineteenth century, French colonial leaders in Algeria started southward into the Sahara, beginning a fifty-year period of violence. Lying in the shadow of the colonization of northern Algeria, which claimed the lives of over a million people, French empire in the Sahara sought power through physical force as it had elsewhere; yet violence in the Algerian Sahara followed a more complicated logic than the old argument that it was simply a way to get empire on the cheap.
"A Desert Named Peace "examines colonial violence through multiple stories and across several fields of research. It presents four cases: the military conquests of the French army in the oases and officers' predisposition to use extreme violence in colonial conflicts; a spontaneous nighttime attack made by Algerian pastoralists on a French village, as notable for its brutality as for its obscure causes; the violence of indigenous forms of slavery and the colonial accommodations that preserved it during the era of abolition; and the struggles of French Romantics whose debates about art and politics arrived from Paris with disastrous consequences.
Benjamin Claude Brower uses these different perspectives to reveal the unexpected causes of colonial violence, such as France's troubled revolutionary past and its influence on the military's institutional culture, the aesthetics of the sublime and its impact on colonial thinking, the ecological crises suffered by Saharan pastoralists under colonial rule, and the conflicting paths to authority inherent in Algerian Sufism. Directly engaging a controversial history, " A Desert Named Peace" offers an important backdrop to understanding the Algerian war for independence (1954-1962) and Algeria's ongoing internal war, begun in 1992, between the government and armed groups that claim to fight for an Islamist revolution.
Автор: Cunliffe Sir Barry Название: By Steppe, Desert, and Ocean ISBN: 0199689172 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199689170 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 31680.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: The story of the peoples of Eurasia, from the birth of farming to the expansion of the Mongols in the thirteenth century. An immense historical panorama set on a huge continental stage, this is also the story of how humans first started building the global system we know today.
Автор: Epstein Lawrence J. Название: Americans and the Birth of Israel ISBN: 1442271221 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442271227 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 54910.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book tells the dramatic but little-known story of how a group of Americans of all religions worked, often in secret and facing the possibility of arrest, to make sure that after the Holocaust a refuge for Jews would be born. From raising money to political efforts, these Americans made a decisive difference in the creation of Israel.
A definitive history of the 20th century's first major genocide on its 100th anniversary
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the first major genocide of the twentieth century. By the end of the First World War, the number of Armenians in what would become Turkey had been reduced by 90 percent--more than a million people. A century later, the Armenian Genocide remains controversial but relatively unknown, overshadowed by later slaughters and the chasm separating Turkish and Armenian interpretations of events. In this definitive narrative history, Ronald Suny cuts through nationalist myths, propaganda, and denial to provide an unmatched account of when, how, and why the atrocities of 1915-16 were committed. Drawing on archival documents and eyewitness accounts, this is an unforgettable chronicle of a cataclysm that set a tragic pattern for a century of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Автор: Stone, Dodge Professor Of History Lawrence (formely Of Princeton University Uk) Название: Causes of the english revolution 1529-1642 ISBN: 1138700339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138700338 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 18370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors leading up to the deposition of Charles I in 1642 is widely regarded as a classic in the field. Brilliantly synthesising the historical, political and sociological interpretations of the seventeeth century, Stone explores theories of revolution and traces the social and economic change that led to this period of instability.
The picture that emerges is one where historical interpretation is enriched but not determined by grand theories in the social sciences and, as Stone elegantly argues, one where the upheavals of the seventeenth century are central to the very story of modernity.
This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by Clare Jackson, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Автор: Doughty, Charles M. Название: Wanderings in arabia ISBN: 1845117662 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781845117665 Издательство: I B Tauris Рейтинг: Цена: 13190.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Offers a portrait of Arabia and its people.
Автор: Thomas Lowell Название: With Lawrence in Arabia ISBN: 151071572X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781510715721 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 17460.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In 1918, as the First World War ravaged the European continent, young American journalist Lowell Thomas traveled to Arabia to report on the revolts breaking out as an indirect result of the savage European conflict. While in Jerusalem, he met and struck up a friendship with the young British captain, T.E. Lawrence. Based on his travels and interviews with Lawrence, Thomas wrote the now classic With Lawrence in Arabia, the book that spawned the Lawrence of Arabia legend and served as the basis for the award-winning 1961 film of the same name. Fantastically paced with equal measures of fact and adventure, Thomas narrates the exploits of the infamous British agent who against all odds managed to join several factious Arabian tribes into a single combat unit. With Lawrence in command, this guerilla force would go on to defeat the great Turkish Army and ensure the eventual demise of the previously impenetrable Ottoman Empire. On the sweeping and the exotic Arabian desert that serves as the setting for this epic account, Thomas brings to life dozens of great historical figures including Emir Feisel, King Hussein I of Hedjaz, British General Edmund Allenby, and Lawrence, the enigmatic, "modern knight of Arabia." With new forewords by modern explorers, this Explorer's Club Classic edition of With Lawrence in Arabia is a must-have for every history buff and arm-chair adventurer.
Автор: Lawrence, T. E. Lawrence, Thomas Edward Название: Diary kept by t. e. lawrence while travelling in arabia during 1911 ISBN: 9562916375 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789562916370 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 36770.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Lawrence T. E. Название: Twenty-Seven Articles HB ISBN: 1501182005 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501182006 Издательство: Simon & Schuster Рейтинг: Цена: 7650.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: 100th anniversary of a famous work: Lawrence of Arabia first published his Twenty-Seven Articles` in August 1917. The articles have been lauded as an important work in military circles. In 1916, T E Lawrence deployed to the Arabian Peninsula to aid with the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire. The story of Lawrence of Arabia and his essential role in the Arab Revolt has become a legendary tale, told in film, radio, and print ever since. New introduction by expert author John Hulsman.
Автор: Goldstone Lawrence Название: Going Deep: John Philip Holland and the Invention of the Attack Submarine ISBN: 1681777819 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681777818 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 14170.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Like Henry Ford and the Wright brothers, John Philip Holland was completely self-taught, a brilliant man raised in humble circumstances, earning his living as a schoolteacher and choirmaster. But all the while he was obsessed with creating a machine that could successfully cruise beneath the waves. His struggle to unlock the mystery behind controlled undersea navigation would take three decades, during which he endured skepticism, disappointment, and betrayal. But his indestructible belief in himself and his ideas led him to finally succeed where so many others had failed.
Going Deep is a vivid chronicle of the fierce battles not only under the water, but also in the back rooms of Wall Street and the committee rooms of Congress. A rousing adventure--surrounded by an atmosphere of corruption and greed--at its heart this a story of bravery, passion, and the unbreakable determination to succeed against long odds.
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