The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca, Tagliacozzo Eric
Автор: Williams Brian Glyn Название: Afghanistan Declassified: A Guide to America`s Longest War ISBN: 0812223446 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812223446 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 25040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of the people, history, and geography of Iraq, but Afghanistan remains a mystery. Originally published by the U.S. Army to provide an overview of the country's terrain, ethnic groups, and history for American troops and now updated and expanded for the general public, Afghanistan Declassified fills in these gaps. Historian Brian Glyn Williams, who has traveled to Afghanistan frequently over the past decade, provides essential background to the war, tracing the rise, fall, and reemergence of the Taliban. Special sections deal with topics such as the CIA's Predator drone campaign in the Pakistani tribal zones, the spread of suicide bombing from Iraq to the Afghan theater of operations, and comparisons between the Soviet and U.S. experiences in Afghanistan. To Williams, a historian of Central Asia, Afghanistan is not merely a theater in the war on terror. It is a primeval, exciting, and beautiful land; not only a place of danger and turmoil but also one of hospitable villagers and stunning landscapes, of great cultural diversity and richness. Williams brings the country to life through his own travel experiences—from living with Northern Alliance Uzbek warlords to working on a major NATO base. National heroes are introduced, Afghanistan's varied ethnic groups are explored, key battles—both ancient and current—are retold, and this land that many see as only a frightening setting for prolonged war emerges in three dimensions.
Автор: Somak Biswas Название: Passages through India: Indian Gurus, Western Disciples and the Politics of Indophilia, 1890–1940 ISBN: 100933798X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009337984 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 89760.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Passages Through India offers a study of the phenomenon of Western Indophilia: romanticised engagements around Hindu ideas of India. It argues that affective practices cultivated between major Indian guru-figures (Gandhi, Tagore and Vivekananda) and their white disciples serviced a larger politics of respectability, tied to exigencies of Indian cultural and nationalist politics. Indophile deployments in transnational projects like the abolition of indentured labour and global Hinduism, while anti-colonial, were not quite emancipatory. Such deployments – in Africa, America, Fiji and India – frequently reproduced deep hierarchies around race, class, caste and gender. Unifying distinct strands of western discipleship within a shared tradition of Indophilia, Passages Through India offers a new methodological framework that situates self and subjectivity as central to processes of global mobility and migration.
Автор: Ahmad Irfan Название: Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace ISBN: 1469635097 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469635095 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 27170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam - indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions. Ahmad contemplates and interrogates Greek and Enlightenment notions of reason and critique, and he notes how they are invoked in relation to ""others,"" including Muslims. Drafting an alternative genealogy of critique in Islam, Ahmad reads religious teachings and texts, drawing on sources in Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, and English, and demonstrates how they serve as expressions of critique. Throughout, he depicts Islam as an agent, not an object, of critique.On a broader level, Ahmad expands the idea of critique itself. Drawing on his fieldwork among marketplace hawkers in Delhi and Aligarh, he construes critique anthropologically as a sociocultural activity in the everyday lives of ordinary Muslims, beyond the world of intellectuals. Religion as Critique allows space for new theoretical considerations of modernity and change, taking on such salient issues as nationhood, women's equality, the state, culture, democracy, and secularism.
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Автор: Durgahee, Reshaad (university Of Nottingham) Название: Indentured archipelago ISBN: 1316512266 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316512265 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 79200.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A text for historians and historical geographers on a key moment in post-abolition labour history, focusing on the experiences of Indian indentured labourers in the Indo-Pacific. It analyses the spatial experiences of labourers in Mauritius and Fiji, and reveals previously unexplored intra-colonial labour movements, prompting debate on subaltern agency.
Автор: Kane Eileen M. Название: Russian Hajj: Empire and the Pilgrimage to Mecca ISBN: 0801454239 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801454233 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 108680.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it as not only a liability but also an opportunity. To support the hajj as a matter of state surveillance and control was controversial, given the preeminent position of the Orthodox Church. But nor could the hajj be ignored, or banned, due to Russia's policy of toleration of Islam. As a cross-border, migratory phenomenon, the hajj stoked officials' fears of infectious disease, Islamic revolt, and interethnic conflict, but Eileen Kane innovatively argues that it also generated new thinking within the government about the utility of the empire's Muslims and their global networks.
Автор: Arunima Datta Название: Fleeting Agencies ISBN: 1108837387 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108837385 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 82370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In Fleeting Agencies, the author revises and decolonizes the history of transnational female plantation labour and acknowledges the agency of women workers. This is the first book to examine the history of Indian coolie women who migrated to British Malaya and contributed to the making of the Rubber Empire.
Автор: Suh, Chris (Assistant Professor of History, Assistant Professor of History, Emory University) Название: Allure of Empire ISBN: 0197631622 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197631621 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 23370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This guide provides students and researchers with a distilled, accessible understanding of the major scholarly, historical, and philosophical issues that inform the Vatsyayana`s Commentary on the Nyaya-sutra while unpacking its philosophical content such that it speaks to modern readers. It also illustrates the way that the Commentary may serve as a lens to view the formative period of classical Indian philosophy.
Автор: Hughes Название: East Asians in the League of Nations ISBN: 9811970661 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789811970665 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 121110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book looks at East Asian actors in the League of Nations to explore a pivotal moment in the early stage of the development of global international relations.
Автор: Freitag, Ulrike Название: History of jeddah ISBN: 1108746209 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108746205 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 31670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Seen from the perspective of its diverse population, this first biography of Jeddah traces the city`s urban history and cosmopolitanism from the late Ottoman period to its present-day claim to multiculturalism, within the conservative environment of the Arabian Peninsula.
Автор: Byrne Jeffrey James Название: Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization, and the Third World Order ISBN: 0190053771 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190053772 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 65510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Through an examination of Algeria`s interactions with the wider world from the beginning of its war of independence to the fall of its first post-colonial regime, Mecca of Revolution provides the Third Worldist perspective on twentieth century international history. Featuring pioneering research on multiple continents, it rejuvenates the fields of diplomatic history and post-colonial studies.
Автор: Ulrike Freitag Название: A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries ISBN: 1108478794 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108478793 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 49630.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Seen from the perspective of its diverse population, this first biography of Jeddah traces the city`s urban history and cosmopolitanism from the late Ottoman period to its present-day claim to multiculturalism, within the conservative environment of the Arabian Peninsula.
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