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“dr thomas serres”

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  • North Africa and the Making of Europe

    Governance, Institutions and Culture

    Edited by Dr Muriam Haleh Davis, Dr Thomas Serres ...
    This innovative edited collection brings together leading scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe to examine how European identity and institutions have been fashioned though interactions with the southern periphery since 1945. It highlights the role played by North African actors in shaping European conceptions of governance, culture and development, considering the construction of ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

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  • Ancient Egypt: History in an Hour

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    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Learn about the Egyptian gods, mummification and how the Egyptians built the only wonder of the ancient world still standing – the Pyramids of Giza.Exploring the historic rise of Egyptian civilizationand its continued influence on the world today, Ancient Egypt in an Hour is an excellent companion to a mysterious and enthralling period of ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Libya

    From Colony to Revolution

    by Ronald Bruce St John ...
    Since Qaddafi’s ousting in 2011, Libya has been beset by instability and conflict. To understand the tumultuous state of the country today, one must look to its past. With great clarity and precision, renowned regional expert Ronald Bruce St John examines Libya’s long struggle to establish its political and economic identity amidst the interference of external actors keen to exploit the country’s ... Read more

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  • The White Nile Diaries

    by John Hopkins ...
    It all began at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, New York, in 1961 - Two Princeton graduates - John Hopkins and Joe McPhillips - have returned from Peru. Loathe to return to a life of work, marriage and mortgages, they are tempted by a mysterious letter from Kenya. Hatching a plan to ride a motorbike across North Africa, they buy a sleek, white R50 BMW and paint her name - 'The White Nile' ... Read more

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  • Trans-Saharan Africa in World History

    by Ralph A. Austen ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold, slaves, and other commodities northward and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture ... Read more

    $154.79 USD

  • Childhood and Colonial Modernity in Egypt

    by Heidi Morrison ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the transformations of Egyptian childhoods that occurred across gender, class, and rural/urban divides. It also questions the role of nostalgia and representation of childhood in illuminating key underlying political, social, and cultural developments in Egypt. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Decolonization and the French of Algeria

    Bringing the Settler Colony Home

    by Sung-Eun Choi ...
    Series series History (R0)
    In 1962, almost one million people were evacuated from Algeria. France called these citizens Repatriates to hide their French Algerian origins and to integrate them into society. This book is about Repatriation and how it became central to France's postcolonial understanding of decolonization, the Algerian past, and French identity. ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • American Slaves and African Masters

    Algiers and the Western Sahara, 1776-1820

    by C. Sears ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Whether by falling prey to Algerian corsairs or crashing onto the desert shores of Western Sahara, a handful of Americans in the first years of the Republic found themselves enslaved in a system that differed so markedly from nineteenth century U.S. slavery that some contemporaries and modern scholars hesitate to categorize their experiences as 'slavery.' Sears uses a comparative approach, placing ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

    by John Wright ...
    Series series History and Society in the Islamic World
    This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign servitude as did the far busier, but much briefer Atlantic and East African trades.Illuminating for ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Mediterranean Modernism

    Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development

    Edited by Adam J. Goldwyn, Renée M. Silverman ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book explores how Modernist movements all across the Mediterranean basin differed from those of other regions**.** The chapters show how the political and economic turmoil of a period marked by world war, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and the rapid advance of new technologies compelled artists, writers, and other intellectuals to create a new hybrid Mediterranean Modernist ... Read more

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  • The Battlefield

    Algeria 1988–2002: Studies in a Broken Polity

    by Hugh Roberts ...
    The violence that has ravaged Algeria has often defied explanation. Regularly invoked in debates about political Islam, transitions to democracy, globalization, and the right of humanitarian interference, Algeria’s tragedy has been reduced to a clash of stereotypes: Islamists vs. a secular state, terrorists vs. innocent civilians, or generals vs. a defenseless society. The prevalence of such ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Kitchener as Proconsul of Egypt, 1911-1914

    by George.H. Cassar ...
    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. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD