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  • Armutsbekämpfung durch Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

    Anspruch – Wirklichkeit – Perspektiven

    de Frank Bliss ...
    Series series Social Science and Law (German Language)
    Dieses Buch gibt eine Einführung in die Theorie und insbesondere die Praxis der entwicklungspolitischen Zusammenarbeit. Der Fokus liegt dabei auf der Armutsbekämpfung, d.h., das (häufig leider nur eingeschränkte) Bemühen von Regierungen der sogenannten Entwicklungsländer, die Massenarmut mit finanzieller und technischer Unterstützung vor allem der reichen Industrieländer zu reduzieren. Nach einer ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Social and Economic Change in the Pamirs (Gorno-Badakhshan, Tajikistan)

    Translated from German by Nicola Pacult and Sonia Guss with support of Tim Sharp

    de Frank Bliss ...
    Since Olufsen and Schulz published their monographs on the Pamirs in 1904 and 1914, respectively, this is the first book to deal with the history, anthropology and recent social and economic development of the Pamiri people in Gorno-Badakhshan, Eastern Tajikistan. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, such high mountain areas were more or less forgotten and people would have suffered severely ... Leer más

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  • The Silk Road

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The phrase "silk road" evokes vivid scenes of merchants leading camel caravans across vast stretches to trade exotic goods in glittering Oriental bazaars, of pilgrims braving bandits and frozen mountain passes to spread their faith across Asia. Looking at the reality behind these images, this Very Short Introduction illuminates the historical background against which the silk road flourished, ... Leer más

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  • The Turks in World History

    Beginning in Inner Asia two thousand years ago, the Turks have migrated and expanded to form today's Turkish Republic, five post-Soviet republics, other societies across Eurasia, and a global diaspora. For the first time in a single, accessible volume, this book traces the Turkic peoples' trajectory from steppe, to empire, to nation-state. Cultural, economic, social, and political history unite in ... Leer más

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  • The Egyptian World

    Edición de Toby Wilkinson ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    Authoritative and up-to-date, this key single-volume work is a thematic exploration of ancient Egyptian civilization and culture as it was expressed down the centuries.Including topics rarely covered elsewhere as well as new perspectives, this work comprises thirty-two original chapters written by international experts. Each chapter gives an overvi ... Leer más

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  • Mesopotamia Before History

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    Mesopotamia was one of the earliest regions to produce writing, literature and the fine arts, as well as being one of the first areas to construct states. This comprehensive and detailed survey of the region's prehistory and protohistory shows how these fascinating developments were possible. Petr Charvát explores the economic, social and spiritual spheres in Mesopotamia from the Palaeolithic to ... Leer más

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  • African Civilizations

    An Archaeological Perspective

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    This new revised edition of African Civilizations re-examines the physical evidence for developing social complexity in Africa over the last six thousand years. Unlike the two previous editions, it is not confined to tropical Africa but considers the whole continent. Graham Connah focuses upon the archaeological research of two key aspects of complexity, urbanism and state formation, in ten main ... Leer más

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  • The Nubian Past

    An Archaeology of the Sudan

    This cutting-edge synthesis of the archaeology of Nubia and Sudan from prehistory to the nineteenth century AD is the first major work on this area for over three decades. Drawing on results of the latest research and developing new interpretive frameworks, the area which has produced the most spectacular archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa is examined here by an author with extensive experience in ... Leer más

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  • The Making of Modern Turkey

    Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950

    The eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire used to be a multi-ethnic region where Armenians, Kurds, Syriacs, Turks, and Arabs lived together in the same villages and cities. The disintegration of the Ottoman Empire and rise of the nation state violently altered this situation. Nationalist elites intervened in heterogeneous populations they identified as objects of knowledge, management, and ... Leer más

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  • Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran

    A Moment in World History

    A boom in the production and export of cotton made Iran the richest region of the Islamic caliphate in the ninth and tenth centuries. Yet in the eleventh century, Iran's impressive agricultural economy entered a steep decline, bringing the country's primacy to an end.Richard W. Bulliet advances several provocative theses to explain these hitherto unrecognized historical events. According to ... Leer más

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  • The Bazaar in the Islamic City

    Design, Culture, and History

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    The Middle Eastern bazaar is much more than a context for commerce: the studies in this book illustrate that markets, regardless of their location, scale, and permanency, have also played important cultural roles within their societies, reflecting historical evolution, industrial development, social and political conditions, urban morphology, and architectural functions. This interdisciplinary ... Leer más

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