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MP-SYR Syracuse University P Emirate Egyptian Ethiopian
In October 1875, two months after the takeover of the Somali coastal town of Zeila, an Egyptian force numbering 1,200 soldiers departed from the city to occupy Harar, a prominent Muslim hub in the Horn of Africa. In Emirate, Egyptian, Ethiopian, Ben-Dror tells the story of Turco-Egyptian colonial ambitions and the processes that integrated Harar into the global system of commerce.
£33.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Fort Orange Court Minutes 16521660
£75.00
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Jewish Women in Comics
In this groundbreaking collection of essays, interviews, and artwork, contributors draw upon a rich treasure trove of Jewish women’s comics to explore the representation of Jewish women’s bodies and bodily experience in pictorial narratives.
£75.00
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Iranian Women and Gender in the IranIraq War
Despite their significant contributions, women are largely absent from studies on the Iran-Iraq war. Drawing on primary sources such as memoirs, wills, interviews, print media coverage, and oral histories, Farzaneh chronicles in copious detail women's participation on the battlefield, in the household, and everywhere in between.
£21.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Faith and Politics in the Public Sphere
Explores the politics of religious engagement in the public sphere by comparing two modernist conservative movements: the Mormon Church in the US and the Gülen movement in Turkey. The book traces the public activities and activism of these two influential and controversial actors at the state, political society, and civil society domains.
£28.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the Clerical Leadership of Khurasani
£42.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P American Writers in Istanbul
Looking at texts by writers who do not necessarily define themselves as Orientalists, this title broadens the possible ways of thinking about Istanbul - a complex, idiosyncratic city of the world.
£28.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Iroquoia
Drawing on archaeology, historical evidence, oral traditions, and linguistics, this book provides a view of Iroquois life from the prehistoric period and Owasco sites through the establishment of the Five Nations.
£20.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Writing Short Stories
How does one translate experience into fiction? This work includes specific and practical guidance on the art, craft, and business of writing short stories. It offers advice on exploring sources, galvanizing the imagination, studying stories, and then writing them.
£15.15
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Einsteins Pacifism and World War I
To understand how Albert Einstein's pacifist and internationalist thought matured from a youthful inclination to pragmatic initiatives and savvy insights, Holmes gives readers access to Einstein in his own words. Through his private writings, she shows how Einstein's thoughts in response to the war evolved from horrified disbelief, to ironic alienation, to a kind of bleak endurance.
£25.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Irish Orientalism A Literary and Intellectual History
Centuries before W.B. Yeats wove Indian, Japanese and Irish forms together in his poetry and plays, Irish writers found kinships in Asian and West Asian cultures. This book maps the unacknowledged discourse of Irish Orientalism within Ireland's complex colonial heritage.
£38.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The History and Culture of Iroquois Diplomacy
This volume is an interdisciplinary guide to the Treaties of the Six Nations and their league. It provides a description of the earliest recorded treaties and an alphabetical list of persons involved in Iroquois treaty making.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P My Thousand and One Nights
How lethal is love, how dangerous is woman? And how sensual is the yearning for immortality? This book presents the drama of Jummo's life, the tragic arc of her affair with her childhood sweetheart and her lifelong love for the mysterious Sidi Wadhana, a more-than-human emissary from the Netherworld.
£20.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Gertrude Bell The Arabian Diaries 19131914
Gertrude Bell lived an extraordinary life. Her adventures are the stuff of novels. Bell numbered among her friends T.E. Lawrence, St. John Philby, and Arabian sheiks. In this volume of three of her notebooks, Rosemary O'Brien preserves Bell's elegant prose, and presents her as a brilliant tactician fearlessly confronting her own vulnerability.
£21.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Second Coming of Paisley
Examines the relationship between the Rev. Ian Paisley and the leaders of the militant wing of evangelical fundamentalism in the United States in the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Northern Ireland ""Troubles"" in the late 1960s.
£33.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Watching TV with a Linguist
Challenges the conventional view of television as lowbrow entertainment devoid of intellectual activity. Rather, Fägersten champions the use of fictional television to learn about linguistics and at the same time promotes enriched television viewing experiences by explaining the role of language in creating humour, conveying drama, and developing identifiable characters.
£29.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P The Asymmetric Society
Presents a series of five lectures given in 1981 at Syracuse University. Each couples with a concluding “dialogue” where the author poses questions and objections to his own essays and then answers them. Coleman sees the book as the extension of his 1973 volume, Power and the Structure of Society.
£16.95
MP-SYR Syracuse University P Jewish High Society in Old Regime Berlin
During the quarter century between 1780 and 1806, Berlin's courtly and intellectual elites gathered in the homes of a few wealthy, cultivated Jewish women to discuss the events of the day, creating both a new cultural institution and an example of social mixing unprecedented in the German past.
£21.95
