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Artisans of Empire by Faroqhi Suraiya
epub |eng | 2009-06-23 | Author:Faroqhi, Suraiya

Conclusion Barring error, between the late 1600s and the mid-nineteenth century artisan guilds became more formal, organized and perhaps rigid. Market contraction pushed artisans in this direction: as they sought ...
( Category: Middle East January 25,2018 )
The Wall and the Gate by Michael Sfard
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Sfard

PERMITS7 What prevents an athletic Palestinian from climbing the fence or the wall and crossing to the other side? What gives a soldier stationed at a gate installed in the ...
( Category: Middle East January 25,2018 )
Cobra II by Michael R. Gordon
mobi | | 2006-02-17 | Author:Michael R. Gordon

At Rams, the rest of the regiment’s supply column had finally begun to trickle in. When the soldiers arrived, Captain John Cochran was stunned. As the assistant operations officer for ...
( Category: Middle East January 24,2018 )
A Question of Command: Counterinsurgency from the Civil War to Iraq by Mark Moyar
mobi | | 2010-01-30 | Author:Mark Moyar

CHAPTER 9 The War in Afghanistan he path to the catastrophic attacks of September ii, 2001, winds through the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and the ensuing SovietAfghan War. ...
( Category: Middle East January 24,2018 )
Jungle of Snakes: A Century of Counterinsurgency Warfare from the Philippines to Iraq by James R. Arnold
mobi | | 2009-06-08 | Author:James R. Arnold

Paths Not Taken When Lau Yew perceived that acts of terror had failed so far to drive off the British or to create Liberated Areas where the guerrilla force could ...
( Category: World January 24,2018 )
The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine by Nathan Thrall
epub |eng | 2017-05-15 | Author:Nathan Thrall [Thrall, Nathan]

13. Obama’s Palestine Legacy In no American president did Palestinians invest higher hopes than Barack Obama, and in none did they come to feel more profound disappointment. Obama entered the ...
( Category: Politics & Government January 24,2018 )
Private World of Ottoman Women (Saqi Essentials) by Godfrey Goodwin
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-01-02 | Author:Godfrey Goodwin [Goodwin, Godfrey]

from a friend saying that the great sultan [the very far from great Mehmet IV] had publicaly [sic] entered Constantinople in unusual pomp together with his mother [Turhan Valide] and ...
( Category: World January 22,2018 )
A Rage for Order by Robert F. Worth
epub |eng | | Author:Robert F. Worth

6 In the Caliph’s Shadow (Yemen, Syria) One of the first great takeaways of the Arab Spring in 2011 was the idea that it would destroy Al Qaeda. A nonviolent ...
( Category: Middle East January 22,2018 )
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael Oren
mobi |eng | 2010-07-01 | Author:Michael Oren

Damascus and Jerusalem The Syrian shelling of Israel’s northern settlements, unabated since the previous day, went largely unanswered. Residents of those settlements, comprising the country’s largest lobbying group, continued to ...
( Category: Middle East January 21,2018 )
In Search Of The Trojan War by Michael Wood
epub |eng | 2016-09-25 | Author:Michael Wood

A PREHISTORIC ARMS RACE? What was the relation between Mycenae and the other palaces? Historians have been perplexed by the presence of several great fortresses in the same area, as ...
( Category: Middle East January 21,2018 )
The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites by Walton John H. & Walton J. Harvey
azw3 |eng | 2017-08-07 | Author:Walton, John H. & Walton, J. Harvey [Walton, John H.]

COVENANT, CHAOS, AND THE FATE OF THE ISRAELITES If the conquest is a recapitulation of creation, then the exile is a recapitulation of the flood. The flood is a reversal ...
( Category: Bible Study & Reference January 19,2018 )
The Lost World of the Israelite Conquest: Covenant, Retribution, and the Fate of the Canaanites by John H. Walton & J. Harvey Walton
epub |eng | 2017-08-06 | Author:John H. Walton & J. Harvey Walton [Walton, John H.]

COVENANT, CHAOS, AND THE FATE OF THE ISRAELITES If the conquest is a recapitulation of creation, then the exile is a recapitulation of the flood. The flood is a reversal ...
( Category: Bible Study & Reference January 19,2018 )
The Armies of Ancient Persia by Kaveh Farrokh
epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Kaveh Farrokh

Yazdegird II and The Kidarites Soon after the pacification of the Central Asian frontiers, the Sassanians faced a new threat. By the 440s CE, the Kidarites (also known as Cbuls68) ...
( Category: Ancient Civilizations January 16,2018 )
The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization by Jonathan Lyons
epub |eng | 2009-03-30 | Author:Jonathan Lyons [Lyons, Jonathan]

Chapter Six “WHAT IS SAID OF THE SPHERE …” ONE PALE DAWN, twenty-two years before the Antioch earthquake, a scholar-monk not far from Adelard’s West Country home quietly made scientific ...
( Category: Middle East January 14,2018 )
Dear World by Bana Alabed
epub |eng | | Author:Bana Alabed

Mummy also went to school for three days like me. It wasn’t the same as her university classes, but she and her friends had a school where they learned and ...
( Category: Middle East January 14,2018 )

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