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Modern Medicine in the Holy Land
“Modern Medicine in the Holy Land” provides an in-depth assessment of the pioneering work of British Hospitals in Palestine in the nineteenth century, and finds these institutions made great contributions…
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Moral Crisis in the Ottoman Empire
To what extent did a perceived morality crisis play a role in the dramatic events of the last years of the Ottoman Empire? Beginning in the late nineteenth century when…
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My Brother’s Road
What do ‘Abu Sindi’, ‘Timothy Sean McCormack’, ‘Saro’, and ‘Commander Avo’ all have in common? They were all aliases for Monte Melkonian. But who was Monte Melkonian? In his native…
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North Korea
This reissue of Paul French’s acclaimed introduction to North Korea provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the politics, economics and history of the DPRK, with added chapters dealing with recent events….
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Northern Ireland
Clearly and accessibly written, Dixon provides a lively introduction to the nature and politics of the Northern Ireland conflict and of successive attempts to resolve it. The comprehensively revised 2nd…
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Ottoman Propaganda and Turkish Identity
The Great War was the first example of a total war in history, reflected in the cultures and literatures of Europe in the shape of propaganda. What began as civic…
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Ottomans Looking West?
The ‘Tulip Age’, a concept that described the beginning of the Ottoman Empire’s westward inclination in the eighteenth century, was an idea proposed by Ottoman historian Ahmed Refik in 1912….
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Out of the Energy Labyrinth
The planet is under threat. And that threat comes from energy. So goes the standard argument. But according to David Howell and Carole Nakhle, this reasoning is wrong. In their…
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Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare
The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the…
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Poland’s Return to Capitalism
As the largest and most strategically important country in Central-Eastern Europe, Poland’s transformation from socialism to capitalism has brought with it immense political changes. Poland was the first Eastern European…
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Poverty
This second edition of this highly-successful glossary provides an exhaustive and authoritative guide to over 200 technical terms used in contemporary scholarly research on poverty. It seeks to make researchers,…
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Practising Colonial Medicine
The role of the Colonial Medical Service – the organisation responsible for healthcare in British overseas territories – goes to the heart of the British Colonial project. “Practising Colonial Medicine”…