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Barsauma was a fifth-century Syrian ascetic, archimandrite, and leader of monks, notorious for his extreme asceticism and violent anti-Jewish campaigns…
across the Holy Land. Although Barsauma was a powerful and revered figure in the Eastern church, modern scholarship has widely dismissed him as a thug of peripheral interest. Until now, only the most salacious bits of the Life of Barsauma—a fascinating collection of miracles that Barsauma undertook across the Near East—had been translated. This pioneering study includes the first full translation of the Life and a series of studies by scholars employing a range of methods to illuminate the text from different angles and contexts. This is the authoritative source on this influential figure in the history of the church and his life, travels, and relations with other religious groups.This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes. This…
leads to a reconsideration of how to define collecting and display by analysing the difference between objects serving as decorative or collectible items, while tracing collecting and display trends of the twentieth century. Minna Törmä examines four Scandinavian collections as case studies: Kustaa Hiekka, Sophus Black, Osvald Sirén and Marie-Louise and Gunnar Didrichsen, all of whom had professional backgrounds (a jeweler, two businessmen and a scholar) and for whom collecting became a passion and an educational endeavour. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, museum studies, Chinese studies and design history.From Savages to Subjects: Missions in the History of the American Southwest (Latin American Realities Ser.)
By Robert H. Jackson. 2000
Incorporating recent findings by leading Southwest scholars as well as original research, this book takes a fresh new look at…
the history of Spanish missions in northern Mexico/the American Southwest during the 17th and 18th centuries. Far from a record of heroic missionaries, steadfast soldiers, and colonial administrators, it examines the experiences of the natives brought to live on the missions, and the ways in which the mission program attempted to change just about every aspect of indigenous life. Emphasizing the effect of the missions on native populations, demographic patterns, economics, and socio-cultural change, this path-breaking work fills a major gap in the history of the Southwest.Human Resource Management in the Asia-Pacific Region: Convergence Revisited
By Chris Rowley. 1998
HRM (human resource management) suffers from a selective tendancy and ad hoc approach, which misses the historical, paradoxical often incoherent,…
incompatible and inconsistent nature of the subject. This text reduces this myopia by adding to our knowledge and the milieu within which it operates.Turkey - Anglo-American Security Interests, 1945-1952: The First Enlargement of NATO
By Ekavi Athanassopoulou. 1999
This book aims to enhance our understanding of how American presence came to become consolidated - through NATO - in…
the eastern Mediterranean in the early cold war period by examining how American and British security considerations toward the region evolved between 1947 and 1952 and the impact Turkey's pressure had on American and British security thinking.This analysis of French colonial ideology and interest in Morocco delineates the manner in which the agents of the protectorate…
regime sought to conquer the country and control its indigenous inhabitants. Numerous comparative perspectives are offered, placing the French policy towards Morocco in a wider context, making this study relevant to not only North Africa, but also to other parts of the post-colonial world.Turkey Before and After Ataturk: Internal and External Affairs
By Sylvia Kedourie. 1999
Turkey's modern history has been unstable and contradictory. National identity continues to be an issue as Turks are faced with…
joining the West and preserving their own culture. The emergence of Islamicism contributes to the question of how safe the secular constitutional democracy is.The Politics of Christian Zionism 1891-1948
By Paul C. Merkley. 1998
For this book Professor Merkley has researched presidential archives, Jewish historical libraries and official Zionist records in the US and…
in Israel for evidence of the dealings between official Zionists and active Christian Restorationists. Much of this record appears here for the first time in print and is linked to the much better known history of the relationship between the official Zionists and the politicians and leaders of the US and Britain.Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley: The Myth Of Rewi Alley (Chinese Worlds)
By Anne-Marie Brady. 1998
This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials…
and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history, re-examining what we know and understand about one of the most famous, or indeed infamous, foreigners in modern China: Rewi Alley, who arrived in China in 1927 from New Zealand and lived there for the rest of his life. Alley was regarded as a great humanitarian and internationalist. Later he became an outspoken 'foreign friend' of the Chinese regime and prolific propagandist on the new China. This book examines the myth and reality of his life, using them to explore the role of foreigners in China's diplomatic relations and their sensitive place in China after 1949, laying bare the important role of China's 'foreign friends' in Chinese foreign policy.Sapian: The Ethnology of a War-Devastated Island
By Alexander Spoehr. 2020
Recorded in the aftermath of the Secord World War renowned ethnologist Alexander Spoehr surveys the Island of Saipan. Archaeological and…
ethnological investigations in 1949 in the Mariana Islands, principally on Saipan, with short periods of work on Tinian, Rota and Guam, Chamorros and Carolinians of Saipan.Rail Transport and the Winning of Wars
By James A Van Fleet. 2020
James Alward Van Fleet (March 19, 1892 – September 23, 1992) was a U.S. Army officer during World War I,…
World War II and the Korean War. Van Fleet was a native of New Jersey, who was raised in Florida and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy. He served as a regimental, divisional and corps commander during World War II and as the commanding General of U.S. Army and other United Nations forces during the Korean War. “This survey reviews the role of railroads in national security. It is based upon both personal observation and recorded experience of the effect of rail transport, or the lack thereof, on the outcome of campaigns and the winning of wars.”Let My Right Hand Wither
By Daniel Spicehandler. 2020
A memoir of the first Arab-Israeli War in 1948 by an American veteran of that conflict and World War Two.“I…
have tried through my own experiences, first as a G.I. student at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and later as a volunteer in the defense of Israel, to depict the life in Israel during the past few crucial years. I have tried to describe the many tremendous changes embroidered in the one major transformation of Palestine, 1946, to Israel, 1949. The underground struggle, the life in the cities and farm communities, the constant preparation for the eventuality of a war which every Jew in Palestine knew was inevitable, the early struggle against local Arab gangs, and finally, the struggle against the seven invading Arab armies.The events in this book are true.Through the events that my wife, some friends and myself, all Americans, have participated in, I have tried to paint a picture of the rebirth of Israel, spiritually as well as physically. And I have taken the liberty of injecting, throughout the text, small incidents in which I had no active part, but of which I have heard or read. These incidents typify the fighting and living in Israel during these fateful years. They are included in the hope that they will contribute to a better understanding of the new Jew, the Sabra, who is growing up with Israel.The American reader, I am sure, will notice the close resemblance of the youth of Israel to his own youth. The former G.I. will be amazed to see how closely the “Palmachnick” resembles him in the last war. And the scene of Palestine, and later Israel, as a frontier country, will remind Americans of the struggle America once had in its fight for independence.”—From the Introduction.September Monkey
By Induk Pahk. 2020
Centuries-old traditions and customs crumbled during the lifetime of this extraordinary woman who tells here the vivid story of her…
life in the old and the new Korea.“To an illiterate Buddhist mother and a scholarly Christian father one day came a great disappointment—the birth of a daughter. ‘If only this baby were a boy what a great career he would have,’ mourned the father, noting the auspicious date on which ‘September Monkey’ arrived. But the mother—shortly to become a widow and a despised Christian as well—went about preparing her ‘girl-boy’ baby for the unheard-of experience of education, somehow realizing that if a new day for women in Korea were to come she would have to make it.”Korean Tales
By Melvin B. Voorhees. 2020
This book is a first-hand account, based on personal experiences and observation, of a war unique in history and vital…
for the future of our civilisation. Part of the book is written in the form of fictional stories, each closely based on actual events, which reveal vividly the reactions of the fighting men and of the natives of a war-torn country.“THIS is a blessed event. At last the United States Army has given birth to a top-grade writer. From the Korean war has come finally one thin volume of prose which is apt to be remembered long after we have forgotten the heroisms of Heartbreak Ridge and the frustrations of Panmunjom.”—NY TimesKuwait, 1945-1996: An Anglo-American Perspective
By Miriam Joyce. 1998
Based on extensive research of British documents from the Public Records Office, and American documents from the National Archives and…
several Presidential Libraries, this book surveys events in Kuwait from the beginning of the twentieth century until the Second World War, and explains Britain's initial interest in the ruling al-Sabah family, before focusing on the post-1945 period.Modern Palestinian Literature and Culture
By Ami Elad-Bouskila. 1999
Studies of Palestinian society, economy, and politics are appearing with increasing frequency, but works in English about Palestinian literature, particularly…
that written in Israel, are still scarce. This book looks at this literature within the political and social context of Palestinian society, with a special focus on literature written during the Intifada "uprising" period (1987-93).Palestine: A Twice-Promised Land?
By Isaiah Friedman. 1999
In this book, Isaiah Friedman examines one of the most complex problems that bedeviled Middle East politics in the interwar…
period, one that still remains controversial. The prevailing view is that during World War I the British government made conflicting commitments to the Arabs, to the French, and to the Jews. Through a rigorous examination of the documentary evidence, Friedman demolishes the myth that Palestine was a "twice-promised land" and shows that the charges of fraudulence and deception leveled against the British are groundless.Central to Arab claims on Palestine was a letter dated 24 October 1915, from Sir Henry McMahon, the British High Commissioner in Egypt, to King Hussein, the Sharif of Mecca, pledging Arab independence. Friedman shows that this letter was conditional on a general Arab uprising against the Turks. Predicated on reciprocal action, the letter committed the British to recognize and uphold Arab independence in the areas of the Fertile Crescent once it was liberated by the Arabs themselves. As all evidence shows, few tribes rebelled against the Turks. The Arabs in Palestine, Syria, and Mesopotamia fought for the Ottoman Empire against the British. In addition to its non-binding nature, McMahon's letter has been misinterpreted with respect to the territories it covers. Friedman's archival discovery of the Arabic version actually read by Hussein indisputably shows that Palestine was not included in the British pledge. Indeed, Hussein welcomed the return of the Jews just as his son Emir Feisal believed that Arab-Jewish cooperation would be a means to build Arab independence without the interference of the European powers.Myth-shattering and meticulously documented, Palestine: A Twice-Promised Land? is revisionist history in the truest sense of the word.This edited volume re-assesses the relationship between the United States, the Soviet Union and key regional players in waging and…
halting conflict in the Middle East between 1967 and 1973. These were pivotal years in the Arab-Israeli conflict, with the effects still very much in evidence today. In addition to addressing established debates, the boChina, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series)
By Priscilla Roberts, Odd Arne Westad. 2017
This book explores the forces that impelled China, the world's largest socialist state, to make massive changes in its domestic…
and international stance during the long 1970s. Fourteen distinguished scholars investigate the special, perhaps crucial part that the territory of Hong Kong played in encouraging and midwifing China's relationship with the non-Communist world. The Long 1970s were the years when China moved dramatically and decisively toward much closer relations with the non-Communist world. In the late 1970s, China also embarked on major economic reforms, designed to win it great power status by the early twenty-first centuries. The volume addresses the long-term implications of China's choices for the outcome of the Cold War and in steering the global international outlook toward free-market capitalism. Decisions made in the 1970s are key to understanding the nature and policies of the Chinese state today and the worldview of current Chinese leaders.The Jewish Exodus from Iraq, 1948-1951
By Moshe Gat. 1997
In this study, Moshe Gat details how the immigration of the Jews from Iraq in effect marked the eradication of…
one of the oldest and most deeply-rooted Diaspora communities. He provides a background to these events and argues that both Iraqi discrimination and the actions of the Zionist underground in previous years played a part in the flight. The Denaturalization law of 1950 saw tens of thousands of Jews registering for emigration, and a bomb thrown at a synagogue in 1951 accelerated the exodus.