Introduction. Writing the history of the Zirids and Normans -- Geographic orientations and the rise of the Fatimids -- The contest for Sicily in the eleventh century -- Commerce and conflict from 1087 to 1123 -- The end of the emirate and the beginning of the kingdom -- The Norm…
"This book examines the interconnected histories of the Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily during the Middle Ages. In doing so, it shows the substantial economic, political, and cultural connections between them as well as the larger importance of the Zirids to the his…
"This book examines the interconnected histories of the Zirids of Ifriqiya and the Normans of Sicily during the Middle Ages. In doing so, it shows the substantial economic, political, and cultural connections between them as well as the larger importance of the Zirids to the his…
The title recalls a famous book by David Abulafia, 'The two Italies', Cambridge 1977, about the origins of the so-called unequal exchange and dual economy between Northern and Southern Italy. This argument is supposed to be the ground of the so called Southern question(questione…
This book's title recalls David Abulafia's famous book 'The two Italies', Cambridge 1977, about the origins of the so-called unequal exchange and dual economy between northern and southern Italy. This argument is supposed to be the ground of the so-called Southern Question (ques…
This book studies Agathokles of Syracuse, who ruled Sicily in the period after Alexander the Great and was an important player in the Mediterranean world at a key moment in its history. It places him in the context of both the earlier history of Sicily, and the developments in t…
Illustrated with twenty-four pages of photographs and with maps, the book forms a brilliant, monumental and definitive study, a model of modern historiography that will interest all readers.
The authors -- one of whom is a Dominican Republic native -- share intimate knowledge of this island nation. Virgin beaches, 16th-century Spanish ruins, the Caribbean's highest mountain, exotic wildlife and vast forest reserves will lure you here. And this book will show you aro…
"This disturbing expose describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and US mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. Journalist Paul L. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence of …
