The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trend…
Economic history is well documented in Assyriology thanks to the good preservation of numerous private and official archives; however, the contribution of women has seldom been addressed. This volume examines the many aspects of women as economic agents, inside and outside of th…
Wer den Wind sät, wird Sturm ernten - Michael Lüders beschreibt die westlichen Interventionen im Nahen und Mittleren Osten seit der Kolonialzeit und erklärt, was sie mit der aktuellen politischen Situation zu tun haben. Sein neues Buch liest sich wie ein Polit-Thriller - nur lei…
Wer den Wind sät, wird Sturm ernten - Michael Lüders beschreibt die westlichen Interventionen im Nahen und Mittleren Osten seit der Kolonialzeit und erklärt, was sie mit der aktuellen politischen Situation zu tun haben. Sein neues Buch liest sich wie ein Polit-Thriller - nur lei…
Tracing the transnational influences of what has been known as a uniquely American genre, "the Western," Susan Kollin analyzes key moments in the history of multicultural encounters between the Middle East and the American West. In particular, the book examines how experiences o…
"Why and how did Islam become such a political force in so many Muslim-majority countries? In this book, Jocelyne Cesari investigates the relationship between modernization, politics, and Islam in Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Tunisia, and Turkey - cou…
"The publication Audias fabulas veteres : Anatolian studies in honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová contains 31 contributions on current research topics in the fields of ancient Anatolian and Near Eastern languages, history, religion, and literature. The topics cover not only the ma…
"The publication Audias fabulas veteres : Anatolian studies in honor of Jana Součková-Siegelová contains 31 contributions on current research topics in the fields of ancient Anatolian and Near Eastern languages, history, religion, and literature. The topics cover not only the ma…
