"A Wealth of Historical writing dealing with the Maghrib (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya) has been published during the roughly forty years since European colonial control ended in the region. This book provides a "state of the field" survey of this postcolonial Maghribi h…
"This Handbook captures the salient features of Middle Eastern economies and critically examines the public policy responses required to address the challenges and opportunities across the region. Bringing together wide-ranging perspectives from carefully selected and renowned s…
"This is the first book to offer a comprehensive overview of the history, development and contemporary significance of sport in Asia. It addresses a wide range of issues central to sport in the context of Asian culture, politics, economy and society. The book explores diverse to…
It was not just the searing heat of the day, hot enough to boil an egg on the bonnet of a lorry, or the sand that nestled in every crevice of the body, or the shivering cold of the starlit nights, that the British and Commonwealth troops had to battle in the North African desert…
In the spring of 1941, shortly before his forces launched their invasion of Russia, Hitler was forced to undertake an assault upon the Balkans. The Yugoslavs, nominally allied to the Axis powers, had been encouraged to revolt by the British and, in April 1941, Hitler launched a …
Este volumen aborda el tema de la representación de África del Norte desde la perspectiva de los estudios culturales, poniendo especial énfasis en la cuestión del (neo)colonialismo. A través de textos literarios, historiográficos y audiovisuales, se ofrece una profunda reconside…
"Este volumen aborda el tema de la representación de África del Norte desde la perspectiva de los estudios culturales, poniendo especial énfasis en la cuestión del (neo)colonialismo. A través de textos literarios, historiográficos y audiovisuales, se ofrece una profunda reconsid…
Francophone writers from North Africa and the Middle East often choose to write within a sacred context, sometimes engaging directly with Islamist rhetoric. Novelists like Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco), Assia Djebar (Algeria) and Amin Maalouf (Lebanon) revisit scripture as a way t…
Scope and content: "Translation of a 17th-century narrative written by a Lutheran pastor from Iceland who was captured by Turkish pirates, taken to North Africa, and then released and managed to make his way back across Europe to Iceland. His story, collected here with letters w…
"Tales of deforestation and desertification in North Africa have been told from the Roman period to the present. Such stories of environmental decline in the Maghreb are still recounted by experts and are widely accepted without question today. International organizations such a…
"L'espace nord-africain est dit, généralement, dangereux pour l'étranger mais avec des points d'attraction physique qu'il entend découvrir. C'est à partir de cette ambivalence que prend sens le voyage dans ces récits étrangers. La narration, qui paraît de moindre intérêt par rap…
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