Íàçâàíèå: The Italian City Republics ISBN: 0582553881 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780582553880 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Pearson Education Öåíà: 5016.00 ð. Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Íåâîçìîæíà ïîñòàâêà. Îïèñàíèå: Daniel Waley's highly enjoyable book remains the best short introduction to the subject in English. Now in its Third Edition, features include a chronological gazetteer of the major cities and towns, a chapter on the historiography of the subject, and a much fuller bibliography.
Àâòîð: Dean, Trevor Waley, Daniel Íàçâàíèå: Italian city republics ISBN: 0367673258 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367673253 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Taylor&Francis Öåíà: 5358.00 ð. Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêàÏîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç. Îïèñàíèå: Now in its 5th edition, The Italian City Republics illustrates how, from the 11th century, many Italian towns achieved independence as political entities. Until the 14th century, when the regimes of individual `tyrants` took over in most towns, these communes were the scene of a precocious experiment in republican self-government.
Polymaths of Islam analyzes the social and intellectual power of religious leaders who created a shared culture that integrated Central Asia, Iran, and India from the mid-eighteenth century through the early twentieth.
James Pickett demonstrates that Islamic scholars were simultaneously mystics and administrators, judges and occultists, physicians and poets. This integrated understanding of the world of Islamic scholarship unlocks a different way of thinking about transregional exchange networks. Pickett reveals a Persian-language cultural sphere that transcended state boundaries and integrated a spectacularly vibrant Eurasia that is invisible from published sources alone.
Through a high cultural complex that he terms the "Persian cosmopolis" or "Persianate sphere," Pickett argues that an intersection of diverse disciplines shaped geographical trajectories across and between political states. In Polymaths of Islam he paints a comprehensive, colorful, and often contradictory portrait of mosque and state in the age of empire.
Îïèñàíèå: *Includes pictures *Includes a bibliography for further reading Today, Chechnya is a republic with some degree of autonomy in the contemporary Russian Federation. Its population is just over a million people, and it stretches over an area of 17,000 square kilometers. The majority of Chechnya's population is comprised of Sunni Muslims, meaning religion has played a key role in the territory's development. In southwestern Russia, landlocked within 100 kilometers of the Caspian Sea, Chechnya is north of the Caucasian mountains, bordering other North Caucasus provinces such as North Ossetia, and Dagestan, and Georgia. Russia itself is a well-established Slavic, Orthodox Christian country, though its majority Muslim provinces were not obvious to outsiders until the post-Soviet conflicts of the 1990s. The history of the Chechen people in the region is, nevertheless, long-established, and Chechnya has become synonymous with conflict, civil war, and discontent. While many people are aware of that, few understand how things reached that point. The area is complex and fascinating, representing one of the world's true fault lines in terms of religion, empire, and geography. Wedged in the North Caucasus mountain range and bordering the Caspian Sea, Dagestan is a true meeting point of cultures, religions and geopolitical rivalries. A crossroad between east and west, Dagestan has been vitally important at different times for various powers in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, and even between different religious and ethnic groups. In spite of all that, and in large measure because of it, Dagestan's society is a composite of these rivalries over the centuries. Today, Dagestan is part of the Russian Federation, but its history happens to be both indicative and idiosyncratic of the region's fascinating and complex development. Dagestan shares many similarities with its smaller neighbor to the west, Chechnya, without receiving as much attention from outside historians and journalists. This is despite the fact Dagestan is home to around three million inhabitants with a range of languages, ethnicities and religions. Islam is the dominant religion at over 80% of the population, with the majority being Sunni Muslims, but the majority ethnic group, the Ayars, only make up about 30% of the population. Dagestan's capital city is little-known Makhachkala, and the rest of the country contains spectacular mountain ranges of over 12,000 feet in height, as well as lakes and major rivers like the Terek, Sulak and Samur. This geography has made Dagestan particularly difficult for outsiders to dominate, but the relationships with outside powers nevertheless provided the tensions that runs through the history of Dagestan. Having come into contact with the Persians, Ottomans, Russians, and even Western European states, Dagestan has both been a melting point and at times almost hermetically sealed to intruders for centuries, making it one of the world's true fault lines in terms of religion, empire, and geography. As a result, Dagestan has never truly been conquered despite its modern position within Russia. It has always retained some degree of autonomy while outsiders, not least the Russians, have treated the country with a certain level of wariness. Chechnya and Dagestan: The History of the North Caucasus Republics and Their Conflicts with Russia examines the history of one of the most controversial regions in the world. Along with pictures depicting important people, places, and events, you will learn about Chechnya and Dagestan like never before.
Àâòîð: Mark James, Kalinovsky Artemy, Marung Steffi Íàçâàíèå: Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World ISBN: 0253046505 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780253046505 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 12540.00 ð. Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
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Globalization has become synonymous with the seemingly unfettered spread of capitalist multinationals, but this focus on the West and western economies ignores the wide variety of globalizing projects that sprang up in the socialist world as a consequence of the end of the European empires. This collection is the first to explore alternative forms of globalization across the socialist world during the Cold War. Gathering the work of established and upcoming scholars of the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and China, Alternative Globalizations addresses the new relationships and interconnections which emerged between a decolonizing world in the postwar period and an increasingly internationalist eastern bloc after the death of Stalin. In many cases, the legacies of these former globalizing impulses from the socialist world still exist today. Divided into four sections, the works gathered examine the economic, political, developmental, and cultural aspects of this exchange. In doing so, the authors break new ground in exploring this understudied history of globalization and provide a multifaceted study of an increasing postwar interconnectedness across a socialist world.
Îïèñàíèå: This title was first published in 2000: An analysis of the relations between Turkey, the West and the newly independent Turkic Republics, in the context of the "Turkish Model" proposed and supported by the West as a possible model for development in the Turkic Republics.
Àâòîð: Lapidus Íàçâàíèå: From Union to Commonwealth ISBN: 0521417066 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521417068 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Cambridge Academ Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 14256.00 ð. Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Îïèñàíèå: This volume examines the rise of national movements which challenged, then destroyed, the stability and territorial integrity of the former Soviet state.
Îïèñàíèå: In order to create a productive middle class part of an ideal society based on ethno-nationalism, the Antonescu regime (1940-1944) pursued Romanianization ?ˆ“ a policy of excluding 'foreigners,' especially Jews and Roma/Gypsies from the economic sphere th
Îïèñàíèå: Creating a Eurasian Union offers a detailed analysis of the economies of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan and the proposed Eurasian Union.
Dark Finance offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of financial expansion and its political impacts in Eastern Europe. Following workers, managers, and investors in the Macedonian construction sector, Fabio Mattioli shows how financialization can empower authoritarian regimes--not by making money accessible to everyone, but by allowing a small group of oligarchs to monopolize access to international credit and promote a cascade of exploitative domestic debt relations.
The landscape of failed deals and unrealizable dreams that is captured in this book portrays finance not as a singular, technical process. Instead, Matttioli argues that finance is a set of political and economic relations that entangles citizens, Eurocrats, and workers in tense paradoxes. Mattioli traces the origins of illiquidity in the reorganization of the European project and the postsocialist perversion of socialist financial practices--a dangerous mix that hid the Macedonian regime's weakness behind a fa ade of urban renewal and, for a decade, made it seem omnipresent and invincible. Dark Finance chronicles how, one bad deal at a time, Macedonia's authoritarian regime rode a wave of financial expansion that deepened its reach into Macedonian society, only to discover that its domination, like all speculative bubbles, was teetering on the verge of collapse.
Àâòîð: Alaranta, Toni Íàçâàíèå: National and state identity in turkey ISBN: 1442250747 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781442250741 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 18797.00 ð. Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Îïèñàíèå: This study uses the concepts of national and state identity to examine Turkey`s domestic and international politics and explain how the country`s position in the international system has changed over the last ten years. State identity is understood as the end result of a transformed national identity, linking both domestic and international levels.
Àâòîð: Critchlow, James Íàçâàíèå: Nationalism In Uzbekistan ISBN: 0813384036 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813384030 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Taylor&Francis Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 9492.00 ð. Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Àâòîð: Graubart, Karen B. (associate Professor Of History, Associate Professor Of History, University Of Notre Dame) Íàçâàíèå: Republics of difference ISBN: 0190233834 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190233839 Èçäàòåëüñòâî: Oxford Academ Ðåéòèíã: Öåíà: 10138.00 ð. Íàëè÷èå íà ñêëàäå: Åñòü ó ïîñòàâùèêà Ïîñòàâêà ïîä çàêàç.
Îïèñàíèå: Calm for your Soul: 365 Days of Spiritual Tranquillity is a collection of spiritual and inspiring writing providing hope and comfort for every single day of the year. Each page begins with a statement followed by an encouraging thought. Relevant scriptural passages are included for readers who desire a deeper time of reflection.
