Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 261 p. — ISBN 0521790247. This is a radically revised and updated edition of The African Middle Ages 1400-1800 (first published in 1981), a companion volume to the authors’ well-known Africa since 1800 (now in its fourth edition). Although this volume follows the overall plan of the original, the story now begins 150 years earlier, and takes...
Editor Joseph Ki-Zerbo. — Heinemann Publishers; UNESCO; University of California Press, 1981. — 848 p. — ISBN: 0435948075. Volume I of this acclaimed series is now available in an abridged paperback edition. The result of years of work by scholars from all over the world, The UNESCO General History of Africa reflects how the different peoples of Africa view their civilizations...
Fortress Academic, 2023. — 348 p. Although, according to the Christian Gospels, three men were crucified ca. 30 CE outside Jerusalem under the prefect Pontius Pilate, both popular wisdom and mainstream scholarship focus solely on the fate of a single man. The story is indeed told, once and again, as if only Jesus of Nazareth had been the target of Roman repression, as if only...
М.: Институт Ближнего Востока, 2024. — 410 с. — ISBN 978-5-89394-347-1 "Армия в Иордании традиционно является символом нации и суверенитета государства и фактически играет нациообразующую роль, консолидируя вокруг себя общество. В стране говорят: «Король получает свою легитимность от Пророка, свою власть от своей армии и свое выживание от Вашингтона». Считается, что формула...
Москва: Алгоритм, 2016. — 304 с. — (Величайшие цивилизации мира). — ISBN 978-5-906880-00-0. Великое государство, созданное Османом I, - заклятый сосед России. В XVII веке турки захватили территории к западу от Днепра и стали основным противником Российской империи на два последующих столетия. Турецкие войска нанесли поражения и Венецианской республике, и Венгрии, и Чехии, и...
Москва: Алгоритм, 2016. — 304 с. — (Величайшие цивилизации мира). — ISBN 978-5-906880-00-0. Великое государство, созданное Османом I, - заклятый сосед России. В XVII веке турки захватили территории к западу от Днепра и стали основным противником Российской империи на два последующих столетия. Турецкие войска нанесли поражения и Венецианской республике, и Венгрии, и Чехии, и...
Longman, 1982. — 79 p. — ISBN 978-0582603318. African History in Maps Features of the book: over 36 individual, 2 colour maps. Each map is accompanied by a facing page of concise explanatory text. The maps have been carefully selected to provide a comprehensive and accurate coverage of all the major themes in African history from AD 1000 to the present day. Maps and texts are...
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1974. — VII, 177 p. — (Bibliotheca Indonesica 9). Life is stranger than fiction. Considerably so. Judge from this: The Javanese develop a feeling towards their afterbirth, wbich is not thrown away at birth in the heathenish Western way, but which gets a decent burial and has the name: ari-ari, younger brother (- sister) . I know of a Javanese...
The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1968. — XIII, 651 p. — (Bibliotheca Indonesica 1). Text and translation of a hitherto unpublished chronicle of the most important Malay colony in Borneo. Hikayat Bandjar is a highly valuable body of material for the study of Indonesian cultural history. The author gives a textual and philological analysis of its contents. In the introduction he...
Routledge, 2024. — 412 p., 4 b/w ill. — ISBN 978-1032246543. This handbook presents an authoritative overview of South Asia through the lens of geopolitics, political dynamics, economics, human security, and sustainable development. It brings together key insights from various disciplines to provide an in-depth understanding of the genesis, course, and future potential of South...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 2024. — 614 p., 11 B/W Ill. — ISBN 978-1032244082. This revised and updated new edition of the Routledge Handbook of Contemporary India concentrates on India as it emerged after the economic reforms and the new economic policy of the 1980s and 1990s and as it develops in the twenty-first century. It presents new developments and advancements in the...