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A Fort of Nine Towers
Pan Macmillan UK 2013; US$ 19.93Qais Akbar Omar is 29 years old. His young life coincided with one of the most convulsive decades in Afghan history: civil war, the rise of the Taliban, and the arrival of international troops in 2001. A Fort of Nine Towers ? named for the place his parents first sought shelter from war ? is the story of Qais' family and their remarkable survival.... more...
Shinohata
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 19.99Not many foreigners have the chance to live in a Japanese village, certainly not foreigners who are sufficiently at home to do so as unobtrusively and intimately as the author of this book. Ronald Dore went to Shinohata twenty years ago when he was studying the land reform which broke the power of Japan's landlords. He went back many times thereafter... more...
Writing History at the Ottoman Court
Indiana University Press 2013; US$ 21.99Ottoman historical writing of the 15th and 16th centuries played a significant role in fashioning Ottoman identity and institutionalizing the dynastic state structure during this period of rapid imperial expansion. This volume shows how the writing of history achieved these effects by examining the implicit messages conveyed by the texts and illustrations... more...
ASEAN's Diplomatic and Security Culture
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95Member states of ASEAN - the Association of South-East Asian Nations - have developed a distinctive approach to political and security co-operation, which builds on the principles of sovereign equality, non-intervention and non-interference, quiet diplomacy, mutual respect, and the principle of not involving ASEAN in mediating bilateral disputes among... more...
The Chiefs' Country
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 17.99In this autobiographical account of life in Honiara, capital of Solomon Islands, Michael Kwa?ioloa reflects on the challenges of raising a family in town, managing marriage exchanges, and sustaining ties with a distant rural homeland in Malaita island. He also participates in a long tradition of political activism by community leaders or chiefs, whose... more...
God's Gentlemen
University of Queensland Press 2013; US$ 17.99David Hilliard?s God?s Gentlemen, originally published in 1978, remains the only detached and detailed historical analysis of the work of the Melanesian Mission. Starting with its New Zealand beginnings and its Norfolk Island years (1867?1920), the work follows the Mission?s shift of headquarters to the Solomon Islands and on until the beginning of... more...
Autonomy and Ethnic Conflict in South and South-East Asia
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00This book uses empirical evidence from various case studies to examine the relationship between territorial and regional autonomy, the nation-state and ethnic conflict resolution in South and South-East Asia. The concept of territorial or regional autonomy holds centre stage in the literature on ethnic conflict settlement because it is supposed... more...
Iranian Languages
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 79.95The Iranian languages form the major eastern branch of the Indo-European group of languages, itself part of the larger Indo-Iranian family. Estimated to have between 150 and 200 million native speakers, the Iranian languages constitute one of the world?s major language families. This comprehensive volume offers a detailed overview of the principle... more...
Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans
I.B.Tauris 2007; US$ 84.00The loss of the Balkans was not merely a physical but also a psychological disaster for the Ottoman Empire. In this frank assessment, Ebru Boyar charts the creation of modern Turkish self-perception during the transition period from the late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. The Balkans played a key role in identity construction during this period;... more...
Diversity and Pluralism in Islam
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 45.00For more than fourteen hundred years Muslims have held multiple and diverging views about their religious tradition. This divergence encompasses such matters as authority; ritual practice; political power; law and governance; civic life; and the form and content of individual and communal expressions of their faith. Over the centuries Muslims have... more...









