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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern Worldby Jack Weatherford
Three Rivers Press 2005; US$ 11.99The name Genghis Khan often conjures the image of a relentless, bloodthirsty barbarian on horseback leading a ruthless band of nomadic warriors in the looting of the civilized world. But the surprising truth is that Genghis Khan was a visionary leader whose conquests joined backward Europe with the flourishing cultures of Asia to trigger a global awakening, an unprecedented explosion of technologies, trade, and ideas. In Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World , Jack Weatherford, the only Western scholar ever to be allowed into the Mongols’ “Great Taboo”—Genghis Khan’s homeland and forbidden burial site—tracks the astonishing story of Genghis Khan and his descendants, and their conquest and transformation... more...
A History of Modern Iranby Ervand Abrahamian
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00A radical reappraisal of Iran's modern history, tracing its traumatic journey across the twentieth century. more...
Is Australia an Asian Country?by Stephen FitzGerald
Allen & Unwin 1997; US$ 19.95The author shows what can be done to change Australia into a society which will hold an honoured place in the region: a small, independent nation contributing as an equal partner to a community of Asian nations. more...
Reconstruction and Regional Diplomacy in the Persian Gulfby Hooshang Amirahmadi; Nader Entessar
Routledge 1992; US$ 170.00The social, political and economic patterns of interaction between the Gulf states. The authors consider the role of the superpowers and of religion, and offer their own policy prescriptions. more...
Asian Nationalismby Michael Leifer
Routledge 2000; US$ 61.95This book features completely up-to-date analysis written by high profile contributors, and is invaluable for upper-level undergraduates and researchers in Asian Studies and Politics. more...
Persian Mirrorsby Elaine Sciolino
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 12.99No American reporter has more experience covering Iran or more access to the private corners of Iranian society than Elaine Sciolino. As a correspondent for Newsweek and The New York Times, she has reported on the key events of the past two decades. She was aboard the airplane that brought Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to Tehran in 1979; she was there for the Iranian revolution, the hostage crisis, the Iran-Iraq war, the rise of President Mohammad Khatami, and the riots of the summer of 1999. In Persian Mirrors, Sciolino takes us into the public and private spaces of Iran -- the bazaars, beauty salons, aerobics studios, courtrooms, universities, mosques, and the presidential palace -- to capture the vitality of a society so often misunderstood... more...
Armies of the Caliphsby Hugh Kennedy
Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95The first major study of the relationship between army and society in the early Islamic period, which reveals the pivotal role of the military in politics and offers a timely reassessment of the early Islamic State. more...
New Politics of Islamby Tahir Amin; Naveed S. Sheikh
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 44.95This timely study of Islam's international relations details both the theory of pan-Islamism from classical to post-caliphal times and the foreign-policy practice of Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan from the colonial period to the present day. more...
Changing Geography of Asiaby Graham P. Chapman; Kathleen M. Baker
Routledge 1992; US$ 65.95Clearly illustrated with basic maps, this book presents a systematic review of twenty-five years of development, covering the physical, economic, social and political environments of contemporary Asia. more...
After Khomeiniby Anoushiravan Ehteshami
Routledge 1995; US$ 63.95This is the first analytical study of post-Khomeini Iran to look at crucial policy changes since 1979. Ehteshami argues that Iran is not the threat portrayed by the west, but is capable of emerging as a major world power. more...









