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Author : Daniel Allen Butler
Release : 2011-09
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 96X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shadow of the Sultan's Realm by : Daniel Allen Butler
Download or read book Shadow of the Sultan's Realm written by Daniel Allen Butler. This book was released on 2011-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the modern Middle East from the ashes of the Ottoman Empire
Author : Christiane Bird
Release : 2010
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 402/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Sultan's Shadow by : Christiane Bird
Download or read book The Sultan's Shadow written by Christiane Bird. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic account of the slave trade in the early 19th century Indian Ocean is presented through the stories of the Omani Sultan Said and his daughter, Princess Salme, offering insight into the Arabian Peninsula kingdom's lucrative growth and ties to America.
Author : Timothy C. Winegard
Release : 2016-10-27
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 71X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The First World Oil War by : Timothy C. Winegard
Download or read book The First World Oil War written by Timothy C. Winegard. This book was released on 2016-10-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil is the source of wealth and economic opportunity. Oil is also the root source of global conflict, toxicity and economic disparity. When did oil become such a powerful commodity—during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the First World War. In his groundbreaking book The First World Oil War, Timothy C. Winegard argues that beginning with the First World War, oil became the preeminent commodity to safeguard national security and promote domestic prosperity. For the first time in history, territory was specifically conquered to possess oil fields and resources; vital cogs in the continuation of the industrialized warfare of the Twentieth Century. This original and pioneering study analyzes the evolution of oil as a catalyst for both war and diplomacy, and connects the events of the First World War to contemporary petroleum geo-politics and international aggression.
Author : Alan Mikhail
Release : 2020-08-18
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 403/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World by : Alan Mikhail
Download or read book God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World written by Alan Mikhail. This book was released on 2020-08-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “arresting” (New York Times Book Review) revisionist history demonstrating how Islam and the Ottoman Empire made our modern world. The history of the Ottoman Empire—once the most powerful state on earth, ruling over more territory and people than any other world power—has for centuries been distorted, misrepresented, and suppressed in the West. With this “original and wide-ranging” (Wall Street Journal) global history, Alan Mikhail vitally recasts the Ottoman conquest of the world through the dramatic biography of Sultan Selim I (1470–1520). Drawing on previously unexamined sources, and upending prevailing shibboleths about Islamic history and jingoistic “rise of the West” theories, Mikhail’s game-changing account radically transforms our understanding of the importance of Selim’s Ottoman Empire in the annals of the modern world.
Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Release : 2019-08-27
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 533/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Middle East Conflicts from Ancient Egypt to the 21st Century [4 volumes] by : Spencer C. Tucker
Download or read book Middle East Conflicts from Ancient Egypt to the 21st Century [4 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker. This book was released on 2019-08-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 1,100 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of conflict in the Middle East, this definitive scholarly reference provides readers with a substantial foundation for understanding contemporary history in the most volatile region in the world. This authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia covers all the key wars, insurgencies, and battles that have occurred in the Middle East roughly between 3100 BCE and the early decades of the twenty-first century. It also discusses the evolution of military technology and the development and transformation of military tactics and strategy from the ancient world to the present. In addition to the hundreds of entries on major conflicts, military engagements, and diplomatic developments, the book also features entries on key military, political, and religious leaders. Essays on the major empires and nations of the region are included, as are overview essays on the major periods under consideration. The book additionally covers such non-military subjects as diplomacy, national and international politics, religion and sectarian conflict, cultural phenomena, genocide, international peacekeeping missions, social movements, and the rise to prominence of international terrorism. The reference entries are augmented by a carefully curated documents volume that offers primary sources on such diverse topics as the Greco-Persian Wars, the Crusades, and the Arab-Israeli Wars.
