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“vincent crapanzano”

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  • Tuhami

    Portrait of a Moroccan

    by Vincent Crapanzano ...
    Tuhami is an illiterate Moroccan tilemaker who believes himself married to a camel-footed she-demon. A master of magic and a superb story-teller, Tuhami lives in a dank, windowless hovel near the kiln where he works. Nightly he suffers visitations from the demons and saints who haunt his life, and he seeks, with crippling ambivalence, liberation from 'A'isha Qandisha, the she-demon.In a sensitive ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Harkis

    The Wound That Never Heals

    by Vincent Crapanzano ...
    In this haunting chronicle of betrayal and abandonment, ostracism and exile, racism and humiliation, Vincent Crapanzano examines the story of the Harkis, the quarter of a million Algerian auxiliary troops who fought for the French in Algeria’s war of independence. After tens of thousands of Harkis were massacred by other Algerians at the end of the war, the survivors fled to France where they were ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Recapitulations

    A Memoir

    by Vincent Crapanzano ...
    A distinguished anthropologist tells his life story as a wistful novelist would, watching himself as if he were someone elseThis memoir recaptures meaningful moments from the author’s life: as hischildhood on the grounds of a psychiatric hospital, his psychiatrist father’s early death, his years at school in Switzerland and then at Harvard in the 1960s, his love affairs, his own teaching, and his ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The History of Ancient Egypt (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Pharaoh Dynasties, Pyramid Builders, Temples, Inscriptions, and Victorian Egyptology in the Nile Valley

    by George Rawlinson, Arthur Gilman, Elliot Ellinghurst ...
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  • Libya

    From Colony to Revolution

    by Ronald Bruce St John ...
    Since Qaddafi’s ousting in 2011, Libya has been beset by instability and conflict. To understand the tumultuous state of the country today, one must look to its past. With great clarity and precision, renowned regional expert Ronald Bruce St John examines Libya’s long struggle to establish its political and economic identity amidst the interference of external actors keen to exploit the country’s ... Read more

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  • The Life and Times of Akhnaton (Illustrated Edition)

    by Arthur Weigall ...
    Akhnaton (also known as Akhenaten) ruled as Pharoah of Egypt during the 18th Dynasty, from 1353 1336 B.C. During his reign, Akhnaton attempted to institute a monotheistic religion, the worship of Aten. This religion would dissipate after his death, as Egypt returned to its traditional polytheistic worship. He is also noteworthy because of his marriage to Queen Nefertiti. This edition contains ... Read more

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  • Slouching Towards Sirte

    NATO's War on Libya and Africa

    by Maximilian Forte ...
    NATO’s war in Libya was proclaimed as a humanitarian intervention—bombing in the name of “saving lives.” Attempts at diplomacy were stifled. Peace talks were subverted. Libya was barred from representing itself at the UN, where shadowy NGOs and “human rights” groups held full sway in propagating exaggerations, outright falsehoods, and racial fear mongering that served to sanction atrocities and ... Read more

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  • The Sahara

    A Cutural History

    by Eamonn Gearon ...
    Series Book 14 - Landscapes of the Imagination
    The Sahara is the quintessence of isolation, epitomizing both remoteness and severity of environment unlike any other place on the face of the earth. Replete with myths and fictions, it is a wild land, dotted with oases and camel trains trudging through sand dunes that roll like the waves on a sea, as far as the distant horizon. But this is just part of the picture. The largest desert in the world ... Read more

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  • Once a Hussar

    A Memoir of Battle, Capture, and Escape in World War II

    by Ray Ellis ...
    Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this well-written, candid, and perceptive memoir of the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago.As an impressionable teenager, filled with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of the ... Read more

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  • A History of Egypt from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest

    by James Henry Breasted ...
    James Henry Breasted (1865-1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago.In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to professor, and was the first chair in ... Read more

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  • Prevail

    The Inspiring Story of Ethiopia's Victory over Mussolini's Invasion, 1935-?1941

    by Jeff Pearce ...
    It was the war that changed everything, and yet it’s been mostly forgotten: in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. It dominated newspaper headlines and newsreels. It inspired mass marches in Harlem, a play on Broadway, and independence movements in Africa. As the British Navy sailed into the Mediterranean for a white-knuckle showdown with Italian ships, riots broke out in major cities all over the ... Read more

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