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  • Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam

    Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities

    de Jacob Lassner ...
    "One of the greatest authorities on medieval Islam" sheds "immensely stimulating" new light on cross-cultural relations in the Middle Ages ( Times Literary Supplement, UK).In Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam, historian Jacob Lassner examines the relationship between the three Abrahamic faiths that defined their political and cultural interaction during the Middle Ages—and continues to ... Leer más

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  • Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict

    Edición de Rachel S. Harris ...
    Pedagogical resource to help faculty prepare courses on the Arab-Israeli conflict in any discipline.The Arab-Israeli conflict has become a touchstone of international politics and a flash point on college campuses. And yet, how do faculty teach such a contentious topic in class? Taught not only in international relations, peace and conflict resolution, politics and history, and Israel and Middle ... Leer más

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  • Middle Eastern Politics and Historical Memory

    Martyrdom, Revolution, and Forging National Identities

    How is the complex history of the ancient Near East and Islamic World brought to bear in contemporary political discourse?In this book, Medieval Near Eastern historian Jacob Lassner explores the resonance of ancient and medieval history in the political disputes that dominate the contemporary Middle East.From identification with ancient forbears as a method of legitimization and nation-building, ... Leer más

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  • Medieval Jerusalem

    Forging an Islamic City in Spaces Sacred to Christians and Jews

    de Jacob Lassner ...
    Medieval Jerusalem examines an old question that has recently surfaced and given rise to spirited discussion among Islamic historians and archeologists: what role did a city revered for its holiness play in the unfolding politics of the early Islamic period? Was there an historic moment when the city, holy to Jews, Christians, and Muslims, may have been considered as the administrative center of a ... Leer más

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  • Jews and Muslims in the Arab World

    Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined

    Jews and Muslims in the Arab World highlights the effects of historical memory on the Arab-Israel conflict, demonstrating that both Jews and Arabs use stories of distant pasts to create their identities and shape their politics. Whether real or imagined, the past filtered through their collective memories has had and will continue to have enormous influence on how Jews and Arabs perceive ... Leer más

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    Napoleon's Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It

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  • Hot Protestants

    A History of Puritanism in England and America

    "The rise and fall of transatlantic puritanism is told through political, theological, and personal conflict in this exceptional history." ( Publishers Weekly, starred review)Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's church and society while saving their own souls, the puritan movement was a major catalyst in the great cultural changes that ... Leer más

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  • The Russian Civil War, 1918–1921

    An Operational-Strategic Sketch of the Red Army's Combat Operations

    "A wealth of knowledge . . . For every incident, chasing Kornilov or dealing with Admiral Kolchak, the reader has a 360-degree view." — Roads to the Great WarThe Russian Civil War was one of the most fateful of the 20th century's military conflicts, a bloody three-year struggle whose outcome saw the establishment of a totalitarian communist regime within the former Russian Empire. As such, it ... Leer más

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  • The History of Jerusalem

    Its Origins to the Early Middle Ages

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    Teachable Moments for an Ill-Used Past

    Series series Fordham Series in Medieval Studies
    "An ethical and accessible introduction to a historical period often implicated in racist narratives of nationalism and imperialism." —Sierra Lomuto, Assistant Professor of Global Medieval Literature, Rowan UniversityA collection of twenty-two essays, Whose Middle Ages? gives nonspecialists access to the richness of our historical knowledge while debunking damaging misconceptions about the ... Leer más

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