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Lebanon

A Country in Fragments

By: Andrew Arsan

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Lebanon

A Country in Fragments

By: Andrew Arsan

A reflective examination of everyday life in Lebanon in times of precarity and political torpor.

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Lebanon

A Country in Fragments

By: Andrew Arsan

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Lebanon seems a country in the grip of permanent crisis. In recent years it has suffered blow after blow, from Rafiq Hariri's assassination in 2005, to the 2006 July War, to the current Syrian conflict, which has brought a million refugees streaming into the country. This is an account not just of Lebanon's high politics, with its endless rows, walk-outs, machinations and foreign alliances, but also of the politics of everyday life: all the stresses and strains the country's inhabitants face, from electricity black-outs and uncollected rubbish to stagnating wages and property bubbles. Andrew Arsan moves between parliament and the public squares where protesters gather, between luxury high-rises and refugee camps, and between expensive nightclubs and seafront promenades, providing a comprehensive view of Lebanon in the twenty-first century. Where others have treated Lebanon's woes as exceptional, a by-product of its sectarianism and particular vulnerability to regional crises, Arsan argues that there is nothing particular about Lebanon's predicament. Rather, it is a country of the age--one of neoliberal economics, populist fervor, forced displacement, rising xenophobia, and public disillusion. Lebanon, in short, offers us a lens through which to look on our times.

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Oxford University Press

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1787381080

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Interlopers of Empire

The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa

By: Andrew Arsan

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Interlopers of Empire

The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa

By: Andrew Arsan

This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others have concentrated on the commercial activities of these migrants, casting them as archetypal middlemen, this work reconstructs not just their economic strategies, but also their social and political lives. Moreover, it examines the fraught responses of colonial Frenchmen to the unsettling presence of these interlopers of empire--responses which, with their echoes of metropolitan racism, helped to shape the ways in which Lebanese migrants represented themselves and justified their place in West Africa. This is a work which attempts not just to reshape broader understandings of diasporic life-of Janus-like existences lived in transit between distant locales, and de- pendent on the constant to-and-fro of people, news, and goods--but also to challenge the way we think about empires, and the relations between their constituent territories and diverse inhabitants.

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Oxford University Press

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0190257458

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The History of French Literature on Film

By: Kate Griffiths,Andrew Watts

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The History of French Literature on Film

By: Kate Griffiths,Andrew Watts

French novels, plays, poems and short stories, however temporally or culturally distant from us, continue to be incarnated and reincarnated on cinema screens across the world. From the silent films of Georges Méliès to the Hollywood production of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary directed by Sophie Barthes, The History of French Literature on Film explores the key films, directors, and movements that have shaped the adaptation of works by French authors since the end of the 19th century. Across six chapters, Griffiths and Watts examine the factors that have driven this vibrant adaptive industry, as filmmakers have turned to literature in search of commercial profits, cultural legitimacy, and stories rich in dramatic potential. The volume also explains how the work of theorists from a variety of disciplines (literary theory, translation theory, adaptation theory), can help to deepen both our understanding and our appreciation of literary adaptation as a creative practice. Finally, this volume seeks to make clear that adaptation is never a simple transcription of an earlier literary work. It is always simultaneously an adaptation of the society and era for which it is created. Adaptations of French literature are thus not only valuable artistic artefacts in their own right, so too are they important historical documents which testify to the values and tastes of their own time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501311816

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9781501311819

Facing the Victorious Turks

How the French Misread the Turkish War of Independence

By: Andrew Orr

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Facing the Victorious Turks

How the French Misread the Turkish War of Independence

By: Andrew Orr

At the end of World War I, parts of the defeated Ottoman Empire were seized and partitioned by the Allied Powers. In response, the newly formed Turkish National Movement waged a military campaign to win Turkey’s independence, eventually leading to the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923. In Facing the Victorious Turks, Andrew Orr argues that French military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials’ Orientalism and racism led them to misinterpret the Turkish War of Independence by placing Europeans at the center of their analysis of the Middle East. French observers’ flawed understanding of Muslims and Islam fed conspiracy theories that distorted their understanding of Germany, the emerging Soviet Union, Middle Eastern politics, and colonialism. It allowed them to perceive and report the danger of Middle East–wide revolts without questioning whether it was European rule itself that was causing the political turmoil. French military leaders were thus able to escape the sort of self-reflection that might have exposed the exploitative nature of colonialism and pushed them to question the moral and strategic justifications for colonial rule. Orr’s study draws on French and British military, diplomatic, and intelligence documents, published Turkish sources, journalistic accounts, and combatants’ and aid workers’ journals. It also takes advantage of US intelligence and diplomatic papers that included correspondence with French military and diplomatic officials in Constantinople. Facing the Victorious Turks is valuable reading for anyone interested in nationalism and imperialism, intelligence studies, French involvement in the Middle East, and modern Turkish history.

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University Press of Kansas

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070063777X

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9780700637775

Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey

Progress or Order?

By: Taha Parla,Andrew Davison

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Corporatist Ideology in Kemalist Turkey

Progress or Order?

By: Taha Parla,Andrew Davison

This book provides an informed analysis of the ideological content of Kemalismthe name given to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk's party's political thought and practiceand the persistently official and semi-official, hegemonic ideology of the Turkish Republic, formally founded in 1923. Through a textual and contextual analysis of Kemalism in Atatürk's speeches and the official documents of the ruling Republican People's Party, Taha Parla and Andrew Davison offer fresh interpretations of the political, economic, social, and cultural goals of the Kemalist version of Turkish nationalism. They also provide an astute analysis of the power and authority that Atatürk and his colleagues believed were necessary to achieve their implementation, and of the institutions created in that process. Kemalism as a democratizing and secularizing framework for modern governance is debated by illuminating Kemalism's emphatic and self-conscious, corporatist ideological core. The authors show how Kemalism's conceptions of society, national identity, the relationship between the state and Islam, and other fundamental political dynamics require a rethinking of its democratic, secular, and modernist reputation, and its prospects for, and barriers to, a more democratic Turkey within the Kemalist legacy.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815630549

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Bones of Contention

Muslim Shrines in Palestine

By: Andrew Petersen

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Bones of Contention

Muslim Shrines in Palestine

By: Andrew Petersen

This pivot sets Muslim shrines within the wider context of Heritage Studies in the Muslim world and considers their role in the articulation of sacred landscapes, their function as sites of cultural memory and their links to different religious traditions. Reviewing the historiography of Muslim shrines paying attention to the different ways these places have been studied, through anthropology, archaeology, history, and religious studies, the text discusses the historical and archaeological evidence for the development of shrines in the region from pre-Islamic times up to the present day. It also assesses the significance of Muslim shrines in the modern Middle East, focusing on the diverse range of opinions and treatments from veneration to destruction, and argues that shrines have a unique social function as a means of direct contact with the past in a region where changing political configurations have often distorted conventional historical narratives.

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Springer

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9811069654

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9789811069659

The Caliphate of Man

Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought

By: Andrew F. March

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The Caliphate of Man

Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought

By: Andrew F. March

A political theorist teases out the century-old ideological transformation at the heart of contemporary discourse in Muslim nations undergoing political change. The Arab Spring precipitated a crisis in political Islam. In Egypt Islamists have been crushed. In Turkey they have descended into authoritarianism. In Tunisia they govern but without the label of “political Islam.” Andrew March explores how, before this crisis, Islamists developed a unique theory of popular sovereignty, one that promised to determine the future of democracy in the Middle East. This began with the claim of divine sovereignty, the demand to restore the sharīʿa in modern societies. But prominent theorists of political Islam also advanced another principle, the Quranic notion that God’s authority on earth rests not with sultans or with scholars’ interpretation of written law but with the entirety of the Muslim people, the umma. Drawing on this argument, utopian theorists such as Abū’l-Aʿlā Mawdūdī and Sayyid Quṭb released into the intellectual bloodstream the doctrine of the caliphate of man: while God is sovereign, He has appointed the multitude of believers as His vicegerent. The Caliphate of Man argues that the doctrine of the universal human caliphate underpins a specific democratic theory, a kind of Islamic republic of virtue in which the people have authority over the government and religious leaders. But is this an ideal regime destined to survive only as theory?

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Harvard University Press

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0674242742

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Interlopers of Empire

The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa

By: Andrew Arsan

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Interlopers of Empire

The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa

By: Andrew Arsan

This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse covering present-day Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. While others have concentrated on these migrants' role in the colonial economy, this work reconstructs not just their commercial undertakings and strategies, but also their everyday practices, understandings of place and kin, and political thoughts and sentiments. In doing so, it makes the case for a new understanding of diasporic life

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0199388202

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The Works of the Reverend and Pious Andrew Gray

By: Andrew Gray

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The Works of the Reverend and Pious Andrew Gray

By: Andrew Gray

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Sagwan Press

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1340531933

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9781340531935

A Year with Andrew White

52 Weekly Meditations

By: Andrew White

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A Year with Andrew White

52 Weekly Meditations

By: Andrew White

52 readings, each with a scripture passage and prayer, from one of our most loved and respected Christian leaders and speakers. Each reading contains a story, often startling and arresting, from Andrew’s astonishingly eventful ministry, blended with his reflections on life and faith.

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SPCK

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0281079498

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9780281079490

Autobiography of Andrew George Salzer

An American Life

By: Andrew George Salzer

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Autobiography of Andrew George Salzer

An American Life

By: Andrew George Salzer

Andrew Salzer spent his early years on farms all across central Minnesota--from near Watkins to Cold Spring. After high school he enlisted in the Air Force, made it into a career, served in Vietnam, and moved his family to his assignments, eventually settling in Colorado. Besides raising eight children of their own, Andrew and his wife became foster parents for thirty-three handicapped children. A long life and a long retirement have left time for return visits to his Minnesota roots and his passion for polka dancing.

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0977723550

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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White

By: Andrew Dickson White,Perfect Library

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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White

By: Andrew Dickson White,Perfect Library

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II", by Andrew Dickson White. Andrew Dickson White was a diplomat, historian and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University (1832-1918).

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CreateSpace

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1507804768

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Death of an Era

Memoirs of Andrew E. Long

By: Andrew E. Long

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Death of an Era

Memoirs of Andrew E. Long

By: Andrew E. Long

His life, from humble beginnings as an Oklahoma farmboy to a multi-millionaire real estate developer.

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Balboa Press

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1504382625

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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White

By: Andrew Dickson White

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Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White

By: Andrew Dickson White

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Palala Press

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1378004744

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Perspectives on Armenian Prospects

Challenges and Opportunities

By: Z.S. Andrew Demirdjian, Ph.D.

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Perspectives on Armenian Prospects

Challenges and Opportunities

By: Z.S. Andrew Demirdjian, Ph.D.

The young Republic of Armenia is transitioning from adolescence into maturity. The country's growing pains are many, but manageable due toour committed government officials and the ever helpful hand of the vast Armenian Diaspora. As always, the Diaspora has been the shock absorbers of Armenia and Artsakh. Unfortunately, all are experiencing the loss of population through either debilitating immigration from Armenia or through the irreversible trend of assimilation in the Diaspora. Perspectives on Armenian Prospects treats both subjects in depth. Additionally, the book tackles other important problems and prospects such as the unity of the Armenians, the Genocide, the economy, the looming conflict with Azerbaijan, and ways to improve the twin republics to mention a few. This book is full of energy, enthusiasm and innovative ideas and practical strategies tosuggest ways to strengthenArmenia and Artsakh in the face of being landlocked and blockaded. See also the other books by Z.S. Andrew Demirdjian, Ph.D.: Challenges and Opportunities in Exponential Times The Viability of a Worldwide Armenian Organization: Questing for Western Armenia and Cilicia The Triangle of Trade: In the Cradle of Civilization Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World: Insights, Innovations, and Trends The Demon in Diplomacy: Alliances Based on Affinity

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Xlibris Corporation

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1493159623

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The Woman Beyond the Attic

The V.C. Andrews Story

By: Andrew Neiderman

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The Woman Beyond the Attic

The V.C. Andrews Story

By: Andrew Neiderman

“The woman who emerges from these pages is as riveting as her books” (The Wall Street Journal) in this compelling celebration of the famously private V.C. Andrews—featuring family photos, personal letters, a partial manuscript for an unpublished novel, and more. Best known for her internationally, multi-million-copy bestselling novel Flowers in the Attic, Cleo Virginia Andrews lived a fascinating life. Born to modest means, she came of age in the American South during the Great Depression and faced a series of increasingly challenging health issues. Yet, once she rose to international literary fame, she prided herself on her intense privacy. Now, The Woman Beyond the Attic aims to connect her personal life with the public novels for which she was famous. Based on Virginia’s own letters, and interviews with her dearest family members, her long-term ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman tells Virginia’s full story for the first time. Perfect for anyone hoping to learn more about the enigmatic woman behind one of the most important novels of the 20th century, The Woman Beyond the Attic will have you “transfixed” (Publishers Weekly) from the first page.

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Simon and Schuster

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1982182636

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9781982182632

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