₨ 3,785
ISBN: 1850652112
Publisher: C HURST
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Author: ROBERT J. DONIA
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| Weight | 0.42 kg |
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| ISBN | 1850652112 |
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| Publication Date | 1994 |
| Pages | 318 |
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The story of the fall of the Ottoman Empire, published to coincide with the centenary of its dissolution The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. By 1914 it had been much reduced, but still remained after Russia the largest European state. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a religious one, with the Sultan ruling over the Holy Sites and, as Caliph, the successor to Mohammed. Yet the Empire s fateful decision to support Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1914, despite its successfully defending itself for much of the war, doomed it to disaster, breaking it up into a series of European colonies and what emerged as an independent Saudi Arabia. Ryan Gingeras s superb new book, published for the centenary of the last Sultan s departure into exile, explains how these epochal events came about and shows how much we still live in the shadow of decisions taken so long ago. Would all of the Empire fall to marauding Allied armies, or could something be saved? In such an ethnically and religiously entangled region, what would be the price paid to create a cohesive and independent new state? The story of the creation of modern Turkey is an extraordinary, bitter epic, brilliantly told here.
Author: Ryan Gingeras
ISBN: 9780241444320
ISBN: 9780241444320
Publisher: ALLEN LANE
Subtitle:
Author: RYAN GINGERAS
“Chitral State: A Legal History is a work of scholarship. The topics that it treats cover a wide canvas. It takes the story essentially up to the time that Chitral’s accession to the newly established Pakistan was formally accepted in early 1948, although, at least in form, princely rule was to last another two decades until 1969 when it came to an end. The book is well-researched, immensely readable, and draws on an extensive variety of sources (all meticulously referenced). As a member of the former princely family, born and brought up and still living in his ancestral home in Lower Chitral, the author is especially well-positioned to tell the story which unfolds in the pages of this book. The author’s reflections of the nature of society, both as an abstract legal concept and as it developed in early Chitral and on issues of paramountcy, draw heavily on his grounding in legal theory. This is above all a book to dip into and enjoy. Its appeal should be as much to the historian as to the lawyer. It is clearly a labour of love. It is partly an evocation of times past. It is also partly a desire to inform those, curious to know something of what it was that animated such an extraordinary part of the world, about a polity that no longer exists but has left many marks on contemporary Chitral.”
— Sir William Blackburne —
ISBN: 9789694026855
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
Subtitle: A LEGAL HISTORY
Author: BARRISTER ASAD-UL-MULK
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History 2007 Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was a mystic, a talented poet, and a skilled calligrapher, who, though deprived of real political power by the East India Company, succeeded in creating a court of great brilliance, and presided over one of the great cultural renaissances of Indian history. In 1857 it was Zafar’s blessing to a rebellion among the Company’s own Indian troops that transformed an army mutiny into the largest uprising the British Empire ever had to face. The Last Mughal is a portrait of the dazzling Delhi Zafar personified, and the story of the last days of the great Mughal capital and its final destruction in the catastrophe of 1857. Shaped from groundbreaking material, William Dalrymple’s powerful retelling of this fateful course of events is an extraordinary revisionist work with clear contemporary echoes. It is the first account to present the Indian perspective on the siege, and has at its heart the stories of the forgotten individuals tragically caught up in one of the bloodiest upheavals in history.
ISBN: 9780143102434
AUTHOR: WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
ISBN: 9780143102434
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS
Subtitle: THE FALL OF DELHI, 1857
Author: WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
A wonderful addition to a number of books that can be found on Lahore, this volume uses numerous photographs and illustrations to show the changes that Lahore has gone through over the years. The book shall be an important addition to anyone s collection on Lahore as it tells the story not just textually but also visually.
ISBN: 9789693514537
Publisher: SANG-E-MEEL PUBLICATION
Subtitle: AN ALBUM
Author: F.S. AIJAZUDDIN
ISBN: 0297829831
Publisher: WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON
Subtitle: THE SEEDING OF INDIAN CIVILISATION
Author: ABRAHAM ERALY
The key to understanding the Arab world today is unlocking its past. In this authoritative account, John McHugo takes the reader through the political, social and intellectual history of the Arabs from the Roman Empire right up to the present day. Going beyond the headlines, he describes in vivid detail a series of key turning points in Arab history from the mission of the Prophet Muhammad and the expansion of Islam to the region’s interaction with Western ideas and the rise of Islamism. Now fully updated to cover the tumultuous years since the Arab Spring, this lucidly told history reveals how the Arab world came to have its present form and illuminates the choices that lie ahead.
ISBN: 9780804850056
Publisher: TUTTLE PUBLISHER
Subtitle: DYNASTY, REVOLUTION AND TRANSFORMATION: FROM THE MIDDLE KINGDOM TO THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC
Author: JONATHAN CLEMENTS