ilość książek w kategorii: 1430
Semitic Words in Egyptian Texts of the New Kingdom and Third Intermediate Period
ISBN: 9780691632025 / Angielski / Twarda / 596 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Semitic words and names appear in unprecedented numbers in texts of the New Kingdom, the period when the Egyptian empire extended into Syria-Palestine. In his book, James Hoch provides a comprehensive account of these words--their likely origins, their contexts, and their implications for the study of Egyptian and Semitic linguistics and Late-Bronze and Iron-Age culture in the eastern Mediterranean. Unlike previous word catalogs, this work consists of concise word studies and contains a wealth of linguistic, lexical, and cultural information. Hoch considers some five hundred Semitic... Semitic words and names appear in unprecedented numbers in texts of the New Kingdom, the period when the Egyptian empire extended into Syria-Palest... |
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1432,31 zł |
Lost Nationalism: Revolution, Memory and Anti-Colonial Resistance in Sudan
ISBN: 9781847011152 / Angielski / Twarda / 333 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1924 Revolution was a watershed in Sudanese history, the first episode of anti-colonial resistance in which a nationalist ideology was explicitly used, and part of a global wave of anti-colonial movements after the First World War that can be seen as the -spring of the colonial nations-. This detailed account of the uprising, and its eventual failure, explores the cosmopolitan nationalism embraced by the White Flag League, the movement that sparked the revolution, and its ability to attract people from diverse origins, classes and professions. It examines the international genesis of the...
The 1924 Revolution was a watershed in Sudanese history, the first episode of anti-colonial resistance in which a nationalist ideology was explicitly ...
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353,31 zł |
Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters: Exploring Egypt and the Near East in the Late 19th-Early 20th Centuries
ISBN: 9781472588807 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, growing numbers of tourists and scholars from Europe and America, fascinated by new discoveries, visited the Near East and Egypt - attracted by the riches and mysteries of the Land of the Bible. Almost all such visitors, no matter how esoteric or academic their pursuits, had to deal with the local authorities and the native workforce for their archaeological excavations. The vast majority of these visitors had to rely on interpreters, dragomans, translators and local guides. This study, based on published and unpublished travel memoirs,... In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, growing numbers of tourists and scholars from Europe and America, fascinated by new discoveries, visited... |
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136,23 zł |
State and Entrepreneurs in Egypt: Economic Development Since 1805
ISBN: 9781137567536 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The state and entrepreneurs are two players that have shaped both economic activity and economic history throughout the world since the Industrial Revolution. This book analyzes the history of economic development in Egypt to show the impact of the relationship between state and entrepreneurs on development performance since 1805.
The state and entrepreneurs are two players that have shaped both economic activity and economic history throughout the world since the Industrial Rev...
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194,08 zł |
Representing Mass Violence: Conflicting Responses to Human Rights Violations in Darfur
ISBN: 9780520281509 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. How do interventions by the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court influence representations of mass violence? What images arise instead from the humanitarianism and diplomacy fields? How are these competing perspectives communicated to the public via mass media? Zooming in on the case of Darfur, Joachim J. Savelsberg analyzes more than three thousand news reports and opinion pieces...
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's new open access publishing program for monographs. V...
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215,41 zł |
Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution
ISBN: 9781138929869 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *Written by the winners of the Inttranews Linguists of the Year award for 2016 * Discursive and non-discursive interventions in the political arena are heavily mediated by various acts of translation that enable protest movements to connect across the globe. Focusing on the Egyptian experience since 2011, this volume brings together a unique group of activists who are able to reflect on the complexities, challenges and limitations of one or more forms of translation and its impact on their ability to interact with a variety of domestic and global audiences. ...*Written by the winners of the Inttranews Linguists of the Year award for 2016 * Discursive and non-discursive interventions in th... |
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731,87 zł |
Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution
ISBN: 9781138929876 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. *Written by the winners of the Inttranews Linguists of the Year award for 2016 * Discursive and non-discursive interventions in the political arena are heavily mediated by various acts of translation that enable protest movements to connect across the globe. Focusing on the Egyptian experience since 2011, this volume brings together a unique group of activists who are able to reflect on the complexities, challenges and limitations of one or more forms of translation and its impact on their ability to interact with a variety of domestic and global audiences. ...*Written by the winners of the Inttranews Linguists of the Year award for 2016 * Discursive and non-discursive interventions in th... |
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216,98 zł |
Archaeologists, Tourists, Interpreters: Exploring Egypt and the Near East in the Late 19th-Early 20th Centuries
ISBN: 9781472588791 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, growing numbers of tourists and scholars from Europe and America, fascinated by new discoveries, visited the Near East and Egypt - attracted by the riches and mysteries of the Land of the Bible. Almost all such visitors, no matter how esoteric or academic their pursuits, had to deal with the local authorities and the native workforce for their archaeological excavations. The vast majority of these visitors had to rely on interpreters, dragomans, translators and local guides. This study, based on published and unpublished travel memoirs,... In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, growing numbers of tourists and scholars from Europe and America, fascinated by new discoveries, visited... |
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605,68 zł |
Bound by Conflict: Dilemmas of the Two Sudans
ISBN: 9780823270781 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its independence on January 1, 1956, Sudan has been at war with itself. Through the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 2005, the North--South dimension of the conflict was seemingly resolved by the Independence of the South on July 9, 2011. However, as a result of issues that were not resolved by the CPA, conflicts within the two countries have reignited conflict between them because of allegations of support for each other's rebels. In Bound by Conflict: Dilemmas of the Two Sudans, Francis M. Deng and Daniel J. Deng critique the tendency to see these conflicts as...
Since its independence on January 1, 1956, Sudan has been at war with itself. Through the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) of 2005, the North--Sout...
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105,95 zł |
Donovan Pasha and Some People of Egypt
ISBN: 9781515045021 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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44,82 zł |
Jews and Muslims: Images of Sephardi and Eastern Jewries in Modern Times
ISBN: 9780295997797 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Following the rise of Islam, many Jewish communities lived in predominantly Muslim lands. Muslim-Jewish co-existence was not seriously challenged until the modern period when European colonialism and the emergence of Zionism and Arab nationalism led to growing friction and conflict, resulting in the mass departures of Jews from these lands in the middle of the twentieth century. Jews and Muslims throws light on the history of these communities and on the developments that led to the snapping of ties between Jews and Muslims by focusing on the century before the end of... Following the rise of Islam, many Jewish communities lived in predominantly Muslim lands. Muslim-Jewish co-existence was not seriously challenged u... |
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474,45 zł |
Egyptian Revolutions: Conflict, Repetition and Identification
ISBN: 9781783481873 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual burdens of history. The revolutions of both 1952 and 2011 proclaimed that the oppressive, colonial past had been overthrown decisively. So why has the oppression perpetrated by previous regimes been repeated? What impact has this had on the lives of 'ordinary' citizens? Egyptian Revolutions looks at the impact of the current events in Egypt on citizens in relation to matters of belonging, identification and repetition. It contests the tendency within postcolonial theory to understand these events as resistance to Western...
The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual burdens of history. The revolutions of both 1952 and 2011 proclaimed that the oppressive...
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784,08 zł |
Egyptian Revolutions: Conflict, Repetition and Identification
ISBN: 9781783481880 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual burdens of history. The revolutions of both 1952 and 2011 proclaimed that the oppressive, colonial past had been overthrown decisively. So why has the oppression perpetrated by previous regimes been repeated? What impact has this had on the lives of ordinary citizens? Egyptian Revolutions looks at the impact of the current events in Egypt on citizens in relation to matters of belonging, identification and repetition. It contests the tendency within postcolonial theory to understand these events as resistance to Western imperialism...
The socio-political context of Egypt is full of the affectual burdens of history. The revolutions of both 1952 and 2011 proclaimed that the oppressive...
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239,63 zł |
Rewriting Narratives in Egyptian Theatre: Translation, Performance, Politics
ISBN: 9781138946446 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of Egyptian theatre and its narrative construction explores the ways representations of Egypt are created of and within theatrical means, from the 19th century to the present day. Essays address the narratives that structure theatrical, textual, and performative representations and the ways the rewriting process has varied in different contexts and at different times. Drawing on concepts from Theatre and Performance Studies, Translation Studies, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and Diaspora Studies, scholars and practitioners from Egypt and the West enter into dialogue... This study of Egyptian theatre and its narrative construction explores the ways representations of Egypt are created of and within theatrical means... |
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757,10 zł |
Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
ISBN: 9780804798044 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered in Tahrir Square to demand the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, workers had formed one of the largest oppositional movements to authoritarian rule in Egypt. In Tunisia, years prior to the 2011 Arab uprisings, the unemployed chanted in protest, "A job is a right, you pack of thieves " Despite this history, most observers have failed to acknowledge the importance of workers in the social ferment preceding the removal of Egyptian and Tunisian... Since the 1990s, the Middle East has experienced an upsurge of wildcat strikes, sit-ins, and workers' demonstrations. Well before people gathered i... |
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60,52 zł |
A Coptic Narrative in Egypt: A Biography of the Boutros Ghali Family
ISBN: 9781780769394 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unique history of an illustrious Egyptian family that charts the role they played in shaping modern Egypt.
Unique history of an illustrious Egyptian family that charts the role they played in shaping modern Egypt.
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302,84 zł |
Youth Activism in Egypt: Islamism, Political Protest and Revolution
ISBN: 9781780769219 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The protests that spread across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011 took media commentators, academics and the ruling classes of these countries by surprise.
The protests that spread across the Middle East and North Africa in late 2010 and early 2011 took media commentators, academics and the ruling classes...
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656,16 zł |
A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt
ISBN: 9781138975576 / Angielski / Miękka / 652 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book contains a wealth of archaeological information, as well as practical advice for those who plan to visit the sites described. The book's contents are arranged by location, and are illustrated with informative diagrams and maps.
This book contains a wealth of archaeological information, as well as practical advice for those who plan to visit the sites described. The book's con...
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151,37 zł |
War and Peace in Sudan: A Tale of Two Countries
ISBN: 9781138986893 / Angielski / Miękka / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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222,03 zł |
First Steps in Egyptian
ISBN: 9781138974326 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was written with the aim of helping the beginner to take his first steps in Egyptian. The test portion includes the writing and the grammar, short lists of signs, a vocabulary of the most common few hundred words, and a selection of important tests to practice on for the period that lies between B.C. 4200 and 200.
This book was written with the aim of helping the beginner to take his first steps in Egyptian. The test portion includes the writing and the grammar,...
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111,00 zł |