Bücher veröffentlicht von Markus Wiener Publishing Inc

An account of the 1929 uprising in Kabul. During the occupation Fayz Muhammad, a Kabul resident and historian, kept a detailed journal, which forms the basis of this book. It covers the occupiers' extortion, confiscation, and the resulting hardships, as well as the actions of those who resisted.

In this essay, German-Israeli historian Dan Diner argues that the European consciousness uses America as a metaphor for the dark sides of modernism. He finds an especially aggressive variant of this negative judgement in Germany, the roots of which he traces back to the Romantic period.

From the ninth to the early 20th century, probably as many black Africans were forcibly taken across the Sahara, up the Nile valley, and across the Red Sea, as were transported across the Atlantic in a much shorter period. This work provides an introduction to this ""other"" slave trade.

Does Muslim law allow Muslims to live under the rule of non-Muslims. This book includes translations of some of the key Islamic voices on these issues from the fourteenth century to the present.

This work focuses on Chicago from 1892-1905, describing the forces that had remodelled America from the rural society of Lincoln's day. Here are the business leaders, labour organizers and politicians, and new immigrants, all exposing the follies of a generation lusting for material success.

This collection explores the effects of memories of African slavery on political, social, economic and religious behaviour today. The articles take a range of approaches, from tackling the stigma of slave origins to investigating religious communion with slave ancestors to mining songs and children's stories for insights into the persistent memory of the continent's slave past

A collection of first-hand reminiscences about the mid-20th-century migration from Puerto Rico to the US. The documentary importance of these testimonies is evident, particularly in their capturing of the actual voyage from Puerto Rico and arrival in New York, which dwell on the psychological and existential trauma of arrival and first impressions.

This work provides an annotated collection of documents related to the history of the Dominican Republic and its people. It features annotated documents on some of the transcendental events that have taken place on the island since pre-Columbian times.

Several civilizations have risen, flourished, and fallen in the valley of the Nile, each with its own religion, language, culture, institutions, and style of life. Yet beneath them all a basic unity persisted - the love of tales and the manner of telling them. This work covers such tales.

This collection examines the Taino revival movement, a grassroots conglomeration of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos who promote or have adopted the culture and pedigree of the pre-Columbian Taino Indian population of Puerto Rico and the western Caribbean.

A history of the Muslim world during the Mongol period. The author offers a bird's-eye view of both the Mongols and the countries with whom they came into contact and conflict, including the Great Mongol Empire, the Ilkhans in Persia, the Russian Domination, the Crimea, and more.

Gustavus Vassa was on the vanguard of the anti-slavery movement in England at the end of the eighteenth century. He provided a voice for people of African descent in the British Atlantic world. His Interesting Narrative has influenced countless works, both fiction and non-fiction.

An English translation of the risala, letters by the 10th-century traveler Ibn Fadlan, one of the great Medieval travelers. He journeyed from Baghdad to Bukhara in Central Asia and then continued across the desert to the town of Bulghar, near present Kazan. He describes the tribes he meets on his way and gives an account of their customs.

The decades after 1750 saw the Ottoman Empire undergo tremendous stresses that culminated in the first stirrings of nationalism among Christian subjects and an irrevocable commitment to reform by the Muslim state. This volume examines instances of problems affecting the Balkans and of state efforts to fix them.

A description of the arrival and experiences of the Chinese in the Caribbean, also exploring the ways in which the Chinese have adapted to and altered the region. It looks at the discrimination they suffered, their rise to economic success, and their contribution to art, cuisine and literature.

A history of the science of hydrology as applied to the Nile, whose annual flows can produce acute drought or disastrous floods. The author makes it clear that the decisive forces in his complex story are political ones, in a context of internal and international rivalries and brutal civil wars.

This work dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history. It claims that the national identity is mainly Mestizo with a significant contribution from Africa, and that Puerto Ricans must acknowledge that their culture is primarily Caribbean.

Frobenius' pivotal works on African culture represented a landmark in ethnography. Frobenius was credited with giving Black Africa back its soul and its identity in the early part of the last century. This title was originally published in Germany and edited by Eike Haverlund, the 1971 recipient of the Haile Selassie prize for Ethiopian studies.

In the 10th-century, Bukhara was a cultural center that rivaled Baghdad, and was known as ""the dome of learning in the East."" It was a dynamic metropolis, capital of the semi-independent dynasty that ruled Iran and Central Asia. This work presents insights into life in Eastern Iran and Central Asia during a period of change in the Islamic world.

Sufism is often overlooked when it comes to scholarly consideration of the politics of the Muslim world. This is partly due to the difficulty of defining Sufism, which is both spiritual outlook and social institution. This volume aims to consolidate thinking about the political dimension of Sufism across culture and history.

Examining instances of problems affecting the Balkans and of state efforts to fix them, this volume considers issues like law and justice, centralization and provincial autonomy, taxation and land disputes, and the stresses of war. It offers a clearer picture of the forces of change at work during this era of transition.

Iranian and Ottoman travelers to Japan in the late nineteenth century found a model to admire. This book explores the encounters between these two separate, but fatefully linked cultures and the ensuing reciprocal influences in developing ""Eastern modernity"" against a looming backdrop of Western imperial domination.

This work presents the development of humankind across cultures and economies in a global manner, from ancient times on, as a gigantic drama played out with the cradles of civilization as the stage. It also highlights the exploits of daring traders, missionaries and warriors.

The Ottoman Empire was a multi-ethnic, multi-religious state encompassing most of the modern Middle East and for much of its existence ruled its peoples effectively. This study explores the unknown terrain that falls between the internal life of the community and the formal structure of the state.

Brings together eleven essays on Islamic political thought by Bernard Lewis, a scholar in middle eastern studies. This title provides a treatment of fundamental Islamic political terms. It also provide the background that is essential to understanding Islamic civilization, and consequently, the troubled history of its relations with the West.

Providing an overview of the West Africa's history from medieval times to the twentieth century, this study traces the developments following colonialism; the effects of Arab nationalism on West African politics; the role of the Israelis in helping to develop new states; the politics of OPEC; and the rise of Islamic extremism.

A study of the relationship between past and present, and the relation between histories in different levels of generality. One after another Siegfried Kracauer examines various theories of history and exposes their strengths and weaknesses.