Swimming Up the Tigris

Swimming Up the Tigris
Author: Barbara Nimri Aziz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780813031446

"Aziz's vantage point is unique: she is a journalist, an anthropologist, and an Arab woman. As a freelance journalist, she exposes the mainstream press's failure to cover the embargo and offers insights into the embargo history. As a social anthropologist, Aziz examines every aspect of Iraqi culture that was systematically attacked and destroyed by both the embargo and the invasion. And as an Arab, she understands the extraordinary will of the Iraqi people and their deep-seated love for their country."--BOOK JACKET.

Baghdad

Baghdad
Author: Justin Marozzi
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 0141948043

In Baghdad: City of Peace, City of Blood, celebrated young travelwriter-historian Justin Marozzi gives us a many-layered history of one of the world's truly great cities - both its spectacular golden ages and its terrible disasters 'Justin Marozzi is the most brilliant of the new generation of travelwriter-historians' - Sunday Telegraph Over thirteen centuries, Baghdad has enjoyed both cultural and commercial pre-eminence, boasting artistic and intellectual sophistication and an economy once the envy of the world. It was here, in the time of the Caliphs, that the Thousand and One Nights were set. Yet it has also been a city of great hardships, beset by epidemics, famines, floods, and numerous foreign invasions which have brought terrible bloodshed. This is the history of its storytellers and its tyrants, of its philosophers and conquerors. Here, in the first new history of Baghdad in nearly 80 years, Justin Marozzi brings to life the whole tumultuous history of what was once the greatest capital on earth. Justin Marozzi is a Councillor of the Royal Geographic Society and a Senior Research Fellow at Buckingham University. He has broadcast for BBC Radio Four, and regularly contributes to a wide range of publications, including the Financial Times, for which he has worked in Iraq, Afghanistan and Darfur. His previous books include the bestselling Tamerlane: Sword of Islam, a Sunday Telegraph Book of the Year (2004), and The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus.

Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages

Eastern Trade and the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages
Author: Thomas Sinclair
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000752674

At the end of the High Middle Ages in Europe, with buying power and economic sophistication at a high, an itinerary detailing the toll stations along a commercial artery carrying eastern goods (from China, India and Iran) towards Europe was compiled, and later incorporated in the well-known trading manual of the Florentine bank official Pegolotti; Pegolotti was twice stationed in the city of Famagusta in Cyprus, which lay opposite the city of Ayas where the land route ended. The Il-Khanid capital, Tabriz in Iran, attracting expensive merchandise such as spices and silk from a variety of origins, was the road’s starting-point. To demonstrate the importance of the route in its own time, parallel and contemporary routes in the Black Sea and the Levant are traced and the effect of trade on their cities noted. To compare the Ayas itinerary (1250s to 1330s) with previous periods the networks of commercial avenues in the previous period (1100-1250) and the subsequent one (1340s to 1500) are reconstructed. In each period the connection of east-west trade with the main movements of the European economy are fully drawn out, and the effects on the building history of the three main Italian cities concerned (Venice, Genoa and Florence) are sketched. Attention then turns to the Pegolotti itinerary itself. The individual toll stations are identified employing a variety of means, such as names taken from the Roman itineraries (Peutinger Table and Antonine Itinerary) and archaeological data; this allows the course of the track to be followed through diverse topography to the city of Sivas, then across plains and through passes to Erzurum and finally to Tabriz. A picture is drawn of the urban history of each major city, including Sivas, Erzurum and Tabriz itself, and of the other towns along the route.

Parliamentary Papers

Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1168
Release: 1918
Genre: Bills, Legislative
ISBN:

British Missions around the Gulf, 1575-2005

British Missions around the Gulf, 1575-2005
Author: Hugh Arbuthnott
Publisher: Global Oriental
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2008-07-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004213171

Recent events have once again focused international attention on the volatile politics of the Gulf region. This new book, by three former British ambassadors – all with long service in the region – demonstrates the importance of the Gulf for Britain from the days of Elizabeth I to the present. It tells the story, through the life and works of the British diplomats and consuls and the missions in which they worked, of Britain’s involvement, first for trade and later for strategic purposes, in the four key regional states of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Oman. With wit and insight, the book traces the origins of today’s problems from the Ottoman and Persian empires to the 1991 Gulf War and its aftermath. Those who know the region will find this a refreshing new slant on an old story, while those new to the subject will enjoy the mixture of politics and personalities ably described and analysed.

The Geographical Journal

The Geographical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 558
Release: 1922
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN:

Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.

The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918

The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914-1918
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1925
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN:

Søgeord: Aylmer, F.J.; Chamberlain, J. Austen; Suliman Pak; Duff, B.; von der Goltz; Gorringe; Halil Pasha; Lord Hardinge of Penshurst; Kut al Amara; Lake, P.H.N.; General J.E. Nixon; Townshend, C.V.F.; Tyrkiske Hær; Shatt el Arab; Nasiriya; Lord Crewe; Basra; Barrett, A.A.; Baku; Bicharakoff; Dunsterville, L.C.; von Falkenhayn; Marshall, W.R.; Maude, F.S.; Robertson, W.R.; Wilson, H.H.; Baratoff, N.N.; Cobbe, A.S.; Jabal Hamrin; Sannaiyat; Shatt al Adjaim;

The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War

The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War
Author: H. Mortimer Durand
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2021-11-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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