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Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.
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ISBN: 0511699530 1108017282 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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John Lloyd Stephens (1805-1852) was an American politician, explorer and writer who is renowned for his pioneering research into the ancient Maya civilisation of Central America. In 1839 Stephens was appointed a Special Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Central America (modern Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and El Salvador). First published in 1841, this two-volume work is an account of his travels in 1839 and 1840, visiting and recording ancient Mayan sites. Stephens describes Copán, Palenque and forty-two other ancient sites and includes over fifty illustrations drawn by his travelling companion Frederick Catherwood (1799-1854), a professional architect. Although earlier accounts of Mayan ruins had been published, Stephens' vivid descriptions and Catherwood's meticulous drawings were far more detailed and accurate than previous reports.


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Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.
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ISBN: 0511700547 1108017290 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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John Lloyd Stephens was an American politician, explorer & writer who is renowned for his pioneering research into the ancient Maya civilisation of Central America. In 1839 Stephens was appointed a Special Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Central America. First published in 1841, this two-volume work is an account of his travels in 1839 & 1840, visiting & recording ancient Mayan sites. Stephens describes Copán, Palenque & 42 other ancient sites & includes over 50 illustrations drawn by his travelling companion Frederick Catherwood (1799-1854), a professional architect. Although earlier accounts of Mayan ruins had been published, Stephens' vivid descriptions & Catherwood's meticulous drawings were far more detailed & accurate than previous reports, & kindled Victorian interest in the ancient Maya civilisation. Volume 2 focuses on Palenque, Uxmal & other Mayan sites.


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Hamidian Palestine : Politics and Society in the District of Jerusalem 1872-1908.
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ISBN: 9789004205697 9004205691 9789004215702 9004215700 1283161699 9781283161695 9786613161697 Year: 2011 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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During the era of Sultan Abdülhamid II, modern state institutions were established in Palestine, while national identities had not yet developed. Hamidian Palestine explores how the inhabitants of the Ottoman District of Jerusalem interacted with each other and how they organised their interests in a historical moment before ‘Arabs’ and ‘Jews’ emerged as the central political categories in the country. Based on a wide range of Arabic, Turkish and Hebrew sources, the book examines the social and political relations of Palestinians from a wide variety of perspectives. By situating individual case studies within larger contexts such as modernisation, regionalisation and state-building, it allows Palestinian society to be compared with other local societies within the Ottoman Empire and beyond.


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Ottoman brothers : Muslims, Christians, and Jews in early twentieth-century Palestine
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ISBN: 0804776784 9780804776783 9780804770675 0804770670 9780804770682 0804770689 Year: 2011 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,

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Ottoman Brothers explores Ottoman collective identity, tracing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews became imperial citizens together in Palestine following the 1908 revolution.


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Violence, nonviolence, and the Palestinian national movement
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ISBN: 9781107007024 9781139013239 9781107632493 9781139128360 1139128361 9781139115537 1139115537 110700702X 1107632498 1107227631 1139124927 1283342057 1139123459 9786613342058 1139113348 113911770X 1139013238 9781107227637 9781139124928 9781283342056 9781139123457 661334205X 9781139113342 Year: 2011 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Why do some national movements use violent protest and others nonviolent protest? Wendy Pearlman shows that much of the answer lies inside movements themselves. Nonviolent protest requires coordination and restraint, which only a cohesive movement can provide. When, by contrast, a movement is fragmented, factional competition generates new incentives for violence and authority structures are too weak to constrain escalation. Pearlman reveals these patterns across one hundred years in the Palestinian national movement, with comparisons to South Africa and Northern Ireland. To those who ask why there is no Palestinian Gandhi, Pearlman demonstrates that nonviolence is not simply a matter of leadership. Nor is violence attributable only to religion, emotions or stark instrumentality. Instead, a movement's organizational structure mediates the strategies that it employs. By taking readers on a journey from civil disobedience to suicide bombings, this book offers fresh insight into the dynamics of conflict and mobilization.


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Land and desire in early Zionism
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ISBN: 1283875241 1611680158 9781611680157 158465967X 9781584659679 1584659688 9781584659686 Year: 2011 Publisher: Waltham, Mass. Brandeis University Press


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The origins of Israel, 1882-1948 : a documentary history
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ISBN: 0299284948 9786613532213 029928493X 128012833X 9780299284930 6613532215 9780299284947 9781280128332 Year: 2011 Publisher: Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press,


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Egypt and the Near East - the crossroads : proceedings of an international conference on the relations of Egypt and the Near East in the Bronze Age, Prague, September 1-3, 2010
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ISBN: 9788073083625 8073083620 Year: 2011 Publisher: Prague : Czech University, Czech Institute of Egyptology,


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Egypt, Canaan and Israel : history, imperialism, ideology and literature
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ISBN: 9789004194939 9004194932 Year: 2011 Volume: 52 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill

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The proceedings of the conference “Egypt, Canaan and Israel : History, Imperialism, Ideology and Literature” include the latest discussions about the political, military, cultural, economic, ideological, literary and administrative relations between Egypt, Canaan and Israel during the Second and First Millennia BC incorporating texts, art, and archaeology. A diverse range of scholars discuss subjects as wide-ranging as the Egyptian-Canaanite relations in the Second Intermediate Period, the ideology of boundary stelae, military strategy, diplomacy and officials of the New Kingdom and Late Period, the excavations of Beth-Shean and investigations into the Aruna Pass, and parallels between Biblical, Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern texts. Such breadth in one volume offers a significant contribution to our understanding of the interactions between the civilizations of the ancient Near East.

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