Here is a country that is about one-fourth the area of Europe, one-third the size of the United States of America, yet what is known about it is out of all proportion to what is unknown. We are beginning to know more, comparatively speaking, about the Arctic and Antarctic regions than we do about most of Arabia.
This volume comprises three essays on the city of Malacca and its society, during the first decades of Portuguese rule, when the social structures inherited from the Sultanate days were yet to undergo major changes.
When President Clinton sent Richard Holbrooke to Bosnia as America's chief negotiotor in late 1995, he book a gamble that would eventually redefine his presidency. But there was no saying then, at the height of the war, that Holbrooke's mission would succeed. The odds were strongly against it.
The Last Mughal is much more than the biography of one man. It is the story of a city, Delhi, teeming with conmen and holy men, hawkers and prostitutes. It is also a lament for the lost world of the Mughals, a genuinely multicultural synthesis of Indian and Islamic traditions, from music to miniature painting. Above all, it is a terrific retelling of the event that ended Zafar's reign the India…
Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean with an area of 3,572 square miles, lying 40 miles south of Turkey, 77 miles west of Syria, 30o miles north of the Arab Republic of Egypt and 650 miles south-east of Greece. Two ranges of mountains, Troödos in the south and Pendadaktilos in the north, border the dry Messaoria plain which extends from Morphou Bay to Famagusta. The highest …
The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years. Taking readers from Arabia to India and Southeast Asia, Engseng Ho explores the transcultural exchanges- in kinship and writing-that enabled Hadrami Yemeni descendants of the Muslim prophet Muhammad to become locals in each of the three regions, yet remain cosmopolitans with vi…
This book is not a traditional symposium in which each writer submits a chapter or chapters on a particular geographical area of the region. Rather, it is a work in which each scholar can take equal pride in the entire production because it was a joint intellectual pursuit.
Walk through the 100 years of the Philippine presidency form Aguinaldo's four-phased administration to the economic turnaround of the Ramos tenure and the ascension by folk hero Estrada to the millennial presidency. A centennial book with a history flavor unlike before. Read, for the first time, the insights of authors into the lives of twelve men and a woman who defined the contours of the Phi…
Jakarta the booming capital of the world's fifth biggest country, one of Asia's fastest growing cities, fascinates all those who try to discover a bit of its colourful past, This age old meeting place of various peoples offers cultural values and interesting historical sites to those who take trouble to look for it. This book guides the reader into Jakarta's past, to Old Batavia, to ancient man…
Books and articles on the subject of the formation of Malaysia abound. Some dwell on the significance and interpretations of event which have taken place. In the memoir, Ghazali Shafie's decided to chronicle the way these matters should be narrated. He felt he owed future generatios an obligation to put national historical matters in the perspective.