This book has three volumes deals with Kashmir political history and development right from the earliest times to the present day. It studies terrorism, militancy, human rights, efforts towards peace, etc. and includes all major documents, treaties etc. Plus an exhaustive bibliography and uptodate chronology of major political events.
History of the Pacific Islands marks the first time in forty years that a balanced and succinct introduction to the peoples of the Pacific islands has been made available to students, traveller, and scholars. Dr. Ian Campbell's informed and balanced perspective illuminates the development of the rich and fascinating variety of cultures of the Pacific islanders and their experience with intensiv…
In 2008, Kosovo declared independence from Serbia. Was this the final chapter in the break-up of Yugoslavia and the successful conclusion to the Balkan Wars of the 1990s? Or was it just one more wrong turn in the path to stability in the Balkans which has set a dangerous precedent for regional conflict throughout the world? When the UN Security Council authorised negotiations to determine the f…
This book contains Dutch interviews about the Dutch East Indies, Indonesia and New Guinea (1930-1962) in the collection of oral history projects. Contents: 1. Preface 2. Introduction 3. Abstracts 4. Abbreviations 5. People involved with the oral history project (SMGI) 6. List of people interviewed 7. General index 8. Index of geographical names.
Iran was the first country in the Middle East to develop an oil industry, and oil has been central to its tumultuous twentieth-century history. A finalist for the PEN/West Award, Blood and Oil tells the epic inside story of the battle for Iranian oil. A prominent member of one of Iran's most powerful aristocratic families--so feared by Khomeini that the entire clan was blacklisted--Prince Manuc…
Throughout his distinguished career as a journalist and film-maker, John Pilger has looked behind the 'official' versions of events to report the real stories of our time. The centrepiece of this new, expanded edition of his bestselling Distant Voices is Pilger's reporting from East Timor, which he entered secretly in 1993 and where a third of the population has died as a result of Indonesia's…
This book provides a concise analysis of relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the whole period of the Cold War from 1945 to 1991. It explains the rise of the two superpowers immediately after World War II. The author describes the growing confrontation between East and West in Europe dating from the announcement of the Truman Doctrine in 1949 to the construction of th…
This book deals with advent of Islam in Bangladesh, during the Muslim and British rules, Muslim society and Muslim renaissance in Bangladesh, development of traditional Islamic education in Bangladesh and contribution of Bangladesh to art and architecture. The book is the outcome of research conducted by a board of researchers of Bangladesh.
Bringing together the essays contributed by Dr. Javid Iqbal, Mr. Mushahid Hussain, Dr. Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, M. Niaz A. Naik, Air Marshal (Retd) Ayaz Ahmad Khan, Ms. Sibtain Tahira, Dr. S. M. Haider and Col. (Retd) Ghulam Sarwar, this analysis of Kashmir dispute in the context of South Asian security combines the subtle insights of scholars, journalists and defence strategists. With an introduc…
Bangladesh: Whose Ideas, Whose Interests? is a gathering together of various writings since 1974 by Geoffrey D. Wood on rural development issues in Bangladesh. Several of the chapters have been written specifically for this volume while others have been appropriately edited. A third of it has been written since 1992. The chapters derive from a combination of primary academic research, action-re…