The loom of history

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xii, 495 pages

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909 Mul l

History of the islamic peoples

Perp. punya: 1 eks.

The march of folly: from troy to vietnam

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0-394-52777-1

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xi, 447 pages

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909.08 Tuc m

A modern history of the islamic world

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1 86064 340 x

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x, 384 pages

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909.097671 Sch m

A history of the jews

Why have I written a history of the Jews? There are four reasons. The first is sheer curiosity. When I was working on my History of Christianity, I became aware for the first time in my life of the magnitude of the debt Christianity owes to Judaism. It was not, as 1 had been taught to suppose, that the New Testament replaced the Old; rather, that Christianity gave a fresh interpretation to an a…

The origins of chinese kongsi

Certainly in mining this piece of history, which is little known if compared with the story of western democracy, I owe a great many intellectual debts to those who have helped me.rnrnFirst of all, I am indebted to Professor Wang Gungwu, not only for his useful advice in the field of Chinese and overseas Chinese history, but much more for his almost intuitive sense of terminology and the theore…

The Malays Par excellence Warts Ans All

Definition of a Malay-the Malay is a practising Muslim, residing in Malaysia, whose roots go back to his ancestors of the Old Malacca Empire and of those who were the sons of the soil in the other parts of the Malay archipelago, stretching as far back in history as 3000BC The Malay is endowed with a cultural heritage that has made him known throughout as the gentleman of the world" The Malay li…

Twentieth-century Indonesia

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0-231-03547-0

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413 hal.

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915.98 Nei t

the law of civilization and decay

On four counts this volume is to be included among the out- standing documents of intellectual history in the United States and, in a way, the Western World. It deserves a prime place among the writings of the Adams family on the nature and course of so- cial politics, from the The Defence of the Constitutions of the United States by John Adams to the three penetrating and ex- plosive essays on…

an introduction to contemporary history

We live today in a world different, in almost all its basic preconditions, from the world in which Bismarck lived and died. How have these changes come about? What are the formative influences and qualitative differences which are the distinguishing marks of the contemporary era? It is with these questions that the present book is concerned, and for that reason I have called it an introduction …