Ottoman Egypt and the Emergence of the Modern World

Ottoman Egypt and the Emergence of the Modern WorldAiming to place Egypt clearly in the context of some of the major worldwide transformations of the three centuries from 1500 to 1800, Nelly Hanna questions the mainstream view that has identified the main sources of modern world history as the Reformation, the expansion of Europe into America and Asia, the formation of trading companies, and scientific discoveries. Recent scholarship has challenged this approach on account of its Eurocentric bias, on

This volume presents revised versions of papers first given at a meeting held in December 2006 that explored the possibility of effective transnational cooperation between libraries in Greece and in North America

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social affirmation and the myth of Antiquity as it was experienced and elaborated in eighteenth-century Rome

It also remains stubbornly uninhabited

'Applied Ethics and Human Rights: Conceptual Analysis and Contextual Applications' offers a philosophical perspective to ethical problems by providing an understanding of the concepts of human rights and responsibilities

For media policy-makers and members of civic organisations

and went on to live in Manchester where he worked in manufacturing and wholesale businesses

Monica Ali and Meera Syal

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As agricultural producers embrace the principles of the circular economy and regenerative practices

Through its critical examination of crime fiction