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"This is a thorough re-analysis of both nationalism and nations. It challenges the current 'modernist' orthodoxies of such writers as Eric Hobsbawm, Benedict Anderson and Ernest Gellner, and it offers a systematic critique of Hobsbawm's best-selling Nations and Nationalism since 1870. In opposition to books which limit nations and nationalism to the eighteenth century and after, as an aspect of 'modernization', ...

De Indonesische archipel heeft meer dan 450 jaar strijd geleverd tegen buitenlandse handelscompagnieën en mogendheden. Bijna altijd was er wel ergens oorlog, vaak op meer plaatsen tegelijk. Dit boek geeft een gedetailleerd overzicht van de honderden militaire acties en expedities. Portugezen, Spanjaarden, Engelsen, Fransen, Japanners, en met name ook de Nederlanders, voerden hun koloniale oorlogen ...

In this passionate yet carefully documented book, Sells draws on Balkan literature, unpublished United Nations reports, Internet postings, and personal contacts in the region to reveal for the first time the central role played by religious mythology and stereotyping in the Bosnian tragedy. Sells, himself of Serbian American descent, traces the cultural logic of genocide to the manipulation by contemporary ...

Algemene Secretarie van de Nederlands-Indische Regering en de daarbij gedeponeerde Archieven > Geheim archief van de Algemene Secretarie en van het Kabinet van de Gouverneur-Generaal, (1942) 1944-1950 > Godsdiensten: Islam > Stukken betreffende het in Fort de Kock uitgedragen standpunt van Djalaloedin Thaib, leger-ulama tijdens het NICA-bestuur, en de positieregeling voor diens echtgenote.

Recommendations. To the Nigerian government and security forces -- To religious and community leaders, at national, state and local levels. -- The conflict in Plateau State. -- The conflict in Yelwa. Background -- Violent conflict in Yelwa -- Internal displacement. -- The government's response to the violence in Plateau State. The state of emergency -- Peace initiatives -- Commissions of inquiry -- ...

"During the 1930s and 1940s, a unique and lasting political alliance was forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab nationalists, and Muslim religious authorities. From this relationship sprang a series of dramatic events that, despite their profound impact on the course of World War II, remained secret until now. In this groundbreaking book, esteemed Middle East scholars Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz ...

This collection contains selected records related to the prewar, wartime, and immediate postwar history of the Jewish communities of the Tuzla region in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The collection includes selected records of the local administration (councils, Regional People's Committee etc.), judicial bodies (courts), and educational organizations (public schools, trade and technical schools) providing ...

"In 2017, Myanmar's military launched a campaign of violence against the Rohingya minority that UN experts later said amounted to a genocide. More than seven hundred thousand civilians fled to Bangladesh in what became the most concentrated flight of refugees since the Rwanda genocide of 1994. The warning signs of impending catastrophe that had built over years were downplayed by Western backers of ...

Subject: De volgende bijdragen zijn opgenomen: In pursuit of greater France: visions of Empire among Musée Social reformers, 1894-1931 / door Janet R. Horne; "Special customs": paternity suits and citizenship in France and the colonies, 1870-1912 / door Jean Elisabeth Petersen; Redefining "Frenchness": citizenship, race regeneration, and imperial motherhood in France and West Africa, 1914-40 / door ...

Usama Bin Laden's greatest fear was not capture or death, but the exposure of al-Qaeda's secrets. At great risk to themselves and the entire mission, the U.S. Special Operations Forces, who carried out the Abbottabad raid that killed Bin Laden, took an additional eighteen minutes to collect Bin Laden's hard drives and thereby expose al-Qaeda's secrets. In this ground-breaking book, Nelly Lahoud dives ...