Product Description: St. Martin's Press, 1980, Very good., Black cover. No dust jacket. Text very clean and bright. Binding clean, tight. Library stamps on endpapers and top edge. Spine label. 205 pages. Documents of Modern History Series. [Modern history, Middle East] Out-of-print and antiquarian booksellers since 1933...read more

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The Middle East has rarely been absent from the world's media since the end of World War 2. Next to East-West relations, its conflicts have provided the most intractable set of issues in international affairs. Inevitably, the United States became the major outside party. As the Arab-Israeli dispute came to dominate Middle East affairs, the Americans had to reconcile their wide-ranging strategic and economic interests with the domestic pressures to support Israel. This book analyses and illustrates the decisions reached in Washington and examines their impact on the region's quarrels.

Product Description: Sir James George Frazer originally set out to discover the origins of one ancient custom in Classical Rome - the plucking of the Golden Bough from a tree in the sacred grove of Diana, and the murderous succession of the priesthood there - and was led by his invetigations into a twenty-five year study of primitive customs, superstitions, magic and myth throughout the world...read more

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Product Description: This book examines the evolution and current significance of the parading tradition in Ireland. Since 1995, confrontations over parades have existed side by side with the Northern Ireland peace process. The most bitter of these have occurred over the Drumcree church parade at Portafdown and the Relief of Derry parades...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Written by specialists on the topic, this book explores the Irish parading tradition from the seventeenth century to the present. With serious confrontations over parades recurring since 1995, the subject is a vital, but imperfectly understood, dimension of the Irish situation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection of thought-provoking essays addresses the complex issues of Ulster Scots history and ethnic identity by viewing them from a transatlantic and comparative perspective. The 11 essays in this volume, originally presented at meetings of the Ulster-American Heritage Symposium by scholars from Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and the United States, explore the nature of Scotch-Irish culture by examining values, traditions, demographics, and language...read more

Product Description: American foreign policy is fundamental to any understanding of how the post-war world has been shaped. This insightful and wide-ranging book analyses the policies pursued by each presidency from that of Harry Truman to George W. Bush, and reviews the far-reaching consequences of these actions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Raro es el día o la semana en que por desgracia no ocupa algún lugar en las portadas de los periódicos alguna noticia relacionada con El  Conflicto árabe-Israelí. ¿De dónde proviene, sin embargo, esta prolongada, tensa y sangrienta disputa? ¿Cuáles han sido los pasos que ha seguido desde su nacimiento y que han llevad...read more

Product Description: The Arab-Israeli conflict has been one of the most defining features of recent world history, flaring up into open war fare yet again in Gaza at the end of 2008 and provoking large-scale demonstrations in the streets of cities across the world...read more

Product Description: This volume examines aspects of international relations in East Asia from 1895 to the present with particular reference to the role of Japan: the principal theme pursues the antecedents, nature, and consequences of the Pacific war (1941-5)...read more