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Three Victorian Travellers Burton Blunt Doughty

Three Victorian Travellers Burton Blunt Doughty

First published in 1964. This book is concerned with impressions of Arabic culture on the British before the First World War. More particularly it is concerned with three Victorian travellers all of whom knew Arabic culture first hand through their travels in the Middle and Near East and especially in Arabia Arabic North Africa and the seaboard of the eastern Mediterranean. This title will be of interest to students of history. | Three Victorian Travellers Burton Blunt Doughty

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Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland

Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland

Originally published in 1977. The Travellers from those living in bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor caravans and permanent homes are an important source of traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger widely known as two of the founding singers of the British and American folk revivals here display a vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in the 1960s and 70s this book contains 130 songs with music and comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of broadside origin bawdy tragic and humorous songs about love work and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in Anglo-Romani. | Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland

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European Travellers in India During the Fifteenth Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; The Evidence Afforded by them with Respect to Indian

European Travellers in India During the Fifteenth Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; The Evidence Afforded by them with Respect to Indian

Originally published in 1909 this book contains a careful dissection and analysis of european travellers in India's narratives; the author has striven throughout to regard the various characters who flit across the following pages in the light as much of adventures and pioneers as of collectors of social and political facts - in other words the author has tried to preserve in their narrative as much as they could of the large amount of humna interest which naturally invests the subject and animates the writings of these early wanderers in India. | European Travellers in India During the Fifteenth Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; The Evidence Afforded by them with Respect to Indian

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Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

Joan-Pau Rubiés brings together here eleven studies published between 1991 and 2005 that illuminate the impact of travel writing on the transformation of early modern European culture. The new worlds that European navigation opened up at the turn of the 16th century elicited a great deal of curiosity and were the subject of a vast range of writings much of them with an empirical basis albeit often subtly fictionalized. In the context of intense literary and intellectual activity that characterized the Renaissance the encounters generated by European colonial activities in fact produced a remarkable variety of images of human diversity. Some of these images were conditioned by the actual dynamics of cross-cultural encounters overseas but many others were elaborated in Europe by cosmographers historians and philosophers pursuing their own moral and political agendas. As the studies included here show the combined effect was in the long term dramatic: interacting with the impact of humanism and of insurmountable religious divisions travel writing decisively contributed to the transformation of European culture towards the concerns of the Enlightenment. The essays illuminate this process through a combination of general discussions and the contextual analysis of particular texts and debates ranging form the earliest ethnographies produced by merchants travelling to Asia with Vasco da Gama to the writings of Jesuit missionaries researching idolatry in India and China or thinkers like Hugo Grotius seeking to explain the origin of the American Indians. | Travellers and Cosmographers Studies in the History of Early Modern Travel and Ethnology

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‘Two Scrubby Travellers’: A psychoanalytic view of flourishing and constraint in religion through the lives of John and Charles Wesley

‘Two Scrubby Travellers’: A psychoanalytic view of flourishing and constraint in religion through the lives of John and Charles Wesley

The ways in which people change and grow and learn to become good are not only about conscious decisions to behave well but about internal change which allows a loving and compassionate response to others. Such change can take place in psychotherapy; this book explores whether similar processes can occur in a religious context. Using the work of Julia Kristeva and other post-Kleinian psychoanalysts change and resistance to change are examined in the lives of John Wesley the founder of Methodism and his brother Charles the greatest English hymn-writer. Their mother’s description of them as young men as ‘two scrubby travellers’ was a prescient expression indicating their future pilgrimage which they negotiated through many struggles and compromises; it points towards the ‘wounded healer’ a description which could be applied to John in later years. The use of psychoanalytic thought in this study allows the exploration of unconscious as well as conscious processes at work and interesting differences emerge which shed light on the elements in religion that promote or inhibit change and the influence of personality factors. ‘Two scrubby travellers’: A psychoanalytic view of flourishing and constraint in religion through the lives of John and Charles Wesley enriches our understanding of these two important historical figures. It questions the categorising of forms of religion as conducive to change and so ‘mature’ and other forms as ‘immature’ at a time when many particularly young people are attracted by fundamentalist evangelical forms of belief. This book will be essential reading for researchers working at the intersection of psychoanalysis and religious studies; it will also be of interest to psychotherapists and psychoanalysts more generally and to researchers in the philosophy of religion.

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Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination A Scattered Nation

Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination A Scattered Nation

Based on travel writings religious history and popular literature Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores the encounter between English travellers and the Jews. While literary and religious traditions created an image of Jews as untrustworthy even sinister travellers came to know them in their many and diverse communities with rich traditions and intriguing life-styles. The Jew of the imagination encountered the Jew of town and village in southern Europe North Africa and the Levant. Coming from an England riven by religious disputes and often by political unrest travellers brought their own questions about identity national character religious belief and the quality of human relations to their encounter with 'the scattered nation'. | Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination A Scattered Nation

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Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)

Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)

In 1582 Alessandro Valignano the Visitor to the Jesuit mission in the East Indies sent four Japanese boys two of whom represented important Christian daimyo in western Japan to Europe. This book is an account of their travels. The boys left Japan on 20 February 1582 and disembarked in Lisbon on 11 August 1584. They then travelled through Portugal Spain and Italy as far as Rome the highpoint of their journey before returning to Lisbon to begin the long voyage home on 13 April 1586. They reached Nagasaki on 21 July 1590 amidst great rejoicing more than eight years after their departure. During their travels in Europe they had audiences and less formal meetings with Philip II king of Spain and Portugal and with popes Gregory XIII and Sixtus V and were received by many of the most important political ecclesiastical and social figures in the places they visited. Until the arrival of the embassy in Europe the Euro-Japanese encounter had been almost exclusively one way: Europeans going to Japan. The embassy was an integral part of Valignano's strategy for advancing the Jesuit mission in Japan. The boys chosen were intended to personify Jesuit success in Japan raise awareness of Japan in Europe amongst the clerical and secular elites and demonstrate conclusively that what the Jesuits had been writing about Japan since their arrival there in 1549 was not a fabrication. The embassy was further intended to impress upon the boys the glory unity stability and splendour of Christian Europe so that they might report favourably about their experiences on their return and counter what Valignano believed were the negative impressions of Europe left by Portuguese merchants and seamen in Japan. As part of this plan a book consisting of thirty-four colloquia detailing the boys' travels was compiled and translated into Latin under Valignano's supervision. It was published in Macao in 1590 with the title De Missione Legatorvm Iaponensium ad Romanum curiam. Valignano anticipated that it would become a standard text in Jesuit seminaries in Japan. The present edition is the first complete version of this rich complex and impressive work to appear in English and is accompanied with maps and illustrations of the mission and an introduction discussing its context and the subsequent reception of the book. | Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe: A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590)

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A Glimpse at the Travelogues of Baghdad

A Glimpse at the Travelogues of Baghdad

The history of Baghdad in the 18th and 19th centuries had predominantly been written by two groups. The first group is Baghdadi scholars and the second group is travellers. These two resources complement each other; while the literature of Baghdadi scholars provides insights from inside travelogues provide observations from outside. By implementing this interlocking method of investigation we can reach a comprehensive understanding of the history of Baghdad. Having investigated some sources from inside in my previous book; Baghdad: an urban history through the lens of literature the focus of this book is on travel literature. The history of travelogues throughout different periods of Baghdad’s history is highlighted with a particular focus on 18th and 19th century travelogues. This period was a critical epoch of change not just in Baghdad but across the world. Nevertheless this book does not intend to provide a documentary of the travellers who visited Baghdad. It is rather an analytical study of the colonial literature in relation to the historiography of Baghdad. | A Glimpse at the Travelogues of Baghdad

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Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

Machine Translation (MT) has become widely used throughout the world as a medium of communication between those who live in different countries and speak different languages. However translation between distant languages constitutes a challenge for machines. Therefore translation evaluation is poised to play a significant role in the process of designing and developing effective MT systems. This book evaluates three prominent MT systems including Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr each of which provides translation between English and Arabic. In the book Almahasees scrutinizes the capacity of the three systems in dealing with translation between English and Arabic in a large corpus taken from various domains including the United Nation (UN) the World Health Organization (WHO) the Arab League Petra News Agency reports and two literary texts: The Old Man and the Sea and The Prophet. The evaluation covers holistic analysis to assess the output of the three systems in terms of Translation Automation User Society (TAUS) adequacy and fluency scales. The text also looks at error analysis to evaluate the systems’ output in terms of orthography lexis grammar and semantics at the entire-text level and in terms of lexis grammar and semantics at the collocation level. The research findings contained within this volume provide important feedback about the capabilities of the three MT systems with respect to EnglishArabic translation and paves the way for further research on such an important topic. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of translation studies and translation technology. | Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

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Women and Travel Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Women and Travel Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Women and Travel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives is a fascinating look at the behavior motivations experiences and needs of women as tourists and travellers drawing on both historic and contemporary eras. Surprisingly little research has explored key issues experiences and opportunities in the context of women’s travel. This revealing volume fills this gap exploring the discourses debates and discussions about women travel and tourism. With an international roster of contributors from diverse regions of the world the book celebrates a variety of women’s voices. Khoo-Lattimore and Wilson deliberately sought to include nontraditional and non-Western perspectives on women’s travel with inclusions of Asian solo female travelers; Islamic women travellers and the constraints placed on them; and women who cannot travel (or choose for whatever reason a ‘home holiday’). This enlightening volume brings together scholars from the broad areas of tourism hospitality geography and leisure studies to examine how and why women travel. The chapters bring light to perspectives from different countries cultures backgrounds and religions and utilize different methods approaches and styles of presentation. Women and Travel: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives will be of interest to academics and graduate students from a range of disciplines including tourism leisure studies sociology cultural geography anthropology feminist and gender studies business economics and management; as well as professionals working in the tourism industry particularly those with an interest in niche markets and segmentation. | Women and Travel Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

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Botswana A Short Political History

Botswana A Short Political History

Originally published in 1974 this book is a readable account of Botswana from the time of the first European visitors to the modern era of emergence as an independent African state. The book describes the condition of the people as it was recorded by the early travellers the coming of the Christian missionaries and the influence of such men as Robert Moffat John Mackenzie and David Livingstone. It discusses the effects of Boer pressure on the tribal land British intervention and the establishment of a British protectorate finally describing the birth of the Republic its nature and constitution. The book assesses Botswana’s relations with other African states particularly South Africa. | Botswana A Short Political History

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The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu Lord Mandeville William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu Lord Mandeville William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

Focusing upon three previously unpublished accounts of youthful English travellers in Western Europe (in contrast to the renowned but maturely retrospective memoirs of other seventeenth-century figures such as John Evelyn) this study reassesses the early origins of the cultural phenomenon known as the 'Grand Tour'. Usually denoted primarily as a post-Restoration and eighteenth-century activity the basis of the long term English fascination with the 'Grand Tour' was firmly rooted in the mid-Tudor and early-Stuart periods. Such travels were usually prompted by one of three reasons: the practical needs of diplomacy the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism and the expediencies of political or religious exile. The outbreak of the English Civil War during the late-1640s acted as a powerful stimulus to this kind of travel for male members of both royalist and parliamentarian families as a means of distancing them from the social upheavals back home as well as broadening their intellectual horizons. The extensive editorial introductions to this publication of the experiences of three young Englishmen also consider how their travel records have survived in a variety of literary forms including personal diaries (Montagu) family letters (Hammond) and formal prose records (Maynard's travels were written up by his servant Robert Moody) and how these texts should now be interpreted not in isolation but alongside the diverse collections of prints engravings curiosities coins and antiquities assembled by such travellers. | The Origins of the Grand Tour / 1649-1663 / The Travels of Robert Montagu Lord Mandeville William Hammond and Banaster Maynard

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Airport Baggage Handling Systems Using the Baggage Factory Approach to Support AI Optimisation Decisions and Design Processes

Airport Baggage Handling Systems Using the Baggage Factory Approach to Support AI Optimisation Decisions and Design Processes

The competition between airports demands higher-quality services to satisfy passengers. A Baggage Handling System (BHS) serves functions such as baggage sorting screening and storage. A successful BHS means bags move between areas as travellers do. Handlers load/unload bags and transfer them between the airport's areas. Automation can save money and bring safety and operational benefits. Warehouses as well as the automotive industry are more advanced technologically in comparison to the airport and especially the baggage handling business. The concept of the Baggage Factory (BF) is an approach (based on Industry 4. 0) that simplifies the processes from the moment passengers drop off their bags at check-in till the destination (chutes carousels and so forth). Airport Baggage Handling Systems: Using the Baggage Factory Approach to Support AI Optimisation Decisions and Design Processes introduces the features of the BF concept and presents how BHS designers can use AI technology to tackle many BHS problems and concerns. The book bridges the gap between airport BHS designers and experts in AI and optimisation. It describes in detail the field of baggage handling using algorithms for sorting bags or optimising the flow. The way the systems are designed is discussed and a behind-the-scenes look at the BHS industry and how it affects the daily lives of travellers is presented. International and multidisciplinary in approach this book is an ideal resource for practitioners students and researchers involved in the air transportation industry Tourism Systems Engineering Layout and Design Artificial Intelligence Assembly Automation and Logistics fields. | Airport Baggage Handling Systems Using the Baggage Factory Approach to Support AI Optimisation Decisions and Design Processes

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Beyond the Grand Tour Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour

Beyond the Grand Tour Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour

Travel in early modern Europe is frequently represented as synonymous with the institution of the Grand Tour a journey undertaken by elite young males from northern Europe to the centres of the arts and antiquity in Italy. Taking a somewhat different perspective this volume builds upon recent research that pushes beyond this narrow orthodoxy and which decentres Italy as the ultimate destination of European travellers. Instead it explores a much broader pattern of travel undertaken by people of varied backgrounds and with divergent motives for travelling. By tapping into current reactions against the reification of the Grand Tour as a unique and distinctive practice this volume represents an important contribution to the ongoing process of resituating the Grand Tour as part of a wider context of travel and topographicalmwriting. Focusing upon practices of travel in northern and western Europe rather than in Italy particularly in Britain the Low Countries and Germany the essays in this collection highlight how itineraries continually evolved in response to changing political economic and intellectual contexts. In so doing the reasons for travel in northern Europe are subjected to a similar level of detailed analysis as has previously only been directed on Italy. By doing this the volume demonstrates the variety of travel experiences including the many shorter journeys made for pleasure health education and business undertaken by travellers of varying age and background across the period. In this way the volume brings to the fore the experiences of varied categories of traveller – from children to businessmen – which have traditionally been largely invisible in the historiography of travel. | Beyond the Grand Tour Northern Metropolises and Early Modern Travel Behaviour

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Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities

Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities

The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Cities presents an up-to-date critical and comprehensive overview of established and emerging themes in urban tourism and tourist cities. Offering socio-cultural perspectives and multidisciplinary insights from leading scholars the book explores contemporary issues challenges and trends. Organised into four parts the handbook begins with an introductory section that explores contemporary issues challenges and trends that tourism cities face today. A range of topics are explored including sustainable urban tourism overtourism and urbanisation the impact of terrorism visitor–host interactions as well as reflections on present and future challenges for tourism cities. In Part II the marketing branding and markets for tourism cities are considered exploring topics such as destination marketing and branding business travellers and exhibition hosting. This section combines academic scholarship with real-life practice and case studies from cities. Part III discusses product and technology developments for tourism cities examining their supply and impact on different travellers from open-air markets to creative waterfronts from social media to smart cities. The final Part offers examples of how urban tourism is developing in different parts of the world and how worldwide tourism cities are adapting to the challenges ahead. It also explores emerging forms of specialist tourism including geology and ecology-based tourism socialist heritage and post-communist destination tourism. This handbook fills a notable gap by offering a critical and detailed understanding of the diverse elements of the tourist experience today. It contains useful suggestions for practitioners as well as examples for theoretical frameworks to students in the fields of urban tourism and tourism cities. The handbook will be of interest to scholars and students working in urban tourism heritage studies human geography urban studies and urban planning sociology psychology and business studies.

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Professional Women Painters in Nineteenth-Century Scotland Commitment Friendship Pleasure

Professional Women Painters in Nineteenth-Century Scotland Commitment Friendship Pleasure

This title was first published in 2000: Women in the 19th century have long been presented as the angel in the house. The author re-writes this history by investigating the life and working conditions of a number of middle-class women who sought to establish themselves as professional artists in Scotland. Contrary to the orthodox view preoccupied with oppression and difficulty the author demonstrates that women artists of the period were independent producers teachers and travellers alert to changes in taste and fashion. They derived great pleasure from their work and enjoyed the benefits of women working together forming their own and joining existing professional associations. The book is not biographical but elaborates on the life and working conditions of middle-class artists by discussing their work in terms of economic and social history. | Professional Women Painters in Nineteenth-Century Scotland Commitment Friendship Pleasure

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Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing

Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing

This book is a collective effort to investigate and problematise notions of time and temporality in European travel writing from the late medieval period up to the late nineteenth century. It brings together nine researchers in European travel writing and covers a wide range of areas travel genres and languages coherently integrated around the central theme of time and temporalities. Taken together the contributions consider how temporal aspects evolve and change in regard to spatial historical and literary contexts. In a chapter-by-chapter account this volume thus offers various case studies that address the issue of temporality by showing for example how time is inscribed in landscape how travellers’ encounters with other temporalities informed other disciplines; it interrogates the idea of cultural temporalities in regard to a tension between past and future passivity and progression; and focuses on how time is entangled in identity construction proper to travelogues. | Time and Temporalities in European Travel Writing

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Gendered Journeys Mobile Emotions

Gendered Journeys Mobile Emotions

It is increasingly acknowledged that an analysis of emotions is necessary to fully understand the social world and recent research on transport travel and mobilities has begun to consider the gendered nature of public and personal life in relation to this sphere. The focus of this multidisciplinary and auto/biographical volume is the emotional relationship that individuals and groups have with different means of travel. Attention is given to a variety of travel experiences including travelling in trains planes cars buses and ships as well as biking cycling running and walking from the perspective of travellers and those who earn their living in assisting these experiences of others. Imaginary travel and the relationships between art and travel are also considered. Adopting innovative approaches to experiential material ranging from personal memories to empirical research Gendered Journeys Mobile Emotions opens up and illuminates an interdisciplinary debate about the gendered emotive and emotional nature of travelling.

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Bedouin of Northern Arabia Traditions of the Āl-Ḍhafīr

Bedouin of Northern Arabia Traditions of the Āl-Ḍhafīr

This is an absorbing and authentic account first published in 1986 of the history and traditional way of life of the Al-Dhafir bedouins of north-eastern Arabia based on a study of their traditions Arabic historical annals and the reports of western travellers over the past two hundred years. During the early part of the twentieth century the Al-Dhafir were a major power in the desert south west of the Euphrates between Samawa and Zubair. Beginning in the Hijaz in the early 1600s as a confederation of small tribes under the leadership of the Suwait clan they have had an eventful history in which their tribal tradition records battles with the Sharifs in the Hijaz the al’Urai’ir in al Hasa the Muntafiq in Iraq and finally the Ikhwan raiders in the 1920s. They are well known for an almost quixotic adherence to the taditions of hospitality and protection of fugitives for which their sheikhs became known as the Ahl al-Buwait ‘people of the little tent’. | Bedouin of Northern Arabia Traditions of the Āl-Ḍhafīr

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Tourism and Nationalism in Nepal A Developing Country Perspective

Tourism and Nationalism in Nepal A Developing Country Perspective

This book explores the role of tourism in the expression of nationalism in Nepal. It investigates assemblage of images emblems and symbols of Nepali nationhood in various touristic representations and narratives from Nepali travellers and diasporic visitors to showcase how they express nationhood and stimulate a strong sentiment of national feeling and belonging. The book suggests that touristic settings in Nepal provide a venue for articulation of nation first through internal ascription that is the construction of identity by citizens with the nation; and second through the promotion of distinctive touristic identity through the assertion of national uniqueness and distinguishing the nation within the larger international community. Given the recent great political changes post-conflict nation rebuilding and development Nepal offers a fascinating case study on the role of tourism and nationalism. This book will be of great interest to students scholars and professionals working in tourism and heritage studies sociology anthropology geography political science and area studies as well as those interested in the study of developing societies. | Tourism and Nationalism in Nepal A Developing Country Perspective

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The Yezidis A Study in Survival

The Yezidis A Study in Survival

First Published in 1987 The Yezidis: A Study in Survival traces the origin of Yezidi community’s religion describes the discovery of the people by Western travellers in the early nineteenth century and details the Yezidi community’s traumatic history and their status in the 80s. The Yezidi religious group is spread out over Iraq Turkey Syria and erstwhile USSR and have retained their identity for over 500 years. The Yezidi’s believe that Lucifer the fallen angel has been forgiven by God and reinstated as chief angel: their history is like their faith characterized by dignity and survival in the face of great odds. Chapters also cover Sultan Abdul Hamid’s cruel but vain efforts to force the Yezidis to embrace Islam leading to the emergence of Mayan Khatun a strong-willed Yezidi princess who ruled the community from 1913-1958. They include vivid account of her rivalry with her brother Ismail and the ill-fated marriage between her son and his daughter. The final chapter describes the community in Soviet Armenia and Georgia. This book is a must read for students of Middle East studies and Middle East history. | The Yezidis A Study in Survival

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Constantinople

Constantinople

This substantial account of Constantinople — or Istanbul as it is known today — is both a history and a guide to that magnificent and fabled metropolis where east and west have met for many centuries. Written in 1915 when as Stamboul the city was the last stop on the Orient Express it is illustrated with many rare period photographs. This book for the general reader evokes all the colour and richness of the ultimate oriental city ancient capital of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires captured on the brink of modernization in the first years after the revolution. The author describes everyday life in the city - the features of permanent interest such as mosques gardens fountains the traces of Byzantium and the quays of the Golden Horn as well as the feasts custom’s festivals and holidays that once enlivened Constantinople but are now only a memory. The work concludes with an account of the revolution and of the effects of World War I on the city. This is a portrait of the Istanbul that all travellers hope to find - and still can in the pages of this book.

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Understanding Japanese Society

Understanding Japanese Society

In this welcome brand new fifth edition of the bestselling textbook Understanding Japanese Society Joy Hendry takes the reader into the heart of Japanese life. Providing a clear and accessible introduction to Japanese ways of thinking which does not require any previous knowledge of the country this book explores Japanese society through the worlds of home work play religion and ritual covering a full range of life experiences from childhood to old age. It also examines the diversity of people living in Japan the effects of a growing number of new immigrants and role of the longest-standing Japanese prime-minister Shinzo Abe. Fully updated revised and expanded the fifth edition contains new material on: the continued effects of the earthquake tsunami and nuclear disasters of 2011 local examples of care for nature and the environment new perspectives on the role of women Japan’s place in the context of globalisation . Each chapter in this new edition also includes an exciting insert from scholars in the field based on new and emerging research. This book will be invaluable to all students studying Japan. It will also enlighten those travellers and business people wishing to gain an understanding of Japanese people.

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