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| JEWS OF LEBANON, 2ND EDITION : Between Coexistence & Conflict [Kirsten E Schulze] This is the first book to tell the story of the Jews of Lebanon in the twentieth century. It challenges the prevailing view that Jews everywhere in the Middle East were second-class citizens, and were persecuted after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The Jews of Lebanon were just one of Lebanon's 23 minorities with the same rights and privileges, and subject to the same political tensions. The author discusses the Jewish presence in Lebanon under Ottoman Rule; Lebanese Jews under the French mandate; Lebanese Jewish identity after the establishment of the State of Israel; the increase of the community through Syrian refugees; the Jews' position in the first civil war; the beginning of their exodus; the virtual extinction of the Jewish community as a result of the prolonged second civil war and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon; and finally the community's memory of their Lebanese past. REVIEW: "An outstanding sociopolitical history of the Jewish community of Lebanon. Highly recommended..." -- Choice. { 224pp, 152x229mm, March 2009; PB, £22.50, 1845190572:9781845190576 , Sussex Academic Press } |
| TUPAC AMARU REBELLION : Sources from Peru & Bolivia [Edited & Translated by Ward Stavig & Ella Schmidt; Introduction by Charles Walker] Through a wide variety of primary sources -- including letters, eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents -- this collection portrays in vivid detail the three indigenous rebellions that threatened Spanish control of its South American colonies more than a quarter century before the Wars of Independence (1808-1825). Headnotes introduce each selection, and a general introduction provides historical, cultural, and political context. Maps, a chronology of the rebellions, and a glossary of terms are included. { 320pp, April 2008; PB, £11.95, 0872208451:9780872208452 , Hackett Publishing } |