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The Near East : a cultural history /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Discovery: An Archaeological Revelation -- PART 2: THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST. Sumer: The Cradle of Civilization -- The First Great Empires -- Ancient Religion and Beliefs -- The Biblical Lands -- Greco-Roman Domination -- PART 3: THE MEDIEVAL NEAR EAST. …”
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Atlas of the Near East : state formation and the Arab-Israeli conflict : 1918-2010 /
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Menacing Aridity -- Between the Mediterranean and the Desert -- "Levantine" and "Syrian" Climates -- Overexploited Water Resources -- The Deterioration of the Environment -- Foreign Domination -- The Ottoman Empire: An Apparent Modernity -- Communitarianism -- European Imperialisms -- The Franco-British Partition -- The State of Greater Lebanon -- Mandatory Palestine -- Ephemeral States -- National Constructs -- Arab Nationalism and the Struggle against Communitarianism -- Reorganisation of the Transportation Network after Independence -- The Administrative Network in the Service of Centralisation -- Syrian Nation-Building and Baʿathism -- Lebanon: The Triumph of Laissez-Faire and Communitarianism -- Jordan: An Arabian Monarchy -- Population and Development -- A Dense and Urbanised Population -- Uncontrolled Population Growth -- An Educated Population -- The Increasing Participation of Women in the Economy -- Waves of Refugees -- Demographic Issues and Nation-Building -- A Fragile Economy -- Commerce, Family-Owned Businesses, and the Fear of the State -- A Threatened Farming Sector -- An Industry Victimised by Bureaucracy and East Asia -- Uncertain Tourism -- The Energy Challenge -- Hydrocarbons Bypassing the Near East -- The Marginalisation of the Levantine Coastline in the Near East -- A Growing Dependence on the Petro-Monarchies of the Gulf -- The Urban Archipelago of the Near East -- An Urban Network Dominated by Four Metropolises -- Damascus Devours its Gardens -- Amman, Capital of an Emirate Without Oil -- Beirut, A Shattered City -- Aleppo, A City Reactivated by an Open Economy -- Palestine Partitioned -- Territories and Populations -- High Densities and Urbanisation -- The Demographic Battle -- An Aided and Controlled Economy -- Unemployment and Poverty -- The Service Sector Domination of Employment -- The Partition of Palestine 1936-49 -- The Partition of the Occupied Territories -- Jewish Colonisation -- The Judaisation of Jerusalem -- The Geopolitics of the Near East -- The Arab-Israeli Conflict: From One Cold War to Another -- Water and the Arab-Israeli Conflict -- The Golan Heights or the Alsace-Lorraine of Syria -- The American Strategy -- Lebanon: A Buffer State -- Turkey's Resurgence -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The history of linguistics in the Near East /
Published 1982Table of Contents: “…THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTICS IN THE NEAR EAST; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; PREFACE; Table of contents; OBSERVATIONS SURLA GENÈSE DE LA SIGNIFICATION GÉNÉRALE ET PARTICULIÈRE DANS UNE ÉPÎTRE DE AL-MARZUQI; THE LEGITIMATE FATHERS OF SPEECH ERRORS; LES GRAMMAIRIENS ARABES, LA PHRASE NOMINALE ET LE BON SENS; THE TREATMENT OF NASAL ELEMENTS BY EARLY ARAB AND MUSLIM PHONETICIANS; THE 'RISALA' OF YEHUDA IBN QURAYSH AND ITS PLACE IN HEBREW LINGUISTICS; ZUM BEGRIFF DER 'VALENZ' DES VERBUMS IN DER ARABISCHEN NATIONALGRAMMATIK.…”
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The Ituraeans and the Roman Near East : reassessing the sources /
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On art in the ancient Near East.
Published 2010“…Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;…”
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On art in the ancient Near East.
Published 2010“…Culture and history of the ancient Near East ;…”
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The ancient history of the Near East : from the earliest times to the battle of Salamis /
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The empires of the Near East and India : source studies of the Safavid, Ottoman, and Mughal literate communities /
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Researching Metaphor in the Ancient Near East /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Researching metaphor in the ancient near east : an introduction / Ludovico Portuese and Marta Pallavidini -- The lion, the shepherd, and the master of animals : metaphorical interactions and governance representations in Mesopotamian and Levantine sources / Stéphanie Anthonioz -- To serve woman : Jezebel, Anat, and the metaphor of women as food / Esther Brownsmith -- Visualizing 'death' (Môtu) in the Ugaritic texts / Joseph Lam -- Aššur is King! …”
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Composite artefacts in the Ancient Near East : exhibiting an imaginative materiality, showing a genealogical nature /
Published 2018Table of Contents: “…Degrees of Mental and Material Construction of an 'Integrated Whole' in the Ancient Near East; Alessandro Di Ludovico -- A Composite Look at the Composite Wall Decorations in the Early History of Mesopotamia; Section 2. …”
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