Author: Diana Webb
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: library, historical, studies, international, west, pilgrimage, medieval, pilgrims
Number of Pages: 3004
Published: 2001-04-21
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1860646492
ISBN-13: 9781860646492

Pilgrimage was an integral part of both medieval religion and medieval life, and from its origins in the fourth-century Mediterranean world it spread rapidly to Northern Europe as a pan-European devotional phenomenon. Concentrating on the medieval Latin West, this book covers the period spanning the growth in pilgrimage during the seventh century to the Protestant Reformation in the 16-century, when pilgrimage ceased to be a vital part of European Christian culture. It draws extensively upon original source materials accounts of pilgrimage, guidebooks, chronicles, wills, covert memos, and stat

Author: Stanley Martin
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: merit, order
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-12-06
List price: $51.00
ISBN-10: 1860648487
ISBN-13: 9781860648489

The Order Of Merit 1902-2002 marks the 100th anniversary of the foundation of this senior order of chivalry in the personal gift of the Queen and limited to 24 Ordinary Members, representing the highest distinction in a wide range of fields. This is both a study of the Order set in the context of British social and cultural history, and the current debate on the British honors system. It provides a full listing of members past and present with biographical details on each, including commentary on their positions and reputations. It also covers those who refused the Order and those who might ha

Authors:William Facey, Gillian Grant,
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: photographers, first, kuwait
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1998-12-15
List price: $49.50
ISBN-10: 1860642713
ISBN-13: 9781860642715

Kuwait by the First Photographers documents the period between 1900 and 1950, which saw Kuwait’s emergence from a vulnerable sheikhdom negotiating a precarious independence among neighboring powers--the British in India and the Gulf, the Ottoman Turks in Mesopotamia, and the central Arabian chieftaincies of Ha’il and Riyadh--to a nation-state with the highest per capita income in the world. It is an outstanding visual record of a crucial time before the centuries-old way of life, centred on pearling, fishing, boat-building and trade by land and sea, was swept away. Kuwait’s

Author: Jehan S. Rajab
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: tale, woman, english, kuwait, invasion
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1996-12-15
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 1860640699
ISBN-13: 9781860640698

In the form of a journal, this book tells the story of the author’s experiences in Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion. Jehan Rajab chronicles her fight to preserve normality in the face of persecution and to save the Tareq Rajab Museum, her workplace, from destruction.

Authors:George Roche, Richard Terrell,
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: sholapur, tales, india, childhood
Number of Pages: 194
Published: 1994-11-15
List price: $68.00
ISBN-10: 1850437912
ISBN-13: 9781850437918

The memoirs of George Roche who was born in India in 1915. It provides an account of his early childhood in India, his years at boarding school in England and his career in the British colonial service.

Author: MARGARET REYNOLDS (FOREWORD), BETSY WING (TRANSLAT
Publisher: I.B. TAURIS
Keywords: transformations, tauris, women, undoing, opera
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1997
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 186064113X
ISBN-13: 9781860641138

Author: Touraj Atabaki
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: iran, power, struggle, ethnicity, azerbaijan
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-11-04
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 1860645542
ISBN-13: 9781860645549

This is a study of modern Iranian political history and is set in the international context of the Second World War and its aftermath. The book covers the essential background in Iranian political history in the 20th century including the role played by Azerbaijani politicians in the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-6, the drastic reforms of the autocratic Reza Shah regime and its effect on ethnic identity in Iranian Azerbaijan, the abdication of the Shah, the role of the Allied Powers, and the occupations of Iran. The book draws on Turkish, Persian, and Azeri sources as well as British, Fren