Holy Lands
Автор: Nicolas Pelham
Год издания: 0000
When the Ottoman Empire fell apart, colonial powers drew straight lines on the map to create a new region — the Middle East — made up of new countries filled with multiple religious sects and ethnicities. Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, for example, all contained a kaleidoscope of Sunnis, Kurds, Shias, Circassians, Druze and Armenians. Israel was the first to establish a state in which one sect and ethnicity dominated others. Sixty years later, others are following suit, like the Kurds in northern Iraq, the Sunnis with ISIS, the Alawites in Syria, and the Shias in Baghdad and northern Yemen.The rise of irredentist states threatens to condemn the region to decades of conflict along new communal fault lines. In this book, Economist correspondent and New York Review of Books contributor Nicolas Pelham looks at how and why the world's most tolerant region degenerated into its least tolerant. Pelham reports from cities in Israel, Kurdistan, Iraq and Syria on how triumphant sects treat their ethnic and sectarian minorities, and he searches for hope — for a possible path back to the beauty that the region used to and can still radiate.
Geschichte Ehstlands, vom ersten Bekanntwerden bis auf unsere Zeiten
Автор: Johann Konrad Philipp Willigerod
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Geschichte Ehstlands, vom ersten Bekanntwerden bis auf unsere Zeiten / Von J. E. Ph. Willigerod». Примечание: История Эстонии в XI–XVIII вв.
An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean. Vol. 2
Автор: William Mariner
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Полный вариант заголовка: «An account of the natives of the Tonga Islands, in the South Pacific Ocean : with an orig. grammar a. vocabulary of their language : in 2 vol. Vol. 2».
Researches in the highlands of Turkey. T. 4
Автор: Henry Tozer
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Researches in the highlands of Turkey : including visits to mounts Ida, Athos, Olympus, and Pelion, to the Mirdite Albanians, and other remote tribes: with notes on the ballads tales, and classical superstitions of the modern Greeks : in 2 vol. T. 4. L'Economie rurale de Columella».
Lauwerkroon voor de Nederlandsche zeehelden bij hunne betoonde Moed en Dapperheld in den zeeslag voor Algiers den alften van Oogstmaand 1816
Автор: Adriaan Loosjes
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Полный вариант заголовка: «Lauwerkroon voor de Nederlandsche zeehelden bij hunne betoonde Moed en Dapperheld in den zeeslag voor Algiers den alften van Oogstmaand 1816 / door A. Loosjes».