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This is a brave, passionate and timely book. In it the author deftly weaves together history, accounts of his own travels and experience, and reflection. While largely told against the backdrop of Aden, it includes chapters on Israel/Palestine and Iran, where he and his wife have also lived and worked. It challenges some popular caricatures of Muslims and Islam, Iran, the Palestinians, Israel and Israelis. And whether the author is describing ...

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This book provides a global history of the power and limits of imperial rule from antiquity to the present. Written by a team of leading scholars, it sheds new light on the rise and fall of empires, and questions the association of bureaucratic rationality with 'modernity' and the 'Rise of the West'.

This book provides a global history of the power and limits of imperial rule from antiquity to the present. Written by a team of leading scholars, it sheds new light on the rise and fall of empires, and questions the association of bureaucratic rationality with 'modernity' and the 'Rise of the West'.