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UNINA9910453761703321 |
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Autore |
Hill Charles <1936-> |
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Titolo |
Trial of a thousand years [[electronic resource] ] : world order and Islamism / / Charles Hill |
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Stanford, Calif., : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, 2011 |
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0-8179-1326-2 |
0-8179-1328-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (201 p.) |
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Collana |
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Hoover Institution Press publication ; ; no. 607 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Islam and world politics |
Islam and international relations |
International relations |
Democracy |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; Foreword by Fouad Ajami; Prologue; On a Ship to Oman; On the Train to the Army-Navy Game; CHAPTER ONE: Two World Orders; Christendom and Caliphate; Duality or Unity?; "The Turk" and "Oriental Despotism"; Three World-Historical Events; CHAPTER TWO: The Modern Ordering Takes Shape; 1648; The Enlightenment Views the Prophet; The Sick Man of Europe; CHAPTER THREE: The Wars on World Order; The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars; The Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1866; The American Civil War and the Utah War |
The Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 The Great War; World War II: Imperial Japan and the Third Reich; The Cold War; The Indian Mutiny and the International System; CHAPTER FOUR: An Islamic Challenge Takes Shape; 1979: Iran; 1979: Saudi Arabia; 1979: Pakistan; 1979: Afghanistan; 1979: Egypt; 1979: Saddam's Iraq-Bonfire of the Pathologies; The Lost Decade of the 1990's; The Islamist War on World Order, Well Underway; Saddam Overthrown; Saddam's Strategy; CHAPTER FIVE: The Shock of Recognition; Centers of Gravity; Legal; Military; The State; Women; Democracy; Nuclear Weapons; Values |
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