Islamist terrorism and democracy in the Middle East / / Katerina Dalacoura [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461746803321
• Autore: Dalacoura Katerina
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-107-21863-2; 1-139-06255-7; 1-283-11076-8; 9786613110763; 1-139-07465-2; 0-511-97736-0; 1-139-07690-6; 1-139-06887-3; 1-139-07918-2; 1-139-08145-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 213 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 363.3250956
• Soggetti: Terrorism - Middle East; Terrorism - Religious aspects; Islamic fundamentalism; Islam and politics; Democracy - Middle East; Middle East Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Terrorism, democracy and Islamist terrorism -- 2. Transnational Islamist terrorism : Al Qaeda -- 3. Islamist terrorism and national liberation : Hamas and Hizbullah -- 4. Islamist terrorism in domestic conflicts : the armed Islamist group in Algeria and the Gamaa Islamiya in Egypt -- 5. Moderation and Islamist movements in opposition : the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood/Islamic Action Front, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and the Tunisian Nahda -- 6. Islamist moderation and the experience of government : Turkey's welfare and justice and ; development parties and the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Sommario/riassunto: What were the reasons behind the terrorist attacks of September 11th? Does the cause of Islamist terrorism relate to the lack of democracy in the Middle East? Through detailed research into the activities of both radical and moderate organizations across the Middle East, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hizbullah, and via interviews with key personnel, Katerina Dalacoura investigates whether repression and political exclusion pushed Islamist entities to adopt terrorist tactics. She also explores whether inclusion in the political process has had the opposite effect of encouraging Islamist groups toward moderation and ideological pragmatism. In a challenge to the conventional wisdom, she concludes that Islamist terrorism is not a direct consequence of authoritarianism in the Middle East and that there are many key factors that generate radicalism.

A maturing market : the Iberian book world in the first half of the seventeenth century / / edited by Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo, Alexander S. Wilkinson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910466560903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden, The Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2017; ©2017
• ISBN: 90-04-34038-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (301 pages) : illustrations, graphs
• Collana: Library of the Written Word. The Handpress World, , 1874-4834 ; ; Volume 59
• Disciplina: 381.45002
• Soggetti: Book industries and trade - Spain - History - 17th century; Book industries and trade - Portugal - History - 17th century; Books and reading - Spain - History - 17th century; Books and reading - Portugal - History - 17th century; Publishers and publishing - Spain - History - 17th century; Publishers and publishing - Portugal - History - 17th century; Authors and publishers - Spain - History - 17th century; Authors and publishers - Portugal - History - 17th century; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Alexander S. Wilkinson -- Surveys of the Book Trade -- A Maturing Market: The Iberian Book World in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century / Alexander S. Wilkinson -- Printing in Antwerp in the Early Seventeenth Century and Its Connections with the Iberian World / César Manrique Figueroa -- The Importation of Books into New Spain During the Seventeenth Century / Idalia García -- Women and the Iberian Book Trade, 1472–1650 / Alejandra Ulla Lorenzo -- Addressing the Reader in Golden-Age Spain -- The Book-Reader Relationship in Golden-Age Spain: Reading Practices and the Publishing Industry in Don Quixote / Sarah Malfatti -- ‘Reasons of State for Any Author’: Common Sense, Translation, and the International Republic of Letters / José María Pérez Fernández -- Writing Literature for Publication, 1605–1637 / Esther Villegas de la Torre -- The Stage in Print -- Printed Plays in Early Modern Spain / Don Cruickshank -- Cervantes’s Ocho comedias: From the Pen to the Print-Shop / John O’Neill -- Printing Licenses and the Trade in Fiction in Spain in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century / Manuel Calderón Calderón -- Market Specialisms: Chivalric Literature, Medicine and the News -- Printing Books of Chivalry in Portugal at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century / Aurelio Vargas Díaz-Toledo -- Medical Publishing in Portugal in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century: A Good Business? / Hervé Baudry -- The Golden Age of the Single Event Printed Newsletter: Relaciones de sucesos, 1601–1650 / Henry Ettinghausen -- ‘Things Worthy of Being Known’: The Reception and Consumption of the Press in Catalonia During the First Half of the Seventeenth Century / Ricard Expósito Amagat.
• Sommario/riassunto: Within just a generation or two of its arrival, print had become a ubiquitous and spirited part of Spain and Portugal’s urban cultures. It serviced an ever-expanding reading public, as well as many and varied practical quotidian needs. Its impact on society was multi-dimensional and complex, and its social reach far broader than the civic or ecclesiastical elites were ever to be entirely comfortable with. This cross-disciplinary volume of essays focuses on the maturing marketplace for print in the first half of the seventeenth century, shedding new light on some important transformations, with authors and publishers seizing opportunities available to them – negotiating the regulatory efforts of the censors, and scrambling to reconfigure their relationship with their readers.