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The Cold War in Europe: Era of a Divided Continent
	Maier, Charles S., editor Subject: Europe, World History	Now that the Cold War is over, this book is especially timely: it analyzes and summarizes the events that ushered in an epoch of history nearly fifty years ago, and provides an analysis of the forces that were suppressed or … More Information

The Golden Age of Islam
	Lombard, Maurice Subject: Middle East, Religion	In this book, Maurice Lombard portrays the Islamic world as the center of civilization at a time when the West was primitive and backward. Its reach extended from Córdoba to Samarkand, and it maintained and developed the tradition of wealth, … More Information

The Golden Trade of the Moors: West African Kingdoms in the Fourteenth Century
	Bovill, E. W. Subject: Africa, World History	“This book is the liveliest account of African history ever written, covering over [one] thousand years of trans-Saharan trade. “Finely written and researched. … This edition will no doubt whet the appetites of a fresh generation of scholars and students … More Information

The Heritage of Central Asia: From Antiquity to the Turkish Expansion
	Frye, Richard N. Subject: Asia	Central Asia in ancient and medieval times was the crossroads of civilization, connecting China with the West. What we now call Central Asia was part of the empires conquered by Cyrus, Alexander the Great, Timur, and their successors during antiquity … More Information

The History of a Slave
	Johnston, H. H. (edited by Paul E. Lovejoy) Subject: Africa, History of Slavery	In 1889, the British colonial official Sir Harry Johnston published The History of a Slave, a story of an archetypal slave based on Johnston’s extensive knowledge of North and West Africa from his travels there. The tale follows the fictitious … More Information

The History of African Cities South of the Sahara: From the Origins to Colonization
	Coquery-Vidrovitch, Catherine (translated by Mary Baker) Subject: Africa	*Outstanding Academic Book of the Year 2005, CHOICE* Magazine** Cities have existed in sub-Saharan Africa since antiquity. But only now are historians and archaeologists rediscovering their rich heritage: the ancient ruins of Great Zimbabwe and Congo, the harbor … More Information

The History of the Maritime Wars of the Turks
	Çelebi, Kâtip (edited by Svatopluk Soucek) Subject: Middle East, World History	The book at its simplest level is fast-moving adventure story.The book at its simplest level is fast-moving adventure story. It is a breathtaking lesson in the geography and history of that period in which the Ottoman Turks swept past … More Information

The Islamic Middle East and Japan: Perceptions, Aspirations, and the Birth of Intra-Asian Modernity
	Worringer, Renée, editor Subject: Asia, Middle East, Religion, World history	Iranian and Ottoman travelers to Japan in the late nineteenth century found a model to admire — a culture that was beginning to take its place in the modern world without sacrificing its traditional culture. Their admiration was bolstered when … More Information

The Island of Cuba: A Political Essay
	von Humboldt, Alexander (additional sections by Luis Martínez-Fernández and Frank Argote-von Freyre; translated by Shelley Frisch) Subject: Caribbean	Winner of the Lydia Cabrera Award This book remains an up-to-date and engrossing document more than one hundred fifty years after its initial publication. The Island of Cuba is a key source for studies of 19th-century Cuba and … More Information

The Last Great Muslim Empires: History of the Muslim World
	Kissling, Hans J. et al. (translated and adapted by F.R.C. Bagley) Subject: Middle East, Religion, World History	“Islamic history feeds into world history … Islamic civilization became a global phenomenon, for example, in its capacity to receive and absorb culture from one end of the world and then pass it on to other parts of the world. … More Information