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Napoleon in Egypt: Al-Jabarti’s Chronicle of the French Occupation of 1798 (Expanded Edition)
	Al-Jabarti, Abd Al Raman Subject: Africa, Europe, Middle East	Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt in 1798 was the first contact between a Western power with imperial goals and an ancient regime of an African society. Sheik Al-Jabarti’s chronicle is a unique combination of historical narration and reflection combined with daily … More Information

Al-Narshakhi’s The History of Bukhara
	Narshakhi, Abu Bakr Muhammad (translated and edited by Richard N. Frye) Subject: Middle East	Al-Narshakhi’s The History of Bukhara is unusual among histories of Middle Eastern cities because it provides a broad and perceptive overview of urban life of the time, as opposed to the standard biographies of religious leaders. Richard Frye’s translation from … More Information

Nationalist Heroines: Puerto Rican Women History Forgot, 1930s-1950s
	Jiménez de Wagenheim, Olga Subject: Puerto Rican History, US History, Women's History, Caribbean History	From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance to the imposition of American colonial rule. A group of Nationalists led by Pedro Albizu Campos made it clear … More Information

A New Deal for the Tropics: Puerto Rico During the Depression Era, 1932-1935
	Rodriguez, Manuel Subject: Latin America, U.S. History, Caribbean	In the 1930s, Puerto Rico was economically and culturally a nineteenth-century agrarian state dominated by sugar and coffee plantations. Then came the New Deal, and the island changed forever. Puerto Rico entered the twentieth century in every respect, including its … More Information

The New Face of Lebanon: History’s Revenge
	Harris, William Subject: Middle East	Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, CHOICE Magazine Once known as the Switzerland of the Middle East, Lebanon in the late 1980s was considered a failed state: strife prevailed among Maronite Christians, Sunnis, Shiites, Druze, and Palestinians. Now, … More Information

New Intersections: Essays on Culture and Literature in the Post-Modern and Post-Colonial Condition
	de Toro, Fernando Subject: Latin America	These essays deliver innovative and valuable aspects for a new reading of parts of late nineteenth-century Latin American cultural critique, but above all of twentieth-century Modernist and Post-Modernist literary production. New Intersections is a hard-hitting, argumentative collection of essays which … More Information