Books published by Markus Wiener Publishing Inc

Calling on more than 30 years of studying the Kurdish issue, numerous trips to the region, and many contacts among the Kurds, including almost all of their main leaders, Michael Gunter has written a short, but thorough history of the Kurds that is well documented, but very readable. This updated 2017 edition covers the latest events in Syria, Turkey and Iraq.

Robert Wedderburn was one of the first promoters of black power by revolutionary force, if necessary. His publications had an enormous impact in his time. His autobiography is a vital indictment of an execrable system.

These six essays, three by art historians and three by specialists in Arabic and Persian literature, examine specific instances in which texts and images that would seem to have been intended as one cultural product have traditionally been studied separately.

The Caucasus as meeting point of East and West, Europe and Asia, Christiandom and Islam. The cultures include Greek, Slavic, Arabic, Turkish and Persian, just to name a few. It has served as realm of legend, myth, of wonderment and exotica. Yet at the same time the Caucasus can serve as mirror to the outside, at a site where one can trace the processes that have shaped the broader world.

Explores significant events in the naval history of the Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic and cultural life on the islands.

Explores significant events in the naval history of the Ottoman Empire, along with topics including collective punishments by invaders, and many aspects of economic and cultural life on the islands.

In this updated and expanded edition of the 2016 The Kurds: A Modern History, Michael Gunter adds over 50 new pages that recount and analyze recent political, military, and economic events from 2016 to the end of 2018.

The newly updated and expanded second volume in this fascinating series examines: The Partition of Africa; Collaboration or Resistance to European Rule in Africa; Colonial Rule in Africa; Educating the African Populations; Forging a National Identity; and Exploitation or Development in Africa.

Santiago Perez Triana was a Colombian author, journalist, and diplomat who became one of the leading proponents of pan-American unity and crusaders against European intervention in the western hemisphere. He led a dramatic globetrotting life and became one of Latin America's best-known public figures, but his work has been largely overlooked in recent years, until the arrival of this biography.

25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and Ivory Coast, has established a legacy as widely known as its bright kente cloth. This first-of-its-kind collection features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives on the histories of the Akan peoples.

A collection of key essays about the Akan people, their history, and their culture. The Akans are an ethnic group from West Africa, predominately Ghana and Togo, of roughly 25 million people. This volume features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives.

In vivid and engaging style, Douglas Brookes uses the royal tomb of Sultan Mahmud II as a window onto the past, exploring the insights the tomb reveals about Ottoman culture in its splendid last decades. Woven into the tale are the life stories of the Turkish royals and harem concubines interred in the mausoleum, and the illustrious Ottomans buried in the tomb's garden.

From the moment the United States seized Puerto Rico, in 1898, to the 1950s, the islanders employed various forms of resistance against American colonial rule. While the male Nationalists have been celebrated as heroes in Puerto Rico, the women have gone unmentioned This book seeks to rescue the stories of the women who gave up their freedom in the quest to liberate their homeland.

The Caucasus is a meeting point of East and West, Europe and Asia, Christiandom and Islam. The cultures include Greek, Slavic, Arabic, Turkish and Persian, just to name a few. It has served as realm of legend, myth, of wonderment and exotica. Yet at the same time the Caucasus can serve as mirror to the outside, at a site where one can trace the processes that have shaped the broader world.

A translation of Iranian Documents from the early nineteenth century as to the 21st Century which shed light on aspects of political, social and intellectual history of modern Iran.

This is an updated and expanded 2015 edition of a classic text on Muslim thinking about war and peace. The new edition includes a new introduction and translations of selected revelatory excerpts from ISIS texts about the treatment of POWs, guidelines on the ""management of barbarity"", fatwas in opposition to ISIS, and other key topics.

Offers a full spectrum of emotionally charged theories. Each section presents a set of conflicting arguments to show the state of debates on these highly controversial issues. Extensive commentary by the editors leads the reader through this treasury of theories and dramatically highlights the development of the field.

Chronicles the observations of Chinese travellers who travelled to the Turkish Republic in the first quarter of the 20th century, and features the notes of historical figures including Shi Zhaoji, the first Chinese ambassador to the US, and Hu Hanmin, an early leader in the Kuomintang.

This is the first reader that goes beyond the fragmentation between Spanish, British, Dutch, and French Caribbean history to explain slavery, emancipation, colonization and decolonization in the region. The contributors to this pan-Caribbean approach are leading scholars in the field, including Franklin Knight and Luis Martinez-Fernandez.

The 25-million-strong Akan, a cultural-linguistic group found predominantly in present-day Ghana and to a lesser extent Togo and Ivory Coast, has established a legacy as widely known as its bright kente cloth. This first-of-its-kind collection features a new array of primary sources that provide fresh and nuanced perspectives on the histories of the Akan peoples.

Examines the ways in which developments in the courts and commercial centers of the Americas, Europe, and Africa have affected the common people of Puerto Rico, who have tried since the nineteenth century to take control of their political, social and economic lives.

This central focus of this title is General China, the most important but controversial leader of the notorious Mau Mau rebellion that exploded in Kenya during the 1950s. We read the story through the lens of China, his memoirs - now published for the first time outside of Kenya - and archival sources, to understand important themes in African history.

This central focus of this title is General China, the most important but controversial leader of the notorious Mau Mau rebellion that exploded in Kenya during the 1950s. We read the story through the lens of China, his memoirs - now published for the first time outside of Kenya - and archival sources, to understand important themes in African history.

An updated 2013 edition of the classic reader by Robert O. Collins. This collection covers the major problems in the field, incorporating classic texts, the newest research, and recent controversies about the origins of African history and Africa's contributions to non-Western world history.

Original title: A history of Latin America.