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A History of Modern Iran

, 2018
Introduction 1. 'Royal despots': state and society under the Qajars 2. Reform, revolution, and the Great War 3. The iron fist of Reza Shah 4. The Nationalist interregnum (1941-53) 5. Muhammad Reza Shah's white revolution 6. The Islamic Republic.
E. Abrahamian
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The Global History of “Modernity”

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1998
This paper finds its origin in a certain uneasiness with the application of the notion of "modernity" to a wide-ranging set of phenomena in world history and with the replacement of an idea of the singularity of modernity by a notion of a multiplicity of "modernities." It offers a critical reflection on the arguments put forward in the contributions ...
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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present

, 2013
This is a scholar's biography of Andrew Gordon, a prominent scholar in the field of Japanese History.
M. Barnes
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Stroke: A Modern History

American Journal of Therapeutics, 2011
Prevention and treatment of stroke has changed substantially since the time of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who died of an intracerebral hemorrhage in 1945. As the understanding of stroke pathophysiology advanced, the beneficial effects of antiplatelet and anticoagulant drugs were recognized. Imaging of blood vessels by angiography made surgical therapies
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A History of Modern Africa

, 2019
• Adopts a long-term approach to current issues, stressing the importance of nineteenth-century and deeper indigenous dynamics in explaining Africa's later twentieth-century challenges • Places a greater focus on African agency, especially during the ...
Richard J. Reid
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Gendering modern Japanese history

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Japanese Culture, 2019
In the past quarter-century, gender has emerged as a lively area of inquiry for historians and other scholars, and gender analysis has suggested important revisions of the "master narratives" of national histories - the dominant, often celebratory tales ...
Barbara Molony, K. Uno
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A Modern History of Tanganyika [PDF]

open access: possibleVerfassung in Recht und Übersee, 1979
This is the first comprehensive and fully documented history of modern Tanganyika (mainland Tanzania). After introductory chapters on the nineteenth century, Dr Iliffe concentrates on the colonial period, and especially on economic, social and intellectual change among Africans as the core of their colonial experience and the basis of their political ...
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"The End of Modern History"?

Geographical Review, 1998
Historical geography, like environmental history, to which it is so closely allied intellectually (Dovers 1994; Williams 1994; Powell 1996), has the difficult task of selecting important themes and topics about past relationships between history and geography, nature and culture, society and environment.
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Qatar: A Modern History

, 2012
What role does Qatar play in the Middle East and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the Al-Thani tribe shaped the history of modern Qatar?
Allen Fromherz
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