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(Paperback)

By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691606101
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The two decades that followed World War II witnessed the end of the great European empires in Asia and Africa. Robert Tignor's new study of the decolonization experiences of Egypt, Nigeria, and Kenya elucidates the major factors that led to the transfer of power from British to African hands in these three territories. Employing a comparative metho


(Hardback)

By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691634944
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691617374
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This book takes an entirely new approach to the evolution of cities and of societies in premodern periods. Refining the theory advanced in his earlier study of China and Japan, Gilbert Rozman examines the development of Russia over several centuries with emphasis on the period immediately preceding the Industrial Revolution. He makes possible compa


(Hardback)

By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691644523
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691623641
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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In occupied Egypt, British governmental programs were closely related to England's needs as an imperial power since Egypt was occupied because of its strategic position along the route to India. British presence there, however, inevitably led to modernization during the 32 years of British rule. During the first period the British were preoccupied


(Hardback)

By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691650289
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)

By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691629650
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691612652
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)

By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691202617
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)

By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691215716
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, Revised edition)

By: Robert L. Tignor

ISBN: 9780691153070
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Provides a key to Egypt in all its layers - ancient and modern, Greek and Roman, and Christian and Islamic. This title gives an account of history that followed - from Greek and Roman conquests, the rise of Christianity, Arab-Muslim triumph, and Egypt's incorporation into powerful Islamic empires to Napoleon's 1798 invasion.