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A Dictionary of Albanian Religion, Mythology and Folk Culture - Robert Elsie - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=N_IXHrXIsYkC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false
This dictionary makes available for the first time a broad range of knowledge unknown or little-known to the western world, and indeed much information that is now lost to present-day Albanians. As such, it serves as a basic work of reference for readers…
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Palace of the People: The Crystal Palace at Sydenham 1854-1936 - Jan Piggott - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=1W49qPQKJEwC&pg=PA198&dq=Schallehn#v=onepage
This book traces the rise and fall of what became known as 'The People's Palace', the Crystal Palace at Sydenham in South London.
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The Paradoxical Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Momentum of Reform - Daryl Champion - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=CBQLWK2Uxs8C&pg=PA73&dq=Sudairi+family+clan&lr=&as_brr=3
Publisher's description: The major player in the OPEC international oil industry cartel, Saudi Arabia is also the homeland of the Prophet Muhammad and the center of the Muslim world with the most sacred Islamic sites located in and around the cities of…
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Albania: From Anarchy to a Balkan Identity - Miranda Vickers, James Pettifer - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=9IbgsDdeVxsC&pg=PA296&dq=Hajredin+%C3%87eliku#v=onepage
This work analyzes the events leading to the overthrow of the one-party state in Albania, the end of communism and the transistion to democracy. It is divided into historical sections which trace the disintegration of the communist system, culminating in…
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Saviours of the Nation?: Serbia's Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of ... - Jasna Dragović-Soso - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=ruiZyNgIII8C&pg&pg=PA58&dq=1984+Seselj+Prison+Intelligentsia#v=onepage
Yugoslavia's breakup in 1991, and the wars in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo that followed in its wake, have been widely blamed on Serbian nationalism. Most analyses have not examined this nationalism in the years before Slobodan Miloševićs' rise to power,…
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Crime, Punishment and the Prison in China - Frank Dikötter - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=JQKhpSED5okC&pg=PA91&dq=%22Yan+Jingyue%22&hl=de&sa=X&ei=vWAHT9ncJsSBhQe_5OClCQ#v=onepage
An examination of the enormous changes in Chinese society in the first half of the 20th century through the lens of the Chinese prison system. More than a simple history of prison rules or penal administration, the text offers a social and cultural…
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Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and Fighting Caste - Christophe Jaffrelot - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=KIIJkaJo4z4C&pg=PA80
Bhim Rao Ambedkar (1891-1956) was the first Dalit, or low caste Hindu, ever to be formally educated. He studied in the United States and Britain, where hegained his Ph.D., but notwithstanding his achievements he remained true to his Dalit background and…
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The Agony of Algeria - Martin Stone - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=zKLHw5AzJm4C&pg=PA46&dq=mohamed+khemisti&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjU09zsuIXaAhXBa1AKHYYpCvQ4ChDoAQ
Rioting in Algiers in 1988 brought to international attention the widespread dissatisfaction with FLN rule. Despite enormous oil revenues, Algeria's economic performance since independence has been dismal, and this, combined with the FLN's imposition of a…
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The Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics: 1925 to the 1990s ... - Christophe Jaffrelot - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=sICSb-UMiQYC&pg=PA397#v=onepage
The violent campaign to erect a temple to Lord Ram on a site occupied by a mosque in the north Indian city of Ayodhya is only the latest manifestation of extreme Hindu nationalism. Hindu chauvinists argue that India's Hindu heritage was usurped by the…
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Islam in the Balkans: Religion and Society Between Europe and the Arab World - H. T. Norris, Harry Thirlwall Norris - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=kTcRDKnYf2cC&pg=PA231
The tragic events that began to unfold in the former Yugoslavia at the beginning of the 1990s have drawn the world's attention to the history and rich culture of the Muslim communities of Bosnia especially, but also of Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia - the…