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Boundaries of discourse in the International Court of Justice mapping arguments in Arab territorial disputes / by Burgis, Michelle L.

Table of Contents: “…Listening for silences in and beyond the courtroom : methodological tools for understanding ICJ territorial disputes -- Between faith and place : Arab-Islamic approaches to authority and territory in theory and practice -- Sanctioning colonial legacies in the Sahara : the construction of postcolonial selfhood in the Libya/Chad territorial dispute -- (De)limiting the past for future gain : the relationship between statehood, colonialism, and oil in the Qatar v Bahrain territorial dispute -- Determining the limits of law in the Western Sahara case -- Discourses of division : law, politics, and the ICJ advisory opinion on the legal consequences of the construction of a wall in the occupied Palestinian territory.…”
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Muslim societies in Africa a historical anthropology / by Loimeier, Roman

Table of Contents: “…-- The Bilād al-Maghrib: rebels, saints, and heretics -- The Sahara as connective space -- Dynamics of Islamization in the Bilād al-Sūdān -- Dynamics of jihād in the Bilād al-Sūdān -- Islam in Nubia and Funj -- Egyptian colonialism and the Mahdī in the Sudan -- Ethiopia and Islam -- Muslims on the Horn of Africa -- The East African coast -- Muslims on the Cape: community and dispute -- Muslims under colonial rule.…”
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Muslim societies in Africa a historical anthropology / by Loimeier, Roman

Table of Contents: “…-- The Bilād al-Maghrib: rebels, saints, and heretics -- The Sahara as connective space -- Dynamics of Islamization in the Bilād al-Sūdān -- Dynamics of jihād in the Bilād al-Sūdān -- Islam in Nubia and Funj -- Egyptian colonialism and the Mahdī in the Sudan -- Ethiopia and Islam -- Muslims on the Horn of Africa -- The East African coast -- Muslims on the Cape: community and dispute -- Muslims under colonial rule.…”
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A history of art in Africa / by Visonà, Monica Blackmun, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…I: From the Nile to the Niger -- The Sahara and the Maghreb -- Lands of the Nile: Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia -- The Central Sudan -- Mande Worlds and the Upper Niger -- The Western Sudan -- Pt. …”
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A history of art in Africa / by Visonà, Monica Blackmun, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…I: From the Nile to the Niger -- The Sahara and the Maghreb -- Lands of the Nile: Egypt, Nubia, and Ethiopia -- The Central Sudan -- Mande Worlds and the Upper Niger -- The Western Sudan -- Pt. …”
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Imagining creation

Table of Contents: “…Lambert -- Creation stories in ancient Egypt / Stephen Quirke -- You can't get here from there : the logical paradox of ancient Indian creation myths / Wendy Doniger -- Stories of the beginning : origin myths in Africa south of the Sahara / Mineke Schipper -- Modern Jewish attitudes to the concept of myth / Wout Jac. van Bekkum -- Extract from Genesis 1-2 translation and commentary, Norton, NY 1996 / Robert Alter -- The Bible in the making : Slavonic creation stories / Florentina Badalanova -- Arab creation stories beyond the pale / Abdullah al-Udhari -- Lurianic creation myths / Daphne Freedman.…”
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Imagining creation

Table of Contents: “…Lambert -- Creation stories in ancient Egypt / Stephen Quirke -- You can't get here from there : the logical paradox of ancient Indian creation myths / Wendy Doniger -- Stories of the beginning : origin myths in Africa south of the Sahara / Mineke Schipper -- Modern Jewish attitudes to the concept of myth / Wout Jac. van Bekkum -- Extract from Genesis 1-2 translation and commentary, Norton, NY 1996 / Robert Alter -- The Bible in the making : Slavonic creation stories / Florentina Badalanova -- Arab creation stories beyond the pale / Abdullah al-Udhari -- Lurianic creation myths / Daphne Freedman.…”
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Flashes of a southern spirit meanings of the spirit in the U.S. South / by Wilson, Charles Reagan

Table of Contents: “…The invention of southern tradition : the writing and ritualization of southern history, 1880-1930 -- The burden of southern culture -- Saturated southerners : the South's poor whites and southern regional consciousness -- Our land, our country : Faulkner, the South, and the American way of life -- The myth of the biracial South -- Beyond the Sahara of the Bozart : creativity and southern culture -- Flashes of the spirit : creativity and southern religion -- The word and the image : self-taught art, the Bible, the spirit, and southern creativity -- Apocalypse South : McKendree Long and southern evangelicalism -- "Just a little talk with Jesus" : Elvis Presley, religious music, and southern spirituality -- Richard Wright's pagan Spain : a southern Protestant abroad -- A journey to southern religious studies -- Afterword : constructing and experiencing the spirit.…”
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Flashes of a southern spirit meanings of the spirit in the U.S. South / by Wilson, Charles Reagan

Table of Contents: “…The invention of southern tradition : the writing and ritualization of southern history, 1880-1930 -- The burden of southern culture -- Saturated southerners : the South's poor whites and southern regional consciousness -- Our land, our country : Faulkner, the South, and the American way of life -- The myth of the biracial South -- Beyond the Sahara of the Bozart : creativity and southern culture -- Flashes of the spirit : creativity and southern religion -- The word and the image : self-taught art, the Bible, the spirit, and southern creativity -- Apocalypse South : McKendree Long and southern evangelicalism -- "Just a little talk with Jesus" : Elvis Presley, religious music, and southern spirituality -- Richard Wright's pagan Spain : a southern Protestant abroad -- A journey to southern religious studies -- Afterword : constructing and experiencing the spirit.…”
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African brain circulation beyond the drain-gain debate /

Table of Contents: “…Pan-African brain circulation / Cynthia Lucas Hewitt -- Diaspora remittances and the financing of basic social services and infrastructure in francophone Africa south of the Sahara / Fondo Sikod and Gerard Tchouassi -- Globalization, migration, and the challenges of development in Africa / John Akokpari -- On the brain drain of Africans to America : some methodological observations / F. …”
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Settlers in contested lands : territorial disputes and ethnic conflicts /

Table of Contents: “…Settlers and conflict over contested territories / Oded Haklai and Neophytos Loizides -- The decisive path of state indecisiveness : Israeli settlers in the West Bank in comparative perspective / Oded Haklai -- Moroccan settlers in Western Sahara : colonists or fifth column? / Jacob Mundy and Stephen Zunes -- Settlement, sovereignty, and social engineering : fascist settlement policy between nation and empire / Roberta Pergher -- The Indonesian settlement project in East Timor / Ehud Eiran -- Settlers and state-building : the Kirkuk case / Denise Natali -- Settlers, immigrants, colonists : the three layers of settler-induced conflict in Sri Lanka / Evangelos Liaras -- Settlers, mobilization and displacement in Cyprus : antinomies of ethnic conflict and immigration politics / Neophytos Loizides -- Conclusion : the political dynamics of settlement projects : the central state-settler-native triangle / Ian S. …”
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Settlers in contested lands : territorial disputes and ethnic conflicts /

Table of Contents: “…Settlers and conflict over contested territories / Oded Haklai and Neophytos Loizides -- The decisive path of state indecisiveness : Israeli settlers in the West Bank in comparative perspective / Oded Haklai -- Moroccan settlers in Western Sahara : colonists or fifth column? / Jacob Mundy and Stephen Zunes -- Settlement, sovereignty, and social engineering : fascist settlement policy between nation and empire / Roberta Pergher -- The Indonesian settlement project in East Timor / Ehud Eiran -- Settlers and state-building : the Kirkuk case / Denise Natali -- Settlers, immigrants, colonists : the three layers of settler-induced conflict in Sri Lanka / Evangelos Liaras -- Settlers, mobilization and displacement in Cyprus : antinomies of ethnic conflict and immigration politics / Neophytos Loizides -- Conclusion : the political dynamics of settlement projects : the central state-settler-native triangle / Ian S. …”
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African brain circulation beyond the drain-gain debate /

Table of Contents: “…Pan-African brain circulation / Cynthia Lucas Hewitt -- Diaspora remittances and the financing of basic social services and infrastructure in francophone Africa south of the Sahara / Fondo Sikod and Gerard Tchouassi -- Globalization, migration, and the challenges of development in Africa / John Akokpari -- On the brain drain of Africans to America : some methodological observations / F. …”
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Pastoralism in Africa : past, present and future /

Table of Contents: “…Specialisation and diversification among African pastoral societies / Michael Bollig and Michael Schnegg -- Herders before pastoralism : prehistoric prelude in the eastern Sahara / Rudolph Kuper and Heiko Riemer -- 'I hope your cattle are well' : archaeological evidence for early cattle-centred behaviour in the eastern Sahara of Sudan and Chad / Friederike Jesse, Birgit Keding, Tilman Lenssen-Erz and Nadja P�ollath -- Trajectories to pastoralism in northern and central Kenya : an overview of the archaeological and environmental evidence / Paul Lane -- From first stock keepers to specialised pastoralists in the West African savanna / Veerle Linseele -- A short history of early herding in Southern Africa / Karim Sadr -- Establishing a pre-colonial 'modern' cattle and gun society : (re-)pastoralisation, mercantile capitalism and power amongst Herero in nineteenth century central Namibia / Dag Henrichsen -- The emergence of commercial ranching under state control and the encapsulation of pastoralism in African reserves / Christo Botha -- Land, boreholes and fences : the development of commercial livestock farming in the Outjo district, Namibia / Ute Dieckmann -- The political ecology of specialisation and diversification : long-term dynamics of pastoralism in East Pokot District, Kenya / Michael Bollig and Matthias �Osterle -- Social-ecological change and institutional development in a pastoral community in north-western Namibia / Michael Bollig -- Pastoral belonging : causes and consequences of part-time pastoralism in north-western Namibia / Michael Schnegg, Julia Pauli and Clemens Greiner -- State, conflict and pastoralism in contemporary eastern Chad : the case of Zaghawa-Tama relationships / Babett J�anszky and Grit Jungstand -- Unofficial trade when states are weak : the case of cross-border livestock trade in the Horn of Africa / Peter D. …”
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Pastoralism in Africa : past, present and future /

Table of Contents: “…Specialisation and diversification among African pastoral societies / Michael Bollig and Michael Schnegg -- Herders before pastoralism : prehistoric prelude in the eastern Sahara / Rudolph Kuper and Heiko Riemer -- 'I hope your cattle are well' : archaeological evidence for early cattle-centred behaviour in the eastern Sahara of Sudan and Chad / Friederike Jesse, Birgit Keding, Tilman Lenssen-Erz and Nadja P�ollath -- Trajectories to pastoralism in northern and central Kenya : an overview of the archaeological and environmental evidence / Paul Lane -- From first stock keepers to specialised pastoralists in the West African savanna / Veerle Linseele -- A short history of early herding in Southern Africa / Karim Sadr -- Establishing a pre-colonial 'modern' cattle and gun society : (re-)pastoralisation, mercantile capitalism and power amongst Herero in nineteenth century central Namibia / Dag Henrichsen -- The emergence of commercial ranching under state control and the encapsulation of pastoralism in African reserves / Christo Botha -- Land, boreholes and fences : the development of commercial livestock farming in the Outjo district, Namibia / Ute Dieckmann -- The political ecology of specialisation and diversification : long-term dynamics of pastoralism in East Pokot District, Kenya / Michael Bollig and Matthias �Osterle -- Social-ecological change and institutional development in a pastoral community in north-western Namibia / Michael Bollig -- Pastoral belonging : causes and consequences of part-time pastoralism in north-western Namibia / Michael Schnegg, Julia Pauli and Clemens Greiner -- State, conflict and pastoralism in contemporary eastern Chad : the case of Zaghawa-Tama relationships / Babett J�anszky and Grit Jungstand -- Unofficial trade when states are weak : the case of cross-border livestock trade in the Horn of Africa / Peter D. …”
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Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Body of Work : Water and Reimagining the Sahara in the Era of Decolonization / George R. Trumbull IV -- From the Bottom Up : The Nile, Silt, and Humans in Ottoman Egypt / Alan Mikhail -- Drafting a Map of Colonial Egypt : The 1902 Aswan Dam, Historical Imagination, and the Production of Agricultural Geography / Jennifer L. …”
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Environmental imaginaries of the Middle East and North Africa

Table of Contents: “…Davis -- Body of Work : Water and Reimagining the Sahara in the Era of Decolonization / George R. Trumbull IV -- From the Bottom Up : The Nile, Silt, and Humans in Ottoman Egypt / Alan Mikhail -- Drafting a Map of Colonial Egypt : The 1902 Aswan Dam, Historical Imagination, and the Production of Agricultural Geography / Jennifer L. …”
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The East Timor question the struggle for independence from Indonesia /

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The East Timor question the struggle for independence from Indonesia /

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Atlas of Challenges and Opportunities in European Neighbourhoods

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