In A Peace to End All Peace, David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. All of these conflicts-including the hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, and the violent challenges posed by Iraq's competing sects-are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. Published with a new afterword from the author-the classic, bestselling account of how the modern Middle East was created
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First published between 19 in Swedish, these four books were considered a single work by Moberg, who intended that they be read as documentary novels. Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, including the Minnesota Historical Society, enabled him to incorporate many details of pioneer life. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels. Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. From under semiclosed eyes, he studied the activities within the tavern. The smell from the nearby dock was overpowering. At three in the morning the cicadas haunting the evening air were adding to the night’s disturbing symphony. His tattered clothes were soaked with sweat. 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Steinem was born and raised in Toledo, where, she writes, “long before becoming a writer, I had been a semiprofessional dancer dreaming of tap dancing my way out…” In the preface for the 1995 edition of the book, Steinem writes: “Only personal stories, plus parallels with systems already recognized as political…can help us begin to see the world as if everyone mattered. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions - Kindle edition by Steinem, Gloria. Pornography,” “I Was a Playboy Bunny,” “If Hitler Were Alive, Whose Side Would He Be On?” and “Ruth’s Song (Because She Could Not Sing It).” Given that she was writing on sexual harassment, genital mutilation, unequal pay for equal work, and other humiliating inequities facing women, she often says that she. 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