Book Reviewed
Meeting the Challenge of Cultural Diversity in Europe: Moving Beyond the Crisis
In this book, the author advocates moving from a theoretical paradigm of assimilationism and multiculturalism to ‘intercultural integration’. Robin Wilson offers an underlying re-foundation...
American Academic Cultures: A History of Higher Education
At a time when American higher education seems ever more to be reflecting on its purpose and potential, people are more persuaded than ever...
China and the Islamic World: How the New Silk Road Is Transforming Global Politics
Robert Bianchi takes readers through an exploration of China's multi-pronged and multifaceted engagement with the Muslim world by focusing on its ambitious new project,...
Protecting Multiculturalism: Muslims, Security, and Integration in Canada
In a post-9/11 sea of social and political disputes, one state stands apart. As a progressively strong anti-Islamic social movement grows in the West,...
The Genesis of America: US Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1793–1815
The book examines how US foreign policy helped the formation of American national consciousness. Jasper M. Trautsch places foreign policy at the centre of...
Post-Ottoman Topologies: The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State
How are historians and social scientists to understand the emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective memories of the Ottoman Empire in the...
Travellers in Ottoman Lands: The Botanical Legacy
This book focuses on the botanical legacy of many parts of the former Ottoman Empire including present-day Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, the Balkans, and...
The Lion and the Nightingale: A Journey Through Modern Turkey
The Lion and the Nightingale follows the lives of various professionals in Turkey as they seek to navigate the problems faced by the country...
Winds of Change: The Challenge of Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa
The latest developments in the Middle East and North Africa have fundamentally unsettled the region, which is plagued with rising religious and political tensions,...