Books written by William R. Polk
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Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Khamenei
But even if we apply a sizable discount to what we read, the results are still almost genocidal. So what can we make of them? It seems to me that we cannot discount the violence by ascribing it to just armed militants oppressing a ...
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Polk's Folly: An American Family History
Thomas's replacement as commissioner general was one of the army's most dashing commanders, Colonel William R. Davie. Davie also wanted to fight rather than to become a quartermaster, and in trying to evade the assignment, ...
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Neighbors and Strangers: The Fundamentals of Foreign Affairs
The Fundamentals of Foreign Affairs William R. Polk. the Arabic tawassal, which means to have a ... Livy, The Early History of Rome, 1:32; Maurice R. Davie, The Evolution of War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1929), app. L. 55.
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Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, From Persia to the Islamic Republic, From Cyrus to Khamenei
On Montazeri see Najmeh Bozorgmehr, "Iran crackdown intensifies," Financial Times, June 25, 2009 and Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, "Iran's senior ayatollah slams election ...
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Crusade and Jihad: The Thousand-Year War Between the Muslim World and the Global North
Thomas Roe, The Embassy of Sir Thomas Roe to India 1615–19, ed. W. Foster (London: Hakluyt Society, 1899; repr., Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1926). Readers of the recent writings of the Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, ...
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The Birth of America: From Before Columbus to the Revolution
That story forms the basis of The Birth of America. In addition to its discussion of the influence the British had on the colonies, The Birth of America covers the pivotal roles played by the Spanish, French, and Dutch in early America.
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Out of Iraq: A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now
A Practical Plan for Withdrawal Now George McGovern, William R. Polk ... Iraqi self-determination, fundamental right of, 92–95 sewage system, 45, 50, 61–62, 91–92 Shahristani, Hussein al-, 60 Shell, 34n Sherman, Matt, 103n Sherman, ...
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Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate...
In this acutely penetrating and endlessly fascinating study, acknowledged Middle East authority William R. Polk presents a comprehensive history of the tumultuous events that shaped modern Iraq, while offering well-reasoned judgments on ...
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Blind Man's Buff
This is a fictional account of an episode in the in the modern Great Game -- the story of an Anglo-American-Russian espionage venture in which a young American intelligence agent carries on in the spirit of the old Great Game.
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Violent Politics: A History of Insurgency, Terrorism and Guerrilla War, from the American Revolution to Iraq
Its roots stretch back to our own revolution. In this volume, Polk takes us on a tour of insurgencies throughout history, starting with the American struggle for independence. The rebel groups employed the tactics of insurgency.
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Understanding Iraq: The Whole Sweep of Iraqi History, from Genghis Khan's Mongols to the Ottoman Turks to the British Mandate...
Iraq will continue to be a major issue and involvement for the United States into the foreseeable future says William R. Polk, former member of the State Department's Policy Planning Council and professor of Middle Eastern history at the ...