Historians, and international relations professionals will find this work riveting as it recounts Russia's strategic influence under President Vladimir Putin's leadership.
Though by no means exhaustive, the expansive scope of the works herein encompasses such other topics as the altering consciousness of space and time, and the phenomenon of globalization as a discourse, as an ideology and as a symbolic form.
The author of this study charts the growth of the German community in Britain before detailing the story of its destruction under the chauvinistic intolerance which gripped the country during the Great War.
"It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisami’s verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-century Persian allegorical romance." —Orhan Pahmuk, in the Times Literary Supplement
Vol. 2 issued also as thesis, Columbia University. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (v. 1, p. 346-444; v. 2. p. [319]-372) "Selected bibliography": v. 2, p. [375]-380. v. 1. Empire and nationalities.--v. 2. Empire reform.