Table of Contents: “…Urban Music Box, Urban Hearing: Avraamov's Symphony of Sirens in Baku and Moscow, 1922-1923---A Media-Archaeological Miniature --…”
Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed)

Table of Contents: “…Maximum danger: Finland, Baku, and the Katyn Massacre ;…”

Table of Contents: “…Is There a Network of Sacred Fires Across the Himalayas and Central Asia? From Baku to Nepal, and Back /…”
Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents: “…The Symphony of sirens, and the Baku experiment /…”
Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Contents; Illustrations, Maps, and Tables; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Author's Note: On Words; Introduction; 1 Oil and the Great Game; 2 Petroleum and Pipeline Politics; 3 The Last Crusade in the Middle East; 4 The Black Blood of Victory; 5 The Deployment of Dunsterforce; 6 Basra to Baghdad to Baku; 7 The Battle for Baku; 8 Peace and Petroleum; 9 Oil and the New Great Game; Conclusion; Epilogue; Appendix: Petroleum Situation in the British Empire; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”
Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

View this video online

Table of Contents: “…The Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas PipelineThe Trans-Adriatic Natural Gas Pipeline; The Baku-Supsa Oil Pipeline; The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Oil Pipeline; The Trans-Eurasian Information Super Highway Project; The Organisational Partners of the TASIM Secretariat; A Security Community of Interests and Cooperation on the Caspian Energy; Challenges faced by Azerbaijan as a Regional Economic Driver; The recurrent nature of the debate on Azerbaijan's energy policy direction; Azerbaijan-Turkey relations: challenges in managing mutual dependence.…”
Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents: “…Military coalitions and coalition warfare over the past century / Paul Kennedy -- The Austro-German alliance, 1914-18 / Norman Stone -- Suez, Baku, Gallipoli / Ulrich Trumpener -- Hume Wrong's road to the functional principle / J.L. …”

Table of Contents: “…A verse from "Translations of old Okinawan poems" (ca. 1922) / Serei Kunio -- My last letter (1927) / Nakamura Kare -- Entering the harbor of a southern island (1931) ; Dead body (1931) / Tsukayama Issui -- A conversation (1395) ; Shell-shocked island (1964) / Yamanokuchi Baku -- Dream revelations (1994) / Takara Ben -- Officer Ukuma (1922) / Ikemiyagi Sekihō -- Memoirs of a declining Ryukyuan woman (1932) ; In a defense of 'Memoirs of a declining Ryukyuan woman' / Kushi Fusako -- Mr. …”
Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: heterodoxy and heterology on the threshold of Eurasia -- Parodic and messianic genealogies : reading Gogol in Azeri in the late imperial Caucasus -- Aesthetics of empathy : the Azeri subject in translations of Pushkin -- A window onto the East : Baku's avant-garde poetics and the translatio imperii -- Broken verse : the materiality of the symbol in new Turkic poetics -- Postscript : Latinization and Refili's "Window" onto Soviet Azerbaijan.…”
Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents: “…The barons -- A visitor from Sweden -- Revolution -- Soviet days -- The middleman -- Détente -- The perfect oil field -- Crossfire -- The first deal -- Return to Baku -- The contract of the century -- The near abroad -- Early oil -- A battle of wills -- A tale of two negotiators -- An accidental pipeline -- An army for oil -- Boom and bust -- Kashagan -- A way to the sea -- The king of Kazakhstan -- Epilogue.…”
View Table of contents only

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : oil, states and corporations, and the politics of culture -- The socialist oil complex : scarcity and hierarchies of prestige in the second Baku -- Circulation before privatization : petrobarter and new corporate forms -- The Lukoilization of production : space, capital, and surrogate currencies -- State/corporation : the social and cultural project movement -- Corporation/state : Lukoil as general partner of the Perm region -- Oil and culture : the depths of postsocialism -- Alternative energies : Lukoil-Perm in corporate and cultural fields -- "Bilbao on the Kama"? …”
Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed)

Table of Contents: “…Colonialism and the politics of postcolonial critique -- Colonialism -- Imperialism -- Neocolonialism -- Postcolonialism -- Las casas to Bentham -- Nineteenth-century liberalism -- Marx on colonialism and imperialism -- Socialism and nationalism: the first international to the Russian Revolution -- The third international, to the Baku Congress of the peoples of the East -- The women's international, the third and the fourth internationals -- The national liberation movements: introduction -- Marxism and the national liberation movements -- China, Egypt, Bandung -- Latin America I: Mariátegui, transculturation and cultural dependency -- Latin America II: Cuba: Guevara, Castro and the tricontinental -- Africa: Anglophone African socialism -- Africa II: Nkrumah and pan-Africanism -- Africa III: the Senghors and the Francophone African socialism -- Africa IV: Fanon/Cabral -- The subject of violence: Algeria, Ireland -- India: Marxism in India -- India II: Gandhi's counter-modernity -- India III: Hybridity and subaltern agency -- Women, gender and anti-colonialism -- Edward Said and colonial discourse -- Foucault in Tunisia -- Subjectivity and history: Derrida in Algeria.…”

Table of Contents: “…The Transcaucasian Republic, the declaration of independence of Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, and foreign interventions -- 2.1 The short-lived Transcaucasian Republic -- 2.2 Ethnic and social conflicts in Georgia -- 2.3 The Republic of Armenia -- 2.4 The race for Baku -- 2.5 War in Karabakh, Nakhchivan, Zangezur and Kars -- 2.6 Armenia and the Paris Peace Conference -- 3. …”
Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)

Table of Contents: “…Crossing the line -- February 1988 : an Armenian revolt -- February 1988 : Azerbaijan : puzzlement and pogroms -- Shusha : the neighbors' tale -- 1988-89 : an Armenian crisis -- Yerevan : mysteries of the East -- 1988-90 : an Azerbaijani tragedy -- Baku : an eventful history -- 1990 : a Soviet civil war -- Divisions : a twentieth century story -- Hurekavank : the unpredictable past -- August 1991-May 1992 : war breaks out -- Shusha : the last citadel -- June 1992-September 1993 : escalation -- Sabirabad : the children's republic -- September 1993 : exhaustion -- Stepanakert : a state apart -- 1994-2001 : no war, no peace -- Sadakhlo : the future.…”

Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)

Table of Contents: “…The Berdanka -- Profi t-sharing and reform of working conditions -- 5 ROBERT -- The Caucasus -- The de Boer Brothers -- Logistical challenges -- A St Petersburg interlude -- Bad Kube -- City of the Winds -- 6 ROBERT AND LUDVIG -- Excise duty -- 'Brilliant results' -- 'Views on the oil industry in Baku and its future' -- Ludvig's programme -- The Nobel brothers' Naphtha Production Company -- The men around Robert -- Robert's last days in Baku -- 7 THE NOBEL BROTHERS -- 'Our works are large and magnificent' -- Villa Petrolea -- The pessimist and the optimist…”
Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed; 325 uses per year)

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Beyond Nationalism and Revolution in Southeast Asia -- From Bohemia to Balintawak : Cosmopolitan Origins of the Philippine Revolution -- Masonería, Cofradía, Katipunan : Revolutionary Brotherhoods in the Philippines, 1896-1901 -- From Baku to Bandung : Cosmopolitan Origins of the Indonesian Revolution -- From Cultuurstelsel to Komedie Stamboel : The Long Nineteenth Century in the Indies -- Newspapers, Rallies, Strikes : The Rise and Fall of Sarekat Islam (SI), 1912-1926 -- Soekarno and the Promise of NASAKOM : From Rust en Orde through the Pacific War, 1926-1945 -- Republicanism, Communism, Islam: Revolusi, 1945-1949 -- From Guangzhou, Porto Novo, and Antananarivo toward Địên Biên Ph̉u -- From C̀ân Vương to Viêt-Nam Duy-Tân Ḥôi to Thanh Niên -- From Thanh Niên to the Indochinese Communist Party (ICP) and the Vịêt Minh -- Conclusion : Commonalities, Comparisons, Conclusions.…”
Connect to this title online (unlimited simultaneous users allowed)