This encyclopedia is an essential guide to the different ethno-linguistic groups in Africa and today's complicated Middle East region. • Contains contributions from international scholars and independent researchers who have lived and worked in countries such as Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Guinea Conakry, Jordan, Lesotho, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Sudan, and Syria • Includes bibliographic information after each entry, photographs, and an index
Encyclopedia of the Peoples of Africa and the Middle East is a two-volume A-to-Z reference to the history and culture of the peoples of Africa and the Middle East.
The nine-page glossary is adequate. Collections holding the volumes on Africa and the Middle East in Macmillan's ten-volume Encyclopedia of the World Cultures will appreciate how readable and compact this work is.
Africa and the Middle East
Known as the Jiuli, led by the legen— dary Chiyou, they often warred with the expanding Han Chinese. As the Han popu— lation grew, the Han Chinese expanded into the J iuli homeland, setting off a major war in the region of present ...
The Han form the majority of the population in Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore, where they make up 74 per- cent of the total population. Other large Han communities are in Indonesia, Thai- land, Malaysia, the United States, Canada, ...
Throughout the text, special attention is focused on the relationship between ethnicity and nationalism.
Further Readings Mazoyer, Marcel and Laurence Roudart. A History of World Agriculture. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006. Smith, Monica L., ed. The Social Construction of Ancient Cities. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Books, 2010.
Illuminates the lives of the most influential and controversial figures in the Middle East and North Africa who came to prominence during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Arranged over five volumes and containing some 700 entries, this comprehensive and authoritative encyclopedia addresses some of the most vital and practical issues of the twenty first century Includes entries written by experts from across ...
Illuminates the lives of the most influential and controversial figures in the Middle East and North Africa who came to prominence during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.