Charles E. Davies

Gebundenes Buch

The Blood-Red Arab Flag

An Investigation Into Qasimi Piracy 1797-1820

Beschreibung

In a scholarly but accessible account founded on contemporary sources, illustrated with testimonies of eye-witnesses and participants, this book sets out to decide the controversial question of whether the Qawasim were in fact pirates after acquiring an enduring reputation as such during the years 1797-1820.

Autor

Charles E. Davies is a barrister and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Centre for Arab Gulf Studies, University of Exeter. He studied Oriental Studies at Trinity College, Oxford, and then completed a doctorate in nineteenth-century Persian History at Saint Antony's College. The Blood-Red Arab Flag is the fruit of an appointment in 1988 as full-time Research Fellow at Exeter's Centre for Arab Gulf Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Exeter Press
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 1024g
• ISBN-13: 9780859895095
• ISBN-10: 0859895092
• Artikelnr.: 22317233