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Robert Tignor

Auteur van Egypt: A Short History

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Robert L. Tignor is Rosengarten Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary History at Princeton University.

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Egypt: A Short History (2010) 51 exemplaren

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A good overview, although I wish he had spent more time on the ancient history; the last 20% of the book is about the 1950s to the present, but that's okay. A little dry at times, but informative.
 
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belgrade18 | Sep 18, 2019 |
A really good text, although like all American text books terribly overpriced. Great illustrations though and nice writing. Best thing is that it is one of few world history books that does treat the globe as a connected whole and looks at globalising (and antiglobalising) forces rather than just collection a whole lot of national histories into a 'world history'. Good maps as well are a bonus.
 
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bevok | Jul 31, 2017 |
I don't usually read textbooks in my free time, or count them as part of my reading total, but I read this one as part of a Coursera course. I found it to be surprisingly good, and well above average in terms of quality. I've always been interested in history, and am happy to say I learned quite a bit from this book. For casual use, I wouldn't recommend it, but if you're taking a class that requires or even just recommends it, then you can be glad to have one of the better choices out there, in my experience.… (meer)
 
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TiffanyAK | Jan 10, 2013 |
A truly superb biography about the Caribbean-born economist Sir William Arthur Lewis. The book weaves the story of Lewis' intellectual development with his personal involvement in the tumultuous post-WWII events of decolonization in Africa and in the British West Indies. It is at the same time an inspiring account of genius prevailing over racial discrimination. Although Lewis was ultimately awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for his pioneering work on development economics, in many ways his career met multiple dead-ends. His efforts at creating prosperity in Ghana through a balance of central planning and fiscal discipline was destroyed by the politics of graft. His attempt as Principal of University College of the West Indies to foster development in the Caribbean by building a first rate university was crushed by separatist politics in the British islands. Even his theory of achieving economic development in poor countries through an acceleration of national savings and investment has been at least partially discredited in the wake of the ongoing failures in Africa. However, a great deal can be learned about the world through Lewis' experiences. Robert Tignor's biography of Arthur Lewis is an honest and well-documented account of the struggles of a courageous and brilliant man of African-descent. It would make fine material for a Hollywood movie!… (meer)
 
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Mandarinate | Aug 21, 2011 |

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