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hardcover. Etat : fine. Etat de la jaquette : very good(+). Illustrated in both black-and-white and color. 231 pages, 4to, grey cloth, d.w. New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, (1982). A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.

hardcover. Etat : near fine. near fine. Illustrated in b/w and color. 231 pages. 4to, grey cloth, d.w. (lightly sunned spine). New York: Alpine Fine Arts Collection, (1982). A small faint stain at top of rear cloth, near fine in a near fine dust wrapper.

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 288 pages; Description: 288 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 28 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 282-284. Subjects: Architecture, Islamic. 2 Kg. 112 Color & 646 B/w Illustrations (chiefly Photographs); Decorative Endpapers (brown/white) (illustrateur).…

First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 288 pages; Description: 288 p. : ill. (some col. ) ; 28 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 282-284. Subjects: Architecture, Islamic. 2 Kg. 112 Color & 646 B/w Illustrations (chiefly Photographs); Decorative Endpapers (brown/white) (illustrateur).…

Etat : leido. TELA CON SOBRECUBIERTA, 287. 112 Color & 646 B/w Illustrations (chiefly Photographs); Decorative Endpapers (brown/white) (illustrateur).

Hardback. Etat : Good. Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention> Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a forever war--a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity. Millions have died in one of the worst humanitarian calamities of our time. The War That Doesn't Say Its Name investigates the most recent phase of this conflict, asking why the peace deal of 2003--accompanied by the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world and tens of billions in international aid--has failed to stop the violence. Jason Stearns argues that the fighting has become an end in itself, carried forward in substantial part through the apathy and complicity of local and international actors. Stearns shows that regardless of the suffering, there has emerged a narrow military bourgeoisie of commanders and politicians for whom the conflict is a source of survival, dignity, and profit. Foreign donors provide food and urgent health care for millions, preventing the Congolese state from collapsing, but this involvement has not yielded transformational change. Stearns gives a detailed historical account of this period, focusing on the main players--Congolese and Rwandan states and the main armed groups. He extrapolates from these dynamics to other conflicts across Africa and presents a theory of conflict that highlights the interests of the belligerents and the social structures from which they arise. Exploring how violence in the Congo has become preoccupied with its own reproduction, The War That Doesn't Say Its Name sheds light on why certain military feuds persist without resolution. 112 Color & 646 B/w Illustrations (chiefly Photographs); Decorative Endpapers (brown/white) (illustrateur).…

Hardback. Etat : Good. Why violence in the Congo has continued despite decades of international intervention> Well into its third decade, the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has been dubbed a forever war--a perpetual cycle of war, civil unrest, and local feuds over power and identity. Millions have died in one of the worst humanitarian calamities of our time. The War That Doesn't Say Its Name investigates the most recent phase of this conflict, asking why the peace deal of 2003--accompanied by the largest United Nations peacekeeping mission in the world and tens of billions in international aid--has failed to stop the violence. Jason Stearns argues that the fighting has become an end in itself, carried forward in substantial part through the apathy and complicity of local and international actors. Stearns shows that regardless of the suffering, there has emerged a narrow military bourgeoisie of commanders and politicians for whom the conflict is a source of survival, dignity, and profit. Foreign donors provide food and urgent health care for millions, preventing the Congolese state from collapsing, but this involvement has not yielded transformational change. Stearns gives a detailed historical account of this period, focusing on the main players--Congolese and Rwandan states and the main armed groups. He extrapolates from these dynamics to other conflicts across Africa and presents a theory of conflict that highlights the interests of the belligerents and the social structures from which they arise. Exploring how violence in the Congo has become preoccupied with its own reproduction, The War That Doesn't Say Its Name sheds light on why certain military feuds persist without resolution. 112 Color & 646 B/w Illustrations (chiefly Photographs); Decorative Endpapers (brown/white) (illustrateur).…

Hardcover. Etat : New.

Hardback. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. First edition. 1st 1996. Fine condition in a fine dustwrapper. Large format. The Third Hali Annual. Looks at Persian and Indian painting, Chinese Jade, silks and ceramics, Mughal carpets and Indonesian gold among other things. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched.…