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Coup in Damascus delves into one of the most pivotal yet under-explored moments in Middle Eastern history: the 1949 military coup in Syria, an event which set the stage for revolving door governments and autocracies across the region. At the interdisciplinary crossroad between economics, politics and history, Carl Rihan challenges prevailing narratives that have either focused on Great Power Politics, cloak-and-dagger regional rivalries, or postcolonial dynamics by affirming the central role of cost-calculating, utility-driven political action in a constrained economic context. Bringing neoclassical and Austrian economic thought in contact with Middle East history, Coup in Damascus uncovers how unsound monetary practices, the disruption of historical trade routes, flawed interventionism, and the waning of market dynamics paved the way for military takeovers, political radicalization, and zero-sum games. By reaffirming the centrality of human action in its objective and praxeological sense, Coup in Damascus offers a fresh perspective on one of the region's most pivotal moments, one which still bares its bitter fruits today.

Focusing on the crisis of transition marked by the English Revolution (1640-1660), this collection of essays also places it in the context of a long seventeenth century.Leading experts in the field explore this theme with special reference to developments in politics, religion and society, at both national and local levels. The volume breaks decisively with recent historiography, in emphasising both the long-term nature and revolutionary implications of the seventeenth-century events in question. Features of the crisis include the growing challenge to the confessional state from within the ranks of Protestantism itself and the enlargement of the public sphere of politics, fuelled increasingly by the role of print, along with the painful emergence of a new style parliamentary monarchy and associated fiscal-military apparatus. The explosive role of religion especially is highlighted, in chapters ranging from the popularity politics engaged in under Elizabeth I to the escalating party strife of Charles II's reign and beyond. At the same time the epicentre of the revolution is firmly located in the two tumultous decades of civil war and interregnum. The volume will be essential reading for both students and teachers working on this period.

Refugee crises are one of the gravest problems facing the modern world. This book explores the paradox of why countries such as Britain pride themselves on their past treatment of refugees yet are suspicious and hostile towards asylum seekers trying to gain entry. It explores the contemporary treatment and representation of refugees ranging from the Huguenots in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries through to the many groups that have gained entry more recently. Was the treatment of refugees such as Jews escaping Tsarist and later Nazi persecution as welcoming as politicians and others now make out? Why have some groups been remembered positively, whilst others have been forgotten? Remembering refugees plays particular attention to how historians and those in the heritage industry have dealt with the refugee presence. By adopting an original and critical framework, it asks why a variety of academic disciplines, as well as politicians, the media and the general public, have difficulty with refugees. A richly textured book that utilizes a huge range of sources from parliamentary debates through to novels, films and autobiographical writing, it argues that the current panic about refugees and asylum seekers says more about the moral failings of contemporary society than it does about those fleeing persecution.