The Marsh Arabs

Wilfred Thesiger

During the years he spent among the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq Wilfred Thesiger came to understand, admire and share a way of life that had endured for many centuries. Travelling from village to village by canoe, he won acceptance by dispensing medicines and treating the sick. In this account of his t...

The Anxious Triumph

Sassoon, Donald

The long-awaited magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians   Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began in the 1860s when, in different forms and supported by different political forces, state...