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Democracy Denied, 1905-1915: Charles Kurzman; Kurzman proposes that the collective agent most directly responsible for democratization was the emerging class of modern intellectuals, a group that had gained a global identity and a near-messianic sense of mission following the Dreyfus Affair of 1898. Each chapter of this book focuses on a single angle of this story, covering all six cases by examining newspaper accounts, memoirs, and government reports.; Hardcover November 2008

Al Qaeda in Its Own Words: Edited by Gilles Kepel; Edited by Jean-Pierre Milelli; Translated by Pascale Ghazaleh; Introduction and notes by Thomas Hegghammer; Introduction and notes by Stephane Lacroix; Introduction and notes by Jean-Pierre Milelli; Introduction and notes by Omar Saghi; To reveal Al Qaeda’s inner workings, Gilles Kepel and his collaborators, all scholars of Arabic and Islam, have collected and brilliantly annotated key texts of the major figures from whom the movement has drawn its beliefs and direction. The resulting volume offers an unprecedented glimpse into the assumptions of the salafist jihadists who have reshaped political life at the beginning of the third millennium.; Hardcover April 2008