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Crusader Castles
Hugh Kennedy
Cambridge University Press, 2001
Beyond Krak des Chevaliers
This book successfully pulls off the difficult trick of being both a serious scholarly text and an enormously engaging introduction to the history and architecture of Crusader castles for the lay reader. The book is an obvious labor of love, which helps to account for ...
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Interpreting Late Antiquity: Essays on the Postclassical World
Belknap Press, 2001
The era of late antiquity--from the middle of the third century to the end of the eighth--was marked by the rise of two world religions, unprecedented political upheavals that remade the map of the known world, and the creation of art of enduring glory. In these eleven in-depth essays, drawn from the award-winning reference work Late Antiquity: A ...
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Muslim Spain and Portugal: A Political History of al-Andalus
Hugh Kennedy
Longman, 1997
Good introduction
Kennedy's book is a great introduction to the political history of Muslim Iberia. Densely packed with information, the book could have used more maps and lexcionic information. If you are not already familiar with the general outline of the situation in medieval ...
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Remembering Jack: Intimate and Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys
Jacques Lowe
Bulfinch, 2006
What Jack and Jackie taught us...
The terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 may have destroyed Jacques Lowe's negatives of the Kennedy family, but not the photographs or the brilliance evident in the camera capturing this shining light that once was Camelot. On the fortieth anniversary of the ...
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Everything Looks Impressive
Hugh Kennedy
Main Street Books, 1993
A Marvelous Novel
Everything Looks Impressive, the first novel by Hugh Kennedy, is the story of a Yale freshman from a modest background that finds himself in a world of culture and privilege beyond his understanding. While he grasps to form a bond, any sort of meaningful relationship ...
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Grandes Conquistas Arabes, Las
KENNEDY HUGH, 2007
Hacia el año 622 de nuestra era. cuando Mahoma emigró a Medina. los árabes ocupaban un reducido espacio en la península de Arabia y en sus fronteras; cien años más tarde habían creado un imperio que se extendía del actual Pakistán hasta España. Pero lo más asombroso no ha sido la rapidez de la conquista. sino el hecho de que se haya mantenido en ...
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When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty
Hugh Kennedy
Da Capo Press, 2006
An Era I Knew Little About
So much of the study of history is concerned with dates. I can remember in college with cram sheets of when things happened. Mr. Kennedy doesn't write much of dates. He writes of people, people living more than a thousand years ago when our own western history was in a ...
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The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
Hugh Kennedy
Da Capo Press, 2008
In this engaging history, world-renowned historian Hugh Kennedy deftly sews together the stories of the people, armies, and events that conquered an area from Spain to China in just over 100 years.
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The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
Hugh Kennedy
Da Capo Press, 2007
Superb history of Islamic expansion
In 680, an Iraqi monk asked (I am paraphrasing) "How is it the Arabs created such an enormous empire (by 744 it would stretch from the Pyrenees to the Hindu-Kush) so quickly?" Hugh Kennedy answers this in _The Great Arab Conquests_. His conclusions may surprise you.
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Corte De Los Califas , La
KENNEDY HUGH, 2008
Esta es la historia de los dos siglos de oro del Islam: la epoca en que los Abasidas rigieron un vasto imperio desde su corte de Bagdad. Hugh Kennedy autor de Las grandes conquistas arabes nos ofrece un libro que se aparta de los frios modelos academicos que solo se ocupan de conquistas e instituciones para aproximar a un publico no especializado ...
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The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century ...
Hugh Kennedy
Longman, 1989
Excellent, comprehensive overview
Kennedy's work is a great introduction to the early history of the Middle East. I felt compelled to write this after I saw the other review, which complained of too many names being thrown around. It is a history book, and Arabic names are very different than English ...
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Mongols, Huns & Vikings
Hugh Kennedy
Cassell, 2002
Armies in Search of a Country
Hugh Kennedy's "Mongols, Huns & Vikings" is the latest installment of Casell's History of Warfare series, a multi-volume collection edited by the Britsh historian John Keegan. The book is a bit mistitled--Arabs and Turks command more of the author's attention than, ...
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The Byzantine And Early Islamic Near East (Variorum Collected Studies)
Hugh Kennedy
Ashgate Publishing, 2006
The essays in this volume deal with the history of the Middle East from c.550 to 1000 AD. There are three main themes: Syria in Late Antiquity and the changes and continuities with the early Islamic period; relations between Muslims and the Byzantine Empire from the 8th to the 11th centuries; and the development of government and the economy in ...
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Remembering JFK-PR: Intimate Unseen Photographs of the Kennedys
Jacques Lowe
Arcade Publishing, 2003
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The Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early Islamic State (Warfare and History)
Hugh Kennedy
Routledge, 2001
Excellent summary of early Islamic Military History
Few people realize that the vast extent of Islamization in the Middle East and North Africa today is a direct consequence of the conquest of these regions by Arab armies during the seventh and eighth centuries AD. The success of these conquests, struggles, and the ...
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