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jeh720's "Foreign Service Reading List"

recommended by the State Dept.
1. The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West
by Gilles Kepel
  
2. A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
by David Fromkin
  
3. The Venture of Islam, Volume 1: The Classical Age of Islam (Venture of Islam)
by Marshall G. S. Hodgson
  
4. A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History
by Martin Gilbert
  
5. Understanding Contemporary Africa (Understanding: Introductions to the States & Regions of the Contemporary World)  
6.
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 Economic Poicy Beyond the Headlines  
7. Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
by John Pomfret
  
8. The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History (Revised and Updated Edition)
by Don Oberdorfer
  
9. In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India
by Edward Luce
  
10. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know
by E. D. Hirsch
  
11. Longman Guide to the Web, The
by Lester Faigley
  
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Created by jeh720 on Jul 11, 2007.