{"title":"Barnaby Rogerson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarnaby Rogerson\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a compelling journey through history, with a particular focus on the rich and complex narratives of North Africa. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eIn Search of Ancient North Africa\u003c\/em\u003e, delve into the region's ancient cultures, unraveling stories that have shaped its identity over centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can also explore significant historical conflicts and divisions, seen in titles like \u003cem\u003eThe House Divided\u003c\/em\u003e. Rogerson’s books blend thorough research with engaging storytelling, making them essential for those interested in history and military themes.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"in-search-of-ancient-north-africa-by-barnaby-rogerson-9781912208784","title":"In Search of Ancient North Africa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring years of travelling through North Africa, author Barnaby Rogerson has encountered a handful of stories so complicated that he could not place them into neat, tidy narratives. These are stories of characters who were neither distinctly good nor noticeably bad, neither malicious nor noble.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Search of Ancient North Africa\u003c\/i\u003e is a journey into the ruins of a landscape to make sense of these stories through the multilayered lives of six individuals. Rogerson digs into the lives of Queen Dido, who was a sacrificial refugee; King Juba II, a prisoner of war who became a compliant tool of the Roman Empire; Septimius Severus, an unpromising provincial who, as its leader, brought his empire to its dazzling apogee; St. Augustine, an intellectual careerist who became a bishop and a saint; Hannibal, the greatest general the world has ever known; and Masinissa, the man who eventually defeated him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTogether these six lives, clouded with as much myth as fact, are characters that represent classical North Africa. Among these life stories, we explore ruins and monuments that tell of their lives and see the multiple connections that bind the culture of this region with the wider world, particularly the spiritual traditions of the ancient Near East.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Search of Ancient North Africa\u003c\/i\u003e sheds new light on a time and place at the crossroads of numerous histories and cultures. It offers the first history of ancient North Africa told through the lives of North Africans themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000648220908,"sku":"9781912208784","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22842123482868.jpg?v=1763293419"},{"product_id":"the-house-divided-by-barnaby-rogerson-9781781257265","title":"The House Divided","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA masterly engagement with the most delicate and important of subjects - filled with gentle empathy, learning and rare balance\u003c\/em\u003e - Rory Stewart\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eRogerson is an original - eloquent and always fascinating\u003c\/em\u003e - William Dalrymple\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRecommended on The Rest is Politics and Empire\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the heart of the Middle East, with its regional conflicts and proxy wars, is a 1400-year-old schism between Sunni and Shia. To understand this divide and its modern resonances, we need to revisit its origins, which go back to the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632, the accidental coup that set aside the claims of his son Ali, and the slaughter of Ali's own son Husayn at Kerbala. These events, known to every Muslim, have created a slender faultline in the Middle East.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe House Divided\u003c\/em\u003e follows these narratives from the first Sunni and Shia caliphates, through the medieval caliphates and empires of the Arabs, Persians and Ottomans, to the contemporary Middle East. It shows how a complex range of identities and rivalries - religious, ethnic and national - have shaped the region, jolted by the seismic shift of the Iranian Revolution of 1979.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRogerson's original approach takes the modern chessboard of nation states and looks at each through its particular history of empires and occupiers, minorities and resources, sheikhs and imams. The result is a book of wide-ranging empathy, understanding, and insights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47647738331372,"sku":"9781781257265","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f0619b05d993f804869f005b7cba04de.jpg?v=1779233615"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/barnaby-rogerson.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}