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Messengers of Hindu Nationalism How the RSS Reshaped India

Andersen Walter, Damle Shridhar D.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380257, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. It is also the parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Prime Minister Modi was himself a career RSS office-holder, or pracharak. This...

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Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia Pioneer of British Colonial Rule

Hanifi Mahmoud Shah

ISBN: HB: 9781849048361, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779-1859), Lowland Scottish traveller, East India Company civil servant and educator, was one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia. Imbued with liberal views,...

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Technology & Engineering

Motorcycles and Motorcycling in the USSR from 1939 A Social and Technical History

Turbett Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781787113145, Bookport, Veloce Publishing, March 2019
128 pp., 25x20.7 cm

This book provides the first accessible English language account of motorcycles in the Soviet Union. Concentrating on the wartime and postwar period until 1990, prior to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, it covers the motorcycles produced, and loo...

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Hinduism

Asia

Majoritarian State How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India

Chatterji Angana P., Blom Hansen Thomas, Jaffrelot Christophe

ISBN: HB: 9781787381476, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
472 pp., 21.6x13.4 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Majoritarian State" traces the ascendance of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India. Led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the BJP administration has established an ethno-religious and populist style of rule since 2014. Its ag...

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Europe

Marketable Values Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain

Fitz-Gibbon Desmond

ISBN: PB: 9780226584331, ISBN: HB: 9780226584164, University of Chicago Press, December 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

The idea that land should be – or even could be – treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and politi...

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Military

Magyar Warriors Volume 1: The History of the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces, 1919-1945

Bernad Denes, Kliment Charles K.

ISBN: PB: 9781912174164, ISBN: HB: 9781906033880, Casemate, Helion and Company, September 2018
404 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm, 500 black&white photos, 43 tables, 13 maps

The Hungarian armed forces, known as the Honvedseg, were built up in the 1930s, their expansion gaining momentum once Hungary became free of the strict post- World War I Trianon treaty limitations in August 1938. Politically, Hungary was looking for...

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Cartography

Maps of Fredericksburg An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 - January 22, 1863

Gottfried Bradley

ISBN: HB: 9781611213713, Casemate, Savas Beatie, September 2018
304 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 122 maps

"The Maps of Fredericksburg: An Atlas of the Fredericksburg Campaign, Including all Cavalry Operations, September 18, 1862 – January 22, 1863" continues Bradley M. Gottfried's efforts to study and illustrate the major campaigns of the Civil War's Eas...

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Middle East

Making Sense of Pakistan

Shaikh Farzana

ISBN: PB: 9781787380325, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Pakistan's transformation from supposed model of Muslim enlightenment to a state now threatened by an Islamist takeover has been remarkable. Many account for the change by pointing to Pakistan's controversial partnership with t...

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Middle East

Islam

Myanmar's "Rohingya" Conflict

Ware Anthony, Laoutides Costas

ISBN: PB: 9781849049047, Hurst Publishers, September 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims has made global headlines in recent years. Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar for Bangladesh, amidst serious allegations of genocide, ethnic cleansing and crimes against...

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Medieval

Europe

Mercenary Mediterranean Sovereignty, Religion, and Violence in the Medieval Crown of Aragon

Fancy Hussein

ISBN: PB: 9780226597898, ISBN: HB: 9780226329642, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 5 maps, 1 table

Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christian Crown of Aragon to meet with the king of Aragon, who showered them with gifts, including sumptuous cloth and decorative saddles,...

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