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Thinking Through Islamophobia Global Perspectives
ISBN: PB: 9781850659907, Hurst Publishers, January 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Use of the term Islamophobia is today both inexorable and controversial. "Thinking Through Islamophobia" offers a series of critical engagements with the concept, its history and deployment, and the phenomena that it seeks to m...
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£17,99
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Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean Cosmopolitanism, Commerce, and Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781849040082, Hurst Publishers, August 2010
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The wooden dhow, with its characteristic lateen sail, is an appropriate icon for the early trading world of the Indian Ocean. It was based on free trade unhindered by monopolies or superpower domination and pre-dated 'globalisa...
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£30,00
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Sugamo Diary
ISBN: HB: 9781849040525, Hurst Publishers, July 2010
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This astonishing diary and collection of letters were written by Ryoichi Sasakawa, a wealthy business tycoon, statesman, nationalist leader, philanthropist, and war crime suspect. He has been variously cast as a Japanese don, t...
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£35,00
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Killing Civilians Method, Madness and Morality in War
ISBN: PB: 9781850659143, ISBN: HB: 9781850658818, Hurst Publishers, May 2008
300 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is a book about how civilians suffer in war and why people decide that they should. Most civilian suffering in war is deliberate and always has been. Massacres, rape, displacement, famine and disease are usually designed....
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£18,99
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£25,00
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Tormented by History Nationalism in Greece and Turkey
ISBN: PB: 9781850658993, ISBN: HB: 9781850659051, Hurst Publishers, January 2008
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Tormented" by Historyis the first comparative study of nationalism in Greece and Turkey. Grounded in an extensive critical review of the popular and scholarly historiography and literature on Greek and Turkish nationalisms, it...
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£18,99
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£40,00
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Struggling with History Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean
ISBN: PB: 9781850658696, Hurst Publishers, December 2007
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This volume compares and contrasts anthropological and historical approaches to the study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the vexed nature of 'cosmopolitanism'. The chapters contribute to current debates on the nature of cos...
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£22,00
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Global Vigilantes
ISBN: PB: 9781850658382, Hurst Publishers, December 2007
448 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Vigilantes and organised vigilantism are a growing phenomenon, as this book amply demonstrates. From Northern Ireland to West Africa, from Bombay or Moscow, vigilante movements and ideologies have widespread appeal. Whether as...
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£35,00
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Shiv Sena Women Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum
ISBN: PB: 9781850658702, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
236 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This fascinating book, based on Atreyee Sen's immersion in the low-income, working-class slums of Bombay, tells the story of the women and children of the Shiv Sena, the radical Hindu nationalist party of Western India. The wom...
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£22,50
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Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe A Report on the Disturbances in Matebeleland and the Midlands, 1980-88
ISBN: PB: 9781850658900, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
448 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! It is ten years since the original publication of "Breaking the Silence: A Report on the Disturbances in Matebeleland and the Midlands". In conjunction with the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace and the Legal Resources...
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£35,00
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Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea
ISBN: PB: 9781850658580, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
380 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book investigates the paradox at the heart of present-day Gulf of Guinea politics. The governance crisis festering throughout every one of the region's states ought to discourage outsiders from capital-intensive, long-term...
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£25,00
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