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America

Policing Immigrants Local Law Enforcement on the Front Lines

Provine Doris Marie, Varsanyi Monica W., Lewis Paul G., Decker Scott H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226363189, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 maps, 4 figures, 13 tables

The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency – more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being "deporter in chief". Yet despite...

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Political Science

America

Madison's Nightmare How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy

Shane Peter M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226380704, ISBN: HB: 9780226749396, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
255 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The George W. Bush administration's ambitious – even breathtaking – claims of unilateral executive authority raised deep concerns among constitutional scholars, civil libertarians, and ordinary citizens alike. But Bush's attempts to assert his power...

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History

Asia

Neither Donkey nor Horse Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity

Hsiang-lin Lei Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226379401, ISBN: HB: 9780226169880, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 1 line drawing

"Neither Donkey nor Horse" tells the story of how Chinese medicine was transformed from the antithesis of modernity in the early twentieth century into a potent symbol of and vehicle for China's exploration of its own modernity half a century later....

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Asia

General

Oil and Water Being Han in Xinjiang

Cliff Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780226360133, ISBN: HB: 9780226359939, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 44 halftones, 1 table

For decades, China's Xinjiang region has been the site of clashes between long-residing Uyghur and Han settlers. Up until now, scholars of China have focused primarily on state actions and Uyghur efforts to resist cultural and economic repression. Th...

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Asia

Culture Studies

Dissenting Japan A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima

Andrews William

ISBN: HB: 9781849045797, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Following the March 2011 Tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked with surprise on how thousands of demonstrators had flocked to the streets of Tokyo. But mass protest movements are nothing new in Japan. The pos...

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Military

Faith, Unity, Discipline The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan

Kiessling Hein

ISBN: HB: 9781849045179, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by British officer Major General Robert Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an...

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Political Science

Military

Bosnia's Paralysed Peace

Bennett Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849040549, ISBN: HB: 9781849040532, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to move on from conflict. Political processes are deadlocked. The country is in a s...

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Asia

Tamils and the Nation India and Sri Lanka Compared

Rasaratnam Madurika

ISBN: PB: 9781849044783, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why are relations between politically mobilised ethnic identities and the nation-state sometimes peaceful and at other times fraught and violent? Madurika Rasaratnam's book sets out a novel answer to this key puzzle in world po...

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Middle East

Tribes and States in a Changing Middle East

Rabi Uzi

ISBN: HB: 9781849043458, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! At the outset of the twenty-first century and in the midst of the Arab Spring, tribe-state relations are a useful frame of reference through which to analyse the Middle East on a state-by-state basis. "Tribes and States in a Ch...

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Asia

Political Science

Caretaking Democratization The Military and Political Change in Myanmar

Egreteau Renaud

ISBN: HB: 9781849046589, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
192 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book examines the political landscape that took shape in Myanmar after the 2010 elections and the subsequent transition from direct military rule to a quasi-civilian 'hybrid' regime. Striking political, social, and economi...

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