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Africa

Sierra Leone A Political History

Harris David

ISBN: PB: 9781849043236, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Sierra Leone came to world attention in the 1990s when a catastrophic civil war linked to the diamond trade was reported globally. This fleeting and particular interest, however, obscured two crucial processes in this small Wes...

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Asia

Tibet An Unfinished Story

Halper Lezlee Brown, Halper Stefan

ISBN: HB: 9781849043595, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Tibet's enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, "Lost Horizon", remains an inspirational fantasy, a modern morality play about the failure of brutality to subd...

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Military

Conceptualising Modern War

Haug Karl Erik, Maao Ole Jorgen

ISBN: PB: 9781849042727, ISBN: HB: 9781849041430, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Since the end of the Cold War, scholars, military historians and analysts have struggled to agree a workable definition of contemporary warfare with reference to the conflicts that have erupted since 1989, whether in the former...

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Military

Political Science

Putin's New Order in the Middle East

Nizameddin Talal

ISBN: HB: 9781849042598, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
358 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Vladimir Putin has almost by stealth transformed himself into an historic Russian figure. His undeniable political dominance was reflected in his return to presidential control after the March 2012 elections, having placed an o...

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Africa

Why Occupy a Square? People, Protests and Movements in the Egyptian Revolution

Gunning Jeroen, Baron Ilan Zvi

ISBN: PB: 9781849042659, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! On 25 January 2011, tens of thousands of Egyptians came out on the streets to protest against emergency rule and police brutality. Eighteen days later, Mubarak, one of the longest sitting dictators in the region, had gone. How...

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Middle East

Bride and the Dowry Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War

Raz Avi

ISBN: PB: 9780300198508, Yale University Press, October 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Israel's victory in the June 1967 Six Day War provided a unique opportunity for resolving the decades-old Arab-Zionist conflict. Having seized the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights, Israel for the first time in its...

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America

Hell on the Range A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West

Herman Daniel Justin

ISBN: PB: 9780300198263, Yale University Press, October 2013
384 pp., 23.9x15.7 cm, 40 black&white illus.

In this lively account of Arizona's Rim Country War of the 1880s, historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. Their story, contends...

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Current Affairs

General

End of the Chinese Dream Why Chinese People Fear the Future

Lemos Gerard

ISBN: PB: 9780300197211, ISBN: HB: 9780300169249, Yale University Press, October 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Glossy television images of happy, industrious, and increasingly prosperous workers show a bright view of life in twenty-first-century China. But behind the officially approved story is a different reality, Gerard Lemos reveals in this extensively re...

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America

Before L.A. Race, Space, and Municipal Power in Los Angeles, 1781-1894

Torres-Rouff David Samuel

ISBN: HB: 9780300141238, Yale University Press, October 2013
368 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

David Torres-Rouff significantly expands borderlands history by examining the past and original urban infrastructure of one of America's most prominent cities; its social, spatial and racial divides and boundaries; and how it came to be the Los Angel...

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Ancient World

Ancient Rome From Romulus to Justinian

Martin Thomas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198317, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

With commanding skill, Thomas R. Martin tells the remarkable and dramatic story of how a tiny, poor, and threatened settlement grew to become, during its height, the dominant power in the Mediterranean world for five hundred years. Encompassing the p...

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