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Amilcar Cabral The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist
ISBN: HB: 9781787381445, Hurst Publishers, August 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amilcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party. Cabral had founded the PAIGC in 1960 to fight for the liberation of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. The insurgent...
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£30,00
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Twice-Born Life and Death on the Ganges
ISBN: HB: 9781787381193, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
344 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! When Aatish Taseer first came to Benares, the spiritual capital of Hinduism, he was the Westernised teenager of an Indian journalist and a Pakistani politician, raised among New Delhi's intellectual and cultural elite. Nearly t...
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£20,00
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Estonia A Modern History
ISBN: PB: 9781849049573, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations – yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Ne...
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£14,99
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Why I Am a Hindu
ISBN: HB: 9781849049894, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Hinduism is one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions. In captivating prose, Shashi Tharoor untangles its origins, its key philosophical concepts and texts. He explores everyday Hindu beliefs and practices, fr...
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£20,00
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Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour
ISBN: PB: 9781849049535, ISBN: HB: 9781849046800, Hurst Publishers, March 2018
352 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! As millions of people seek passage to Europe in order to escape conflict, repression, poverty and natural catastrophe, their movements are enabled and encouraged by ruthless professional criminal networks that earn billions of...
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£12,99
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£20,00
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Norman Anderson and the Christian Mission to Modernise Islam
ISBN: HB: 9781849047036, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Western Christians in the twentieth century viewed Islam through a lens of social and political concerns that would have appeared novel to their medieval and early-modern predecessors. Concerns about the predicament of secular...
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£55,00
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Inglorious Empire What the British Did to India
ISBN: HB: 9781849048088, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Inglorious Empire" tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britain's rise was built upon its depredations in India. India was Bri...
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£20,00
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Colonial Lahore A History of the City and Beyond
ISBN: HB: 9781849046534, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! A number of studies of colonial Lahore in recent years have explored such themes as the city's modernity, its cosmopolitanism and the rise of communalism which culminated in the bloodletting of 1947. This first synoptic history...
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£25,00
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Gaza as Metaphor
ISBN: PB: 9781849046244, Hurst Publishers, March 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Open-air Prison, Terror, Resistance, Occupation, Siege, Trauma: irrespective of when, where, and to whom the word is uttered, "Gaza" immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly, a host of metaphors also recall Gaza:...
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£20,00
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China and Tibet The Perils of Insecurity
ISBN: PB: 9781849044714, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Over sixty years of violence and dialogue have brought China and the Tibetans no closer to a resolution of their conflict. Tsering Topgyal argues that it is China's sense of insecurity, its perception of itself as a socio-polit...
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£30,00
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