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Sites of Pluralism Community Politics in the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781787380226, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Scholars and policymakers, struggling to make sense of the ongoing chaos in the Middle East, have focused on the possible causes of the escalation in both inter-state and intra-state conflict. But the Arab Spring has shown the...
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£25,00
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Messengers of Hindu Nationalism How the RSS Reshaped India
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
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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£45,00
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German New Right AfD, PEGIDA and the Re-Imagining of National Identity
ISBN: HB: 9781787381407, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Contemporary Germany is a modern industrial democracy admired throughout the world. Many Germans believe that they live in the "best Germany" that has ever existed. Yet there are dissenting voices: individuals and groups that r...
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£40,00
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Britain, Greece and the Colonels, 1967-74 A Troubled Relationship
ISBN: PB: 9781849043656, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The long history of Anglo-Greek relations has deservedly attracted much attention. One of its most controversial – yet least explored – phases was that spanning the Greek Colonels' seven-year military junta, from 1967-1974. Dra...
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£22,00
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Hezbollah Mobilisation and Power
ISBN: HB: 9781849046312, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
376 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Almost thirty years after its foundation, Hezbollah remains an enigma. Is it an Islamist terrorist group dedicated to destroying Israel or the first Arab national resistance to have ever defeated Tel Aviv's troops? Should we lo...
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£25,00
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Horn, Sahel and Rift Fault-lines of the African Jihad
ISBN: HB: 9781849044141, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The 1998 attacks against US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam attest to al-Qaeda's durable presence in Africa, yet Islamist-inspired radical organisations in the continent have gained much attention of late, the result of...
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£25,00
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Pandemic Century One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris
ISBN: HB: 9781787381216, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ever since the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic, scientists have dreamed of preventing catastrophic outbreaks of infectious disease. Yet, despite a century of medical progress, viral and bacterial disasters continue to take us b...
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£20,00
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Iceland's 1100 Years History of a Marginal Society
ISBN: PB: 9781849049115, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
432 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Iceland's 1100 Years" recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European societies in being founded as lat...
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£20,00
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Plight of Western Religion A Perception Transformed
ISBN: HB: 9781787381339, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
392 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Religion" can be used to mean all kinds of things, but a substantive definition––based on the premise of superhuman powers––can clarify much. It allows us to attempt to differentiate religion from culture, ethnicity, morality...
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