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Iran Resurgent The Rise and Rise of the Shia State
ISBN: PB: 9781849049559, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Iran has emerged from decades of isolation and struggle to become a leading, if not the pre-eminent, regional power. Iran projects its influence throughout the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. Moreover, Iranian diplomacy...
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£25,00
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Remnants of Partition 21 Objects from a Continent Divided
ISBN: HB: 9781787381209, Hurst Publishers, March 2019
456 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! The emotion and trauma of the Partition are buried deep, but Aanchal Malhotra has found a way to recover them. Through the possessions saved by her own great-grandparents as they fled their homes, she discovers the unique power...
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£25,00
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Abson & Company Slave Traders in Eighteenth-Century West Africa
ISBN: HB: 9781849049627, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Yorkshireman Lionel Abson was the longest-surviving European stationed in West Africa in the eighteenth century. He reached William's Fort at Ouidah on the Slave Coast as a trader in 1767, took over the English fort in 1770, an...
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£40,00
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Sick-Note Britain How Social Problems Became Medical Issues
ISBN: HB: 9781787381223, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The NHS is stretched to its limits. Yet doctors are writing 10 million sick-notes a year for people they cannot "fix", while patients with treatable diseases queue for appointments. This is Britain's grave error: our hyper-medi...
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£20,00
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Britain and Europe A Short History
ISBN: HB: 9781787381186, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the closeness or distance of our politic...
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£16,99
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Democracy Works Turning Politics to Africa's Advantage
ISBN: PB: 9781787381452, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Democracy Works" asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analysing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a "democratic playbook" robust enough to withstand t...
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£25,00
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First World War in the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781787380295, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
280 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "The First World War in the Middle East" is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonst...
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£15,99
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Mirrored Loss A Yemeni Woman's Life Story
ISBN: HB: 9781849049030, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Mirrored Loss" tells the story of Amat al-Latif al-Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the autocratic imamate. Her relat...
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£35,00
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To the Mountains My Life in Jihad, from Algeria to Afghanistan
ISBN: HB: 9781787380110, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
340 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! As one of the earliest Arabs to join the Afghan Jihad, the Algerian Islamist Abdullah Anas counted as brothers-in-arms the future icons of al-Qaeda's global war, from Abdullah Azzam to Osama bin Laden, and befriended key Afghan...
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£20,00
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Critical Muslim, Volume 29 Futures
ISBN: PB: 9781787381490, Hurst Publishers, January 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! How is the future changing? Is there a single determinant future or a plethora of alternative futures? How do we actually study futures and can we trust anything anyone says about 'the future'? Are Muslim societies prepared for...
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£14,99
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