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Kumasi Realism, 1951-2007 An African Modernism
ISBN: HB: 9781849040877, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
500 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Western approaches to Africa's visual culture have until recently separated 'traditional' from 'modern' as if the two categories had no common ground, and as if only the former was authentically African. Yet 'tradition' is also...
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£40,00
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Legions of Peace UN Peacekeepers from the Global South
ISBN: HB: 9781849042901, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The huge number of security forces stationed around the world as United Nations peacekeepers is second only to the global military deployments of the USA. But most UN peacekeepers come from the emerging powers and developing st...
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£45,00
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Forged in Crisis India and the United States since 1947
ISBN: HB: 9781849043045, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Rudra Chaudhuri's book examines a series of crises that led to far-reaching changes in India's approach to the United States, defining the contours of what is arguably the imperative relationship between America and the global...
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From Above War, Violence and Verticality
ISBN: PB: 9781849042994, ISBN: HB: 9781849042987, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
356 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mount – the hill at the edge of the field of combat – and the fortified tower posi...
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£35,00
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£65,00
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System of Life Mawdudi and the Ideologisation of Islam
ISBN: HB: 9781849042482, Hurst Publishers, December 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! While much current research on political Islam revolves around militant Islamism, the genesis of this ideology remains little understood. "A System of Life" is a pioneering examination of the earliest attempt at a systematic ou...
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£60,00
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Sierra Leone A Political History
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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£22,50
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Tibet An Unfinished Story
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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£20,00
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Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance Cultures of Exclusion
ISBN: PB: 9781849042796, ISBN: HB: 9781849042789, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Until the 1930s no woman could perform in public and retain respectability in India. Professional female performers were courtesans and dancing girls who lived beyond the confines of marriage, but were often powerful figures in...
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£25,00
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£50,00
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Conceptualising Modern War
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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£35,00
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£55,00
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Putin's New Order in the Middle East
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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£50,00
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