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Kingdoms of Faith A New History of Islamic Spain
ISBN: HB: 9781787380035, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of original sources to paint a mor...
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£25,00
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Keshab Bengal's Forgotten Prophet
ISBN: HB: 9781849049016, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Keshab Chandra Sen (1838-1884) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social reformer, his universalist interpretation of Hinduism found mass appeal in India,...
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£25,00
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Kurdish Question Revisited
ISBN: PB: 9781849045919, ISBN: HB: 9781849045629, Hurst Publishers, April 2017
448 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Kurds, once marginal in the study of the Middle East and secondary in its international relations, have moved to centre stage in recent years. In Turkey, where the Kurdish question is an issue of national significance, and...
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£25,00
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£45,00
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Karachi Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City
ISBN: PB: 9781849043113, Hurst Publishers, June 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, whic...
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£27,50
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Kosova Liberation Army Underground War to Balkan Insurgency, 1948-2001
ISBN: PB: 9781849043748, Hurst Publishers, January 2014
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Kosova Liberation Army (KLA) was the first successful insurgent movement in Europe since the Second World War. In the struggle against Milosevic's Serbia it developed from a tiny group in the Swiss political underground in...
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£17,99
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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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Kingdom Saudi Arabia and the Challenge of the 21st Century
ISBN: PB: 9781850658979, Hurst Publishers, October 2009
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The prominence of Saudi Arabia in international relations today is undisputed. Bringing together contributors from the worlds of business, politics, journalism and academia, The Kingdom provides a much-needed context to the rol...
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£19,99
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Kingdom Without Borders Saudi Arabia's Political, Religious and Media Frontiers
ISBN: PB: 9781850659426, Hurst Publishers, October 2008
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! From Tangier to Jakarta, and from Western capitals to those of the Arab world, Saudi Arabia has confirmed its status as a kingdom without borders. Its political influence, religious expansion and media empires are now applauded...
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£30,00
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Killing Civilians Method, Madness and Morality in War
ISBN: PB: 9781850659143, ISBN: HB: 9781850658818, Hurst Publishers, May 2008
300 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is a book about how civilians suffer in war and why people decide that they should. Most civilian suffering in war is deliberate and always has been. Massacres, rape, displacement, famine and disease are usually designed....
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£18,99
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£25,00
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Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan
ISBN: PB: 9781850658733, Hurst Publishers, October 2007
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Announcements of an impending victory over the Taliban have been repeated ad nauseam since the Allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, particularly after the Presidential elections of 2004, which were said to have marked the 'm...
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£22,00
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