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Middle East

Africa

Neoliberal Apartheid Palestine/Israel and South Africa after 1994

Clarno Andy

ISBN: PB: 9780226430096, ISBN: HB: 9780226429922, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
288 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 28 halftones

In recent years, as peace between Israelis and Palestinians has remained cruelly elusive, scholars and activists have increasingly turned to South African history and politics to make sense of the situation. In the early 1990s, both South Africa and...

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Africa

Short History of Mozambique

Newitt Malyn

ISBN: PB: 9781849048330, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This comprehensive history traces the evolution of modern Mozambique, from its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean trading system and the Portuguese maritime empire to the fifteen-year civil war that followed independence...

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Political Science

Africa

Horn of Africa State Formation and Decay

Clapham Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849048286, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why is the Horn such a distinctive part of Africa? This book, by one of the foremost scholars of the region, traces this question through its exceptional history and also probes the wildly divergent fates of the Horn's contempo...

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Africa

Current Affairs

Yemen Endures Civil War, Saudi Adventurism and the Future of Arabia

Hill Ginny

ISBN: HB: 9781849048057, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Why is Saudi Arabia, the world's largest oil exporter, involved in a costly and merciless war against its mountainous southern neighbour Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East? When the Saudis attacked the hitherto obscu...

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Africa

Revolution and Authoritarianism in North Africa

Volpi Frederic

ISBN: PB: 9781849046961, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book offers a much-needed corrective to dominant approaches to understanding political causality during episodes of intense social mobilisation in North Africa. Drawing on analyses of routine governance and of "revolution...

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Military

Africa

Battle for Angola The End of the Cold War in Africa c 1975-89

Venter Al J.

ISBN: HB: 9781911096412, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2017
496 pp., 24.5x17 cm, 200 black&white photos, 2 x 16 pp colour sections

Following the publication of Al Venter's successful Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa – shortlisted by the New York Military Affairs Symposium's "Arthur Goodzeit Book Award for 2013" – his Battle for Angola delves still further into the troubled hi...

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Anthropology

General

African Futures Essays on Crisis, Emergence, and Possibility

Goldstone Brian, Obarrio Juan

ISBN: PB: 9780226402383, ISBN: HB: 9780226402246, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

Civil wars, corporate exploitation, AIDS, and Ebola – but also democracy, burgeoning cities, and unprecedented communication and mobility: the future of Africa has never been more uncertain. Indeed, that future is one of the most complex issues in co...

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Law

Anthropology

Competing Norms State Regulations and Local Praxis in sub-Saharan Africa

Diawara Mamadou, Roschenthaler Ute

ISBN: PB: 9783593506531, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2017
271 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 1 line drawing, 2 maps

States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on th...

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Africa

History of Borno Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State

Hiribarren Vincent

ISBN: HB: 9781849044745, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Borno (in northeast Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of Kanem-Bor...

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Africa

Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts Sudan and South Sudan's Bitter and Incomplete Divorce

Copnall James

ISBN: PB: 9781849048309, Hurst Publishers, February 2017
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! What happened after Africa's biggest country split in two? When South Sudan ran up its flag in July 2011 two new nations came into being. In South Sudan the joy of independence vanished quickly: the former rebel movement ruling...

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