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Urban Hunters Dealing and Dreaming in Times of Transition

Hojer Lars, Pedersen Morten Axel

ISBN: HB: 9780300196115, Yale University Press, January 2020
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus.

"Urban Hunters" is an ethnography of the Mongolian capital city, Ulaanbaatar, during the nation's transition from socialism to a market-based economic system. Following the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, Mongolia entered a period of economic chaos...

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Under Red Skies The Life and Times of a Chinese Millennial

Kan Karoline

ISBN: HB: 9781787381759, Hurst Publishers, May 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! Karoline Kan was born in 1989, the year of the Tiananmen Square massacre: her generation has always been caught between China's authoritarian politics and its hyper-modern technology and economic boom. In her quest to understa...

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Military

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U.S. Army Special Warfare and the Secret War in Laos 1959-74 The Green Berets in the Land of a Million Elephants

Celeski Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9781612006659, Casemate, January 2019
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The Secret War in Laos was one of the first "Long Wars" for special operations, spanning a period of about thirteen years. It was one of the largest CIA-paramilitary operations of the time, kept out of the view of the American public until now. Bet...

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Understanding Reform in Myanmar People and Society in the Wake of Military Rule

Lall Marie

ISBN: PB: 9781849045803, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Marie Lall's book seeks to uncover and explain the recent political and economic reforms implemented in post-military Myanmar, focussing on the key turning-points that ushered in the current transformation programme, particular...

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Unmaking North and South Cartographies of the Yemeni Past

Willis John M.

ISBN: PB: 9781850659815, Hurst Publishers, December 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Unmaking North and South" revisits the Yemeni past by situating the historical construction of Yemen's north and south as bounded political, social, and moral spaces in the broader context of imperial rule, state formation, an...

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Gender Studies

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Unfinished Gestures Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India

Soneji Davesh

ISBN: PB: 9780226768106, ISBN: HB: 9780226768090, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 48 halftones, 6 line illus.

"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundred...

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Understanding Bangladesh

Ali S. Mahmud

ISBN: PB: 9781850659983, ISBN: HB: 9781850659976, Hurst Publishers, October 2010
480 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Bangladesh, a Muslim majority nation with a population of some 154 million people, receives little notice in the West, other than when political upheaval or natural disasters bring it to our attention. In "Understanding Banglad...

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Unsettling Memories Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi

Tarlo Emma

ISBN: PB: 9781850654537, Hurst Publishers, June 2003
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Focusing on India's 'Emergency' of 1975-7, when democracy was temporarily suspended in favour of an authoritarian regime, this book explores the avenues through which this event is remembered and forgotten. Based on fieldwork a...

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