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Saffron "Modernity" in India Narendra Modi and his Experiment with Gujarat
ISBN: HB: 9781849044295, Hurst Publishers, November 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician to be elected three times to the helm of one of the states of the Indian Union, his stewardship as chief minister of Gujarat being the longest incumbency in th...
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£25,00
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Human Trafficking An Organised Crime?
ISBN: HB: 9781787381285, Hurst Publishers, July 2019
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Human trafficking" brings to mind gangsters forcing people, often women and girls, to engage in dangerous activities against their will, under threat of violence. However, human trafficking is not limited to the sex trade, and...
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£35,00
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Africin Imperial London The Indomitable Life of A. B. C. Merriman-Labor
ISBN: HB: 9781849049603, Hurst Publishers, June 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at...
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£25,00
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Pan-Islamic Connections Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the Gulf
ISBN: PB: 9781849048187, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! South Asia is today the region inhabited by the largest number of Muslims – roughly 500 million. In the course of its Islamisation process, which began in the eighth century, it developed a distinct Indo-Islamic civilisation th...
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£25,00
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True to their Salt Indigenous Personnel in Western Armed Forces
ISBN: HB: 9781849044257, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In the last decade an Iraqi Army and an Afghan National Army were created entirely from scratch, the founding of which was deemed to be a crucial measure for the establishment of security and the withdrawal of Western forces fr...
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£25,00
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Taliban Narratives The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781849048439, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the...
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£30,00
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Ochre and Rust Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
ISBN: HB: 9781849048392, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
448 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Ochre and Rust" offers a dazzling new perspective on frontier relations between Australia's Aboriginal peoples and European colonists. Nine museum artefacts take the reader into a fascinating zone of encounter and mutual curio...
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£25,00
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How Long Will South Africa Survive? The Looming Crisis
ISBN: PB: 9781849047234, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In 1977, R.W. Johnson's bestselling "How Long Will South Africa Survive?" offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of the apartheid regime. Now, after more than two decades of the ANC in go...
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£12,99
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Pakistan Paradox Instability and Resilience
ISBN: PB: 9781849043298, Hurst Publishers, May 2015
384 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Pakistan was born as the creation of elite Urdu-speaking Muslims who sought to govern a state that would maintain their dominance. After rallying non-Urdu speaking leaders around him, Jinnah imposed a unitary definition of the...
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£20,00
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Battles of the New Republic A Contemporary History of Nepal
ISBN: PB: 9781849044592, Hurst Publishers, January 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "Battles of The New Republic" tells the story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Simultaneously historical analy...
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£17,99
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