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Hungarians A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
ISBN: PB: 9781850656821, ISBN: HB: 9781850656739, Hurst Publishers, December 2002
572 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is a comprehensive history of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as 'child-devouring cannibals' and 'bloodthirsty Huns' but it was not long before the Hungarians became stea...
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£18,99
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Balkan Exchange of Minorities and Its Impact on Greece
ISBN: PB: 9781850656746, ISBN: HB: 9781850657026, Hurst Publishers, October 2002
220 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The defeat of the Greek armies in Asia Minor in August 1922, led directly to the flight of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, the compulsory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey and the resettlement in Greece of 1.3 m...
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£25,00
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Greece: The Modern Sequel From 1821 to the Present
ISBN: PB: 9781850654636, Hurst Publishers, October 2002
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This historical essay explores Greece in the 1990s. It seeks to illuminate vital aspects of the Greek phenomenon using themes such as politics, institutions, society, ideology, foreign policy, geography and culture. Founding pr...
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£16,99
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Japan The Burden of Success
ISBN: PB: 9781850655695, Hurst Publishers, September 2002
349 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! On publication in France, Bouissou's depiction of modern Japan was acclaimed as `the best of its kind', and this translation has been updated to cover events up till 1999, and augmented by an overview of the Japanese historical...
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£16,99
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Jordan in Transition, 1900-2000
ISBN: PB: 9781850654889, Hurst Publishers, November 2001
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! A discussion of transition in Jordan between 1990-2000, showing it to be a multi-faceted process, in which each facet interacts with the other, forming a coherent interdependent system. Economic transition has been a consequenc...
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£19,99
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Impact of War on Children
ISBN: PB: 9781850654858, Hurst Publishers, September 2001
241 pp., 22x15.2 cm
For sale in CIS only! Graca Machel, UNICEF's special rapporteur, also scrutinises sexual crimes in time of war, the fate of orphans, the disproportionate suffering of children endure in civil wars, and their special vulnerability to such side-effect...
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£12,95
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South Pole The Norwegian Expedition in The Fram, 1910-1912
ISBN: PB: 9781850654698, Hurst Publishers, March 2001
844 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is a first hand account of the first successful expedition to the South Pole, written by the leader Roald Amundsen. It constructs the character of the expedition and provides insight into Amundsen's philosophy of explorati...
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£17,99
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Jerusalem The Contested City
ISBN: PB: 9781850655763, Hurst Publishers, March 2001
369 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Although Israelis and Palestinians are adamant that they will not negotiate or indeed compromise over the status of Jerusalem, agreements have been made and understandings reached between the two protagonists, as well as betwee...
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£20,00
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Europe's Last Red Terrorists The Revolutionary Organisation "November 17"
ISBN: PB: 9781850654674, Hurst Publishers, November 2000
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This volume focuses on the ideology and operations of Europe's last Marxist-Leninist terrorists, the Greek revolutionary organisation November 17. Tracing the history of November 17, which began in the 1970's, this book demostr...
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£25,00
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Asad's Legacy Syria in Transition
ISBN: PB: 9781850654506, Hurst Publishers, November 2000
228 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Syrian President Hafiz al-Asad is one of the Middle East's most prominent leaders, under whose stewardship Syria became a regional power determined to exert its influence, if not hegemony, over the Middle East. Yet three de...
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£19,99
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