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Architectures of Violence The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities, from Yugoslavia to Syria
ISBN: HB: 9781849048118, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Paramilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. Exploring the case of former Yugoslavia, the gen...
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£35,00
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Amilcar Cabral The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist
ISBN: HB: 9781787381445, Hurst Publishers, August 2019
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! On 20 January 1973, the Bissau-Guinean revolutionary Amilcar Cabral was killed by militants from his own party. Cabral had founded the PAIGC in 1960 to fight for the liberation of Portuguese Guinea and Cape Verde. The insurgent...
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£30,00
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Arab Political Thought Past and Present
ISBN: HB: 9781849048163, Hurst Publishers, July 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book demonstrates the vitality of Arab political thought and its major controversies. It shows that the key players involved, far from being constrained by a theological-political straitjacket, have often demonstrated stro...
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£35,00
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Arafat and Abbas Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed
ISBN: HB: 9781787381438, Hurst Publishers, July 2019
256 pp., 26.1x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This landmark volume presents vivid and intimate portraits of Palestinian Presidents Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, revealing the impact these different personalities have had on the struggle for national self-determination....
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£30,00
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America's Covert War in East Africa Surveillance, Rendition, Assassination
ISBN: PB: 9781849044134, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Clara Usiskin has spent eight years investigating the 'War on Terror' and its effects in the East and Horn of Africa, documenting hundreds of cases of rendition, secret detention and targeted killings. As a result of her work e...
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£17,99
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Anglo Nostalgia The Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West
ISBN: HB: 9781787381414, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
234 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Nostalgia has become a major force in global politics. While Donald Trump promises to "make America great again", Xi Jinping calls for a "great rejuvenation of the Chinese people", and a majority of Russians still mourn the Sov...
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£25,00
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Abson & Company Slave Traders in Eighteenth-Century West Africa
ISBN: HB: 9781849049627, Hurst Publishers, February 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Yorkshireman Lionel Abson was the longest-surviving European stationed in West Africa in the eighteenth century. He reached William's Fort at Ouidah on the Slave Coast as a trader in 1767, took over the English fort in 1770, an...
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£40,00
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Australianama The South Asian Odyssey in Australia
ISBN: PB: 9781849049696, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Australian deserts remain dotted with the ruins of old mosques. Beginning with a Bengali poetry collection discovered in a nineteenth-century mosque in the town of Broken Hill, Samia Khatun weaves together the stories of variou...
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£25,00
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Across an Angry Sea The SAS in the Falklands War
ISBN: HB: 9781787381124, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! In early summer 1982 – winter in the South Atlantic – Argentina's military junta invades the Falklands. Within days, a Royal Navy Task Force is assembled and dispatched. This is the story of D Squadron, 22 SAS, commanded by Ced...
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£20,00
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Apartheid Guns and Money A Tale of Profit
ISBN: HB: 9781787380974, Hurst Publishers, November 2018
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
For sale in CIS only! In its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and a...
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£25,00
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