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Asia

Many Rivers, One Sea Bangladesh and the Challenge of Islamist Militancy

Allchin Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9781849048743, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A perennial frontier for Islamic orthodoxy, Bangladesh is witnessing an alarming rise in Islamist-inspired assassinations and terrorist attacks. In July 2016, the world's attention fell upon a cafe in a leafy Dhaka neighbourhoo...

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Messengers of Hindu Nationalism How the RSS Reshaped India

Andersen Walter, Damle Shridhar D.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380257, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. It is also the parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Prime Minister Modi was himself a career RSS office-holder, or pracharak. This...

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Asia

End of the Asian Century War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region

Auslin Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300239980, ISBN: HB: 9780300212228, Yale University Press, October 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability Since Marco Polo, the West has waited for the "Asian Century". Today, the world believes that Century has arrived. Yet from China's slumping economy to wa...

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Europe

Asia

Georgia A Cultural History Through the Wardrop Collection

Aleksidze Nikoloz

ISBN: HB: 9781851244959, Bodleian Library Publishing, May 2018
160 pp., 25x21 cm, 75 illus.

When Marjory Wardrop joined her diplomat brother, Oliver, in Georgia in 1894, they found themselves witnessing the birth pangs of a modern nation. Recognising the significance of these transformative years, they actively participated in the work of I...

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Asia

Division of Heaven and Earth On Tibet's Peaceful Revolution

Akester Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781849046770, Hurst Publishers, December 2016
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "The Division of Heaven and Earth" is one of the most influential and important books from Tibet in the modern era – a passionate indictment of Chinese policies and an eloquent analysis of protests that swept Tibet from March 2...

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Culture Studies

Dissenting Japan A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture, from 1945 to Fukushima

Andrews William

ISBN: HB: 9781849045797, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Following the March 2011 Tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked with surprise on how thousands of demonstrators had flocked to the streets of Tokyo. But mass protest movements are nothing new in Japan. The pos...

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Asia

History

Mixed Medicines Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

Au Sokhieng

ISBN: PB: 9780226031644, ISBN: HB: 9780226031637, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
280 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 2 tables, 19 halftones, 4 line illus.

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their c...

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Asia

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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Asia

Technology & Engineering

Nucleus and Nation Scientists, International Networks, and Power in India

Anderson Robert S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226019758, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
736 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 9 tables, 16 halftones

In 1974 India joined the elite roster of nuclear world powers when it exploded its first nuclear bomb. But the technological progress that facilitated that feat was set in motion many decades before, as India sought both independence from the British...

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Political Science

China Returns to Africa A Superpower and a Continent Embrace

Alden Chris, Large Daniel, de Oliveira Ricardo Soares

ISBN: PB: 9781850658863, Hurst Publishers, June 2008
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The geopolitical landscape of contemporary China-Africa relations has provoked wide media interest. After being conspicuously overlooked during the G8's purported 'Year of Africa', the topic generated wider debate in the build-...

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