For sale in CIS only! This book is the first authoritative volume in English on Yasukuni, the controversial Shinto shrine in the heart of Tokyo, dedicated to the Japanese war dead. Twelve convicted and two suspected Class A war criminals are enshrin...

For sale in CIS only! "Tormented" by Historyis the first comparative study of nationalism in Greece and Turkey. Grounded in an extensive critical review of the popular and scholarly historiography and literature on Greek and Turkish nationalisms, it...

For sale in CIS only! The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across...

For sale in CIS only! Historians have long regarded fashion as something peculiarly Western. In this surprising, sumptuously illustrated book, Antonia Finnane challenges this view, which she argues is based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century repre...

For sale in CIS only! The fall of Saddam Hussein's regime may have marked a watershed in Iraqi history, but to the majority of Iraq s eighteen governorates, the most dramatic challenges may lie ahead. With the formation of federal entities south of...

For sale in CIS only! Announcements of an impending victory over the Taliban have been repeated ad nauseam since the Allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, particularly after the Presidential elections of 2004, which were said to have marked the 'm...

For sale in CIS only! Before Tito's Yugoslavia, which disintegrated violently in the 1990s, there was another Yugoslav state. This book is about the original, interwar Yugoslavia (1918-41), and is based on the author's research in Croatian, Serbian,...

For sale in CIS only! It is ten years since the original publication of "Breaking the Silence: A Report on the Disturbances in Matebeleland and the Midlands". In conjunction with the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace and the Legal Resources...

For sale in CIS only! While governments are obliged to protect society and bring terrorists to justice, their effectiveness in tackling terrorism without undermining the support of the population for law and order or jeopardising basic liberties is...

For sale in CIS only! After the Holocaust, the victorious Allies pledged "Never Again" to genocide. This promise, enshrined in the UN Convention on Genocide, stipulates a responsibility to try and prevent genocide or mitigate the suffering of its vi...