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Partitioning Palestine British Policymaking at the End of Empire
ISBN: HB: 9780226665788, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
"Partitioning Palestine" is the first history of the ideological and political forces that led to the idea of partition – that is, a division of territory and sovereignty – in British mandate Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. Inve...
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Persian Gulf Command A History of the Second World War in Iran and Iraq
ISBN: HB: 9780300221961, Yale University Press, May 2018
432 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1 map, 24 black&white illus.
This dynamic history is the first to construct a total picture of the experience and impact of World War II in Iran and Iraq. Contending that these two countries were more important to the Allied forces' war operations than has ever been acknowledged...
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£25,00
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Poisoned Well Empire and its Legacy in the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781849049542, ISBN: HB: 9781849046398, Hurst Publishers, March 2018
288 pp., 19.8x13 cm
For sale in CIS only! The conflicts and crises of today's Middle East are rooted in the colonial era. To understand them, we need to grasp how Western imperialism shaped the region and its destiny in the half-century between 1917 and 1967. That is t...
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£12,99
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Pearl of Khorasan A History of Herat
ISBN: HB: 9781849046541, Hurst Publishers, September 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The city of Herat in western Afghanistan long sat at the edge of empires and served as a hub for trade and a conduit for armies. Yet it has been much more than simply a staging post or plaything of political ambition. It has be...
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£30,00
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Pakistan A New History
ISBN: PB: 9781849043700, Hurst Publishers, July 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! If Pakistan is to preserve all that is good about its country – the generosity and hospitality of its people, the dynamism of its youth – it must face the deterioration of its social and political institutions. Sidestepping eas...
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£16,99
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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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Pashtun Question The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan
ISBN: HB: 9781849042925, Hurst Publishers, May 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is either rooted in Pa...
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£35,00
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Putin's New Order in the Middle East
ISBN: HB: 9781849042598, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
358 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Vladimir Putin has almost by stealth transformed himself into an historic Russian figure. His undeniable political dominance was reflected in his return to presidential control after the March 2012 elections, having placed an o...
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£50,00
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Palestine between Politics and Terror, 1945-1947
ISBN: PB: 9781611684506, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, April 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
British General Sir Allan Cunningham was appointed in 1945 as high commissioner of Palestine, and served in this capacity until the end of the British mandate on May 15, 1948. The three years of Cunningham's tenure were tremendously complex political...
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£32,00
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Policing Afghanistan The Politics of the Lame Leviathan
ISBN: HB: 9781849042055, Hurst Publishers, February 2013
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Policing is not a popular topic of serious scholarly research. Although a vast literature on policing exists, it is mostly technical in nature and only rarely analytical. Even the police forces of Western Europe and North Ameri...
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£49,99
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