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Countdown to Armageddon Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
ISBN: PB: 9781850652892, Hurst Publishers, November 1996
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This work provides a portrait of Louis Farrakhan, who leads the Nation of Islam, the largest radical black Muslim organisation in the USA, most of whose adherents are African Americans in the inner cities. Members have included...
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£25,00
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Hindu Nationalist Movement and Indian Politics 1925 to the 1990s
ISBN: PB: 9781850653011, Hurst Publishers, July 1996
576 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! A study of the Hindu nationalist phenomenon, exploring the movement's use of religious symbolism and popular iconography, thereby combining anthropology and political history. It looks at the RSS, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, the...
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£22,50
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Sex, Culture and Modernity in Modern China Medical Science and the Construction of Racial Identities in the Early Republican Period
ISBN: HB: 9781850651666, Hurst Publishers, March 1995
232 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sex' emerged as an independent field of study during the New Culture Movement (1915-21). The anatomy of the reproductive system, the physiology of internal secretions, the nature of sex, the determination of sexual differences,...
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£40,00
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Bosnia and Hercegovina A Tradition Betrayed
ISBN: HB: 9781850652120, Hurst Publishers, September 1994
318 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This concise history of Bosnia-Hercegovina is designed for the non-specialist reader who seeks to understand the historical background of the Bosnian conflict that erupted in 1992 in the wake of Serbian and Croatian agression....
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£30,00
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Ataturk Founder of a Modern State
ISBN: PB: 9781850651437, Hurst Publishers, March 1994
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Like all great men in history, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (1881-1938) can be viewed in a number of ways: as the founder of a state, a nation-builder, creator of political institutions, a moderniser of his society, an extraordinarily...
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£15,99
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Following Ho Chi Minh Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel
ISBN: HB: 9781850652311, Hurst Publishers, January 1994
202 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This publication, the memoirs of a prominent journalist in Vietnam, reveals aspects of Vietnam's recent history – the liberation struggle, land reform and economic policies, relations with the Soviet Union and China, and inner-...
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£25,00
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Libya, Chad and the Central Sahara
ISBN: HB: 9781850650508, Hurst Publishers, August 1989
208 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Libya and Chad have gone to war with each other several times since Independence, ostensibly over their rival claims to the disputed Aozou strip. The author traces the ethnic, cultural and economic links between them over the c...
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£30,00
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Finland in the Twentieth Century A History and an Interpretation
ISBN: HB: 9780905838151, Hurst Publishers, December 1979
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Finland's search for a national identity is the underlying theme of this book. A small nation, geographically isolated and linguistically distinct from its neighbors, Finland has long maintained close ties with Sweden and also...
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£30,00
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Mannerheim The Years of Preparation
ISBN: PB: 9780900966224, Hurst Publishers, December 1970
167 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The least-known part of Marshal Mannerheim's long and eventful life, his early years and the time he served in the Imperial Russian Army, forms the subject of this book.
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£22,00
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