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Lone Wolf and Bear Three Centuries of Chechen Defiance of Russian Rule
ISBN: PB: 9781850657484, Hurst Publishers, November 2005
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The two Russo-Chechen wars (1994-6 and 1999-onwards) have brought the country and its people to the centre of world attention, most recently when separatists stormed a Moscow theatre, taking hundreds of people hostage. This boo...
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£20,00
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Revisiting Nationalism Theories and Processes
ISBN: PB: 9781850657637, ISBN: HB: 9781850657620, Hurst Publishers, November 2005
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Nationalism has become a major topic in social science research, and the contributors to "Revisiting Nationalism" seek to sharpen the theoretical focus of what is now a crowded field of intellectual enquiry. Their approach is f...
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£19,99
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£60,00
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Dirty War in West Africa The R.U.F. and the Destruction of Sierra Leone
ISBN: PB: 9781850657422, Hurst Publishers, October 2005
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! "A Dirty War in West Africa" charts, in gripping detail based on first-band experience, the decade long civil war that brought Sierra Leone to its knees from 1991-2001. The group spearheading the violence, the Revolutionary Uni...
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£30,00
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Illusion of Cultural Identity
ISBN: PB: 9781850656609, ISBN: HB: 9781850656555, Hurst Publishers, October 2005
312 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! An examination of the fluidity of ideas of culture with relation to identity, state-builfing and political action. Does the West impose its own definition of human rights and democracy on the rest of the world? Does globalisati...
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£19,95
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£50,00
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Darfur The Ambiguous Genocide
ISBN: HB: 9781850657705, Hurst Publishers, July 2005
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! In mid-2004 the Darfur crisis in Western Sudan forced itself on to the centre stage of world affairs. A formerly obscure 'tribal conflict' in the heart of Africa has escalated into what could be the first genocide of the twenty...
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£35,00
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Frontier People Han Settlers in Minority Areas of China
ISBN: HB: 9781850657552, Hurst Publishers, June 2005
264 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Aims to contest conventional ways of presenting Han immigrants in minority areas as a homogenous group of colonisers with shared identification, equal status and access to power. This book demonstrates that the category of 'Han...
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£35,00
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Revolt on the Tigris The Sadr Uprising and Governing Iraq
ISBN: HB: 9781850657736, Hurst Publishers, June 2005
250 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! A former paratrooper in the British Army with extensive experience of conflict and post-conflict management in the countries of former Yugoslavia, Mark Etherington had just completed a degree in international relations at Cambr...
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£22,00
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Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability Analysing and Fighting Caste
ISBN: HB: 9781850654490, Hurst Publishers, March 2005
206 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Ambedkar, the first Untouchable ever to be formally educated, pioneered new strategies, philosophically and practically, which continue to prove effective, not least in the inspirational example he set to India's Untouchable co...
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£35,00
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Suicide in Palestine Narratives of Despair
ISBN: PB: 9781850657903, Hurst Publishers, March 2005
274 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book is a pioneering anthropological study of suicide in the contemporary Arab world. It discusses the effects of life under the Israeli occupation on the mental health of young Palestinians, using selected case studies of...
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£16,99
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Revolution Unending Afghanistan 1979 to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9781850656838, Hurst Publishers, January 2005
370 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The defeat of the Greek armies in Asia Minor in August 1922, leading to what the Greeks call 'the Asia Minor Catastrophe', led directly to the flight of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, the compulsory exchange of populations bet...
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£50,00
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