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Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes
ISBN: HB: 9781849045087, Hurst Publishers, December 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid...
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£40,00
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Short History of Modern Angola
ISBN: PB: 9781849045193, ISBN: HB: 9781849045148, Hurst Publishers, December 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This history by celebrated Africanist David Birmingham begins in 1820 with the Portuguese attempt to create a third, African, empire after the virtual loss of Asia and America. In the nineteenth century the most valuable resour...
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£17,99
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£55,00
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Maldives Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy
ISBN: PB: 9781849045896, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than experiments in democracy. It is a country of contradictions, where tourists sip cocktails on the beach while on nearby isla...
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£16,99
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Shi'ism in South East Asia Alid Piety and Sectarian Constructions
ISBN: HB: 9781849044363, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This is the first work available in any language to extensively document and critically discuss traditions of 'Alid piety and their modern contestations in the region. The concept of 'Alid piety allows for a reframing of our vi...
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£50,00
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Fortress Europe Inside the War Against Immigration
ISBN: PB: 9781849046275, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new "borderless" Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent's worst r...
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£9,99
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Muted Modernists The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia
ISBN: HB: 9781849045865, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Madawi Al-Rasheed is Visiting Professor at the Middle East Centre at LSE and Research Fellow at the Open Society Foundation. She was Professor of Anthropology of Religion at King's College, London between 1994 and 2013. Previou...
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£35,00
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Syrian Jihad Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency
ISBN: PB: 9781849045902, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
368 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The eruption of the anti-Assad revolution in Syria has had many unintended consequences, among which is the opportunity it offered Sunni jihadists to establish a foothold in the heart of the Middle East. That Syria's ongoing ci...
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£15,99
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Crimean Tatars From Soviet Genocide to Putin's Conquest
ISBN: PB: 9781849045186, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! The Russian annexation of the Crimea in March 2014 focused the world's attention on the Peninsula in ways not seen since the Crimean War. Thousands of Crimean Tatars clashed with pro-Russian militiamen in Simferopol, while Mosc...
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£30,00
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Islam in Indonesia The Contest for Society, Ideas and Values
ISBN: PB: 9781849044370, Hurst Publishers, November 2015
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Indonesia's Muslims are still pondering the role of religion in public life. Although the religious violence marring the transition towards democratic reform has ebbed, the Muslim community has polarised into reactionary and pr...
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£25,00
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Alawis of Syria War, Faith and Politics in the Levant
ISBN: HB: 9781849043991, Hurst Publishers, October 2015
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Throughout the turbulent history of the Levant the 'Alawis – a secretive, resilient and ancient Muslim sect – have aroused suspicion and animosity, including accusations of religious heresy. More recently they have been tarred...
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£29,99
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