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From Empathy to Denial Arab Responses to the Holocaust
ISBN: PB: 9781849041553, Hurst Publishers, January 2012
416 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Based on years of research conducted mostly in Arabic sources, Meir Litvak and Ester Webman track the evolution of post-World War II perceptions of the Holocaust and their parallel emergence in the wake of the Arab-Israeli conf...
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£18,99
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Frontier of Faith Islam in the Indo-Afghan Borderland
ISBN: PB: 9781849041836, ISBN: HB: 9781850658542, Hurst Publishers, September 2011
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Sana Haroon examines religious organisation and mobilisation in the North-West Frontier Tribal Areas, a non-administered region on the Indo-Afghan border. The Tribal Areas was defined topographically as a strategic zone of defe...
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£30,00
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£45,00
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From Mao to Market China Reconfigured
ISBN: PB: 9781849040839, Hurst Publishers, February 2011
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Over the past thirty years, China has been entering inexorably onto the world stage, and into the world's imagination. From now on, there will be a 'China dimension' to almost everything we do. "From Mao to Market" is intended...
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£25,00
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From Genocide to Continental War The "Congolese" Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa
ISBN: PB: 9781850656654, Hurst Publishers, March 2009
576 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the largely Tutsi RPF government built a repressive regime after a short pretence at national reconciliation, while hundreds of thousands of Hutu, many of whom had perpetrated the genocide...
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£25,00
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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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Fundamentalism Reborn? Afghanistan and the Taliban
ISBN: PB: 9781850653608, Hurst Publishers, February 1998
272 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! This book traces the Taliban movement's origins, its rise to power, and the tensions and contradictions which made it impossible to accommodate within the modern international system. It exposes some of the misunderstandings wh...
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£25,00
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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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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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