Edited by Ziauddin Sardar and Robin Yassin-Kassab Critical Muslim, a quarterly of ideas and issues, presents Muslim perspectives on the great debates of our times. It aims to emphasise the plurality and diversity of Islam and Muslims, refuting the presentation of Islam as a monolithic faith. Critical Muslim is available as a subscription, information below, or as single issues costing £14.99.
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GENERAL INTEREST
Pauperland A Short History of Poverty in Britain Jeremy Seabrook A guide to the still-undiscovered landscapes of poverty in Britain, their historic monuments and secret geography.
April 2013 £20.00
In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called ‘Pauperland.’ More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by Mayhew, Booth, and in the 20th century, Townsend, it remains largely unknown to, or often hidden from, those who are not poor. Pauperland is Jeremy Seabrook’s account of the mutations of poverty over time, historical attitudes to the poor, and the lives of the impoverished themselves, from early Poor Laws till today. He explains how in the medieval world, wealth was regarded as the greatest moral danger to society, yet by the industrial era, poverty was the most significant threat to social order. How did this change come about, and how did the poor, rather than the rich, find themselves blamed for much of what is wrong with Britain, including such familiar—and ancient—scourges as crime, family breakdown and addictions? How did it become the fate of the poor to be condemned to perpetual punishment and public opprobrium, the useful scapegoat of politicians and the media? Pauperland charts how such attitudes were shaped by illconceived and ill-executed private and state intervention, and how these are likely to frame ongoing discussions of and responses to poverty in Britain.
Jeremy Seabrook is the author of more than forty books on subjects as diverse as transnational prostitution, child labour, social class, ageing, unemployment and poverty. His most recent include People Without History, a report from India’s Muslim slums, and The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight from Tyranny, a study of academic refugees between 1933 and the present day. April 2013
288pp
Hardback 9781849042734 £20.00 History / Britain 1
GENERAL INTEREST
Muslim Zion Pakistan as a Political Idea Faisal Devji Locating Pakistan within a political geography that makes Israel its closest neighbour, Muslim Zion describes the consequences of founding such migrant and minority nations on an idea alone.
May 2013 £20.00
Praise for The Impossible Indian:
‘Devji is a creative and distinctive thinker who has now developed a style of exposition that is all his own.’ — Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
Faisal Devji is Reader in History at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He is the author of three books, Landscapes of the Jihad, The Terrorist in Search of Humanity and The Impossible Indian, all published by Hurst. May 2013 176pp Hardback 9781849042765 £20.00 Political History / Pakistan 2
Pakistan is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many, a failed state. Muslim Zion cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue that it has never been a nation state in the conventional sense. It is instead a distinct type of political geography, ungrounded in the historic connections of lands and peoples, whose context is provided by the settler states of the New World but whose closest ideological parallel is the state of Israel. A year before the 1948 establishment of Israel, Pakistan was founded on a philosophy that accords with Zionism in surprising ways. This book understands Zion as a political form rather than a holy land, one that rejects hereditary linkages between ethnicity and soil in favour of membership based on nothing but the idea of belonging. Like Israel, Pakistan came into being through the migration of a minority population, inhabiting a vast subcontinent, who abandoned old lands in which they feared persecution to settle in a new homeland. Just as Israel is the world’s sole Jewish state, Pakistan is the only Muslim country to make religion the sole basis for its nationality. Revealing how Pakistan’s troubled present continues to be shaped by its past, Muslim Zion is a penetrating critique of what comes of founding a country on an unresolved desire both to join and reject the world of modern nation-states.
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The First World War in the Middle East Kristian Coates Ulrichsen A comprehensive history of the First World War in the Middle East.
May 2013 £25.00
The First World War in the Middle East is an accessibly written military and social history of the clash of world empires in the Dardanelles, Egypt and Palestine, Mesopotamia, Persia and the Caucasus. Coates Ulrichsen demonstrates how wartime exigen cies shaped the parameters of the modern Middle East, and describes and assesses the major campaigns against the Ottoman Empire and Germany involving British and imperial troops from the French and Russian Empires, as well as their Arab and Armenian allies. Also documented are the enormous logistical demands placed on host societies by the Great Powers’ conduct of industrialised warfare in hostile terrain. The resulting deepening of imperial penetration, and the extension of state controls across a heterogeneous sprawl of territories, generated a powerful backlash both during and immediately after the war, which played a pivotal role in shaping national identities as the Ottoman Empire was dismembered. This is a multidimensional account of the many seemingly discrete yet interlinked campaigns that resulted in one to one and a half million casualties. It details not just their military outcome but relates them to intelligence-gathering, industrial organisation, authoritarianism and the political economy of empires at war.
Praise for Insecure Gulf: ‘Kristian Coates Ulrichsen’s absorbing book is rich in detail and profoundly incisive. It is brilliant in its analysis and masterful in scope [...] This is compulsory and highly engaging reading.’ — Steven Wright, Department of International Affairs, Qatar University
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen holds a PhD in military and imperial history from the University of Cambridge. He is the co-director of the Kuwait Research Programme at the LSE and the author of Insecure Gulf: The End of Certainty and the Transition to the Post-Oil Era, published by Hurst. May 2013
320pp
Hardback 9781849042741 £25.00 History / Middle East 3
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Coolie Woman The Odyssey of Indenture Gaiutra Bahadur A personal journey that seeks to reclaim the history of generations of indentured Indian women who spent their lives on the sugar plantations of British Guyana.
May 2013 £20.00
‘I thought I knew something about slavery and forced labour, having written two books on the subject. And I thought I knew something about immigration to the New World. But Gaiutra Bahadur’s book made me realise how the experience of a whole generation of women like her great-grandmother profoundly challenges the various stereotypes we have. This is a highly original combination of careful scholarship and well-told personal journey.’ — Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains: the British Struggle to Abolish Slavery Gaiutra Bahadur is an award-winning reporter and book critic. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Observer and The Nation, among other publications. She studied literature at Yale and journalism at Columbia, and was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard. She was born in Guyana and emigrated to the United States as a child. May 2013
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Hardback 9781849042772 £20.00 History / South Asia 4
In 1903 a Brahmin woman sailed from India to Guyana as a ‘coolie’, the name the British gave to the million indentured labourers they recruited for sugar plantations worldwide after slavery ended. The woman, who claimed no husband, was pregnant and travelling alone. A century later, her great-granddaughter embarks on a journey into the past, hoping to solve a mystery: what made her leave her country? And had she also left behind a man? Gaiutra Bahadur, an American journalist, pursues traces of her great-grandmother over three continents. She also excavates the repressed history of some quarter of a million female coolies. Disparaged as fallen, many were runaways, widows or outcasts, and many migrated alone. Coolie Woman chronicles their epic passage from Calcutta to the Caribbean, from departures akin either to kidnap or escape, through sea voyages rife with sexploitation, to new worlds where women were in short supply. When they exercised the power this gave them, some fell victim to the machete, in brutal attacks, often fatal, by men whom they spurned. Sex with overseers both empowered and imperiled other women, in equal measure. It also precipitated uprisings, as a struggle between Indian men and their women intersected with one between coolies and their overlords.
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Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance Cultures of Exclusion Anna Morcom An interview- and archival-based account of India’s female and transgender dancers and the forces of inclusion/exclusion that have shaped Indian performing arts over the last century.
March 2013 £16.99
Until the 1930s no woman could perform in public and retain respectability in India. Professional female performers were courtesans and dancing girls who lived beyond the confines of marriage, but were often powerful figures in social and cultural life. Women’s roles were often also taken by boys and men, some of whom were simply female impersonators, others transgender. Since the late nineteenth century the status, livelihood and identity of these performers have all diminished, with the result that many of them have become involved in sexual transactions and sexualised performances. Meanwhile, upper-class, upper-caste women have taken control of the classical performing arts and also entered the film industry, while a Bollywood dance and fitness craze has recently swept middle class India. In her historical and on-the-ground study, Anna Morcom investigates the emergence of illicit worlds of dance in the shadow of India’s official performing arts. She explores over a century of marginalisation of courtesans, dancing girls, bar girls and transgender performers, and describes their lives as they struggle with stigmatisation, derision and loss of livelihood.
Anna Morcom works on music and dance in India and Tibet from a number of perspectives pertaining to modernity and the contemporary world. Her publications include Hindi Film Songs and the Cinema and Unity and Discord: Music and Politics in Contemporary Tibet. She is a lecturer in the Music Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. March 2013
320pp
Paperback 9781849042796 £16.99 Hardback 9781849042789 £45.00 Social History / Music / South Asia 5
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Cyber War Will Not Take Place Thomas Rid A fresh and refined appraisal of today’s top cyber threats: sabotage through weaponised code, computer-espionage, and subversion—based on evidence, driven by in-depth case-studies and informed by rigorous political analysis. April 2013 £14.99
Thomas Rid is Reader in War Studies at King’s College London. He is also a non-resident fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations in the School for Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC. April 2013
256pp
Paperback 9781849042802 £14.99 War Studies / Technology 6
‘Cyber war is coming,’ announced a landmark RAND report in 1993. In 2005, the U.S. Air Force boasted it would now fly, fight, and win in cyberspace, the ‘fifth domain’ of warfare. This book takes stock, twenty years on: is cyber war really coming? Has war indeed entered the fifth domain? Cyber War Will Not Take Place cuts through the hype and takes a fresh look at cyber security. Thomas Rid argues that the focus on war and winning distracts from the real challenge of cyberspace: non-violent confrontation that may rival or even replace violence in surprising ways. The threat consists of three different vectors: espionage, sabotage, and subversion. The author traces the most significant hacks and attacks, exploring the full spectrum of case studies from the shadowy world of computer espionage and weaponised code. With a mix of technical detail and rigorous political analysis, the book explores some key questions: What are cyber weapons? How have they changed the meaning of violence? How likely and how dangerous is crowd-sourced subversive activity? Why has there never been a lethal cyber attack against a country’s critical infrastructure? How serious is the threat of ‘pure’ cyber espionage, of exfiltrating data without infiltrating humans first? And who is most vulnerable: which countries, industries, individuals?
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Suspect Devices How IEDs Killed the Western Way of War Caroline Kennedy An examination of ‘Improvised Explosive Devices’ (commonly known as IEDs) which demonstrates, contrary to popular perception, that these weapons are not new but have played a significant role in combat since the Second World War. May 2013 £20.00
In the wake of the American-led invasion of Afghanistan and then Iraq, one weapon in particular has come to dominate the image we have of these wars—the ‘Improvised Explosive Device’ or IED. Dramatised by films such as The Hurt Locker and omnipresent in the media because of its continuing toll on allied service personnel, especially bomb-disposal specialists, the IED has become the ubiquitous asymmetric ‘weapon of the weak’ and a major threat to Western foreign policy objectives and military morale. In this rigorous book on the IED phenomenon, Caroline Kennedy argues that it is indeed a ‘ubiquitous weapon,’ but that it is not new and has been a feature of the battlefield for much longer than we imagine. She shows how the IED became a thorn in the side of the ‘Western way of war’ and how its increasing proliferation into criminal organisations and use in ‘ordinary’ forms of violence represents a step change in threats to both military and civil order and a potent challenge to Western interests at many levels. Suspect Devices offers a graphic interpretation of the power, both actual and symbolic, of this durable and potent weapon, and an important and urgent reflection on its contemporary relevance.
Caroline Kennedy is Professor of War Studies at the University of Hull. She is the author of several books and articles on strategy and was founding editor of the journal Civil Wars. May 2013
256pp
Hardback 9781849043038 £20.00 War / Military Studies 7
GENERAL INTEREST
Loyal Enemies British Converts to Islam, 1850-1950 Jamie Gilham The first account of the history and remarkable lives of British converts to Islam during the heyday of Empire.
April 2013 £20.00
Jamie Gilham is a historian whose research focuses on the modern history and politics of Islam and Muslims in Britain. He holds a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London. April 2013
256pp
Hardback 9781849042758 £20.00 History / British Islam 8
Loyal Enemies uncovers the history of the earliest British converts to Islam who lived their lives freely as Muslims on British soil, from the 1850s to the 1950s. Drawing on original archival research, it reveals that people from across the range of social classes defied convention by choosing Islam in this period. Through a series of case studies of influential converts and pioneering Muslim communities, Loyal Enemies considers how the culture of Empire and imperialism influenced and affected their conversions and subsequent lives, before examining how they adapted and sustained their faith. Jamie Gilham shows that, although the overall number of converts was small, conversion to Islam aroused hostile reactions locally and nationally. He therefore also probes the roots of antipathy towards Islam and Muslims, identifies their manifestations and explores what conversion entailed socially and culturally. He also considers whether there was any substance to persistent allegations that converts had ‘divided’ loyalties between the British Crown and a Muslim ruler, country or community. Loyal Enemies is a book about the past, but its core themes—about faith and belief, identity, Empire, loyalties and discrimination— are still salient today.
GENERAL INTEREST
Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent Inside British Islam
Innes Bowen The ideology and history of Britain’s main Islamic groups explained.
May 2013 £16.99
Muslim intellectuals may try to define something called British Islam, but the truth is that as the Muslim community of Britain has grown in size and religiosity, so too has the opportunity to found and run mosques which divide along ethnic and sectarian lines. Just as most churches in Britain are affiliated to one of the main Christian denominations, the vast majority of Britain’s 1600 mosques are linked to wider sectarian networks: the Deobandi and Tablighi Jamaat movements with their origins in colonial India; the Salafi groups inspired by an austere form of Islam widely practiced in Saudi Arabia; the Islamist movements with links to religious political parties in the Middle East and South Asia; the Sufi movements that tend to emphasise spirituality rather than religious and political militancy; and the diverse Shi’ite sects which range from the orthodox disciples of Grand Ayatollah Sistani in Iraq to the Ismaili followers of the pragmatic and modernising Aga Khan. These affiliations are usually not apparent to outsiders, but inside Britain’s Muslim communities sectarian divides are often fiercely guarded by religious leaders. This book, of which no equivalent volume yet exists, is a definitive guide to the ideological differences, organisational structures and international links of the main Islamic groups active in Britain today.
Innes Bowen is a BBC radio journalist who has produced programmes such as ‘Analysis’ and ‘Law in Action’. May 2013
288pp
Paperback 9781849043014 £16.99 Britain / Current Affairs 9
MIDDLE EAST
Ashes of Hama The Perilous History of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood Raphaël Lefèvre An insight into Syria’s most influential Islamist movement—and how its rebirth from the ashes of history is shaping the conflict in Syria.
March 2013 £30.00
Raphaël Lefèvre is a Gates Scholar and PhD student at King’s College, Cambridge University, where he also earned an MPhil in International Relations. He has published extensively on the Syrian Islamic movement and is the co-author of State and Islam in Baathist Syria: Confrontation or Co-optation? March 2013
288pp
Hardback 9781849042857 £30.00 History / Islamic Studies 10
When the convulsions of the Arab Spring first became manifest in Syria in March 2011, the Ba’athist regime was quick to blame the protests on the ‘Syrian Muslim Brotherhood’ and its ‘al-Qaeda affiliates.’ But who are these Islamists so determined to rule a post-Assad Syria? Little has been published on militant Islam in Syria since Hafez Assad’s regime destroyed the Islamist movement in its stronghold of Hama in February 1982. This book bridges that gap by providing readers with the first comprehensive account of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood’s history to date. In this ground-breaking account of Syria’s most prominent, yet highly secretive, Islamist organisation, the author draws on previously untapped sources: the memoirs of former Syrian jihadists; British and American archives; and also a series of wide-ranging interviews with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood’s historical leaders as well as those who battled against them—many speaking on the record for the first time. Ashes of Hama uncovers the major aspects of the Islamist struggle: from the Brotherhood’s radicalisation and its ‘jihad’ against the Ba’athist regime and subsequent exile, to a spectacular comeback at the forefront of the Syrian revolution in 2011—a remarkable turnaround for an Islamist movement which all analysts had pronounced dead amid the ruins of Hama in 1982.
MIDDLE EAST
The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath Edited by Peter Cole & Brian McQuinn A wide-ranging account of the roots, trajectory and consequences of Libya’s ‘17 February Revolution.’
June 2013 £30.00
This book offers a novel, incisive and wideranging account of Libya’s ‘17 February Revolution’ by tracing how critical towns, communities and political groups helped to shape its course. Each community, whether geographical (e.g. Misrata, Zintan), tribal/communal (e.g. Beni Walid) or political (e.g. the Muslim Brotherhood) took its own path into the uprisings and subsequent conflict of 2011, according to their own histories and relationship to Muammar Qadhafi’s regime. The story of each group is told by the authors, based on reportage and expert analysis, from the outbreak of protests in Benghazi in February 2011 through to the transitional period following the end of fighting in October 2011. They describe the emergence of Libya’s new politics through the unique stories of those who made it happen, or those who fought against it. The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath brings together leading journalists, academics, and specialists, each with extensive field experience amidst the constituencies they depict, drawing on interviews with fighters, politicians and civil society leaders who have contributed their own account of events to this volume.
Peter Cole was a Senior Analyst on Libya with the International Crisis Group (ICG) during the revolution and the ensuing transitional government, providing policy advice and background briefings to the UN, EU, governments, companies, NGOs and most major media outlets. Prior to his work with ICG, Peter completed an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford. Brian McQuinn is a research associate at the Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding and a doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford. June 2013
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Hardback 9781849043090 £30.00 Middle East / International Relations 11
MIDDLE EAST
Middle East Drugs Bazaar Production, Prevention and Consumption Philip Robins An in-depth look at illicit drugs and their social, political and economic impact across ten countries in the Middle East.
May 2013 £20.00
Philip Robins is Reader in Middle East Politics at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. Prior to that he was the founding head of the Middle East Programme at Chatham House. He has worked on the region for more than thirty-five years. May 2013
288pp
Paperback 9781849042819 £20.00 Middle East / Narcotics 12
The Middle East is intimately involved in the issue of illegal drugs which affects all the countries of the region: as a cultivator (Morocco, Lebanon); transit hub (Iran, Turkey); and consumer (Egypt). Yet, until now, there has been precious little research on any of these issues, especially in a comparative manner. This book, the first in any language to focus on illicit drugs in the Middle East, will surprise many readers. The consumption of qat in Yemen or cultivation of cannabis in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley is hardly news, but the extent of amphetamine use in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States or the international role of Israeli narcotics manufactures and traffickers is less well known. Based on extensive research and interaction with law enforcement agencies, the public and private health sectors, drug-centric NGOs, and recovering drug abusers, Middle East Drugs Bazaar focuses on ten of the leading countries of the region, straddling the Arab World, Israel, Iran and Turkey. It tells the story of drug-related experiences where they most impinge on the peoples and societies of the region. In addition to the social role of illegal drugs, their political and economic impact are also covered, including: war and drugs in Iraq; drugs and development in Yemen; and youth policy and drugs in Saudi Arabia.
MIDDLE EAST
The Wisdom of Syria’s Waiting Game Foreign Policy Under the Assads Bente Scheller A timely and insightful look at how Bashar Assad shifted the Syrian regime’s focus from national security to mere survival.
April 2013 £30.00
Syrian foreign policy, always opaque, has become an even greater puzzle during the Syrian revolt. Irrespective of the regime’s international isolation in the wake of its violent response to domestic protest, it has paid lip-service to international peace plans while unperturbedly crushing the rebellion. The rare televised appearances of President Assad have shown a leader detached from reality. Has he—in his own words—‘gone crazy’? In this book longtime Syria analyst and former diplomat Bente Scheller contends that Bashar Assad’s deadly waiting game is following its own logic: whatever difficulties the Syrian regime has faced, its previous experience has been that it can simply sit out the current crisis. The difference this time is that Syria faces a double crisis—internal and external. While Hafez Assad, renowned as an astute politician, adapted to new challenges, his son, Bashar, seems to have no alternative plan of action. Scheller’s timely book analyses Syrian foreign policy after the global upheavals of 1989, which was at the time a glorious new beginning for the regime. She shows how Bashar Assad, by ignoring change both inside Syria and in the region, has sacrificed his father’s focus on national security in favour of a policy of regime survival and offers a candid analysis of the successes and shortcomings of Syrian foreign policy in recent years.
Bente Scheller is Director of the Beirut based Middle East office of HeinrichBöll-Stiftung, a political foundation close to the German Green Party, and Marshall Memorial Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She holds a PhD from Free University of Berlin and specialises in foreign and security policy. Between 2002 and 2004 she was posted at the German Embassy in Damascus. April 2013
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Hardback 9781849042864 £30.00 Middle East / International Relations 13
WAR & GENDER
The Landscape of Silence Sexual Violence Against Men in War Amalendu Misra Why is it that sexual violence against men, both soldiers and civilians, remains so pervasive in conflict?
July 2013 £25.00
Amalendu Misra teaches at Lancaster University and the University of Anahuac, Mexico. He is the author of Politics of Civil Wars, Afghanistan: The Labyrinth of Violence and Identity & Religion.
July 2013 256pp Hardback 9781849042826 £25.00 War / Gender Studies 14
Why is it that men and boys have been and still are violated in human conflict, be it in conventional war, insurgencies or periods of civil and ethnic strife? Above all, why, throughout history, have victims, perpetrators and society as a whole refused to acknowledge this violation, and why do episodes of male-on-male rape and sexual abuse feature so rarely in accounts of war, be they official histories, eye-witness accounts or popular narratives? Is there more to this elision of memory than simply shame? Is there more to it than the victor’s desire to violate the enemy body? Amalendu Misra’s startlingly original research into male sexual violence explores the meaning and role of the male body prior to its abuse and how it is altered by violation in wartime. He examines the bio-political contexts of conflict in which primarily men and occasionally women sexually violate men; he details the inadequate legal safeguards for survivors of such events; and in unearthing and analysing an ignored aspect of war, he inquires whether such violence can ever be deterred.
WAR & GENDER
Men at War What Fiction Tells Us About War, From Achilles to Flashman Christopher Coker This is the story of the fictional warriors, heroes, villains, survivors and victims whose exploits thrill and appall us, capturing the existential appeal to men of war.
March 2013 £25.00
Since Achilles first stormed into our imagination, literature has introduced its readers to truly unforgettable martial characters. In Men at War Christopher Coker discusses some of the most famous of these fictional creations and their impact on our understanding of war and masculinity. Grouped into five archetypes—warriors, heroes, villains, survivors and victims—these characters range across 3000 years of history, through epic poems, the modern novel and one of the twentieth century’s most famous film scripts. Great authors like Homer and Tolstoy reveal to us aspects of reality invisible except through a literary lens, while fictional characters such as Achilles, Falstaff, Robert Jordan and Jack Aubrey are not just larger than life, they are life’s largeness; and this is why we seek them out. Although the Greeks knew that the lovers, wives and mothers of soldiers are the chief victims of battle, for combatants war is a masculine pursuit. Each of Coker’s chapters explores what fiction tells us about war’s hold on the imagination of young men and the way it makes—and breaks—them. War’s existential appeal is also perhaps best conveyed in fictional accounts, and these too are scrutinised.
Praise for Barbarous Philosophers: ‘Throughout this book fizzes with ideas. Coker is inventive, imaginative and erudite. We are swept along in an argument that ranges from Heraclitus to Rorty in a few dizzying paragraphs. The digressions and diversions are part of the entertainment, and the sinuous style draws you in. [...] Coker gives us a fascinating window on different cultures’ understanding of war.’ — Times Literary Supplement
Christopher Coker is Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics. He is the author of Barbarous Philosophers: Reflections on the Nature of War from Heraclitus to Heisenberg and Warrior Geeks, both published by Hurst. March 2013
320pp
Hardback 9781849042895 £25.00 War Studies 15
NGOS
NGOs A New History of Transnational Civil Society Thomas Davies A landmark history of international non-governmental organisations, forcing us to reconsider the role of transnational civil society in world affairs.
April 2013 £22.00
Thomas Davies is Lecturer in International Politics at City University, London, where he researches and teaches transnational history and politics. He was previously a junior research fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, and a Lecturer at St Catherine’s and New College, Oxford. April 2013
288pp
Paperback 9781849043106 £22.00 Development / Aid 16
In the first historical account of international NGOs, from the French Revolution to the present, Thomas Davies places the contemporary debate on transnational civil society in context. In contrast to the conventional wisdom, which sees transnational civil society as a recent development taking place along a linear trajectory, he explores the long history of international NGOs in terms of a cyclical process characterised by three major waves: the era to 1914, the inter-war years, and the period since the Second World War. The breadth of transnational civil society activities explored is unprecedented in its diversity, from business associations to humanitarian organisations, peace groups to socialist movements, feminist organisations to pannationalist groups. The geographical scope covered is also extensive, and the analysis is richly supported with reference to a diverse array of previously unexplored sources. By revealing the role of civil society rather than governmental actors in the major transformations of the past two-and-a-half centuries, this book is for anyone interested in obtaining a new perspective on world history. The analysis concludes in the second decade of the twenty-first century, providing insights into the trajectory of transnational civil society in the post-9/11 and post-financial crisis eras.
PEACEKEEPING
Legions of Peace UN Peacekeepers from the Global South Philip Cunliffe A critical examination of the global power relations that underpin the unprecedented deployments of UN peacekeepers from poor and developing countries since.
April 2013 £40.00
The huge number of security forces stationed around the world as United Nations peacekeepers is second only to the global military deployments of the USA. But most UN peacekeepers come from the emerging powers and developing states that comprise the global South. This is the first book to analyse this phenomenon at the international level. Such unprecedented deployments show that peacekeeping is the most widely tolerated use of force in international affairs today. Far from signalling progress towards global governance, Legions of Peace argues that UN peacekeeping must be understood in the context of continuing economic inequality and the uneven distribution of global power. Philip Cunliffe contends that through UN peacekeeping Western states have used their domination of international institutions to harness the armed forces of the global South. In so doing, Western states seek to reduce the political and military costs of hegemony and stave off their inevitable, long-term decline in power. This strategy has profound political implications. Instead of transcending the ‘scourge of war’, by globalising peacekeeping the UN has made peace dependent on the extensive and sustained deployment of armed force—a development that bodes ill for the future.
Philip Cunliffe is a lecturer in international conflict at the University of Kent. He completed his doctorate at King’s College London in 2008. April 2013
288pp
Hardback 9781849042901 £40.00 War Studies / Peacekeeping 17
AID / ANTHROPOLOGY
The Political Biography of an Earthquake Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India Edward Simpson A vivid, subtle and disturbing account of what people do in the aftermath of a major ‘natural’ disaster, this book will change your way of thinking about such calamities and their impact on the human spirit.
May 2013
SERIES
SOCIETY AND HISTORY IN THE INDIAN OCEAN Praise for Struggling With History: ‘This highly readable book ought to become a standard work of reference.’ — Ulrike Freitag, Free University and Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin
Edward Simpson is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He co-edited Struggling With History: Islam and Cosmopolitanism in the Western Indian Ocean, also published by Hurst. May 2013
288pp
Paperback 9781849042871 £22.00 South Asia / Aid & Development 18
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For those so-minded, the aftermath of an earthquake presents opportunities to intervene. Thus, in Gujarat, following the disaster of 2001, leaders were deposed, proletariats created, religious fundamentalism incubated, the state restructured, and industrial capitalism expanded exponentially. Rather than gazing in at those struggling in the ruins, as is commonplace in the literature, this book looks out from the affected region at those who came to intervene. Based on extensive research amid the dust and noise of reconstruction, the author focuses on the survivors and their interactions with death, history, and with those who came to use the shock of disaster to change the order of things. Edward Simpson takes us deep into the experience of surviving a ‘natural’ disaster. We see a society in mourning, further alienated by manufactured conditions of uncertainty and absurdity. We witness arguments about the past. What was important? What should be preserved? Was modernisation the cause of the disaster or the antidote? As people were putting things back together, they also knew that future earthquakes were inevitable. How did they learn to live with this terrible truth? How have people in other times and places come to terms with the promise of another earthquake, knowing that things will fall apart again?
SUZANNE FRANKS
Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media Suzanne Franks
REPORTING
DISASTERS Famine, Aid, Politics and the Media
MEDIA STUDIES
Reporting Disasters
Ethiopia 1984: A groundbreaking account of the reporting of a famine and its unintended long-term consequences.
March 2013 £20.00
The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unprecedented impact, challenging perceptions of Africa and mobilising public opinion and philanthropic action in a dramatic new way. The contemporary international configuration of aid, media pressure, and official policy is still directly affected and sometimes distorted by what was––as this narrative shows––also an inaccurate and misleading story. In popular memory, the reporting of Ethiopia and the resulting humanitarian intervention were a great success. Yet alternative interpretations give a radically different picture of misleading journalism and an aid effort which did more harm than good. Using privileged access to BBC and Government archives, Reporting Disasters examines and reveals the internal factors which drove BBC news and offers a rare case study of how the media can affect public opinion and policymaking. It constructs the process that accounts for the immensity of the news event, following the response at the heart of government to the pressure of public opinion. And it shows that while the reporting and the altruistic festival that it produced triggered remarkable and identifiable changes, the ongoing impact was not what the conventional account claims it to have been.
‘Reporting Disasters makes a powerful case for a better understanding of the causes of hunger. Franks shows how the way starving people in Ethiopia were portrayed on TV—the famous ‘Biblical famine’ of 1984—distorted the world’s response, inspiring aid deliveries that may have done more harm than good. The coverage failed to understand the politics of famine. This is the best kind of history—one that challenges stereotypes and asks uncomfortable questions.’ — David Loyn, BBC International Development Correspondent Suzanne Franks was for many years a news and current affairs journalist with BBC TV. She left to found an independent production company and also completed a PhD. She is now Professor of Journalism at City University in London and has published widely on the coverage of international news and the history of broadcasting. March 2013
256pp
Paperback 9781849042888 £20.00 Media Studies / African Studies 19
EUROPE
Inside Greek Terrorism
George Kassimeris George Kassimeris explores the complexity of the motivations and emotions of those who have led Greece’s network of modern terrorist groups and urban guerrillas.
March 2013 £16.99
Praise for Playing Politics With Terrorism: ‘An extraordinary collection of original, penetrating and compellingly written essays, Playing Politics with Terrorism: A User’s Guide challenges all our assumptions about the relationship between democracy and terrorism. An eye-opener of a book on the world after 9/11.’ — Jessica Stern, Harvard University
George Kassimeris is Reader in Terrorism Studies at Wolverhampton University and is the author/editor of six books including The Barbarization of Warfare and Playing Politics with Terrorism: A User’s Guide.
March 2013
244pp
Paperback 9781849042833 £16.99 Europe / Terrorism Studies 20
The long story of Greek terrorism was meant to have ended in the summer of 2002 with the collapse of the country’s premier terrorist organisation and one of Europe’s longest-running gangs, the notorious 17 November group (17N). However, rather than demoralising and emasculating the country’s armed struggle movement, the dismantling of 17N and the imprisonment of its members led to the emergence of new urban guerrilla groups and an upsurge in and intensification of revolutionary violence. Given the sheer longevity of the 17N terrorist experience, George Kassimeris sets out to analyse the life histories of the group’s imprisoned members. Their stories, told through their own words, offer us a clearer picture than we have ever had of the political and ideological environment that provided the foundations upon which revolutionary terrorism took root in the mid-1970s. This book also brings up to date the gritty story of Greek terrorism, by analysing the country’s post-17N generation of urban guerrilla groups, placing their extremism and violence in a broader political and cultural perspective.
EUROPE
Belgium Long United, Long Divided Samuel Humes A concise history of Belgium, seeking to answer the question: why, after 600 years as a unified state, does Belgium appear increasingly unable to hold together a linguistically divided population?
December 2012 £15.95
This concise history describes the traditions and transitions that over 2000 years have developed in Belgium a sense of shared identity, common government, and a centralised nation-state—and then over a few recent decades paved the way for the Flemish-Walloon schism that now threatens to break up the country. It responds to the question: why does a government, unified for more than 600 years, no longer seem capable of holding together a linguistically divided country? In tracing the evolution of Belgian governance, Humes describes why and how the dominance of the French-speaking propertied elite eroded after having monopolised the land’s governance for centuries. The extension of suffrage, combined with the rise of literacy and schooling, enabled labour and Flemish movements to gather sufficient momentum to fracture the Belgian polity, splitting its parties and frustrating its politics. The presence of the European Union (EU) and the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) has, in a tangential way, enabled the Belgian separatists to discount the merit of a national government that is no longer needed to defend the country militarily and economically.
REANNOUNCING ‘A brilliant insight into the age-long history of Belgium and how the linguistic and cultural divide determines the outlook of our country to this day. It has the merit of describing Belgian history without any complexes. Or should I say: without prejudice or bias. … The objectivity with which this work is steeped makes it particularly worthwhile reading for Belgians.’ — Wilfried Martens, former Prime Minister of Belgium
Samuel Humes lived in Belgium from 1984 until 2008, where he was most recently director of Boston University’s Brussels campus. He is a graduate of Williams College (BA), the University of Pennsylvania (MGA), and Leiden University (Drs and PhD). December 2012
320pp
Paperback 9781849041461
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AFRICA
Magnificent and Beggar Land Angola since the Civil War Ricardo Soares de Oliveira The definitive account of a rising and fast-changing African state.
June 2013 £25.00
Praise for Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea: ‘A path-breaking study of an important port of the world. The book occupies a unique position in the English-language literature.’ — Stephen Ellis, University of Leiden
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira is University Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Oxford, fellow of St Peter´s College, Oxford, and fellow of the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin. He is the author of Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea and co-editor of China Returns to Africa and The New Protectorates, all of which are published by Hurst. June 2013
288pp
Paperback 9781849042840 £25.00 History / African Studies 22
Based on three years of research in and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, Magnificent and Beggar Land is the definitive account of the fast-changing dynamics of this important yet misunderstood African state; a major exporter of oil, minerals and other raw materials and a growing power in the region. It documents the rise of a major African economy and its insertion in the international system. The government, backed by a strategic alliance with China and working hand in glove with hundreds of thousands of expatriates, many from the former colonial power, Portugal, has pursued an ambitious agenda of state-led national reconstruction. This has resulted in double-digit growth in Sub-Saharan Africa’s third largest economy and a state budget in excess of total western aid to the entire continent. Scarred by a history of slave trading, colonial plunder and war, Angolans now aspire to the building of a decent society. Soares de Oliveira’s book charts the remarkable course the country has taken in recent years.
AFRICA
The New Kings of Crude China and India’s Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan Luke Anthony Patey A first look at how the world’s rising powers began international oil empires amidst one of Africa’s longest and deadliest civil wars.
April 2013 £25.00
There are few places left on earth in which one can prospect for and find oil, the commodity so desperately needed, and in such huge quantities, by Asia’s new industrial powers, China and India. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia’s glistening corporate towers to provide a first look at how the world’s rising economies established new international oil empires in Sudan, amid one of Africa’s longest-running and deadliest civil wars. For over a decade, Sudan fuelled the international rise of Chinese and Indian national oil companies. But the political turmoil surrounding the historic division of Africa’s largest country challenged Asia’s oil giants to chart a new course. Luke Patey weaves together the stories of hardened oilmen, powerful politicians, rebel fighters, and human rights activists to show how the lure of oil brought China and India into Sudan—only later to ensnare both in the messy politics of a divided country. His book also introduces the reader to the Chinese and Indian oilmen and politicians who were willing to become entangled in an African civil war in the pursuit of the world’s most coveted resource.
Luke Anthony Patey is a research fellow at the Danish Institute for International Studies. He has written for The Guardian and The Hindu, and is co-editor of Sudan Looks East: China, India, and the Politics of Asian Alternatives. April 2013
256pp
Paperback 9781849042949 £25.00 Africa / Energy 23
SOUTH ASIA
Forged in Crisis India and the United States Since 1947 Rudra Chaudhuri Offers a fresh and challenging interpretation of India’s relationship with the United States over six decades, revealing the complex and distinctive manner in which New Delhi has pursued its interests.
May 2013 £30.00
Rudra Chaudhuri is a lecturer in Strategic Studies and South Asian Security at the Department of War Studies and the India Institute, King’s College London. May 2013
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Hardback 9781849043045 £30.00 International Affairs 24
Rudra Chaudhuri’s book examines a series of crises that led to far-reaching changes in India’s approach to the United States, defining the contours of what is arguably the imperative relationship between America and the global South. Forged in Crisis provides a fresh interpretation of India’s advance in foreign affairs under the stewardship of Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and finally, Manmohan Singh. It reveals the complex and distinctive manner in which India sought to pursue at once material interests and ideas, while meticulously challenging the shakier and largely untested reading of ‘non-alignment’ palpable in most works on Indian foreign policy and international relations. From the Korean War in 1950 to the considered debate within India on sending troops to Iraq in 2003, and from the loss of territory to China and the subsequent talks on Kashmir with Pakistan in 1962-63 to the signing of a civil nuclear agreement with Washington in 2008, Chaudhuri maps Indian negotiating styles and behaviour and how these shaped and informed decisions vital to its strategic interest, in turn redefining its relationship with the United States.
SOUTH ASIA
The Art of Secularism The Cultural Politics of Modernist Art in Contemporary India Karin Zitzewitz A study of the entanglement of visual art with secularism in the wake of the rise of Hindu nationalism in India, tracking the emergence of the artist as an exemplary secular subject.
May 2013 £25.00
Written in the wake of the widely publicised attacks by Hindu nationalist activists on the late M. F. Husain, India’s most famous artist and a prominent Muslim, The Art of Secularism addresses the entanglement of visual art with political secularism. The crisis in secularism in India, commonly associated with the rise of Hindu nationalism in the 1980s, transformed the meaning of art. It challenged the relationships between modernism, national culture, secularism and modernity that had been built since India’s independence in 1947. The Art of Secularism describes how four renowned artists—M. F. Husain, K. G. Subramanyan, Gulammohammed Sheikh, and Bhupen Khakhar—developed their practice in an era when secular nationalism grappled with the recent re-enchantment of signs. Combining close readings of these artists’ work with ethnography of the art worlds of Mumbai and Vadodara, Karin Zitzewitz describes both the everyday forms of cosmopolitanism in the Indian art world and the increasing vulnerability of art world spaces to cultural regulation. She also presents the shifting conditions of the production and exhibition of art within the particularly urgent, varied, and sophisticated public debates about secularism in India, in which artists have been increasingly prominent interlocutors.
Bhupen Khakhar , How Many Hands Do I Need t o Decl ar e My Love t o You?, 1994. Repr oduced wit h per mission of t he Estat e of Bhupen Khakhar and a pr ivat e col l ect or .
Karin Zitzewitz is Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Michigan State University. May 2013
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Hardback 9781849042956 £25.00 Art / Politics / South Asia 25
SOUTH ASIA
Karachi Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City Laurent Gayer Argues that within the seemingly chaotic malaise of Karachi’s politics, a form of ‘manageable violence’ exists, on which the functioning of the city is based.
April 2013 £25.00
Cover Illustration: Karachi ki Kahani by Sophia Balagamwala, 2011
COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES SERIES, CHRISTOPHER JAFFRELOT (EDITOR)
Laurent Gayer is a research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), currently posted at the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH) in Delhi. He is also Research Associate at the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud in Paris. He has coedited, with Christophe Jaffrelot, Armed Militias of South Asia: Fundamentalists, Maoists, and Separatists, and Muslims in Indian Cities: Trajectories of Marginalisation, both of which are published by Hurst. April 2013
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Paperback 9781849043113 £25.00 South Asian Studies 26
With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and bhatta—‘protection’ money). These struggles for the city have become ethnicised. Karachi, often referred to as a ‘Pakistan in miniature,’ has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially. Despite this chronic state of urban political warfare, Karachi is the cornerstone of the economy of Pakistan. Gayer’s book is an attempt to elucidate this conundrum. Against journalistic accounts describing Karachi as chaotic and ungovernable, he argues that there is indeed order of a kind in the city’s permanent civil war. Far from being entropic, Karachi’s polity is predicated upon organisational, interpretative and pragmatic routines that have made violence ‘manageable’ for its populations. Whether such ‘ordered disorder’ is viable in the long term remains to be seen, but for now Karachi works despite—and sometimes through—violence.
SOUTH ASIA
The Pashtun Question The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan Abubakar Siddique Both an eye-witness account and serious scholarly inquiry, this book describes and analyses a people whose destiny will shape the future of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
July 2013 £30.00
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 Pashtun history and culture, or finds willing hosts among their communities on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Abubakar Siddique sets out to demonstrate that the failure, or even unwillingness, of both Afghanistan and Pakistan to absorb the Pashtuns into their state structures and to incorporate them into the economic and political fabric is central to these dynamics, and a critical failure of nation- and state-building in both states. In his book he argues that religious extremism is the product of these critical failures and that responsibility for the situation lies to some degree with the elites of both countries. Partly an eye-witness account and partly meticulously researched scholarship, The Pashtun Question describes a people whose destiny will shape the future of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Abubakar Siddique is a journalist with Radio Free Europe in Prague, covering Afghanistan and Pakistan. He has spent the past decade researching and writing about security, political, humanitarian and cultural issues in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Pashtun heartland along the border region where he was born. In 2006 he coauthored a report with Professor Barnett Rubin for the US Institute of Peace that was the first analytical work to address the importance of Pakistan’s tribal areas, ‘Resolving the Pakistan-Afghanistan Stalemate’. July 2013
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Hardback 9781849042925 £30.00 South Asian Studies 27
HISTORY
The October 1973 War Politics, Legacy, Diplomacy Asaf Siniver A detailed and comprehensive account of the politics, diplomacy and enduring legacy of one of the key conflicts of modern times.
March 2013 £30.00
Asaf Siniver is Senior Lecturer in International Security in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. His research interests include conflict resolution, international mediation and the Arab-Israeli conflict, and his work has appeared in various academic journals. He is the author of Nixon, Kissinger and US Foreign Policy: The Machinery of Crisis and the editor of International Terrorism post9/11: Comparative Dynamics and Responses. He is a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2011-13) and Associate Editor of the journal Civil Wars. March 2013
320pp
Paperback 9781849042963 £30.00 History / Middle East 28
The October War of 1973 (also known as the ‘Yom Kippur War’) was a watershed moment in the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the modern Middle East more broadly. It marked the beginning of a US-led peace process between Israel and her Arab neighbours; it introduced oil diplomacy as a new means of leverage in international politics; and it affected irreversibly the development of the European Community and the Palestinian struggle for independence. Moreover, the regional order which emerged at the end of the war remained largely unchallenged for nearly four decades, until the recent wave of democratic revolutions in the Arab world. The fortieth anniversary of the October War provides a timely opportunity to reassess the major themes that emerged during the war and in its aftermath, and the contributors to this book provide the first comprehensive account of the domestic and international factors which informed the policies of Israel, Egypt, Syria and Jordan, as well as external actors before, during and after the war. In addition to chapters on the superpowers, the EU and the Palestinians, the book also deals with the strategic themes of intelligence and political economy, as well as the socio-political legacy of the war on Israeli and Arab societies.
HISTORY
Interlopers of Empire The Lebanese Diaspora in Colonial French West Africa Andrew Arsan The first comprehensive history of the Lebanese communities of Francophone West Africa in the colonial period.
May 2013 £20.00
This work is the first comprehensive history of the Lebanese migrant communities of colonial French West Africa, a vast expanse that covered present-day Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Guinea, Benin and Mauritania. Where others have concentrated on the commercial activities of these migrants, casting them as archetypal middlemen, this work reconstructs not just their economic strategies, but also their social and political lives. Moreover, it examines the fraught responses of colonial Frenchmen to the unsettling presence of these interlopers of empire––responses which, with their echoes of metropolitan racism, helped to shape the ways in which Lebanese migrants represented themselves and justified their place in West Africa. This is a work which attempts not just to reshape broader understandings of diasporic life—of Janus-like existences lived in transit between distant locales, and dependent on the constant to-and-fro of people, news, and goods––but also to challenge the way we think about empires, and the relations between their constituent territories and diverse inhabitants.
Andrew Arsan is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He has previously held positions at Princeton University and Birkbeck, University of London. May 2013
288pp
Hardback 9781849042970 £20.00 Africa / History 29
WAR STUDIES
From Above War, Violence and Verticality Edited by Peter Adey, Mark Whitehead & Alison Williams A series of in-depth accounts of ‘the view from above’ in shaping notions of territory, security and conflict.
June 2013 £20.00
CRITICAL WAR STUDIES Tarak Barkawi & Shane Brighton (eds)
Peter Adey is Reader in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and author of Mobility (2009) and Aerial Life (2010). Mark Whitehead is Reader at the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, and author of, inter alia, State, Science and the Skies: Governmentalities of the British Atmosphere (2009). Alison Williams is Lecturer in Human Geography at the school of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University and the author of numerous articles on ‘vertical geopolitics’. June 2013 356pp Paperback 9781849042994 £20.00 Hardback 9781849042987 £50.00 War Studies 30
The arrival of the aerostatic balloon at the end of the nineteenth century ushered in a new perspective on the battlefield, taking over from the mount—the hill at the edge of the field of combat—and the fortified tower positioned within it. Since then there has been no perspective more culpable in war, violence and security than the aerial one. From Above explores the aerial view in new depth and clarity. It draws in vivid detail on studies of the aerial perspective today and on rich empirical investigations of the aerial view from the past. Chapters examine a range of case studies and examples, from Vietnam and the balloon prospect, camouflage, colonial policing, to today’s drone wars. The contributors draw on perspectives from history, international relations, political geography and cultural studies in order to provide a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the view from above. They also consider the view from above in relation to its technologies, legalities, practices, doctrines, and visual culture. Among the contributors are renowned international experts such as Derek Gregory, Trevor Paglen, Caren Kaplan, Klaus Dodds and Priya Satia. The aerial view is a perspective that can no longer be ignored, one that is of growing significance for those interested in geopolitics, militarism and conflict.
INTELLIGENCE & SECURITY
Before Intelligence Failed British Secret Intelligence on Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Soviet Union, South Africa and Libya Mark Wilkinson A fascinating and sometimes shocking exposé, this book presents a gripping account of intelligence held on chemical and biological weapons before the Iraq War.
June 2013 £25.00
In the wake of the 2003 Iraq War, the term ‘intelligence failure’ became synonymous with the Blair Government and how it had used intelligence to construct a case for war. This book examines British secret intelligence over the thirty years preceding its very public failings. From the Soviet Union to South Africa and Libya, Mark Wilkinson provides a detailed analysis and vivid account of the development and functioning of Britain’s intelligence agencies in the struggle against the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons. Based on archival research and interviews with key players in the intelligence establishment, he shows how a handful of chemical and biological weapons experts battled to make their voices heard. They had evidence that illegal weapons development was taking place but were continually rebuffed by adversaries in Whitehall. Fascinating, surprising and sometimes shocking, Before Intelligence Failed is a compelling account of what was known about chemical and biological weapons proliferation before the Iraq War.
INTELLIGENCE STUDIES Richard Aldrich, Rob Dover & Michael Goodman (eds)
Mark Wilkinson is an independent consultant specialising in security and risk management. He previously served for sixteen years as a commissioned officer in the British Army, completing his final tour of duty as a bomb disposal officer in Afghanistan in 2010. He has active research interests in terrorism and intelligence. June 2013
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Hardback 9781849043007 £25.00 Intelligence / Current Affairs 31
INTELLIGENCE & SECURITY
Confronting the Colonies British Intelligence and Counterinsurgency Rory Cormac An original exploration of how the intelligence community became aware of the growing insurgent threat in the twilight of Empire, the challenges this posed, and its impact upon how Whitehall saw the world. May 2013 £35.00
INTELLIGENCE STUDIES Richard Aldrich, Rob Dover & Michael Goodman (eds)
Rory Cormac is a teaching fellow in Intelligence and Security at the University of Warwick. He attained his doctorate at King’s College London (War Studies), where he also held a postdoctoral research position. He has published a number of articles on intelligence and non-conventional security threats. May 2013
240pp
Hardback 9781849042932 £35.00 Britain / Intelligence 32
Moving the debate beyond the place of tactical intelligence in counterinsurgency warfare, Confronting the Colonies considers the view from Whitehall, where the biggest decisions were made. It reveals the evolving impact of strategic intelligence upon government understandings of, and policy responses to, insurgent threats. Confronting the Colonies demonstrates for the first time how, in the decades after World War Two, the intelligence agenda expanded to include non-state actors, insurgencies, and irregular warfare. It explores the challenges these emerging threats posed to intelligence assessment and how they were met with varying degrees of success. Such issues remain of vital importance today. By examining the relationship between intelligence and policy, Cormac provides original and revealing insights into government thinking in the era of decolonisation, from the origins of nationalist unrest to the projection of dwindling British power. He demonstrates how intelligence (mis-) understood the complex relationship between the Cold War, nationalism, and decolonisation; how it fuelled fierce Whitehall feuding; and how it shaped policymakers’ attempts to integrate counterinsurgency into broader strategic policy.
FOOD SECURITY
Food Security in the Middle East Edited by Zahra Babar & Suzi Mirgani Explores the critical dimensions of the sources, prices, and accessibility of food in the Middle East.
April 2013 £25.00
This volume comprises original, empiricallygrounded chapters that collectively offer the most comprehensive study available to date on food security in the Middle East. The book starts with a theoretical framing of the phenomena of food security and food sovereignty and presents empirical case studies of Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Yemen, the Persian Gulf states and Iran. Some of the major themes examined include the ascent and decline of various food regimes, urban agriculture, overseas agricultural land purchases, national food self-sufficiency strategies, distribution networks and food consumption patterns, and nutrition transitions and healthcare. Collectively, the chapters represent highly original contributions to the disciplines of political science, economics, agricultural studies, and healthcare policy.
Published in collaboration with: Georgetown University Center for International and Regional Studies School of Foreign Service in Qatar.
Zahra Babar is project manager at the Center for International and Regional Studies of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Her current research interests lie in gender and development, Persian Gulf migration policy, and GCC integration. Suzi Mirgani is manager and editor for publications at the Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar. Her work is based on theorising the connections between law, commerce, and the circulation of cultural material. April 2013
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Paperback 9781849043021 £25.00 Middle East Studies 33
RELIGION & CULTURE REANNOUNCING
Whatever Happened to the Islamists? Salafis, Heavy Metal Muslims and the Lure of Consumerist Islam Edited by Amel Boubekeur & Olivier Roy
‘Whatever Happened to the Islamists? will be welcomed by all who seek to understand the impact of the Arab uprisings and the role of Islamists during this historic period of political transformation in the Arab world.’ — John L. Esposito, University Professor, Georgetown University and author of The Future of Islam October 2012
344pp
Paperback 9781850659419 Hardback 9781850659402 £20.00 / £50.00 Islamic Studies / Current Affairs
‘Represents one of the most exciting and innovative analyses of contemporary dislocations in the ideological project of political Islam to be published in recent years. It points the way forward for an entire field of study.’ — Peter Mandaville, George Mason University and author of Global Political Islam NEW & UPDATED EDITION
Global Catholicism Towards a Networked Church Ian Linden PRAISE FOR THE FIRST EDITION:
October 2012
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‘Every bishop and priest in the Catholic Church should sit down and read this remarkable book. Ian Linden has quietly demolished canards levelled against those who believe that the reforming work of the Second Vatican Council is not yet complete. Instead of imagining that life beyond the Council is ever upwards and onwards, he takes as seriously as Pope Benedict the ever-lurking reality of sin.’ — The Tablet ‘[An] enjoyable and informative history of global Catholicism in the half century since the modernising Second Vatican Council.’ — The Independent
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Fortress Europe Dispatches From a Gated Continent Matthew Carr ‘Fortress Europe shines a light on Europe’s hidden war against immigration, whose devastating human cost is often ignored. Through powerful first-hand reporting from the front lines, Matthew Carr reminds us that migrants are not barbarians at the gates but human beings who, like us, aspire to a better life.’ — Philippe Legrain, author of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them ‘Sane and lucid, these dispatches from Europe’s increasingly militarised borders expose a human rights disaster unfolding in our midst. Matthew Carr brings humanity and a measured sense of history to a subject more often marked by hypocrisy and hysteria.’ — Maya Jaggi, critic and cultural journalist
October 2012
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Hardback 9781849042536 £20.00 Europe / Current Affairs
Pakistan A New History Ian Talbot ‘An invaluable guide for navigating and understanding Pakistan’s complex, byzantine politics. Talbot brings extraordinary understanding and empathy in analysing the trials and tribulations of Pakistan’s political experience. No other contemporary history of Pakistan comes anywhere near Talbot’s understanding and detail of its challenges and missed opportunities.’ — Maleeha Lodhi, former Pakistani Ambassador to the US and editor of Pakistan: Beyond the ‘Crisis’ State ‘This is an excellent overview of Pakistan’s troubled past and uncertain future. Professor Ian Talbot provides a judicious, informed and incisive account of a polity that has defied standard explanations. A work of exceptional quality that is a must read for everyone seriously interested in Pakistan’s history and politics.’ — Gurharpal Singh, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
October 2012
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RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Revolt in Syria Eye-Witness to the Uprising Stephen Starr ‘Vivid, thought-provoking and sometimes shocking … has great value, not least because it challenges some of the simple certainties that have characterised coverage of the Syrian uprising. … Starr captures the pain of a deeply torn society in the throes of a bitter struggle, one that has estranged brother from brother, friend from friend.’ — The Economist
June 2012
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Paperback 9781849041973 £14.99 Middle East / Current Affairs
‘Starr’s book is the only account that gives previously unheard voices a chance to be heard. ... his familiarity with the sectarian and political milieu in Syria is better than anyone I [Tam Hussein] know. Through a series of vignettes and anecdotes, Starr provides us with a plethora of voices from minorities: Sunnis, Shias, Kurds, Palestinians, proregime and anti regime Syrians. ... The book is a witness to a dilapidated regime [and] Starr captures it all brilliantly.’ — New Statesman
NEW & UPDATED EDITION
A History of Libya John Wright ‘John Wright’s original study of Libya was a unique and masterly survey of the country’s history. This updated edition possesses all the virtues of the original, together with an acute and perceptive analysis of both the Libyan Jamahariyah of Colonel Gadafi and its humiliating end in 2011, to provide us with the most complete study of Libya’s complex history to date. It is the essential companion for any scholar, journalist or interested reader anxious to understand this unusual and important Mediterranean state.’ — George Joffe, University of Cambridge March 2012
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‘A timely and updated re-issue of the standard work on Libya. It is required reading by all those who wish to understand that desert enigma.’ — Saul Kelly, King’s College London, author The Hunt for Zerzura: The Lost Oasis and the Desert War
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
Poetry of the Taliban Edited and Introduced by Alex Strick Van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn With a preface by Faisal Devji ‘This extraordinary collection is remarkable as a literary project — uncovering a seam of war poetry few will know ever existed, and presenting to us for the first time the black turbaned Wilfred Owens of Wardak. But it is also an important political project: humanising and giving voice to the aspirations, aesthetics, emotions and dreams of the fighters of a much-caricatured and still little-understood resistance movement. — William Dalrymple, author of The Last Mughal and the forthcoming The Return of a King: Shah Shuja and the First Battle for Afghanistan, 1839-42 ‘Much of the poetry here appeals to the heart rather than the head, engendering sympathy for the speakers’ plight. That these poems put us in this uncomfortable place is the most impressive achievement of the anthology.’ — Daljit Nagra, The Guardian
May 2012
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Hardback 9781849041119 £14.95 Current Affairs / Afghanistan
Afghan Rumour Bazaar Secret Sub-cultures, Hidden Worlds and the Everyday Life of the Absurd Nushin Arbabzadah Ironic and humorous, witty and self-deprecatory, Afghan Rumour Bazaar reveals the quotidian absurdities of lives framed against the backdrop of a savage war. Offering daringly new perspectives on a country readers may erroneously assume they know, Nushin Arbabzadah delves into the unacknowledged but real secret sub-cultures and hidden worlds of Afghans. Arbabzadah reveals for the first time Afghans’ own vibrant internal deliberations—on sex and soap operas; conspiracy theories; drugs and diplomacy; terrorism and the Taliban; and how a long-dead soothsayer from Bulgaria accidentally shut down a newspaper. Many different Afghan sensibilities are presented in her book, yet together they offer an unvarnished, at times heartwarming, at times tragic, insight into one of the most complex and fascinating countries on earth.
December 2012
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Paperback 9781849042314 £15.95 Current Affairs / Afghanistan
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The Violent Image Insurgent Propaganda and the New Revolutionaries Neville Bolt ‘Not only a compelling historical overview of terrorist and insurgent propaganda over the past century, but also a convincing analysis of present-day revolutions and the way that insurgents and terrorists interact with diasporas in a globalised digital world. The Violent Image is a must-read for all serious students of insurgency and revolution.’ — David Kilcullen, author of The Accidental Guerrilla and Counterinsurgency
May 2012
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Hardback 9781849041911 £24.99 Political History / Media Studies
‘Elegantly written and a pleasure to read, it invites the reader on a fairly wild ride, from the Fenians to the Taliban, from print media to social media and back. Bolt’s work makes a big argument in a small package, densely researched yet readable. Most important, he says something new in a field that desperately needs it.’ — David J. Betz, Senior Lecturer, Department of War Studies, King’s College London
The Gypsy ‘Menace’ Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics Edited by Michael Stewart ‘In the last few years the Roma have increasingly become the explicit target of rising rightwing populism and hate speech in various European countries. In this excellent book a broad array of authors study this unsettling trend in detail. They also search for explanations that are fully aware of the larger political context – including the unintended effects of European integration and the rise of identity politics.’ — Peter Vermeersch, Professor of Political Science, University of Leuven June 2012 412pp Paperback 9781849042208 Hardback 9781849042192 £18.95 / £55.00 Anthropology 38
‘This book is a crucial intervention, demonstrating how new forms of racism and social exclusion are taking shape in the wake of European Unification.’ — Alaina Lemon, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
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Russian Politics The Paradox of a Weak State Marie Mendras ‘A crucial work on Russian politics, designed for those who prefer hard realism in assessing expectations and assumptions.’ — International Affairs ‘A brilliantly textured portrait and fiercely argued exposé of the troubled and troubling political condition of Putin’s Russia. Paradoxically, as Mendras lucidly explains, the Russian state abuses its citizens precisely because it is too weak to control itself. … the most stimulating work yet published on the origins and evolution of post-communist Russian politics.’ — Stephen Holmes, Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law, New York University School of Law ‘This is a lucid, fresh and shrewd history of the failure to modernise the old Soviet state by the new Russian elite. It is particularly timely in the light of the current crisis in the Russian political system.’ — Sir Lawrence Freedman, Vice-Principal, King’s College London
May 2012
368pp
Hardback 9781849041133 £25.00 Politics / Russia
The Last Dictatorship in Europe Belarus Under Lukashenko Brian Bennett ‘Bennett offers a broad and detailed account of the Lukashenko era. As British ambassador in Minsk from 2003-2007, Bennett also had the benefit of a bird’s eye view of some of this history. … [His] take on Lukashenko’s character is perceptive.’ — Times Literary Supplement ‘Bennett tells a first-hand tale of how Lukashenko methodically transformed a firm grip on power into an airless, brook-no-opposition tyranny. [He] recognizes that as large as Lukashenko’s role is, Belarus’ history and the character of its elites abetted the country’s descent into dictatorship. His discouraging verdict is that short of an act of God or a fundamental change of heart on the part of Belarus’ allies in Russia, a physically vigorous Lukashenko is, as Belarus’ constitution now permits, there for life.’ — Foreign Affairs
January 2012
368pp
Hardback 9781849041676 £30.00 Politics / Europe
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Hungary Between Democracy and Authoritarianism Paul Lendvai ‘The case against Orbán is set out with great passion in this convincing indictment of the most powerful political figure in the eastern EU … This is gloves-off political writing at its best.’ — The Financial Times ‘Paul Lendvai, the Hungarian writer with Budapest roots, sheds light upon the darkening internal affairs of the young Hungarian democracy. … Lendvai provides indispensable help for our orientation and attitude towards the country and its representatives.’ — Die Zeit May 2012
288pp
Hardback 9781849041966 £25.00 Politics / Europe
The Will to Survive A History of Hungary
Bryan Cartledge ‘Though this is a political history, the social and economic aspects are well covered. Cartledge has … a perceptive eye and an elegant pen. The Will to Survive is set to become the standard work on Hungary’. — International Affairs
February 2011
600pp
Paperback 9781849041126 £19.95 History / Europe
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‘There are occasions when the sympathetic and interested eye … of a foreigner may penetrate the jungle of confusing events and complicated sentiments with a clarity of vision … amounting to something more than the antiseptic desideratum of “objectivity.” … Such is the case with The Will To Survive … Many professional historians, including Hungarians, could learn from the judgements of this former guest in their midst.’ –– Harper’s Magazine
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The Violence of Petro-Dollar Regimes Algeria, Iraq and Libya Luis Martinez ‘A cogent, intelligent analysis of the perils and pitfalls of hydrocarbon wealth in these troubled states, adding much fuel to the “oil curse” debate and examining the structures that are seemingly its result.’ — Christopher Davidson, editor of Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies ‘Luis Martinez has produced yet another fascinating and thought provoking book on political dilemmas in the Middle East. This work undoubtedly provides anyone interested in political change in the Middle East with a brilliant new perspective on the challenges for democratic reform in the region.’ — Frédéric Volpi, Director, Institute of Middle East and Central Asia Studies, University of St Andrews, and author of Political Islam Observed
October 2012
208pp
Hardback 9781849041744 £35.00 Current Affairs / Middle East
Afghanistan in Ink Literature Between Diaspora and Nation Nile Green & Nushin Arbabzadah ‘Afghanistan in Ink demolishes the myth that the country has remained isolated from the currents of international cultural influences. For more than a century powerful connections to an influential intellectual diaspora have played a significant role in the development of Afghan literature and language politics—and one that continues to the present day.’ — Thomas Barfield, Professor of Anthropology at Boston University and author of Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History ‘An extremely absorbing collection of essays: not only does this book take the reader deep into the literature of Afghanistan over the last few centuries, but it explores fruitful questions about the ways in which literature and language, state-formation, ethnic identity, and history are intertwined. Highly informative and thought-provoking.’ — Tamim Ansary, author of Games Without Rules, The Often Interrupted Story of Afghanistan
November 2012
320pp
Hardback 9781849042048 £24.99 Afghanistan
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The Kosova Liberation Army Underground War to Balkan Insurgency, 1948-2001 James Pettifer ‘This fascinating book is a detailed study of the role of the KLA in these extraordinary events.’ — General Sir Michael Jackson, former Chief of the General Staff, British Army, and commander of KFOR
October 2012
320pp
Hardback 9781849041874
‘An excellent book … almost wholly unrivalled in the depth of its treatment of the KLA. … It will be of interest both to specialists on Kosovo, the former Yugoslavia and the Balkans, and to less specialist readers seeking an introduction to the topic of the KLA and 1990s Kosovo conflict.’ — Marko Attila Hoare, Senior Research Fellow at Kingston University and author of The History of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day
£29.99 History / Balkans
A History of Finland Henrik Meinander ‘A History of Finland is an extraordinarily readable and wellbalanced book. Meinander’s clarity of vision has placed Finland in a Nordic and European perspective as well as skilfully weaving political, economic and cultural developments into an integral whole.’ — Lennart Berntson, Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm ‘If a library can have only one book on modern Finnish history, this is the one.’ — CHOICE, Outstanding Academic Title May 2012
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Hardback 9781849040907 £25.00 History / Europe
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‘Meinander is a master of elegant compression and writes with precision and subtlety. … The result is a genuinely entertaining read.’ — Jukka Tarkka, Helsingin Sanomat, Helsinki
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Politics and Power in the Maghreb Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco from Independence to the Arab Spring Michael J. Willis ‘This accessible and timely volume provides an excellent background to the extraordinary events currently taking place in North Africa. Taking a thematic approach to developments in Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, Michael Willis highlights their similarities and differences in ways essential to an understanding of whether continuity or radical change will characterise this region in future.’ — Claire Spencer, Head, Middle East & North Africa Programme, Chatham House ‘This is the best book on the subject by far, and confirms Willis’s reputation as the foremost authority on the comparative politics of North Africa in the English-speaking world.’ — Eugene Rogan, author of The Arabs: A History
May 2012
320pp
Hardback 9781849042000 £29.99 History / North Africa
The Maghreb Since 1800 A Short History Knut S. Vikør ‘This accessible and timely history of the Maghreb offers a concise, readable analysis of key events in Algeria, Libya, Morocco, and Tunisia over the last two centuries. In so doing, it provides an original and stimulating assessment of the socioeconomic and political factors that have united and divided the region. The result is a clear, balanced, and thoughtful discussion which adds insight and understanding to our knowledge of the region.’ — Ronald Bruce St John, historian of the Maghreb and author of Libya: From Colony to Revolution ‘A remarkable book, which meets the challenge of summarising clearly and concisely the transformations in North Africa. Essential reading for those seeking to understand the revolutions at work in the region.’ — Luis Martinez, author of The Algerian Civil War, 1990-1998 and of The Libyan Paradox
October 2012
256pp
Paperback 9781849042017 Hardback 9781849042246 £16.99 / £30.00 History / North Africa 43
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‘We Love Death As You Love Life’ Britain’s Suburban Mujahedeen Raffaello Pantucci
December 2012
308pp
Paperback 9781849041652
This book offers an insight into the motivations behind the perpetrators of the 7 July 2005 bombings in London, as well as the hundreds of young British Muslims who have been drawn by jihadist ideas to fight on battlefields at home and abroad. From the arrival of immigrant communities to the UK and the establishment of diasporas with strong ethnic connections to the Middle East and South Asia, to the arrival of jihadist warriors fresh from the antiSoviet war in Afghanistan, Pantucci looks at the history that came before Mohammed Siddique Khan and places his action within its larger context. This book provides the first comprehensive history of jihadist ideas and violence in the United Kingdom.
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The Great Indian Phone Book How the Mass Mobile Changes Business, Politics and Daily Life Robin Jeffrey & Assa Doron
‘Jeffrey and Doron’s landmark study of how the humble cell phone is changing the culture of Indian democracy in everyday life has no competitors. Their interdisciplinary analysis of popular aspirations and anxieties surrounding mobile telephones will invite and inspire comparative studies set in other emerging economies. A remarkable achievement.’ — Dipesh Charkrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago December 2012
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Hardback 9781849041928 £24.99 India / Anthropology
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‘A comprehensive chronicle of how mobile phones changed Indian lives and in the process India’s economy. Jeffrey and Doron’s sociological take on the mobile phone as a great leveller is rich and riveting.’ — Sevanti Ninan, editor of The Hoot, and author of, inter alia, Through the Magic Window: Television and Change in India
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A History of Namibia Marion Wallace ‘Perceptive, multi-layered and judicious, Marion Wallace’s comprehensive History of Namibia is a veritable tour de force. Based on a deep knowledge of the existing historiography but also of the most recent research in Namibia itself, over two-thirds of the volume deals with the history of the region and its peoples since 1870, and ends with a deft summary of the period since independence. Yet Wallace—and the archaeologist, John Kinahan, who contributes the first chapter—are also to be congratulated on their decision to root this account in the far deeper history of south-west Africa. The volume will surely prove indispensable to anyone with an interest in Namibian, southern African, and, indeed, African history more widely.’ — Shula Marks, Emeritus Professor and Hon. Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
April 2011
454pp
Hardback 9781849040914 £30.00 History / Africa
S is for Samora A Lexical Biography of Samora Machel and the Mozambican Dream Sarah LeFanu ‘In a very personal way, S is for Samora combines what LeFanu sees today with the memory of what she experienced in the late seventies. Vivid and clear-eyed, it tells the exciting story of the “Birth of a Nation” — a story that should be of interest to more than just those who have their own direct experience of Mozambique. Profoundly interesting and highly recommended.’ — Henning Mankell, bestselling author and Maputo resident ‘This A to Z of Samora Machel, the first president of Mozambique, looks at first like an extended index but the device works brilliantly. Whether you want to read from beginning to end or dip in, it is packed with history and many new and fascinating details. It should become a classic and could start a new trend.’ — Richard Dowden, Director of the Royal African Society
October 2012
312pp
Paperback 9781849041942 £16.99 History / Africa
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Wars of Plunder Conflicts, Profits and the Politics of Resources Philippe Le Billon ‘This impressive book ... does a remarkable job of summarizing a multifarious, and often complex, body of literature without oversimplifying it … and reveals a prodigious amount of reading by the author as well as the breadth of field research he has pursued over many years.’ — Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, University of Oxford
April 2012
288pp
Paperback 9781849041454
‘Le Billon has written a deep, nuanced, analytically rich exploration of the many ways that oil, diamonds, and timber are intertwined with violent conflict. This is an important book for both scholars and activists.’ — Michael L. Ross, Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles
Hardback 9781849042697 £20.00 / £50.00 War Studies / Development
Conceptualising Modern War Edited by Karl Erik Haug & Ole Jørgen Maaø ‘I recommend this book to professional and student alike. The collection of essays gives an excellent description and explanation of the many terms used to categorise our recent military endeavours. In doing so the concepts behind the choice of categories are exposed, which reveals much about our approach to warfare.’ — General Sir Rupert Smith, author, The Utility of Force: The Art of War in the Modern World
June 2011
320pp
Hardback 9781849041430 £30.00 War Studies
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‘I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and I would reccommend it to practitioners, policy-makers and academics as a must-read. The analysis contained within it is extremely persuasive and the authors have provided a commendable product. The volume fits neatly into the current literature, filling an important niche. It could become a timeless classic.’ — Andrew Dorman, King’s College London
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The Impossible Indian Gandhi and the Temptation of Violence Faisal Devji ‘True to form, Faisal Devji has developed a novel interpretation of a well-studied historical issue, in this case M. K. Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence. Here Gandhi emerges neither as a neo-Christian figure ‘turning the other cheek’, nor as a liberal concerned with human rights, but rather as a thinker who sees self-sacrifice and death as the embodiment of human duty.’ — Sir Christopher Bayly, Vere Harmsworth Professor of Imperial and Naval History, University of Cambridge ‘This subtle yet polemical study presents M. K. Gandhi as the genius behind an anti-majoritarian type of mass politics which emerged in the twentieth-century but still awaits proper elaboration. Devji’s highly original portrait is not always salubrious but it makes Gandhi look all the more radical, and sometimes almost like a postcolonial heir to Friedrich Nietzsche.’ — Leela Gandhi, University of Chicago
July 2012
226pp
Hardback 9781849041157 £16.99 History / India
Dead Reckoning Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War Sarmila Bose ‘Combining rigorous scholarship and a passionate interest in setting the record straight, Dead Reckoning is the finest study yet of the social, cultural and political meaning of the 1971 East Pakistan/Bangladesh war, one of the major events of the twentieth century. Dr. Bose writes in the service of the truth. We are in her debt.’ — Stephen Cohen, author of The Idea of Pakistan ‘I have felt the need for a dispassionate account of the Bangladesh war ever since witnessing that triumph of faith over fact, the Mujibnagar independence ceremony. No one can take on that challenge better than Sarmila Bose, whose courage, disregard for orthodoxy and meticulous research make her the enfant terrible of Indian historians.’ — Sunanda K. Datta-Ray, columnist and author of Waiting for America: India and the United States in the New Millennium
April 2012
244pp
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INDEX
Adey, Peter 30 Afghan Rumour Bazaar 37 Afghanistan in Ink 41 Arbabzadah, Nushin 37, 41 Arsan, Andrew 29 Art of Secularism, The 25 Ashes of Hama 10 Babar, Zahra 33 Bahadur, Gaiutra 4 Before Intelligence Failed 31 Belgium 21 Bennett, Brian 39 Bolt, Neville 38 Bose, Sarmila 47 Boubekeur, Amel 34 Bowen, Innes 9 Carr, Matthew 35 Cartledge, Bryan 40 Chaudhuri, Rudra 24 Coates Ulrichsen, Kristian 3 Conceptualising Modern War 46 Coker, Christopher 15 Confronting the Colonies 32 Coolie Woman 4 Cormac, Rory 32 Cunliffe, Philip 17 Cyber War Will Not Take Place 6 Davies, Thomas 16 de Oliveira, Ricardo Soares 22 Dead Reckoning 47 Devji, Faisal 2, 47 Doron, Assa 44 First World War in the Middle East, The 3 Forged in Crisis 24 Food Security in the Middle East 33 Fortress Europe 35 Franks, Suzanne 19 From Above 30 Gilham, Jamie 8 Global Catholicism 34 Great Indian Phone Book, The 44 Green, Nile 41 Gypsy ‘Menace’, The 38 Haug, Karl Eric 46
History of Finland, A History of Libya, A History of Namibia, A Humes, Samuel Hungary Illicit Worlds of Indian Dance Impossible Indian, The Inside Greek Terrorism Interlopers of Empire Jeffrey, Robin Kassimeris, George Kennedy, Caroline Kosova Liberation Army, The Kuehn, Felix Landscape of Silence Last Dictatorship in Europe, The Le Billon, Philippe LeFanu, Sarah Lefévre, Raphaël Legions of Peace Lendvai, Paul Linden, Ian Loyal Enemies Maaø, Ole Jørgen Maghreb Since 1800, The Magnificent and Beggar Land Martinez, Luis Medina in Birmingham, Najaf in Brent Meinander, Henrik Men at War Mendras, Marie Middle East Drugs Bazaar Migrani, Suzanne Misra, Amalendu Morcom, Anna Muslim Zion New Kings of Crude, The NGOs October 1973 War, The Pakistan Pantucci, Rafaello Pauperland Pashtun Question, The
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Patey, Luke Anthony Pettifer, James Poetry of the Taliban Political Biography of an Earthquake, The Politics and Power in the Maghreb Reporting Disasters Revolt in Syria Rid, Thomas Robins, Philip Roy, Olivier Russian Politics S is for Samora Seabrook, Jeremy Scheller, Bente Siddique, Abubakar Simpson, Edward Siniver, Asaf Starr, Stephen Stewart, Michael Strick van Linschoten, Alex Suspect Devices Talbot, Ian Vikør, Knut Violence of Petro-Dollar Regimes Violent Image, The Wallace, Marion Wars of Plunder ‘We Love Death as You Love Life’ Whatever Happened to the Islamists? Whitehead, Mark Wilkinson, Mark Will to Survive, The Williams, Alison Willis, Michael J. Wisdom of Syria’s Waiting Game, The Wright, John Zitzewitz, Karin
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