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CONTENTS GENERAL INTEREST — 1 MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES — 10 CHINA — 17 AFRICA — 21 SOUTH ASIA— 26 REANNOUNCING — 30 NEW IN PAPERBACK — 33 RECENT HIGHLIGHTS — 34 CRITICAL MUSLIM — 39 INDEX — 40 DISTRIBUTION — 41
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Open Wounds Armenians, Turks, and a Century of Genocide Vicken Cheterian A probing reflection on how silence and complicity in the face of mass violence affects a society for decades.
January 2015 £22.00 The assassination in Istanbul in 2007 of the author Hrant Dink, a high-profile advocate of Turkish– Armenian reconciliation, reignited the debate in Turkey on the annihilation of the Ottoman Armenians. Many Turks subsequently re-awakened to their Armenian heritage, reflecting on how their grandparents were forcibly Islamised and Turkified, and the suffering they endured to keep their stories secret. There was public debate around Armenian property confiscated by the Turkish state and the extermination of the minorities. At last the silence had been broken. After the First World War, the new Turkish Republic forcibly erased the memory of the atrocities, and traces of Armenians, from their historic lands—a process to which the international community turned a blind eye. The price for this amnesia was, Cheterian argues, ‘a century of genocide’. Turkish intellectuals acknowledge the price society must pay collectively to forget such traumatic events, and that Turkey cannot solve its recurrent conflicts with its minorities—like the Kurds today—nor have an open and democratic society without addressing the original sin on which the state was founded: the Armenian Genocide.
Vicken Cheterian is a historian and journalist. He is author of War and Peace in the Caucasus: Russia’s Troubled Frontier and editor of From Perestroika to Rainbow Revolutions: Reform and Revolution after Socialism. January 2015 • 256pp Hardback • 9781849044585 • £22.00 History / Middle East 1
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The Battles of The New Republic A Contemporary History of Nepal Prashant Jha This lively account of Nepal’s recent history conveys the complexities of life in its better-known Himalayan regions as well as in the Terai, or foothills.
August 2014 £17.99
Prashant Jha is an associate editor at Hindustan Times. He has extensively covered Nepal’s political transformation over the past decade, and was a political columnist for the country’s leading dailies. Born in Kathmandu, he now lives in New Delhi. August 2014 • 288pp Paperback • 9781849044592 • £17.99 History / South Asia 2
The Battles of The New Republic tells the story of Nepal’s transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Simultaneously historical analysis, reportage and memoire, this book breaks new ground in political writing from the region. Drawing on interviews with the most powerful leaders in the country, as well as diplomats, it gives an unprecedented glimpse into Kathmandu’s high politics, coupled with on-the-ground reporting of the lives of ordinary citizens of the hills and the plains, striving for a democratic, just and equitable society. It tracks the hard grind of political negotiations at the heart of instability in Nepal. It traces the rise of a popular rebellion, its integration into the mainstream, and its steady decline. It investigates Nepal’s status as a partly-sovereign country, and reveals India’s overwhelming role. It examines the angst of having to prove one’s loyalties to one’s own country, and exposes the Hindu hill uppercaste dominated power structures. The Battles of The New Republic is a story of the deepening of democracy, of the death of a dream, and of that fundamental political dilemma —who exercises power, to what end, and for whose benefit?
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The Blood Telegram Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide Gary J. Bass A New York Times Book of the Year The Economist Best Book of the Year Financial Times Best Book of the Year
June 2014 £12.99
The Blood Telegram is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of the Cold War. Gary J. Bass shows how Nixon and Kissinger supported Pakistan’s military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results of a historic free election. The Pakistani army launched a crackdown on what was then East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing hundreds of thousands of people and sending ten million refugees fleeing to India—one of the worst humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Driven not just by Cold War realpolitik but by a bitter personal dislike of India and its leader Indira Gandhi, they silenced American officials who dared to speak up, secretly encouraged China to mass troops on the Indian border, and illegally supplied weapons to the Pakistani military— an overlooked scandal that presages Watergate. Drawing on previously unheard White House tapes, recently declassified documents, and extensive interviews with White House staffers and Indian military leaders, The Blood Telegram tells this thrilling story for the first time. Bass makes clear how the United States’ embrace of the military dictatorship in Islamabad would mould Asia’s destiny for decades, and confronts for the first time Nixon and Kissinger’s hidden role in a tragedy that was far bloodier than Bosnia. This is a revelatory, compulsively readable work of politics, personalities, military confrontation, and Cold War brinksmanship.
‘[A] gripping and well-researched book … Sheds fresh light on a shameful moment in American foreign policy … with admirable clarity.’ — The Economist ‘A riveting read with direct relevance to many of the most acute foreignpolicy debates of today.’ — Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Gary J. Bass is a professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and author of Freedom’s Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention and Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals. June 2014 • 528pp Paperback • 9781849044578 • £12.99 History / South Asia 3
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High Command British Military Leadership in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Christopher L. Elliott Why didn’t the British Military high command achieve much better results in 2000-10 in Iraq and Afghanistan, and what accounts for this poor performance?
January 2015 £25.00
Christopher L. Elliott retired from the British Army as a Major General in 2002. This book was written over two years while Elliott was a research fellow at the universities of Oxford and Reading. January 2015 • 288pp Hardback • 9781849044608 • £25.00 Military History / Politics 4
From 2001 Britain supported the United States in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ‘Victory’ in such conflicts is always hard to gauge and domestic political backing for them was never robust. For this, the governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were held responsible, and paid the price, but the role played by the High Command in the Ministry of Defence also bears examination. Critics have noted that the armed services were riven by internal rivalry and their leadership was dysfunctional, but the truth is more complicated. In his book Elliott explores the circumstances that led to these wars and how the Ministry of Defence coped with the challenges presented. He reveals how the Service Chiefs were set at odds by the system, almost as rivals in the making, with responsibility diffuse and authority ambiguous.The MoD concentrated on making things work, rather than questioning whether what they were being asked to do was practicable. Often the opinion of a junior tactical commander led the entire strategy of the MoD, not the other way around, as it should have been. While Britain’s senior officers, defence ministers and civil servants were undeniably competent and well intentioned, the conundrum remains why success on the battlefield proved so elusive.
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Why States Recover Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe Greg Mills The literature on the ‘developing world’ is dominated by narratives of state failure, but few analysts have, until now, addressed why some of them turn it around.
September 2014 £20.00
State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions— headed by warlords—around the spoils of local commerce, power and international aid. At the other end of the scale is Malawi. During President Bingu’s second term in office, the country’s economy collapsed as a result of poor policies and personalised politics. On the surface, save the petrol queues, it was stable; underneath, the polity was fractured, the economy broken. Between these two extremes of state failure are all manner of examples. Drawing on research in more than thirty countries, incorporating interviews with a dozen leaders, Mills disaggregates state failure and identify instances of recovery in Latin America, Asia and Africa. All the while he returns to his key questions: how do countries recover, and what roles ought insiders and outsiders play to aid that process?
Greg Mills is Director of the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation. He is widely published on international affairs, development and security, an adviser to African governments, a regular columnist for local and international newspapers, and the author of the best-selling book Why Africa is Poor—and what Africans can do about it. September 2014 • 320pp Paperback • 9781849044615 • £20.00 Politics / Development 5
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Latvia A Short History Mara Kalnins A Latvian academic distills her country’s history, from the late medieval period to the present, in an approachable style.
October 2014 £17.99
Mara Kalnins is a fellow of Corpus Christi College and formerly University of Cambridge Reader in Modern Literature. Her last book, The Ancient Amber Routes, explored the links between the Baltic and Classical worlds. October 2014 • 224pp Paperback • 9781849044622 • £17.99 History / Europe 6
The history of the Latvian people begins some four-and-a-half millennia ago with the arrival of the proto-Baltic Indo-Europeans to northern Europe. One branch of these migrants coalesced into a community which evolved a distinctive and remarkably robust culture and language, and eventually developed into a loose federation of tribal kingdoms that stretched from the shores of the Baltic Sea to the upper Dnieper River. But these small independent kingdoms were unable to resist the later invasion of the Teutonic Knights in 1201, one that initiated nearly eight hundred years of subservience for the Latvians in their own land. In the centuries of subordination to successive European powers that followed, inhabitants nonetheless preserved a powerful sense of identity, fostered by their ancient language, oral literature, songs and customs. These in turn informed and gave impetus to the rise of national consciousness in the nineteenth century and the political activities of the twentieth, which brought the modern nation-state of Latvia into being. This book traces the genesis and growth of that nation, its endurance over centuries of conquest and oppression, how it achieved its independence, and its status as an EU member state today.
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Crimea A History Neil Kent This history of the Crimea is essential reading for all those who have been perplexed by what lies behind Russia’s recent annexation of the Black Sea peninsula. February 2015 £20.00
In 2014 Crimea shapes the headlines much as it did some 110 years ago, when the Crimean War pitted Britain, France and Turkey against Russia. Yet few books have been published on the history of the peninsula. For many readers, Crimea seems as remote today as it was when colonised by the ancient Greeks. Neil Kent’s book recounts the history of the Crimea over three millennia. A crossroads between Europe and Asia, ships sailed to and from Crimean ports, forming a bridge that carried merchandise and transmitted ideas and innovations. Greeks, Scythians, Tartars, Russians, Armenians and Genoese are among those who settled in the peninsula since antiquity, a veritable demographic patchwork. Their religious beliefs are almost as numerous: Islam, Judaisim, Russian and Greek Orthodoxy, as well as Roman Catholicism. This mosaic is reflected also in places of worship and the palaces which still adorn Crimea: imperial Romanov Massandra, the ‘noble nest’ of Prince Vorontsov at Alupca or the Palace of Bakhchisaray, built for the Tartar Khan. For some two centuries balmy Yalta and its environs were a veritable Black Sea Riviera, where Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met at the end of the Second World War.
Neil Kent teaches at the University of Cambridge and was formerly Professor of European History and Culture, St Petersburg State Academic Institute. February 2015 • 256pp Hardback • 9781849044639 • £20.00 History 7
GENERAL INTEREST
Force and Fanaticism Wahhabism: History, Belief and Practice Simon Ross Valentine Foreword by Ziauddin Sardar The product of three years research in Saudi Arabia on what Wahhabism means to those whose lives are governed by its formidably strict tenets.
November 2014 £25.00
Simon Ross Valentine is a freelance British lecturer and researcher into Islam and comparative religions who has taught part-time at Leeds University and Bradford University. His Islam and the Ahmadiyya Jama’at: History, Belief, Practice was published by Hurst in 2008. November 2014 • 256pp Hardback • 9781849044646 • £25.00 Islamic Studies 8
Wahhabism is an Islamic reform movement found mainly in Saudi Arabia. Closely linked to the Saudi monarchy, it enforces a strict code of morality and conduct monitored by mutawa (religious police), and governs every facet of Saudi life according to its own strict interpretation of Shariah, including gender segregation. Wahhabism also prohibits the practice of any other faith (even other forms of Islam) in Saudi Arabia, which is also the only country that forbids women from driving. But what exactly is Wahhabism? This question drove Valentine to live in the Kingdom for three years, familiarising himself with its distinct interpretation of Islam. His book defines Wahhabism and Wahhabi beliefs and considers the life and teaching of Muhammad ibn Abd’al Wahhab and the later expansion of his sect. Also discussed are the rejection of later developments in Islam such as bid’ah; harmful innovations, among them celebrating the prophet’s birthday and visiting the tombs of saints; the destruction of holy sites due to the fear of idolatry; Wahhabi law, which imposes the death sentence for crimes as archaic as witchcraft and sorcery, and the connection of Wahhabism with militant Islam globally. Drawing on interviews with Saudis from all walks of life, including members of the feared mutawa, this book appraises one of the most significant movements in contemporary Islam.
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Saudi Arabia A Kingdom in Peril Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants Two seasoned Saudi-watchers diagnose whether or not the Kingdom’s body politic is ailing and if its condition might be terminal.
February 2015 £25.00
The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom’s influential clerics conveniently declared all forms of protest to be against Islam. Saudi dollars bent events to the Kingdom’s will in the Arab world—particularly in Syria, Yemen and Bahrain, but also in Egypt and Lebanon, Saudi cash has had a profound impact. Does this mean that all is well in Saudi Arabia itself, which has an extremely youthful population ruled by a gerontocracy? Problems endemic in Egypt, Tunisia and Syria—youth unemployment, corruption and repression—are also evident in the Kingdom and while young Saudis may not yet be taking to the streets, on Twitter and Facebook their discontent is manifest. Saudi Arabia remains the dominant player in the Gulf, and the fall of the House of Saud would have explosive repercussions on the GCC while the knock-on effect worldwide would be immeasureable. Saudi Arabia is the only oil exporter capable of acting as a ‘swing producer’, a fact of which this book reminds us. Aarts and Roelants have drawn a compelling picture of a Middle East power which, while not presently endangered, may soon deviate from the trajectory established by the House of Saud.
Translated by Donald Gardner
Paul Aarts teaches International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. His publications include Saudi Arabia in the Balance: Political Economy, Society, Foreign Affairs, which he edited with Gerd Nonneman. Carolien Roelants is senior Middle East editor at NRC Handelsblad. February 2015 • 288pp Hardback • 9781849044653 • £25.00 Politics / Middle East 9
MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES
The Mystery of Prayer
Ayatollah Khomeini Mysticism profoundly influenced Khomeini’s thinking and this book offers insights in to the significance of prayer in his philosophical worldview.
October 2014 £20.00
The Modern Shi‘ah Library Series Translated by Sayyid Amjad H. Shah Naqavi
Ayatollah Khomeini (1902-1989), often known in the West simply as ‘The Ayatollah’, was a Shi‘ah Muslim religious authority, wrote numerous books, and founded the modern-day Islamic Republic of Iran. He was born in the Iranian city of Khumayn and is buried in a mausoleum to the south of Tehran.
October 2014 • 160pp Hardback • 9781849044660 • £20.00 Islamic Studies / Philosophy 10
This groundbreaking translation presents a little known dimension of an author known in the West largely for his firebrand revolutionary politics. Writing forty years before the Islamic revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini shows a formidable level of insight into the spiritual aspects of the ritual Islamic prayer. Drawing upon Islamic scriptural sources and the Shi‘ah intellectual and mystical tradition, the subtlety of the work has led to it being appreciated as one of Khomeini’s most original works in the field of gnosis. Through discussions on topics such as spiritual purity, the presence of the heart before God, and the stations of the spiritual wayfarer, Khomeini elucidates upon the true relationship of reality and the divine. With a scholarly introduction by the translator, The Mystery of Prayer will interest students, scholars of Islamic metaphysics (ḥikmah) and gnosis (‘irfān), and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of one of the most significant political figures of the twentieth century.
MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES
The Audacious Ascetic What Osama Bin Laden’s Sound Archive Reveals About al-Qa‘ida Flagg Miller This revelatory investigation of Bin Laden’s tape archive suggests that much of the received wisdom about al-Qa‘ida’s early years has to be reconsidered in light of this new evidence. December 2014 £22.00 / £55.00
In late 2002, over 1500 audiotapes were discovered in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in a house once occupied by Osama bin Laden. The Audacious Ascetic is the first book to explore this extraordinary archive. It details how Islamic cultural, legal, theological and linguistic vocabularies shaped militants’ understandings of al-Qa‘ida, and, more controversially, challenges the notion that the group’s original adversary was America and the ‘far enemy’. Miller argues that Western security agencies’ ‘management’ of Bin Laden’s growing reputation went awry. When magnified through global media coverage, narratives of al-Qa‘ida’s coherence were exploited by Osama and his militant supporters for their own ends. Focusing on many of bin Laden’s unpublished speeches as well as on discussions by top alQa‘ida leaders and Arab-Afghans, Miller chronicles the Saudi radical’s evolving relationship with a host of Muslim insurgencies that found his stripe of asceticism (zuhd) tactically useful, especially when circulated via these recordings. They also reveal militants’ disenchantment when Bin Laden, marginalised through the 1990s, began pandering to Western television networks in his attempt to direct heterodox Islamist armed struggles against America. Such audio evidence exposes al-Qa‘ida’s lack of coordination before 9/11 and invites scrutiny of the dominant narratives of Western law enforcement, intelligence and terrorism analysts.
Flagg Miller is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis. Trained as a linguistic anthropologist, his first book, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audio-cassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen, examined how Yemenis have used traditional poetry and new media technologies to envision a productive relationship between tribalism and progressive Muslim reform. December 2014 • 320pp Paperback • 9781849044677 • £22.00 Hardback • 9781849044844 • £55.00 Politics / Terrorism 11
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Cycle of Fear Syria’s Alawites in War and Peace Leon T. Goldsmith Goldsmith examines how sectarian insecurity obstructs the emergence of genuine political pluralism in the Middle East, taking Syria’s Alawites under the Asad dynasty as an example.
October 2014 £25.00
Leon T. Goldsmith teaches in the Department of Political Science, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman. October 2014 • 288pp Hardback • 9781849044684 • £25.00 Politics / Middle East 12
In early 2011 an elderly Alawite shaykh lamented the long history of ‘oppression and aggression’ against his people. Against such collective memories the Syrian uprising was viewed by many Alawites, and observers, as a revanchist Sunni Muslim movement and the gravest threat yet to the unorthodox Shi’ah sub-sect. This explained why the Alawites largely remained loyal to the Ba’athist regime of Bashar al-Asad. But was Alawite history really a constant tale of oppression and the Syrian uprising of 2011 an existential threat to the Alawites? This book surveys Alawite history from the sect’s inception in Abbasid Iraq up to the start of the uprising in 2011. Goldsmith shows how Alawite identity and political behaviour have been shaped by a cycle of insecurity that has prevented the group from achieving either genuine social integration or long term security. Rather than being the gravest threat yet to the sect, the Syrian uprising, in the context of the Arab Spring, was quite possibly a historic opportunity for the Alawites finally to break free from their cycle of fear.
MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES
The Apostates When Muslims Leave Islam Simon Cottee A candid appraisal of the challenges and consequences of leaving Islam, drawing on interviews conducted in Britain and Canada.
November 2014 £20.00
The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and with what consequences Muslims leave Islam and become irreligious. Apostasy in Islam is a deeply controversial issue and features prominently in current debates over the expansion of Islam in the West and what this means. Yet it remains poorly understood, in large part because it has become so politicised—with protagonists on either side of the debate selectively invoking Islamic theology to make claims about the ‘true’ face of Islam. The Apostates charts a different course by examining the social situation and experiences of exMuslims. Cottee suggests that Islamic apostasy in the West is best understood not as a legal or political problem, but as a moral issue within Muslim families and communities. Outside of Muslim-majority societies, ex-Muslims are not living in fear for their lives. But they face and must manage the stigma attached to leaving the faith from among their own families and the wider Muslim community.
Simon Cottee is a senior lecturer in criminology at Kent University. November 2014 • 288pp Paperback • 9781849044691 • £20.00 Islamic Studies 13
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Fragile Politics Weak States in the Greater Middle East Edited by Mehran Kamrava Are weak states more conspicuous in troubled regions like the Middle East or does their continued existence suggest that they have cards to play with their bigger and more bellicose neighbours?
November 2014 £25.00
Published in collaboration with: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Centre for International and Regional Studies, School of Foreign Service in Qatar
Mehran Kamrava is Professor and Director of the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in Qatar. He is the author of a number of books, including, The Modern Middle East: A Political History Since the First World War; Qatar: Small State, Big Politics; and Iran’s Intellectual Revolution. November 2014 • 288pp Paperback • 9781849044820 • £25.00 Middle East 14
The 2011 Arab uprisings precipitated the relatively quick collapse of a number of Middle Eastern states once perceived as invincible. The Tunisian and Egyptian states succumbed to revolutionary upheavals early on, followed by that of Qadhafi’s Libya. Yemen’s President Saleh was also eventually forced to give up power. A bloody civil war continues to rage in Syria. These uprisings highlighted weaknesses in the capacity and legitimacy of states across the Arab Middle East. This book provides a comprehensive study of state weakness—or of ‘weak states’—across the Greater Middle East. No other book examines the subject of weak states in the Middle East. Fragile Politics begins with laying the theoretical framework for their study, examining the theoretical controversies surrounding the topic, the causes and characteristics of weak states, and their consequences for the Middle East, before examining a series of case studies.
MIDDLE EAST & ISLAMIC STUDIES
Inside the Islamic Republic
Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran Edited by Mahmood Monshipouri Goes beyond the media stereotype of fashionable parties in North Tehran to examine the quotidian realities of how society has evolved in Iran since the 1979 revolution.
November 2014 £25.00
The post-Khomeini era has profoundly changed the socio-political landscape of Iran. Since 1989, the internal dynamics of change in Iran, rooted in a panoply of socioeconomic, cultural, institutional, demographic, and behavioral factors, have led to a noticeable transition in both societal and governmental structures of power, as well as the way in which many Iranians have come to deal with the changing conditions of their society. This is all exacerbated by the global trend of communication and information expansion, as Iran has increasingly become the site of the burgeoning demands for women’s rights, individual freedoms, and festering tensions and conflicts over cultural politics. These realities, among other things, have rendered Iran a country of unprecedented—and at time paradoxical—changes. This book explains how and why.
Published in collaboration with: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Centre for International and Regional Studies, School of Foreign Service in Qatar
Mahmood Monshipouri is Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University. He has published and edited a number of books, most recently Democratic Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa: Youth, Technology, and Modernization. November 2014 • 288pp Paperback • 9781849044837 • £25.00 Middle East 15
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Salafism After the Arab Awakening Contending with People’s Power Edited by Francesco Cavatorta and Fabio Merone Leading experts analyse the critical role played by Salafism across the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring.
December 2014 £30.00
Francesco Cavatorta is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. His research focuses on processes of democratisation and authoritarian resilience in the Arab world. Fabio Merone is a research fellow in the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, Ireland. He is currently working on his PhD at the University of Ghent with a project on Tunisian Salafism. December 2014 • 352pp Hardback • 9781849044868 • £30.00 History / East Asia 16
One of the most interesting consequences of the Arab awakening has been the central role of Salafists in a number of countries. In particular, there seems to have been a move away from traditional quietism towards an increasing degree of politicisation. The arrival on the political scene of Salafist parties in Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen, as well as the seemingly growing desire of Salafists in other Arab countries to enter institutional politics through the creation of political parties, highlights quite clearly the debates around how to react to the awakening within Salafist circles. This book examines in detail how Salafism, both theologically and politically, is contending with the Arab uprisings across a number of countries. The focus is primarily on what kind of politicisation, if any, has taken place and what forms it has adopted. As some of the contributions make clear, politicisation does not necessarily diminish the role of jihad or the influence of quietism, revealing tensions and struggles within the complex world of Salafism.
CHINA
China and Tibet The Perils of Insecurity Tsering Topgyal A probing enquiry into Sino-Tibetan relations, both at the level of high politics and everyday interactions.
December 2014 £22.50
Over sixty years of violence and dialogue have brought China and the Tibetans no closer to a resolution of their conflict. Tsering Topgyal argues that it is China’s sense of insecurity, its perception of itself as a socio-politically weak state, which has disproportionately influenced its policies towards the religion, language, education and economy of Tibet. Beijing has also denied the existence of a ‘Tibet Issue’ and rejected several Tibetan proposals for autonomy, fearful that they might undermine its state-building project. Conversely, Tibetan insecurity about threats to their identity, generated by Chinese policies, Han migration and cultural influences in Tibet, explains both the Dalai Lama’s unpopular decision to abandon his aspiration for Tibetan independence and his demands for autonomy and unification of all Tibetans under one administration. Identity insecurity also drives the multi-faceted Tibetan resistance both inside Tibet and in the diaspora. Thus, while Beijing and the Tibetans seek to harden their positions in order to counter their respective insecurities, real or imagined, the outcome is, paradoxically, greater insecurity on both sides, plunging them into unremitting cycles of state-hardening on the part of China and fortifying resistance on the Tibetan side.
Tsering Topgyal is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Birmingham. December 2014 • 256pp Paperback • 9781849044714 • £22.50 Politics / East Asia 17
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Narcotic Culture A History of Drugs in China Frank Dikötter, Zhou Xun & Lars Laamann Explains how as a result of British efforts to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances.
October 2014 £15.99
NEW PAPERBACK EDITION ‘[An] informative, scholarly and dispassionately fascinating book. … Narcotic Culture explodes various myths surrounding the use of opium in nineteenth and early twentieth century China.’ — Justin Wintle, The Independent Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong and the author of nine books about the history of China, including Mao’s Great Famine, which won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction in 2011. Zhou Xun is a research fellow at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. Lars Laamann is a research fellow at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. October 2014 • 288pp Paperback • 9781849044721 • £15.99 China / Sociology 18
To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain’s most desirable trade commodity, opium—a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. But, as this new edition of Narcotic Culture brilliantly shows, the real scandal in Chinese history was not the expansion of the drug trade by Britain in the early nineteenth century, but rather the failure of the British to grasp the consequences of prohibition. They reveal that opium actually had few harmful effects on either health or longevity; in fact, it was prepared and appreciated in highly complex rituals with inbuilt constraints preventing excessive use. Opium was even used as a medicinal panacea in China before the availability of aspirin and penicillin. But as a result of the British effort to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances. The transition from a tolerated opium culture to a system of prohibition produced a ‘cure’ that was far worse than the disease. Delving into a history of drugs and their abuses, Narcotic Culture is part revisionist history of imperial and twentieth-century Britain and part sobering portrait of the dangers of prohibition.
CHINA
The Discourse of Race in Modern China
Frank Dikötter This fully revised edition shows how and why notions of ‘race’ became so widespread in China, now updated to include the continuation of this trend into the twenty-first century. October 2014 £16.99
First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation became so widespread in China. After the country’s devastating defeat against Japan in 1895, leading reformers like Yan Fu, Liang Qichao and Kang Youwei turned away from the Confucian classics to seek enlightenment abroad, hoping to find the keys to wealth and power on the distant shores of Europe. Instead, they discovered the notion of ‘race’, and used new evolutionary theories from Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer to present a universe red in tooth and claw in which ‘yellows’ competed with ‘whites’ in a deadly struggle for survival. After the fall of the empire in 1911, prominent politicians and writers in republican China continued to measure, classify and rank people from around the world according to their supposed biological features, all in the name of science. Racial thinking remains popular in the People’s Republic of China, as serologists, geneticists and anthropometrists continue to interpret human variation in terms of ‘race’. This new edition has been revised and expanded to include a new chapter taking the reader up to the twenty-first century.
FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION ‘In his brilliant book Dikötter explains how traditional notions about culturally inferior “barbarians” intermingled with Western forms of scientific racism to form a distinctively Chinese racial consciousness in the 20th century.’ — Forbes Magazine
Frank Dikötter is Chair Professor of Humanities at the University of Hong Kong. Before moving to Asia in 2006, he was Professor of the Modern History of China at SOAS. He has published nine books about the history of China, including Mao’s Great Famine, which won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction in 2011. October 2014 • 256pp Paperback • 9781849044882 • £16.99 China / Sociology 19
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Fragments of an Unfinished War Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and the Partition of China Françoise Mengin This remarkable book reveals how little we know about what lies behind the superficial antagonism between the PRC and Taiwan, especially where business is concerned.
December 2014 £30.00
COMPARATIVE POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES SERIES, CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT (EDITOR)
Françoise Mengin, Senior Research Fellow at CERI/ Sciences Po, Paris, has spent most of her research career examining the relationship of Taiwan within ‘Greater China’, especially from the perspective of state formation. Her publications include Trajectoires chinoises: Taiwan, Hong Kong et Pékin, Cyber-China and Politics in China: Moving Frontiers. December 2014 • 352pp Hardback • 9781849044707 • £30.00 History / East Asia 20
The Republic of China that retreated to Taiwan in 1949 maintains its de facto, if not de jure, independence yet Beijing has consistently refused formally to abandon the idea of reunifying Taiwan with China. As well as growing military pressure, the PRC’s irredentist policy is premised on encouraging cross-Straits economic integration. Responding to preferential measures, Taiwanese industrialists have invested massively in the PRC, often relocating their businesses there. Fragments of a nation torn apart by contradictory claims, these entrepreneurs are vectors of a new form of unification imposed by the mainland, promoted but postponed on the island by the Nationalist Party, and rejected by Taiwanese pro-independence parties. Within what can be described as an unfinished civil war, socio-economic dynamics remain embedded in conflicts over sovereignty. Transnational actors have freed themselves from security constraints, thereby benefiting economically from a reformist China, and ultimately restructuring politics in Taiwan itself, and, in so doing, relations between Beijing and Taipei. A fictitious de-politisation has governed the opening of the Sino-Taiwanese border in order to postpone any resolution of the sovereignty issue. Mengin’s startlingly original book highlights the competing, and fragmented, elements within one of the world’s most intractable territorial disputes.
AFRICA
Little Mogadishu Eastleigh, Nairobi’s Global Somali Hub Neil Carrier This portrait of Somali life in Nairobi counters much of the recent media hype about Eastleigh’s role as a safe haven for Al-Shabaab and focuses instead on its function as an African economic hub.
December 2014 £22.00
Nairobi’s Eastleigh estate has undergone profound change over the past two decades. Previously a quiet residential zone, the arrival of vast numbers of Somali refugees catalysed its transformation into ‘Little Mogadishu’, a global hub for Somali business. Dozens of malls and hotels have sprouted from its muddy streets, attracting thousands of shoppers. Nonetheless, despite boosting Kenya’s economy, the estate and its residents are held in suspicion over alleged links to Islamic terrorism, especially after the 2013 Westgate Mall attack, while local and international media have suggested with little evidence that its economic boom owes much to capital derived from Indian Ocean piracy. In contrast to such sensationalised reporting, Little Mogadishu is based on detailed historical and ethnographic research and explores the social and historical underpinnings of this economic boom. It examines how transnational networks converged on Eastleigh in the wake of the collapse of the Somali state, attracting capital from the Somali diaspora, and bringing goods—especially clothes and electronics—from Dubai, China and elsewhere that are much in demand in East Africa. In so doing, Little Mogadishu provides a compelling case-study of the developmental impact diasporas and transnational trade can have, albeit in a country where many see this development as suspect.
Neil Carrier is Departmental Lecturer in African Anthropology, University of Oxford, and author of Kenyan Khat: The Social Life of a Stimulant. December 2014 • 256pp Paperback • 9781849044752 • £22.00 Politics / Africa 21
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A History of Borno Trans-Saharan African Empire to Failing Nigerian State Vincent Hiribarren A history of an ancient Sahelian kingdom whose hinterland is now being laid waste by the Boko Haram insurgency.
January 2015 £45.00
Borno (in northwest Nigeria) is notorious today as the home of an Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram, whose insurgency is a major security threat, but it was once the heartland of the Kanuri-speaking royal empire of KanemBorno, renowned throughout Africa and beyond, which in its later incarnation, the Bornu Empire, lasted from 1380 to 1893. This book offers the reader the first modern history of Borno, drawing upon sources in London, Berlin, Paris, Kaduna and Maiduguri and recently released ‘migrated archives’. As its longevity suggests, what is particularly remarkable about Borno is the permanence of its boundaries—its territorial integrity—which dates back centuries, and the political and social identities that such borders framed in the minds of its inhabitants.
Vincent Hiribarren is Lecturer in World History at King’s College London. January 2015 • 320pp Hardback • 9781849044745 • £45.00 History / Africa 22
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Sahel A Short History of Mali, Niger and the Lands in Between Thomas L. Miles A history of the African states and societies along the southern edge of the Sahara and how they are responding to new pressures linked to the intrusion of global capital.
October 2014 £25.00
The Sahel, where the southern edge of the Sahara meets the land in between it and the savannah, is alternatively ignored and misunderstood. In the 1970s it was synonymous with drought and famine, yet crops and herds flourish along its riverbanks and fears of ‘desertification’ have been debunked. After a century of colonialism and military rule the Sahelian nations of Mali and Niger built democracies fortified by long political traditions and Islam, though challenged by recurring violence, especially in Niger, which also witnessed a return of famine. Yet it was Mali that nearly collapsed, in 2012, and there was talk of it becoming an alQa’ida safe haven, which precipitated French military intervention. Once again the Sahel is a political and environmental faultline, invoked as an ‘arc of instability’, yet while the portents seem gloomy, Niger has uranium, Mali is Africa’s third largest gold producer and new partners, like China, are rushing in. In his entwined history of Mali and Niger, Thomas Miles contends that today’s crises are neither inevitable nor permanent. The Sahel has long exchanged goods and ideas with the wider world and the presence there of French soldiers and American drones is only one moment in a long and distinguished trajectory.
Thomas L. Miles is an independent scholar who lives in New York. This is his first book. October 2014 • 240pp Hardback • 9781849044738 • £25.00 History / Africa 23
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The Petro-Developmental State in Africa Making Oil Work in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea Jesse Salah Ovadia Local initiatives, local control and local ownership are increasingly characteristic of Africa’s petroleum sector, as Ovadia sets out in his book.
October 2014 £40.00
Jesse Salah Ovadia is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at Newcastle University. October 2014 • 288pp Hardback • 9781849044769 • £40.00 Development Studies / Economics 24
Focusing on local content in the oil and oil service sectors and the changing accumulation strategies of the domestic elite, this book questions what kinds of development are possible through natural resource extraction and argues that a new form of developmental state—the ‘petrodevelopmental state’—may now be emerging in the Gulf of Guinea, allowing states to capitalise on a resource that has traditionally been thought of as a ‘curse’. In a new moment for the extraction of oil created by a changed domestic context in Angola and Nigeria and changed geopolitical realities, new possibilities exist for state-led economic and social development and capitalist transformation. Ovadia contends that ultimately whether development or underdevelopment results from the transformation depends not only on historical conditions, but also on power relations and struggles at the level of civil society. Local content is perhaps the single most important innovation in energy policy in the Global South in recent decades. Expanding debates about stateled development and the developmental state, the concept of a petro-developmental state offers an explanation for how some of the most strategically significant countries in Africa can achieve meaningful economic and social progress.
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Christianity, Development and Modernity in Africa Paul Gifford Is African Christianity a religious marketplace now dominated by only two big players, the Catholic Church and Pentecostals?
November 2014 £18.99
There is an important if largely unremarked diversity within African Christianity; on the one hand, an enchanted Christianity that views the world as pervaded by spiritual forces, and on the other a disenchanted Christianity that discounts them. An enchanted Christian sees his glorious destiny threatened by witches, spirits, and ancestral curses. Churches catering for this worldview lay bare the workings of this spirit world, deliver those suffering from spirit attacks, and equip members to combat them. This enchanted imagination, along with the prosperity gospel, and emphasis on the pastor’s ‘anointing’, are the principal characteristics of much African Pentecostalism. Gifford argues that the enchanted religious imagination militates against development by encouraging fear and distrust, and diminishing human responsibility and agency. The prosperity gospel of ‘covenant wealth from tithes and offerings’ is the antithesis of Weber’s Protestant ethic; and to magnify the person of the pastor is to perpetuate the curse of the ‘Big Man’. Official Catholicism, totally disenchanted, long associated with schools and hospitals, is now involved in development, from microfinance to election monitoring, from conflict resolution to human rights. This ‘NGO-isation of Catholicism’, made almost inevitable by funding from secular donors like the EU and the UN, even if defended theologically, comes at the price of failing to address the ‘religious’ needs of so many African Christians.
Paul Gifford formerly taught in the Department for the Study of Religions at SOAS, University of London. He is the author of several works on African Christianity. November 2014 • 256pp Paperback • 9781849044776 • £18.99 Religion / Africa 25
SOUTH ASIA
Tamils and the Nation India and Sri Lanka Compared Madurika Rasaratnam A finely tuned investigation of why the Tamils of Sri Lanka and of India took such divergent paths in their respective political evolution.
December 2014 £22.00
Madurika Rasaratnam is Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Studies, SOAS. She completed her PhD at the LSE’s Department of Government in 2012. Her current research focuses on comparative politics, nationalism, ethnic conflict and transnational mobilisation with emphasis on India and Sri Lanka. December 2014 • 288pp Paperback • 9781849044783 • £22.00 South Asia / Politics 26
Why are relations between politically mobilised ethnic identities and the nation-state sometimes peaceful and at other times fraught and violent? Madurika Rasaratnam’s book sets out a novel answer to this key puzzle in world politics through a detailed comparative study of the starkly divergent trajectories of the ‘Tamil question’ in India and Sri Lanka from the colonial era to the present day. Whilst Tamil and national identities have peaceably harmonised in India, in Sri Lanka these have come into escalating and violent contradiction, leading to three decades of armed conflict and simmering antagonism since the war’s brutal end in 2009. Tracing these differing outcomes to distinct and contingent patterns of political contestation and mobilisation in the two states, Rasaratnam shows how, whilst emerging from comparable conditions and similar historical experiences, these have produced very different interactions between evolving Tamil and national identities, constituting in India a nation-state inclusive of the Tamils, and in Sri Lanka a hierarchical Sinhala-Buddhist national and state order hostile to Tamils’ political claims. Locating these dynamics within changing international contexts, she also shows how these once largely separate patterns of national-Tamil politics, and Tamil diaspora mobilisation, are increasingly interwoven in the post-war internationalisation of Sri Lanka’s ethnic crisis.
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Balochistan, the British and the Great Game The Struggle for the Bolan Pass, Gateway to India T. A. Heathcote
Balochistan remains an intractable problem for Pakistan today yet in the nineteenth century, as this history reveals, the British encountered formidable opposition when trying to bring the region under imperial domination. January 2015 £30.00
The Great Game for Central Asia led to British involvement in Balochistan, a sparsely-populated area in Pakistan, mostly desert and mountain, and containing the Bolan Pass, the southern counterpart of the more famous Khyber. It occupies a position of great strategic importance between Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran and the Arabian Sea. Heathcote’s book is a history of the Khanate of Kalat and of British operations against the Baloch hill tribes who raided frontier settlements and the Bolan caravans. Its themes include rivalry between British officials in Sind and the Punjab, high profile disputes between British politicians over frontier policy and organisation, and the British occupation of Quetta, guardian city of the Bolan, in the run-up to the Second Afghan War. Among the many strong characters in this story is Sir Robert Sandeman, hitherto hailed as ‘the peaceful conqueror of Balochistan’, now revealed as a ruthless careerist, whose personal ambitions led to the fragmentation of the country under British domination. The closing chapter summarises subsequent events up to modern times, in which the Baloch have maintained a long-running struggle for greater autonomy within Pakistan.
T.A. Heathcote is a highly regarded military and imperial historian who specialises in the history of South Asia and has written more than a dozen books. January 2015 • 288pp Hardback • 9781849044790 • £30.00 History / South Asia 27
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Missionaries of Modernity Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony, from the 1940s to Afghanistan Antonio Giustozzi and Artemy Kalinovsky Foreign military and political advisers have long been used to modernise armies, societies and economies overseas and this book tells this story, from the late nineteenth century to the present.
October 2014 £50.00
Antonio Giustozzi is a writer and researcher specialising in Central Asian affairs and an acknowledged world authority on the Taliban. Artemy Kalinovsky is Assistant Professor of East European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of A Long Goodbye: The Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan. October 2014 • 288pp Hardback • 9781849044806 • £50.00 History / Afghanistan 28
This volume is an historical survey of advisory and mentoring missions from the 1920s onwards, starting from the Soviet missions to the Kuomintang and ending with the mission to Iraq. It focuses on Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation and after 2001, but also deals with virtually every single advisory mission from the 1920s onwards, whether involving ‘Eastern Bloc’ countries or Western ones. The sections on Afghanistan are based on new research, while the sections covering other cases of advisory/mentoring missions are based on the existing literature. The authors highlight how large-scale missions have been particularly problematic, causing friction with the hosts and sometimes even undermining their legitimacy. Small missions staffed by more carefully selected cadres appear instead to have produced better results. Overall, the political context may well have been a more important factor in determining success or failure rather than aspects such as cultural misunderstandings.
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The Army of Afghanistan A Political History of a Fragile Institution Antonio Giustozzi Building a fully unified Afghan Army dominated neither by Pashtuns nor by Tajiks has eluded the authorities in Kabul for decades. This book explains why.
October 2014 £35.00
This book is the first full length political history of the Afghan Army, and as such is unparalleled in the range and depth of its analysis of this vitally important institution. Giustozzi locates the Army’s development within the wider context of statebuilding in Afghanistan. His volume includes a brief survey of the period to 1953, but focuses mainly on subsequent developments, over the last four decades, as the officer corps began to be politicised and later factionalised, especially during the Russian-backed regime of the Communist People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), which ruled the country from 1978 to 1992. Despite the stress on the politics of praetorianism, the volume describes the Afghan Army’s performance on the battlefield in detail, highlighting the potential contradiction between military effectivness and political loyalty to the ruling elite. The volume covers developments to the end of 2013 and is the result of extensive interviews conducted with both Afghan Army officers and their advisers and mentors.
Antonio Giustozzi is a writer and researcher specialising in Central Asian affairs and an acknowledged world authority on the Taliban. October 2014 • 288pp Hardback • 9781849044813 • £35.00 Politics / Afghanistan 29
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Divided We Govern Coalition Politics in India Sanjay Ruparelia
December 2014 • 350pp Hardback • 9781849042123 £29.99 South Asia / Politics
Divided We Govern analyses the paradoxes of national coalition politics in modern Indian democracy. It presents a fine-grained narrative of attempts by socialists and communists to construct a progressive ‘third force’ since the 1970s. Employing a variety of resources, including original survey data and the rare confidential testimonies of key actors, the book illuminates the distinctive national vision inspiring third force politics. Yet it explains how the regionalisation of federal parliamentary elections, which encouraged diverse multiparty governments to arise in New Delhi, decreased their chances of surviving. Strategies and tactics of power-sharing became especially significant in determining political outcomes. Ultimately, the broader Indian left misjudged its historic possibilities, leading to its gradual decline.
Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris Christopher Snedden In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) — popularly called ‘Kashmir’ — and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over possession of the state may never have arisen, but Britain’s concerns lay elsewhere –– expansionist Russia, beguiling Tibet and unstable China ‘circling’ J&K –– and their agents played the ‘Great Game’ in Afghanistan and ‘Turkistan’. August 2014 • 256pp Paperback • 9781849043427 £20.00 South Asia / Politics
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Snedden weaves a compelling narrative that frames the Kashmir dispute, explains why it continues, and assesses what it means politically and administratively for the divided peoples of J&K and their undecided futures.
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Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia Monarchy, Revolution and the Legacy of Meles Zenawi Edited by Gérard Prunier & Éloi Ficquet
When we think of Ethiopia we tend to think in cliches: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the Falasha Jews, the epic reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, the Communist Revolution, famine and civil war. Today’s Ethiopia (and its painfully liberated sister state of Eritrea) is largely obscured by these mythical views and a secondary literature that is partial or propagandist. Moreover there have been few attempts to offer readers a comprehensive overview of the country’s recent history, politics and culture. Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia seeks to do just that, presenting a measured, detailed and systematic analysis of the main features of this unique country, now building on the foundations of a magical and tumultuous past as it struggles to emerge in the modern world on its own terms.
August 2014 • 416pp Paperback • 9781849042611 £19.99 Africa / Politics
Creating Africas Struggles Over Nature, Conservation and Land Knut G. Nustad In Africa, conflicts between protected areas for fauna and flora and their surrounding human populations continue despite years spent trying to find an accommodation between the needs of both parties. Creating Africas investigates the roots of the current conservation boom, demonstrates that it is part of a struggle over definitions of realities, and examines the global effects of this struggle. The book discusses the first UNESCO World Heritage Site in South Africa, the Isimangaliso (St Lucia) Wetland Park. Here, conservation interests are pitted against those of industrial forestry, commercial farming, and the local communities struggling to have their land returned to them. They all seek to define and create their own realities but do so with very different resources at their disposal.
July 2014 • 224pp Paperback • 9781849042581 £25.00 Africa / Conservation
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‘We Love Death as You Love Life’ Britain’s Suburban Mujahedeen Raffaello Pantucci
August 2014 • 224pp Paperback • 9781849041652 £15.99
‘This book will help an international audience understand the story of UK Islamist terrorism and will provide experts with sound analysis and the chance to read for the first time the full story in one volume. Pantucci avoids the tendency of more politically biased commentators to blame the terrorists’ radicalisation on either British foreign policy, poverty and Islamophobia or radical foreign preachers, “an evil ideology” and multiculturalism. Instead, through in-depth research into the personalities involved in the UK terrorist plots, the author shows that no single one of these explanations is sufficient but that all have played a role in motivating some of Britain’s suburban mujahedeen.’ — Innes Bowen, BBC
Britain / Terrorism
The Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath Edited by Peter Cole & Brian McQuinn This book offers a novel, incisive and wide-ranging 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 Qadhafi’s regime. August 2014 • 320pp Hardback • 9781849043090 £30.00 North Africa / Politics
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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.
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Oman Politics and Society in the Qaboos State Marc Valeri ‘This is without question the best book available on the contemporary politics of Oman. It is based on extensive local research, ties in fully to the other relevant work on the subject, and tells a compelling story in a way that combines lucid thematic analysis with accessible language.’ — Professor Gerd Nonneman, University of Exeter ‘This is an important work and it provokes a multitude of questions and thoughts about the nature of the Qaboos regime in Oman, its impact on the development of the Omani state since 1970, and a glimpse of the legacy that the Qaboos will leave his country. It makes an excellent starting point for further inquiry.’ — Asian Affairs
September 2014 • 256pp Paperback • 9781849044851 £18.99 Middle East / Politics
Revolt in Syria Eye-Witness to the Uprising Stephen Starr REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION ‘This searching inquiry is painful reading, but urgent for those who hope to understand what lies behind the shocking events in Syria, what the prospects might be, and what outsiders can—and cannot—do to mitigate the immense suffering as a country so rich in history and promise careens towards disaster.’ — Noam Chomsky ‘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
July 2014 • 248pp Paperback • 9781849044509 £14.99 Middle East / Current Affairs
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The New Kings of Crude China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan Luke Patey
January 2014 • 224pp
‘[A]n intricately researched book … Patey’s mastery of the subject is clear, and this long-form analysis is a welcome addition to a surprisingly empty bookshelf on the subject. … The New Kings of Crude is written in a personable and character-driven style, making it accessible to the general reader and those with an academic interest. Its greatest strength, however, is that it provides a comprehensive history to the never-ending complexities of Sudanese politics which continue to dictate events to this day.’ — Think Africa Press
Paperback • 9781849042949 £25.00 Africa / Politics
A Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts Sudan and South Sudan’s Bitter and Incomplete Divorce James Copnall ‘A clear, lucid and comprehensive book [that] fills an important gap by explaining these two countries. … Copnall is measured, perceptive and notably fair-minded.’ — David Blair, The Telegraph
March 2014 • 272pp Paperback • 9781849043304 £19.99 Africa / Politics
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‘Takes the reader beyond oversimplifications to explain the often complex history, cultures, politics, and economics that underlie the conflict between Sudan and South Sudan, and the crises that each nation continues to face. ... [H]e brings these issues to life, allowing the voices of Sudanese to come through, from tea ladies and cattle herders to ministers and politicians.’ — Ambassador (ret) Princeton N. Lyman, U.S. Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan 2011-2013
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Madeira The Mid-Atlantic Wine Alex Liddell ‘Alex Liddell’s Madeira is a meticulously detailed and engaging study of the eponymously named wine. Encyclopaedic in its breadth, this book will answer almost every question anyone has about how madeira wine has been made and what it may have tasted like from the fifteenth century to the present. As such, it should be the first port of call for those interested in this wonderful wine.’ — Charles C. Ludington, North Carolina State University, author of The Politics of Wine in Britain: A New Cultural History
April 2014 • 288pp
‘There is no better guide than Alex Liddell’s informative and evocative Madeira.’ — Decanter
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‘A fascinating book full of insightful new material.’ — Tim Atkin, The Observer
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The Country of Football Politics, Popular Culture, and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
Edited by Paulo Fontes and Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda How has football shaped Brazil? This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the United States, Britain and France, who examine the political significance, in the broadest sense, of the sport in which Brazil has long been a world leader. The authors consider questions such as the relationship between football, the workplace and working class culture; the formation of Brazilian national identity; race relations; political and social movements; and the impact of the sport on social mobility. Contributions to the book range in time from the late nineteenth century, when the British first introduced the sport to Brazil, to the present day, as the ‘country of football’ prepares itself to host the 2014 World Cup, painting a vivid picture of the many ways in which football exists and functions in Brazil, both on and off the pitch.
May 2014 • 288pp Paperback • 9781849044172 £16.99 Sport / South America
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Stalin’s American Spy Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-Trials Tony Sharp
May 2014 • 424pp Hardback • 9781849043441 £25.00 History / Biography
Stalin’s American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their Soviet superiors, Field’s forced ‘confessions’ were manipulated by Stalin and his East European satraps to launch a devastating series of show-trials that led to the imprisonment and judicial murder of numerous Czechoslovak, German, Polish and Hungarian party members. Yet there were other events in his very strange career that could give rise to the suspicion that Field was an American spy who had infiltrated the Communist movement at the behest of Allen Dulles, the wartime OSS chief in Switzerland who later headed the CIA.
Endgame for ETA Elusive Peace in the Basque Country Teresa Whitfield The Basque separatist group ETA took shape in Franco’s Spain, yet claimed the majority of its victims under democracy. For most Spaniards it became an aberration, a criminal and terrorist band whose persistence defied explanation. Others understood ETA as the violent expression of a political conflict that remained the unfinished business of Spain’s transition to democracy. Endgame for ETA offers a compelling account of the long path to ETA’s declaration of a definitive end to its armed activity in October 2011. May 2014 • 448pp Paperback • 9781849043465 £22.00 Europe / Terrorism
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‘A wonderful book—academically rigorous and well researched, yet engaging and accessible to the general reader. Whitfield counterbalances the complex factors leading to ETA’s demise with a sober critique of Spain’s counterterrorism. Deserves a broad reading and highlevel attention.’ — Audrey Kurth Cronin, author of How Terrorism Ends: Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns
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The Pashtun Question
The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan Abubakar Siddique ‘Nobody knows the Pashtuns in Afghanistan and Pakistan the way that Abubakar Siddique knows his own people. He combines his insider knowledge with decades of on-the-ground reporting and academic training. This book is the best available survey and analysis of the inter-relations of the wars on both sides of the Afghan-Pakistan border.’ — Barnett Rubin, professor at New York University and author of The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System ‘I have no doubt that The Pashtun Question will become an indispensable guide for those seeking solutions to the bitterly-intertwined conflicts of the region. A must-read.’ — Jon Lee Anderson, staff writer for The New Yorker, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
May 2014 • 292pp Hardback • 9781849042925 £30.00 South Asia / Current Affairs
Karachi
Ordered Disorder and the Struggle for the City Laurent Gayer 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 mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources. 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. ‘Laurent Gayer’s Karachi is the best book yet published on the interplay of politics, ethnicity, religion, and criminality in one of the world’s largest cities.’ —Anatol Lieven, New York Review of Books
May 2014 • 380pp Paperback • 9781849043113 £25.00 South Asia / Politics
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The First World War in the Middle East
Shanghai Future
Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Anna Greenspan
‘This is a splendid book we have long been waiting for: the first comprehensive account of the fierce fighting all over the Middle East during World War One.’ — Roger Owen, A.J. Meyer Professor of Middle East History, Harvard University, and author of The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
China is in the midst of the fastest and most intense process of urbanisation the world has ever known, and Shanghai—its biggest, richest and most cosmopolitan city—is positioned for acceleration into the twenty-first century. Yet, in its embrace of a hopeful—even exultant—futurism, Shanghai recalls the older and much criticised project of imagining, planning and building the modern metropolis. Shanghai Future maps the city of tomorrow as it resurfaces in a new time and place. It searches for the contours of an unknown and unfamiliar futurism in the city’s street markets as well as in its skyscrapers.
‘This is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the Middle East and the study of the formation of modern state-system in the region.’ — Mehran Kamrava, author of The Modern Middle East: A Political History since the First World War
Modernity Remade
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The Sámi Peoples of the North A Social and Cultural History
Neil Kent The first comprehensive history of the Sami people of the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. There is no single volume which encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sami people from the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. Neil Kent’s book fills this lacuna. ‘The Sami People of the North is exhaustive, nuanced, and best of all, accessible. With his sustained attention to historical detail, Neil Kent has done a valuable service for anyone thinking about the Sami—or, for that matter, indigenous populations generally.’ — Nick McDonell, author of Twelve and The Civilization of Perpetual Movement: Nomadism in World Politics
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CRITICAL MUSLIM
EDITED BY ZIAUDDIN SARDAR AND ROBIN YASSIN-KASSAB
Critical Muslim is a quarterly of ideas and issues which presents Muslim perspectives on the great debates of our times. The first publication of its kind, Critical Muslim reverses the lens through which contemporary issues in the Arab and Muslim worlds are often discussed. We aim to emphasise the plurality and diversity of Islam and Muslims and to promote dialogue, cooperation and collaboration between ‘Islam’ and other cultures, including ‘the West’. We look at everything critically and challenge traditionalist, modernist, fundamentalist and apologetic versions of Islam as well as the established conventions and orthodoxies of dominant cultures. We seek new readings of religion, culture and politics with the potential to transform the Muslim world and beyond.
10 | 9781849043953 April 2014
11 | 9781849044516 July 2014
12 | 9781849044523 October 2014
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Aarts, Paul 9 Apostates, The 13 Army of Afghanistan, The 29 Audacious Ascetic, The 11 Balochistan, the British and the Great Game 27 Bass, Gary 3 Battles of the New Republic, The 2 Blood Telegram, The 3 Buarque de Hollanda, Bernardo 35 Carrier, Neil 21 Cavatorta, Fracesco 16 Cheterian, Vicken 1 China and Tibet 17 Christianity, Development and Modernity in 25 Africa Critical Muslim 39 Cole, Peter 32 Copnall, James 34 Cottee, Simon 13 Country of Football 35 Creating Africas 31 Crimea 7 Cycle of Fear 12 Divided We Govern 30 Discourse of Race in Modern China, The 19 Dikötter, Frank 18, 19 Endgame for ETA 36 Elliott, Christopher L. 4 First World War in the 38 Middle East, The Fontes, Paulo 35 Force and Fanatacism 8 Fragile Politics 14 Fragments of an Unfinished War 20 Gayer, Laurent 37 Gifford, Paul 25 Giustozzi, Antonio 28, 29 Goldsmith, Leon T. 12 Greenspan, Anna 38 High Command 4 History of Borno, A 22 Hiribarren, Vincent 22 Inside the Islamic Republic 15 Jha, Prashant 2 Kalinovsky, Artemy 28 Kalnins, Mara 6 Kamrava, Mehran 14 Karachi 37 Kent, Neil 7, 38 Khomeini, Ayatollah 10 Laaman, Lars 18 Latvia 6
Libyan Revolution and its Aftermath Liddell, Alex Little Mogadishu Madeira McQuinn, Brian Mengin, Françoise Merone, Fabio Miller, Flagg Mills, Greg Missionaries of Modernity Monshipouri, Mahmood Mystery of Prayer Narcotic Culture New Kings of Crude, The Nustad, Knut G. Oman Open Wounds Ovadia, Jesse Salah Pantucci, Raffaello Pashtun Question, The Patey, Luke Petro-Developmental State in Africa, The Poisonous Thorn in Our Hearts, A Prunier, Gérard Rasaratnam, Madurika Revolt in Syria Roelants, Carolien Ross Valentine, Simon Ruparelia, Sanjay Sahel Salafism After the Arab Awakening Sámi, The Sardar, Ziauddin Saudi Arabia Shanghai Future Sharp, Tony Siddique, Abubakar Snedden, Christopher Stalin’s American Spy Starr, Stephen Tamils and the Nation Topgyal, Tsering Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia Understanding Kashmir and Kashmiris Ulrichsen, Kristian Coates Valeri, Marc ‘We Love Death as You Love Life’ Whitfield, Teresa Why States Recover Yassin-Kassab, Robin Zhou, Xun
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