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Iceland's 1100 Years
History of a Marginal Society
- Hurst, 2020
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 28,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-911-5
EAN 9781849049115
'Iceland's 1100 Years' recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state. Iceland is unique among the European societies in being founded as late as the Viking Age, and in surviving for centuries without any central power ...
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The Skull of Alum Bheg
The Life and Death of a Rebel of 1857
- Hurst, 2019
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 38,05 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-870-5
EAN 9781849048705
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Ctrl Alt Delete
How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy
- Hurst, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 36,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78738-006-6
EAN 9781787380066
Something has gone badly wrong: people loathe politicians, distrust the press and increasingly fear each other. It's easy to blame Russian trolls, Facebook news feeds, or the sinister manipulation of 'big data' -- but these are all symptoms of an abusive thirty-year relationship between politics, the media, and a new information age. Interviewing everyone from ...
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- Hurst, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-997-9
EAN 9781849049979
Lisbon's charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman legacy to its centuries under Moorish rule. Its journey from port town to Portugal's capital was not always smooth sailing-in 1755 the city was devastated by the largest earthquake ever to strike modern Europe, followed by a catastrophic tsunami ...
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- Hurst, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 29,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-945-0
EAN 9781849049450
After the Second World War, Germany was an international pariah. Today, it has become a beacon of the Western world. But what makes this extraordinary nation tick?On Germany tells the story of a country reborn, from defeat in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the painstaking reunification of 'the two Germanies', and the ...
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- Hurst, 2018
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-948-1
EAN 9781849049481
As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of little-known case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, War From The Ground Up offers a distinctive perspective on contemporary armed conflict: while most accounts of war look down ...
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- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 320 páginas
PVP: 53,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-693-0
EAN 9781849046930
Why Europe Intervenes in Africa analyses the underlying causes of all European decisions for and against military interventions in conflicts in African states since the late 1980s. It focuses on the main European actors who have deployed troops in Africa: France, the United Kingdom and the European Union. When conflict occurs in Africa, the response ...
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Jihad and Death
The Global Appeal of Islamic State
- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-698-5
EAN 9781849046985
Islamic State has replaced Al Qaeda as the great global threat of the twenty-first century, the bogeyman we have all come to fear. But Daesh started as a local movement, rooted in the resentment of the Sunni Arabs of Iraq and Syria. It is they who have lost most in the geo-strategic shift in the ...
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The Struggle for Catalonia
Rebel Politics in Spain
- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 24,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-803-3
EAN 9781849048033
Every year on 11 September, Catalonia celebrates its Diada, its National Day. But the Diada of 2012 was like none other, as an enormous crowd calling for Catalan independence took over the heart of Barcelona.Despite the carnival-like atmosphere that day, the people were very serious about their demands. On the back of this show of ...
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Lost Islamic History
Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-689-3
EAN 9781849046893
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France, to East Africa and South East Asia. Yet many of the ...
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- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 448 páginas
PVP: 29,15 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-867-5
EAN 9781849048675
At the turn of the twentieth century, European colonial powers scrambled in Africa for trade, land and political advantage. When the First World War broke out, they were forced to contend with one another not just in trenches on the Western Front, but in East Africa's swamps and savannahs. In that unforgiving landscape, General Paul ...
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- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 384 páginas
PVP: 29,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-796-8
EAN 9781849047968
This ambitious and wide-ranging popular history is the first narrative account of the entire Near East (Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States), from the genesis of civilisation in the fourth millennium BCE until 1947. It provides an historical outline of the civilisations and cultures that dominated the region, one ...
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- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-447-9
EAN 9781849044479
Olivier Roy, world-renowned authority on Islam and politics, finds in the modern disconnection between faith communities and socio-cultural identities a fertile space for fundamentalism to grow. Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularisation has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root, an anti-intellectualism that promises immediate, emotional access to the sacred and ...
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From the Arab Spring to the Spanish Indignados, from Occupy Wall Street in New York to Nuit Debout in Paris, contemporary protest bears the mark of citizenism, a libertarian and participatory brand of populism which appeals to ordinary citizens outraged at the arrogance of political and financial elites in the wake of the Great Recession. ...
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Inglorious Empire
What the British Did to India
- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-808-8
EAN 9781849048088
Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India, from the arrival of the East India Company in 1757 to the end of the Raj, and reveals how Britains rise was built upon its depredations in India.India was Britains biggest cash cow, and Indians literally paid for their own oppression. Britains Industrial Revolution ...
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Blood and Faith
The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614
- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 440 páginas
PVP: 18,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-801-9
EAN 9781849048019
In April 1609, King Philip III of Spain signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entire Muslim population of Spain was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communities were obliged ...
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- Hurst, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-413-4
EAN 9781849044134
Clara Usiskin has spent eight years investigating the 'War on Terror' and its effects in the East and Horn of Africa, documenting hundreds of cases of rendition, secret detention and targeted killings. As a result of her work exposing abuses carried out by regional governments and their international partners, Clara was deported from Kenya and ...
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Who Killed Hammarskjold?
The UN, the Cold War and the White Supremacy in Africa
- Hurst, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-802-6
EAN 9781849048026
The death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld remains one of the biggest mysteries of the twentieth century.Shortly after midnight on 18 September 1961, an aircraft carrying Hammarskjöld and his UN team crashed into dark forest in the British colony of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), abruptly ending his mission to bring peace to the Congo. Many ...
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- Hurst, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 39,70 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-686-2
EAN 9781849046862
Why don't we eat more octopus? Cheeks and feet are good value and delicious, so why do people prefer fillet or chops? What about rabbits and squirrels? And what's wrong with ugly vegetables?The food industry, like the fashion industry, seems driven by the pursuit of impossible perfection: pre-packaged meats with nary a head, foot or ...
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- Hurst, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 23,81 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-566-7
EAN 9781849045667
Today's Turkey little resembles that of recent decades. Newfound economic prosperity has had many unexpected social and political repercussions, most notably the rise of the AKP party and President Erdogan. Despite unprecedented electoral popularity, the conduct of the AKP has faced growing criticism: Turkey has yet to solve its Kurdish question; its foreign policy is ...
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