Editorial Hurst
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Endgame for ETA
Elusive Peace in the Basque Country
- Hurst, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 39,90 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-346-5
EAN 9781849043465
The violent 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, mainly Basques (but only some Basques) understood ETA as the violent expression of a political conflict that remained ...
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Failing to Protect
The UN and the Politicisation of Human Rights
- Hurst, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 28,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-409-7
EAN 9781849044097
Every year tens of millions of individuals suffer grave abuses of their human rights. These violations occur worldwide, in war-torn countries and in the wealthiest states. Despite many of the abuses being well-documented, little seems to be done to stop them from happening. The United Nations was established to safeguard world peace and security, development, ...
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Hezbollah
The Global Footprint of Lebanon's Party of God
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- Hurst, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 31,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-240-6
EAN 9781849042406
Although diplomacy increasingly takes place in non-traditional settings that are increasingly non-Western, our debates about diplomacy still focus on traditional points of contact such as the conference table, the ministerial office and the press conference. This book is framed as a discussion on whether increasing globalisation and the rise of powers such as China, India ...
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Franco's International Brigades
Adventurers, Fascists, and the Christian Crusaders in the Spanish Civil War
- Hurst, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 23,60 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-247-5
EAN 9781849042475
Foreign volunteers fought on behalf of General Franco and the Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War for a right-wing cause whose aim was to smash democracy. These assorted adventurers, fascists, and Catholic crusaders were on the winning side, but their role has remained strangely hidden until now.Men from Portugal and Morocco signed on for money ...
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- Hurst, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-84904-227-7
EAN 9781849042277
John Wright's concise history of Libya begins in the prehistoric Sahara and concludes with the bloody overthrow of the Gadafi regime and the emergence of a 'new' Libya in 2011. After surveying the story of the central Sahara's early hunter-gatherers and its Garamantian civilization, Wright briskly recounts the land's succession of foreign invaders, followed by ...
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This book, first published in 1973, was regarded on publication as the definitive study of the 'Young Turks', or Committee of Union and Progress, the name given to a group of Turkish army officers who sought to reform the Ottoman Empire and who in 1908 led a constitutional revolution against Sultan Ahmed Hamid II. The ...
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Little known in the English-speaking world, Burundi is Rwanda's twin, a small Central African country with a complex history of ethnic tension between its Hutu and Tutsi populations that has itself experienced traumatic events, including mass killings of over 200,000 people. The country remained in a state of simmering civil war until 2004, after which ...
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- Hurst, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 446 páginas
PVP: 22,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85065-943-3
EAN 9781850659433
Sarajevo: A Biography is a work of erudition and compassion, nimbly capturing the spirit of one of the world's great cities as it survives one epoch, one political regime, one religious dynasty after another. Through the stories of individual Sarajevans, leaders and common people alike, Donia illustrates his beloved city's significance as a site of ...
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- Hurst, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 420 páginas
PVP: 27,00 €
ISBN 978-1-85065-368-4
EAN 9781850653684
Michael Llewellyn-Smith sets the Greek occupation of Smyrna and the war in Anatolia against the background of Greece's "Great Idea" and of great power rivalries in the Near East. He traces the origins of the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos's "Ionian Vision" to his joint conception with David Lloyd George of an Anglo-Greek entente in the ...
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- Hurst, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-1-85065-268-7
EAN 9781850652687
This work provides an introduction to Basque and Catalan nationalism. The two movements have much in common, but have differed in the strategies adopted to further their cause. Basque nationalism, in the shape of the military wing of ETA, took the path of violence, spawning an efficient terrorist campaign, while Catalan nationalism is more accommodating ...
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- Hurst, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 285 páginas
PVP: 18,10 €
ISBN 978-1-85065-317-2
EAN 9781850653172
This work is a compact, briskly-written introduction to the history, politics and culture of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark, from the Napoleonic era to the present. It aims to diminish national stereotypes and describe the salient events and personalities of the time.
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