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Concise history of Finland, from its part in the Swedish kingdom to autonomous nation state
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288pp November 2010
| Hardback | | 9781849040907 | | £25.00 | | Buy Now |
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Concise history of Namibia from its origins until its independence.
'An excellent history of Namibia, which should be accessible to a wide readership in the country, and also to many historians and history students with an interest in colonialism and liberation on the African continent. The coverage of both the German period and of South African rule in Namibia is excellent.' -Professor Alan Barnard, University of Edinburgh
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288pp December 2010
| Hardback | | 9781849040914 | | £30.00 | | Buy Now |
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Draws on Islamic philosophy and poetry to show connections between Muslims and Europeans, among others. A forceful argument agains the notion of a 'clash of civilisations.'
'This passionate and elegant work is a vigorous antidote to a constellation of discourses steeped in the Weltanschauung that the title of Samuel Huntington's infamous book encapsulates so well. Arshin Adib-Moghaddam's reflections are a stimulating contribution to Edward Said's legacy of radical critique of all essentialist constructions of otherness.'- Prof. Gilbert Achcar, author of The Arabs and the Holocaust and (with Noam Chomsky) Perilous Power: The Middle East and US Foreign Policy
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288pp November 2010
| Hardback | | 9781849040976 | | £30.00 | | Buy Now |
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Gulf expert Christopher Davidson’s book charts the emirate’s remarkable trajectory from its origins as an eighteenth-century sheikhdom to its present position on the cusp of preeminence. Showing Abu Dhabi’s impressive socio-economic development, Davidson offers a frank portrayal of a dynasty’s dramatic survival.
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276pp June 2009
| Hardback | | 9781850659785 | | £30.00 | | Buy Now |
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‘this book should be required reading for anyone involved in the war on terror. Kilcullen’s central concept of the “accidental guerrilla” is brilliant and the policy prescriptions that flow from it important. And that’s not all; the book has many more insights drawn from various battlefields. —Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek
'For a wider perspective on the lessons drawn over the past seven years
of the 'war on terror', the reader can do no better than turn to Mr
Kilcullen's excellent book. The Accidental Guerrilla
has an anthropologist's sense of social dynamics and a reporter's eye
for telling detail. If T.E. Lawrence evoked the means of waging
irregular warfare in his 1926 classic, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Mr
Kilcullen describes the practitioner's art of combating insurgents.' — The Economist
The Australian David Kilcullen is the world’s foremost expert on this way of war, and in The Accidental Guerrilla, the Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to the Pentagon and architect of ‘the Surge’, surveys war as it is actually fought in the contemporary world.
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376pp April 2009
| Hardback | | 9781850659556 | | £20.00 | | Buy Now |
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This work chronicles the successive failures of the white political system to reach an accommodation with South Africa's non-white majority prior to the release of Nelson Mandela. In particular, it analyzes the era dominated by the erratic state president, P.W. Botha.
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256pp March 1992
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482pp December 1975
| Hardback | | 9780903983143 | | £60.00 | | Buy Now |
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In the unification year of 1990, Helmut Kohl's stature appeared to invite comparison with Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic. This book examines the evolution of the modern German chancellorship against the background of social and political change.
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203pp September 1994
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Recounts the opposition to British and French rule practised both by
Africans living on the continent and by European anticolonialists and
members of the Black Diaspora. This book covers campaigns waged by an
early incarnation of the ANC and other groups in South Africa who
fought against legal and other aspects of white minority rule.
'This is an impressive and scholarly synthesis of a huge amount of
historical data that succeeds in presenting a strong narrative of
African agitation against colonial rule at the height of European
imperialism. As such, this project makes a novel contribution to
knowledge.' – Dr Robert Shilliam, Oxford University
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483pp October 2008
| Hardback | | 9781850659372 | | £49.99 | | Buy Now | | Paperback | | 9781850659365 | | £17.99 | | Buy Now |
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1391pp December 1979
| Hardback | | 9780903983877 | | £105.00 | | Buy Now |
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