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| About Hurst |
Hurst is an independently owned non-fiction publisher, specialising in books on global affairs, founded by the late Christopher Hurst (1929-2007) in 1969. Michael Dwyer (hurst@atlas.co.uk) joined the company in 1986 and took it over following Christopher's death in April 2007.
We publish between twenty-five and forty books a year, co-publishing them simultaneously in North America with university presses and trade publishers. Our most fruitful long-term collaborator is Columbia University Press, New York, with which Hurst has a long association that is going from strength to strength.
We also co-publish our books simultaneously in other parts of the world, e.g. in South Asia, Southern and Eastern Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia.
Our aim is to publish books written by scholars, journalists and other authors that illuminate contemporary concerns and provide the essential historical, cultural and religious background. We also publish books of wider public interest, for example:
Michael Axworthy's
Empire of the Mind: A History of Iran
Carne Ross's
Independent Diplomat: Dispatches from an Unaccountable Elite
Stephen Grey's
Ghost Plane: The Inside Story of the CIA's Secret Rendition Programme
Hurst also publishes two series: one in conjunction with CERI (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales) in Paris (www.ceri-sciencespo.com), edited by Dr Christophe Jaffrelot; the other, 'Crises in World Politics', with the Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge (http://www.intstudies.cam.ac.uk/), the series editors being Dr Brendan Simms and Dr Tarak Barkawi.
Catalogues detailing books in both series can be found by clicking here:
http://www.hurstpub.co.uk/hurst/series.asp
We make our books available worldwide via copublishing agreements with publishers overseas, especially in North America, and through the efforts of our overseas distributors and sales agents: http://www.hurstpub.co.uk/hurst/distribution.asp
Hurst titles also feature prominently in the media. The Economist has reviewed eight of our books in the last eighteen months; the Sunday Times has serialised three of them; and The Guardian, The New York Review of Books and other newspapers and reviews regularly feature new Hurst books: http://www.hurstpub.co.uk/hurst/author_media.asp
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