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Muted Modernists: The Struggle Over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia by Madawi Al-Rasheed
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $68.33Analysis of both official and opposition Saudi divine politics is often monolithic, conjuring images of conservatism, radicalism, misogyny and resistance to democracy. Madawi Al-Rasheed challenges... -
Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro Elizabeth Roberts 9781911723332
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $38.58Montenegro was admitted to the UN as its 192nd member in June 2006, thus recovering the independence it had lost nearly 90 years earlier at the Versailles Peace Conference. This is the first... -
Britain and Europe: A Short History by Jeremy Black 9781787381186
Booksplease Price: $59.39Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the... -
Critical Muslim 08: Men in Islam by Ziauddin Sardar 9781849043175
Booksplease Price: $56.13A great deal has been said and written about 'women in Islam' - from how they should behave and dress to their 'duties' and position in society. Muslim men, on the other hand, have escaped all... -
Islam in Inter-war Europe by Natalie Clayer
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $96.12In the enormous literature on the Muslim world, one of the few gaps in our knowledge is the status of Islam in inter-war Europe, an imbalance this book aims to address. The Muslim population of... -
Africa's Global Infrastructures: South–South Transformations in Practice by Jana Hönke 9781805260226
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $44.81The boom in South-South relations since the early 2000s has seen a flurry of investment in African infrastructure from emerging markets across the Global South. While the extent to which these... -
Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts by Stefan Wolff 9781850656913
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.25Interest in the study of ethnic conflict has soared over the past decade, partly due to the ethnic conflicts that have erupted violently, especially in central and Eastern Europe after the collapse... -
India's Near East: A New History Avinash Paliwal 9781805260615
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $68.33India's near east encompasses Bangladesh, Myanmar and the Indian states of the 'Northeast'--Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram. Celebrated as a... -
The First Cold War: Anglo-Russian Relations in the 19th Century by Barbara Emerson 9781805260578
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $68.33Britain and Russia maintained a frosty civility for a few years after Napoleon’s defeat in 1815. But, by the 1820s, their relations degenerated into constant acrimonious rivalry over Persia, the... -
Critical Muslim 14: Power by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65Ziauddin Sardar explores the limits of power, Barnaby Rogerson is enchanted with the notion of governance in the life of Prophet Muhammad, Bruce Lawrence deconstructs the idea of AoIslamic State',... -
Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, Past and Present by Benedict Carton 9781850659082
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $144.12What does it mean to be Zulu today? Does being Zulu today differ from what it meant in the past? Zulu Identities wrestles with these and many other related questions to show how the characteristic... -
Muslim Women and Misogyny: Myths and Misunderstandings by Samia Rahman 9781911723011
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $29.38Muslim women are among the most fetishised and objectified groups in society today. Much is assumed and imagined about their lives, and it is all too easy to succumb to orientalist myths. For too... -
A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Tex by Kama Maclean
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.82Focussing on the Hindustan Socialist Republican Army (HSRA), A Revolutionary History delivers a fresh perspective on the ambitions, ideologies and practices of this influential organisation, formed... -
Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space Bleddyn E. Bowen 9781805266075
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $34.88An eye-opening account of a world order shaped by spacepower and the threat of space warfare. Space technology was developed to enhance the killing power of the state. The Moon landings and the... -
Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Challenge of the 21st Century by Joshua Craze 9781850659020
Booksplease Price: $120.75"The Kingdom" brings together a fascinating selection of writings on contemporary Saudi Arabia by a diverse group of authors, and includes contributions by such established figures as Madawi... -
Crimean Quagmire: Tolstoy, Russell and the Birth of Modern Warfare Gregory Carleton 9781911723639
RRP: $57.75Booksplease Price: $54.75The Crimean War was the greatest international crisis of the Victorian era, and a modernwar of rifles, railroads and telegraphs. As it raged, two writers embedded in the conflict–the young Russian... -
The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares by Phil Tinline 9781805260356
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $31.21Over Britain’s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? To find out, journalist... -
Solferino 21: Warfare, Civilians and Humanitarians in the Twenty-First Century by Hugo Slim 9781911723301
Booksplease Price: $27.53War is at a tipping point: we're passing from the age of industrial warfare to a new era of computerised warfare, and a renewed risk of great-power conflict. Humanitarian response is also evolving... -
The Long Shadow of German Colonialism: Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism Henning Melber 9781805260455
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $59.28From 1884 to 1914, the world's fourth-largest overseas colonial empire was that of the German Kaiserreich. Yet this fact is little known in Germany and the subject remains virtually absent from most... -
Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States John Zubrzycki 9781805263098
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $31.21The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. In July 1947, India’s last Viceroy, Lord Louis... -
Heredity and the Ascent of Man by C. C. Hurst 9781107456303
Booksplease Price: $51.74Originally published in 1935, this book was written to provide the general reader with a concise guide to genetics and human evolution. The text begins with a discussion of heredity and genes before... -
Defying the Dragon: Hong Kong and the World's Largest Dictatorship by Stephen Vines 9781911723295
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $27.70'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRC’s authority, just as its president reached the height of his powers. Is Xi’s China as... -
Tribes and the State in Libya and Iraq: From the Nationalist Era to the New Order by Alison Pargeter 9781805260448
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $77.39Regime change in Libya (2011) and Iraq (2003) catapulted a host of sub-state actors to the fore, including tribes, which have emerged as influential political, security and social actors. But despite... -
Into the Void: Special Operations Forces after the War on Terror by James D. Kiras 9781911723158
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $71.19The moment in the sun for special operations sometimes appears to have passed, seemingly eclipsed by preparations for potential conflict under the guise of ‘great power’ competition, combined with... -
Critical Muslim 52: Genocide Ziauddin Sardar 9781911723851
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65Today, genocide has almost entirely lost its meaning. Either its occurrence is denied into oblivion, or its frequency allows it to fall on stone-deaf ears in a world on fire. As our newsfeeds... -
Darwin’s Savages: Science, Race and the Conquest of Patagonia Matthew Carr 9781805262831
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.25In December 1832, Charles Darwin sailed into Tierra del Fuego, down at the tip of South America, and encountered 'Indians' for the first time. 'I would not have believed how entire the difference... -
Critical Muslim 30: West Africa by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $40.40How does one navigate the rich cultural and political geography of West Africa? Mapping the diverse manifestations of Islamic influence, this issue of Critical Muslim brings together the resplendent... -
Lifeworlds in Crisis: Making Refugees in the Chad–Sudan Borderlands by Andrea Behrends 9781911723226
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $44.81The continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driven from their homes and many forced into refugee camps in western Sudan and neighbouring Chad... -
Critical Muslim 12: Dangerous Freethinkers by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65Ziauddin Sardar argues that free thinkers are essential for any culture to survive and thrive; Aziz al-Azmeh outlines how Abbasid Culture established freethinking humanism; Oliver Leaman highlights... -
The Libyan Paradox by Luis Martinez
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.25In 1992 United Nations sanctions were imposed on Libya after it refused to hand over for judgement in an international court two Libyan citizens suspected of involvement in the bombing of a passenger... -
Critical Muslim 13: Race by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65Hassan Mahamdallie argues that racism is twenty-first century's main problem, Shannon Shah detects racial overtones within Islam, Robert Irwin examines race and racism in the Arabian Nights, Hugh... -
The Young Turks: The Committee of Union and Progress in Turkish Politics 1908-14 by Feroz Ahmad
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65This 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... -
Inside Austria: New Challenges, Old Demons by Paul Lendvai
Booksplease Price: $96.24"Inside Austria" is a gripping, in-depth personal report on postwar Austria's economic and social success story but also on its turbulent political history. How has this small land-locked country... -
Critical Muslim 36: Destinations by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65What is the ultimate destination? Is it a place, a state of mind, or a vision of how we would like things to be? Slick airline adverts tell us it's the journey, not the destination, that matters--but... -
Policing Economic Crime in Russia: From Soviet Planned Economy to Capitalism by Gilles Favarel-Garrigues
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $104.54In analyzing how economic crime was managed in Russia, from the Brezhnev era to the Yeltsin years, this book reveals the historical roots of the 'criminal problem' that has marked Russian politics... -
Critical Muslim 29: Futures by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $40.40How is the future changing? Is there a single determinant future or a plethora of alternative futures? How do we actually study futures and can we trust anything anyone says about 'the future'? Are... -
Charlatans, Spirits and Rebels in Africa: The Stephen Ellis Reader by Tim Kelsall 9781787383302
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $50.25When Stephen Ellis died in July 2015, African Studies lost one of its most prolific, provocative and celebrated scholars. Given the scale and uniqueness of his contribution, it is perhaps surprising... -
Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare by Daniel Moore 9781911723325
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $34.63Cyber-warfare is often discussed, but rarely truly seen. When does an intrusion turn into an attack, and what does that entail? How do nations fold offensive cyber operations into their strategies?... -
The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide by Gerard Prunier
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $39.65Offering an up-to-date historical perspective which should enable readers to fathom how the brutal massacres of 800,000 Rwandese came to pass in 1994, this volume includes a new chapter that brings... -
Trading Worlds: Afghan Merchants Across Modern Frontiers by Magnus Marsden
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $59.28Trading Worlds is an anthropological study of a little understood yet rapidly expanding global trading diaspora, namely the Afghan merchants of Afghanistan, Central Asia and Europe. It contests...