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Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe by Greg Mills 9781849044615
Booksplease Price: £22.62State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. A collapse of central authority as the outcome of a prolonged civil war, where authority descends into competing factions - warlords -... -
Negotiating Relief: The Dialectics of Humanitarian Space by Acuto, Michele 9781849042666
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.76While humanitarianism is unquestionably a fast-growing subject of practitioner and scholarly engagement, much discussion about it is predicated on a dangerous dichotomy between 'aid givers' and... -
Missionaries of Modernity: Advisory Missions and the Struggle for Hegemony in Afghanistan and Beyond by Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £58.71This volume is an historical survey of advisory and mentoring missions from the 1920s onwards, starting from the Soviet missions to the Kuomintang and ending with the mission to Iraq. It focuses on... -
An Iraq of Its Regions: Cornerstones of a Federal Democracy? by Reidar Visser
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £36.76The fall of Saddam Hussein's regime may have marked a watershed in Iraqi history, but to the majority of Iraq's eighteen governorates, the most dramatic challenges may lie ahead. With the formation... -
The International Campaign Against Leprosy: 1948-2005 by Jo Robertson 9781787385498
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.78This book may offer a cautionary tale in the age of Covid-19. The narratives we shape around disease in society are so often about politics, and the competing versions of leprosy eradication's story... -
Shallow Graves: A Memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War by Richard Reid
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £25.94This is a personal account of the war between Eritrea and Ethiopia, fought between May 1998 and June 2000, as well as of the periods immediately preceding and following the conflict. 'Shallow Graves'... -
Narcotic Culture: A History of Drugs in China by Frank Dikotter
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £16.23To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilisation defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in... -
Shiism and Politics in the Middle East by Laurence Louer
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.43In this timely book, completed before the current outbreak of unrest in Bahrain that has formed part of the Arab Spring, Laurence Louer explains, the background of the Bahraini conflict in the... -
Capturing Carbon: The New Weapon in the War Against Climate Change by Robin M. Mills
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.73A new weapon is emerging to help us fight climate change. It is becoming feasible to take carbon dioxide from power stations and industry, and lock it away safely before it can enter the atmosphere... -
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India by Shashi Tharoor
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.12***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER*** In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased... -
A Postcolonial People: South Asians in Britain by S. Sayyid
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.78"A Postcolonial People" is a lively, critical survey of contemporary South Asian Britain that fills a conspicuous gap in the literature. This specially commissioned book combines conceptually... -
The Progressive Maharaja: Sir Madhava Rao's Hints on the Art and Science of Government by Rahul Sagar 9781787385412
Booksplease Price: £28.23Hints on the Art and Science of Government was the first treatise on statecraft produced in modern India. It consists of lectures that Raja Sir T. Madhava Rao delivered in 1881 to Sayaji Rao Gaekwad... -
Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World by Atef Alshaer
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.43The representation in poetic form of political events and ideas in the Arab world since the nineteenth century is this book's principal theme. Atef Alshaer demonstrates an integral connection between... -
The Cauldron: NATO's Campaign in Libya by Rob Weighill
Booksplease Price: £45.47In March 2011, NATO launched a mission hitherto entirely unthinkable: to protect civilians against Libya's ferocious regime, solely from the air. NATO had never operated in North Africa, or without... -
The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam by Simon Cottee
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.43The Apostates is the first major study of apostasy from Islam in the western secular context. Drawing on life-history interviews with ex-Muslims from the UK and Canada, Simon Cottee explores how and... -
Ciao Ousmane: The Hidden Exploitation of Italy's Migrant Workers by Hsiao-Hung Pai
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.80In 2013 Ousmane Diallo, a 26-year-old Senegalese olive harvester, lost his life when a gas canister exploded in a Sicilian field. As an African migrant, he was little mourned. But though they've been... -
A Person of Pakistani Origins by Ziauddin Sardar
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £15.73What does it mean to be a Pakistani? Can it mean more than one thing? And what do others think it means? Ziauddin Sardar explores what makes a Pakistani, and whether it's something one wants or... -
Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies by Christopher Davidson 9781849041218
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.10In command of the world's largest hydrocarbon reserves and occupying a central role in both Middle Eastern and global politics, the six traditional monarchies -- Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman,... -
From Perestroika to Rainbow Revolutions: Reform and Revolution after Socialism by Vicken Cheterian
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £41.08Twenty-five years after Gorbachev came to power and two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the questions that were behind the reform efforts at the start of Perestroika are still... -
Elusive Compromise: A History of Interwar Yugoslavia by Dejan Djokic 9781850658511
Booksplease Price: £41.17Before Tito's Yugoslavia, which disintegrated violently in the 1990s, there was another Yugoslav state. This book is about the original, interwar Yugoslavia (1918-41), and is based on the author's... -
Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007 by Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £21.18Announcements of an impending victory over the Taliban have been repeated ad nauseam since the Allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2002, particularly after the Presidential elections of 2004, which... -
The Ismailis in the Colonial Era: Modernity, Empire and Islam, 1839-1969 by Marc van Grondelle
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.10From the early nineteenth century onwards the Nizari Ismailis were transformed from a minor and obscure sect surrounded by ill-informed historical legend, into a small but highly organised temporal... -
Saving the People: How Populists Hijack Religion by 9781849045162
Booksplease Price: £28.23Western democracies are experiencing a new wave of right-wing populism that seeks to mobilise religion for its own ends. With chapters on the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Austria, the... -
Brexit in History: Sovereignty or a European Union? by Beatrice Heuser
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.08Are Europeans hard-wired for conflict? Given the enmities that wracked the Greek city-states, or the Valois, Bourbons and Habsburgs, it seems undeniable. The Holy Roman Empire promised peace, but... -
Architectures of Violence: The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities by Kate Ferguson 9781849048118
Booksplease Price: £34.70Paramilitary or irregular units have been involved in practically every case of identity-based mass violence in the modern world, but detailed analysis of these dynamics is rare. Exploring the case... -
External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990 by Stephen Ellis 9781849045063
Booksplease Price: £26.07External Mission is the Winner of the Recht Malan Prize for Non-Fiction awarded by Media24 in South Africa. Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments... -
Demystifying the Caliphate: Historical Memory and Contemporary Contexts by Madawi Al-Rasheed 9781849042284
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £25.94In Western popular imagination, the Caliphate often conjures up an array of negative images, while rallies organised in support of resurrecting the Caliphate are treated with a mixture of... -
The Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture and the Beautiful Game in Brazil by Paulo Fontes
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.28Brazil has done much to shape football, but how has football shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little... -
Tamils and the Nation: India and Sri Lanka Compared by Madurika Rasaratnam
Booksplease Price: £23.93Why are relations between politically mobilised ethnic identities and the nation-state sometimes peaceful and at other times fraught and violent? Madurika Rasaratnam's book sets out a novel answer to... -
A Short History of Mozambique by Professor Malyn Newitt
Booksplease Price: £22.19This comprehensive overview traces the evolution of modern Mozambique, from its early modern origins in the Indian Ocean trading system and the Portuguese maritime empire to the fifteen-year civil... -
Critical Muslim 03: Fear and Loathing by Ziauddin Sardar 9781849042222
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.88In the third issue of Critical Muslim: AbdelWahab El-Affendi on Islamophobia and Orientalism in the age of liberal paranoia, Arun Kundnani on English Defense League and the rise of the far right in... -
Diary of an African Journey: The Return of H.Rider Haggard by H. Rider Haggard 9781850654681
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £37.06This is a diary of Sir Henry Rider Haggard's tour of South Africa in 1914. It captures his feelings and perceptions on the change of Southern Africa, and of himself, since his departure in 1881. In... -
Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past by Firas Alkhateeb
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.92Islam 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... -
Politics and State-Society Relations in India by James Manor
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.78James Manor is acknowledged as one of the world's leading experts on Indian politics, especially how it is affected by caste, political economy -- particularly poverty and its alleviation --... -
In Search of the Balkan Recovery: The Political and Economic Reemergence of South-Eastern Europe by Christopher Cviic
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £58.41In the early '90s the Balkans was rocked by the collapse of communism and the violent break-up of Yugoslavia. But the last decade has seen a transformation of South-Eastern Europe into one of the... -
The Infernal Machine: An Alternative History of Terrorism by Matthew Carr
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.61Today, political violence has become the scourge of our world and terrorism is routinely described as a uniquely modern evil. Yet however unprecedented in scope the new terrorist organizations might... -
Force and Fanaticism: Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia and Beyond by Simon Ross Valentine
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £28.40Wahhabism is an Islamic reform movement found mainly in Saudi Arabia. Closely linked to the Saudi monarchy, it enforces a strict code of morality and conduct monitored by mutawa (religious police),... -
Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination by Vesna Goldsworthy 9781849042529
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.78First published in 1998, 'Inventing Ruritania' achieved a rare combination of critical success, broad readership and enduring academic influence. It is now recognised as a key contribution to the... -
Advice for the Sultan: Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam by Neguin Yavari 9781849042604
RRP: £37.50Booksplease Price: £34.60In Advice for the Sultan Neguin Yavari excavates multiple, conflicting strands of Islamic political thought from the medieval past to the present, reassessing these ideas and their impact over the... -
How Women Should Ride by C. De Hurst 9780461732979
RRP: £15.95Booksplease Price: £15.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461732979Author C. De HurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress...