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Purify and Destroy: The Political Uses of Massacre and Genocide by Jacques Semelin
Booksplease Price: $31.06How can we comprehend the socio-political processes that give rise to extreme violence, ethnic cleansing or genocide? A major breakthrough in comparative analysis, Purify and Destroy demonstrates... -
Dag Hammarskjoeld, the United Nations, and the Decolonisation of Africa by Henning Melber
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.98In 1953 Dag Hammarskjoeld became the second Secretary-General of the United Nations--the highest international civil servant. Before his mission was cut short by a 1961 plane crash in then Northern... -
Making Sense of Pakistan by Farzana Shaikh 9781787380325
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.36Pakistan's transformation from supposed model of Muslim enlightenment to a state now threatened by an Islamist takeover has been remarkable. Many account for the change by pointing to Pakistan's... -
Saving the People: How Populists Hijack Religion by 9781849045162
Booksplease Price: $36.25Western 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... -
Lost Islamic History: Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past by Firas Alkhateeb
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $14.09Islam 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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.68James 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: $83.85Booksplease Price: $75.35In 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... -
Capturing Carbon: The New Weapon in the War Against Climate Change by Robin M. Mills
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $42.22A 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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.95***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: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.68"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... -
Shallow Graves: A Memoir of the Ethiopia-Eritrea War by Richard Reid
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $33.46This 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
Booksplease Price: $20.94To 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... -
How Women Should Ride by C. De Hurst 9780461732979
RRP: $20.58Booksplease Price: $20.10Apologies 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... -
The Apostates: When Muslims Leave Islam by Simon Cottee
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.83The 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... -
The Changing Security Dynamics of the Persian Gulf by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.87The contradictory trends of the 'post-Arab Spring' landscape form both the backdrop to, and the focus of, this volume on the changing security dynamics of the Persian Gulf, defined as the six GCC... -
External Mission: The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990 by Stephen Ellis 9781849045063
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $33.63External 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: $35.48Booksplease Price: $33.46In 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... -
I-Muslims: Rewiring the House of Islam by Gary R. Bunt 9781850659501
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.77The internet has profoundly shaped how Muslims perceive Islam, and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting within the twenty-first century. While these electronic interfaces... -
From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE by Christopher M. Davidson 9781787383937
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.98Muhammad bin Salman Al-Saud and Muhammad bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the respective princely strongmen of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have torn up the old rules. They have spurred game-changing economic... -
Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe by Greg Mills 9781849044615
Booksplease Price: $29.18State 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 -... -
From Perestroika to Rainbow Revolutions: Reform and Revolution after Socialism by Vicken Cheterian
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $52.99Twenty-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: $52.99Before 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... -
Shiism and Politics in the Middle East by Laurence Louer
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.83In 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... -
Africa's Agitators: Militant Anti-colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939 by Jonathan Derrick
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $36.64The period between the two World Wars were troubling years for colonial empire. Individuals and organizations called for major reforms and an end to white supremacy and colonial rule, contributing... -
Architectures of Violence: The Command Structures of Modern Mass Atrocities by Kate Ferguson 9781849048118
RRP: $48.38Booksplease Price: $44.76Paramilitary 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... -
Koran, Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007 by Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $27.32Announcements 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... -
Women of Honour: Madonnas, Godmothers and Informers in Italy's Mafias by Milka Kahn
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $20.29The role of women in the Italian mafias has long been overlooked. Reduced to victim status and relegated to domestic life in a male-dominated society, women serve as the mafia's respectable facade:... -
In the Shadow of Just Wars: Violence, Politics and Humanitarian Action by Medecins Sans Frontieres 9781850657378
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.82While military intervention in Iraq was being planned, humanitarian organizations were offered US government funds to join the Coalition and operate under the umbrella of "Operation Iraqi Freedom"... -
The Cauldron: NATO's Campaign in Libya by Rob Weighill
Booksplease Price: $58.59In 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... -
Brexit in History: Sovereignty or a European Union? by Beatrice Heuser
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.06Are 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... -
Highways to the End of the World: Roads, Roadmen and Power in South Asia by Edward Simpson
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $36.25This book argues that road-building was naturalised in the twentieth century to the point of common sense, integrating roadbuilding into a system of climate change denial hidden within a broad... -
Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia: Monarchy, Revolution and the Legacy of Meles Zenawi by Gerard Prunier 9781849042611
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $27.85When we think of Ethiopia we tend to think in cliches: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the Falasha Jews, the epic reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, the Communist Revolution, famine and civil war... -
The Country of Football: Politics, Popular Culture and the Beautiful Game in Brazil by Paulo Fontes
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $21.00Brazil 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
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.87Why 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
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $28.63This 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: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.36In 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: $51.60Booksplease Price: $47.81This 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... -
Power and Politics in the Persian Gulf Monarchies by Christopher Davidson 9781849041218
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $36.25In 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,... -
Ciao Ousmane: The Hidden Exploitation of Italy's Migrant Workers by Hsiao-Hung Pai
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $25.54In 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... -
Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism by John Calvert 9781849040068
RRP: $35.48Booksplease Price: $34.02Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) was an influential Egyptian ideologue credited with establishing the theoretical basis for radical Islamism in the post colonial Sunni Muslim world. Lacking a pure...