I B Tauris imprint: 1139 books
New Horizons in Eastern Humanism
Buddhism, Confucianism and the Quest for Global Peace
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
China now attracts global attention and headlines that are directly proportionate to its increasing economic and geopolitical power. But for several millennia the philosophy that has guided and shaped the soul of China is not modern Communism, or even new forms of capitalism, but rather Confucianism....
by Michael Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858. Throughout the empire's...
Reviving Phoenicia
The Search for Identity in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
'Reviving Phoenicia' follows the social, intellectual and political development of the Phoenician myth of origin in Lebanon from the middle of the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Asher Kaufman demonstrates the role played by the lay, liberal Syrian-Lebanese who resided in Beirut, Alexandria...
by Michael Prestwich
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The conflict that swept over France from 1337 to 1453 remains the longest military struggle in history. A bitter dynastic fight between Plantagenet and Valois, The Hundred Years War was fought out on the widest of stages while also creating powerful new nationalist identities. In his vivid new history,...
The Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Burma
Jungle Warfare and Intelligence Gathering in WW2
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts of the Burmese population. The men of the SOE, trained in sabotage and guerrilla warfare, worked in the jungle, deep behind enemy lines, to frustrate...
Breaching Borders
Art, Migrants and the Metaphor of Waste
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2014
In a 'Europe without borders' that prides itself on multiculturalism while struggling desperately with racism, populated by ghettoized communities, refugee camps and zones of exclusion, two opposing paradigms characterise the discourses of migration: migrants as a problem, a parasite on the nation...
Fragments of a Lost Homeland
Remembering Armenia
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2015
The Armenian world was shattered by the 1915 genocide. Not only were thousands of lives lost but families were displaced and the narrative threads that connected them to their own past and homelands were forever severed. Many have been left with only fragments of their family histories: a story of...
The Struggle for Modern Nigeria
The Biafran War 1967-1970
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2011
International media coverage represented the Biafran war as a grand humanitarian disaster: the clash of large opposing armies, and a series of enormous military losses; in short, the greatest conflagration Africa had seen since the struggle for independence. Entrenched ethnic conflict, hardened under...
Zone of Crisis
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran and Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The West Asian states of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran have over the last few decades represented an arc of crisis. Characterised by fractured and dysfunctional political elites, fraught economic policies, and ideological struggles between the forces of authoritarianism and democratisation,...
Irregular War
The New Threat from the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
If the rise of Islamic State can overthrow powerful states in a matter of weeks, what kind of a secure future can the world expect? After more than a decade of the war on terror, security specialists thought that Islamist paramilitary movements were in decline; the threat from ISIS in Syria and Iraq,...
Mischka's War
A Story of Survival from War-Torn Europe to New York
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
In 1943, 22-year-old Latvian Mischka Danos chanced on a terrible sight - a pit filled with the bodies of Jews killed by the occupying Germans. A few months later, escaping conscription into the Waffen-SS in Riga, Mischka entered Hitler's Reich itself on a student exchange to Germany. There, as the...
by Suraiya Faroqhi
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2005
In Islamic law the world was made up of the House of Islam and the House of War with the Ottoman Sultan - the perceived successor to the Caliphs - supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no iron curtain between the Ottoman and other worlds but rather...
France and the Age of Revolution
Regimes Old and New from Louis XIV to Napoleon Bonaparte
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
From the turmoil and tragedy of the French Revolution to the rise and fall of the enigmatic figure of Napoleon Bonaparte, the history of France between 1789 and 1815 is one of the most enduringly fascinating – and widely-studied – periods of history. In this volume, the renowned historian William...
Ancient Religions of the Austronesian World
From Australasia to Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Austronesia is the vast oceanic region which stretches from Madagascar to Taiwan to New Zealand. Encompassing both scattered archipelagos and major landmasses, Austronesia – derived from the Latin australis, 'southern', and Greek nesos, 'island' – is used primarily as a linguistic term, designating...