I imprint: 1291 books
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...
Driving Culture in Iran
Law and Society on the Roads of the Islamic Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Reza Banakar is Professor and Director of Research in the Sociology of Law Department at Lund University. He has previously held the positions of Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the Department of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of Westminster and Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal...
Gender and Violence in Islamic Societies
Patriarchy, Islamism and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
As a result of the revolutions and movements of resistance that spread across the Middle East and North Africa after 2011, the issue of public violence by the state against both men and women dominated the headlines. But gender-based violence, in both its public and private forms, has for the most...
Arab Cultural Studies
Mapping the Field
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
Arab Cultural Studies:Mapping the Field is the first attempt to explore ways of conceptualising and theorising the nascent field of Arab cultural studies. It reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, epistemology,...
Arab-American Women's Writing and Performance
Orientalism, Race and the Idea of the Arabian Nights
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The public image of Arabs in America has been radically affected by the 'war on terror'. But stereotypes of Arabs, manifested for instance in Orientalist representations of Sheherazade and the Arabian Nights in Hollywood and American popular culture, have prevailed for much longer. Here Somaya Sabry...
Stateless in the Gulf
Migration, Nationality and Society in Kuwait
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
The Kuwaiti population includes around 100,000 people – approximately 10 per cent of the Kuwaiti nationals –whose legal status is contested. Often considered 'stateless', they have come to be known in Kuwait as biduns, from 'bidun jinsiyya', which means literally 'without nationality' in Arabic....