I imprint: 1291 books
Secrets and Lies in Vietnam
Spies, Intelligence and Covert Operations in the Vietnam Wars
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
The Vietnam War lasted twenty years, and was the USA's greatest military failure. An attempt to stem the spread of Soviet and Chinese influence, the conflict in practice created a chaotic state torn apart by espionage, terrorism and guerilla warfare. American troops quickly became embroiled in jungle...
Media, Diaspora and Conflict
Nationalism and Identity amongst Turkish and Kurdish Migrants in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
For migrant communities residing outside of their home countries, various transnational media have played a key role in maintaining, reviving and transforming ethnic and religious identities. A vital element is how media outlets report and represent ethno-national conflict in the home country. Janroj...
Gandhi and the Middle East
Jews, Arabs and Imperial Interests
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2007
Gandhi's involvement in Middle Eastern politics is largely forgotten yet it goes to the heart of his teaching and ambition - to lead a united freedom movement against British colonial power.
Gandhi became involved in the politics of the Middle East as a result of his concern over the abolition...
Japan
An Environmental History
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
From the outset, society in Japan has been shaped by its environmental context. The lush green mountainous archipelago of today supports a population of over 127 million people and one of the most advanced economies in the world. How has this come about? At what environmental cost? Conrad Totman,...
by Henrietta Leyser
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
'Here lies our leader all cut down, the valiant man in the dust.' The elegiac words of the Battle of Maldon, an epic poem written to celebrate the bravery of an English army defeated by Viking raiders in 991, emerge from a diverse literature – including Beowulf and Bede's Ecclesiastical History...
Opposing the Slavers
The Royal Navy's Campaign Against the Atlantic Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2016
Much is known about Britain's role in the Atlantic slave trade during the eighteenth century but few are aware of the sustained campaign against slaving conducted by the Royal Navy after the passing of the Slave Trade Abolition Act of 1807. Peter Grindal provides the definitive account of this little...
The Young Turk Legacy and Nation Building
From the Ottoman Empire to Atatürk's Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
The decline and eventual collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the founding of the Turkish republic were among the most momentous events of the early twentieth century. This book shows that, although traditionally considered to be a complete break with the Ottoman past, in fact, much of kemalist rhetoric...
The Politics of Crime in Turkey
Neoliberalism, Police and the Urban Poor
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
During the 2013 Gezi Park Uprisings, the role and behaviour of the Turkish Police made headlines across the world. This book focuses on urban crime and policing in Turkey since the steady economic decline of the 1990s. Concentrating on the attempts to 'modernize' the policing of Izmir, Zeynep Gönen...
Intervention and Sovereignty in Africa
Conflict Resolution and International Organisations in Darfur
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
In response to the civil war in Darfur, the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) force was established in May 2004, and by June its first contingents were on the ground. For the first time since the founding of the African Union, a resolution about direct intervention in a conflict that involved wide-ranging...
Churchill and the Islamic World
Orientalism, Empire and Diplomacy in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Winston Churchill was the greatest statesman of the twentieth century, yet he began his career as a colonial policeman in the North-West borderlands of India, and this experience was the beginning of his long relationship with the Islamic world. Overturning the widely-accepted consensus that Churchill...
Stalin's Commandos
Ukrainian Partisan Forces on the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
At the height of World War II, a large number of Soviet partisans fought on the Eastern Front against the Axis occupation. In this book, Alexander Gogun looks at the forces operating in Ukraine. The Nazi atrocities were often matched by partisan brutality. The author examines the indiscriminate use...
by Terje Oestigaard
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The Christian religion is deeply imbued with the imagery of water, and water plays a central role in its religious practices, not least in baptism. Yet the wider role of water in Christianity has been little explored. In this pioneering book, Terje Oestigaard uses the dramatic changes that took place...
Radical Religion in Cromwell's England
A Concise History from the English Civil War to the End of the Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
The present state of the old world.. is running up like parchment in the fire, and wearing away.' So declaimed Gerrard Winstanley, charismatic leader of radical religious group the Diggers, in mid-seventeenth century England: one of the most turbulent periods in that country's history. As three civil...
The Armenians in Modern Turkey
Post-Genocide Society, Politics and History
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2015
After the Armenian genocide of 1915, in which over a million Armenians died, thousands of Armenian-Turks lived and worked in the Turkish state alongside those who had persecuted their communities. Living under heavy censorship, and in an atmosphere of official denial that the deaths were a genocide,...