I imprint: 1291 books
Creating Consent in Ba‘thist Syria
Women and Welfare in a Totalitarian State
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2016
The challenge of maintaining dictatorial regimes through control, co-optation and
coercion while upholding a façade of legitimacy is something that has concerned
leaders throughout the Middle East and beyond. Nowhere is this more evident
than in the Syria ruled by the Asads, both Hafiz and his son...
The Secret War in Afghanistan
The Soviet Union, China and Anglo-American Intelligence in the Afghan War
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in support of a Marxist-Leninist government, and the subsequent nine year conflict with the indigenous Afghan Mujahedeen was one of the bloodiest conflicts of the Cold War. Key details of the circumstances surrounding the invasion and its ultimate conclusion only...
Yemen Divided
The Story of a Failed State in South Arabia
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
South Yemen today is seen as a potential Al-Qaeda stronghold and the heart of a separatist movement threatening to rip apart southern Arabia. How has this country of forbidding mountains and arid deserts changed from British colony to communist state and then to 'terrorist base' in half a century?...
Armies and State-building in the Modern Middle East
Politics, Nationalism and Military Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The uprisings of 2011, which erupted so unexpectedly and spread across the Middle East, once again propelled the armies of the region to the centre of the political stage. Throughout the region, the experience of the first decade of the twenty-first century provides ample reason to re-examine Middle...
Prostitution in the Eastern Mediterranean World
The Economics of Sex in the Late Antique and Medieval Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2016
What did commercialized sex really amount to in the ancient and medieval Eastern Mediterranean? This groundbreaking book challenges many stereotypical views about the historical practice of prostitution. Based on twenty years' research, and organized by region, it charts the history of sex for sale...
Antiquity Imagined
The Remarkable Legacy of Egypt and the Ancient Near East
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
Outsiders have long attributed to the Middle East, and especially to ancient Egypt, meanings that go way beyond the rational and observable. The region has been seen as the source of civilization, religion, the sciences and the arts; but also of mystical knowledge and outlandish theories, whether...
Victorians Against the Gallows
Capital Punishment and the Abolitionist Movement in Nineteenth Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had effectively been reduced to murder. Yet, despite this, the gallows remained a source of controversy in Victorian Britain and there was a growing unease in liberal quarters surrounding...
Creating a Socialist Yugoslavia
Tito, Communist Leadership and the National Question
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2012
The Yugoslav communist leaders aspired to create a socialist Yugoslavia, and when they came into power in 1945, they claimed to have introduced a socialist solution to the Yugoslav national question. But what did it imply to 'solve a national question' and what did introducing a 'socialist solution'...
by John Tusa
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Over a distinguished career in cultural leadership, management and journalism spanning almost 30 years, John Tusa has amassed a unique experience of the arts world, the political controversies it faces and the battles it continues to fight. His new book is a fearless and passionate defence of the...
Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute
A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens. For it was then that Themistocles mobilized the revenues from the city's highly productive silver mines to build an enormous war fleet. This income stream is thought to have...
Persian Service
The BBC and British Interests in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Rumour and speculation in Iran have been rife for generations that the BBC has had a hand in every political upheaval in the country. In this vein the BBC has become a notable element in the complex and tortured narrative of Anglo-Iranian relations. The BBC Persian Service was initially developed...
A Dialogue Between East and West
Looking to a Human Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2008
How far do cultures affect the future of the planet? Can the debate on the environment and global warming be influenced by the cultures of East and West understanding each other better? In this provocative and wide-ranging dialogue, two of the most influential thinkers of recent times propose that...
Russians in Iran
Diplomacy and Power in the Qajar Era and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Russians in Iran seeks to challenge the traditional narrative regarding Russian involvement in Iran and to show that, whilst Russia's historical involvement in Iran is longstanding, it is nonetheless much misunderstood. Russia's influence in Iran between 1800 and the middle of the twentieth century...
The Jews of Iran
The History, Religion and Culture of a Community in the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Living continuously in Iran for over 2700 years, Jews have played an integral role in the history of the country. Frequently understood as a passive minority group, and often marginalized by the Zoroastrian and succeeding Muslim hegemony, the Jews of Iran are instead portrayed in this book as having...