Picking Sides
Race, Ethnicity and Recruitment in the Colonial Nigerian Army
ISBN: PB: 9781787388178,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2025
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Argues that an understanding of the origins of ethnic politics in Nigeria requires a rigorous historical and sociological study of the ethnicisation of the colonial army.
Nigeria's colonial history matters. It shaped the destinies of hundreds of e...
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30.00 GBP
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Immigration and Apocalypse
How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration
ISBN: HB: 9780300253184,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
296 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Tracing the metaphor of America as the Book of Revelation's New Jerusalem, Yii-Jan Lin shows how apocalyptic narratives have been used to exclude unwanted immigrants.
America appeared on the European horizon at a moment of apocalyptic expectation a...
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35.00 GBP
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Private Sins, Public Crimes
Policing, Punishment, and Authority in Iran
ISBN: HB: 9780300275681,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
416 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking scholarly study of crime and punishment in Qajar Iran.
Drawing on a rich array of primary sources in multiple languages, Farzin Vejdani argues that in Qajar Iran, the ambiguity in defining the boundaries between private and public...
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50.00 GBP
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Not So Black and White
A History of Race from White Supremacy to Identity Politics
ISBN: PB: 9781805260097,
ISBN: HB: 9781787387768,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2024
488 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
488 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
Selected as one of the "Books to Read in 2023" in the Financial Times and The Irish Times
Selected as one of the "Best Books of 2023 So Far" in the New Statesman
A Counterfire Book of the Year 2022
A powerful new history of the idea of race, forc...
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12.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Seven Children
Inequality and Britain's Next Generation
ISBN: PB: 9781911723509,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2024
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
We're all getting poorer. What does that look like for British children, and their life chances?
If we found seven typical 5-year-olds to represent today's UK, who would they be? What would their stories reveal?
"Seven Children" is about injustic...
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14.99 GBP
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Thank You Mr Crombie
Lessons in Guilt and Gratitude to the British
ISBN: HB: 9781911723004,
Hurst Publishers,
May 2024
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
344 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Reflections on migration, race and British society since the 1960s, from a journalist who made history as the BBC's first non-white editor.
Mihir Bose, born in Kolkata shortly before Indian independence in 1947, still feels enormous gratitude towa...
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25.00 GBP
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Modern Man in the Making
ISBN: HB: 9783037786765,
Lars Muller Publishers,
April 2024
160 pp., 26,6x21,2 cm, 100 illus.
160 pp., 26,6x21,2 cm, 100 illus.
Otto Neurath's famous "Modern Man in the Making", first published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1939, captures and describes the state of the world in the 1930s by using text and figurative illustrations. From 1925 onwards, Neurath and his team had worked on...
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60.00 GBP
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Backbone of the Nation
Mining Communities and the Great Strike of 1984-85
ISBN: PB: 9780300277906,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
496 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour illus.
496 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 8 colour illus.
A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families.
Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in Br...
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11.99 GBP
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Lifeworlds in Crisis
Making Refugees in the Chad-Sudan Borderlands
ISBN: PB: 9781911723226,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2024
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
392 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Based on two decades of fieldwork, an anthropologist's revealing exploration of conflict, displacement and cooperation at the margins of the state.
The continuing Darfur War has caused mass displacement since 2003, with hundreds of thousands driv...
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22.00 GBP
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Extreme Britain
Gender, Masculinity and Radicalisation
ISBN: HB: 9781787389465,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2023
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Drawing on interviews with extremists, this timely study explores the relationship between gendered culture and political radicalism in a polarised Britain.
Young women bound for Islamic State, or "Free Speech" protests for Tommy Robinson – radica...
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45.00 GBP
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