Böcker utgivna av C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Critical Muslim take on Turkey

Looks at educational reform through the Islamic perspective

*A concise introduction to Fanon's thought that contextualises it within the world of philosophy.

Challenges our current notions on global politics.

Providing both personal and professional revelations about the mid- to late-20th century book trade in England, this is the autobiography of Christopher Hurst, director of C.Hurst & Co. Publishers.

Award-winning book looking at the complicated history of the ANC.

Seeks to understand the mechanisms of social and political perpetuation of authoritarianism in post-colonial states such as Oman. This book shows how one monarchical power has built and renewed its basis to meet the challenges threatening its stability. It also sheds light on the strategies adopted and challenges faced by other Arab monarchies.

This fully revised edition shows how and why notions of 'race' became so widespread in China, now updated to include the continuation of this trend into the twenty-first century.

Building a fully unified Afghan Army dominated neither by Pashtuns nor by Tajiks has eluded the authorities in Kabul for decades. This book explains why.

Foreign military and political advisers have long been used to modernise armies, societies and economies overseas and this book tells this story, from the late nineteenth century to the present.

Local initiatives, local control and local ownership are increasingly characteristic of Africa's petroleum sector, as Ovadia sets out in his book.

Explains how as a result of British efforts to eradicate opium, the Chinese turned from the relatively benign use of that drug to heroin, morphine, cocaine, and countless other psychoactive substances

Goldsmith examines how sectarian insecurity obstructs the emergence of genuine political pluralism in the Middle East, taking Syria's Alawites under the Asad dynasty as an example.

Tells the hidden history of the US involvement in Bangladesh's secession from Pakistan

Leading experts analyse the critical role played by Salafism across the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Goes beyond the media stereotype of fashionable parties in North Tehran to examine the quotidian realities of how society has evolved in Iran since the 1979 revolution.

Are weak states more conspicuous in troubled regions like the Middle East or does their continued existence suggest that they have cards to play with their bigger and more bellicose neighbours?

A finely tuned investigation of why the Tamils of Sri Lanka and of India took such divergent paths in their respective political evolution.

Is African Christianity a religious marketplace now dominated by only two big players, the Catholic Church and Pentecostals?

This portrait of Somali life in Nairobi counters much of the recent media hype about East- leigh's role as a safe haven for Al-Shabaab and focuses instead on its function as an African economic hub.

A history of an ancient Sahelian kingdom whose hinterland is now being laid waste by the Boko Haram insurgency.

A probing enquiry into Sino-Tibetan relations, both at the level of high politics and everyday interactions.

This revelatory investigation of Bin Laden's tape archive suggests that much of the received wisdom about al-Qa'ida's early years has to be reconsidered in light of this new evidence.

The product of three years research in Saudi Arabia on what Wahhabism means to those whose lives are governed by its formidably strict tenets.

This history of the Crimea is essential reading for all those who have been perplexed by what lies behind Russia's recent annexation of the Black Sea peninsula.

A look at freethinkers via the Muslim perspective

Collection of writings about Syria written from the Islamic perspective

This lively account of Nepal's recent history conveys the complexities of life in its better-known Himalayan regions as well as in the Terai, or foothills.