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  • - The Human Terrain System in Iraq and Afghanistan
     
    541

    An assessment of the US military programme in which anthropologists and other social scientists researched societies at war in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • - Politics, Popular Culture and the Beautiful Game in Brazil
     
    277

    How football shapes Brazil and how Brazilians have changed global football are the twin themes in this vividly written history. The Country of Football Gives an insight into the political significance of football in the 2014 FIFA World Cup's host nation and provides a wider perspective on the sport's role in society.

  • - When Religion and Culture Part Ways
    av Olivier Roy
    577

    Instead of freeing the world from religion, secularization has encouraged a kind of holy ignorance to take root. This book explores the options available to powers that hope to integrate or control these groups; and whether marginalization or homogenization will further divide believers from their culture.

  • - Victorian Anglo Indian MP and Chancery 'Lunatic'
    av Michael H. Fisher
    367

    Born of Euro-Indian heritage and due to inherit a principality in Northern India, Dyce Sombre was raised by a Muslim courtesan, served as an MP in London and wandered Europe as he fought insanity charges brought by his English wife. This book recovers Sombre's story and the echoes of his case for modern conceptions of race, privilege and empire.

  • - Democracy, Religion, Violence
    av Jeroen Gunning
    497

    In January 2006, Hamas, an organisation classified by Western governments as terrorist, was democratically elected to govern the Palestinian territories. This book explores what Hamas' political practice says about its attitude towards democracy, religion and violence.

  • - Modernity, Empire and Islam, 1839-1969
    av Marc van Grondelle
    411

    Examines the processes and interactions which led to the modernisation and successful co-optation by the British government of this comparatively small branch of Shi'a Islam. The author poses several key questions regarding the wider developing relationship between movements in contemporary Islam and 'The West'.

  • - Detention, Deportation, Disappearance
    av Asim Qureshi
    307

    Investigates global counter terrorism through the perspective of those affected by such measures. This book analyses the effects of global counter-terrorism not as individual policies or pieces of legislation, but rather as parts of a larger phenomenon that has uniformly changed the way governments view justice and eroded fundamental norms.

  • av Farzana Shaikh
    297

    Pakistan's transformation from a country once projected as a model of Muslim enlightenment to a state threatened by an Islamist take over dominates the headlines. This book argues that the country's social and political decline is rooted primarily in uncertainty about the meaning of Pakistan and the significance of 'being Pakistani'.

  • - A Sourcebook
    av R. S. O'Fahey
    847

    Presents annotated selections from the British records that were copied in situ by the author in al-Fashir and Kutum in 1970 and 1974 and of which the originals were subsequently destroyed by accident. This work deals with such issues as land tenure, agricultural practice, grazing rights and livestock migration routes and tribal administration.

  • - How A Continent Changed the World's Game
    av Peter Alegi
    307

    From Accra and Algiers to Zanzibar and Zululand, African football today reflects the history and culture of those who play the game and how they have shaped it in a distinctively African manner. In this book, the author explores how football was influenced by colonialism, the growth of cities, independence, and global capitalism.

  • - The New Weapon in the War Against Climate Change
    av Robin M. Mills
    461

    It is becoming feasible to take carbon dioxide from power stations and industry, and lock it away safely before it can enter the atmosphere. But can carbon capture compete with other low-carbon technologies, is it safe and environmentally-friendly, and will people and governments accept it? This book examines the need for carbon capture.

  • - Fundamentalists, Maoists and Separatists
     
    411

    There seems to be no end to the growing number of victims of terrorism, guerrilla warfare and military repression on the Indian subcontinent, despite the absence of interstate wars. These conflicts often involve armed paramilitary militias or insurgents of one sort or other. This book investigates their ideology, sociology and strategies.

  • - Exploring Samuel Huntington's Faultlines, from Al-Andalus to Virtual Ummah
     
    346

    Offers a set of essays that examines the border zones of Islamic civilisation, be they geographical, cultural or virtual. This book explores the local dynamics in these zones to test whether or not they support or contradict professor Samuel P Huntingdon's thesis of an emerging global confrontation between Islamic civilisation and its neighbours.

  • - Method, Madness and Morality in War
    av Hugo Slim
    297

    Takes a look at the ways in which civilians suffer in wars and analyses the anti-civilian ideologies which insist upon such suffering. This book exposes the ambiguity in much civilian identity which is used to justify extreme hostility. It also offers a discussion on why civilians should be protected.

  • - Being Zulu, Past and Present
    av John Laband, Benedict Carton & Jabulani Sithole
    941

    Examines the legacies of Shaka, the intrigues of Zulu royalty, gender and generational struggles, cultural and symbolic projections, and spirituality. This volume highlights the debates in South Africa over the manipulation of Zulu heritage, whether deployed for party political purposes or exploited to promote eco - and battlefield-tourism.

  • av S. Mahmud Ali
    322

    Identifies the key players among Bangladesh's tiny military, political and business elite. This book explores the attempts to establish their authority in a crowded field, and considers the relative merits of their attempts at nation-building.

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    411

    Presents a study of Violent Non-State Actors (VNSA), groups who carry out atrocities such as the 2008 attacks on Mumbai. This book maps the relationship between VNSAs and the state, following the political, economic, and social processes that contribute to the emergence of these groups.

  • av John Calvert
    331 - 391

    Sayyid Qutb (1906-1966) is considered one of the most influential ideologues of radical Islamism. This biography rescues Qutb from the label of 'terrorist' by offering a sophisticated analysis of his thought. It offers a view into the world of British colonialism, the birth of Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, and the growth of radical Islam.

  • - Militant Anti-colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939
    av Jonathan Derrick
    421

    Recounts the opposition to British and French rule practised both by Africans living on the continent and by European anticolonialists and members of the Black Diaspora. This book covers campaigns waged by an early incarnation of the ANC and other groups in South Africa who fought against legal and other aspects of white minority rule.

  • - Rewiring the House of Islam
    av Gary R. Bunt
    251

    The internet has profoundly shaped how Muslims perceive Islam, and how Islamic societies and networks are evolving and shifting within the twenty-first century. This book explores how these transformations and influences play out in diverse cyber Islamic environments, and how they are responding to shifts in technology and society.

  • - Salafis, Heavy Metal Muslims and the Lure of Consumerist Islam
     
    541

    Widespread confusion over the use of the terms Islamism or Political Islam often obscures the fact that these are not new phenomena and can be traced back more than a century. Through research in to the trajectories of Islamists, this book seeks to understand what has become of political Islam.

  • - A Short History
    av Stephen Ellis & Solofo Randrianja
    287

    Two thousand years ago, Madagascar - an island uninhabited - is twice the size of Great Britain. In the nineteenth century, Britain and France projected global power that effected the island, which became a French colony from 1896 to 1960. This history explains the tension between the formation of original culture and the absorption of immigrants.

  • - Biography of a City
    av Robert J. Donia
    377

    In its Ottoman heyday Sarajevo was synonymous with learning, its skyline punctuated by minarets and domes of mosques. Under Tito it was a haven of multiculturalism where Yugoslavs lived and worked together, irrespective of their ethnic or religious affiliations. This title explores the city's history from its founding in the 15th century onwards.

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    731

    Sheds light on the political liberalisation in the Persian gulf, revealing varying levels of commitment to reform across eight Gulf states as they respond to the challenges of increased wealth and education levels, a developing middle class, external actors, and competing social and political groups.

  • av Luis Martinez
    351

    In 1992, United Nations sanctions were imposed on Libya after it refused to hand over for judgement in an international court two Libyan citizens suspected of involvement in the bombing of a passenger plane over Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988. This book suggests that the future of Libya lies in becoming paradoxically-an authoritarian liberal state.

  • - Maritime Security in the Twenty-First Century
    av Dave Sloggett
    821

    The sea is becoming a favoured means of transit for criminal and terrorist activity. This book offers an analysis of maritime security in the 21st century.

  • - From the Second World War to Perestroika
    av Yaacov Ro'i
    1 011

    This text provides a detailed historical study of Islam under post-war Soviet Communism. Yaacov Ro'i describes and analyzes all aspects of Islam which relate to the Soviet domestic scene, with the purpose of demonstrating how and why it survived in the face of Soviet repression and secularization.

  • - The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007
    av Dr. Antonio Giustozzi
    331

    In March 2006, both Afghan and American officials were still claiming, just before a series of particularly ferocious clashes, that 'the Taliban are no longer able to fight large battles'. This book states that in reality, as early as 2003-5 there was a growing body of evidence that cast doubt on the official interpretation of the conflict.

  • av Antonia Finnane
    277 - 511

  • - The Life of Al-Qaeda Strategist Abu Mus'ab Al-Suri
    av Brynjar Lia
    421

    With more than 35 years experience of jihadist activism, Abu Mus'ab al-Suri remains the foremost theoretician in the global jihadist movement today, despite his capture in Pakistan in late 2005. This book includes a translation of two key chapters from al-Suri's seminal work "The Global Islamic Resistance Call".

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