A dazzling history of the powerful women and men who forged a dynasty to rival the Mughals and the British.
This trenchant history of praetorianism in the Arab world recounts the baleful influence of the armed forces in shaping the region's political landscape over the last three decades.
Walton argues that there is a fundamental ambivalence in Buddhist thought towards the legitimacy of mass participation in politics.
Most atrocities are committed by states yet they hide their culpability by recourse to paramilitary forces, as Ferguson explains.
Japan's navy is three times the size of France's and Britain's combined, yet most people think it a defenceless nation. This book unravels that paradox.
Selected as one of the ‘Books to Read in 2023’ in the Financial Times The definitive account of Modi’s rule over his home state of Gujarat, for better and worse—a template he now applies to India as a whole.
This is a timely study of 'small wars,' such as the current situation in Afghanistan. It is wide-ranging, from the Ancient World to Napoleon and beyond, from anti-colonial resistance to counter-insurgency struggles.
Angola of geopolitical interest and this offers a brief history
Offers readers a rare insight into the lives of the Yemeni elite and their personal and political vicissitudes after the revolt of 1948
A magisterial, myth-dispelling history of Islamic Spain, from the founding of Islam to the final expulsion of Spain's Muslims in the seventeenth century.