This title presents an anthropological study of coal mining communities with significant implications for how we understand the globalized world.
Summarizing the main concepts of Islamic jurisprudence, this book discusses the debates concerning the historicity of Islamic sources of dogma. It... Læs mere
An insight into Syria's most influential Islamist movement and how its rebirth from the ashes of history is shaping the conflict in Syria. The author draws on previously untapped sources, including interviews with the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.
'Autumn of the Matriarch' is the first book to focus on Indira Gandhi's last years in power, offering a revealing political history that sheds light on the successes and failures of her last four years in office and highlighting the legacy of Gandhi's leadership in today's India.
Charts the evolution of military power in the digital age, from conventional warfare to cyberwar, and examines its implications.
Britain's murky relationship with the Greek dictatorship is revealed in this important new study.
The contributors to this book scrutinise the legitimacy of the Arab regimes that experienced popular uprisings in 2010-2011 and discuss the consequences of public disenchantment with them.
A dissection of the 'special relationship' that reveals how the British perennially delude themselves about their place in America's strategic order.
Afghanistan In Ink uses a wide and largely unknown corpus of twentieth century Afghan Dari and Pashto literature to show not only how Afghans... Læs mere
Considers how Afghan intellectuals and ordinary people interpret their own history
Representing the coming of age of a new generation of unashamedly globalised, open-minded and irreverent Afghans, the reportage in this book belongs to one of the most original Afghan voices heard since the toppling of the Taliban.
A compelling reconsideration of how massive injections of Soviet aid failed to win round the Afghan people or stabilise the country