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Gujarat Under Modi - Christophe Jaffrelot - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Gujarat Under Modi - Christophe Jaffrelot - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

In 2012 Narendra Modi became the first Hindu nationalist politician thrice elected to lead a state of the Indian Union, his stewardship as Chief Minister of Gujarat being the longest in that state’s history. Modi and his BJP supporters explained his achievement by pointing to economic growth under his leadership, yet detractors point out that Modi has been more business-friendly than market-friendly—to the benefit of large industrial corporations, and at the cost of great social polarisation. In 2002, an anti-Muslim pogrom of unparalleled ferocity occurred in Gujarat, leading to the biggest number of Muslim deaths since Partition. The state’s Hindu majority immediately rallied around Modi. No serious riot has occurred in Gujarat since, but polarisation was key to Modi’s strategy there, and he has deployed that strategy again and again since he became Prime Minister of India in 2014. For Modi has cultivated a communal image. A marketing genius, his messaging combines the politics of Hindutva with economic modernisation, to the clear appreciation of Gujarat’s middle class. Christophe Jaffrelot’s revealing book shows how Modi’s Gujarat served as the laboratory of Modi’s India, not only in terms of Hindu majoritarianism and national populism, but also of caste and class politics.

DKK 313.00
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Faith, Unity, Discipline - Hein G. Kiessling - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Faith, Unity, Discipline - Hein G. Kiessling - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Established in the wake of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947-8 by the Australian army officer Major-General Walter Cawthorne, then Deputy Chief of Staff in the Pakistan Army, Pakistan''s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for years remained an under-developed and obscure agency. In 1979, the organisation''s growing importance was felt during the Soviet war in Afghanistan , as it worked hand in glove with the CIA to support the mujahideen resistance, but its activities received little coverage in news media.Since that time, the ISI has projected its influence across the region - in 1988 its involvement in Indian Kashmir came under increasing scrutiny, and by 1995 its mentoring of what became the Afghan Taliban was well attested. But it was the organisation''s alleged links with Al Qaeda and the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, at the heart of Pakistan''s military zone, that really threw it under the spotlight. These controversies and many more have dogged the ISI, including its role in Pakistan''s testing of a nuclear weapon in 1998 and its links with A.Q. Khan.Offering fresh insights into the ISI as a domestic and international actor based on intimate knowledge of its inner workings and key individuals, this startlingly original book uncovers the hitherto shady world of Pakistan''s secret service.

DKK 189.00
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Sarajevo - Robert J. Donia - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Sarajevo - Robert J. Donia - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Robert. J. Donia explores the city''s history from its founding in the fifteenth century to the present. In its Ottoman heyday Sarajevo was synonymous with learning, its skyline punctuated by the minarets and domes of mosques and madrasas. Under Tito it was a haven of multiculturalism where Yugoslavs lived and worked together, irrespective of their ethnic or religious affiliations. The Siege of Sarajevo (1992-5) and its aftermath receive particular attention in Donia''s compelling account, the most detailed to appear in English to date.

DKK 260.00
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In Search of Romania - Dennis Deletant - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

In Search of Romania - Dennis Deletant - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

The imposition of Communist ideology was a misfortune for millions in Eastern Europe, but never for Dennis Deletant. Instead, it drew him to Romania. The renowned historian''s association with the country and its people dates back to 1965, when he first visited. Since then, Romania has made Dennis appreciate the value of shrewd dissimulation, in the face of the state''s gross intrusion in the life of the individual. This vivid memoir charts his first-hand experience of the Communist era, coloured by the early 1970s surveillance of his future wife Andrea; his contacts with dissidents; and his articles and BBC World Service broadcasts, which led to his being declared persona non grata in 1988. ''In Search of Romania'' also considers how life went on under dictatorship, even if it was largely mapped out by the regime. How did individual citizens negotiate the challenges placed in their path? How important was the political police, the Securitate, in maintaining compliance? How did dissent towards the regime manifest? How did all this affect the moral compass of the individual? Why did utopia descend into dystopia under Ceaușescu? And how has his legacy influenced the difficult transition to democracy since the collapse of Communism?

DKK 214.00
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Vatican Spies - Yvonnick Denoel - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Vatican Spies - Yvonnick Denoel - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

"Officially," the Vatican has no espionage service; but does that mean that no one carries out intelligence operations on its behalf? During the Second World War and Cold War, Rome was awash with spies. In response, under the cover of the Secretariat of State, a band of monsignors and priests hunted for ''moles'' spying on the Vatican, carried out clandestine diplomacy, investigated the assassination of priests and other scandals threatening the Church, and conducted high-risk missions across the Iron Curtain. Drawing on the freshly released archives of foreign services that worked against or with the Holy See, Vatican Spies reveals eighty years of secret wars and dirty tricks. These include infiltrating Russian-speaking priests into the Soviet Union; secret negotiations between John XXIII and Khrushchev; the close relationship between Cardinal Montini--the future Paul VI--and the CIA; infiltration of the Vatican by the Eastern Bloc''s intelligence services; and the secret Vatican bank funds that were channeled first to fight communism in South America, then to support Solidarity in Poland. Denoel also investigates the internecine struggles between the Jesuits and Opus Dei; and deciphers the machinations that marked the pontificate of Benedict XVI, which are still ongoing under Pope Francis today.

DKK 260.00
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Tainted Democracy - Zsuzsanna Szelenyi - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Tainted Democracy - Zsuzsanna Szelenyi - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Hungary, once the poster-child of liberal democracy, is fast becoming an autocracy under Viktor Orbán. After winning an absolute majority in 2010, Orbán launched a series of ''reforms'', fundamentally undermining the country''s twenty-year, post-Cold War liberal consensus. For supporters and foes alike, the rise and rise of Hungary''s prime minister is a vivid example of how democracy can be subverted from within.Zsuzsanna Szelényi, a leading member of Orbán''s Fidesz in its early years, has witnessed first-hand the party''s shift from liberalism to populist nationalism. Offering an insider''s account of Fidesz''s evolution since its creation, she explains how the party rose to leadership of the country under Orbán and made sweeping legal, political and economic changes to solidify its grip on power-from reining in the public media to slashing the number of parliamentary seats. She answers a key question: why has Orbán been so successful, winning widespread support within Hungary and wielding considerable influence in European politics? And how can Hungary''s opposition party Together, which she co-founded in 2014, work to turn the country around?Underpinned by Szelényi''s own experiences at the heart of Hungarian politics, Tainted Democracy offers accessible, nuanced insights into the global rise of populist autocracy-and how it can be challenged.

DKK 260.00
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Understanding South Africa - Carien Du Plessis - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Understanding South Africa - Carien Du Plessis - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans truly appeared a people reborn as the Rainbow Nation. Yet, a quarter of a century later, the country sank into bitter recriminations and rampant corruption under Jacob Zuma. Why did this happen, and how was hope betrayed?President Cyril Ramaphosa, hoping to heal these wounds, was re-elected in May 2019 with the ANC hoping to claw back support lost to the opposition in the Zuma era. This book analyses this election, shedding light on voters’ choices. With chapters on all the major issues at stake—from education to land redistribution—'Understanding South Africa' offers insights into Africa’s largest and most diversified economy, closely tied to its neighbours’ fortunes.

DKK 214.00
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Hitler's New Disorder - Stevan K. Pavlowitch - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Hitler's New Disorder - Stevan K. Pavlowitch - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

The history of the Second World War in Yugoslavia was for a long time the preserve of the Communist regime led by Marshal Tito. It was written by those who had battled hard to come out on top of the many-sided war fought across the territory of that Balkan state after the Axis Powers had destroyed it in 1941, just before Hitler''s invasion of the USSR. It was an ideological and ethnic war under occupation by rival enemy powers and armies, between many insurgents, armed bands and militias, for the survival of one group, for the elimination of another, for belief in this or that ideology, for a return to an imagined past within the Nazi New Order, or for the reconstruction of a new Yugoslavia on the side of the Allies. In fact, many wars were fought alongside, and under cover of, the Great War waged by the Allies against Hitler''s New Order which, in Yugoslavia at least, turned out to be a ''new disorder''. Most surviving participants have since told their stories; most archival sources are now available. Pavlowitch uses them, as well as the works of historians in several languages, to understand what actually happened on the ground. He poses more questions than he provides answers, as he attempts a synoptic and chronological analysis of the confused yet interrelated struggles fought in 1941-5, during the short but tragic period of Hitler''s failed ''New Order'', over the territory that was no longer the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and not yet the Federal Peoples'' Republic of Yugoslavia, but that is now definitely ''former Yugoslavia''.

DKK 214.00
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Dreamers - Snigdha Poonam - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Dreamers - Snigdha Poonam - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

00 million Indians, more than half the population, are under twenty-five. This generation lives between extremes: more connected and global than ever, but with narrow ideas of Indian identity; raised with the cultural values of their grandparents, but the life goals of American teenagers. These dreamers are the face of a new India. Angry, and frustrated with being marginalised by both globalisation and India''s old politics, they place hope in the Modi government''s exclusionary nationalism and, above all, in their personal truths: shape your own future; exploit, or be exploited.Journalist Snigdha Poonam tracks these young fortune-seekers -- aspiring Bollywood stars and clickbait gurus, the Cow Protection Army hoodlums and Allahabad University’s first female Student Union President --all united by the belief that they were born for bigger and better things. Dreamers brings to life their boundless ambition and extraordinary imagination to create opportunities in the unlikeliest of spaces.

DKK 214.00
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Inside the Mind of Marine Le Pen - Michel Eltchaninoff - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Inside the Mind of Marine Le Pen - Michel Eltchaninoff - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

What drives Marine Le Pen and France''s Front National? Has her party really changed its ways, or is she merely rebranding its old ideas and policies for a new era? In the age of Brexit and Trump, France too has seen a growing audience for identity-based politics. Under ''Marine'', the FN is enjoying unprecedented success. But what''s her secret? This is a probing investigation into the philosophy of Marine Le Pen''s FN. It seeks answers in her speeches, in the history of French nationalism and in revealing interviews with those on the far right--including Jean-Marie Le Pen himself. Michel Eltchaninoff exposes a vision of France tyrannised by liberalism and seduced by the offer of an uncompromising alternative: a Republic ''beyond Left and Right'', defined by its enemies and aligned with Putin''s Russia. Whatever Marine Le Pen is thinking, she has not forgotten the FN''s roots. The French far right is now stronger than ever.

DKK 181.00
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Is Europe Christian? - Olivier Roy - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Is Europe Christian? - Olivier Roy - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Are Europe''s ''Christian values'' under threat? Can religion be a pillar of identity and culture? What will be the fate of Christianity in Europe?In this short but bracing book, Olivier Roy traces the Church''s long battle against a tide of secularization in Europe. Since the Enlightenment, religion has been losing ground as the source of moral norms. But while the question of truth was contested, Christian values continued to define law and social life in even the most secular and anti-clerical countries--until the 1960s. Ever since, the Church has been swept into a new war of values, reduced to struggling over abortion and same-sex marriage. Mired in scandal, the Church''s authority is crumbling, while populist demands pave the way for the final secularization of religion as part of ''national culture''.From one of the most acute observers of our times, ''Is Europe Christian?'' represents a persuasive and novel vision of religion''s place today.

DKK 214.00
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Among the Eunuchs - Leyla Jagiella - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Among the Eunuchs - Leyla Jagiella - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

A courageously personal exploration of gender identity across Muslim cultures, from the West to South Asia. From an early age, Leyla Jagiella knew that she would be defined by two things: being Muslim and being trans. Struggling to negotiate these identities in her conservative, small hometown, she travelled to India and Pakistan, where her life was changed by her time among third-gender communities. Known as hijras in India, khwajasaras in Pakistan, these marginal communities have traditionally been politically and culturally important, respected for their supernatural powers to bless or curse, and often serving as eunuchs in Mughal India’s palaces. But under British colonialism, the hijras were criminalised and persecuted, entrenching taboos they still battle today. Among the Eunuchs reveals vastly varied interpretations of religion, gender and sexuality, illuminating how deeply culture informs our experiences. As identity becomes an ideological battlefield, Jagiella complicates binaries and dogma with her rich personal reflections. Her fascinating journey speaks to all who find themselves juggling different kinds of belonging.

DKK 214.00
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Critical Muslim 11: Syria - - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Critical Muslim 11: Syria - - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Critical Muslim''s Syria issue approaches the diversity of this rich culture as it is reborn through revolution, tortured by repression, and traumatised by war. Thomas Pierret illuminates the varying positions of Syria''s Muslims and Islamists; Rasha Omran writes about being an Alawi revolutionary; Robin Yassin-Kassab investigates the revolution''s artistic and cultural shifts; Firas Massouh appraises the role of workers and the left inside Syria; Louis Proyect castigates leftists in the West; Nader Attasi examines the successes of the revolutionary committees and the failures of opposition political elites; Hassan Hassan recounts the rise, fall and rise again of the Muslim Brotherhood''s Syria branch; Razan Ghazzawi questions her atheism under fire; Omar Hossino presents the town of Selemmiyeh as a non-sectarian model; Ross Burns asks what''s become of Syria''s unparalleled archeological heritage. Plus poetry from Golan Hajji, prose from Zakkariya Tamer and Lina Sergie Attar, an appreciation of Adonis''s verse, satire from Karl Sharro, and ''the story of the bra''.

DKK 214.00
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Out of the Mountains - David Kilcullen - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Out of the Mountains - David Kilcullen - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

In his third book, David Kilcullen takes us out of the mountains: away from the remote, rural guerrilla warfare of Afghanistan, and into the marginalised slums and complex security threats of the world''s coastal cities, where almost 75 per cent of us will be living by mid-century. Scrutinising major environmental trends - population growth, coastal urbanisation - and increasing digital connectivity he projects a future of feral cities, urban systems under stress, and increasing overlaps between crime and war, internal and external threats, and the real and virtual worlds. Informed by Kilcullen''s own fieldwork in the Caribbean, Somalia, the Middle East and Afghanistan, and that of his field research teams in cities in Central America and Africa, Out of the Mountains presents detailed, on-the-ground accounts of the new faces of modern conflict - - from the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks, to transnational drug networks, local street gangs, and the uprisings of the Arab Spring.

DKK 181.00
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The Bagpipes - Richard Mclauchlan - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

The Bagpipes - Richard Mclauchlan - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

History''s first named bagpiper is a man playing a pipe "with a bag tucked under his armpit" in the first century CE. He was the Roman Emperor Nero. Since then, this improbable conflation of bag and sticks has become the world''s most beloved and contested instrument. Another piping emperor, Tsar Peter the Great, decided that his departed pet bear would live on--as a bagpipe.This vivid history tells the long story of an instrument boasting over 130 varieties, yet commonly associated with just one, from one country: Scotland''s Great Highland Bagpipe. In fact, the pipes are played across the globe, illuminating societies in remarkable, unexpected ways. Richard McLauchlan charts the rise of women pipers; investigates class, privilege and capitalism in the piping world; and explores how a "national instrument" can shift in meaning amidst the currents of identity.The vibrancy and inventiveness of today''s pipers showcase the allure of this fabled, fascinating instrument, to which McLauchlan is our surefooted guide.

DKK 214.00
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Secrets of a Suitcase - Pauline Terreehorst - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Secrets of a Suitcase - Pauline Terreehorst - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

When Pauline Terreehorst bid for a vintage Gucci suitcase at Sotheby''s Amsterdam, she had no idea what was inside. The case turned out to be full of fine dresses, furs and lace, with boxes of postcard albums showing grand castles and churches in Austria, France, England and Scotland. The curious correspondence revolved around Austrian philanthropist Countess Margarethe Szapary, and her daughter.These unexpected family treasures are a gateway to a lost world: social, cultural and political life as the Szaparys knew it vanished in twentieth-century Europe''s great upheavals. Borders were redrawn, old cities received new names, communities changed loyalties--and Central Europe''s cosmopolitan, royalist aristocrats had to decide whether to become Germans under Nazi rule.What did Margarethe choose, when her new neighbour Hermann Goring came knocking with a troubling request? What were the consequences for her and her children? And how did the family''s suitcase cross war-torn Europe to end up in Terreehorst''s hands decades later?

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The Forest Brotherhood - Dan Kaszeta - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

The Forest Brotherhood - Dan Kaszeta - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Stalin''s USSR and Hitler''s Reich-- the populations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had been subjected to a brutal Soviet occupation in 1940, Nazi invasion in 1941, and Soviet re-occupation in 1944, falsely branded as ''liberation''. Variously labelled ''freedom fighters'' or ''Nazi bandits'' by historians, the Baltic partisans who would become known as the Forest Brothers fought a long campaign against occupation that eventually failed under the might of the USSR. Much of this history of armed resistance, which was also a front in the intelligence war between East and West, is little known outside the region. Treachery, betrayal, heroism and lost futures all play a role in this fascinating tale, as Dan Kaszeta explores themes of independence, nationalism, Baltic identity, the fluidity of boundaries in Eastern Europe, and the comparative weight of Nazi and Soviet oppression. Drawing on extensive archival material rarely seen outside the Baltic states, ''The Forest Brotherhood'' unpacks the forgotten story of this resistance movement, and reveals its continuing impact on today''s world.

DKK 260.00
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Islamophobia and Radicalisation - Tahir Abbas - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Islamophobia and Radicalisation - Tahir Abbas - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Since the 1970s, there have been three challenges to traditional, homogeneous ''national'' identities across the Western world: political and socioeconomic inequality; neoliberal globalisation; and more diverse, multicultural societies. As in the US and elsewhere in Western Europe, the decline of an old, masculinised national identity has now begun to open a new, dark era for Britain.Since the ''war on terror'' was added to the mix, ''others'' in Britain have been brutally demonised. Muslims, routinely presented as the source of society''s ills, are subjected to both symbolic and actual violence. Deep- seated and structurally racialised norms amplify the isolation and alienation impeding Muslim integration. Both these ''left-behind'' Muslims and white-British groups who perceive themselves as the true nation are under pressure from ongoing geopolitical concerns in the Muslim world, as well as widening divisions at home. Tahir Abbas argues that, in this context, the symbiotic intersections between Islamophobia and radicalisation intensify and expand. His book is a warning of the world that results: a rise in hate crime, the institutionalisation of Islamophobia, and the normalisation of war and conflict.

DKK 526.00
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The Crisis of Culture - Olivier Roy - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

The Crisis of Culture - Olivier Roy - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Are we confronting a new culture—global, online, individualistic? Or is our existing concept of culture in crisis, as explicit, normative systems replace implicit, social values? Olivier Roy’s new book explains today’s fractures via the extension of individual political and sexual freedoms from the 1960s. For Roy, twentieth-century youth culture disconnected traditional political protest from class, region or ethnicity, fashioning an identity premised on repudiation rather than inheritance of shared history or values. Having spread across generations under neoliberalism and the internet, youth culture is now individualised, ersatz. Without a shared culture, everything becomes an explicit code of how to speak and act, often online. Identities are now defined by socially fragmenting personal traits, creating affinity-based sub-cultures seeking safe spaces: universities for the left, gated communities and hard borders for the right. Increased left- and right-wing references to ‘identity’ fail to confront this deeper crisis of culture and community. Our only option, Roy argues, is to restore social bonds at the grassroots or citizenship level.

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Shi'ism in South East Asia - - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Shi'ism in South East Asia - - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

This is the first work available in any language to extensively document and critically discuss traditions of ''Alid piety and their modern contestations in the region. The concept of ''Alid piety allows for a reframing of our views on the widespread reverence for ''Ali, Fatima and their progeny that emphasises how such sentiments and associated practices are seen as part of broad traditions shared by many Muslims, which might or might not have their origins in a specifically Shi''a identity. In doing so, it facilitates the movement of academic discussions out from under the shadow of polemical sectarian discourses on ''Shi''ism'' in Southeast Asia. The chapters include presentations of new material from previously unpublished early manuscript sources from Muslim vernacular literatures in the Malay, Javanese, Sundanese, Acehnese and Bugis languages, as well as rich new ethnography from across the region. These studies engage with cultural, intellectual, and performative traditions, as well as the ways in which ''Alid piety has been transformed in relation to more strictly sectarian identifications since the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

DKK 522.00
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What Britain Did to Nigeria - Max Siollun - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

What Britain Did to Nigeria - Max Siollun - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Most accounts of Nigeria’s colonisation were written by British officials, presenting it as a noble civilising mission to rid Africans of barbaric superstition and corrupt tribal leadership. Thanks to this skewed writing of history, many Nigerians today still have Empire nostalgia and view the colonial period through rose-tinted glasses. Max Siollun offers a bold rethink: an unromanticised history, arguing compellingly that colonialism had few benevolent intentions, but many unjust outcomes. It may have ended slavery and human sacrifice, but it was accompanied by extreme violence; ethnic and religious identity were cynically exploited to maintain control, while the forceful remoulding of longstanding legal and social practices permanently altered the culture and internal politics of indigenous communities. The aftershocks of this colonial meddling are still being felt decades after independence. Popular narratives often suggest that the economic and political turmoil are homegrown, but the reality is that Britain created many of Nigeria’s crises, and has left them behind for Nigerians to resolve. This is a definitive, head-on confrontation with Nigeria’s experience under British rule, showing how it forever changed the country—perhaps cataclysmically.

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Nightmarch - Alpa Shah - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Nightmarch - Alpa Shah - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

In one of the world''s most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian state. Presented in the media as a deadly terrorist group, the movement is made up of Marxist ideologues and lower-caste and tribal combatants who seek to overthrow a system that has abused them.In 2010, anthropologist Alpa Shah embarked on a seven-night trek with some of these communist guerrillas, walking 250 kilometres through the dense, hilly forests of eastern India. Speaking to leaders and living for years with villagers in guerrilla strongholds, Shah seeks to understand how and why some of India''s poor have shunned the world''s largest democracy and taken up arms to fight for a fairer society--and asks whether they might be undermining their own aims.Nightmarch is a compelling reflection on dispossession and conflict at the heart of contemporary India.SHORT-LISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING, 2019SHORT-LISTED FOR THE NEW INDIA FOUNDATION BOOK PRIZE, 2019WINNER OF THE 2020 ASSOCIATION FOR POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY BOOK PRIZEA 2018 New Statesman Book of the Year

DKK 351.00
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Cadiz - Helen Crisp - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

Cadiz - Helen Crisp - Bog - C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd - Booktok.dk

This is the tale of Western Europe’s oldest continuously inhabited city, a 3,000-year history of war and seafaring, culture and commerce, liberalism and resistance.Helen Crisp and Jules Stewart offer a vibrant account of Cádiz past and present, from its ancient founding myths to its reinvention as a trendy tourist destination. They illuminate Cádiz’s experiences under Roman and Moorish rule; explore its centuries of maritime warfare, from Francis Drake to the Battle of Trafalgar; and probe its role in Spain’s ‘Golden Age’ of empire, when it dominated trade with the New World. As Spain’s de facto capital during the Peninsular War, Cádiz also produced Europe’s first liberal constitution in 1812. And in 1936, it was the port of entry for Franco’s troops, mustered to overthrow the Republic.Cádiz has excited the passions of travellers for centuries. Lord Byron was enchanted by the ladies of the city, whom he described as ‘form’d for all the witching arts of love’. Benjamin Disraeli fell in love with Cádiz in 1830, seeing ‘Figaro in every street and Rosita in every balcony’. This beautifully illustrated book, the first to tell the full story of this intriguing and extraordinary city, brings its past to life.

DKK 257.00
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