Hurst imprint: 101 books
How Long Will South Africa Survive?
The Looming Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2015
In 1977, Johnson's best selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid. Now, after more than two decades of the ANC in government, he believes the question must be posed again. "The big question about ANC...
Making Africa Work
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa faces three big inter-related challenges over the next generation. It will double its population to two billion by 2045. By then more than half of Africans will be living in cities. And this group of mostly young people will be connected with each other and the world through mobile...
Why States Recover
Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2015
State failure takes many forms. Somalia offers one extreme. The country's prolonged civil war led to the collapse of central authority, with state control devolving to warlord-led factions that competed for the spoils of local commerce, political power, and international aid. Malawi, on the other...
Cyril Ramaphosa
The Path to Power in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
For a long time, Cyril Ramaphosa was the nearly-man of South African politics. He was Nelson Mandela's preferred successor, but the ANC opted for his rival, Thabo Mbeki, as the second post-apartheid president. Ramaphosa had led South Africa's huge mineworkers' union against the apartheid regime and...
Bridge Over Blood River
The Rise and Fall of the Afrikaners
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Nelson Mandela is dead and his dream of a rainbow nation in South Africa is fading. Twenty years after the fall of apartheid the white Afrikaner minority fears cultural extinction. How far are they prepared to go to survive as a people? Kajsa Norman's book traces the war for control of South Africa,...
Dissenting Japan
A History of Japanese Radicalism and Counterculture from 1945 to Fukushima
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Conformist, mute and malleable? Andrews tackles head-on this absurd caricature of Japanese society in his fascinating history of its militant sub-cultures, radical societies and well-established traditions of dissent Following the March 2011 tsunami and Fukushima nuclear crisis, the media remarked...
The Rohingyas
Inside Myanmar's Hidden Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The Rohingya are a Muslim group who live in Rakhine state (formerly Arakan state) in western Myanmar (Burma), a majority Buddhist country. According to the United Nations, they are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. They suffer routine discrimination at the hands of neighboring Buddhist...
by Abdul Salam Zaeef
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pashto, are more than just a personal account of his extraordinary life. My Life with the Taliban offers a counter-narrative to the standard accounts of Afghanistan since 1979. Zaeef...
Lost Islamic History
Reclaiming Muslim Civilization from the Past
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Islam has been one of the most powerful religious, social, and political forces in history. Over the last 1400 years, from origins in Arabia, a succession of Muslim polities and later empires expanded to control territories and peoples that ultimately stretched from southern France, to East Africa...
A Dark Path to Freedom
Rusi Nazar from the Red Army to the CIA
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Born in Margilan, Central Asia on the eve of the Russian Revolution of 1917, Ruzi Nazar had one of the most exciting lives of the twentieth century. Charming, intellectually brilliant and passionately committed to the liberation of Central Asia from Russian rule, his life was a series of adventures...
Last King in India
Wajid Ali Shah
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
The Last King in India is the story of an extraordinary man whose memory still divides opinion sharply today. Was he, as the British described him, a debauched ruler who spent his time with "fiddlers, eunuchs and women' instead of running the kingdom? Or, as most Indians believe, a gifted poet...
The Mediator
A Biography of Martti Ahtisaari
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Martti Ahtisaari is the world's most renowned and successful mediator in international conflicts. In 2008 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his lead role in bringing independence to Namibia, Serbia's withdrawal from Kosovo, the decommissioning of weapons in Northern Ireland and autonomy for...
Crossing the Congo
Over Land and Water in a Hard Place
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in South Sudan. Traversing 2,500 miles of the toughest terrain on the planet in a twenty-five year-old...
Understanding Contemporary Ethiopia
Monarchy, Revolution and the Legacy of Meles Zenawi
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
When we think of Ethiopia we tend to think in cliches: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the Falasha Jews, the epic reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, the Communist Revolution, famine and civil war. Among the countries of Africa it has a high profile yet is poorly known. How- ever all cliches contain...