Hurst imprint: 101 books
Recalling the Caliphate
Decolonisation and World Order
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
As late as the last quarter of the twentieth century, there were expectations that Islam's political and cultural influence would dissipate as the advance of westernization brought modernization and secularization in its wake. Not only has Islam failed to follow the trajectory pursued by variants...
Remnants of Partition
21 Objects from a Continent Divided
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2019
Seventy years on from the partition of India, a momentous event now recedes in memory. Despite being born into a family affected by the great divide, artist and oral historian Aanchal Malhotra had thought little about it until she encountered the objects her own great-grandparents had saved as they...
Battles of the New Republic
A Contemporary History of Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2014
Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal is a story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Part-reportage, part-history, part-analysis, part-memoir, and part-biography...
The New Kings of Crude
China, India, and the Global Struggle for Oil in Sudan and South Sudan
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In the past decade, the need for oil in Asia's new industrial powers, China and India, has grown dramatically. The New Kings of Crude takes the reader from the dusty streets of an African capital to Asia's glistening corporate towers to provide a first look at how the world's rising economies established...
To End a Civil War
Norway's Peace Engagement in Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Between 1983 and 2009 Sri Lanka was host to a bitter civil war fought between the Government and the Tamil Tigers, which sought the creation of an independent Tamil state. In May 2009 came the war's violent end with the crushing defeat of the Tamil Tigers at the hands of the Sri Lanka Army. But prior...
by T. D. Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
What are The Blessing Cards? The Blessing Cards are the promises of God personalized, that you can speak them into your life and affairs. The Blessing Cards are very powerful and effective in creating a covenant reality. What is a covenant reality? A covenant reality is the promised reality which...
The People Next Door
The Curious History of India's Relations with Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
This book traces the seven decades of the India-Pakistan relationship since the bloody Partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nationalism and nostalgia that defines every facet of Indo-Pakistani relations....
Pauperland
Poverty and the Poor in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In 1797 Jeremy Bentham prepared a map of poverty in Britain, which he called "Pauperland." More than two hundred years later, poverty and social deprivation remain widespread in Britain. Yet despite the investigations into poverty by Mayhew, Booth, and in the 20th century, Townsend, it remains largely...
Creating Africas
Struggles Over Nature, Conservation and Land
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
In Africa, conflicts between protected areas for fauna and flora and space for their surrounding human populations continue despite years spent trying to find an accommodation between the needs of both parties. Creating Africas investigates the roots of the current conservation boom, demonstrates...
Genoa, 'La Superba'
The Rise and Fall of a Merchant Pirate Superpower
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Genoa has an incredible story to tell. It rose from an obscurity imposed by its harsh geography to become a merchant-pirate superpower that helped create the medieval world. It fought bitter battles with its great rival Venice and imprisoned Marco Polo, as the feuding city-states connected Europe...
by Mustafa Hamid, Leah Farrall
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2015
A former senior mujahidin figure and an ex-counter-terrorism analyst cooperating to write a book on the history and legacy of Arab-Afghan fighters in Afghanistan is a remarkable and improbable undertaking. Yet this is what Mustafa Hamid, aka Abu Walid al-Masri, and Leah Farrall have achieved with...
Britain and Europe
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Amid the ongoing Brexit crisis, both sides are appealing to Britain's past relationship with Europe to justify their positions. But much specious history is presented to argue for either the closeness or distance of our political, cultural and economic links with 'the Continent'. We urgently need...
English Nationalism
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Englishness is an idea, a consciousness and a proto-nationalism. There is no English state within the United Kingdom, no English passport, Parliament or currency, nor any immediate prospect of any. That does not mean that England lacks an identity, although English nationalism, or at least a distinctive...
Faith, Unity, Discipline
The Inter-Service-Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
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...