Hurst imprint: 101 books
Jihad and Dawah
Evolving Narratives of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamat ud Dawah
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
This book provides a detailed account of the emergence and metamorphoses of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and its political arm, Jamat ud Dawah, since the early 1990s. Linking the group's narratives to the process of Islamization in Pakistan and divergent views on the country's Islamic identity, it is the...
Madeira
The Mid-Atlantic Wine
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Who does not know the phrase "Have some madeira, m'dear"? Madeira is one of the world's greatest wines, with a fascinating history few others can equal. Capable of evolution over decades and with seemingly indefinite longevity, precious centenarian bottles are sought by wine connoisseurs world wide,...
China Imagined
From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name 'China' was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and its Chinese equivalent, Zhongguo, only gained currency in the mid-1800s....
Ugly Food
Overlooked and Undercooked
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2017
Why don't we eat more octopus? What about gurnard and other ugly fish? Cheeks and feet are cheap and delicious, but people prefer fillet or chops. What about rabbits and squirrels? Where do all the giblets go? And what's wrong with ugly vegetables? This book is about ingredients that are neglected,...
Belt and Road
A Chinese World Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
China's Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism, politics to culture. Most importantly,...
An African in Imperial London
The Indomitable Life of A.B.C. Merriman-Labor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people inferior, Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor claimed his right to describe the world as he found it. He looked at the Empire's great capital and laughed. In this first biography of Merriman-Labor,...
Pakistan Adrift
Navigating Troubled Waters
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
Asad Durrani served as a three star general in the Pakistan army, and later headed the Inter-Services Intelligence agency from 1990 to 1992. His time in service encompassed the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan and dissolution; shifting regional and international alliances, particularly with...
Singapore, Singapura
From Miracle to Complacency
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Modern Singapore is a miracle. Half a century ago it unwillingly became an independent nation, after it was thrown out of the Malay Federation. It was tiny, poor, almost devoid of resources, and in a hostile neighborhood. Now, this unlikely country is at the top of almost every global national index,...
Lost Islamic History
Reclaiming Muslim Civilisation from the Past
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
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 and...
The Sámi Peoples of the North
A Social and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
There is no single volume that encompasses an integrated social and cultural history of the Sámi people from the Nordic countries and northwestern Russia. Neil Kent's book fills this lacuna. In the first instance, he considers how the Sámi homeland is defined: its geography, climate, and early contact...
Out of Nowhere
The Kurds of Syria in Peace and War
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
In mid-2012 the previously almost forgotten Syrian Kurds suddenly emerged as a potential game-changer in the country's civil war when in an attempt to consolidate its increasingly desperate position the Assad government abruptly withdrew its troops from the major Kurdish areas in Syria. The Kurds...
Why Spy?
On the Art of Intelligence
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Why Spy? is the result of Brian Stewart's seventy years of working in, and studying the uses and abuses of, intelligence in the real world. Few books currently available to those involved either as professionals or students in this area have been written by someone like the present author, who has...
by Neil Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
With only 1.3 million inhabitants, Estonia is one of Europe's least populous nations--yet it boasts one of the continent's fastest growing economies. In the first serious English-language history of this small Baltic state, Neil Taylor charts Estonia's long, arduous journey to its present-day prosperity,...
The Islamic State in Khorasan
Afghanistan, Pakistan and the New Central Asian Jihad
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
So-called Islamic State began to appear in what it calls Khorasan (Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, Iran and India) in 2014. Reports of its presence were at first dismissed as propaganda, but during 2015 it became clear that IS had a serious presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan at least. This...