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China's Asian Dream

Empire Building along the New Silk Road

by Tom Miller
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017

"China", Napoleon once remarked, "is a sleeping lion. Let her sleep, for when she wakes she will shake the world." In 2014, President Xi Jinping triumphantly declared the lion had awakened. Under his leadership, China is pursuing a dream to restore its historical position as the...

Africa's Odious Debts

How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent

by James K. Boyce, Professor Léonce Ndikumana
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011

In Africa's Odious Debts, Boyce and Ndikumana reveal the shocking fact that, contrary to the popular perception of Africa being a drain on the financial resources of the West, the continent is actually a net creditor to the rest of the world. The extent of capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa is...

The New Maids

Transnational Women and the Care Economy

by Professor Helma Lutz
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2011

The New Maids is a pioneering book, grounded on rich, empirical evidence, which examines the relationship between globalization, transnationalism, gender and the care economy. Expertly addressing the thorny questions that surround the increasing number of migrant domestic workers and cleaners, child-carers...

Catastrophe

What Went Wrong in Zimbabwe?

by Richard Bourne
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012

No one in 1980 could have guessed that Zimbabwe would become a failed state on such a monumental and tragic scale. In this incisive and revealing book, Richard Bourne shows how a country which had every prospect of success when it achieved a delayed independence in 1980 became a brutal police state...

Year of Fire, Year of Ash

The Soweto Schoolchildrens Revolt that Shook Apartheid

by Baruch Hirson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016

‘We can say without fear of being contradicted by history, that June 16, 1976 heralded the beginning of the end of the centuries-old white rule in this country.’ Nelson Mandela Originally banned on publication by the apartheid government, Year of Fire, Year of Ash is an eye-opening account...

A Jar of Wild Flowers

Essays in Celebration of John Berger

by Sally Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016

‘John Berger has made the world a better place to live in. These essays tell us how he succeeded in that task.’ Arundhati Roy In this collection of essays on the work of, and conversations with, John Berger, thirty-seven of his friends, artistic collaborators and followers come together...

A Kingdom in Crisis

Thailand's Struggle for Democracy in the Twenty-First Century

by Andrew MacGregor Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015

‘Perhaps the best introduction yet to the roots of Thailand’s present political impasse. A brilliant book.’ Simon Long, The Economist Struggling to emerge from a despotic past, and convulsed by an intractable conflict that will determine its future, Thailand stands at a defining moment...

Yours for the Union

Class and Community Struggles in South Africa

by Baruch Hirson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017

*Yours for the Union *stands as a landmark history of the making of the black working class in South Africa. Drawing on a wide range of sources, it covers the crucial period of 1930–47, when South Africa's rapid industrialisation led to the dramatic growth of the working class, and uncontrolled...

The Trouble with Aid

Why Less Could Mean More for Africa

by Jonathan Glennie
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Africa is poor. If we send it money it will be less poor. It seems perfectly logical, doesn't it? Millions of people in the rich world, moved by images on television and appalled by the miserable conditions endured by so many in other countries, have joined campaigns to persuade their governments...

Fast Fashion

A cut from Clothing Poverty with exclusive new content

by Andrew Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015

Fast Fashion: A cut from Clothing Poverty marks the two-year anniversary of the disastrous collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh on 24 April 2013. Featuring a new introduction along with a chapter from the previously published Clothing Poverty: The hidden world of fast fashion and second-hand...

Africa's New Oil

Power, Pipelines and Future Fortunes

by Celeste Hicks
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015

The development of Africa’s oil has greatly accelerated in recent years, with some countries looking at the prospect of almost unimaginable flows of money into their national budgets. But the story of African oil has usually been associated with conflict, corruption and disaster, with older producers...
by Eric Hazan, Kamo
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015

We have witnessed a beginning, the birth of a new age of revolt and upheaval. In North Africa and the Middle East it took the people a matter of days to topple what were supposedly entrenched regimes. Now, to the west, multiple crises are etching away at a ‘democratic consensus’ that has, since...

Women and the War on Boko Haram

Wives, Weapons, Witnesses

by Hilary Matfess
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

For over a decade, Boko Haram has waged a campaign of terror across northeastern Nigeria. In 2014, the kidnapping of 276 girls in Chibok shocked the world, giving rise to the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Yet Boko Haram’s campaign of violence against women and girls goes far beyond the Chibok abductions....

Angry White People

Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right

by Hsiao-Hung Pai
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

'An enlightening, thoughtful and intelligent study.' The Independent There is a new anger brewing in Britain. In the pubs and estates, the cafes and football stadiums, the mood is unsettled. People kick back increasingly against whoever or whatever is presented as the latest scapegoat. Delving...
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