Hurst imprint: 101 books
The Division of Heaven and Earth
On Tibet's Peaceful Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
This is a translation of one of the most influential and important books from Tibet in the modern era, a passionate indictment of Chinese policies and an eloquent analysis of protests that swept Tibet from March, 2008 - the 'Earth Rat' year according to the Tibetan calendar - as a re-awakening of...
The Pashtun Question
The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is either rooted in Pashtun history and culture, or finds willing hosts among their communities...
Ochre and Rust
Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Ochre and Rust offers a fresh perspective on frontier relations between Australian Aboriginal people and European colonists. Nine museum artefacts take the reader into a fascinating zone of encounter and mutual curiosity between collectors and those indigenous people who piqued or responded to their...
Saudi Arabia
A Kingdom in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
The Saudi royal family has survived the events of the Arab Spring intact and unscathed. Any major upheavals were ostensibly averted with the help of oil revenues, while the Kingdom's influential clerics conveniently declared all forms of protest to be against Islam. Saudi dollars bent events to the...
For The Motherland! For Stalin!
A Red Army Officer's Memoir of the Eastern Front
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Boris Bogachev's highly readable account of life as a young platoon commander during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 makes for a fascinating read. The son of a Soviet military commissar, Bogachev volunteered to fight as soon as reached the age of seventeen. Life in the Red Army was harsh, with...
by Christopher Snedden
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
In 1846, the British created the state of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) - popularly called "Kashmir" - and then quickly sold this prized region to the wily and powerful Raja, Gulab Singh. Intriguingly, had they retained it, the India-Pakistan dispute over possession of the state may never have arisen, but...
by Giles MacDonogh
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
After the Second World War, Germany was an international pariah. Today, it has become a beacon of the Western world. But what makes this extraordinary nation tick? On Germany tells the story of a country reborn, from defeat in 1945 to the fall of the Berlin Wall, the painstaking reunification of "the...
The Song of the Shirt
The High Price of Cheap Garments, from Blackburn to Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2015
Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! Stitch - stitch - stitch, In poverty, hunger and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A Shroud as well as a Shirt. -from "The Song of the Shirt" by Thomas Hood (1843)...
Democracy Works
Re-Wiring Politics to Africa's Advantage
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Democracy Works asks how we can learn to nurture, deepen and consolidate democracy in Africa. By analyzing transitions within and beyond the continent, the authors identify a 'democratic playbook' robust enough to withstand threats to free and fair elections. However, substantive democracy demands...
Sweden's Dark Soul
The Unravelling of a Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Reporter Chang Frick grew up dark-haired in a nation of blonds. Ostracized as a child, in adulthood he set out to expose the hypocrisy of Swedish society. When he revealed the cover-up of mass sexual assaults on teen girls at a 2015 music festival, he provoked a chain reaction that rattled the nation....
A Hero's Curse
The Perpetual Liberation of Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2017
A Hero's Curse is the story of the modern Venezuelans whose lives have taken shape in the shadow of Simón Bolívar and his most passionate disciple, Comandante Hugo Chávez. For nearly two hundred years Venezuela's political leaders have evoked the legacy of their liberator, Bolívar, to stir popular...
Queen of the Sea
A History of Lisbon
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Lisbon's charm is legendary, but its vibrant 2,000-year history is not widely known, from its Roman legacy to its centuries under Moorish rule. Its journey from port town to Portugal's capital was not always smooth sailing--in 1755 the city was devastated by the largest earthquake ever to strike modern...
Stalin's American Spy
Noel Field, Allen Dulles and the East European Show-Trials
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Stalin's American Spy tells the remarkable story of Noel Field, a Soviet agent in the US State Department in the mid-1930s. Lured to Prague in May 1949, he was kidnapped and handed over to the Hungarian secret police. Tortured by them and interrogated too by their Soviet superiors, Field's forced...
Ivory
Power and Poaching in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Half of Tanzania's elephants have been killed for their ivory since 2007. A similar alarming story can be told of the herds in northern Mozambique and across swathes of central Africa, with forest elephants losing almost two-thirds of their numbers to the tusk trade. The huge rise in poaching and...