Hurst: 173 books
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...
by Ed Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The Bible is Ancient Truth, but must be read in its own ancient context to be fully understood. Even the people among whom Jesus lived no longer understood their own Hebrew heritage because the leadership had embraced Western intellectual assumptions which were then foreign to Scripture. Where we...
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...
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 Ed Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2012
Common understandings of Jesus' parables often go astray because they are read from a modern Western perspective. It's too easy to miss the real import of what Jesus had to say unless we take the time to delve into the historical context. More importantly, we must approach them from the...
by Ed Hurst
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The Bible is Ancient Truth, but must be read in its own ancient context to be fully understood. Even the people among whom Jesus lived no longer understood their own Hebrew heritage because the leadership had embraced Western intellectual assumptions which were then foreign to Scripture. Where we...
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...