Télécharger le livre :  The Country That Does Not Exist

The Somali people are fiercely nationalistic. Colonialism split them into five segments divided between four different powers. Thus decolonization and pan-Somalism became synonymous. In 1960 a partial reunification took place between British Somaliland and Somalia...
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Parution : 2021-04-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Death of Camus

In 1960 a mysterious car crash killed Albert Camus and his publisher Michel Gallimard, who was behind the wheel. Based on meticulous research, Giovanni Catelli builds a compelling case that the 46-year-old French Algerian Nobel laureate was the victim of premeditated...
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Parution : 2021-02-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Travelling While Black

What does it feel like to move through a world designed to limit and exclude you?What are the joys and pains of holidays for people of colour, when guidebooks are never written with them in mind? How are black lives today impacted by the othering legacy of colonial...
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Parution : 2021-02-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa

South Africa's transition to democracy took place against a backdrop of shadow war between the apartheid regime's counterinsurgency forces and the African National Congress' armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). This book analyses in unprecedented detail the hidden...
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Parution : 2021-02-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Pride and Power

The story of Iraq is one of resistance. In this groundbreaking study, Johan Franzen offers a contextual modern history of the country, its creation and its struggle for sovereignty. Iraq's contemporary history is a tale of a diverse people thrown together into a...
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Parution : 2021-02-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi

Why has Libya fallen apart since 2011? The world has largely given up trying to understand how the revolution that toppled Muammar Gaddafi has left the country a failed state and a major security headache for Europe. Gaddafi's police state has been replaced by yet...
Editeur : Hurst
Parution : 2020-10-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The German New Right

Contemporary Germany is a modern industrial democracy admired throughout the world. Many Germans believe that they live in the 'best Germany' that has ever existed. Yet there are dissenting voices: individuals and groups that reject cosmopolitanism, globalization and...
Editeur : Hurst
Parution : 2020-03-01

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Télécharger le livre :  People of the Rainforest

In 1945, three young brothers joined and eventually led Brazil's first government-sponsored expedition into its Amazonian rainforests. After more expeditions into unknown terrain, they became South America's most famous explorers, spending the rest of their lives with...
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Parution : 2020-02-01

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Télécharger le livre :  How the West Was Lost

Westerners love an existential crisis. Each decade since the First World War has raised up prophets of doom proclaiming the end of the Western world as we know it. But this time it's real. Weighed down by economic woes, the seemingly endless war on terror, and the...
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Parution : 2020-01-13

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Télécharger le livre :  The Northumbrians

Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often misunderstood? In this wideranging new history of the people of North East England, Dan Jackson explores the deep roots of...
Editeur : Hurst
Parution : 2019-11-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The First Great Powers

The rediscovery of Babylon and Assyria in the 1840s transformed Western views on the origins of civilisation.The excavation of Nineveh proved that even the Greeks, Romans and Egyptians together did not constitute the ancient world. These peoples had nothing to do with...
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Parution : 2019-11-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Global Sufism

Sufism is a growing and global phenomenon, far from the declining relic it was once thought to be. This book brings together the work of fourteen leading experts to explore systematically the key themes of Sufism's new global presence, from Yemen to Senegal via Chicago...
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Parution : 2019-11-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Everything You Have Told Me Is True

The East African group Al Shabaab is one of the century's most successful violent jihadist movements. Now over a decade old, its staying power has defied local and international efforts to destroy it, including US drone attacks and an African Union force. It also has...
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Parution : 2019-09-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Heineken in Africa

For Heineken, "rising Africa" is already a reality: the profits it extracts there are almost 50 per cent above the global average, and beer costs more in some African countries than it does in Europe. Heineken claims its presence boosts economic development on the...
Editeur : Hurst
Parution : 2019-08-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Brexit in History

This is a stimulating work with an original perspective on the most important existential question in the UK since the Second World War. Rather than focusing on the minutiae of the on-going crisis, Beatrice Heuser considers Brexit in the light of the dialectic of...
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Parution : 2019-08-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Mirrorlands

Mirrorlands is a journey through space and time to the meeting points of Russia and China, the world's largest and most populous countries. Charting an unconventional course southeast through Siberia, Inner Mongolia, the Russian Far East and Manchuria, anthropologist...
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Parution : 2019-08-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Iran Resurgent

Iran has emerged from decades of isolation and struggle to become a leading, if not the pre-eminent, regional power.Iran projects its influence throughout the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. Moreover, Iranian diplomacy is active on the world stage, with long-term...
Editeur : Hurst
Parution : 2019-07-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Humanitarian Wars?

In the eyes of Rony Brauman of Médecins sans Frontières, wars are always triggered in the name of morality. Today's "humanitarian" interventions are little more than new moral crusades-and their justifications are based on lies. There are plenty of examples of hawkish...
Editeur : Hurst
Parution : 2019-07-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Horn, Sahel, and Rift

The 1998 attaThe 1998 attacks against US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam attest to al-Qaeda's durable presence in Africa, yet Islamist-inspired radical organisations in the continent have gained much attention of late, the result of their campaigns of insurgent...
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Parution : 2019-07-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Follow Me, Akhi

What does it mean to be Muslim in Britain today? If the media is anything to go by, it has something to do with mosques, community leaders, whether you wear a veil, and what your views on religious extremists are. But as all our lives become increasingly entwined with...
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Parution : 2019-07-01

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