Books published by C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

This rigorous account is the first overview of the Islamist terrorist campaign in Europe since 9/11. While most analysis of the growing phenomenon focuses on social explanations, Nesser highlights the role of Arab-Afghan veterans in promoting a jihadist agenda.

There has been an explosion of research into the experiences of British Muslims, but what has been conspicuous by its absence is a proper historical treatment of the phenomenon. This book aims to address this issue.

The story of our National Debt told through key events in British history. A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR

This is a probing enquiry into the thought of Marine Le Pen and the party under her leadership, seeking answers in her rhetoric,the history of French nationalism and unique insights shared by far right specialists and members of the FN entourage-- including Jean-Marie Le Pen himself.

An evocative and gracefully written reflection on cultural encounters between Aboriginals and Indians in the Outback, from the nineteenth century.

A tour d'horizon of the role Islam plays in politics and the private sphere in Central Asia and the Caucasus.

Offers a critical and realistic reassessment of the threats posed to the environment in the Middle East, and what can be done about them.

Winner of the Academie Francaise's Prix Eugene ColasA 2019 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

Analyses how Islamic State hopes to establish a new bulwark in Central Asia and Pakistan, supplanting Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan

This unique micro-history of the Absons charts the family's stewardship of a slave factory in Dahomey, their intermarriage with African neighbours, and their ultimate decline.

An insider's view of Pakistan's vicissitudes over the last two decades, by the former head of the country's renowned intelligence agency.

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A remarkable 'ordinary person's' story that captures the day-to-day reality of life during the bloody conflict that divided Nigeria in the late 1960s.

A thrilling account of the extraordinary efforts of Allied intelligence in gaining control of Belgian Congo's uranium mines and keeping them from Hitler and Stalin.

Kamrava traces the fateful odyssey of domestic Arab politics from the early 1950, through he upheavals of the Arab Spring, to the present day.

A sweeping, erudite, and accessible cultural history of the lands of the Near East, from the Sumerians to beyond the end of World War II.

This volume recounts the history of a society on the margin of Europe as well as on the margin of reaching the size and wealth of a proper state - Iceland.

A frank reassessment of agency in the West African slave trade, exposing how local polities, not European interlopers, called the shots.

Assesses government and civil society responses to the digital revolution in the Middle East.

Offers readers a rare insight into the lives of the Yemeni elite and their personal and political vicissitudes after the revolt of 1948

A new biography of the Bengali philosopher and social reformer who sought to incorporate Christian theology within Hindu thought.

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Critical Muslim look at Islam and the 'West'.

An empathetic account of a large and little understood population: Russia's 20 million Muslims.

A chilling reassessment of the Soviet Union's advances in biological warfare, and the West's inadvertent contributions.

A synoptic history of Imperial and Soviet Russian conquest and colonisation of the North Caucasus.

Japan's navy is three times the size of France's and Britain's combined, yet most people think it a defenceless nation. This book unravels that paradox.