Small Wars Too Big to Ignore
ISBN: HB: 9781849040822, Hurst Publishers, December 2025
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
The end of the Cold War and the (then) receding threat of global nuclear conflagration were meant to usher in a 'peace dividend': concomitantly warfare would decline as states devoted themselves to making money and providing for their respective so...
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25.00 GBP
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I Have Avenged America Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti's Fight for Freedom
ISBN: HB: 9780300255478, Yale University Press, August 2025
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 12 black&white illus.
A moving and humane portrait of the abolitionist revolutionary Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who led Haiti's fight for independence from French colonial rule. "My name has become a horror to all those who want slavery", declared Jean-Jacques Dessalines...
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Joseph Smith The Rise and Fall of an American Prophet
ISBN: HB: 9780300255164, Yale University Press, August 2025
488 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
From an award-winning biographer, a riveting and deeply researched portrait of Mormonism's charismatic founder. Joseph Smith Jr. (1805-1844) was one of the most successful and controversial religious leaders of nineteenth-century America, publishin...
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25.00 GBP
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Iranian Ways of War From Cyrus the Great to Qassam Soleimani
ISBN: HB: 9781787380349, Hurst Publishers, August 2025
320 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
This book traces the long history of Iran's wars, and the evolution of the Islamic Republic's military trajectory since 1979. Ahmed Hashim draws on Farsi, Arabic and European sources to explore Iran's efforts to create modern armed forces, the deva...
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30.00 GBP
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Kingdom of Football Saudi Arabia and the Remaking of World Soccer
ISBN: HB: 9781911723660, Hurst Publishers, August 2025
264 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A fascinating account of how Saudi Arabia leveraged its massive oil wealth to alter the balance of power in world football. "Kingdom of Football" explores how and why Saudi Arabia burst onto the landscape of world football in 2023, and examines wh...
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20.00 GBP
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Death to Order A History of Modern Assassination
ISBN: HB: 9780300258042, Yale University Press, July 2025
384 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 20 black&white illus.
A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Leon Trotsky, Reinhard Heydrich, Mahatma Gandhi, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Indira Gandhi, Benazir Bhutto...
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25.00 GBP
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Spice The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780300281125, ISBN: HB: 9780300267471, Yale University Press, July 2025
320 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 37 black&white illus., 16 colour illus., 7 maps
The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific. Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on...
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11.99 GBP
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Religion in the Lands That Became America A New History
ISBN: HB: 9780300221480, Yale University Press, July 2025
640 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 55 black&white illus.
A sweeping retelling of American religious history, showing how religion has enhanced and hindered human flourishing from the Ice Age to the Information Age. Until now, the standard narrative of American religious history has begun with English set...
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18.00 GBP
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Reluctant Conquest American Wealth, Power, and Science in the Arctic
ISBN: HB: 9780300272215, Yale University Press, July 2025
360 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 13 black&white illus.
A compelling history of U.S. involvement in and toward the Arctic from the American Revolution through the acquisition of Alaska to the present day. What drives American foreign relations in the Arctic? It is difficult to give a unified answer to t...
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35.00 GBP
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