Watchers
How the Secret Police Shape the Future
ISBN: HB: 9781805266662,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2026
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A chilling global investigation into how modern surveillance states are built and why they endure - from a journalist once spied upon in Cold War Europe.
How much freedom must we surrender to feel safe? Is China's all-round AI-enhanced surveillance...
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20.00 GBP
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Female Jihadis
The Case of Tunisia
ISBN: PB: 9781805264323,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2026
312 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
312 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Why has Tunisia, widely considered an Arab Spring "success story", seen such an explosion in violent Islamism among its women?
This book probes the phenomenon of Tunisian women recruited for jihad, post - Arab Spring. In the aftermath of the Jasmine...
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35.00 GBP
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Extreme Britain
Gender, Masculinity and Radicalisation
ISBN: PB: 9781805266013,
ISBN: HB: 9781787389465,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2026
424 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 7 colour illus.
424 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 7 colour illus.
Drawing on interviews with extremists, this timely study explores the relationship between gendered culture and political radicalism in a polarised Britain.
Young women bound for Islamic State, or "Free Speech" protests for Tommy Robinson - radicali...
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16.99 GBP
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45.00 GBP
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Picking Sides
Race, Ethnicity and Recruitment in the Colonial Nigerian Army
ISBN: PB: 9781787388178,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2026
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Argues that an understanding of the origins of ethnic politics in Nigeria requires a rigorous historical and sociological study of the ethnicisation of the colonial army.
Nigeria's colonial history matters. It shaped the destinies of hundreds of eth...
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30.00 GBP
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Arduous Paths
On the Theory and Practice of Democratic Transition
ISBN: HB: 9781805263005,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2026
456 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
456 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A renowned social scientist reflects on democratisation theory as applied in the Middle East.
Azmi Bishara's "Arduous Paths" builds on his sizeable body of work on democracy through the lenses of civil society, religion and secularism, populism and...
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60.00 GBP
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Another World Is Possible
How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9781805264378,
ISBN: HB: 9781787386914,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2025
360 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
360 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
Calls for an imaginative surge to fix our battered societies, fusing bold ideas and practical experiment.
As the world confronts the fast catastrophe of Covid and the slow calamity of climate change, we also face a third, less visible emergency: a c...
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12.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Madam War Criminal
Biljana Plavsic, Serbia's Iron Lady
ISBN: HB: 9781805262862,
Hurst Publishers,
August 2025
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
384 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A personal history of conflict, imprisonment and unrepentance, from the only woman convicted of crimes against humanity for her role in the Bosnian War.
In 2001, Biljana Plavsic made history. Indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the F...
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25.00 GBP
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Planet Patriarchy
Global Tales of Feminism and Oppression
ISBN: HB: 9781805262879,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
480 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
480 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A continent-crossing panorama of women's rights, women's oppression and women's politics in the twenty-first century.
In 1995, the UN vowed to advance "equality, development and peace for all women, everywhere". Instead, in the Beijing Declaration's...
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20.00 GBP
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Ramping Up Rights
An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism
ISBN: PB: 9781911723950,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2025
288 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
288 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
A 100-year history of enraging injustices and inspiring campaigns: the fight for British disability rights isn't over.
From the "crippled suffragette", to '80s punks chaining themselves to buses, to campaigners taking a stand online, this book celeb...
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14.99 GBP
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Controlling Women
The Untold Story of Britain's First Female Police Force
ISBN: HB: 9781911723967,
Hurst Publishers,
June 2025
264 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
264 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A compelling history of the women who started their own police force in 1914 - as war, social upheaval and gender injustice gripped the UK.
Violence against women is out of control. Conviction rates for rape are so low that most survivors think it p...
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22.00 GBP
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