Why Men?
A Human History of Violence and Inequality
ISBN: PB: 9781805266952,
ISBN: HB: 9781805260165,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2026
456 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
456 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
Are war and inequality inevitable, because evolution made men competitive and dominant? Think again with this entertaining yet powerful new history of "true" human nature.
How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperative and egalitarian, dev...
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15.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Sheep Roads of Central Asia
A Global History of the Karakul Fur Trade
ISBN: HB: 9781805265825,
Hurst Publishers,
October 2026
364 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 black&white illus.
364 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 24 black&white illus.
A history of the fur trade originating on the Karakul sheep - raising steppe, and of the merchants who took the pelts to markets worldwide.
Indigenous to Central Asia, Karakul sheep can thrive in the region's arid environment. For centuries, men acr...
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35.00 GBP
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Threads of Destiny
Kashmir, Paisley and the History of the Pashmina Shawl
ISBN: HB: 9781805266693,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2026
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 colour illus.
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 8 colour illus.
Exploring empire, fashion and technology, a pathbreaking history of the renowned pashmina shawl and the concurrent lives of weavers in Scotland and British India.
In the late seventeenth century, Kashmir was renowned worldwide for the beauty of its...
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25.00 GBP
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Voices in Stone
The Lives of Public Statues
ISBN: HB: 9781805265245,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2026
400 pp., 23,4x25,6 cm, 32 colour illus.
400 pp., 23,4x25,6 cm, 32 colour illus.
From sculptors to worshippers, patrons to vandals, an era-spanning global exploration of our complex relationship with statues.
Iconoclasm is in the air. Bitter debates rage on the streets and online over the proper fate of statues commemorating con...
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25.00 GBP
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Stuff
Humanity's Epic Journey from Naked Ape to Nonstop Shopper
ISBN: HB: 9781805260493,
Hurst Publishers,
November 2023
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 60 illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 60 illus.
The fascinating tale of humankind's journey from owning nothing to being owned - by our stuff. Why, when and how did our needs become world-destroying addictions?
Over 3 million years ago, our ancestors realised they could break apart rocks for shar...
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Football in the Middle East
State, Society, and the Beautiful Game
ISBN: PB: 9781787387133,
Hurst Publishers,
July 2022
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A tour d'horizon exploring how the world's best-loved game is affecting people, societies and governments across the region.
Far and away the most popular sport in the world, football has a special place in Middle Eastern societies, and for Middle E...
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25.00 GBP
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Charlatans, Spirits and Rebels in Africa
The Stephen Ellis Reader
ISBN: PB: 9781787383302,
Hurst Publishers,
April 2022
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
368 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
An engrossing collection of the late Stephen Ellis' key writings on African politics and history, gathered together for the first time.
When Stephen Ellis died in July 2015, African Studies lost one of its most prolific, provocative and celebrated s...
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Critical Muslim, Volume 41
Bodies
ISBN: PB: 9781787387164,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2022
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
In our turbulent times, all varieties of bodies face serious dangers. Bodies of water are disappearing before our eyes; bodies politic risk suppression, lying on the razor's edge of the democratic struggle; human bodies fear annihilation at the hands...
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19.99 GBP
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Northumbrians
North-East England and Its People: A New History
ISBN: PB: 9781787386006,
ISBN: HB: 9781787381940,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2021
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
256 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2019, and a New Statesman Book of the Year 2019
The Northumbrians have been overlooked by British and global history, but they've made astonishing contributions to both. Dan Jackson sets out to recover this l...
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12.99 GBP
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Why War?
ISBN: HB: 9781787383890,
Hurst Publishers,
March 2021
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
256 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
One of our most original and compelling thinkers on conflict reflects on the Hobbesian impulse of "war of all against all".
What are humanity's biological origins? What are the mechanisms, including culture, that continue to drive it? What is the hi...
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20.00 GBP
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