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Posted 11 months ago (18 May 2023)
We’re proud to present a brand-new catalogue on Islamic and Middle Eastern studies. Get 30% off catalogue titles by using the promo code on the Hurst website, or request an inspection copy for course use via the form on our website. Browse ➡️
Posted 11 months ago (18 May 2023)
🌟 OUT NOW 🌟 In 'India in the Second World War', gupta_diya explores the feelings documented by Indians through poetry, memoirs and photographs, as a global conflict coincided with the battle for their country’s future. Get 25% off with code ➡️
Posted 11 months ago (09 May 2023)
🚨 OUT NOW Edited by writingpolitics and Finn Stepputat, #TradeMakesStates is a detailed investigation of the links between state-building and commodity exchange across the Somali-inhabited territories of East Africa. Get 25% off w/ code ➡️
Posted 12 months ago (24 April 2023)
🧵 1/7 We're thrilled to announce our 2023 catalogue for studies in Eastern Europe, Russia & Eurasia—covering the history, politics, & society of the region, as well as the Russia-Ukraine war. Get 30% off catalogue titles w/ code ➡️ BaseesSGMH
Posted 1 year ago (31 March 2023)
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Posted 1 year ago (16 March 2023)
OUT NOW What distinguishes the Horn of Africa from the rest of the continent and explains its political fragility? Esteemed Africanist Christopher Clapham traces this question in the updated 2nd edition of #TheHornOfAfrica. 25% off w/ code ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (09 March 2023)
OUT NOW ‘The Decline and Fall of Republican Afghanistan’ AhmadShuja and williammaley1’s searing indictment of how Afghan elites and the Western powers pulled the rug on the Afghan people, abandoning them to their fate. Get 25% off w/ code ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (21 February 2023)
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Posted 1 year ago (18 February 2023)
‘Timely, forceful and essential.’ — AndrewWJHarding 📣 ‘Understanding #Ethiopia’s Tigray War’ is out now! martinplaut and Sarah Vaughan offer an unsparing account of a brutal and hidden war in the #HornOfAfrica. Get 25% off with the code ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (15 February 2023)
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Posted 1 year ago (05 February 2023)
‘Grasps the essential tragedy of history’ — Telegraph 🇭🇹 #BlackCrown is out now! paulclammer tells the epic story of a man born into Caribbean slavery who defeated Napoleon’s armies and crowned himself king of #Haiti. Get 25% off with code ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (19 January 2023)
🚨 #TheCovidConsensus is now available in a new & updated paperback edition! battleforeurope and toby00green offer the most comprehensive critique yet of the devastating ‘War on Covid'. Get 25% off w/ code ➡️ Read their latest unherd article ⬇️
Posted 1 year ago (04 January 2023)
‘This is the authoritative account of Israeli-Iranian relations.’ — Adib_Moghaddam 🚨 #FearAndInsecurity is out now! Jonathan G. Leslie asks why #Israel’s former ally #Iran is now perceived as the country’s greatest threat. Get 25% off w/ code ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (16 December 2022)
📢‘A must-read!’ — RaviReports AzeemIbrahim’s #AuthoritarianCentury offers a new look at how global liberalism went wrong and how the West can turn the tide, challenging liberal fallacies and offering hope for tomorrow. Get 25% off w/ code ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (14 December 2022)
🎉 #AmbedkarInLondon is out now! The collected essays explore the international context for Ambedkar’s ideas around caste, law, religion, democracy and race, as developed while studying in the imperial capital. Get 25% off with the code ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (12 December 2022)
‘Eloquent and thorough’ — AdhiamboKE 📚 Nanjala1’s #StrangeAndDifficultTimes is out now! A devastating critique of the global inequities exposed by Covid-19, and a vivid first-hand account of Africa’s pandemic. Get 25% off with the code ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (08 December 2022)
🌟 ‘Inimitably brilliant.' — holland_tom 🌟 How can the narratives of the gospels, and their interpretation through the centuries, explain the highly political death of Jesus? Find out in #IJudgeNoOne by DusenburyDavid. Get 25% off w/code ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (06 December 2022)
🇺🇦 What makes Volodymyr Zelensky most extraordinary in war is his very ordinariness as a Ukrainian. oonuch & Henry Hale explain that #TheZelenskyEffect is less about the man himself than about the civic nation he embodies. Get 25% off w/code ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (05 December 2022)
📢 OUT NOW ProfESimpson’s ‘Highways to the End of the World’ is a mix of polemic and ethnographic scholarship, exploring how South Asia’s culture of road-building reflects the world’s dangerous obsession with growth. 🚧 Use code for 25% off ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (17 November 2022)
EARLY RELEASE 🎉 ajwsmall’s #TheRupture is the gripping story of a turning point in global affairs, as the West awakens to serious systemic threats and vies with China in a race for the future. ‘Deeply researched’ - FT Use code for 25% off ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (14 November 2022)
📚 Out now! How does a country rebuild after a catastrophic humanitarian crisis? In ‘Yemen in the Shadow of Transition’, PhilbrickYadav draws on years of fieldwork to rethink methodologies for true transitional justice. Use code for 25% off ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (08 November 2022)
🌟 New release! 🌟 'Algeria: Politics and Society from the Dark Decade to the Hirak' 🇩🇿 Esteemed scholar Michael J. Willis offers a pioneering account of #Algeria's Bouteflika years and the revolution that ousted him. Use code for 25% off ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (05 November 2022)
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Posted 1 year ago (03 November 2022)
📖 Now in paperback! 📖 Roderick Matthews's #PeacePovertyAndBetrayal is a fresh and elegant history of British India that eschews the simplistic binaries of 'imperial' vs 'nationalist' interpretations. 'Discerning' - WSJ Use code for 25% off ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (02 November 2022)
Every #BlackHistoryMonth begins on Oct 1 with Nigerian Independence Day. 🇳🇬 maxsiollun’s #WhatBritainDidToNigeria exposes the British Empire’s shameful impact on Africa’s most populous state. ‘Absorbing.’ - ForeignAffairs Use code for 50% off ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (27 October 2022)
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Posted 1 year ago (25 October 2022)
As part of our #BHM sale, get 50% off DanellJones7's ‘An African in Imperial London’! A vivid biography of Sierra Leonean writer A. B. C. Merriman-Labor that opens a window onto racial attitudes in Edwardian London. Use code at checkout ➡️
Posted 1 year ago (20 October 2022)
‘Insightful’ - thetimes ‘Thought-provoking’ - nytimes ‘Undeniable genius’ - CornelWest A collection of thoughtful reflections on migration and identity from an African woman abroad, Nanjala1's #TravellingWhileBlack is 50% off! Use code ➡️ #BHM
Posted 2 years ago (18 October 2022)
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Posted 2 years ago (14 October 2022)
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Posted 2 years ago (12 October 2022)
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Posted 2 years ago (10 October 2022)
📚Back in stock! With the release of WomanKingMovie, there is renewed interest in the women warriors of Dahomey. Read about them in Alpern’s ‘Amazons of Black Sparta’, as referenced in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Series! Use code for 50% off: #BHM
Posted 2 years ago (05 October 2022)
🚨Pre-order #InsecureGuardians now!🚨 ZohaWaseem builds on extensive fieldwork and 200 interviews to construct an in-depth study of the policing practices of Karachi, spanning both colonial and postcolonial contexts. Get 25% off with code ➡️
Posted 2 years ago (03 October 2022)
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Posted 2 years ago (01 October 2022)
الحمد لله والشكر لله "Islam and the Arab Revolutions" is now out as a £20 paperback in the UK And there's a "Back to Uni" sale offering a further 40% off With the promo code: applied to ➡️ , the book is just £12! *Free shipping on 2 or more books
Posted 2 years ago (20 September 2022)
BLACK CROWN, my biography of Henry Christophe, the King of Haiti, isn't out until January, but if you'd like to pre-order it HurstPublishers are currently offering a massive 40% off ALL their books until 30 Sep: just use the code at checkout! 🇭🇹👑📚
Posted 2 years ago (15 September 2022)
📚 Back to Uni Sale! Get 40% off all Hurst titles using the code at the checkout. Make the most of great prices on fascinating titles across many subject areas, including Politics & IR, History, War Studies, African, Asian & European Studies. ➡️
Posted 2 years ago (15 September 2022)