Football In The Middle East

Abdullah Al-Arian

Hurst Publishers

West Irian and Jakarta Imperialism

Politics & Social Sciences

Kees Lagerberg

Politics & Government

Prior accounts have portrayed Islamic Spain either as a paradise of enlightened tolerance, or as the site where civilisations clashed. Award-winning historian Brian A. Catlos taps a wide array of original sources to paint a more complex picture, showing how Muslims, Christians, and Jews together built a sophisticated civilisation that transformed the Western world, even as they waged relentless war against each other and amongst themselves. Religion was often the language of conflict, but seldom its cause—a lesson we would do well to learn in our own time.\nKingdoms of Faith rewrites Spain’s Islamic past from the ground up, evoking the cultural splendour of al-Andalus and the many forces that shaped it.

Kingdoms of Faith History Islamic Spain

History

Catlos, Brian A.

Europe

Under Red Skies is an examination of the generational bonds and divisions of the Kan family and the panoramic effects of China's changing societal norms and fast-growing economy, where some succeed and others are destined to fail.\nKaroline Kan, a twenty-five-year-old Chinese native and investigative reporter, offers a poignant examination of China's history through the lens of three generations as they navigate hope and survival in the divided lines of country and city life. Kan tells the inspiring stories of her grandfather, who secretly hid government portions of rice in his hat to prevent his children from starving in the years of the Great Famine; her mother's resistance to the Second Child Policy; her cousin's work at a shoe factory; and the moral compromise of her Red Guard uncles after Mao Zedong's death. Through these defiant characters, Kan questions the complexities of life as a Chinese millennial--for better or worse--as the country's fate unfolds.\nUnder Red Skies is an engrossing eyewitness history that explores the shifting sands of China's tumultuous politics and the future of those who will inherit it.

Under Red Skies

Biographies & Memoirs

Karoline Kan

Historical

With Russian shells raining on Kyiv and tanks closing in, American forces prepared to evacuate Ukraine’s leader. Just three years earlier, his apparent main qualification had been playing a president on TV. But Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly retorted, ‘I need ammunition, not a ride.’ Ukrainian forces won the battle for Kyiv, ensuring their country’s independence even as a longer war began for the southeast.\nYou cannot understand the historic events of 2022 without understanding Zelensky. But the Zelensky effect is less about the man himself than about the civic nation he embodies: what makes Zelensky most extraordinary in war is his very ordinariness as a Ukrainian.\nThe Zelensky Effect explains this paradox, exploring Ukraine’s national history to show how its now-iconic president reflects the hopes and frustrations of the country’s first ‘independence generation’. Interweaving social and political background with compelling episodes from Zelensky’s life and career, this is the story of Ukraine told through the journey of one man who has come to symbolise his country.

The Zelensky Effect (New Perspectives on Eastern Europe & Eurasia)

Olga Onuch

Henry E. Hale

Travel to virtually any African country and you are likely to find a Coca-Cola, often a cold one at that. Bottled asks how this carbonated drink became ubiquitous across the continent, and what this reveals about the realities of globalisation, development and capitalism.\nBottled is the first assessment of the social, commercial and environmental impact of one of the planet’s biggest brands and largest corporations, in Africa. Sara Byala charts the company’s century-long involvement in everything from recycling and education to the anti-apartheid struggle, showing that Africans have harnessed Coca-Cola in varied expressions of modernity and self-determination: this is not a story of American capitalism running amok, but rather of a company becoming African, bending to consumer power in ways big and small.\nIn late capitalism, everyone’s fates are bound together. A beverage in Atlanta and a beverage in Johannesburg pull us all towards the same end narrative. This story matters for more than just the local reasons, enhancing our understanding of our globalised, integrated world. Drawing on fieldwork and research in company archives, Byala asks a question for our time: does Coca-Cola’s generative work offset the human and planetary costs associated with its growth in the twenty-first century?

Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African

Sara Byala

Unsuitable A History of Lesbian Fashion

Eleanor Medhurst

Muslim Women And Misogyny

Samia Rahman

Negotiating with the Devil Inside the World of Armed Conflict Mediation

Pierre Hazan

The Truth About Empire Real Histories of British Colonialism

Alan Lester

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