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  • The Threat of Liberation

    Imperialism and Revolution in Zanzibar

    by Amrit Wilson ...
    The Threat of Liberation returns to the tumultuous years of the Cold War, when, in a striking parallel with today, imperialist powers were seeking to institute 'regime change' and install pliant governments.Using iconic photographs, declassified US and British documents, and in-depth interviews, Amrit Wilson examines the role of the Umma Party of Zanzibar and its leader, the visionary Marxist ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Challenge Road

    Women and the Eritrean Revolution

    by Amrit Wilson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Revolution
    This book, first published in 1991, analyses the role of women in the Eritrean struggle for independence. Emerging from a semi-feudal world, these women – peasants and pastoralists, student activists and workers from the cities – participated fully in the Eritrean revolution. They have organized cells, gathered intelligence, carried out clandestine missions, set up and ran health and education ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Finding a Voice

    Asian Women in Britain

    by Amrit Wilson ...
    Finding a Voice - Asian Women in Britain published in 1978 and winner of the Martin Luther King award, was, and remains, an influential feminist book. Based on interviews, discussions and intimate one-to- one conversations with South Asian women, conducted often in Urdu, Hindi or Bengali (if they were most at ease in these languages) and sensitively translated, the book explores what it was like ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Finding a Voice

    Asian Women in Britain (New and Expanded Edition)

    by Amrit Wilson ...
    First published in 1978, and winning the Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for that year, Finding a Voice established a new discourse on South Asian women's lives and struggles in Britain. Through discussions, interviews and intimate one-to-one conversations with South Asian women, in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali and English, it explored family relationships, the violence of immigration policies, deeply ... Read more

    $4.89 USD

  • Violence Against Women in South Asian Communities

    Issues for Policy and Practice

    by Marzia Balzani, Samia Bano, Hannah Siddiqui, Kaveri Sharma, Amrit Wilson, Trishima Mitra, Pragna Patel ...
    While forced marriage and 'honour-based' violence attract media attention, little is known about the issues and experiences of South Asian women and children who are affected by gendered violence.This book explores the key theoretical and empirical issues involved in gendered violence, ethnicity and South Asian communities. The editors draw together leading researchers and practitioners to provide ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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  • Understanding Eritrea

    Inside Africa's Most Repressive State

    by Martin Plaut ...
    The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is hemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores, yet the country is not convulsed by civil war. Young men and women risk all to escape. Many do not survive - their bones littering the Sahara; their bodies floating in the Mediterranean. Still they flee, to avoid permanent military service and a future ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Resilience and Triumph

    Immigrant Women Tell Their Stories

    Edited by The Book Project Collective ...
    Series series A Feminist History Sociey Book
    A collection of true stories from 54 racialized immigrant and refugee women create an eclectic mix of three generations of voices. Women in their 20s to those in their 70s provide snapshots that begin in the 1960s and go to the present. Together these vividly recounted entries capture historical and everyday moments that reveal striking similarities and differences. Resilience and Triumph provides ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Modern India

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people benefiting from the economic boom? Does caste still exist in India? How is India's culture ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Biracial Britain

    What It Means To Be Mixed Race

    by Remi Adekoya ...
    'Barack Obama had a special talent for making different kinds of people feel comfortable around him because of his biracial life experience, says Adekoya. By the same token, Adekoya himself seems poised to become one of the most important and subtle new voices in Britain's never-ending conversation about race' David Goodhart, UnherdMixed-race is the fastest-growing minority group in Britain. By ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Women, Power and Leadership:

    Case Studies of Indira Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher and Golda Meir

    by Madhuparna Gupta. ...
    The author is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Chandernagore Government College, West Bengal, India. She received her Ph.D. in International Relations from Jadavpur University in 2014 and is a Gold medallist in her M.A. programme from the same university. She has also served as an instructor of German language at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata and translated ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Turkey Under Erdogan

    How a Country Turned from Democracy and the West

    by Dimitar Bechev ...
    An incisive account of Erdoğan’s Turkey – showing how its troubling transformation may be short-livedSince coming to power in 2002 Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has overseen a radical transformation of Turkey. Once a pillar of the Western alliance, the country has embarked on a militaristic foreign policy, intervening in regional flashpoints from Nagorno-Karabakh to Libya. And its democracy, sustained by ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-1947

    Contour of Freedom

    by Bidyut Chakrabarty ...
    The fragmentation of Bengal and Assam in 1947 was a crucial moment in India's socio-political history as a nation state. Both the British Indian provinces were divided as much through the actions of the Muslim League as by those of Congress and the British colonial power. Attributing partition largely to Hindu communalists is, therefore, historically inaccurate and factually misleading. The ... Read more

    $45.99 USD