Books

The Politics of Caste in West Bengal offers for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the making and maintenance of a modern caste society in colonial and…

Qatar has fewer than two million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the…

Said Nursi (1878-1960) is the most influential figure in twentieth century Muslim scholarship and the author of the Risale-i Nur, a 6000 page commentary on the Holy Qur’an. This collection…

This book examines whether oil and natural gas-dependent rentier monarchies can keep their natural resource use and the environment in balance. Studying the cases of Abu Dhabi and Qatar, Mari…

In 1989, a secretive movement of Islamists allied itself to a military cabal to violently take power in Africa’s biggest country. Sudan’s revolutionary regime was built on four pillars –…

The Basics of American Politics covers all the terms and topics needed to understand the nuts-and-bolts of American government and politics. Wasserman uses a dynamic game metaphor to engage the…

This book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalist and terrorist practice. Assessing an increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed at commercial entities in urban areas, with…

Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as Americans increasingly came into contact with the Islamic world, U.S. diplomatic, cultural, political, and religious beliefs about Islam began to shape their…

This book is primarily concerned with the question of immortal poetry, meaning what makes a message a technical impact, and therefore it does not penetrate the text to what is…

This book delves into how Turkey and Qatar have come to forge a mutually special relationship. The book argues that throughout the 2000’s, Turkey and Qatar had pursued similar foreign…

The contributions in “Staking claims: The Politics of Social Movements in Contemporary Rural India” explore movements against capital and the state in contemporary rural India in three complementary ways. First,…