Human Rights

Rival understandings of the meaning and practice of the religious and the secular lead to rival public perspectives about religion and religious fr...

One of the potentially explosive issues of the modern era is a vast and growing disparity between the overwhelming predominance of elites in the de...

This book develops theoretical intersections between theatre and human rights and provides methodologies to investigate human rights questions from...

A National Park for Women's Rights chronicles a little-known story in American history: the establishment of the Women's Rights National Historical...

This book offers a response to the inadequate examination of the Midwest in Civil Rights Movement scholarship - scholarship that continues to ignor...

This is the first focused study on the relationship between the use of national courts to pursue retrospective justice and the construction of viab...

From the fundamental rights proclaimed in the American and French declarations of independence to the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights an...

Human rights violations are perpetrated in all parts of the world, and the universal reaction to such atrocities is overwhelmingly one of horror an...

As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis. Meanwhile, conti...

This book examines the central questions of democracy and politics in modern societies. Through an analysis of some of the key texts of 19th and 20...

Modern democracies face tough life-and-death choices in armed conflicts. Chief among them is how to weigh the value of soldiers' lives against thos...

Professor Russell-Wood’s detailed studies of Brazilian social history in the colonial era have long been recognised as model contributions to the h...

In Kashmir’s frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, ...

First Published in 1978. This is a book about why people so often put up with being the victims of their societies and why at other times they beco...

—Updated with new content— Extraordinary conversations between a confidant of Martin Luther King Jr. and a modern-day activist lead to the game-cha...

Charles Eastman, or "Ohiyesa"   in Santee, came of age during a period of increasing tension and violence between   Native and "new" Americans. Rai...

This handbook explores how democracies around the world seek to balance democratic values with the requirement to protect their citizens from the t...

Universal ideas of freedom are to be found throughout the world’s diverse intellectual and political traditions, spread by the global trade in idea...

This book explores the challenges of conflict resolution in protracted conflicts and conceptualises and analyses the practice of engagement without...

Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. ...

Human Rights Education for the Twenty-First Century is a comprehensive resource for training, education, and raising awareness in a wide variety of...

In a turnabout of the cynical belief that might makes right, nations now see fit to issue apologies to peoples and countries they have wronged. We ...