Human Rights

Providing a unique critical perspective to debates on slavery, this book brings the literature on transatlantic slavery into dialogue with research...

The collapse of socialist regimes across Southeastern Europe changed the rules of the political game and led to the transformation of these societi...

The debate about languages of instruction in Africa and Asia involves an analysis of both the historical thrust of national government and also dev...

The author assesses the politics of different humanitarian interventions in the Mexico-US border region developing a unique perspective on the sign...

State Voting Laws in America documents changing views on voting rights, emphasizing court rulings which shaped our understanding of what constitute...

This study focuses on the field of security studies through the prism of migration. Using ethnographic methods to illustrate an experiential theory...

This project provides an in-depth study of the role of worker-activist leaders in industrial strikes in China, a country where labor rights face si...

High-Risk Feminism in Colombia documents the experiences of grassroots womens organizations that united to demand gender justice during and in the ...

In an EU increasingly worried about the security of its citizens and its territory, how should the European Parliament make policy decisions in the...

This insightful book analyzes the political engagement and marginalization of three of Milan's migrant groups, Filipinos, Egyptians and Ecuadorians...

This volume focuses on challenges to the effective and proper use of human rights and tries to identify, through a series of case studies, strategi...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!A New York Times Book Review Editor's PickSecrets of the Sprakkar is a fascinating window into what a more gender-equa...

Fusing riveting testimony from African American veterans with the most incisive research of current military scholars, Black Veterans, Politics, an...

The Iraqi Bath states Anfal operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth centurys ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human....

As racially-based inequalities and spatial segregation deepen, further strained by emergent problems associated with climate change, ever-widening ...

The authors explore the outlook of Rwanda in the context of development of East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. They examine Rwanda's vision, achiev...

Louis Austin (1898-1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of the long black freedom struggle in Nort...

For many, the story of the weeks of protests in the summer of 2020 began with the horrific eight minutes and 46 seconds when Police Officer Derek C...

This book offers a thorough, critical, and accessible analysis of the American Convention on Human Rights which is the main human rights treaty of ...

The story of Women's Soccers fight for equal pay as chronicled by counsel and leader of the USWNTs Players Association. In All Things Being Equal, ...

The culmination of a lifetime's work by the celebrated journalist and historian Paul Foot, The Vote tells the thrilling story of how the universal ...

Mary Wilson was a 37-year-old Black woman who confessed to the killing of a white military officer at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, in 1913. While many ...

Globalization challenges fundamental principles governing international law, especially with respect to state sovereignty and international relatio...