Political Activism

The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS, ...

Most people believe that black South Africans obtained the vote for the first time in 1994. In fact, for almost a century suitably qualified black ...

This is an accessible and up to date text for students on police-related degree courses covering a highly topical area of policing. Terrorism has b...

In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-...

How the legendary debate between a civil rights firebrand and the father of modern conservatism illuminates America's racial divideOn February 18, ...

The explosive tale of Peterloo, told `verbatim'' style through the voices of those who were there. More than 15 people died and 600 were severely w...

Sparked by the protest of a single vegetable seller in Tunisia, the flame of revolutionary passion swept across the Arab world in what has come to ...

OUT OF THE BOWELS of the sleepy southern town of Tupelo, Mississippi, the birthplace of Elvis Presley, emerges a darkly-humorous true story of stag...

When Mohamed Bouazizi set himself on fire in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia, in December 2010, sparking a wave of popular uprisings that would topple dictato...

A lively, inside account of Putins years of rule and the impending crisis that threatens his tsar-like regime  A beautifully written and very livel...

Emmeline Pankhurst's autobiography gives the reader an insight into the struggle to get votes for women. The biography does not hold back on detail...

In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? How have activists influenced public attention v...

On 9/11 the CIA changed. Once a organisation focused on information gathering, it became a militarised force. As Philip Mudd explains, at that time...

How is religion changing in the twenty-first century? In the global era, religion has leapt onto the world stage, often in contradictory ways. Some...

Feelings at the Margins offers a uniquely interdisciplinary take on the contemporary phenomenon of marginalization in Indonesia and its emotional i...

The Maldives is a small and beautiful archipelago south of India, more renowned for luxury resorts than experiments in democracy. It is a country o...

Comprehensive books to support study of History for the IB Diploma Paper 3, revised for first assessment in 2017. This coursebook covers Paper 3, ...

Drive critical, engaged historical learning. Helping learners more deeply understand historical concepts, the student-centred approach of this new ...

William Monroe Trotter (1872 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of ...

The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionar...

The Centenary Classics series examines the fascinating time of change and evolution in the Ireland of 100 years ago during the 1916-23 revolutionar...

Years have passed since 7/7. Alarmingly, however, even under Cameron Britain still continues to fan the radicalisation of its society. Britain''s p...