Political Control & Freedoms

Natural Right and History is widely recognized as Strauss's most influential work. The six lectures, written while Strauss was at the New School, a...

A selection of George Orwell's prescient, clear-eyed and stimulating writing on the subjects of truth and lies. With an introduction by Alan Johnso...

Winner, 2023 Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, American Sociolo...

In 1919, award-winning poet Eve L. Ewing recovers the essentially human stories at the heart of the Chicago Race Riot of 1919: of the people who to...

2022 PROSE Award Finalist in Architecture and Urban Planning 2022 Association for Latin American Art Arvey Foundation Book Award, Honorable Mention...

‘A formidable, brave and important book’ Robert Macfarlane Who owns England? ...

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKWhen the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pione...

From the Palestinian struggle against Israeli Apartheid, to First Nations' mass campaigns against pipeline construction in North America, Indigenou...

Spotlights how various entities are using the Internet to shape people's perceptions and decision-making, and describes detailed case studies as we...

Political advice has never seemed more prominent – or more problematic. This volume of essays speaks to a contemporary concern, set in a wider hist...

Social Movements cleverly translates the art of collective action and mobilization by excluded groups to facilitate understanding social change fro...

Stephen Haliczer has mined rich documentary sources to produce the most comprehensive and enlightening picture yet of the Inquisition in Spain. The...

Harnessing the Holocaust presents the compelling story of how the Nazi genocide of the Jews became an almost daily source of controversy in French ...

In this collection of writings produced between 2000 and 2018, the pioneering literary historian of the Czech underground, Martin Machovec, examine...

In 1992 the Venerable Palden Gyatso was released after thirty-three years of imprisonment by Chinese forces in Tibet. He fled across the Himalayas ...

An exploration of the importation of French political thought into England during the last decades of Elizabeth's reign. The French Religious Wars...

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to investigate more than thirty years of human rights violations under apartheid. Jillian E...

'Suddently, at about one o'clock in the morning, there was a sharp, unbearably explicit knock on the door. 'They've come for Osip', I said'.In 1933...

During the Cold War, writers and artists were faced with a huge challenge. In the Soviet world, they were expected to turn out works that glorified...

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023‘Johnson’s stories bring … this history chillingly alive’ Christina Patterson, Sunday Time...

In this open access book, Carlos Montemayor illuminates the development of artificial intelligence (AI) by examining our drive to live a dignified ...

The U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America's fight for freedom and equality. From eye-opening landmarks to ...

Shortlisted, 2024 Academic Book Award, Palestine Book AwardsIn the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regi...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES' BEST BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023ONE OF THE N...

'This is a book for the future: it gives us exactly the tools we need to dismantle racial injustice in our society' Baroness Doreen Lawrence 'A ...

The battle for freedom in Putin's Russia. Twelve Russians from across the country’s social spectrum all have one thing in common: their participati...

A ground-breaking argument about children, racism and how to build the antiracist society of the future - from the author of the million-copy globa...