Political Control & Freedoms

While Florida is rarely considered a traditional southern state, its history of race relations reveals otherwise. This study of the civil rights mo...

On February 22, 1895, a naval force laid siege to Brass, the chief city of the Ijo people of Nembe in Nigeria's Niger Delta. After severe fighting,...

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding war rape and its impact, through empirical examination of the case of Bosnia. Providing...

This book provides a critical history of the distinctive tradition of Indian secularism known as Tolerance. Since it was first advanced by Mohandas...

The book deals with the most challenging issues which the Slovak Mass Media are currently facing, including matters of public criticism. The first ...

This publication responds to the need for providing fresh insights into the new international order, the Russian Federation’s aggressive war agains...

"This book reads like a legal thriller; it will leave you thinking about the nature of justice and inspired by the human spirit."-Sister Helen Prej...

Is it impossible to assess dignity, which is the faculty or agency of autonomy and equality of rights under the current rule of law, when we are me...

The lubok—a broadside or poster—played an important role in Russia's cultural history. Evolving as a medium for communication with a largely illite...

Negotiating Culture and Human Rights provides a new interdisciplinary approach to issues of cultural values and universal human rights. Central to ...

The rhetoric of social justice is commonplace but increasingly it means little more than a tag line or a punctuation point. Reconstructing Social J...

In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of Amer...

This book studies children’s and young adult literature of genocide since 1945, considering issues of representation and using postcolonial theory ...

This book investigates why some societies defer transitional justice issues after successful democratic consolidation.Despite democratisation, the ...

Frustrated by the failure of the peace process to end the Israeli occupation, and outraged by Ariel Sharon's invasion, with one thousand armed guar...

Liberal democracy has provided a certain degree of lesbian and gay rights. But those rights, as we now know, are not unlimited, and they continue t...

Cleveland Sellers Jr. was the scapegoat for one of the bloodiest civil rights events of the 1960s. In 1968 state troopers gunned down black stude...

In Imprisoned Minds, Erik Maloney tells the stories of men in prison that few people ever hear. Six gripping, first-person narratives of incarcerat...

This book describes the lived experience of Kashmiris who came of age between 2007 and 2017. It shows that Kashmiris generally had high hopes for p...

Treason on the Airwaves traces the journeys of three World War II radio broadcasters whose wartime choices became treason in Britain, Australia, an...

Dixie Redux: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Hackney is a collection of original essays written by some of the nation’s most distinguished historians. E...

A trailblazing book that details the close historic ties between Black America and India over the decades

Data Justice and the Right to the City engages with theories of social justice and data-driven urbanism. It explores the intersecting concerns of d...

This book builds on Le Bon’s classic, The Crowd, to evaluate the role of crowds in American culture, society, and politics. It offers a detailed de...

Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years ...

Educationalists offer an overview of methods for researching those in positions of power. They focus on key issues with broad relevance to social s...

This special issue brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to examine the relationship between cartography and the expression of ethn...

Among several contesting views about the purpose of development and how progress should be evaluated, human rights and capabilities (or human devel...

The National Political Science Review is the official publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists. This series, now enteri...

A study of the relationship between race and American politics, organised around the institutions and processes of American government. It includes...

Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity, was murdered on 17 January 1961.Democratically elect...

An "Indispensable" Book of The Black World Today website A fresh new look at the Black Power movement and its leaders Much has been written about ...

Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was levelled by the Russians' bombs in 1979. After the men in her family joined the resistance, s...

A study of the relationship between race and American politics, organised around the institutions and processes of American government. It includes...

Human Rights Museums presents case studies that trace how calls for historical and social justice, and the commensurate rise of a rights regime hav...

Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles interrogates Blackness and illustrates how it has been used as a basis to oppress, dismiss and exclude Blacks fr...

The world is facing the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War. Over 300,000 are dead in Syria, and one and half million are either i...

A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights  “...

A journey from child bride to global changemaker. At just 10 years old, Sonita Alizada was nearly sold into marriage. By the time she tur...

A riveting narrative of the price of politics, money, and ambition, and an inspirational account of how ordinary people can prevail over powerful i...

Half a century after the Holocaust, on European soil, Bosnian Serbs orchestrated a system of concentration camps where they subjected their Bosniak...

Those who recognize Mayor George Moscone’s name may think of him as the career politician who was assassinated along with Harvey Milk, but there wa...

Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is t...