Political Control & Freedoms

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...

Pioneering human rights campaigner, patriot, romantic, traitor, LGBTQ+ martyr: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most ...

The story of the Tuskegee Airmen, the first African American pilots in American military service, is a complex tapestry with many story threads, su...

In the decade after the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board decision, it became clear to students, parents, and community members alike that court cases w...

Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude...

Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform that unfolded in Peru during the final thre...

SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER ‘The most important book of the year’  Daily Mail The b...

The first biography of the glamorous and scandalous Miriam Leslie—a titan of publishing and an unsung hero of women’s suffrage—connecting Gilded Ag...

In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of U.S. property owners as part of President Lázaro Cá...

This volume sets out to describe the political and philosophical underpinnings of the idea of human rights by bringing together a collection of ori...

This book attempts to analyse the concept of religious expression vis-à-vis freedom of speech in Malaysia from the philosophical, political and the...