Political Oppression & Persecution

Mirrors of Destruction examines the relationship between total war, state-organized genocide, and the emergence of modern identity. Here, Omer Bart...

This book examines the relationship between total war, state-organized genocide, and the emergence of modern identity. Omer Bartov demonstrates tha...

This is a well-researched, and frequently entertaining, account of the rise and fall of the House Committee on Un-American activities. Fried descri...

***WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS' ASSOCIATION ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION***'Meticulous and gripping - a thriller that disturbs for revelations ...

Toleration is one of the most studied concepts in contemporary political theory and philosophy, yet the range of contemporary normative prescriptio...

After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs. Today, there are thought to b...

When the Turks demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Is...

When the Turks demanded the cancellation of all lectures on the Armenian Genocide and that Armenian lecturers not be allowed to participate, the Is...

The genocide in Myanmar has drawn global attention as Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi appears to be presiding over human rights violati...

A Palestinian prisoner’s memoir of thirty years’ captivity, and a love letter to the wall that encircles and comforts him This is the story of a w...

This collection of prison writings straddles two continents, and compares and contrasts the political struggles that gave birth to two vibrant new ...

The McCarthy era was a bad time for freedom in America. Encompassing far more than the brief career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was the most wid...

How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turm...

East Asia, until recently the scene of widespread blood-letting, has achieved relative peace. A region that at the height of the Cold War had accou...

While it is true that genocide prevention is not what tends to land on the front pages of national newspapers today, it is what prevents the worst ...

Peter Popham's major new biography of Aung San Suu Kyi draws upon previously untapped testimony and fresh revelations to tell the story of a woman ...

In this remarkable book, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, tells her extraordinary life story...

In December 2005, Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, assured the world that the flights of CIA private jets that have criss-crossed Europ...

Europe has entered the 21st century in a state of growing uncertainty about the role and scope of traditional political rights. The scope of 'polit...

This edited collection examines the growing uncertainty about the role and scope of traditional political rights in the 21st Century's increased th...

Until now, Hollywood's political history has been dominated by a steady stream of films and memoirs decrying the nightmare of the Red Scare. But Ro...

Black Religious Landscaping in Africa and the United States uses the prism of spatial theory to explore various aspects of Black landscapes on the...

Jina Mahsa Amini’s death at the hands of Iran’s Morality Police on 16 September 2022 sparked widespread protests across the country. Women took to ...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 199...

Explosively personal account by a British lawyer who defends Death Row prisoners and Guantanamo Bay detainees.Clive Stafford Smith is the 46-year-o...

This book provides a comprehensive account of the imprisonment of women for politically motivated offences in Northern Ireland between 1972 and 199...

The USSR's Writer's Union, a form of cultural and political organization unknown in the West, has ruled every aspect of Russian writers' private an...

In post-Brexit Britain wracked by multiple crises, the entitlements of citizenship grow increasingly precarious. 'Britishness' is a way of understa...

The autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia is little-known in the English-speaking world, even though it is a territory of high significance fo...

Since the Gezi uprisings in June 2013 and AKP’s temporary loss of parliamentary supremacy after the June 2015 general elections, sharp political cl...

Home to eighty thousand people, Accra’s Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana. Though almost all its inhabitants are Ghanai...

Stalin's Police offers a new interpretation of the mass repressions associated with the Stalinist terror of the late 1930s. This pioneering study t...

Following the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, many Iraqi academics were assassinated. Countless others received bullets in envelopes and instructions ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt used radio fireside chats to connect with millions of ordinary Americans. The highly articulate and telegenic John F. K...