Political Structures: Totalitarianism & Dictatorship

As Hitler's dreams of a Thousand Year Reich crumbled in the face of overwhelming assaults from both East and West in the first months of 1945 the h...

_______________ THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER _______________ 'A powerful love story spanning generations Full of amb...

The most secretive, repressive state in Africa is haemorrhaging its citizens. In some months as many Eritreans as Syrians arrive on European shores...

___________ A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022 A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022 Fascinating Youll learn more about the psychological ...

A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world.For the 150 years that Hong...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary insight into life under one of the worlds most ruthless and secretive dictatorships and the s...

Simon Schama, in defence of the essay in the age of Twitter, writes: 'The self-propulsion of a ranging intelligence is the dynamo that drives a pow...

Soraya was a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, the Guid...

Warlords are individuals who control small territories within weak states, using a combination of force and patronage. In this book, Kimberly Marte...

A groundbreaking history of Europe's new lefts, from the antifascist 1920s to the anti-establishment 1960sIn the 1960s, the radical youth of Wester...

The most important book of 2022. Dr. Robert Malone Desmets work on mass formation theory was brought to the worlds attention on The Joe Rogan Expe...

Combining the intimacy of memoir and the precision of history, the story of psychologist Nicolae Margineanu's imprisonment and survival conveys in ...

In 2015, Nigeria's voters cast out the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Here, A. Carl LeVan traces the political vulnerability of Africa's l...

In 2015, Nigeria's voters cast out the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Here, A. Carl LeVan traces the political vulnerability of Africa's l...

This book charts the history of a distinct strain of European literary modernism that emerged out of a radical re-engagement with late nineteenth-c...

From Richard Seymour, one of the UKs leading public intellectuals, comes a characteristic blend of forensic insight and analysis, personal journey,...

Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West. Strategically located in the heart of Central Asia...

Over much of its rule, the regime of Hafez al-Asad and his successor Bashar al-Asad deployed violence on a massive scale to maintain its grip on po...

Citizen Support for Democratic and Autocratic Regimes takes a political-culture perspective on the struggle between democracy and autocracy by exam...

In the town of Balbek the far right are about to seize power. At the local theatre, Aymeric dreams of celebrity; Lucas longs for a liberal revoluti...