Political Structures: Totalitarianism & Dictatorship

The first volume of a new narrative history of the rise and fall of the Nazi regime, by an expert on the Third Reich. 'One of the books of the yea...

The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern IndiaOn the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of eme...

On 2 May 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision ...

Winner of the Yad Vashem International Book Prize for Holocaust ResearchThe scale and the depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What ...

What does the head of the Kremlin think about? What are his hopes and aims for the lands bordering Russia, for Europe, and even the world? In Janua...

Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still div...

Stonking! Why Trump must win for the world discusses China''s spurious rise and the 2020 USA elections. The author posits that Trump and some of hi...

Written in the tradition of historians like Mary Beard and Stacy Schiff who find modern lessons in ancient history, this provocative narrative expl...

A FINANCIAL TIMES, ECONOMIST AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020''''How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document, written with ...

The dynamics of religion, tribalism, oil and ideology have always been dominant in Libya, which is trying to establish a new order in the political...

The perfect gift for the activists, rebels and freedom fighters in your life... FROM THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF MY SEDITIOUS HEART AND THE MINISTRY...

We are plagued by leaders who mislead and repress it is more important than ever to stand up to them. The Covid-19 catastrophe has exposed the fa...

What is political correctness? What is conformism? And could one say that pre-emptive obedience is a part of the increasingly prevalent climate of ...

Can foreign capital empower dictatorship? This groundbreaking book develops a unified theory that links three prominent forms of international capi...

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at a...

Whose Middle Ages? is an interdisciplinary collection of short, accessible essays intended for the nonspecialist reader and ideal for teaching at a...

Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gib...

Regicide, military dictatorship, war and rumours of war, opposition from all sides and collapse of a 'failed state': such is the story of Oliver Cr...

A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times The writer is the engineer of the human soul, claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many ...

Soon after Satchel Paige arrived at spring training in 1937 to pitch for the Pittsburgh Crawfords, he and five of his teammates, including Josh Gib...

What drives Marine Le Pen and France's Front National? Has her party really changed its ways, or is she merely rebranding its old ideas and policie...

A Financial Times Book of the Year 'Jaw-dropping' Daily Express 'Grimly fascinating' Financial Times 'Humane, timely, accessible and well-researc...

Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliche. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy I...

The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Be...

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. The true culprits are dictators and counterfeit d...

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Even...

For the last century, the Western world has regarded Turkey as a pivotal case of the 'clash of civilisations' between Islam and the West. Why Turke...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A sort of survival book, a sort of symptom-diagnosis manual in terms of losing your democracy and what tyranny and aut...

By producing literature in nontraditional formsbooks made of cardboard trash, posters in subway stations, miniature shopping bags, digital publicat...

Belarus is an isolated country dominated by one man. Few tourists go there despite its fascinating, cultured past and beautiful countryside. Belaru...

In the midst of the political upheavals that engulfed Myanmar from 2010 to 2011, international attention was fixed upon the military regime and its...

An exploration of the convulsive history of the 20th centurys first five decades, seen through the lens of families and family life In this masterl...

Exam Board: Edexcel Level: A level Subject: History First teaching: September 2015 First exams: June 2017 This book: covers the essential c...

In some circles, a nod towards totalitarianism is enough to dismiss any critique of the status quo. Such is the insidiousness of the neo-liberal id...