Political oppression and persecution

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 headlines from ever being made.

Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlers, and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order, hard work, and racial purity.

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

Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad.

Authoritarian states work hard to manage their images abroad.

Since 2015, Poland's populist Law and Justice Party (PiS) has been dismantling the major checks and balances of the Polish state and subordinating the courts, the civil service, and the media to the will of the executive.

Since 2015, Poland's populist Law and Justice Party (PiS) has been dismantling the major checks and balances of the Polish state and subordinating the courts, the civil service, and the media to the will of the executive.

This book explores a century of business development of The South African Life Assurance Company, from a specific local focus to a national conglomerate expanding into global insurance markets.

'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

'Censorship may have to do with literature', Nadine Gordimer once said, 'but literature has nothing whatever to do with censorship.

One of the most important political and ethical questions faced during a political transition from authoritarian or totalitarian to democratic rule is how to deal with legacies of repression.

A constant yet oftentimes concealed practice in war has been the use of informers and collaborators by parties to an armed conflict.

A constant yet oftentimes concealed practice in war has been the use of informers and collaborators by parties to an armed conflict.

East Asia, until recently the scene of widespread blood-letting, has achieved relative peace.

East Asia, until recently the scene of widespread blood-letting, has achieved relative peace.

This book is about an unprecedented attempt by the government of Russia's Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855) to eradicate what was seen as one of the greatest threats to its political security: the religious dissent of the Old Believers.

Witchcraft, Witch-hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England constitutes a wide-ranging and original overview of the place of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the broader culture of early modern England.

This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa.

Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for civil rights in the United States.

Activated by injustice, members of over-policed communities lead the current movement for civil rights in the United States.

Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it.

Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it.

Saying that political and social oppression is a deeply unjust and widespread condition of life is not a terribly controversial statement.

At the heart of Montaigne's Essais lies a political conception of religious tolerance that we have largely forgotten today.

At the heart of Montaigne's Essais lies a political conception of religious tolerance that we have largely forgotten today.

Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed.

Studies of genocide and mass atrocity most often focus on their causes and consequences, their aims and effects, and the number of people killed.

When Pakistan emerged as an independent state in 1947, it sought to provide a new homeland and safe harbor for South Asia's Muslims, the largest religious minority in the subcontinent at the time.

When Pakistan emerged as an independent state in 1947, it sought to provide a new homeland and safe harbor for South Asia's Muslims, the largest religious minority in the subcontinent at the time.

Saying that political and social oppression is a deeply unjust and widespread condition of life is not a terribly controversial statement.

Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlers, and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order, hard work, and racial purity.

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

Greta Thunberg.

Greta Thunberg.

The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries.

The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries.

Amid the brazen attacks of Trump's first 100 days in office, courts have played a leading role in resistance to the authoritarian onslaught.

I call this book Tombstone.

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs.

The Rebel is Camus's 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt.

Spain has had a long history of exiles.

Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin.

Letters from Burma - an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu KyiIn these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma's borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land.

A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution.

Este volumen recoge las actas del XII Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Colombiana de Juristas Católicos, acogido por la Universidad Católica de Colombia, y organizado como siempre por la Unión Internacional de Juristas Católicos (Roma), el Grupo Sectorial en Ciencias Políticas de la Federación Internacional de Universidades Católicas (París) y el Consejo de Estudios Hispánicos Felipe II (Madrid).

A Sunday Times Paperback of the Year 2024The Sunday Times Bestseller and Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024A Sunday Times History Book of the Year A Spectator Book of the Year The Irish Times No.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the wide-ranging body of law that applies to public protest activity.

A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZEA FINALIST FOR THE MOORE PRIZEA NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR'A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielded on the streets, others in the courts and press' NAOMI KLEIN'Essential reading' YANIS VAROUFAKISThe world's largest democracy is facing the greatest challenge since the end of British colonial rule in 1947.