Political oppression and persecution

The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994.

Confronting the truths of Canada's Indian residential school system has been likened to waking a sleeping giant.

Steve Biko was an exceptional and inspirational leader, a pivotal figure in South African history.

The persecution and mass-murder of the Jews during World War II would not have been possible without the modern organization of division of labor.

Although often overlooked, anti-Polish sentiment was central to Nazi ideology.

While the history of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twentieth century, the related Black Power movement has taken a more complex path through the nation's history.

This book provides a sophisticated investigation into the experience of being exterminated, as felt by victims of the Holocaust, and compares and contrasts this analysis with the experiences of people who have been colonized or enslaved.

Compares the crucial role of Arab armies in state building, a decade after the 2011 Arab Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria.

John Anderson constructs a theoretical framework where he compares and contrasts the politics of religious liberty in politically evolving countries.

A pioneering history of medical care in Stalin's Gulag-showing how doctors and nurses cared for inmates in appalling conditions A byword for injustice, suffering, and mass mortality, the Gulag exploited prisoners, compelling them to work harder for better rations in shocking conditions.

Ein einzigartiges Ministerium in der deutschen NachkriegsgeschichteDie Folgen von Flucht und Vertreibung gehören mit zu den größten Herausforderungen der deutschen Geschichte nach 1945.

A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russia's past -- and present.

Canada has been giving foreign aid now for about fifteen years, and this book is the first to show what Canada has done in this new area of international diplomacy.

The world was watching when footage of the "e;tank man"e; -- the lone Chinese citizen blocking the passage of a column of tanks during the brutal 1989 crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square -- first appeared in the media.

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

Delving deeper into the soul of Islam and the definition of spirituality, this third volume examines the mainstream path that seekers are expected to follow in order to learn the fundamental concepts of Sufism and the essentials of the Islamic faith.

A systematic examination of emotions and world politics, showing how emotions underpin political agency and collective action after trauma.

This meticulously curated edited volume presents an assemblage of insightful, critical, and contemporary perspectives on how Israeli domination has been sustained and reproduced in new forms and means using various mechanisms and techniques of control, coloniality, and settler colonialism.

Considering fiction from the colonial era to the present, State of Peril offers the first sustained, scholarly examination of rape narratives in the literature of a country that has extremely high levels of sexual violence.

Investigates the psychological factors that led to the election of Donald Trump and the accompanying escalation of hate violence and intolerance in the United States.

A lucid, moving view into an often obscured part of our world, exploring notions of democracy, identity, and the resilience of the human spiritIn the wake of losing her beloved grandfather, Delphine Minoui decided to visit Iran for the first time since the revolution.

As the leading Muslim political spokesman and intellectual, Izetbegovi'c was imprisoned by the Yugoslavian government in 1983 for a 14-year sentence.

Comic books for adults have become one of the most novel and colourful forms of cultural expression in the Arab world today.

Zero Tolerance analyzes the cycles of repression and violence that grip Xinjiang, clarifying the policies and interests that drive China''s mistreatment of its Uyghur minority.

Drei Jahre lang beschäftigte sich eine Projektgruppe an der Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main mit der Psychiatrie im Faschismus am Beispiel Hadamars.

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

Investigates state responses to the Kimberley Process, an international agreement meant to reduce the trade of conflict diamonds.

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

Using autoethnography to examine the social construction of whiteness in Puerto Rico.

Rapley analyses witch hunts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and finds many of the same elements repeated in more recent miscarriages of justice - from the Dreyfus case for treason in late nineteenth-century France, to the persecution of the Scottsboro Boys in Alabama for the gang rape of two white girls in the 1930s, to the Guildford and Maguire terrorist prosecutions in Britain in the 1970s.

Der Bürgerkommentar bietet verständliche und zeitgemäße Erläuterungen zu den Regelungen der nordrheinwestfälischenLandesverfassung.

A beautifully drawn graphic novel that illuminates the conflicted land of Kashmir, through a young boy's childhood.

Democratic Accommodations: The Minority Question in India analyses the complex story of the accommodation of claims, interests and rights of minorities in India.

The 1,400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shiis is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iranwith no apparent end in sight.