Political oppression and persecution

A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation.

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.

Mandela: His Essential Life chronicles the life and legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and admired statesmen.

Today Russia and human rights are both high on the international agenda.

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.

No issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict has proven more intractable than the status of the Palestinian refugees.

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.

This stirring collection of essays and talks by activist and former judge Albie Sachs is the culmination of more than 25 years of thought about constitution-making and non-racialism.

Amid ethnic violence, political corruption, and petty professionalintrigue, an artist tries to live free of lies.

Concluding a textually long but spiritually endless journey toward insan al-kamil--the perfect human--this fourth volume approaches Sufism through the middle way, an approach that revives the legacy of the Prophet Muhammad.

A revelatory historical indictment of the long afterlife of slavery in the Atlantic worldTo fully understand why the shadow of slavery haunts us today, we must confront the flawed way that it ended.

The 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel also resulted in the destruction of Palestinian society when some 80 per cent of the Palestinians who lived in the major part of Palestine upon which Israel was established became refugees.

Show Trials combines first-hand knowledge with hitherto unpublished, confidential material, to offer a penetrating and candid account of the Stalinist purges that occurred in Albanian, East German, Bulgarian, and Rumanian purges, as well as in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland.

The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state.

Eine unverzichtbare Stimme zur Lage der Demokratie in Ost und WestDer 9.

1970s South Korea is characterized by many as the "e;dark age for democracy.

Do you trust the liberal media?

Sheds new light on the relationship between tolerance and religion, concluding that local religious minorities are most likely to protect pluralism.

The media has told us for over twenty five years that the conflict in Northern Ireland is irrational and has 'no objective social basis'.

Barcelona Prose is a collection of autobiographical essays by the gifted translator, literary scholar, and dissident, Efim Etkind.

On June 4, Federal Police raided the home of Walkley award-winning journalist Annika Smethurst, changing her life forever.

The twenty-first century so far has seen the global rise of authoritarian populism, systematic racism, and dogmatic metaphysics.

After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs.

Prisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society.

The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world's eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag.

This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence.

One is usually conscious of tyranny and oppression; domination is more subtle.

When Minh Pham was extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism related charges, his appeal against the deprivation of his British citizenship was still pending.

After fleeing their homeland, Australian refugee policies threaten to tear this young couple apart.

One of the few Western commentators to have lived in the region, journalist Nick Holdstock travels into the heart of the province reveals the Uyghur story as one of repression and hardship.

A major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom Penh, one of seven children of a high-ranking government official.

A NEW YORK TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, HISTORY TODAY AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Masterly.

Argentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II.

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

The sensational true story of Kenyan missionary John Kaiser: A murdered priest.

This book shows how diasporas are mobilised to challenge authoritarian governments - by whom, for what purposes, and with what consequences.

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

Developing a knowledge of the Spanish-Italian connection between right-wing extremist groups is crucial to any detailed understanding of the history of fascism.

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

***The subject of the new major film by Mike Leigh***Unity of the oppressed can make a difference in politically uncertain times A peaceful protest turned tragedy; this is the true story of the working class fight for the vote.

A Must-Read Book of 2020 - TIME'Should be read around the world.

Everyone should spend a couple of hours of their life reading it, to remind themselves that, even in the darkest depth of human misery, the bravest souls still exist.

'A wonderful book .

Palestine Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Winner 2022'Roy is humanely and professionally committed in ways that are unmatched by any other non-Palestinian scholar' - Edward W.

La libre determinación de los pueblos indígenas es un derecho fundamental reconocido por el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos a partir del cambio del paradigma de la asimilación al paradigma intercultural.

This book is a unique account by a survivor of both the Soviet and Nazi concentration camps: its author, Margarete Buber-Neumann, was a loyal member of the German Communist party.

As the world becomes ever more unequal, people become ever more 'disposable'.