Political oppression and persecution

Argues that North American settler colonialism included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention.

Die polemischen Schriften in diesem Band handeln von der vielschichtigen Beziehung zwischen Geschichte, Philosophie und Politik.

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.

Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy.

Under violent military dictatorship, Operation Condor and the Dirty War scarred Argentina from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, leaving behind a legacy of repression, state terror, and political murder.

The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck examines the intertwined lives of five women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in social transformation unraveled.

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

Fußball in der "Hauptstadt der Bewegung" – Ein Verein als Teil der deutschen Gesellschaft der NS-Zeit.

A muggy night in Abu Dhabi, 2011.

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

¿Pueden ser considerados los motines como movimientos de emancipación, de independencia local o regional, concebida esta por los indios de una manera propia y particular?

Im Zuge der Option 1939 wurden Südtiroler im annektierten Böhmen und Mähren, dem "Reichsgau Sudetenland", angesiedelt, um die Reichsgrenzen auszuweiten und die Slawen zu vertreiben.

Examining how gender impacts political sex scandals in the United States, this book explains how political sex scandals contribute to the mistrust of government and identifies why these events have serious consequences for our political system.

The ';extraordinary life story' (Publishers Weekly) of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai, a leading Hong Kong democracy activist fighting for freedom of speech who became China's most famous political prisoner.

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

Der stalinsche Terror Ende der dreißiger Jahre übersteigt, wie auch der Holocaust, in seinen Ausmaßen und Gräueln das menschliche Vorstellungsvermögen.

Una comprensión del derecho y su eficacia en América Latina exige conceptos distintos a las nociones hegemónicas de ""estado de derecho"" que han dominado los debates sobre el derecho, la política y la sociedad, y que reconozcan la diversidad de situaciones y contextos que caracterizan a la región.

Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Armando Valladares was interned at Cubas infamous Isla de Pinos Prison (from whose barred windows he watched the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion).

Home to eighty thousand people, Accra's Old Fadama neighbourhood is the largest illegal slum in Ghana.

Witnessing Stalin's Justice brings together contemporary American reactions to the Moscow show trials and analyses them to understand their impact on US-Soviet relations.

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

A unique and revealing portrait of Saddam Hussein''s Iraq which was every bit as authoritarian and brutal as Stalin''s Russia or Mao''s China.

In this remarkable book, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, tells her extraordinary life story.

On July 23, 1967, the eyes of the world fixed on Detroit, as thousands took to the streets to vent their frustrations with white racism, police brutality, and vanishing job prospects in the place that gave rise to the American Dream.

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.

Mass Protests in Iran: From Resistance to Overthrow explores the various waves of protests in Iran over the past 44 years, surveying their causes, consequences, and outcomes.

Arrested in 1960 for being philosophically and religiously opposed to communism, Armando Valladares was interned at Cubas infamous Isla de Pinos Prison (from whose barred windows he watched the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion).

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.

Starting with the basic question "e;what is this place?

Father Michael Lapsley verlor als Kämpfer gegen die Apartheid bei einem Briefbombenattentat beide Hände und eines seiner Augen.

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

How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under strict state control and without access to archives?

Neueste Forschung zur europäischen Dimension der nationalsozialistischen "Euthanasie"-Verbrechen.

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

A well-balanced and detailed look at the East German Ministry for State Security, the secret police force more commonly known as the Stasi.

Nils Melzer, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, uncovers a systematic campaign to persecute Assange.

Spread out over many years and many different publications, the late author and activist Marta Russell wrote a number of groundbreaking and insightful essays on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism.

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

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.

Syria has been at the centre of world news since 2011, following the beginnings of a popular uprising in the country and its subsequent violent repression.

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

2008 was the year of the 220th anniversary of permanent white settlement in Australia - a year of celebration, but not for all citizens.