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Revolutionary novelist, historian, anarchist, Bolshevik and dissident—Victor Serge is one of the most compelling figures of Soviet history. Set aga...

Victors’ Justice is a potent and articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law by the West, combining historical detail, j...

Victors’ Justice is a potent and articulate polemic against the manipulation of international penal law by the West, combining historical detail, j...

Contemporary art and the culture of speedHow have artists responded to our market-driven, tech-enabled culture of speed? Viewing Velocities explore...

This engaging analysis of the refugee crisis explores how borders are formed, policed—and used to inflict violence on the poor.“In an era of terror...

This engaging analysis of the refugee crisis explores how borders are formed, policed—and used to inflict violence on the poor.“In an era of terror...

Viramma tells her fascinating life story with the unsentimentality, humor and dramatic sense of a born storyteller: her carefree childhood; her mar...

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) and the new economy they herald are generally either glorified as unprecedented opportunities fo...

Robespierre’s justification of the Terror in the French RevolutionRobespierre’s defence of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful a...

In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Anthony Arblaster shows that attempts by many music critics to disregard or disparage opera’s politics are...

In July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary general of the...

Innocent, but imprisoned—troubling stories of wrongful convictionSurviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of lif...

These remarkable oral histories of undocumented men and women struggling to carve a life for themselves in the U.S. “[fill] a gap in our understand...

These remarkable oral histories of undocumented men and women struggling to carve a life for themselves in the U.S. “[fill] a gap in our understand...

“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Oran...

“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Oran...

Lives from an invisible community—the migrant farmworkers of the United States The Grapes of Wrath brought national attention to the condition of C...

Innocent, but imprisoned—troubling stories of wrongful convictionSurviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of lif...

Innocent, but imprisoned—troubling stories of wrongful convictionSurviving Justice presents oral histories of thirteen people from all walks of lif...

These remarkable oral histories of undocumented men and women struggling to carve a life for themselves in the U.S. “[fill] a gap in our understand...

“Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Oran...

Bringing together some of the figures most closely associated with Edward Said and his scholarship, Waiting for the Barbarians looks at Said the pu...