2022 Releases

Taking African Agency Seriously Decolonisation has lost its way. Originally a struggle to escape the West’s direct political and economic control, it has become a catch-all idea, often for performing...

Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of eight million formerly incarcerated men...

From the author of Women, Race, and Class, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflicts In these newly...

A New History of Revolution and Empire WINNER OF THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN-HESSEL TILTMAN PRIZE 2021LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE...

A Global History from Socrates to Social Media A global history of free speech, from the ancient world to today. Hailed as the "first freedom," free speech is the bedrock...

The Journey of the Uluru Statement from the Heart Continues In this updated edition of the bestselling book, Finding the Heart of the Nation, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander author...

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FINALIST“Essential and fresh and vital . . . It is the argument of this important book that until Americans can reimagine rights, there is...

Ranging from chattel slavery, through the New Deal to the Covid pandemic, a groundbreaking work that investigates how pivotal decisions have established and perpetuated discriminatory practices, even as the rise...

The untold story of the shadowy international spy network, through its targets, traitors and spiesThe Secret History of The Five Eyes: The untold story of the international spy network, is...

A collection of essays on resistance, resilience, and collective power in the age of climate disaster from Chamorro human rights lawyer and organiser Julian Aguon.Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate...

An Imprisoned Writer SpeaksIn Xinjiang, the large northwest region of China, the government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs in re-education camps. One of the incarcerated — whose sentence,...