Titles
John Laughland
A History of Political Trials
From Charles I to Saddam Hussein
Paperback ISBN 978-1-906165-00-0
Hardback ISBN 978-1-906165-05-5
By examining trials of heads of state and government throughout history – figures as different as Charles I, Louis XVI, Erich Honecker and Saddam Hussein – Laughland shows that modern trials of heads of state have ugly historical precedents. In their different ways, all the trials he describes were marked by arbitrariness and injustice, and many were gross exercises in hypocrisy. Political trials, he finds, are but the continuation of war by other means.

Peter Burke and Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke
Gilberto Freyre
Social Theory in the Tropics
Paperback ISBN 978-1-906165-04-8
Hardback ISBN 978-1-906165-09-3
Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. His interest in gender, ethnicity, hybridity, identity, globalization, and capitalism ensures that his ideas are still provocative and topical. This book, by two very distinguished Freyre scholars, is the first in English to introduce him to a non-Brazilian audience.

Richard Bonney
False Prophets
The ‘Clash of Civilizations’ and the Global War on Terror
Paperback ISBN 978-1-906165-02-4
Hardback ISBN 978-1-906165-07-9
Richard Bonney’s controversial new book takes as its subject Huntington’s ‘clash of civilizations’ thesis and, for the first time, looks at the history of this so-called struggle of civilizations before it came to prominence in the twenty-first century. It then identifies the twenty-first century proponents of the thesis, such as Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes, their links to the Bush government and their roles in exploiting this tradition of hostility between the West and Islam to further the political agendas, including the invasion of Iraq.

Amit Chaudhuri
Clearing a Space
Reflections on India, Literature and Culture
Paperback ISBN 978-1-906165-01-7
Hardback ISBN 978-1-906165-06-2
In the essays assembled in Clearing a Space, Chaudhuri draws on his own experiences to offer an acute exploration of what it means to be a modern Indian in relation to history. Often beginning with the personal, he inquires into the nature of the secular in India, into the history of such categories as the West, the foreign, the global and the exotic, and into the frequently torn and self-divided nature of modern Indian identity.