Zed Books imprint: 608 books

Rock in a Hard Place

Music and Mayhem in the Middle East

by Orlando Crowcroft
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

A muggy night in Abu Dhabi, 2011. Under the stadium lights a 30,000-strong sea of Libyans, Palestinians, Syrians and Egyptians wait in anticipation. Alongside them are Saudis, Iranians and Israelis. Defiance and excitement course through the crowd like electricity. Standing together, they are waiting...
by Robert Mshengu Kavanagh
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017

In this book, South African performer and activist Robert Mshengu Kavanagh reveals the complex and conflicting interplay of class, nation and race in South African theatre under Apartheid. Evoking an era when theatre itself became a political battleground, Kavanagh displays how the struggle against...

The Lords of Human Kind

European Attitudes to Other Cultures in the Imperial Age

by Victor Kiernan
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015

When European explorers went out into the world to open up trade routes and establish colonies, they brought back much more than silks and spices, cotton and tea. Inevitably, they came into contact with the peoples of other parts of the world and formed views of them occasionally admiring, more often...

Life after Violence

A People's Story of Burundi

by Peter Uvin
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Burundi has recently emerged from twelve years of devastating civil war. Its economy has been destroyed and hundreds and thousands of people have been killed. In this book, the voices of ordinary Burundians are heard for the first time. Farmers, artisans, traders, mothers, soldiers and students talk...

Genocide, War Crimes and the West

History and Complicity

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Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

Genocide and war crimes are increasingly the focus of scholarly and activist attention. Much controversy exists over how, precisely, these grim phenomena should be defined and conceptualized. Genocide, War Crimes & the West tackles this controversy, and clarifies our understanding of an important...
by Professor Eric Selbin
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political and social structural conditions to the thoughts...

Relocation Failures in Sri Lanka

A Short History of Internal Displacement and Resettlement

by Robert Muggah
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Each year, millions of people are internally displaced and resettled in the wake of wars and floods or to make way for large-scale development projects, and this number is increasing. Humanitarian and development specialists continue to struggle with designing and executing effective protection strategies...
by Dirk Kruijt
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

The Cuban revolution served as a rallying cry to people across Latin America and the Caribbean. The revolutionary regime has provided vital support to the rest of the region, offering everything from medical and development assistance to training and advice on guerrilla warfare. Cuba and Revolutionary...

Guerrillas

War and Peace in Central America

by Dirk Kruijt
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

Three parallel wars were fought in the latter half of the twentieth century in El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua. These wars were long and brutal, dividing international opinion sharply between US support for dictatorial regimes and the USSR’s sponsorship of guerrilla fighters. This fascinating...

Aftershock

A Journey into Eastern Europes Broken Dreams

by John Feffer
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017

In this unique, panoramic account of faded dreams, journalist John Feffer returns to Eastern Europe a quarter of a century after the fall of communism, to track down hundreds of people he spoke to in the initial atmosphere of optimism as the Iron Curtain fell – from politicians and scholars to trade...

The Burdens of Freedom

Eastern Europe since 1989

by Padraic Kenney
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013

From Estonia to Macedonia, this book is a history of 15 countries as they negotiate their transition from communism. For some, the story ends happily, with triumphant entry into the European Union in 2004.Others are caught in limbo, destroyed by nationalist politics, war and genocide, or crippled...

Dissident Marxism

Past Voices for Present Times

by David Renton
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013

We are witnessing the birth of a new politics -- anti-capitalist, libertarian and anti-war. But where do today's dissidents come from? Dissident Marxism argues that their roots can be found in the life and work of an earlier generation of socialist revolutionaries, including such inspiring figures...

Cosmic Shift

Russian Contemporary Art Writing

by Ilya Kabakov, Emilia Kabakov, Boris Groys
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017

Features a strong line-up of the country’s most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians. Featuring: pioneers of the Moscow Conceptualism movement Ilya and Emilia Kabakov; Bart De Baere, Russia’s foremost curator; art critic and theorist Boris Groys;...
by Nawal El Saadawi
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015

A new edition of the most seminal feminist novel from the Arab world, set to inspire a new generation Inspired by the true, tragic and defiant story of Firdaus – whom El Saadawi met whilst working as a doctor in a women's prison El Saadawi is considered one of the world's most...
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