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A celebration of Diana's life, the book commemorates this remarkable woman's life from her childhood to her tragic premature death at the age of 36, and explores her legacy.

From the formation of the Indian National Congress in 1885 to the winning of independence in 1947, this book traces the complex and often troubled relationship between anti-imperialist campaigners in Britain and in India. Nicholas Owen traces the efforts of British Radicals and socialists to identify forms of anti-imperialism in India which fitted comfortably with their existing beliefs and their sense of how authentic progressive movements were supposed to work. On the other side of the relationship, he charts the trajectory of the Indian National Congress, as it shifted from appeals couched...

This edited collection, based on the 2001 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, focuses on human rights abuses and the way in which these are interpreted. The contributors are Tzvetan Todorov, Michael Ignatieff, Gayatri Spivak, Peter Singer, Gitta Sereny, Geoffrey Bindman, Susan Sontag, and Eva Hoffman, with commentaries on their essays from Niall Fergusson, Timothy Garton Ash, Hermione Lee, and others. The issues explored in the talks include the right of the international community to military intervention in human rights abuses, the ethical and legal difficulties in bringing rights abusers to justice,...

"That tingling sensation? It's not going to stop..." Author Owen Merth is the author of Whatever Whenever Wherever (Nome Press) and is assistant music archivist at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Library in Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife Megan and two albino pit bulls, Mary and Lulu.