Political oppression & persecution books

1213 books were found.

Jan Smuts: Son of the Veld, Pilgrim of the World

Jan Smuts: Son of the Veld, Pilgrim of the World

Author: Dan Kriek ,  Chris de Jager
ISBN: 9781485308164
Format: Hardback
$67.27

Jan Smuts, one of the most infamous South Africans of the twentieth century remains a controversial figure. Was...  Read More >>

To Serve the Enemy: Informers, Collaborators, and the Laws of Armed Conflict

To Serve the Enemy: Informers, Collaborators, and the...

Author: Shane Darcy (Senior Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Lecturer at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Ireland)
ISBN: 9780198788898
Format: Hardback
$208.00

Despite the harsh treatment that can befall collaborators in armed conflict, and despite collaboration often not...  Read More >>

Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees

Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to...

Author: David Hollenbach
ISBN: 9781626167186
Format: Paperback
$82.99

The major humanitarian crises of recent years are well known: the Shoah, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Rwandan...  Read More >>

Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to Refugees

Humanity in Crisis: Ethical and Religious Response to...

Author: David Hollenbach
ISBN: 9781626167179
Format: Hardback
$249.00

The major humanitarian crises of recent years are well known: the Shoah, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Rwandan...  Read More >>

Islamophobia and Radicalisation: A Vicious Cycle

Islamophobia and Radicalisation: A Vicious Cycle

Author: Tahir Abbas
ISBN: 9781787382015
Format: Hardback
$99.00

Since the 1970s, there have been three challenges to traditional, homogeneous 'national' identities across the Western...  Read More >>

The Skripal Files: Putin, Poison and the New Spy War

The Skripal Files: Putin, Poison and the New Spy War...

Author: Mark Urban
ISBN: 9781529006926
Format: Paperback
$19.99

From the heart of the cold war to the current hostilities between Russia and the West, this is the definitive account...  Read More >>

The Unlikely Mr Rogue (and me)

The Unlikely Mr Rogue (and me)

Author: Evelyn Groenink
ISBN: 9781431429462
Format: Paperback
$38.68

Written by the author of Incorruptible, The Unlikely Mr Rogue (and me). It is the story of the quiet man behind...  Read More >>

State Organized Terror: The Case Of Violent Internal Repression

State Organized Terror: The Case Of Violent Internal...

Author: P. Timothy Bushnell ,  Vladimir Shlapentokh
ISBN: 9780367288693
Format: Hardback
$284.00

"This book, an outcome of an international conference entitled ""State Organized Terror: The Case of Violent Internal...  Read More >>

Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great Terror in Soviet Ukraine

Stalinist Perpetrators on Trial: Scenes from the Great...

Author: Lynne Viola (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Toronto)
ISBN: 9780190053857
Format: Paperback
$79.17

Based on chilling and revelatory new archival documents from the Ukrainian secret police archives, Stalinist Perpetrators...  Read More >>

Vendiendo Guant�namo: Explosi�n de la propaganda sobre la prisi�n militar m�s infame de los Estados Unidos

Vendiendo Guant�namo: Explosi�n de la propaganda sobre...

Author: Jennifer Corry ,  John Hickman
ISBN: 9781433166853
Format: Hardback
$280.76

Vendiendo Guant�namo: Explosi�n de la propaganda sobre la prisi�n militar m�s infame de los Estados Unidos examina...  Read More >>

Voices from the Underground: Eighteen life stories from Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Ashley Kriel Detachment

Voices from the Underground: Eighteen life stories from...

Author: Shirley Gunn ,  Shanil Haricharan
ISBN: 9781776093854
Format: Paperback
$68.64

Eighteen life stories from members of the ANC's military underground, including their backgrounds, their involvement...  Read More >>

Impossible Return: Cape Town's Forced Removals

Impossible Return: Cape Town's Forced Removals

Author: Siona O'Connell
ISBN: 9780795708961
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Siona O'Connell examines apartheid-era forced removals of the people of Harfield Village, and freedom in the aftermath...  Read More >>

The Revolution - II: The Jacobin Conquest

The Revolution - II: The Jacobin Conquest

Author: Hippolyte Adolphe Taine ,  Durand John
ISBN: 9781910893036
Format: Hardback
$90.54

New, annotated edition of the third volume of Hippolyte Taine's monumental work, The Origins of Contemporary France....  Read More >>

Sara: Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary

Sara: Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary

Author: Sakine Cansiz ,  Janet Biehl
ISBN: 9780745339849
Format: Hardback
$194.06

The second instalment of the iconic memoirs of one of the first female fighters of the PKK  Read More >>

Sara: Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary

Sara: Prison Memoir of a Kurdish Revolutionary

Author: Sakine Cansiz ,  Janet Biehl
ISBN: 9780745339832
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The second instalment of the iconic memoirs of one of the first female fighters of the PKK  Read More >>

Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta Russell

Capitalism and Disability: Selected Writings by Marta...

Author: Marta Russell ,  Keith Rosenthal
ISBN: 9781608466863
Format: Paperback
$34.99

This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression...  Read More >>

The Night Trains: Moving Mozambican Miners to and From the Witwatersrand Mines, 1902-1955

The Night Trains: Moving Mozambican Miners to and From...

Author: Charles Van Onselen
ISBN: 9781868429943
Format: Paperback
$36.20

On the night trains, the last stop was always hell. The price exacted from across the African sub-continent for...  Read More >>

North American Genocides: Indigenous Nations, Settler Colonialism, and International Law

North American Genocides: Indigenous Nations, Settler...

Author: Laurelyn Whitt (Brandon University, Manitoba, Canada) ,  Alan W. Clarke (Utah Valley University)
ISBN: 9781108425506
Format: Hardback
$258.75

The eliminatory dynamics of settler colonialism in North America included episodes of genocide of Indigenous peoples....  Read More >>

Bangladesh Divided: Political and Literary Reflections on a Corrupt Police and Prison State

Bangladesh Divided: Political and Literary Reflections...

Author: Q M Jalal Khan
ISBN: 9781433165962
Format: Hardback
$367.09

This book examines the totalitarian police regime of Bangladesh, responsible, since 2009, for hundreds and thousands...  Read More >>

Bonds of Justice: The Struggle for Oukasie

Bonds of Justice: The Struggle for Oukasie

Author: Kally Forrest
ISBN: 9781928232841
Format: Paperback
$20.67

This fourth volume in the Hidden Voices Series is about Oukasie, a township in the Madibeng municipality. At various...  Read More >>

Betrayal: The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies

Betrayal: The Secret Lives of Apartheid Spies

Author: Jonathan Ancer
ISBN: 9780624083870
Format: Paperback
$41.37

What does it take to deceive those closest to you? How do you lead a double life? Is there ever a point of return? From...  Read More >>

Casualties of Peterloo

Casualties of Peterloo

Author: Michael Bush
ISBN: 9781859362365
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Drawing on eight surviving casualty lists, full of information about the victims and their attackers, Professor...  Read More >>

Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century

Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century

Author: Marouf Hasian Jr.
ISBN: 9783030212773
Format: Hardback
$116.41

This book analyses the debates on colonial genocide in the 21st century and introduces cases where states are reluctant...  Read More >>

China's Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State

China's Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese...

Author: Nick Holdstock
ISBN: 9781788319799
Format: Paperback
$44.99

After isolated terrorist incidents in 2015, the Chinese leadership has cracked down hard on Xinjiang and its Uyghurs....  Read More >>

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