Political oppression & persecution books

Torture doctors invent and oversee techniques to inflict pain and suffering without leaving scars. Their knowledge...  Read More >>

Studies the African National Congress at a local level over a 28-year period and informs what is now playing out...  Read More >>

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Slavoj Žižek’s prolific comments on anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, scapegoating, popular nationalism, the refugee...  Read More >>

Who Killed My Father is the story of a tough guy – the story of the little boy I never was.  Read More >>

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¡Presente! develops a lived theology of nonviolence through an extended case study of the movement to close the...  Read More >>

¡Presente! develops a lived theology of nonviolence through an extended case study of the movement to close the...  Read More >>

A thoroughly researched account of a religious minority in Imperial Russia in the longue duree that will be of use...  Read More >>

An account of the life experiences of a South African of Indian descent who was fortunate enough to be a part of...  Read More >>

This book argues that literary, filmic, and popular cultural representation of political torture has defined the...  Read More >>

This book explores the way urbicide is used to un/re-make the Palestinian territoriality/urbanity as well as a tool...  Read More >>

The autonomous province of Vojvodina in Serbia is little-known in the English-speaking world, even though it is...  Read More >>

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

An engaging and topical account of how Muslims are viewed and treated in Western countries. It looks at what has...  Read More >>

This book makes a very significant, timely and relevant contribution to a very topical subject of immense local...  Read More >>

Scholars from across law and internet and media studies examine the human rights implications of today's platform...  Read More >>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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