Political oppression & persecution books

1221 books were found.

The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria

The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government...

Author: Salwa Ismail (University of London)
ISBN: 9781107032187
Format: Hardback
$222.53

Salwa Ismail provides an original analysis of the routine and spectacular violence witnessed in Syria under the...  Read More >>

Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe

Repression and Resistance in Communist Europe

Author: Jason Sharman
ISBN: 9781138371019
Format: Paperback
$96.99

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To survive and succeed: From farm boy to businessman

To survive and succeed: From farm boy to businessman...

Author: Mkhuseli Jack
ISBN: 9780795708619
Format: Paperback
$43.86

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We don't talk about it. Ever.: A memoir. A girl who searched for love but found destruction instead

We don't talk about it. Ever.: A memoir. A girl who...

Author: Desiree-Anne Martin
ISBN: 9781928420262
Format: Paperback
$47.39

Not since Melinda Ferguson's iconic bestseller Smacked (2005), has there been a local book that so powerfully unpacks...  Read More >>

Mandela: His Essential Life

Mandela: His Essential Life

Author: Peter Hain
ISBN: 9781786607584
Format: Paperback
$30.99

Mandela: His Essential Life is the only short, popular and accessible book that tells Mandela's entire and remarkable...  Read More >>

Mandela: His Essential Life

Mandela: His Essential Life

Author: Peter Hain
ISBN: 9781786607577
Format: Hardback
$50.99

Mandela: His Essential Life is the only short, popular and accessible book that tells Mandela's entire and remarkable...  Read More >>

Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death

Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love,...

Author: Olivier Rolin ,  Ros Schwartz
ISBN: 9781784701758
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018 The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an...  Read More >>

Whiteness, Afrikaans, Afrikaners: Post-Apartheid legacies, privileges and burdens

Whiteness, Afrikaans, Afrikaners: Post-Apartheid legacies,...

Author: MISTRA
ISBN: 9780639923819
Format: Paperback
$121.97

South Africa has been reeling under the recent blows of an apparent resurgence of crude public manifestations of...  Read More >>

Stasiland: from the Miles Franklin Prize-winning author of All That I Am

Stasiland: from the Miles Franklin Prize-winning author...

Author: Anna Funder
ISBN: 9780143792529
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Anna Funder's Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Stasiland is an Australian classic, the definitive account of tyranny...  Read More >>

Apartheid Britain's bastard child

Apartheid Britain's bastard child

Author: Helene Opperman Lewis
ISBN: 9780992171902
Format: Paperback
$58.22

This book is written as an attempt to understand what psycho-historical factors played a dominant role and undoubtly...  Read More >>

Soul force: Valliamma found herself no longer a child, not yet a woman, but an activist

Soul force: Valliamma found herself no longer a child,...

Author: Suzanne Franco
ISBN: 9781684196708
Format: Paperback
$51.75

Unlike most teenagers her age, in the face of danger and adversity, Valliamma Mudaliar, showed no sign of fear....  Read More >>

The Peterloo Massacre

The Peterloo Massacre

Author: The Estate of Joyce Marlow
ISBN: 9781785038648
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The defining historical account of the Peterloo Massacre ***The subject of the new major film by Mike Leigh***...  Read More >>

The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy

The Spectre of Race: How Discrimination Haunts Western...

Author: Michael G. Hanchard
ISBN: 9780691177137
Format: Hardback
$54.99

How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from the classical period to todayAs right-wing nationalism...  Read More >>

Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's Russia

Never Remember: Searching for Stalin's Gulags in Putin's...

Author: Masha Gessen ,  Misha Friedman
ISBN: 9780997722963
Format: Hardback
$39.99

A haunting literary and visual journey deep into Russia's past - and present.  Read More >>

Class War, USA: Dispatches from Workers' Struggles in American History

Class War, USA: Dispatches from Workers' Struggles in...

Author: Brandon Weber
ISBN: 9781608468478
Format: Paperback
$52.67

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The Anthropocene Chronicles

The Anthropocene Chronicles

Author: Saranne Bensusan ,  Emma Pullar
ISBN: 9781999601805
Format: Paperback
$31.65

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State, Resistance, Transformation: Anthropological perspectives on the dynamics of power in contemporary global realities

State, Resistance, Transformation: Anthropological perspectives...

Author: Bruce Kapferer
ISBN: 9781907774492
Format: Paperback
$64.69

A timely collection on contemporary relationships between the state and society, which uses case studies beyond...  Read More >>

Let my people go

Let my people go

Author: Albert Luthuli
ISBN: 9780795708404
Format: Paperback
$36.20

Written by Albert Luthuli, this is a first-hand account of the repression that were to shape the South African political...  Read More >>

Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia, 1478-1834

Inquisition and Society in the Kingdom of Valencia,...

Author: Stephen Haliczer
ISBN: 9780520301641
Format: Paperback
$82.95

""A new departure in the study of the history of the Spanish Inquisition. . . . An original synthesis which is at...  Read More >>

From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures

From Republic to Restoration: Legacies and Departures...

Author: Janet Clare
ISBN: 9780719089688
Format: Hardback
$195.00

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