Political oppression & persecution books

1206 books were found.

The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s Most Audacious Rescue Operation

The Forgers: The Forgotten Story of the Holocaust’s...

Author: Roger Moorhouse
ISBN: 9781847926760
Format: Hardback
$65.00

An inspirational story of resistance and resilience, of the heroism of ordinary men against overwhelming odds. Between...  Read More >>

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir...

Author: Tahir Hamut Izgil ,  Joshua L. Freeman
ISBN: 9781787334021
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history A Uyghur poet's...  Read More >>

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin

The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir...

Author: Masha Gessen
ISBN: 9781803510491
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A brave and revelatory account of how a small-minded, low-level KGB operative came to control the world's largest...  Read More >>

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night: A Uyghur Poet's Memoir...

Author: Tahir Hamut Izgil ,  Joshua L. Freeman
ISBN: 9781787334014
Format: Hardback
$42.99

A Uyghur poet's piercing memoir of life under the most coercive surveillance regime in history A Uyghur poet's...  Read More >>

Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union

Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet...

Author: Barbara Martin
ISBN: 9798887191829
Format: Paperback
$44.99

The unique trajectory of Soviet dissident twin brothers Roy and Zhores Medvedev takes us through a century of history,...  Read More >>

Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet Union

Roy and Zhores Medvedev: Loyal Dissent in the Soviet...

Author: Barbara Martin
ISBN: 9798887191812
Format: Hardback
$270.00

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An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing

An Anthropology of Disappearance: Politics, Intimacies...

Author: Laura Huttunen ,  Gerhild Perl
ISBN: 9781805390725
Format: Hardback
$356.40

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Whiteness In Puerto Rico: Translation at a Loss

Whiteness In Puerto Rico: Translation at a Loss

Author: Guillermo Rebollo Gil (Ana G. Méndez University, USA)
ISBN: 9780755635504
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Using autoethnography to examine the social construction of whiteness in Puerto Rico. Guillermo Rebollo Gil draws...  Read More >>

JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth

JFK, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and Truth...

Author: Burt W. Griffin
ISBN: 9781476687766
Format: Paperback
$64.90

Former Warren Commission lawyer Burt Griffin examines anew the Kennedy assassination, its various investigations,...  Read More >>

A Short History of Power: How societies create and sustain oppression, and how to resist it

A Short History of Power: How societies create and sustain...

Author: Dr Dr Jack Davy
ISBN: 9781529413953
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A vital book that explores how abuses of power have been enabled for centuries - and the methods we can use to fight...  Read More >>

Unarmed Civilian Protection: A New Paradigm for Protection and Human Security

Unarmed Civilian Protection: A New Paradigm for Protection...

Author: Ellen Furnari (Involved with UCP primarily as a researcher and consultant since the Nonviolent Peaceforce project in Sri Lanka) ,  Randy Janzen (TAOS Institute)
ISBN: 9781529225457
Format: Hardback
$200.00

Featuring contributions from around the world, this edited collection provides a comprehensive account of unarmed...  Read More >>

Social Work’s Histories of Complicity and Resistance: A Tale of Two Professions

Social Work’s Histories of Complicity and Resistance:...

Author: Rich Moth (Royal Holloway University of London) ,  Filipe Duarte (University of Windsor)
ISBN: 9781447364283
Format: Paperback
$72.42

This book rethinks social work’s history of both political resistance and complicity with oppressive practice. Comparing...  Read More >>

Social Work’s Histories of Complicity and Resistance: A Tale of Two Professions

Social Work’s Histories of Complicity and Resistance:...

Author: Rich Moth (Royal Holloway University of London) ,  Filipe Duarte (University of Windsor)
ISBN: 9781447364276
Format: Hardback
$195.00

This book rethinks social work’s history of both political resistance and complicity with oppressive practice. Comparing...  Read More >>

The Hijab: Islam, Women and the Politics of Clothing

The Hijab: Islam, Women and the Politics of Clothing...

Author: PK Yasser Arafath ,  G Arunima
ISBN: 9789392099380
Format: Hardback
$23.26

Historically, in India, we have instances of both unveiling and veiling that have been initiated by Indian Muslim...  Read More >>

Jungle Heart of the Khmer Rouge: The memoirs of Phi Phuon, Pol Pot’s Jarai aide-de-camp, and the role of tribal minorities in the Khmer Rouge revolution

Jungle Heart of the Khmer Rouge: The memoirs of Phi...

Author: Henri Locard
ISBN: 9788776943257
Format: Paperback
$49.50

Khmer Rouge rule in Cambodia was marked by massive death and suffering. The memoir of Phi Phuon tells a different...  Read More >>

The Violence of Britishness: Racism, Borders and the Conditions of Citizenship

The Violence of Britishness: Racism, Borders and the...

Author: Nadya Ali
ISBN: 9780745341705
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Explores how 'Britishness' functions as a tool of violent racial bordering  Read More >>

Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered Transformations and Political Transitions

Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered Transformations...

Author: Jenny Hedström ,  Elisabeth Olivius
ISBN: 9788776943233
Format: Paperback
$49.50

This first comprehensive account of the multifaceted processes of gendered transformation that took place in Myanmar...  Read More >>

Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity

Friends of Israel: The Backlash Against Palestine Solidarity...

Author: Hil Aked
ISBN: 9781786637659
Format: Paperback
$38.99

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Black Conscious Rage: Humanist Writings on Identity, Culture, Oppression, and Liberation

Black Conscious Rage: Humanist Writings on Identity,...

Author: Sincere T. Kirabo
ISBN: 9781634311380
Format: Paperback
$39.47

In Black Conscious Rage, social justice advocate Sincere T. Kirabo scrutinizes some of the United States' most polarizing...  Read More >>

Disability Ethics and Preferential Justice: A Catholic Perspective

Disability Ethics and Preferential Justice: A Catholic...

Author: Mary Jo Iozzio
ISBN: 9781647123093
Format: Paperback
$62.99

A primer on disability ethics from a Catholic perspective offers practical strategies for inclusion Persons with...  Read More >>

Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Anti-Semitism in South Africa from 1948 to the Present

Fascists, Fabricators and Fantasists: Anti-Semitism...

Author: Milton Shain
ISBN: 9781431433582
Format: Paperback
$43.86

"""In the third volume of Milton Shain's history of antisemitism in South Africa, he traces and unpacks hostile...  Read More >>

Disability Ethics and Preferential Justice: A Catholic Perspective

Disability Ethics and Preferential Justice: A Catholic...

Author: Mary Jo Iozzio
ISBN: 9781647123086
Format: Hardback
$190.00

A primer on disability ethics from a Catholic perspective offers practical strategies for inclusion Persons with...  Read More >>

The Man Who Shook Mountains: In the Footsteps of My Ancestors

The Man Who Shook Mountains: In the Footsteps of My...

Author: Lesley Mofokeng
ISBN: 9781776192519
Format: Paperback
$40.92

Journalist Lesley Mofokeng investigates the life of his remarkable grandfather, Mongangane Wilfred Mofokeng, a prominent...  Read More >>

The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution

The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution...

Author: Nils Melzer
ISBN: 9781839766237
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The shocking story of the legal persecution of Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.  Read More >>

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