Political oppression & persecution books

1221 books were found.

Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political Identity

Understanding Torture: Law, Violence, and Political...

Author: John Parry
ISBN: 9780472070770
Format: Hardback
$198.00

Torture is about dominating the victim for a variety of purposes, including public order; control of racial, ethnic,...  Read More >>

In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp

In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor...

Author: Er Tai Gao
ISBN: 9780060881269
Format: Hardback
$65.97

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Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag

Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag...

Author: Armando Valladares
ISBN: 9781459607828
Format: Paperback
$51.72

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After Makhno: The Anarchist Underground in the Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s: Outlines of History and the Story of a Leaflet and the Fate of the Anarchist Varshavskiy (from the History of Anarchist Resistance to Totalitarianism)

After Makhno: The Anarchist Underground in the Ukraine...

Author: Anatoly V. Dubovik ,  D.I. Rublyov
ISBN: 9781873605844
Format: Paperback
$7.92

Nestor Makhno, the great Ukranian anarchist peasant rebel, escaped over the border to Romania in August 1921. He...  Read More >>

Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo

Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo...

Author: Murat Kurnaz ,  Patti Smith
ISBN: 9780230614413
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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The Politics of Imprisonment: How the Democratic Process Shapes the Way America Punishes Offenders

The Politics of Imprisonment: How the Democratic Process...

Author: Vanessa Barker (Assistant Professor of Criminology, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Florida State University)
ISBN: 9780195370027
Format: Hardback
$148.95

The Politics of Imprisonment examines how the democratic process and social trust shape penal sanctioning in the...  Read More >>

Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State

Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of...

Author: Neni Panourgiá
ISBN: 9780823229680
Format: Paperback
$71.28

Tells the stories of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens...  Read More >>

Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State

Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of...

Author: Neni Panourgiá
ISBN: 9780823229673
Format: Hardback
$211.20

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Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age

Gandhi and Churchill: The Rivalry That Destroyed an...

Author: Arthur Herman
ISBN: 9780099493440
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Mohandas Gandhi and Winston Churchill: India's moral leader and Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister.  Read More >>

A Sociology of Immigration: (Re)Making Multifaceted America

A Sociology of Immigration: (Re)Making Multifaceted...

Author: E. Morawska
ISBN: 9780230321762
Format: Paperback
$79.20

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A Sociology of Immigration: (Re)Making Multifaceted America

A Sociology of Immigration: (Re)Making Multifaceted...

Author: E. Morawska
ISBN: 9780230223950
Format: Hardback
$237.60

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Agents of Atrocity: Leaders, Followers, and the Violation of Human Rights in Civil War

Agents of Atrocity: Leaders, Followers, and the Violation...

Author: N. Mitchell
ISBN: 9780230619029
Format: Paperback
$137.11

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The Rules of Game: Detention, Deportation, Disappearance

The Rules of Game: Detention, Deportation, Disappearance...

Author: Asim Qureshi
ISBN: 9781850659686
Format: Paperback
$39.95

Investigates global counter terrorism through the perspective of those affected by such measures. This book analyses...  Read More >>

Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the State

Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of...

Author: Neni Panourgia
ISBN: 9780823229697
Format: Electronic book text
$105.57

Tells stories of Greek Leftists as paradigmatic figures of abjection, given that between 1929 and 1974 tens of thousands...  Read More >>

Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in the USSR, 1926–1941

Stalin's Police: Public Order and Mass Repression in...

Author: Paul Hagenloh (The Maxwell School of Syracuse University)
ISBN: 9780801891823
Format: Hardback
$102.00

Hagenloh's vivid and monumental account is the first to show how Stalin's peculiar brand of policing-in which criminals,...  Read More >>

Palestinian Women and Politics in Israel

Palestinian Women and Politics in Israel

Author: Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud
ISBN: 9780813033624
Format: Hardback
$171.60

Though an equal rights clause is written into the Israeli constitution, women are underrepresented in the political...  Read More >>

Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor...

Author: Yong Kim ,  Suk-Young Kim
ISBN: 9780231147460
Format: Hardback
$65.95

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The Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy

The Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy...

Author: Linda Evans ,  Eve Goldberg
ISBN: 9781604860436
Format: Paperback
$9.99

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Darfur

Darfur

Author: Lucian Niemeyer ,  Governor Bill Richardson
ISBN: 9780826346193
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Darfur, located in westernmost Sudan, is that nation's largest region, situated on the border with Chad. Northern...  Read More >>

Robben Island to Wall Street

Robben Island to Wall Street

Author: Gaby Magomola
ISBN: 9781868885701
Format: Paperback
$35.00

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Blood-Dark Track: A Family History

Blood-Dark Track: A Family History

Author: Joseph O’Neill
ISBN: 9780007309252
Format: Paperback
$19.99

A fascinating family memoir from Joseph O'Neill, author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted and Richard & Judy pick,...  Read More >>

The Rabbit House

The Rabbit House

Author: Laura Alcoba ,  Polly McLean
ISBN: 9781846271335
Format: Paperback
$22.99

A childhood spent in hiding and a society betrayed are vividly portrayed in Laura Alcoba's taut memoir of growing...  Read More >>

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