Political oppression & persecution books

1206 books were found.

The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A “File Story” of Cold War Surveillance

The Secret Police Dossier of Herta Müller: A “File Story”...

Author: Valentina N. Glajar (Royalty Account)
ISBN: 9781640141537
Format: Hardback
$330.00

"An in-depth investigation of the Romanian secret police's file on Müller, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature,...  Read More >>

Liberationist Christianity in Argentina (1930-1983): Faith and Revolution

Liberationist Christianity in Argentina (1930-1983):...

Author: Dr Pablo Bradbury
ISBN: 9781855663633
Format: Hardback
$194.06

How did liberationist Christianity develop in Argentina between the 1930s and early 1970s? And how did it respond...  Read More >>

The Zekameron: Shortlisted for The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024

The Zekameron: Shortlisted for The Republic of Consciousness...

Author: Maxim Znak ,  Jim and Ella Dingley
ISBN: 9781910895757
Format: Paperback
$33.61

One hundred stories written in prison in Belarus in 2021 awaiting trial. While the futures of fellow prisoners hang...  Read More >>

Hani: A Life Too Short

Hani: A Life Too Short

Author: Janet Smith ,  Beauregard Tromp
ISBN: 9781776192373
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Chris Hani’s assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa’s greatest political questions: if he had survived,...  Read More >>

Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War: Revolution, Emancipation and Re-Imagining the Human Psyche

Non-Aligned Psychiatry in the Cold War: Revolution,...

Author: Ana Antić
ISBN: 9783030894511
Format: Paperback
$284.60

This book explores the relationship between socialist psychiatry and political ideology during the Cold War, tracing...  Read More >>

Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on China's New Silk Road

Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on...

Author: Philip B. K. Potter (University of Virginia) ,  Chen Wang (University of Idaho)
ISBN: 9781009114905
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Zero Tolerance reveals the complex interplay between state repression and Uyghur violence in Xinjiang. It exposes...  Read More >>

Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on China's New Silk Road

Zero Tolerance: Repression and Political Violence on...

Author: Philip B. K. Potter (University of Virginia) ,  Chen Wang (University of Idaho)
ISBN: 9781009100380
Format: Hardback
$181.10

Zero Tolerance reveals the complex interplay between state repression and Uyghur violence in Xinjiang. It exposes...  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: 9788776943240
Format: Hardback
$152.90

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

Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression, Responsiveness

Workers and Change in China: Resistance, Repression,...

Author: Manfred Elfstrom
ISBN: 9781108926348
Format: Paperback
$59.49

Strikes, protests and riots by Chinese workers are rising. Using interviews and statistics, Elfstrom shows that...  Read More >>

The Best Recovery

The Best Recovery

Author: Abdirisak Mohamed Hussein
ISBN: 9783991314929
Format: Paperback
$65.97

The Best Recovery illustrates the reality of the hardships and difficulties that the Somali people face with the...  Read More >>

White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners - WINNER OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2023

White Torture: Interviews with Iranian Women Prisoners...

Author: Narges Mohammadi ,  Amir Rezanezhad
ISBN: 9780861545506
Format: Hardback
$42.99

Female prisoners of conscience and activists speak out against torture in Iranian prisons  Read More >>

Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

Author: Stefania Maurizi ,  Ken Loach
ISBN: 9780745347615
Format: Paperback
$38.79

An uncovering of the terrifying depths of authoritarian power that hide behind the infamous story of WikiLeaks  Read More >>

The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison

The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians...

Author: Gültan Kışanak ,  Ruken Isik
ISBN: 9780745347080
Format: Paperback
$43.96

Prison writings from 22 Kurdish women who were elected to office in Turkey and then imprisoned by the state on political...  Read More >>

Apartheid’s Stalingrad

Apartheid’s Stalingrad

Author: Rory Riordan
ISBN: 9781431432806
Format: Paperback
$59.38

The apartheid security juggernaut met its Battle of Stalingrad in the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage...  Read More >>

Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

Secret Power: WikiLeaks and Its Enemies

Author: Stefania Maurizi ,  Ken Loach
ISBN: 9780745347622
Format: Hardback
$303.60

An uncovering of the terrifying depths of authoritarian power that hide behind the infamous story of WikiLeaks  Read More >>

The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians Write from Prison

The Purple Color of Kurdish Politics: Women Politicians...

Author: Gültan Kışanak ,  Ruken Isik
ISBN: 9780745347097
Format: Hardback
$303.60

Prison writings from 22 Kurdish women who were elected to office in Turkey and then imprisoned by the state on political...  Read More >>

Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture in China's Northeast

Intoxicating Manchuria: Alcohol, Opium, and Culture...

Author: Norman Smith ,  Kirill Batygin
ISBN: 9798887190594
Format: Hardback
$54.99

Examines how alcohol, opium, and addiction were portrayed in the culture of China’s Northeast during the first half...  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: 9788776943226
Format: Hardback
$152.90

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

Global Displacement in the Twenty-First Century: Towards an Ethical Framework

Global Displacement in the Twenty-First Century: Towards...

Author: Phillip Cole
ISBN: 9781474455978
Format: Hardback
$219.94

Builds an ethical framework for responding to the urgent crisis of global displacement  Read More >>

The Assassination of Lumumba

The Assassination of Lumumba

Author: Ludo De Witte ,  Renee Fenby
ISBN: 9781839767906
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Re-issue of a classic investigation into the CIA and Belgian state plot in the Congo.  Read More >>

The Good Ally

The Good Ally

Author: Nova Reid
ISBN: 9780008439521
Format: Paperback
$22.99

‘I invite you to be courageous and get comfortable with being uncomfortable, because any discomfort you feel is...  Read More >>

Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities

Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking...

Author: Mahmood Mamdani
ISBN: 9780674278608
Format: Paperback
$34.95

The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of...  Read More >>

An Enemy of the Crown: The British Secret Service Campaign against Charles Haughey

An Enemy of the Crown: The British Secret Service Campaign...

Author: David Burke
ISBN: 9781781178218
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Enemy of the Crown exposes the dirty tricks campaign of Sir Maurice Oldfield of the British Secret Service to derail...  Read More >>

Unsettling Apologies: Critical Writings on Apology from South Africa

Unsettling Apologies: Critical Writings on Apology from...

Author: Melanie Judge (University of Cape Town) ,  Dee Smythe (University of Cape Town)
ISBN: 9781529227963
Format: Paperback
$67.99

Drawing on the histories of injustice, dispossession and violence in South Africa, this book examines the cultural,...  Read More >>

Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile

Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile

Author: Pablo Policzer
ISBN: 9780268206772
Format: Hardback
$264.00

Policzer offers an original argument about the nature of authoritarian coercion while also changing our perception...  Read More >>

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