Political oppression & persecution books

1221 books were found.

Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body of Christ

Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics, and the Body...

Author: William T. Cavanaugh (University of St Thomas)
ISBN: 9780631211198
Format: Hardback
$253.95

Contends that the Eucharist is the Church's response to the use of torture as a social discipline. This book develops...  Read More >>

Caring for Victims of Torture

Caring for Victims of Torture

Author: James M. Jaranson ,  Michael K. Popkin
ISBN: 9780880487740
Format: Hardback
$195.36

Caring for Victims of Torture contains all the collective wisdom of some of the most respected international experts...  Read More >>

National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria

National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria

Author: Erika Thurner ,  Gilya Gerda Schmidt
ISBN: 9780817309244
Format: Hardback
$101.64

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DPs: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945–51

DPs: Europe's Displaced Persons, 1945–51

Author: Mark Wyman
ISBN: 9780801485428
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers

A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers...

Author: Lawrence Weschler
ISBN: 9780226893945
Format: Paperback
$46.95

An issue facing transitional democracies around the world has been what to do with the security apparatuses left...  Read More >>

Prison of Women: Testimonies of War and Resistance in Spain, 1939-1975

Prison of Women: Testimonies of War and Resistance in...

Author: Tomasa Cuevas ,  Mary E. Giles
ISBN: 9780791438589
Format: Paperback
$79.07

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Prison of Women: Testimonies of War and Resistance in Spain, 1939-1975

Prison of Women: Testimonies of War and Resistance in...

Author: Tomasa Cuevas ,  Mary E. Giles
ISBN: 9780791438572
Format: Hardback
$141.24

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Burma: Prospects for a Democratic Future

Burma: Prospects for a Democratic Future

Author: Robert I. Rotberg
ISBN: 9780815775812
Format: Paperback
$45.99

"This book examines the origins and consequences of Burma's current policies from military, political, social, and...  Read More >>

College Drinking: Salvadoran Refugee Women in Costa Rica

College Drinking: Salvadoran Refugee Women in Costa...

Author: Robin Omes Quizar
ISBN: 9780897895408
Format: Hardback
$140.00

Salvadoran refugee women tell their stories of escape from El Salvador during some of the worst years of civil unrest...  Read More >>

Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus

Chechnya: Calamity in the Caucasus

Author: Carlotta Gall ,  Thomas De Waal
ISBN: 9780814729632
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Recounts the story of the Chechens' struggle for independence and the Kremlin politics that precipitated it. The...  Read More >>

Anti-Semitism in America: American Jewish History

Anti-Semitism in America: American Jewish History

Author: Jeffrey Gurock
ISBN: 9780415919456
Format: Hardback
$1201.20

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Dictatorship and Political Police: The Technique of Control by Fear

Dictatorship and Political Police: The Technique of...

Author: E.K. Bramstedt
ISBN: 9780415175425
Format: Hardback
$462.00

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Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China

Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China...

Author: Yi Zheng ,  T. P. Sym
ISBN: 9780813326160
Format: Paperback
$79.99

This compelling book provides a meticulously documented account of officially sanctioned cannibalism in the southwestern...  Read More >>

Writings From Prison: Bobby Sands

Writings From Prison: Bobby Sands

Author: The Bobby Sands Trust ,  Gerry Adams
ISBN: 9781856352208
Format: Paperback
$71.15

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Political Prisoners in India

Political Prisoners in India

Author: Ujjwal Kumar Singh (Reader, Department of Political Science, Reader, Department of Political Science, Punjab University, Chandigarh)
ISBN: 9780195641882
Format: Hardback
$85.00

Confining itself to the peaks of anticolonial struggles and the popular resistance to the state in independent India,...  Read More >>

Against a Tide of Evil: How One Man Became the Whistleblower to the First Mass Murder of the Twenty-first Century

Against a Tide of Evil: How One Man Became the Whistleblower...

Author: Dr. Mukesh Kapila ,  Damien Lewis
ISBN: 9781780576923
Format: Paperback
$23.26

In this no-holds-barred account, the former head of the United Nations in Sudan reveals for the first time the shocking...  Read More >>

Captive Spirits

Captive Spirits

Author: Xiguang Yang ,  Susan H. McFadden
ISBN: 9780195868456
Format: Book
$69.95

The prison memoirs of Yang Xiguang, a high school student, who was arrested during the Cultural Revolution for penning...  Read More >>

The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis

The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of...

Author: Wole Soyinka (Fellow at W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Fellow at W.E.B. DuBois Institute, Harvard University)
ISBN: 9780195119213
Format: Paperback
$19.95

A study of the significance of the execution of dissident writer Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other activists to Nigeria's...  Read More >>

Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia: Religious Activists in the Village

Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia: Religious...

Author: Glennys Young
ISBN: 9780271017204
Format: Hardback
$184.67

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Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline, and Resistance in Languedoc

Inquisition and Medieval Society: Power, Discipline,...

Author: James B. Given
ISBN: 9780801433580
Format: Hardback
$150.35

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We Are not You: First Nations and Canadian Modernity

We Are not You: First Nations and Canadian Modernity...

Author: Claude Denis
ISBN: 9781551111186
Format: Paperback
$57.99

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Refugee Health:App Emerg Situations

Refugee Health:App Emerg Situations

Author: Medecins Sans Frontieres
ISBN: 9780333722107
Format: Paperback
$22.00

Relief workers face rapidly changing and complex environments, new disease patterns, enormous humanitarian needs...  Read More >>

Europa, Europa

Europa, Europa

Author: Solomon Perel ,  Margot Bettauer Dembo
ISBN: 9780471172185
Format: Hardback
$92.40

Like millions of Jews fleeing destruction at the hands of the Germans, young Solomon Perel--born in Germany--faced...  Read More >>

Prison Letters

Prison Letters

Author: Antonio Gramsci ,  Hamish Henderson
ISBN: 9780745311302
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Letters from of the great European Marxists  Read More >>

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