Political oppression & persecution books

1206 books were found.

RSHA Reich Security Main Office: Organisation, Activities, Personnel

RSHA Reich Security Main Office: Organisation, Activities,...

Author: Stephen Tyas
ISBN: 9781781558676
Format: Hardback
$121.00

Scholars, historians, and general readers occasionally share a misconception about their knowledge of the Gestapo...  Read More >>

Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black Radicalism

Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy...

Author: Rafael Torrubia (University of St Andrews, UK)
ISBN: 9780755638109
Format: Paperback
$46.99

While the history of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the...  Read More >>

Queer Politics in Contemporary Turkey

Queer Politics in Contemporary Turkey

Author: Paul Gordon Kramer
ISBN: 9781529214840
Format: Hardback
$175.00

Drawing on the words and stories of queer Turkish activists, this book aims to unravel the complexities of queer...  Read More >>

Urban Inequality: Theory, Evidence and Method in Johannesburg

Urban Inequality: Theory, Evidence and Method in Johannesburg...

Author: Owen Crankshaw (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
ISBN: 9781786998941
Format: Hardback
$180.00

An examination of how patterns of income, class and racial inequality in Johannesburg highlight how and why earnings...  Read More >>

Lift Your Voice: How My Nephew George Floyd's Murder Changed The World

Lift Your Voice: How My Nephew George Floyd's Murder...

Author: Angela Harrelson ,  Michael Levin
ISBN: 9781637583371
Format: Hardback
$71.28

Angela Harrelson, George Floyd’s aunt and closest relative in Minnesota, tells the behind-the-scenes story of George’s...  Read More >>

The Xinjiang Emergency: Exploring the Causes and Consequences of China’s Mass Detention of Uyghurs

The Xinjiang Emergency: Exploring the Causes and Consequences...

Author: Michael Clarke
ISBN: 9781526153111
Format: Paperback
$39.99

This volume investigates the mass detention of Uyghurs in China, exploring the regimes of surveillance to which...  Read More >>

The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution

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

Author: Nils Melzer
ISBN: 9781839766220
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony

In the Camps: Life in China's High-Tech Penal Colony...

Author: Darren Byler (author)
ISBN: 9781838955922
Format: Paperback
$27.99

A shocking insight into what is really happening to China's Uyghurs.  Read More >>

Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race

Out of The Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race

Author: Esi Edugyan
ISBN: 9781788169905
Format: Hardback
$36.99

Two-time Booker Shortlistee and internationally bestselling author Esi Edugyan delivers a searing analysis of the...  Read More >>

Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown Reveals about Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere

Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China's Crackdown...

Author: Mark L. Clifford
ISBN: 9780750999465
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the...  Read More >>

Turkey's New State in the Making: Transformations in Legality, Economy and Coercion

Turkey's New State in the Making: Transformations in...

Author: Prof. Pinar Bedirhanoglu (Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey) ,  Çaglar Dölek (Carleton University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781786998712
Format: Paperback
$77.60

This work problematizes the AKP-led radical re-making of the Turkish state by taking into consideration the constitutive...  Read More >>

Mensches in the Trenches: Jewish Foot Soldiers in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle

Mensches in the Trenches: Jewish Foot Soldiers in the...

Author: Jonathan Ancer
ISBN: 9780620946940
Format: Paperback
$38.68

The defeat of Apartheid and triumph of non-racial democracy in South Africa was not the work of just a few individuals....  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: 9783030894481
Format: Hardback
$284.60

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The Green Shirts and the Others: A History of Facism in Hungary and Romania

The Green Shirts and the Others: A History of Facism...

Author: Nicholas M Talavera
ISBN: 9781592110940
Format: Paperback
$79.17

A newly revised edition of Nicholas Nagy-Talavera’s classic work published by the Hoover Institution Press in 1970....  Read More >>

The Armenians: A People in Exile

The Armenians: A People in Exile

Author: David Marshall Lang
ISBN: 9781032168821
Format: Hardback
$194.00

Originally published in 1981, this book tells the story of the Armenian dispersion and gives a graphic account of...  Read More >>

Cultural Sexism: The politics of feminist rage in the #metoo era

Cultural Sexism: The politics of feminist rage in the...

Author: Heather Savigny (De Montfort University)
ISBN: 9781529206456
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Savigny examines how the prevalence of sexism and misogyny across the media, entertainment and cultural industries...  Read More >>

The Nature of Tyranny: And the Devastating Results of Oppression

The Nature of Tyranny: And the Devastating Results of...

Author: Abdul Rahman Al-Kawakibi
ISBN: 9781787385481
Format: Hardback
$112.00

A pathbreaking analysis of tyranny by one of the nineteenth century's most prominent Arab intellectuals, now published...  Read More >>

South Yemen's Independence Struggle: Generations of Resistance

South Yemen's Independence Struggle: Generations of...

Author: Dr. Anne-Linda Amira Augustin
ISBN: 9781649031082
Format: Hardback
$158.40

A bold firsthand account of one of the persistent Arab uprisings, in Yemen At its beginning in 2007, the Southern...  Read More >>

Conquered Populations in Early Islam: Non-Arabs, Slaves and the Sons of Slave Mothers

Conquered Populations in Early Islam: Non-Arabs, Slaves...

Author: Elizabeth Urban
ISBN: 9781474491792
Format: Paperback
$54.31

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The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran: The Shah, the Opposition, and the US, 1953–1968

The Rise of Modern Despotism in Iran: The Shah, the...

Author: Ali Rahnema
ISBN: 9780861541423
Format: Hardback
$69.99

The Shah’s gradual transition to dictatorship after the 1953 coup in Iran, and its far-reaching consequences  Read More >>

Making Black Lives Matter: Confronting Anti-Black Racism

Making Black Lives Matter: Confronting Anti-Black Racism...

Author: Kevin Cokley
ISBN: 9781793531858
Format: Paperback
$29.70

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State of Slum: Precarity and Informal Governance at the Margins in Accra

State of Slum: Precarity and Informal Governance at...

Author: Paul Stacey (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
ISBN: 9781786992031
Format: Paperback
$64.99

A study of Ghana’s largest illegal slum, revealing how such communities are able to govern themselves in the absence...  Read More >>

Die Universitat Wien im Austrofaschismus: Osterreichische Hochschulpolitik 1933 bis 1938, ihre Vorbedingungen und langfristigen Nachwirkungen

Die Universitat Wien im Austrofaschismus: Osterreichische...

Author: Linda Erker
ISBN: 9783847113621
Format: Hardback
$124.17

While there are countless studies on Austrias universities after the Anschluss in 1938, the five years before have...  Read More >>

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