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A SHORT HISTORY OF POWER - JACK DAVY TASCHENBUCH

'You could not ask for a more eloquent guide than this book. Essential' Sathnam Sanghera An
eye-opening book about how societies are designed to support those in power  at the expense of
those without it. COLONIAL POWER In the 1950s  over 10 000 Kenyans were killed by the British
during the Mau Mau uprising against a government determined to install a sympathetic
post-independence regime and continue to exploit the resources of its former colonies.
PATRIARCHAL POWER After the Iranian revolution in 1979  the Islamic Republic systematically
removed freedoms from women  relegating them to second-class citizens in the name of religious
teachings. EDUCATIONAL POWER There have been fifty-seven prime ministers of the United Kingdom
of whom forty-three have been privately educated  creating a society built by and for the
privileged. These are just some of the stories through which Dr Jack Davy illustrates the key
factors that allow societies to create and sustain oppressive systems. Some are historical.
Others have played out right before our eyes over the last decade. All are rooted in the
systems in which we all participate. Read this book  and take action. 'Sharp and insightful.
Jack Davy makes complex ideas accessible in this powerful book about the roots of inequality'
Caroline Dodds Pennock  author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
'A deeply humane book with true hope in its message' Ray Mattinson  Blackwells

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