A Traitor to His Species: Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement, Hardcover - Ernest Freeberg

From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals.In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-b...

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Reducere. In this gripping historical novel, Dick Lehr tells the story of one protester in particular: Monroe Trotter, a black journalist who fought passiona...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Life of the Indigenous Mind David Mart nez examines the early activism, life, and writings of Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), the most ...

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This book critically reviews all principal contributions to the American animal rights debate by activists, campaigners, academics, and lawyers, wh...

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Reducere. For years Southern minister Francis X. Walter was silent about the injustices of Jim Crow, blinded by the status quo, until the violent killing of ...

Reducere. Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers of the civil rights era. During the course of his work, he took thou...

Reducere. It's March 2, 1955, and an ordinary 15-year-old girl from Montgomery, Alabama is about to do something extraordinary. When a white bus driver order...

Reducere. For decades, civil rights activists fought against employment discrimination and for a greater role for African Americans in municipal decision-mak...

DescriptionIn this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, ...

'A wonderful book' - Guardian Truth, murder and the birth of the lie detectorPublisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Amit KatwalaNumber of pa...

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Reducere. There may not be a more fascinating a historical period than the late fourteenth century in Europe. The Hundred Years' War ravaged the continent, y...

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The thrilling story of the Schneider Trophy, a series of glamorous air races that captivated both sides of the Atlantic and became a driver and cel...

Reducere. After decades of segregation, women were at the forefront of the civil rights movement, the largest social upheaval since the end of the Civil War....

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Reducere. A masterclass in the civil rights movement from one of the legendary activists who led it. Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond's ...

Reducere. DescriptionWhite Poison is probably the strongest and most reasonable appeal ever addressed to the African continent, for its spiritual liberation,...

JaHyun Kim Haboush offers a compelling counternarrative to Western historiography, which ties Korea's idea of nation to the imported ideologies of ...

Reducere. For too long those who explain emotional discomfort on the basis of lived experience and those who blame chemistry have been at loggerheads. As Dr....

Reducere. Now in paperback, the life and legacy of the much-overlooked yet highly influential Robert Goddard--the brilliant, eccentric, and controversial pio...

Publisher: The History Press LtdPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 243 x 260 x 34Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe...

As the founder of financial futures and initiator of Globex, the world's first global electronic trading system, Leo Melamed revolutionized the fin...

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Reducere. It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial pow...

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

Reducere. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROn the first anniversary of the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of Columbine offers...