American Atrocity. The Types of Violence in Lynching, Paperback - Guy Lancaster

Lynching is often viewed as a narrow form of violence: either the spontaneous act of an angry mob against accused individuals, or a demonstration o...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of writings, reflections, and interviews from political philosopher and critical theorist Brad Evans, written between 2010 ...

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Reducere. Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching a...

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This incisive study takes on one of the grimmest secrets in America's national life-the history of lynching and, more generally, the public punishm...

Dr. Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. is distinguished as a historian who provides original and illuminating insights into familiar aspects of the War Between...

Reducere. Andrew Jukes presents a detailed analysis of the Book of Genesis, describing the characters and events of the first book of the Bible, and discussi...

Blood in the Streets investigates the various ways in which 1970s Italian crime films were embedded in their immediate cultural and political conte...

Reducere. Pink Higgins was a rugged Texan who lived a life of classic Western adventure. He was a cowboy, Indian fighter, trail driver, stock detective, ranc...

Reducere. By analytically decoupling war and violence, this book explores the causes and dynamics of violence in civil war. Against the prevailing view that ...

Reducere. As runaway slaves fled from the South to escape bondage, slave catchers followed in their wake. The arrival of fugitives and slave catchers in the ...

Reducere. Six-year-old Randy conducts bloody wars in the sandtray, calling them "World War One, " World War Two, and "The War of the Ancient Dragon." He burn...

Gunslinging justice examines gun violence in Western films and literature alongside changes in justifiable homicide and gun rights in the United St...

This major new study examines, for the first time, the US, Canadian, and British policies formulated in reaction to the mass atrocities at the birt...

Contributor(s): Author: Scott MaceachernFor the past decade, Boko Haram has relentlessly terrorized northeastern Nigeria. Few if any explanations f...

From pre-war murmurings to postwar memorials, John Fidler's engaging account of Lancaster in World War II draws on first-hand recollections, newspa...

Reducere. Now in paperback, here is the critically acclaimed, best-selling biography of one of Hollywood's legendary stars. Burt Lancaster is known to audien...

Reducere. "A thought-provoking piece of scholarship that sheds light on the complex history of slave breeding in America. Smithers's book will be hotly debat...

Reducere. In Regeneration Through Violence, the first of his trilogy on the mythology of the American West, Richard Slotkin shows how the attitudes and tradi...

Reducere. The American imagination still exalts the Founders as the prime movers of the Revolution, and the War of Independence has become the stuff of legen...

Sam Jackson takes readers inside the world of the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, examining its extensive online presence...

Reducere. For centuries, we have come across striking and consistent stick and tree structures in the forest, especially in areas with a long history of Sasq...

Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, The Conspiracy of Capital offers a new history of American radicalism and the alliance between the modern b...

Reducere. One hundred years ago, in 1911, two young men lost their lives: one from a stab wound and the other by mob action. In an attempt to explain how suc...

"These lynching dramas may not present the picture that America wants to see of itself, but these visions cannot be ignored because they are ground...

DescriptionFew people realize just how many Native Americans are in California's history. For many the Donner Party, Mormon Battalion, Bear Flag Re...

The book makes the case that existing legal obligations constrain how the UN Security Council permanent members use their veto. Through the lens of...

Reducere. Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of the Newberry Mass Lynching of 1916 is a fast-paced narrative history of a 1916 mass lynching in North Florida, ...

Reducere. Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet's largest public work: the 42, 795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highway...

Publisher: American Oriental SocietyAuthor(s): Michael BonnerNumber of pages: 238Collection: American Oriental SeriesPublication date: 2013Dimensio...

Reducere. When sports fans turn on the television or radio today, they undoubtedly find more women on the air than ever before. Nevertheless, women sportscas...

Reducere. Hidden in Plain Sight: A History of the Newberry Mass Lynching of 1916 is a fast-paced narrative history of a 1916 mass lynching in North Florida, ...

Reducere. On February 28, 1947, a widow selling cigarettes on the street in Taipei was brutally beaten by government agents searching for contraband cigarett...

Complicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore explores the immediate and li...

DescriptionAmerican violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up o...

Reducere. Why do we look at lynching photographs? What is the basis for our curiosity, rage, indignation, or revulsion? Beginning in the late nineteenth cent...

Reducere. The 9 Types of Leadership draws on the Enneagram, an amazingly accurate descriptor of personality, to help people in the workplace create more effe...

Judge Theodor Meron addresses the key questions facing the international criminal justice system, drawing on two decades of experience as an intern...

Reducere. DescriptionWhite Man's Heaven is the first book to investigate the lynching and expulsion of African Americans in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks ...

Reducere. UNDER A FULL MOON: The Last Lynching in Kansas tells of the tragic abduction and death of an eight-year-old girl at the hands of a repeat offender ...

Reducere. In the book Jung categorized people into primary types of psychological function. He proposed four main functions of consciousness: Two perceiving ...