Bending Toward Justice: The Voting Rights ACT and the Transformation of American Democracy, Paperback - Gary May

A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rig...

A thrilling and incisive examination of the post-Reconstruction era struggle for and suppression of African American voting rights in the United St...

Reducere. You're a U.S. citizen, so why are you being denied your right to vote? Even after civil rights legislation passes, many minorities are still being ...

Reducere. On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. Th...

It has been called the political crime of the century: This book from Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Greg Miller uncovers for the ...

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

In Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic's implications, noted sociolog...

Reducere. America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

In this expansive history, Steinfeld develops a thorough, systematic account describing how American judicial review was brought into being during ...

Reducere. Stephen Ansolabehere and James Snyder detail the history of "one person, one vote" in American political theory and politics, and tell the story of...

An important work of scholarship that should be read by anyone concerned with America's future. --Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World...

Reducere. An award-winning constitutional law historian examines case-based evidence that reveals the Supreme Court's longstanding support for white supremac...

Reducere. DescriptionA leading member of the Senate Judiciary Committee "spells out, in considerable detail, the extent of corporate influence over a variety...

Reducere. In Young, Black, Rich, and Famous, Todd Boyd chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1...

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Analyzes the evolution of American-Soviet relations during the 1970s, from the rise of detente during the Nixon administration to the policy's cris...

Reducere. James F. Sulzby Book AwardCombining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wal...

Reducere. At a time when food is becoming increasingly scarce in many parts of the world and food prices are skyrocketing, no industry is more important than...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): George J. SanchezNumber of pages: 390Collection: American CrossroadsPublication date: 2022Dimen...

Reducere. In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle ...

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Perhaps no one in the 20th century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. This title provides a biography of his life....

William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit (180...

Reducere. In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by Afr...

Reducere. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life--and...

Reducere. "Here is a memoir that takes us through many worlds, through heartache and noble hopes, through the mysteries of family love and toward a beautiful...

Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in cr...

Reducere. Reveals the Mayan calendar to be a spiritual device that describes the evolution of human consciousness from ancient times into the future - Shows ...

The onslaught of globalization has brought with it sweeping changes to the foreign economic policy of the last 50 years. As the international polit...

Reducere. DescriptionJudiciary is an essential and integral part of a state, and its independence is a prerequisite of a liberal democratic state. Bangladesh...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Tristram HuntNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 37Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

This Element focuses on Xin Fengxia (1927-1998), a star of the regional xiqu form pingju, and her prominent role in transforming the genre from fol...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Miles RapoportNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 199 x 141 x 27Cover type: HardbackRedescoper...

Dangerous Ground examines how white squatters in the American West came to occupy a central and destabilizing position in US political culture in t...

DescriptionHow remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek cultureWhy did soldiers stop fighting, athl...