Fire in a Canebrake: The Last Mass Lynching in America

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. 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. 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. Whether conveyed through newspapers, photographs, or Billie Holliday's haunting song "Strange Fruit, " lynching has immediate and graphic connotati...

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Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Jonathan SimonNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 140 x 208 x 20Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Reducere. The United States has built a carceral state that is unprecedented among Western countries and in US history. Nearly one in 50 people, excluding ch...

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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...

Reducere. If you want to discover the history of the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, then keep reading...It's likely true that most people picking up this book have n...

Reducere. If you want to discover the history of the Peshtigo Fire of 1871, then keep reading...It's likely true that most people picking up this book have n...

Reducere. Mass-media a devenit un punct de referinta in lumea moderna, in jurul ei gravitind toate celelalte segmente ale societatii: economic, politic, cult...

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...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John Charles ChasteenBorn in Blood and Fire, Fourth Edition has been extensively revised to heighten emphasis on current cu...

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncAuthor(s): Mark FollmanNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 160 x 239 x 33Cover type: Hardb...

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Reducere. In Fire Girl, her debut collection of essays, Sayantani Dasgupta examines her personal story against the history, religion, popular culture and myt...

Reducere. Through his own life story - from childhood to his life as an adult, Toufic El Rassi illustrates the prejudice and discrimination Arabs and Muslims...

Co-Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceA Wall Street ...

After decades of bloodshed and political terror, many lament the rise of the left in Latin America. With Guatemala as the case study, this title ar...

Reducere. Shackled and Chained, Mass Incarceration in Captalist America is a thorough examination of mass incarceration, its causes and consequences. Eugene ...

Mass Exodus is the first serious historical and sociological study of Catholic lapsation and disaffiliation. Drawing on a wide range of theological...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Todd R. ClearAuthor: Natasha A. FrostOver the last 40 years, the US penal system has grown at an unprecedented rate--five t...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Douglas CenturyNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 230 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedescop...

According to Time magazine, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf holds "the world's most dangerous job." He has twice come within inches of assass...

Reducere. The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America The welcoming and acceptance of immi...

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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...

Reducere. A classic of investigative journalism, the pamphlets of Ida B. Wells-Barnett shine a light on the evils of racism in the United States. With a cont...

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Reducere. From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement. In the second volume o...

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...

Conservative skepticism of scientific authority-contesting evolution and the climate change consensus-is constantly in the news. But liberal humani...

Bestselling author Douglas Century reveals the untold story of the epic rise and fall of Boris Nayfeld, also known as Biba, one of the most notorio...

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

Reviews all aspects of the phenomenon of mass tourism, from theoretical perspectives to the historical context, as well as covering the current cha...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Felipe G. MassaIllustration(s): 30 figuresNumber of pages: 184Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 202 x 254 x 15Co...