Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Hardcover - Kellie Carter Jackson

Reducere. From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as b...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Douglas MullikenIllustration(s): 29 bw illusNumber of pages: 264Collection: World CinemaPublication ...

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Reducere. Winner, 2014 Lambda Literary Award in LGBT StudiesSince the 1970s, a key goal of lesbian and gay activists has been protection against street viole...

DescriptionEvidence of Being opens on a grim scene: Washington DC's gay black community in the 1980s, ravaged by AIDS, the crack epidemic, and a se...

Reducere. An informed, provocative, astute consideration of salvific alternatives to contemporary policing and imprisonment. -- Starred Review, Kirkus With d...

The institutionalisation of Fatah mirrors the evolution of the PLO and the Palestinian national cause generally. Understanding the factors that hav...

Reducere. The Impossible Indian offers a rare, fresh view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursu...

How I became an abolitionist: a memoir of Black Lives MatterPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Derecka PurnellNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2...

Reducere. The biblical book of Genesis is a violent masterpiece. Deception. Treachery. Murder. But it is also a book of redemption, forgiveness, and reconcil...

Reducere. In February 1971, racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes...

Kelli Moore traces the political origins of the concept of domestic violence through visual culture in the United States, showing how it is rooted ...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

Reducere. Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participatio...

Reducere. In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world's most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation o...

Unearths the deeper lineage of anti-war pacifist activists and thinkers from the early twentieth century who developed nonviolence into a revolutio...

Reducere. SNCC: The New Abolitionists influenced a generation of activists struggling for civil rights and seeking to learn from the successes and failures o...

Reducere. In the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was ov...

Gregory knew he was different from a very early age. They say that experiencing certain factors, while growing up, can affect us in a positive or n...

DescriptionIn May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Fr...

American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism - Jack Citrin, David O. Sears

Reducere. A collection of studies in which Arendt, from the standpoint of a political philosopher, views the crises of the 1960s and early 1970s as challenge...

DescriptionThe 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and milita...

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. Twenty-three years in the making, Rising Up and Rising Down (the original, published by McSweeney's in October 2003, spans seven volumes) is a rich...

A comprehensive account of how Europeans have used violence to conquer, coerce and police in pursuit of imperialism and colonial settlement

Reducere. In Jesus and the Politics of Mammon, Phelps uses contemporary critical theory, continental philosophy, and theology to develop a radical reading of...

Reducere. What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nation...

In recent decades, advances in deciphering Maya hieroglyphic writing have given scholars new tools for understanding key aspects of ancient Maya so...

Offers a deep engagement with developments at the intersection of Habermasian communicative ethics and international relations. -- .

Reducere. How often do you pray for your business? How familiar are you with what the Word of God says about your business? How often do you declare into the...

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This book explores different forms of mediated offence in the context of Trump's America, Brexit Britain, and the rise of far-right movements acros...

A radical re-assessment of the post-modern study of musicPublisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): James R. CurrieIllustration(s): 21 music exx...

Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality - Sundhya Pahuja

As the 2000 decision by the Supreme Court to effectively deliver the presidency to George W. Bush recedes in time, its real meaning comes into focu...

The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England - Ethan H. Shagan

Reducere. DescriptionIn the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more rac...

With previously unpublished images, the author demonstrates the variety of traffic on offer today across this popular rover ticket area.Publisher: ...

In the face of a set of environmental crises, a growing number of environmental and community groups are focusing on more sustainable practices in ...

The first comprehensive reader on punk and race, from The Clash to Bad Brains.Publisher: Verso BooksIllustration(s): 36 BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPHS...

The advent of the twentieth century famously brought about new personal and political freedoms, including radical changes in voting rights and expr...

Why did France, with its strong sense of national identity, want to give up the Franc for the Euro? This book, by a former British diplomat in Pari...

The book engages with our desire to seek change in a world of increasing inequality, exclusion and violence. Deploying practical, academic and auto...