Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America, Paperback - Sara Mayeux

Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism, " except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, sh...

Reducere. In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century America...

In 1918, Rebecca Goldberg--a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire living in rural Wilmington, Massachusetts--lost her husband, Nathan, to a rai...

Reducere. Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting ther...

Contributor(s): Author: Margot CanadayThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Uneart...

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Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...

Reducere. A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of rad...

A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After the abolitio...

Reducere. Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist tho...

Reducere. When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The de...

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are innately aggressive or...

DescriptionRecent events--the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, am...

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity,...

"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

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Reducere. Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edi...

A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

This timely history explores the entry, reception and resettlement of refugees across twentieth-century Britain. Focusing on four cohorts of refuge...

By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday lif...

A major history of the impact of Caribbean migration to the United States.

Deals with the toothpaste and toothbrush industries from 1900 to 2008. This book shows that during these years, America moved from a nation of peop...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

This book details the narrative and history of Iraq in the 20th century and reinserts the Assyrian experience as an integral part of Iraq's broader...

Reducere. Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which evidence is selected, filtered, and understood. This is as true of scientific em...

Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryAnthologiesTaken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern Ameri...

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

Reducere. Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Richard (Professor of musicology, Professor of musicology, University of California, Berkeley) Tar...

This study re-examines the twentieth-century novel as a form shaped by its problematic, often scandalous relation to the public sphere. Discussing ...

An interdisciplinary book highlighting the relationship between the Red Sea region's colonial history and its present instability. Colonial Chaos e...

Reducere. Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history, and the very different Un...

Put yourself in their shoes. In 1720 France was just coming out of a long war that had left the nation on the edge of bankruptcy. People were starv...

Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for stu...

Reducere. Description Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self-portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on bo...

Reducere. Here is an illustrated history of the civil rights movement, written and designed for ages 10 to adult, that clearly and effectively brings the tur...

* A significant contribution to our understanding of how politics affects real people, and abrilliant blend of sweeping narrative and detailed anal...

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

Supermarkets are a mundane feature in the landscape, but as Tracey Deutsch reveals, they represent a major transformation in the ways that American...

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Reducere. This book is about Oklahoma City, its primary law enforcers and their agency. It is about the controls they have exerted, tried to exert or failed ...

Throughout this lively and concise historical account of Mao Zedong's life and thought, Rebecca E. Karl places the revolutionary leader's personal ...

Reducere. Provocative and highly controversial, The Nazi Hydra In America presents an overview of the fascist influence in America. While Eisenhower's troops...

Reducere. DescriptionThe story of 911 is complicated. Over 240 million calls are made to the 911 system every year. The Romans organized fire watches and had...

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This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and d...

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Russia and th...

Reducere. A rousing history of Ireland in its most tumultous century by one of the most well-known and beloved Irish writers of our time. Tim Pat Coogan's Ir...