Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 - Christopher Tomlins

Freedom Bound: Law, Labor, and Civic Identity in Colonizing English America, 1580–1865 - Christopher Tomlins

Reducere. Contemporary American society, with its emphasis on mobility and economic progress, all too often loses sight of the importance of a sense of place...

The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David J. MeltzerMore than 12, 000 years ago, in one of the greatest triumphs of prehistory, humans colonized North America,...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Christopher TomlinsIllustration(s): 10 b/w illus. 2 tables.Number of pages: 376Publication date: 20...

This study is an interdisciplinary examination of the role of sport in the formation of urban identity in Chicago. The author employs historical an...

DescriptionPaul Bontemps decided to move his family to Los Angeles from Louisiana in 1906 on the day he finally submitted to a strictly enforced So...

This book shines a light on Raymond Aron and his work on war and peace, ideological critique, the philosophy of history, international relations an...

Suitable for exams from September 2018 until August 2019Publisher: BPP Learning MediaAuthor(s): BPP Learning MediaPublication date: 2018Dimensions:...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

DescriptionThe Dred Scott suit for freedom, argues Kelly M. Kennington, was merely the most famous example of a phenomenon that was more widespread...

Reducere. Freedom National is a groundbreaking history of emancipation that joins the political initiatives of Lincoln and the Republicans in Congress with t...

Reducere. The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history b...

An engaging range of period texts and theme books for AS and A Level history.

Reducere. Weaving together personal stories, legal opinion and political debate, Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom looks at the questions surrounding...

This collection of essays by leading American historians explains how and why the fight against unionism has long been central to the meaning of co...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Haim SandbergIllustration(s): 3 Tables, black and white; 3 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages:...

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): James (Shareholder Consultant, K&C HR Enterprises/Holland Media Services) CastagneraNumber of pages: 800...

Reducere. This book, designed to give a survey history of American labor from colonial times to the present, is uniquely well suited to speak to the concerns...

Reducere. A historical investigation into the political and ideological foundations of the miseducation of the Negro in America, this timely and provocative ...

Publisher: Encounter Books, USAAuthor(s): Mike GonzalezNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 228 x 25Cover type: Paperback / ...

Presents a very timely overview of legal topics relating to sexual orientation, gender identity and the law. Topics covered include regulation of s...

Reducere. Bonds of Empire presents an account of slave law that is entirely new: one in which English law imbued plantation slavery with its staying power ev...

Tells the story of the political battle after Federation to achieve unprecedented levels of social and economic equality, while preserving both nat...

Reducere. With the Supreme Court likely to reverse Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion decision, American debate appears fixated on clashing rights. The first...

Publisher: Kirwin Maclean AssociatesAuthor(s): Mark ShinerIllustration(s): NoneNumber of pages: 210Publication date: 2018Dimensions: 210 x 152 x 13...

Challenging celebratory histories of the British legal regime in Hong Kong, this book uses archival sources to revisit political censorship. It sho...

Reducere. DescriptionEmployee Rights under the National Labor Relations Act (US National Labor Relations Board Regulation) (NLRB) (2018 Edition) The Law Libr...

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressAuthor(s): Christopher KrupaIllustration(s): 12 illus.Number of pages: 328Publication date: 2022Dimensio...

Reducere. Becoming Free, Becoming Black offers the first comparative study of law, race, and freedom in the Americas from the sixteenth to mid-nineteenth cen...

Reducere. A vivid and incisive account of a mostly unknown yet critical chapter in the life of Eleanor Roosevelt--when she moved to New York's Greenwich Vill...

Godly Reading: Print, Manuscript and Puritanism in England, 1580–1720 - Andrew Cambers

Reducere. One month in 1865 witnessed the frenzied fall of Richmond, a daring last-ditch Southern plan for guerrilla warfare, Lee's harrowing retreat, and th...

How does our legal and mental health system handle the mentally disordered? In this book, George C. Klein presents a revealing survey that explores...

This book explores the right to religious freedom within international law. Analysing legal structures in a variety of both Western and Non-Western...

The second edition of Crime Policy in America describes the process of policy-making and the substantive nature of policy directions in crime and j...

A study of the long term historical background to the disputes over parades and related issues that remain central to conflict in Northern Ireland,...

This volume examines the lives of more than thirty-five key personalities in Latin American law with a focus on how their Christian faith was a fac...

Reducere. Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeWidely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound ...

Reducere. Does God's all-encompassing will restrict our freedom? Does God's ownership and mastery over us diminish our dignity? The fear that God is a threat...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 288Collection: Routledge Research in International LawPublication date: 2016Dimensions: 157 x 234 x...

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America - Peter Levine

Publisher: Hodder EducationAuthor(s): Joanne De PenningtonIllustration(s): black and white illustrations and photosNumber of pages: 304Collection: ...

DescriptionFor Indigenous students and teachers alike, formal teaching and learning occurs in contested places. In Indigenous Education, leading sc...

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

In this pioneering research, Hassan S. Khalilieh sheds light on the often ignored Islamic law of the sea, and customary practices that were influen...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...