No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, Paperback - Sarah Haley

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous ...

Reducere. With more than 50, 000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malin...

Reducere. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, R...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional ...

DescriptionThis is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring a...

Explores how church disciplinary practices gendered Puritanism and challenged ideas of ministers. Laymen punished men for public behavior that thre...

DescriptionThe New York Times bestseller. A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the vi...

Reducere. "It wouldn't be the worst thing, would it? To die young, I mean."Underneath the facade of the normalcy lies a creeping darkness in the town of Oakh...

Reducere. "It wouldn't be the worst thing, would it? To die young, I mean."Underneath the facade of the normalcy lies a creeping darkness in the town of Oakh...

Publisher: Penguin Putnam IncAuthor(s): Clarence A. HaynesNumber of pages: 144Collection: True HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 152 x 216 x...

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

Publisher: Games Workshop LtdAuthor(s): Guy HaleyNumber of pages: 208Collection: Warhammer 40, 000Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 135 x 205 x 26C...

The devil tried fiercely to sabotage her marriage in its infancy stage (She has been married for 30 years). The Voodoo Doctor has only limited info...

Reducere. In The Other American Dilemma, Rubén Donato and Jarrod Hanson examine the experiences of Mexican immigrants, Mexican Americans, and Hispanos/as in ...

Reducere. Description"B-B-B-B Bad... Bad to the bone..."Packed with interviews from director John Carpenter, screenwriter Bill Phillips, producer Richard Kob...

Reducere. I ran as far as I could, but I knew he would find me. In fact, I counted on it.I counted on him punishing me too.-When Ivy Leavold ran away from Ma...

Reducere. Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for resha...

Reducere. From award-winning author Lori Armstrong comes a gripping tale of brutal murder, as former army sniper Mercy Gunderson learns anew when she returns...

Reducere. Description"B-B-B-B Bad... Bad to the bone..." Packed with interviews from director John Carpenter, screenwriter Bill Phillips, producer Richard Ko...

This book examines the ways in which writers' houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novel...

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

Reducere. For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Toget...

Reducere. From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and ...

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeIn this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnishe...

Contributor(s): Author: William PooleMilton and the Making of Paradise Lost tells the story of John Milton's life as England's self-elected nationa...

The Citizen is an early prose work relating to Roy Fisher and his native city of Birmingham - previously thought to have been lost - which was the ...

DescriptionBeautiful and powerful, Strong Like Her presents the awe-inspiring account of women's athleticism throughout history. Journalist Haley S...

Reducere. An exploration of Rav Kook's formative years in Eastern Europe, 1865-1904.About author(s): Yehudah Mirsky is Full Professor of Near Eastern and Jud...

Reducere. New Delhi was the grandest planned capital city of the British empire. In its meticulous urban plan it owed as much to earlier imperial traditions ...

North Americans and Western Europeans increasingly identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. This book combines cultural sociology with intellectu...

Contributor(s): Author: C. Vann WoodwardWith: William S. McFeelyC. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Sou...

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 ...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Brooks E. HefnerIllustration(s): 15 black & whilte illustrationsNumber of pages: 248Publication ...

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history o...

Reducere. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER" The] rare biography of a public figure that's not only beautifully written, but also shockingly revelatory." -- ...

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and soci...

An investigation of environmental politics in light of Foucault's work, drawing on and extending work done in feminist environmentalism, political ...

The Palm House at Kew has been one of Britain's most popular attractions since it opened in 1848 - this is the story of its creation and the men wh...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Professor Mark (Professor of English, Pace University, USA, Pace University, USA) HusseyNumber of pa...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter PesicIllustration(s): 143 figuresNumber of pages: 360Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 231 x 28Cover...

The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times - Odd Arne Westad

Reducere. Many people believe that racism and discrimination against those of African descent was primarily an American experience. However, this book dispel...

A critical study of race, racialization and representation in the context of Turkish modernization

Reducere. This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of...

Reducere. A "Philadelphia Inquirer "Best Book of the Year A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his...

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every coun...

Description"Magnificent."--Robert L. Tignor, Princeton University From the early nineteenth century through to the 1960s, the Greeks formed the lar...

Reducere. Shame influences more of our thoughts and actions than many other emotions. Used as a punishment for bad behavior, shame acts as an incentive for u...