Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, With a New Preface - Orlando Patterson

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With a new foreword by Mark Cuban and a new preface by the author.

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Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surg...

In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from continuing investigations over...

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In Counterlife Christopher Freeburg poses a question to contemporary studies of slavery and its aftereffects: what if freedom, agency, and dominati...

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This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the 20th century as an expressi...

Al-Fārābī who was conferred the distinguished title of al-Mu'allim al-thānī (The Second Teacher), is here sympathetically portrayed as a deeply rel...

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Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in...

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This volume is the first to explore how the influence of judicial personas has brought about constitutional change. Chapters convey the personal hi...

Reducere. DescriptionIn honor of the thirtieth anniversary of its first publication, we are happy to reissue Nancy Milio's 9226 Kercheval, a groundbreaking b...

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Leslie J. ReaganIllustration(s): 6 illustrations, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 432Publication date:...

Why is it that in the '90s, business in California's Silicon Valley flourished, while along Route 128 in Massachusetts it declined? The answer, Ann...

A Study Guide for Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman, " excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot...

New Tools for Succeeding GloballyWhy do so many global strategies fail--despite companies' powerful brands and other border-crossing advantages? Be...

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This volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inher...

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Recent research suggests that Black and minority ethnic (BME) academics remain underrepresented, particularly at senior levels in higher education ...

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Reducere. A Study Guide for Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold, " excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise stud...

The book addresses several research gaps in the study of organisations and rarely analysed areas such as the non-profit sector (NPOs). It combines ...

One man's personal discovery of his family's involvement in transatlantic slavery leads to his call for a wider reckoning among the descendants of ...

Reducere. Winner of the 2013 John Hope Franklin Book Prize presented by the American Studies Association Social Death tackles one of the core paradoxes of so...

Reducere. This volume contributes to the growing field of comparative Jewish and American law, presenting twenty-six essays characterized by a number of dist...

One man's personal discovery of his family's involvement in transatlantic slavery leads to his call for a wider reckoning among the descendants of ...

This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularl...

Slavery and the Atlantic slave trade are among the most heinous crimes against humanity committed in the modern era. Yet, to this day no former sla...

This volume represents the first attempt to comprehensively showcase the resources comparative philosophy, and in particular Chinese philosophy, ca...

Health and legal experts from England and Canada consider the influence of medical doctors on reforms in this comparative study. With reflections o...

An analysis of the investment approach of the world's top investors, showing how to achieve market-beating returns It is possible to beat the marke...

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How have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made ...