The American Crucible. Slavery, Emancipation And Human Rights, Paperback - Robin Blackburn

A landmark history of the rise, abolition, and legacy of slavery in the New World.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Robin BlackburnNumber of pages: ...

Western legal culture looked to the Christian religion for its foundational cosmopolitan ideas, and at the beginnings of the human rights movement ...

A straightforward and stimulating account of this fascinating area of law that covers all the key topics on undergraduate human rights modules. It ...

This handbook explains the crucial role that psychology plays in: defending individuals' human rights, health, well-being, and dignity; supporting ...

Why and how can records serve as evidence of human rights violations, in particular crimes against humanity, and help the fight against impunity? T...

Reducere. The Making of New World Slavery argues that independent commerce, geared to burgeoning consumer markets, was the driving force behind the rise of p...

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In a world of spectacular suffering and power plays - large and small - what is theatre's role in protecting human dignity? With its impassioned pl...

Bringing theory and practice together, African Cinema and Human Rights argues that moving images have a significant role to play in advancing the c...

Some 2. 5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, ad...

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Winner, Outstanding Book Award, Association for Theatre in Higher Education Winner, Grace Abbott Best Book Award, Society for the History of Childr...

Reducere. A Bitter Fog is the true story of people fighting to protect their families and homes from Agent Orange and other poisons sprayed on them from the ...

Reducere. Quilts and Human Rights offers a new understanding of the history of global human rights as seen through textiles of awareness and activism. Of all...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Christine GarringtonNumber of pages: 266Collection: Anthem Free PressPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 ...

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

Reducere. For enslaved and newly freed African Americans, attaining freedom and citizenship without health for themselves and their families would have been ...

Britain's murky relationship with the Greek dictatorship is revealed in this important new study.

A textbook introduction to the history of the American South, from slavery to the civil rights movement.

A deep dive into the history and philosophy of isonomy, a system of equal rights for all, as an alternative to the concept of democracy.Publisher: ...

Publisher: Chicago Review PressAuthor(s): Robin KirkNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 202 x 152 x 13Cover type: Paperback / sof...

Reducere. Who were the first American Slaves? More importantly, who started slavery? Know the answers to these interesting questions and more by going over t...

Reducere. Young Bol Gai Deng (bowl guy) lived in a peaceful Dinka village in southern Sudan-until the night his whole world changed forever. In a government-...

Witchcraft and magic in America is an inherently multicultural experience and the folklore of our ancestors from every country converges here at a ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ruth BarrettFemale Erasure is a dynamic collection of diverse voices speaking out against gender identity politics, exposin...

A compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific. Yesenia Barragan rethinks the n...

Reducere. The Emancipation Proclamation is one of the most important documents in American history. As we commemorate its 150th anniversary, what do we reall...

Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln exchanged letters at the end of the Civil War. Although they were divided by far more than the Atlantic Ocean, they a...

Features the lyrics of fifteen slave songs and fifteen abolitionist songs, placing them in proper historical context and making them available agai...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Peter (University of Gloucestershire, UK) HalsteadIllustration(s): 13 Tables, colorNumber of pages: 256Co...

This book proposes a transformation from human rights organized around a state determined practice to one that is focused on a people-centric appro...

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen colonial slavery was abolished in 1833 the British government paid 20 million to slave-owners as compensation: the enslaved receive...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Oumar BaNumber of pages: 214Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 157 x 233 x 15Cover type: Paperback / s...

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

Eradicating Extreme Poverty. Democracy, Globalisation and Human Rights - Xavier Godinot

DescriptionA progressive argument for repealing the Human Rights Act. Contrary to contemporary panic around human rights repeal, Human Rights - Ill...

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Reducere. Are there any human rights that apply to all women and all men in all cultures at all times? Can we ground human rights in an abstract rationality ...