The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta, Paperback - Maurice J. Hobson

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...

A classic history of the role of Black working-class struggles throughout the twentieth centuryIn this pioneering history, Ron Ramdin traces the ro...

DescriptionIn Black on the Block, Mary Pattillo--a Newsweek Woman of the 21st Century--uses the historic rise, alarming fall, and equally dramatic ...

Reducere. The waves of protest ignited by the self-immolation of Muhammad Bouazizi in Tunisia in late 2010 highlighted for an international audience the impo...

Explores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connecti...

Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and u...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth PerezWinner, 2017 Clifford Geertz Prize in the Anthropology of Religion, presented by the Society for the Anthrop...

The Making of the Modern Christmas - J. M. Golby

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A prominent scholar explores King Arthur's historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century ...

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Reducere. What did the U.S. Constitution originally mean, and who has understood its meaning best? Do we look to the intentions of its framers at the Federal...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Joshua Frens-StringIllustration(s): 14 b-w illustrations, 4 tablesNumber of pages: 322Publicati...

Reducere. In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solel...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Ussama MakdisiIllustration(s): 3 mapsNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 150 ...

As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Larry Tye"A valuable window into a long-underreported dimension of African American history."--NewsdayWhen George Pullman b...

DescriptionAs early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying ...

Reducere. When it was first published in 2003, Rebel Musics sought to explore how musical activism resonates as resistance to the dominant culture, and how p...

Reducere. During the civil rights era, Atlanta thought of itself as "The City Too Busy to Hate, " a rare place in the South where the races lived and thrived...

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Reducere. In this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand Black people's history of resistance solel...

A brilliant and comprehensive study of class struggle in the United StatesPrisoners of the American Dream is Mike Davis's brilliant exegesis of a p...

The fascinating story of the Regency period in Britain - an immensely colourful and chaotic decade that marked the emergence of the modern world.

Reducere. DescriptionExtensively expanded and revised, with a new foreword by Thomas Frank In the United States, happiness and wealth are often regarded as s...

During the 1960s and 1970s, New England and British seafaring workers experienced new hardships as modern fleets from many nations intensified thei...

DescriptionIn the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politic...

Adopting a broader conception of politics which focuses on daily interactions between the state and society, this study offers a fresh interpretati...

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understandi...

Reducere. Will is desperate to win the Giant Jelly Baby competition and be named 'the best boy in the world'. But his big brother Marty always beats him to i...

Reducere. In timp ce studiul de fata isi propune sa analizeze dezvoltarea intelectualului modern dintr-un punct de vedere predominant literar, se acorda si o...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Tommy J. CurryTommy J. Curry's provocative book The Man-Not is a justification for Black Male Studies. He posits that we sh...

Reducere. Sojourning for Freedom portrays pioneering black women activists from the early twentieth century through the 1970s, focusing on their participatio...

Reducere. .25% of the books entire profits will be donated to these charities 1.savethechildren & 2.stjude hospital In the same time it's an opportunity for ...

Reducere. This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the cau...

This cross-disciplinary book provides a historically grounded explanation for the rise and demise of authoritarianism. It is the first study of Egy...

A New York Times Bestseller, and a ground-breaking history of the class system in America, which challenges popular myths about equality in the lan...

Multilingualism depoliticizes policymaking in the EUPublisher: The University of Michigan PressAuthor(s): Nils RingeNumber of pages: 288Publication...

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while t...

Illustrates how states appeal to popular morality to forge new group identities and mobilize violence against perceived threats. In an era where st...

Under this new 'science of work' that emerged in Britain between 1870 and 1939 fatigue was seen as the ultimate pathology of the working-class body...

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