The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census, Paperback - Debra Thompson

By examining the political development of racial classifications on the national censuses of the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, The Sche...

Reducere. From martyr to insult, how "Uncle Tom" has influenced two centuries of racial politics. Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Just...

National borders and transnational forces have been central in defining the meaning of race in the Americas. Race and Transnationalism in the Ameri...

Reducere. Rooted in the initial struggle of community members who staged a successful hunger strike to secure a high school in their Chicago neighborhood, Da...

An essential handbook for anyone researching the life of an ancestor using the census. Covers England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Channel Island...

Reducere. In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica, where they address the p...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

Wilhelm Furtw ngler (1886-1954) has entered the historical memory as a renowned interpreter of the canon of Austro-German musical masterworks. His ...

'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. R...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

Classical Hollywood Cinema, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Face examines the representation of iconic female faces in classical Hollywood cinem...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Page duBoisNumber of pages: 312Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 239 x 30Cover type: Har...

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Reducere. This book is the first anthology to explore the connection between race and the suburbs in American cinema from the end of World War II to the pres...

American Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism - Jack Citrin, David O. Sears

50 years on from the Race Relations Act of 1968, this 'state of the nation' book provides an overview and commentary on how things currently stand ...

DescriptionIn a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressi...

Augustus and the Destruction of History explores how Romans of the late Republic and early imperial period reconfigured their understanding of hist...

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny....

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In Race and the Senses, Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown explore the sensorial and phenomenological materiality of race as it is felt and sense...

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The United States is once again experiencing a major influx of immigrants. Rather than simply characterizing Americans as either nativist or nonnat...

Reducere. I.A.A.Thompson, Emeritus Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, is the author of War and Government in Habsburg Spain, a seminal study of the impa...

Provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced e...

Reducere. This handy reference contains the full text of the Wyoming State Constitution. Whether you're studying the state government or you just want to rea...

Reducere. This is the full text of the Montana State Constitution as Adopted By the Constitutional Convention March 22, 1972, and as Ratified By the People, ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Michael Rodriguez-MunizIllustration(s): 22 b/w illus.Number of pages: 312Publication date: 2021Dime...

Explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripherie...

Decolonising International Law: Development, Economic Growth and the Politics of Universality - Sundhya Pahuja

A powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance across civil society. The 2017 publication of Betrayal of the Promise, the report th...

Reducere. Faint traces of Indigenous people and their histories abound in American media, memory, and myths. Indigeneity often remains absent or invisible, h...

Reducere. In this book, Birol Başkan explains the variation in attitudes and approaches towards the Muslim Brotherhood across 5 Gulf States: Bahrain, Kuwait,...

Prodigiously influential, Jacques Derrida gave rise to a comprehensive rethinking of the basic concepts and categories of Western philosophy in the...