Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s, Paperback - Risa Goluboff

In 1950s America, it was remarkably easy for police to arrest almost anyone for almost any reason. The criminal justice system-and especially the a...

Castro - in his trademark olive fatigues - receives a rapturous reception from the local African American community, and holds court with political...

Castro - in his trademark olive fatigues - receives a rapturous reception from the local African American community, and holds court with political...

Rising star Simon Hall captures the spirit of the 1960s in ten days that revolutionised the Cold War: Fidel Castro's visit to New York. 'With its c...

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At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building the...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr Joseph DarlingtonNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 18Cover type: ...

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Does a more academic type of police education produce new police officers that are reluctant to patrol the streets? These are some of the questions...

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...

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Long before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their Levantine cities, they introd...

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Reducere. This volume provides a synthesis of some of the most important themes to emerge from the recent proliferation of specialized scholarship on the per...

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Saptarishi (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University) Ba...

The police boxes have an interesting history. The 'hey days' for the police box were the years between the 1920s and 1960s when a large proportion ...

'Groundbreaking, deeply researched and profoundly heart-rending' Peniel Joseph, New York Times A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of Am...

Reducere. What began in spring 2020 as local protests in response to the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police quickly exploded into a massive nation...

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Martin Walker's account of over forty years of global confrontation between the US and Russia is a masterly narrative of the Cold War's twists and ...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Ali Humayun AkhtarNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 23Cover type: Ha...

From Mary Quant to Mods and Rockers, this is a colorful illustrated history of the most revolutionary decade for British fashion in the twentieth c...

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Award-winning historian Linda Colley shows the dawn of the modern world - through the advance of written constitutions.Illustrations: 1 x 16 pp pla...

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A terrific selection of previously unpublished photographs documenting Doncaster's railways in the 1960s.Publisher: Amberley PublishingAuthor(s): K...