Venezuela, the Present as Struggle: Voices from the Bolivarian Revolution, Paperback - Cira Pascual Marquina

Reveals the revolutionary power of the Chavista grassroots movement Venezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news extravaganzas, especially since ...

Venezuela has been the stuff of frontpage news extravaganzas, especially since the death of Hugo Chavez. With predictable bias, mainstream media fo...

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In their own voices, the full story of the women and men who struggled to make American democracy whole With a record number of female candidates i...

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DescriptionIn this book historians and social scientists examine boycotts from the eighteenth century to the present day. Employed in struggles aga...

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A bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one...

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DescriptionBergen County saw much of the American Revolution from its own doorstep. Close to British-occupied New York City, this corner of New Jer...

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China is poised to take a key role on the world stage, but in the early twentieth century the situation could not have been more different. This bo...

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In this classic account of the new black music of the 1960s and 70s, celebrated photographer and jazz historian Val Wilmer tells the story of how a...

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Sacred poetry from twelve mystics and saints, rendered brilliantly by Daniel Ladinsky, beloved interpreter of verses by the fourteenth-century Pers...

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The author's collection of these rare written accounts and interviews sheds new light on the tragic way the lives of so many were impacted by the l...

Reducere. During the first half of the 19th century, as many as 100, 000 Native Americans were relocated west of the Mississippi River from their homelands i...

DescriptionMexican RevolutionOver a period of more than ten years, following the overthrow of the government in 1910, Mexico experienced a period o...

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An international and interdisciplinary team of scholars offer innovative models of thinking about environmentality in the humanities and in Anthrop...