What Is a Slave Society?: The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective

The study of altruism and altruistic behavior has caught the attention of social scientists especially in recent years. What motivates individuals ...

Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the realities of human trafficking and for...

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

Reducere. The astonishing memoir of a free man who was sold into slavery in Louisiana where he was kept for12 years a powerful, riveting condemnation of slav...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. The second edition of The Family in Global Perspective: A Gendered Journey explores the differences and similarities in family structures around th...

Reducere. Since medieval times, the mystical tradition of Kabbalah was restricted to qualified men over forty--because it was believed that only the most mat...

Reducere. What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? (1852) is a novella by Frederick Douglass. Having escaped from slavery in the South at a young age, Freder...

Reducere. Louis Hughes was born a slave in Virginia and at age 12 was sold away from his mother, whom he never saw again. After a few interim owners, he was ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

James Walvin offers a new and an original interpretation of the barbaric world of slavery and of the historic end to the slave trade in April 1807....

Situating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding i...

In this pioneering work, Paul Abramson and Ronald Inglehart show that the gradual shift from Materialist values (such as the desire for economic an...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

One aspect that overwhelmingly defines the second half of the 20th century is the remarkable economic growth of Asia. This book offers a comprehens...

Reducere. In 1935, as part of the WPA, President Roosevelt created the Federal Writers Project. This was a very ambitious program designed to put unemployed ...

The memoir of Gwendolyn Midlo Hall offers today's activists and readers an accessible and intimate examination of a crucial era in American radical...

Publisher: Rutgers University PressAuthor(s): Dorothea SchulzNumber of pages: 236Collection: Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Loca...

Reducere. Dutch and English settlers brought the first enslaved people to New Jersey in the seventeenth century. By the time of the Revolutionary War, slaver...

This book provides a theoretical and empirical explanation to account for widespread variation in Participatory Budgeting's adoption, adaptation, a...

Reducere. Designed for classroom use this one-volume text situates the history of Christianity within its various social and political contexts. Suitable for...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Rudolf Von SinnerNumber of pages: 294Collection: Theology in the Public Square/ TheologiePublication date: 2022Dime...

Reducere. Volume 2 of Interviews with former North Carolina Slaves

Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languages and bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presents program types, variables...

Public Administration has experienced a fundamental rethinking of its basic objectives, concepts and theories during the 21st century. This book ex...

Reducere. "My own observation of the real condition of the people of our Slave States, gave me ... an impression that the cotton monopoly in some way did the...

Concerned with issues that have shaped the history of women in particular places and eras, this title examines women in ancient civilizations; incl...

An unprecedented comparison of juvenile justice systems across the globe, Juvenile Justice in Global Perspective brings together original contribut...

Reducere. DescriptionCombining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of ...

A comprehensive study of how slavery and enslaved people shaped the modern worldPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Professor James Walvi...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): William G. (Baylor University, Texas, USA) HoyIllustration(s): 10 Halftones, black and white; 10 Illustra...

This book critically examines how rugby union has developed in recent years, in nations on the periphery of the sport. Focusing on people and place...

Reducere. This book considers commercial agriculture in Africa in relation to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the institution of slavery within Africa its...

Talking to patients and their families about end-of-life issues can be difficult and stressful. This book looks at ways different cultures view dea...

A new global history of slavery from ancient origins through the horrors of the Atlantic trade to the present day.

Reducere. From 1936 to 1938, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a part of the New Deal's Works Progress Administration, hired writers, editors, and research...

Reducere. In his introduction to Prayin' to Be Set Free, Andrew Waters likens the personal accounts of former Mississippi slaves to the music of that state's...

Reducere. The study of U.S. history is experiencing a transformation as instructors reconsider traditional national narratives that frame understandings of t...

In this sweeping international perspective on reparations, Time for Reparations makes the case that past state injustice--be it slavery or coloniza...

The first publication to outline the complex global story of human migration and dispersal throughout the whole of human prehistory. Utilizing arch...

In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released a report designed to facilitate reconciliation between the Canadian state and Indigenous ...

Reducere. We have arrived at a unique time in America when four issues - racism, slavery, salvation, and the Bible - are all sharing center stage. None of th...

Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798-1880) traces t...