When They Blew the Levee: Race, Politics, and Community in Pinhook, Missouri

Reducere. In 2011, the Midwest suffered devastating floods. Due to the flooding, the US Army Corps of Engineers activated the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway...

DescriptionFrom Bay Ridge to Astoria, political action in Arab New York Arab Americans are a numerically small proportion of the US population yet ...

Publisher: Sussex Academic PressAuthor(s): Ethan Doyle WhiteNumber of pages: 272Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 159 x 233 x 31Cover type: Paperba...

Examines the relationships forged between police officers and the diverse urban and rural communities in which they have lived and worked in Scotla...

In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new in...

DescriptionGlobalisation and consumerism affect every area of our lives. But it's not just about shopping; these powerful forces shape our personal...

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information acr...

Publisher: Indiana University PressAuthor(s): Nick UnderwoodIllustration(s): 4 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 266Collection: The Mo...

Addressing the pervasive longing for meaning and fulfillment in this time of crisis, Nature and the Human Soul introduces a visionary ecopsychology...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather ShumakerSaving Arcadia: A Story of Conservation and Community in the Great Lakes is a suspenseful and intimate land...

DescriptionOn a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino...

On October 21, 1966, thousands of tons of coal mining waste slid down a mountainside and devastated the mining village of Aberfan. The black mass c...

A remarkable portrait of a web of artistic connections, traced outward from Jay DeFeo's uniquely generative work of artPublisher: Yale University P...

"Engaging. . . a remarkably candid account. . . Succeeding as a centrist in public life these days can be an almost impossible task. But centrism i...

Reducere. Creating Community expands the written histories of Springfield that have long overlooked this minority in the local community. It also adds to the...

Adopting an ethnographic approach in the study of community participation and power and the significance of 'race' in three ethnically diverse neig...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Helen PfeiferIllustration(s): 18 b/w illus.Number of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 16...

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 ...

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 ...

Traces the development of Federalist policies and the Federalist Party in the first three states of the Northwest Territory - Ohio, Indiana, and Il...

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 ...

Reducere. Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Comb...

This ethnography of a live action role-playing (LARP) community examines the structure of play, how new participants are introduced and apprenticed...

Drawing on family and communal records, diaries, memoirs, literary works, and other sources, the author reconstructs the fascinating story of how P...

Deza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanish historiography: a growing awareness of the importance played by Moriscos in ...

In this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia's "gentle revolution, " James Krapfl shifts the focus away from elites to ordinary citizens w...

This book argues that the interwar classroom shaped twentieth-century Britain. It recreates and analyses life in London's elementary schools in the...

Reducere. One of early-twentieth-century America's most fertile grounds for political radicalism, the Pacific Northwest produced some of the most dedicated a...

Reducere. Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and youn...

Reducere. Introductory and user-friendly textbook for scholars and students in the humanitiesMultidisciplinary approach to digital cultureCross-fertilization...

Reducere. In this important study, Dr. Gift Mtukwa investigates the relationship between work and community in Paul's letters to the Thessalonians. Utilizing...

"As different as we all are in situations, needs, and views, we hold the world in common. In this brilliant ethnography, Colin Jerolmack vividly hi...

Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Bara...

Reducere. Anger is a powerful mobilizing force in American politics on both sides of the political aisle, but does it motivate all groups equally? This book ...

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice -A brilliant and complicated portrait of a brilliant and complicated president.---Salon Michael Eric D...

Political scientists and social choice theorists often assume that economic diversification within a group produces divergent political beliefs and...

One man's pursuit of justice over violence and racism in the nineteenth century.Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyAuthor(s): Randolph Paul...

Reducere. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throu...

Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): Gary FergusonIllustration(s): 5 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2021D...

This timely book advances a new vision for educational justice centered on the leadership activities, organizing efforts, and counternarratives of ...

DescriptionForeign migration to the United States is dramatically altering the demographic profile of the American electorate. Nearly a third of al...

DescriptionSouth Central Los Angeles is often characterized as an African American community beset by poverty and economic neglect. But this depict...

A riveting portrait of a rural Pennsylvania town at the center of the fracking controversy Shale gas extraction--commonly known as fracking--is oft...

Reducere. Bombing its way into the headlines of the early 1970s, the Weather Underground was one of the most dramatic symbols of the anger felt by young Amer...

Publisher: Kensington PublishingAuthor(s): Jim R. WoolardNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 244 x 276 x 28Cover type: HardbackRe...