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Race Over Party: Black Politics and Partisanship in Late Nineteenth-Century Boston - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood (Author)In late nineteenth-century Boston, battles over black party loyalty were fights over the place of African Americans in the post-Civil War nation. In his fresh in-depth study of black partisanship and politics, Millington W. Bergeson-Lockwood demonstrates that party politics became the terrain upon which black Bostonians tested the promise of equality in America's democracy. Most African Americans remained loyal Republican...

Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Camille Walsh (Author)In the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to "taxpayer citizenship--the idea that, as taxpayers, we deserve access to certain social services like a public education. Tracing the genealogy of this concept, Camille Walsh shows how tax policy and taxpayer identity were built on the foundations of white supremacy and intertwined with ideas of whiteness. From the origins of unequal public sch...

The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980s - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Alan M. Wald (Author)For a generation, Alan M. Wald's The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative account of an often misunderstood chapter in the history of a celebrated tradition among literary radicals in the United States. His passionate investigation of over half a century of dissident Marxist thought, Jewish internationalism, fervent political activism, and the complex art of the literary imagination is enriched by more than one hundred pers...

Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Annelise Orleck (Author)Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting imprint on American politics. Though they have rarely made more than cameo appearances in previous histories, Rose Schneiderman, Fannia Cohn, Clara Lemlich Sh...

The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary Mexico - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Stephanie J. Smith (Author)Stephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation required coercive measures toward dissenters. While artists and intellectuals, some of them professed Communists, sought free expression i...

The Collapse of Apartheid and the Dawn of Democracy in South Africa, 1993 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby John C. Eby (Author), Fred Morton (Author)This game situates students in the Multiparty Negotiating Process taking place at the World Trade Center in Kempton Park in 1993. South Africa is facing tremendous social anxiety and violence. The object of the talks, and of the game, is to reach consensus for a constitution that will guide a post-apartheid South Africa. The country has immense racial diversity--white, black, Colored, Indian. For the negotiations, howev...

Congo Love Song: African American Culture and the Crisis of the Colonial State - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Ira Dworkin (Author)In his 1903 hit "Congo Love Song," James Weldon Johnson recounts a sweet if seemingly generic romance between two young Africans. While the song's title may appear consistent with that narrative, it also invokes the site of King Leopold II of Belgium's brutal colonial regime at a time when African Americans were playing a central role in a growing Congo reform movement. In an era when popular vaudeville music frequently trafficked in racist ...

Women's Antiwar Diplomacy During the Vietnam War Era - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jessica M. Frazier (Author)In 1965, fed up with President Lyndon Johnson's refusal to make serious diplomatic efforts to end the Vietnam War, a group of female American peace activists decided to take matters into their own hands by meeting with Vietnamese women to discuss how to end U.S. intervention. While other attempts at women's international cooperation and transnational feminism have led to cultural imperialism or imposition of American ways on others, J...

Seattle in Coalition: Multiracial Alliances, Labor Politics, and Transnational Activism in the Pacific Northwest, 1970-1999 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Diana K. Johnson (Author)In the fall of 1999, the World Trade Organization (WTO) prepared to hold its biennial Ministerial Conference in Seattle. The event culminated in five days of chaotic political protest that would later be known as the Battle in Seattle. The convergence represented the pinnacle of decades of organizing among workers of color in the Pacific Northwest, yet the images and memory of what happened centered around assertive black bloc protest t...

The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Moses (Author)The unknown inside story of the NYPD's Italian-born detectives who fought both powerful gangsters and the deeply ingrained prejudice against their own beloved immigrant community The story begins in Sicily, on Friday, March 12, 1909, at 8:45 p.m. Three gunshots thundered in the night, and then a fourth. Two men fled, and investigators soon discovered who they had killed: Giuseppe Petrosino, the legendary American detective whose exploits in N...

Self-Defense in Mexico: Indigenous Community Policing and the New Dirty Wars - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Luis Hernández Navarro (Author), Ramor Ryan (Translator)In Mexico and across other parts of Latin America local Indigenous peoples have built community policing groups as a means of protection where the state has limited control over, and even complicity in, crime and violence. Luis Hernandez Navarro, a leading Mexican journalist, offers a riveting investigation of these armed self-defense groups that sprang up around the time of the 1994 Zapatista uprising in ...

The Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Cedric J. Robinson (Author), Erica R. Edwards (Foreword by)Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion, maintained in part by Western political and social theorists who depend on the idea of leadership a...

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Report copyright infringementby Cedric J. Robinson (Author), H. L. T. Quan (Foreword by), Avery F. Gordon (Preface by)An Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. Suggesting that the socialist ideal was embedded both in Western and non-Western civilizations and cultures long before the opening of the modern era and did not begin with or depend on the existence of capitalism, Robinson interrogates the soc...

A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby David L. Chappell (Author)The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas after decades of gradual progress. Rather, it is a story of the power of religious tradition.Chappell reconsiders the intellectual roots of civil rights reform, showing how northern libe...

American Political Rhetoric: Essential Speeches and Writings on Founding Principles and Contemporary Controversies - Paperback

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by Peter Augustine Lawler (Editor), Robert Martin Schaefer (Editor), David Ramsey (Editor)In its eighth edition, American Political Rhetoric is the only reader for introductory classes in American politics and political communication that explores fundamental political principles through political rhetoric. Contributors include America's founders, modern public officials, Supreme Court opinions, and representatives of social movements.Author BiographyPeter Augustine Lawler was Dana Professor ...

Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War - Paperback

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by Timmon Wallis (Author)To survive the climate crisis, we need money, brainpower and infrastructure for the most effective climate solutions. Those resources are currently being squandered by the nuclear weapons industry. We'll also need the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitters to stop pointing nuclear missiles at each other and start building unprecedented global cooperation. Can we "feed two birds with one scone" by converting assets from nuclear weapons of mass extinction to evidence-b...

How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos - Paperback

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by David Pogue (Author)A practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue. You might not realize it, but we're already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. In Arizona, laborers now start their day at 3 a.m. because it's too hot to work past noon. Chinese investors are snapping up real estate in Canada. Millennials have ev...

Globalization and Culture: Global Mélange - Paperback

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by Jan Nederveen Pieterse (Author)Now updated with new chapters on culture and populism, Globalization and Culture argues that we are witnessing the formation of a global mélange culture through processes of cultural mixing. Its historically deep and geographically wide approach to globalization is essential reading as we face the increasing spread of conflicts bred by cultural misunderstanding.Author BiographyJan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and ...

Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon - Paperback

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by Kim Zetter (Author)A top cybersecurity journalist tells the story behind the virus that sabotaged Iran's nuclear efforts and shows how its existence has ushered in a new age of warfare--one in which a digital attack can have the same destructive capability as a megaton bomb. "Immensely enjoyable . . . Zetter turns a complicated and technical cyber story into an engrossing whodunit."--The Washington Post The virus now known as Stuxnet was unlike any other piece of malware built before: Rath...

A Supreme Court Unlike Any Other: The Deepening Divide Between the Justices and the People - Hardcover

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by Kevin J. McMahon (Author)A data-rich examination of the US Supreme Court's unprecedented detachment from the democratic processes that buttress its legitimacy. Today's Supreme Court is unlike any other in American history. This is not just because of its jurisprudence but also because the current Court has a tenuous relationship with the democratic processes that help establish its authority. Historically, this "democracy gap" was not nearly as severe as it is today. Simply put, past Supre...

House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again - Paperback

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by Atif Mian (Author), Amir Sufi (Author)The Great American Recession resulted in the loss of eight million jobs between 2007 and 2009. More than four million homes were lost to foreclosures. Is it a coincidence that the United States witnessed a dramatic rise in household debt in the years before the recession--that the total amount of debt for American households doubled between 2000 and 2007 to $14 trillion? Definitely not. Armed with clear and powerful evidence, Atif Mian and Amir Sufi re...

Understanding Digital Racism: Networks, Algorithms, Scale - Paperback

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by Sanjay Sharma (Author)This book studies the digital realm as a race-makingtechnologyby examining contemporary racismand offering an innovative approach for understanding how racism is manifested and remade through digital technologies.Author BiographySanjay Sharma is an associate professor at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick, UK. His research critically interrogates how existing and new forms of biopolitical control are constituted via digital technolog...

Opération Crevette: Benin, Mercenaries, and the Survival of a New State - Hardcover

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by Les Sosnowski (Author), Monique Sosnowski (Author)Opération Crevette is a meticulously researched account of the political instability leading to private mercenary action in Benin during the mid-twentieth century. This book brings together the voices of the involved mercenaries, political rulers, and local witnesses to reveal a struggle for power in the former French colony.Author BiographyLes Sosnowski is practicing attorney specializing in international law and a member of the American I...

Liberal Education and Democratic Citizenship - Hardcover

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by Michael H. McCarthy (Author)In Liberal Education and Democratic Citizenship, Michael H. McCarthy carefully describes the many crises confronting American democracy and identifies their philosophical, cultural, and institutional origins. He argues that a liberal education, properly understood, can address several of these crises effectively.The book's successive chapters explore the sources, areas, and levels of division in contemporary America, and show how they have created important disa...

Presidential Elections: Strategies and Structures of American Politics - Paperback

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by Nelson W. Polsby (Author), Aaron Wildavsky (Author), Steven E. Schier (Author)Polsby and Wildavsky's classic text, now updated by Stephen Schier and David Hopkins, argues that the institutional rules of the presidential nomination and election processes, in combination with the behavior of the mass electorate, structure the strategic choices faced by politicians in powerful and foreseeable ways. We can make sense of the decisions made by different political actors--incumbents, challengers,...

Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century - Paperback

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by Fergus M. Bordewich (Author)In the face of a new lightly romanticized view of Native Americans, Killing the White Man's Indian bravely confronts the current myths and often contradictory realities of tribal life today. Following two centuries of broken treaties and virtual government extermination of the "savage redmen," Americans today have recast Native Americans into another, equally stereotyped role, that of eternal victims, politically powerless and weakened by poverty and alcoholism,...

Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944 - Paperback

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by Franze Neumann (Author), Peter Hayes (Introduction by)Franz Neumann's classic account of the governmental workings of Nazi Germany, first published in 1942, is reprinted in a new paperback edition with an introduction by the distinguished historian Peter Hayes. Neumann was one of the only early Frankfurt School thinkers to examine seriously the problem of political institutions. After the rise of the Nazis to power, his emphasis shifted to an analysis of economic power, and then after the ...

Rethinking Mao: Explorations in Mao Zedong's Thought - Paperback

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by Nick Knight (Author)Rethinking Mao offers a innovative perspective on Mao Zedong, the major architect of the Chinese Revolution and leader of the People's Republic of China until his death in 1976. Utilizing a number of recently discovered documents written by Mao, Nick Knight 'rethinks' Mao by subjecting a number of his controversial concepts to fresh scrutiny.Author BiographyNick Knight is professor of Asian studies at Griffith University in Australia. Number of Pages: 306 Dimensions: 0....

International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues - Paperback

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by Robert J. Art (Editor), Timothy W. Crawford (Editor), Robert Jervis (Editor)International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues has been expertly helping students understand politics for fifty years. The 14th edition, with fully half the readings new to this edition and a new coeditor, continues the trademark approach of teaching international politics through both cutting-edge and foundational scholarship.Author BiographyRobert J. Art is the Christain A. Herter Professor of ...

Unveiling Afghanistan's Agricultural Export Potential A Comprehensive Analysis - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Osman Ahmed (Author)The breakthrough research in "Unveiling Afghanistan's Agricultural Export Potential: A Comprehensive Analysis" examines the country's agricultural landscape and its unrealized promise on the international stage. Written by a specialist in agricultural economics and international trade, this book explores the rural past and present of a country with a strong reputation for its agricultural prowess. Although Afghanistan's agricultural sector h...

The Perfect Ceremonies of the Masonic Knights Templar, Knight of Malta, Mediterranean Pass, and Rose Croix De Heredom Degrees: With the Scripture Read - Paperback

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Nummits and Crummits; Devonshire Customs, Characteristics, and Folk-lore - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Sarah Hewett (Author)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 in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important e...