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Slavery After Slavery: Revealing the Legacy of Forced Child Apprenticeships on Black Families, from Emancipation to the PresentAn acclaimed historian narrates the stories of newly emancipated children who were re-enslaved by white masters through apprenticeships and their parents fights to free them While the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery, white southerners established a system of apprenticeship after the Civil War that entrapped...
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Secession and European Union Law: The Deferential AttitudeSecession is a live issue in today's Western Europe. In the last decade, we have witnessed the consolidation of pro-independence movements in Scotland and Catalonia and in the near future, we might see their re-emergence or the rise of other pro-secession movements in other...
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Russian Warfare and Influence: States in the Intersection Between East and WestThis open access anthology takes a holistic approach to how Russia carries out hybrid warfare against its neighbouring countries - states at the intersection between the East and West. The book addresses the vulnerabilities of these countries to Russian influence and hybrid warfare tactics,...
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Revolt Against Theocracy: The Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in IranThis book is the first in-depth account of the uprising in Iran that began on 16 September 2022, when a young woman, Mahsa Amini, was killed by the morality police. In the months that followed, protests and demonstrations erupted across Iran, representing the most...
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Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement with Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP), Volume I (February 2024)This report represents Volume I of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office's (AARO) Historical Record Report (HR2) which reviews the record of the United States Government (USG) pertaining to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). In completing this report, AARO reviewed all official USG investigatory efforts since...
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Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass EducationHow the expansion of primary education in the West emerged not from democratic ideals but from the state's desire to control its citizens Nearly every country today has universal primary education. But why did governments in the West decide to provide education to all...
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Quarterly Essay 48, After the Future: Australia's New Extinction CrisisAustralia is home to many animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, making Australians caretakers of a unique heritage in a land that tolerates few mistakes. Yet, in After the Future, Tim Flannery shows that this country is now on the brink of...
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Pure Excess: Capitalism and the CommodityTodd McGowan forges a new theory of capitalism as a system based on the production of more than what we need: pure excess. He argues that the promise of more--more wealth, more enjoyment, more opportunity, without requiring any sacrifice--is the essence of capitalism. Previous...
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Promise: President Obama, Year OneBarack Obama's inauguration as president on January 20, 2009, inspired the world. But the great promise of "Change We Can Believe In" was immediately tested by the threat of another Great Depression, a worsening war in Afghanistan, and an entrenched and deeply partisan system...
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Preparing a Nation?: The New Deal in the Villages of Papua New GuineaPreparing a Nation?, based on extensive archival research, addresses perennial questions of Australian colonialism in Papua New Guinea. To what extent did Australia prepare Papua New Guinea for independence? And what were the policies and the ideologies behind colonial development, implemented after World War...
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Politics and Government in Israel, Fourth EditionThis balanced and comprehensive text explores Israeli government and politics from both institutional and behavioral perspectives. After briefly discussing Israel's history, authors Gregory S. Mahler and Reuven Y. Hazan examine the social, religious, economic, cultural, and military contexts within which Israeli politics takes place....
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Platformland: An Anatomy of Next-Generation Public ServicesThe aim of most public sector digitization programmes is the status quo, delivered more cheaply. Rather than saving the public from bureaucracy, digital has created new administrative burdens. The public are engaged as consumers in a way that misunderstands the nature of what makes...
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Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as RefugeHow do we, as individuals, accommodate a pessimistic and misanthropic view of the world? If the human condition is impossible to ameliorate, then how should we live? How do we bring about the wellbeing and happiness we seek in the face of such overwhelming...
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Paraguayan Sorrow: Writings of Rafael Barrett, a Radical Voice in a Dispossessed LandThe first-ever English translation of one of the legends of the Latin American left Rafael Barrett was born into the Spanish elite, but in the six intense years that he spent in Paraguay, he shed his past to become one of the most notable...
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Palestinian Political Organizations in Israeli PrisonsPalestinian Political Organizations in Israeli Prisons examines the evolution and changes within the Palestinian Prisoners Movement and the structural opportunities and constraints that inform collective resistance today. Drawing on observation-based fieldwork and over 40 interviews with ex-prisoners and additional interviews with lawyers and advocates,...
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Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the LeftA cabal of tech-billionaires is colluding with once-idealistic journalists to create an entirely new media landscape. Matt Taibbi used to take on the rich and powerful, but today, his reporting is crafted to please grievance-addicted American conservatives. Glenn Greenwald, whose reporting on the Snowden...
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Niccolo Machiavelli's the PrinceThe Prince embodies a series of vital issues, including power and morality, history and human nature, language and meaning, gender and government. It is these issues which the essays in this volume debate and explore from a variety of perspectives, from the original responses...
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Neoliberalism's War on Higher EducationAddresses what educators, young people, and concerned citizens can do to reclaim higher education from market-driven neoliberal ideologies.Author: Henry A. GirouxPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 03/18/2014Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.80dISBN: 9781608463343About the AuthorHenry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network...
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Mémoires Pour Servir À l'Histoire d'HaïtMémoires pour servir à l'histoire d'Haïti, par Boisrond-Tonnerre, précédés de différents actes politiques dus à sa plume et d'une étude historique et critique par Saint-Remy (des Cayes, Haïti), ...Date de l'édition originale: 1851Le présent ouvrage s'inscrit dans une politique de conservation patrimoniale des ouvrages...
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Munich: The Israeli Response to the 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre and the Development of Independent Covert Action TeamsIsraelis and top intelligence officials put pressure on Meir, and he reluctantly gave the go-ahead for the broad assassination campaign to begin. But when West Germany released the three people who were still alive after the massacre a few months later, as the hijackers...
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