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Pulse of the People: Political Rap Music and Black PoliticsHip-Hop music encompasses an extraordinarily diverse range of approaches to politics. Some rap and Hip-Hop artists engage directly with elections and social justice organizations; others may use their platform to call out discrimination, poverty, sexism, racism, police brutality, and other social ills. In Pulse...
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Holy War, Martyrdom, and Terror: Christianity, Violence, and the WestHoly War, Martyrdom, and Terror examines the ways that Christian theology has shaped centuries of conflict from the Jewish-Roman War of late antiquity through the First Crusade, the French Revolution, and up to the Iraq War. By isolating one factor among the many forces...
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Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human RightsThe unmarked mass graves left by war and acts of terror are lasting traces of violence in communities traumatized by fear, conflict, and unfinished mourning. Like silent testimonies to the wounds of history, these graves continue to inflict harm on communities and families that...
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Sunbelt CapitalismFew Sunbelt cities burned brighter or contributed more to the conservative movement than Phoenix. In 1910, eleven thousand people called Phoenix home; now, over four million reside in this metropolitan region. In Sunbelt Capitalism, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer tells the story of the city's expansion...
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Selling the American Way: U.S. Propaganda and the Cold WarIn 1955, the United States Information Agency published a lavishly illustrated booklet called My America. Assembled ostensibly to document the basic elements of a free dynamic society, the booklet emphasized cultural diversity, political freedom, and social mobility and made no mention of McCarthyism or...
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Roots of Strategy: 3 Military ClassicsArdant du Picq's Battle Studies, Clausewitz's Principles of War, and Jomini's Art of War.Author: Curtis BrownPublisher: Stackpole BooksPublished: 03/01/1987Pages: 557Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 8.21h x 5.18w x 1.72dISBN: 9780811722605This title is not returnable
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An Introduction to Intelligence Research and AnalysisSince the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on United States soil, the intelligence community has been scrutinized on how it performs its functions. Consequently, the 9/11 Commission made several recommendations on how to improve the quality of intelligence analysis. Those charges and the United...
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The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 7, 1925 - 1953: 1932, Ethics Volume 7Introduction by Abraham Edel and Elizabeth FlowerThis seventh volume provides an authoritative edition of Dewey and James H. Tufts' 1932 Ethics.Dewey and Tufts state that the book's aim is: "To induce a habit of thoughtful consideration, of envisaging the full meaning and consequences of...
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The Struggle for Black EqualityThe Struggle for Black Equality is a dramatic, memorable history of the civil rights movement. Harvard Sitkoff offers both a brilliant interpretation of the personalities and dynamics of civil rights organizations and a compelling analysis of the continuing problems plaguing many African Americans. With...
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Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of...
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The Paradox of Tar Heel Politics: The Personalities, Elections, and Events That Shaped Modern North CarolinaHow can a state be represented by Jesse Helms and John Edwards at the same time? Journalist Rob Christensen answers that question and navigates a century of political history in North Carolina, one of the most politically vibrant and competitive southern states, where neither...
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Moral Capital: Foundations of British AbolitionismRevisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views...
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Boston Against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970sPerhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Ron Formisano explores the sources of white opposition to school desegregation. Racism was a key factor, Formisano argues, but racial prejudice alone cannot...
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The Negro and Fusion Politics in North Carolina, 1894-1901Edmonds gives a detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina blacks who held federal, state, county, and municipal offices. This record shows that the ration of Afro-American voters was so low that black domination was neither a reality nor...
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Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in TuskegeeIn this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town's experience and the elements that it shared with other communities during this period.Home to Booker...
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Colorblind Injustice: Minority Voting Rights and the Undoing of the Second ReconstructionChallenging recent trends both in historical scholarship and in Supreme Court decisions on civil rights, J. Morgan Kousser criticizes the Court's "postmodern equal protection" and demonstrates that legislative and judicial history still matter for public policy. Offering an original interpretation of the failure of...
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The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century AmericaMuch of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by...
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The Development of American Citizenship, 1608-1870The central British idea was that subjectship involved a personal relationship with the king, a relationship based upon the laws of nature and hence perpetual and immutable. The conceptual analogue of the subject-king relationship was the natural bond between parent and child.Across the Atlantic...
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Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989In Resisting Equality Stephanie R. Rolph examines the history of the Citizens' Council, an organization committed to coordinating opposition to desegregation and black voting rights. In the first comprehensive study of this racist group, Rolph follows the Citizens' Council from its establishment in the...
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U.S. Military Intervention in the Post-Cold War Era: How to Win America's Wars in the Twenty-First CenturyDuring the post--World War II era, American foreign policy prominently featured direct U.S. military intervention in the Third World. Yet the cold war placed restraints on where and how Washington could intervene until the collapse of the former Soviet Union removed many of the...
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