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The Thief, the Senator, and the Knight of the Bleeding Heart: John Stephens and the Ku Klux Klan in Reconstruction North CarolinaThe murder of state senator John Walter Stephens by the Ku Klux Klan in 1870 was a turning point in the fight for equal voting rights in North Carolina. This intriguing and original work is part biography (of both Stephens and his electoral opponent,...
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The State of Conservation: Rural America and the Conservation-Industrial Complex since 1920In the twentieth century, natural resource conservation emerged as a vital force in US politics, laying the groundwork for present-day sustainability. Merging environmental, agricultural, and political history, Joshua Nygren examines the political economy and ecology of agricultural conservation through the lens of the "conservation-industrial...
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The Southern Fault Line: How Race, Class, and Region Shaped One Family's HistoryA highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines. The Southern Fault Line explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of plantation owners and industrialists on...
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The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog: And Other Serious Discoveries of Silly ScienceA brilliant new voice in science writing--"witty, whip-smart, truly one of our best" (Mary Roach)--shows why playfulness and curiosity are the key to science Why would anyone research how elephants pee? Or study worms who tie themselves into a communal knot? Or quantify the...
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The Road to SerfdomF.A. Hayek's The Road to Serfdom is a groundbreaking work of political and economic philosophy that warns of the dangers posed by centralized control and the erosion of individual freedoms. Written during the tumultuous period of World War II, Hayek's incisive analysis critiques the...
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The Ravaged Forest: A Native Woman's Journey to JusticeAuthor: Sandra A. CrowellPublisher: Sandra A. CrowellPublished: 11/22/2024Pages: 332Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.98lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9798348359683
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The Politics of Hate: How the Christian Right Darkened America's Political SoulChristian Right organizations have darkened America's political soul by strategically constructing a theological justification for hate. Angelia Wilson supports this claim in The Politics of Hate by detailing how Christian Right organizations have pushed voters toward polarization and primed religious conservatives to support Donald...
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The Permanent Revolution and Results and ProspectsTrotsky's theory of the permanent revolution is one of the most important additions to the arsenal of marxism. It was first developed by Trotsky in 1904, on the eve of the first Russian Revolution. At that time, all the tendencies of the Russian Social...
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The Peace Corps in Tanzania: A HistoryAn examination of one of the earliest Peace Corps programs in Africa In 1961, the first group of Peace Corps volunteers in Tanzania--surveyors, engineers, and geologists--arrived in Dar es Salaam with three core objectives: meet the newly independent country's needs for trained personnel, promote...
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The Origins of Poverty and WealthAsuncion, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Bucharest, Gdansk, Hanoi, Kathmandu, Montevideo, Memphis, New York, Santiago de Chile, Seoul, Tbilisi, Tirana, Ulaanbaatar, Zurich - these are just a few of the stops on Rainer Zitelmann's world tour. The historian and sociologist traveled to thirty countries on four...
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the StateFriedrich Engels takes you on a tour around the evolution of the human society into the current establishment we take for granted as the ever-existing standard. No doubt there are many holes left in this study of anthropology, it provides a systematic study into...
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The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied TerritoriesThe Occupation of Justice presents the first comprehensive discussion of the Supreme Court of Israel's decisions on petitions challenging policies and actions of the authorities in the West Bank and Gaza since their occupation during the 1967 Six-Day War. Kretzmer addresses issues including: the...
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The New Power Brokers: The Rise of Asset Manager Capitalism and the New Economic OrderOver the course of the last 70 years, asset managers⸺from activist hedge funds to large passive index fund providers⸺have come to own the substantial majority of corporate equities in the United States, and have wielded that ownership to fundamentally reshape the economy. For most...
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The Nature and Development of the Modern StateDespite the increasing globalization of many aspects of social, economic and political life, the state remains the fundamental element of contemporary governance. This fully revised and extended new edition provides a broad-ranging introduction to the origins, role and future of the modern state tracing...
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The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968-1990The Morality of Revolution offers the first historical examination of urban cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. The book presents the camps as the template for independent Mozambique's punitive society under Frelimo. Individuals who transgressed the law and socialist normative codes of...
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The Morality of Revolution: Reeducation Camps and the Politics of Punishment in Socialist Mozambique, 1968-1990The Morality of Revolution offers the first historical examination of urban cleanup campaigns and reeducation camps in socialist Mozambique. The book presents the camps as the template for independent Mozambique's punitive society under Frelimo. Individuals who transgressed the law and socialist normative codes of...
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The Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960sAn engaging be hind-the-scenes look at the lesser-known forces that fueled the profound social reforms of the 1960s Provocative and incisive, The Liberal Hour reveals how Washington, so often portrayed as a target of reform in the 1960s, was in fact the era's most...
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The King Can Do No WrongWhy are some autocrats more effective than others at retaining popular support even when their governments perform poorly? To develop insights into popular politics and governance across authoritarian regimes, this book stresses the importance of understanding autocratic blame games. Scott Williamson argues that how...
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The Jack Smith Report: Final Report on Efforts to Interfere with the Lawful Transfer of Power Following the 2020 Presidential Election by DonAuthor: Jack SmithPublisher: Melville House PublishingPublished: 02/11/2025Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.43lbsSize: 7.50h x 5.50w x 0.44dISBN: 9781685892173
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The Institutions of Land Property Rights in China: Transformation and Development, 1560-1950This book provides a comprehensive study of land property rights and transaction systems in late imperial China, specifically during the period of 1560 - 1950. The book introduces the work of two key scholars working in Chinese economic history and land property history, synthesizing...
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