Civil Rights category: 2079 books
Remaking the Rural South
Interracialism, Christian Socialism, and Cooperative Farming in Jim Crow Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
This is the first book-length study of Delta Cooperative Farm (1936–42) and its descendant, Providence Farm (1938–56). The two intentional communities drew on internationalist practices of cooperative communalism and pragmatically challenged Jim Crow segregation and plantation labor. In the winter...
More Secure, Less Free?
Antiterrorism Policy & Civil Liberties after September 11
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
The first comprehensive analysis of the full range of antiterror initiatives undertaken in the United States after the 2001 terrorist attacks
Unlike earlier books published shortly after the September 11 attacks that focus on the Patriot Act, More Secure, Less Free? covers the Patriot Act but...
American Women Are Products of Time, Place, and Circumstances.
SHORT STORY #21. Nonfiction series # 1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2016
How American women, after the passage of the Civil Act of 1964, took a risk and an opportunity —to fail or succeed on their own terms? Millions entered the labor force to compete with men in hostile working environment.
How and why such victory wonder happened for the women? How American...
by Dr Christian Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
The Use of Force and International Law offers an authoritative overview of international law governing the resort to force. Looking through the prism of the contemporary challenges that this area of international law faces, including technology, sovereignty, actors, and compliance and enforcements,...
by Marc Platt
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
“Political Timebomb (Playing The Presidential Race Card)”: (Includes Audio Notebook Links at The End of The Manuscript)There is an old saying “All Politics is Local.” In this book, I will discuss how most “Presidential Politics is Racial.” The Democrats used to be the “Racist Party” in...
Sweatshops in Paradise
A True Story of Slavery in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
When nine Vietnamese women arrived at Virginia Lynn Sudburys small law office in Pago Pago, on the island of Tutuila in the territory of American Samoa, she wasnt certain she would take the case. The women, workers at the Daewoosa garment factory, were trying to get the company to pay them their promised...
Party Autonomy in Contractual and Non-Contractual Obligations
A European and Anglo-Common Law perspective on the freedom of choice of law in the Rome I Regulation on the law applicable to contractual obligations and the Rome II Regulation on the law applicable to non-contractual obligations
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
This study presents a comprehensive examination of party autonomy as provided for in the European Rome I Regulation and the Rome II Regulation. It follows an integrated method of analysis, whereby the principle of party autonomy as provided for in the Regulations is first compared with the pre-regulation...
by Arthur Koestler, Edmond Cahn, Sydney Silverman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Reflections on Hanging is a searing indictment of capital punishment, inspired by its author’s own time in the shadow of a firing squad. During the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler was held by the Franco regime as a political prisoner, and condemned to death. He was freed, but only after months...
To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face
Libertarian Political Violence and the Origins of the Militia Movement
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
“To Shake Their Guns in the Tyrant's Face addresses an area—the relationship of American political violence to American ideology—that is of growing importance and that is commanding an ever increasing audience, and it does so in a way like nothing else in the field.”
—David Williams, Indiana...
Living Together After Ethnic Killing
Exploring the Chaim Kaufman Argument
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Thisvolume attempts to critically analyze Chaim Kaufman's ideas from various methodological perspectives, with the view of further understanding how stable states may arise after violent ethnic conflict and to generate important debate in the area.
After the Cold War, the West became optimistic...
Cowardice in Leadership
A Lesson in Harassment, Intimidation and Reprisals
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
I revealed to Congress in 2008 that the United States Air Force was operating a fleet of specialized reconnaissance aircraft (RC-135s) that were not airworthy. The agency retaliated with an immediate attack on my character to divert attention away from the maintenance issues that I had reported. The...
by Michael C. Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
The radical black left has largely disappeared from the struggle for equality and justice. Michael Dawson examines the causes and consequences, and argues that the conventional left has failed to take race seriously as a force in reshaping American institutions and civil society. Black politics needs to find its way back to its radical roots.
by Joe Odiboh
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
We cannot live in fear of tomorrow in South Africa. We must not make this nation look like a country sitting in a keg of gun powder on top of an active volcano. Together we shall make a better life for all South Africans in the common bonds that hold us together as a people. In this present world...
The European Public Servant
A Shared Administrative Identity?
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Sager & Overeem's timely analysis constitutes an original effort to integrate history of ideas and cutting-edge survey research. It presents the subject's ideational foundations as well as its modern manifestation in European administrative space. 'Sager & Overeem's excellent collection is...