Civil Rights category: 2079 books

Cover of Modern Liberty: And the Limits of Government (Issues of Our Time)
by Charles Fried
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011

“An erudite, sharp-tongued libertarian, eager to do battle with censors, regulators ... and sanctimonious busybodies of every stripe.”—New York Times In this impassioned defense of liberty, renowned Harvard law professor Charles Fried argues that the seemingly unimpeachable goals of equality...
Cover of A Fluid Frontier

A Fluid Frontier

Slavery, Resistance, and the Underground Railroad in the Detroit River Borderland

by Karolyn Smardz Frost
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016

As the major gateway into British North America for travelers on the Underground Railroad, the U.S./Canadian border along the Detroit River was a boundary that determined whether thousands of enslaved people of African descent could reach a place of freedom and opportunity. In A Fluid Frontier: Slavery,...
Cover of Media Control

Media Control

The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda

by Noam Chomsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011

Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon...
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Leo Tolstoy: A Letter to a Hindu

Including Correspondences with Gandhi & Letter to Ernest Howard Crosby

by Leo Tolstoy, M. K. Gandhi
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2017

A Letter to a Hindu was a letter written by Leo Tolstoy to Tarak Nath Das on 14 December 1908 in response to two letters sent by Das, seeking support from the famous Russian author and thinker, for India's independence from British colonial rule. The letter was published in the Indian newspaper Free...
Cover of Oeuvres Olympe de Gouges
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: September 16, 2013

Cette édition parfaitement mise en page par l'éditeur pour une lecture sur Kindle regroupe 5 oeuvres d'Oympe de Gouges : Lettre à Monseigneur le duc d’Orléans, premier prince du sang - 1789 Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne – 1791 Sera-t-il Roi, ne le sera-t-il...
Cover of Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: March 9, 2015

Extrait :  Madame, Peu faite au langage que l’on tient aux Rois, je n’emploierai point l’adulation des Courtisans pour vous faire hommage  de cette singulière production. Mon but, Madame, est de vous parler franchement ; je n’ai pas attendu pour m’exprimer  ainsi, l’époque...
Cover of Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: March 15, 2015

Extrait :  Madame, Peu faite au langage que l’on tient aux Rois, je n’emploierai point l’adulation des Courtisans pour vous faire hommage  de cette singulière production. Mon but, Madame, est de vous parler franchement ; je n’ai pas attendu pour m’exprimer  ainsi,...
Cover of Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: July 3, 2014

Extrait :  Madame, Peu faite au langage que l’on tient aux Rois, je n’emploierai point l’adulation des Courtisans pour vous faire hommage  de cette singulière production. Mon but, Madame, est de vous parler franchement ; je n’ai pas attendu pour m’exprimer  ainsi, l’époque...
Cover of Déclaration des Droits de la Femme et de la Citoyenne
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: May 4, 2015

Madame, Peu faite au langage que l’on tient aux Rois, je n’emploierai point l’adulation des Courtisans pour vous faire hommage de cette singulière production. Mon but, Madame, est de vous parler franchement ; je n’ai pas attendu pour m’exprimer ainsi, l’époque de la Liberté...
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The Presumed Alliance

The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America

by Nicolas C. Vaca PhD
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

As Latino and African Americans increasingly live side by side in large urban centers, as well as in suburban clusters, the idealized concept of a "Rainbow Coalition" would suggest that these two disenfranchised groups are natural political allies. Indeed, as the number of Latinos has increased...
Cover of O último dia de um condenado
by Victor Hugo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 1, 2012

O romancista Victor Hugo foi um dos rostos da oposição à pena de morte em França. Em «O último dia de um condenado», o autor francês coloca-se na pele de um condenado à guilhotina nos momentos que antecedem a execução da sentença....
Cover of External Mission

External Mission

The ANC in Exile, 1960-1990

by Stephen Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Nelson Mandela's release from prison in February 1990 was one of the most memorable moments of recent decades. It came a few days after the removal of the ban on the African National Congress; founded a century ago and outlawed in 1960, it had transferred its headquarters abroad and opened what it...
Cover of The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903-1908
by Sumit Sarkar
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012

This classic work of scholarship, first published in 1973, has long been out of print. It is reprinted now with a new preface by the author and critical essays by Neeladri Bhattacharya and Dipesh Chakrabarty.
Cover of Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et de l’oppression sociale.
by Simone Weil
Language: French
Release Date: December 28, 2018

« Et pourtant rien au monde ne peut empêcher l'homme de se sentir né pour la liberté. Jamais, quoi qu'il advienne, il ne peut accepter la servitude ; car il pense. » S. Weil Écrit en 1934, cet essai propose une réflexion dont la profondeur surprend et dont les conclusions restent...
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