Charles Robinson: 44 books
Rock Brands
Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2010
Rock Brands: Selling Sound in a Media Saturated Culture, edited by Elizabeth Barfoot Christian, is an edited collection that explores how different genres of popular music are branded and marketed today. The book's core objectives are addressed over three sections. In the first part of Rock Brands,...
A Good Year to Die
The Story of the Great Sioux War
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
This is the dramatic story of the most crucial year in the history of the American West, 1876, when the wars between the United States Government and the Indian Nations reached a peak. Telling a great deal about Indian cultures, history, beliefs and personality, this is the first book to cover the...
by Charles M. Robinson III
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Great Plains cover the central two-thirds of the United States, and during the nineteenth century were home to some of the largest and most powerful Indian tribes on the continent. The conflict between those tribes and the newcomers from the Old World lasted about one hundred and fifty years,...
Say It Plain
A Century of Great African American Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.
In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...
by James Robinson, Charles Beard
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
The nation which has unmistakably assumed the leading role in European affairs during the past two hundred years is France. At the opening of the eighteenth century she already enjoyed a commanding position. In the wars to which the ambition of her king, Louis XIV, gave rise, almost all the countries...
by Judith Blau, Michael Burawoy, Gerard Delanty
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2006
At an earlier time, sociologists C. Wright Mills, W. E. Du Bois, and Jane Addams loudly protested injustices and inequities in American society, provided critiques and analyses of systems of oppression, and challenged sociologists to be responsible critics and constructive commentators. These giants...
Natural Connections
Perspectives In Community-Based Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Both realism and justice demand that efforts to conserve biological diversity address human needs as well. The mpromising hope of accomplishing such a goal lies in locally based conservation efforts -- an approach that seeks ways to make local communities the beneficiaries and custodians of conservation...
The Development of Modern Europe Volume II
From the Fall of Metternich to the Eve of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
When, in 1792, the Austrian and Prussian armies had advanced toward Paris with the object of freeing Louis XVI from the restrictions placed upon him by the National Assembly, the French, roused to fury, had deposed and executed a ruler who was convicted of plotting with foreign powers to maintain...
by James Robinson, Charles Beard
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
When, in 1792, the Austrian and Prussian armies had advanced toward Paris with the object of freeing Louis XVI from the restrictions placed upon him by the National Assembly, the French, roused to fury, had deposed and executed a ruler who was convicted of plotting with foreign powers to maintain...
An Unseen Light
Black Struggles for Freedom in Memphis, Tennessee
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
During the second half of the nineteenth century, Memphis, Tennessee, had the largest metropolitan population of African Americans in the Mid-South region and served as a political hub for civic organizations and grassroots movements. On April 4, 1968, the city found itself at the epicenter of the...
The Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures, 2000–2015
A Legacy in Byron Studies
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This unique collection of lectures honors the pioneering work in Byron studies of Leslie Alexis Marchand, who has had an enduring influence on the appreciation and study of Lord Byron for sixty years. Generations of readers and writers have come to Byron through his biographies and his edition of...
Christian Physicalism?
Philosophical Theological Criticisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
On the heels of the advance since the twentieth-century of wholly physicalist accounts of human persons, the influence of materialist ontology is increasingly evident in Christian theologizing. To date, the contemporary literature has tended to focus on anthropological issues (e.g., whether the traditional...
by Charles M. Robinson III
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
The Spanish conquest of Mexico was the most remarkable military expedition in history, and in achieving it, Hernan Cortes proved himself as one of the greatest generals of all time. This book explains the background of the Aztec Empire and of the Spanish presence in Mexico. It describes the lives...
The Development of Modern Europe Volume I
From the Wars of Louis XIV to the Congress of Vienna
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
The nation which has unmistakably assumed the leading role in European affairs during the past two hundred years is France. At the opening of the eighteenth century she already enjoyed a commanding position. In the wars to which the ambition of her king, Louis XIV, gave rise, almost all the countries...