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Democracy Disrupted
The Politics of Global Protest
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Since the financial meltdown of 2008, political protests have spread around the world like chain lightning, from the "Occupy" movements of the United States, Great Britain, and Spain to more destabilizing forms of unrest in Tunisia, Egypt, Russia, Thailand, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Ukraine....
Forgotten Genocides
Oblivion, Denial, and Memory
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Unlike the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, or Armenia, scant attention has been paid to the human tragedies analyzed in this book. From German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), Burundi, and eastern Congo to Tasmania, Tibet, and Kurdistan, from the mass killings of the Roms by the Nazis to the extermination...
by Roland Burke
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
In the decades following the triumphant proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the UN General Assembly was transformed by the arrival of newly independent states from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. This diverse constellation of states introduced new ideas, methods,...
Rainforest Warriors
Human Rights on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Rainforest Warriors is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life—part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is...
The Evolution of International Human Rights
Visions Seen
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, used extensively by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new third edition. Focusing on the theme of visions seen by those who dreamed of what might be, Lauren explores the dramatic transformation of a world patterned by...
by Samuel Moyn
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2015
In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that first arose in Christian churches and religious thought in the years just prior to the outbreak of the war. The Roman Catholic...
Hope in a Jar
The Making of America's Beauty Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
How did powder and paint, once scorned as immoral, become indispensable to millions of respectable women? How did a "kitchen physic," as homemade cosmetics were once called, become a multibillion-dollar industry? And how did men finally take over that rarest of institutions, a woman's business?
In...
Ellis Island Nation
Immigration Policy and American Identity in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Though debates over immigration have waxed and waned in the course of American history, the importance of immigrants to the nation's identity is imparted in civics classes, political discourse, and television and film. We are told that the United States is a "nation of immigrants," built...
by Seth Dowland
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
During the last three decades of the twentieth century, evangelical leaders and conservative politicians developed a political agenda that thrust "family values" onto the nation's consciousness. Ministers, legislators, and laypeople came together to fight abortion, gay rights, and major...
Race and the Cherokee Nation
Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
"We believe by blood only," said a Cherokee resident of Oklahoma, speaking to reporters in 2007 after voting in favor of the Cherokee Nation constitutional amendment limiting its membership. In an election that made headlines around the world, a majority of Cherokee voters chose to eject...
Let This Voice Be Heard
Anthony Benezet, Father of Atlantic Abolitionism
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Anthony Benezet (1713-84), universally recognized by the leaders of the eighteenth-century antislavery movement as its founder, was born to a Huguenot family in Saint-Quentin, France. As a boy, Benezet moved to Holland, England, and, in 1731, Philadelphia, where he rose to prominence in the Quaker...
Take Up Your Pen
Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Executive orders and proclamations afford presidents an independent means of controlling a wide range of activities in the federal government—yet they are not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the controversial edicts known as universal presidential directives seem to violate the separation...
Moral Minority
The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
In 1973, nearly a decade before the height of the Moral Majority, a group of progressive activists assembled in a Chicago YMCA to strategize about how to move the nation in a more evangelical direction through political action. When they emerged, the Washington Post predicted that the new evangelical...
American Marriage
A Political Institution
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
As states across the country battle internally over same-sex marriage in the courts, in legislatures, and at the ballot box, activists and scholars grapple with its implications for the status of gays and lesbians and for the institution of marriage itself. Yet, the struggle over same-sex marriage...