Politics, Economics and Law
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A Society of Outsiders: Women and Political Nonfiction, 1960-2001 [Hardback]
Ann Jurecic (Author)
£44.50ISBN: 9780822947974
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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Final Words [Hardback]
578 Men and Women Executed on Texas Death Row (Author); Randall Horton (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780813197838
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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In 1976 the Supreme Court of the United States affirmed the legality of capital punishment in their ruling on Gregg v. Georgia. In the 46 years since the decision was handed down, 1,551 convicted prisoners have been executed. The United States is ... .... Learn More -
Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War [Hardback]
Jessica M. Chapman (Author)
£54.00ISBN: 9780813197487
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
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Between 1945 and 1965, more than fifty nations declared their independence from colonial rule. At the height of the Cold War, the global process of decolonization complicated US-Soviet relations, while Soviet and American interventionism transform... .... Learn More -
Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War [Paperback]
Jessica M. Chapman (Author)
£27.00ISBN: 9780813197623
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
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Between 1945 and 1965, more than fifty nations declared their independence from colonial rule. At the height of the Cold War, the global process of decolonization complicated US-Soviet relations, while Soviet and American interventionism transform... .... Learn More -
The Influence of the Italian Civil Law in Latin-America: The Eightieth Anniversary of the Codice Civile 1942 [Paperback]
Francesca Benatti (Editor); Sergio García Long (Editor); Mauro Grondona (Editor); Leysser León Hilario (Editor)
£47.99ISBN: 9788869774232
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: History
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Created as a celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Italian Civil Code, the current volume presents a theoretical model for a dialogue between Italy and Latin America. With a view to emphasising the specificity of the contexts where the Italia... .... Learn More -
Yanks in Blue Berets: American UN Peacekeepers in the Middle East [Hardback]
L. Scott Lingamfelter (Author)
£31.50ISBN: 9780813197630
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: American Warriors Series
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In 1948 the United Nations launched the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization following the conflict that erupted between Israel and its Arab neighbors, who profoundly opposed the creation of a Jewish state. UNTSO quickly found itself over... .... Learn More -
Rhet Ops: Rhetoric and Information Warfare [Paperback]
Jim Ridolfo (Editor); William Hart-Davidson (Editor)
£24.50ISBN: 9780822967149
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
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In this edited volume, authors seek to document and analyze how state and non-state actors leverage digital rhetoric as a twenty-first-century weapon of war. Rhet Ops offer readers a chance to focus on the human dimension of rhetorical practice wi... .... Learn More -
The Freedom Movement's Lost Legacy: Black Abolitionism since Emancipation [Hardback]
Keith P. Griffler (Author)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813197289
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
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In the century after Emancipation, the long shadow of slavery left African Americans well short of the freedom promised to them. Sharecropping and debt peonage entrapped Black people in the South, and across the world, European colonialism had bre... .... Learn More -
Building Power to Shape Labor Policy: Unions, Employee Associations, and Reform in Neoliberal Chile [Hardback]
Pablo Perez Ahumada (Author)
£48.50ISBN: 9780822947691
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pitt Latin American Series
During Chile’s shift to neoliberalism, the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet passed a swath of probusiness labor legislation. Subsequent labor reforms by democratically elected progressive administrations have sought to shift power back to workers,... .... Learn More -
Making the World a Better Place: African American Women Advocates, Activists, and Leaders, 1773-1900 [Paperback]
Jacqueline Jones Royster (Author)
£39.50ISBN: 9780822967064
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Composition, Literacy, and Culture
In Making the World a Better Place, Royster argues that African American women must be taken seriously as historical actors who were more consistently and more variously engaged in community - and nation-building than they have been given credit f... .... Learn More
