Civics & Citizenship

For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries - not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union - has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590563960Author Kim StallwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USWeight(grams) 1g

Enjoy hearty wholesome meals courtesy of the foot soldiers of the Women's Suffrage movement. The recipes in this book cover every meal of the day, as well as sections on vegetarian dishes, beverages and preserves. Choose between a Curry contributed by...

Although undeniably subject to the coercive political institutions of a liberal state, citizens with cognitive disabilities have frequently and without justification been denied political equality and political liberty. Rather than opposing this...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Darcus Howe: a Political Biography examines the struggle for racial justice in Britain, through the lens of one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999665012Author Andrew ThompsonFormat PaperbackImprint Garuda PublicationsPublisher Garuda PublicationsDimensions(mm) 148mm * 210mm * 10mm

Kathleen Paul challenges the usual explanation for the racism of post-war British policy. According to standard historiography, British public opinion forced the Conservative government to introduce legislation stemming the flow of dark-skinned...

"Explor[es] the underlying history and psychology of public discourse . . . should be required reading for politicians and public advocates." -Real Change The most pressing problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948016124Author Rivera SunFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Rising Sun Media, Inc,Publisher Rising Sun Media, Inc,Weight(grams) 467gDimensions(mm)...

From the Berlin Airlift to the Iraq War, the UN Security Council has stood at the heart of global politics. Part public theater, part smoke-filled backroom, the Council has enjoyed notable successes and suffered ignominious failures, but it has always...

The Hill Times: Best Books of 2017What are the limits of Canadian democracy and how are they being expanded by a revolution in participatory democracy?The Brexit vote in Britain and the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States...

In the 1930s, the Roosevelt administration - unwilling to antagonize a powerful southern congressional bloc - refused to endorse legislation that openly sought to improve political, economic, and social conditions for African Americans. Instead, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807076927Author Jeanne TheoharisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 533gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

From the author of Race After Technology, an inspiring vision of how we can build a more just world-one small change at a time"A true gift to our movements for justice."-Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowLong before the pandemic, Ruha...

What does democracy expect of its citizens, and how do the citizenry match these expectations? This Oxford Handbook examines the role of the citizen in contemporary politics, based on essays from the world's leading scholars of political behavior...

We are constantly being told that we are on the cusp of a cashless society. The financial services industry would certainly like to see it that way. We are being enticed with contactless cards, mobile phone payment apps, and methods of bank transfer:...

In the first sustained examination of disability through the lens of political theory, The Capacity Contract shows how the exclusion of disabled people has shaped democratic politics. Stacy Clifford Simplican demonstrates how disability buttresses...

If you want to know why American Indians have the highest rates of poverty of any racial group, why suicide is the leading cause of death among Indian men, why native women are two and a half times more likely to be raped than the national average and...

The increasingly multicultural fabric of modern societies has given rise to many new issues and conflicts, as ethnic and national minorities demand recognition and support for their cultural identity. This book presents a new conception of the rights and...

In his rich and learned new book about the naturalization of foreigners, Peter Sahlins offers an unusual and unexpected contribution to the histories of immigration, nationality, and citizenship in France and Europe. Through a study of foreign citizens,...

Citizenship rights have become vital to our sense of personal identity and social membership in modern society. In this book Maurice Roche argues that today we have to shift from the conventional post-war politics of social rights to a new politics of...

Chronicles the history of emancipation through the cradle-to-grave experiences of a remarkable generation of black northerners The Rising Generation chronicles the long history of emancipation in the United States through the cradle-to-grave experiences...

In this ground-breaking book, the author draws extensively on archival material and theortical advances in the social sciences literature on citizenship and migration. Citizenship and Immigration in Postwar Britain examines the transformation since 1945...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788293064466Author Abdullah OEcalanFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Communalism PressPublisher Communalism PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 226mm...

Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a twentieth-century icon; the most famous African-American of his time. The son of a former slave, he found worldwide fame as a performer, travelling from Hollywood to the West End, and even to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956492869Author Andrew D JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Neepradaka PressPublisher Neepradaka Press

This is the story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1773 aboard the brig Hector. These intrepid emigrants came for many reasons: the famine of the previous spring, pressures of population growth, intolerable rent increases,...

This book offers an overview of the Sikh diaspora, exploring the relationship between home and host states and between migrant and indigenous communities. The book considers the implications of history and politics of the Sikh diaspora for nationality,...

In the century preceding World War I, the American Middle West drew thousands of migrants both from Europe and from the northeastern United States. In the American mind, the region represented a place where social differences could be muted and a...

The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. Not only did it decisively change the legal and political status of African...

The American Civil Rights Movement 1865-1950 is a history of the African American struggle for freedom and equality from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. It synthesizes the disparate black...

Do you know what the Secretary of Defense does all day? Do you feel overwhelmed and confused by the web of administration and legislation that manages your taxes, your healthcare, your safety? Have you been pretending you know what Federalism is for the...

The United States is in the grip of a crisis of bad history. Distortions of the past promoted in the conservative media have led large numbers of Americans to believe in fictions over facts, making constructive dialogue impossible and imperilling our...

This book studies how marginality impacts the everyday lives of Indian Muslims. It challenges the prevailing myths and stereotypes through which Indian Muslims have come to be seen in the popular imagination. The volume engages with questions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781649696120Author Becky HirstFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Rebecca HirstPublisher Rebecca HirstWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

It was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr. lifted the crowd when he told of his dream that all...

This book is about Bristol's changing face. Written by an author who grew up in the heart of Bristol's ghetto, Palmer sheds light on the supposed 'renovation' that Bristol's poorer quarters have been undergoing. Growing up in Easton's neighbouring...

'We need effective citizen-lobbyists - not just likers, followers or even marchers - more than ever. I have no hesitation in lobbying you to read this book.'Bill Emmott, former editor in chief, the EconomistMany democratic societies are experiencing a...

Black people in the British Empire have long challenged the notion that "there ain't no black in the Union Jack." For the post-World War II wave of Afro-Caribbean migrants, many of whom had long been subjects of the Empire, claims to a British identity...

Have you ever wanted to know: - Which doctor has the best operation success rate in your health trust? - If MI5 has a file on you? - The actual number and type of crimes that happen in your street? - Which streets are targeted by parking attendants...