Civil Rights

When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, U.S. Congressman John Lewis said of him, "Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Through his actions, he helped liberate all of us." ...

This detailed and sympathetic, but not uncritical, study of On Liberty' argues for the general consistency and coherence of Mill's defence of individual liberty, but maintains that there are significant non-utilitarian elements in his arguments.Book...

The global humanitarian movement, which originated within Western religious organizations in the early nineteenth century, has been of most important forces in world politics in advancing both human rights and human welfare. While the religious groups...

Since 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the country. The Solid (Democratic) South is now overwhelmingly Republican, and long disenfranchised African Americans vote at levels comparable to those of...

In the face of ongoing religious conflicts and unending culture wars, what are we to make of liberalism's promise that it alone can arbitrate between church and state? In this wide-ranging study, John Perry examines the roots of our thinking on religion...

Historians of the Civil Rights era typically treat the key events of the 1950s Brown v. Board of Education, sit-ins, bus boycotts, and marches--as a revolutionary social upheaval that upended a rigid caste system. While the 1950s was a watershed era in...

Many post-communist countries in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are being encouraged and indeed pressured by Western countries to improve their treatment of ethnic and national minorities, and to adopt Western models of minority...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553214147Author John Stuart MillFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 147gDimensions(mm)...

Most people believe that the right to privacy is inherently at odds with the right to free speech. Courts all over the world have struggled with how to reconcile the problems of media gossip with our commitment to free and open public debate for over a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592212866Author Obiora Chinedu OkaforFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams)...

This title was first published in 2000: This anthology of essays focuses on the human rights of children in the area of sexuality. Looking at the theoretical aspects, essays examine the history and construction of concepts of childhood and child...

The canonical image of John Locke as one of the first philosophes is so deeply engrained that we could forget that he belonged to a very different historico-political context. His influence on Enlightenment thought, not least that of his theories of...

In The Gun Gap, Mark R. Joslyn advances gun owners as a new classification for understanding political behavior and attitudes. He demonstrates a "gun gap," which captures the differences between gun owners and non-gun owners, and shows how this gap...

A condensed and accessible intellectual history that traces the genesis of the ideas that have built into the #BlackLivesMatter movement in a bid to help us make sense of the emotions, demands, and arguments of present-day activists and public thinkers. ...

Today, freedom is so closely associated with the United States that most people still view America as the ultimate symbol of freedom. This is one reason why the desire to immigrate to the United States from almost anywhere in the world has not waned for...

This perceptive, detailed biography traces the life of Kato Shidzue, one of Japan's most powerful female activists and politicians. It provides a richly documented and engaging view of women's issues and political life in Japan.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467104517Author Dr MatthewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250272973Author Patrisse CullorsFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's PressPublisher St. Martin's PressWeight(grams) 127g

What if Martin Luther King Jr., this name-branded, oft-sanitized preacher from Atlanta, is a prophet whose message America has yet to fully reckon with? Ten days before Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel said, "Where...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817999322Author Tibor R. MachanFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781510769311Author Melvin I UrofskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551930398Author Gary TeepleFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Garamond PressPublisher Garamond PressWeight(grams) 400gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

In his introduction to this collection of essays by constitutional experts, Philip Bryden says that Canadians can be proud of their commitment to the protection of rights and liberties in the Charter. Canada, he believes, is a better place to live then...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557094179Author Henry ThoreauFormat HardbackPage Count 36Imprint Applewood BooksPublisher Applewood BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 110mm *...

Jane Addams Children's Honor BookNCTE Orbis Pictus Honor BookKirkus Reviews Best Children's Book of the YearThis nonfiction picture book focuses on Birmingham Sunday, a fateful day and significant part of the Civil Rights movement, and places it in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800624576Author Lewis V. BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

The Kerner Report is a powerful window into the roots of racism and inequality in the United States. Hailed by Martin Luther King Jr. as a "physician's warning of approaching death, with a prescription for life," this historic study was produced by a...

Guns have never before been as important in American culture as they are at this moment. Most contemporary conversations on guns focus on either the gun as a tool used in mass killings or a right to be fiercely defended, with most debates deadlocking on...

Capitalism in the western world is currently facing a crisis of legitimacy in the face of growing inequality. But many forget that the global, capitalist world as we know it today emerged largely during the industrial revolution. Four remarkable thinkers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815717959Author Abdullahi Ahmed An-naimFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

The Indian question has come to the forefront of political agendas in contemporary Latin America. In the process, indigenous movements have emerged as important social actors, raising a variety of demands on behalf of native peoples. Regardless of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800625436Author Lewis V. BaldwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg FortressWeight(grams) 476g

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9781579582258Author Vincent SamarFormat HardbackPage Count 590Imprint Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis GroupPublisher Taylor &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602717Author Tricia RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 144mm * 28mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375760464Author Mary Ann GlendonFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm)...

This is an account of the Jewish state's motives behind building the West Bank wall, arguing that at the heart of the issue is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians become a majority. The book charts Israel's increasingly...

Brownlie's Documents on Human Rights provides an extensive collection of key documents covering all elements of the subject, accompanied by authoritative commentary and bibliographic annotation. The result is a clear and accurate set of the most...

In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to revitalize public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, she addresses...

Virtually everyone supports religious liberty, and virtually everyone opposes discrimination. But how do we handle the hard questions that arise when exercises of religious liberty seem to discriminate unjustly? How do we promote the common good while...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679739395Author Anthony LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 306gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...