Civil Rights

No fight for civil liberties ever stays won, wrote Roger Baldwin (1884-1981) in 1971. He was in a position to know. After working hard to preserve the right of Americans to free expression during World War I, he founded the American Civil Liberties Union...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313210907Author A. Glenn MowerFormat HardbackPage Count 215Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985189839Author Emmanuel S JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Books for Your Head PublishingPublisher Books for Your Head PublishingWeight(grams)...

Plagued by geographic isolation, poverty, and acute shortages of health professionals and hospital beds, the South was dubbed by Surgeon General Thomas Parran "the nation's number one health problem." The improvement of southern, rural, and black health...

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When is a political trial good or bad in terms of responsible governance and fairness to individuals or groups? Professors Abel and Marsh define, evaluate, and justify the usefulness of various kinds of political trials, going back through history to...

Yeltsin is certainly not the Sakharov of the Democratic Movement. Russian people sarcastically call his burning the Parliament an October Revolution of 1993. In Women's Glasnost vs. Naglost we finally hear the voices of the Russian women on what it means...

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Although social legislation in the United States is always in the tradition of social reform rather than fundamental social change, the 1960s are considered a progressive period because of the union of government and societal obligations; class...

This challenging science-based book reviews today's global situation as well as our long evolution to humanness. It uncovers a crisis in policy and behavior impending since 1990-one stemming from earlier, but long-outmoded assumptions that now threaten...

The human right to survive and develop, a fundamental premise of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, can be attained only if adequate living conditions are secured for the child. This book reviews the significance of the physical, mental,...

This work examines the environment and events of the spring 1989 Tiananmen Square tragedy. The author argues that the mass movement, which climaxed in Beijing, can be understood only if attention is given to the external environment that provided both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313270987Author Yonah AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

What happens when two deeply held American values, freedom of expression and freedom from discrimination, clash? In any well-established democratic society, people have the right to free speech as well as the right to equal treatment and protection under...

Neal Riemer's new book explores a vital, but surprisingly neglected theme. Riemer first examines two great historical breakthroughs: to religious liberty, and to the American federal republic. He then contrasts these genuine breakthroughs to two spurious...

The intertwining of development and human rights is the subject of the twelve essays collected by the editors. The individual authors extensively examine the commonly held belief that economic development cannot take place in Third World countries...

An examination, with feminist perspective, of Israel's fertility practices and policies surrounding abortion, family planning, in vitro fertilization and the welfare state. This book exposes the complex web of issues, actors, and power relations that...

When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 were passed, they were seen as triumphs of liberal reform. Yet today affirmative action is foundering in the great waves of immigration from Asia and Latin America,...

This is a book about a writer, Islamic fundamentalism, mythmaking, and international literary politics. It is the story of Taslima Nasreen, a former medical doctor and protest writer who shot to international fame in 1993 at the age of thirty-four after...

The Declaration of Independence stated that all men are created equal, yet the long and continuing struggle for civil rights in the United States seems to indicate otherwise. This reference guide details the most critical civil rights laws in U.S...

The hatred of drugs, according to the author, is the axis of politics that has fundamentally shifted the nation's policy format-from the progressive orientation that dominated from from the time of Roosevelt to the Sixties, to the punitive orientation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313228643Author Lenwood G. DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 879Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

What impact do international economic inputs have on human rights in Third World nations? William Meyer explores the effects of direct investment by U.S. multinational corporations, economic and military aid, and MNC manufacturing plants. He examines the...

The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights. This "Rights Revolution" is currently under attack by both mainstream conservatives and intellectual liberals as undermining...

Steinberg addresses such questions as: How did the notion of a social contract develop? What did social contract mean to Locke and Rousseau? Can social contract describe the working basis of representative democracy?About the Authoreinberg /f JulesBook...

Through the lives of Diane Nash, Stokely Carmichael, Bob Moses, Bob Zellner, Julian Bond, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and their contemporaries, "The Shadows of Youth" provides a carefully woven group biography of the activists who - under the banner of the...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313231780Author Raymond D. GastilFormat HardbackPage Count 379Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

The transformation of political systems is explored in this edited collection by assessing the relationships among political conflict, political development, and public policy. The continuous collapse and regeneration of political systems accompanied by...

This pioneering examination of the nuclear threat, written for both the interested general reader and the student of war and peace issues, blends broad philosophical/theoretical themes and themes in the peace and conflict literature with the results of...

Adolph Lowe, one of the most eminent scholars of political economics now living, has written a broad and philosophical work examining freedom's costs, and the conditions--economic and political--under which it can be established. The culmination of a...

The war on drugs is a war on ordinary people. Using that premise, historian Richard Lawrence Miller analyzes America's drug war with passion seldom encountered in scholarly writing. Miller presents numerous examples of drug law enforcement gone amok, as...

Since 1950, the South has undergone the most dramatic political transformation of any region in the United States. The once Solid-meaning Democratic-South is now overwhelmingly Republican, and long-disenfranchised African Americans vote at levels...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837192710Author Robert H. WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 113Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837195377Author George W. Shepherd, Jr.Format HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837189079Author Philip S. FonerFormat HardbackPage Count 484Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837182773Author Barbara RogersFormat HardbackPage Count 331Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837181608Author Gary Dean BestFormat HardbackPage Count 202Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This book is about the lives of refugee women in Britain and France. Who are they? Where do they come from? What happens to them when they arrive, while they wait for a decision on their claim for asylum, and after the decision, whether positive or...

Human rights indicators are central to the application of human rights standards in context and relate essentially to measuring human rights realization, both qualitatively and quantitatively, connecting human rights obligations with empirical data and...

Historians have exhaustively documented how African Americans gained access to electoral politics in the mid-1960s, but few have scrutinized what happened next, and the small body of work that does consider the aftermath of the civil rights movement is...