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After the initial exhilaration of independence, many African nations have had to face ongoing crisis and witness their hopes for a better life recede into the indefinite future. In his new book, George Sheperd looks beyond standard cold-war...

The struggles of the 1960s brought about far-reaching changes, not only an end to legalized segregation and discrimination nationwide, but a change in the consciousness of both whites and blacks. After nearly three decades, however, black hopes for...

La comunidad Latina, the fastest growing ethnic group in the United States, has long been told that assimilation is the only way to succeed in American society. This book challenges that generally accepted view and concludes instead that transformation...

From early in the Civil War, the Sea Islands of South Carolina set the stage for an exciting experiment in freedpeople's independence. Lowcountry South Carolina is particularly significant, not only for its aristocratic planters and its high profile in...

This new edition features up-to-date statistical profiles of each of the republics that emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union, covering demography, government, education, economics, geography, and communications, based on the most recent and...

This book addresses some of the key questions facing contemporary social scientists. What is the point of our research? Who undertakes it? Does it have any impact on the social world it attempts to characterize: if so, what? It does so by focusing on...

The years 1965-8 were the 'liberal hour' for race relations policy in Britain. Laws were then enacted, enforcement agencies created, and community relations councils established. These bodies, and their personnel, have been called 'the race relations...

In the last twenty years, immigration has become one of the most contested issues in Western Europe. The arrival of Africans, Asians, Eastern Europeans and others in Italy has reversed earlier trends of emigration. Debate, political activity and violence...

The notion that intelligence is somehow related to race is a notoriously tenacious issue in America. Anthropologist Alexander Alland provides the most comprehensive overview of the recent history of research on race and IQ, offering critiques of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530001425Author Lynn ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 594g

This book provides a lot of information on the importance of fishing in ancient Hawaiian society. It includes drawings of fish with both Hawaiian and scientific names.Book InformationISBN 9780824805920Author Margaret TitcombFormat PaperbackPage Count...

This book addresses the gendered political authority in Sierra Leone, a relatively unknown topic, and looks at the part it plays in women's history, political history, political transformation in Africa, and global women's political leadership.Book...

The product of years of cross-border and cross-disciplinary collaboration, this is an innovative volume of essays situated at the intersection of multi-disciplinary fields: postcolonial/subaltern theory; comparative literary analysis, especially with a...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780837197715Author George P. RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

When Gertrude Williams retired in 1998, after forty-nine years in the Baltimore public schools,The Baltimore Sun called her "the most powerful of principals" who "tangled with two superintendents and beat them both." In this oral...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313246357Author Sherman E. PyattFormat HardbackPage Count 166Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313208850Author Paul MaylamFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

From colonial times to the present, traveler and immigrant writers have seen America with new eyes. They have perceived and recorded the American experience as few native-born writers could do, yet their lives and words have often been left out of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313236839Author Cordelia Chavez CandelariaFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313230615Author Lenwood G. DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 146Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

The authors state at the beginning of this provocative new book that one of the most distinctive features of the American persona is a preoccupation and underlying concern in the United States with what is or is not `American.' How far can an ethnic...

How is a local level democratic organization cultivated so that members, who were previously disenfranchised, are empowered to oppose an oppressive central authority and participate in a revolutionary reconstruction of society? Having spent many years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313246708Author Timothy J. MeagherFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

With the fall of apartheid in South Africa, expectations were high for the enfranchisement of the acutely underdeveloped majority in South Africa. But problems abound, and this educational study looks critically at the educational situation and puts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837116549Author Bernard Martin SeniorFormat HardbackPage Count 313Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Mexican Americans are the fastest growing immigrant population in the U.S. and will continue to be significant contributors to the diverse social fabric of the country. This book examines the Mexican American cultural traditions, families, demographics,...

This book examines civil liberties in China today, covering the topics of constitutional rights of citizens, rights of the criminally accused, the court and legal systems, and judicial conflicts between government regulation and personal freedoms. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837197692Author George P. RawickFormat HardbackPage Count 578Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780978424503Author Lloyd ScibanFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Lloyd ScibanPublisher Lloyd ScibanWeight(grams) 798g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530004921Author Roberta GoldmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 466Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

This fresh and invigorating analysis illuminates the often-neglected story of early African American civil rights activism. African American Civil Rights: Early Activism and the Niagara Movement tells a fascinating story, one that is too frequently...

Sub-Saharan Africa is at the centre of the debate about development and about the relationship between prosperity in the North and poverty in the South. However, the data base for much of the argument is very weak. The purpose of this book is to present...

Sellers and Servants is a welcome addition to research on a neglected subject, that of poverty-stricken Peruvian women whose alternatives for subsistence are few and cruel: to be a servant or to peddle goods in the markets and streets of Lima...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530001432Author Lynn ScottFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 880g

Ever sinces its independence in 1991, Macedonia has made remarkable progress towards building a pluralistic, multi-ethnic civil society. Yet if the international community supports the legitimacy of Macedonia as a state it has direct responsibility to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837141206Author By the Jerusalem Ideological ConferenceFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Among the intelligence failures that came to light after the attacks of September 11, there was one that did not result from the failures of spying, decoding secret messages, or interagency communication. Rather, it arose merely from not paying...

Focusing on the concept of influence between nations, this innovative volume explores the nature of the U.S.-Israeli relationship in the period since the October War of 1973.Book InformationISBN 9780275912475Author Alvin Z. RubinsteinFormat HardbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780275922177Author Joseph T. JockelFormat HardbackPage Count 133Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Japan's Civil Service System is a comprehensive description of the organization, staffing, and actual daily workings of the postwar Japanese government bureaucracy. Written for students of Japanese government, comparative government, and public policy,...