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In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which authorized President Andrew Jackson to move eastern Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River to Indian Territory. Often solely associated with the Cherokee, the ""Trail of Tears"" more accurately...

Mathematics for Social Justice offers a collection of resources for mathematics faculty interested in incorporating questions of social justice into their classrooms. The book begins with a series of essays from instructors experienced in integrating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870499074Author Jessica H. FoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee PressWeight(grams) 312g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558497979Author Susan J. TracyFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

PTSD Growth in Police, Military and Medical Professions Workbook offers an overview of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) as well as the less familiar concept of Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG) to students and practitioners who work in high-stress fields...

The history of Europe's Jews is one of oppression and violent persecution. As vulnerable minority communities in the midst of suspicious, resentful, or hostile peoples, Jews developed the prevailing attitude that in their own defence the only recourse...

Founded by MK Gandhi early in his career, the Natal Indian Congress is one of the oldest political organizations in South Africa. This book traces its course through colonial anti-Asiatic feeling, past apartheid, and into the new democracy.Book...

This work chronicles intentional communities in the 20th century. The chronological account first studies the older groups that were operating until 1900, it then explores the impact of the early 19th-century art colonies, before discussing...

Over the course of a thousand years, from 600 to 1600 CE, the Java Sea was dominated by a ring of maritime kingdoms whose rulers engaged in long-distance raiding, trading, and marriage alliances with one another. And the Sun Pursued the Moon explores the...

As feminist and women-positive ideas and ideals exploded in the 1960s and 1970s, a sexual revolution was forged, allowing women a variety of lifestyle choices. Many current feminists, called "gender feminists" by some, too often are fighting to limit...

An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women's studies, and family and consumer sciences, Remaking Home Economics covers the field's history of opening career opportunities for women and responding to domestic and social issues. Calls to...

Globalization is a set of processes that are weakening national boundaries. Both transnational and local social movements develop to resist the processes of globalization--migration, economic interdependence, global media coverage of events and issues,...

Have Americans become more or less tolerant of racial discrimination? More or less supportive of abortion? Is a new tax revolt underway? Did a "new conservative mood" dominate elections and policy discussions in the early 1980s?Popular and academic...

Decolonization after World War II led to a significant global increase in the number of states. Each new nation was born with high expectations. But these hopes were soon eroded by the ineffectiveness and capriciousness of many of the new regimes. In...

The 2019 edition of the Economic Report on Africa explores the intricate terrain of revenue collection on the continent and makes salient recommendations to help African countries attain the SDGs and the aspirations of Agenda 2063 by expanding their...

Provides original assessments of the consequences of social movements.We have all witnessed social movements and felt their effects-some subtle, others profound. But to truly understand their impact over time, in different countries, and on various...

As the political climate of the United States moves rightward, effective and visionary voices from the left become both rarer and more essential. In this volume, the author provides such a voice. Taking the convergence of race, gender and class as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorPatricia Aufderheide is professor in the School of Communication at American University and director of the Center for Social Media. She is the author of, most...

The first look at self-made men and women from a multicultural perspective.Brings gender, race, and ethnicity to bear on the myth of the "self-made man."Made in America presents the first look at self-made men and women from a multicultural perspective...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816630097Author Beatriz SarloFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

Exploring different conceptions of virility - as well as the reproductive fantasies they produce - in a selection of Italian political manifestos and political writings, this study exposes the relation between fascist rhetoric and ideology.Book...

The first book to focus on the connections between sexuality, activism, and documentary film.From film festivals to university campuses, from private homes to first-run theaters, people everywhere are viewing and discussing gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual,...

Explores Italian national identity.More than any other nation, Italy-from its imperial past to its subordinate present, from its colonial forays to its splendid isolation-embodies the myriad and contradictory historical forms of nationhood. This volume...

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This title dramatically examines dependency on self-strangulation for sexual arousal.Book InformationISBN 9780879756642Author John MoneyFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Prometheus BooksPublisher Prometheus Books

Interprets space and place in the medieval era.Interprets space and place in the medieval era. A glance at medieval maps tells us that cartographers of the Middle Ages divided space differently than we do today. In the great mappae mundi, for instance,...

An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.Social Theory/Latin American StudiesAn essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power. In Consumers and Citizens,...

The goal of this diverse and intriguing volu me is to shape a space of common discourse between Jews and others who share a critical apporach to the politics of cult ure and the cultural politics of difference. 'Book InformationISBN 9780816627516Author...

The first book to consider the career of P. T. Barnum from a cultural studies perspective.Phineas Taylor Barnum lived from 1810 until 1891, and in the eighty-one years of his life he created show business as we know it. In E Pluribus Barnum, Bluford...

"A remarkable and timely book. . . . Must reading." William Julius WilsonOffering a new vision of community-based regionalism, this book arrives just as "smart growth" measures and other attempts to link cities and suburbs are beginning to make their...

Explores the connection between baseball card collecting and nostalgia among men of the baby boom.Baseball card collecting carries with it images of idealized boyhoods in the sprawling American suburbs of the postwar era. Yet in the past twenty years, it...

A compelling study of the origins of racial conflict and violence in America."We'll just be hanging out, partying. And somebody will say, 'Hey, let's go on a mission.' That's when you go looking for people who don't belong in the neighborhood, and you...

Persistent Disparity provides a comprehensive examination of the magnitude and scope of racial economic disparity in the United States. The authors directly assess the extent of black economic progress in the US since World War II and address the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816632626Author Michelle CitronFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressDimensions(mm)...

A polemical analysis of the ways Orientalism speaks through the texts of prominent Asian American writers.Asian American resistance to Orientalism-the Western tradition dealing with the subject and subjugation of the East-is usually assumed. And yet, as...

Informed by recent developments in literary criticism and social theory, In the Nature of Things addresses the presumption that nature exists independent of culture and, in particular, of language. The theoretical approaches of the contributors represent...

A unique collection of essays on popular culture, politics, aesthetics, feminism, and postmodernism, along with complete scripts from three of Kipnis' videotapes."Laura Kipnis has made the leap from artist to theorist (or was it the other way around?)...

Considers the cultural and philosophical assumptions underlying virtual reality, and how the technology affects the real world.Virtual reality is in the news and in the movies, on TV and in the air. Why is the technology-or the idea-so prevalent...

An expose of the realities facing poor black children in our consumer society.What does it mean to be young, poor, and black in our consumer culture? Are black children "brand-crazed consumer addicts" willing to kill each other over a pair of the latest...

Reclaims the lost history of women's contributions to the development of American citiesIn the days between the Civil War and World War I, women rarely worked outside the home, rarely went to college, and, if our histories are to be believed, rarely put...