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121) This Troubled World
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Eleanor Roosevelt's stirring call for peace in the face of rising fascism. We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, pay for it in our own behavior and in material ways. In 1938, with fascist regimes gaining strength and global tensions on the rise, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt published a visionary plan for achieving world peace. This Troubled World offers a clear-eyed assessment of the political climate in the aftermath of World...
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Richard T. Ford is George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford. He has published in numerous legal journals including the Harvard Law Review and Stanford Law Review. His is co-author of Local Government Law and The Legal Geographies Reader
What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? This bold and provocative book questions the common presumption of political...
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Contingent Citizens features fourteen essays that track changes in the ways Americans have perceived the Latter-day Saints since the 1830s. From presidential politics, to political violence, to the definition of marriage, to the meaning of sexual equality-the editors and contributors place Mormons in larger American histories of territorial expansion, religious mission, Constitutional interpretation, and state formation. These essays also show that...
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This prize-winning study of post-WWII Romania examines the fraught relationship between national heritage and Socialist statecraft.
In Socialist Heritage, ethnographer and historian Emanuela Grama explores the socialist state's attempt to create its own heritage, as well as the ongoing legacy of that project. While many argue that the socialist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe aimed to erase the pre-war history of the socialist cities, Grama...
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"Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy: A Global Citizens' Report on the Corporate Control of Technology, Health, and Agriculture details how global philanthrocapitalist organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and affiliated entities effectively monopolize and privatize common land for food production in a manner that jeopardizes public health around the globe. Through various initiatives, sub-organizations, development...
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Freedom of information is a principle commonly associated with the United States' First Amendment traditions or digital-era technology boosters. Barriers Down reveals its unexpected origins in political, economic, and cultural battles over analog media in the mid-twentieth century. Diana Lemberg traces how the United States shaped media around the world after 1945 under the banner of the "free flow of information," showing how the push for global...
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"Winner of the 2017 Association for Asian American Studies Award for Best Book in History" "Winner of the 2016 Robert H. Ferrell Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations" "Runner-up for the 2016 Hamilton Book Awards, University Co-operative Society, University of Texas at Austin" "Winner of the 2015 Douglass C. North Research Award, Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics (SIOE)" "Winner of the 2015 Theodore...
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THE RADICAL MIND: The Destructive Plans of the Woke Left by David Horowitz
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