Political control & freedoms
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Political control & freedoms
Paperback. Andrew Young is one of the most important figures of the US civil rights movement and one of America's best-known African American leaders. This title describes his life through his election to Congress in 1972. Num Pages: 550 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 160 x 47. Weight in Grams: 990.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Edition
- With a Foreward by Quincy Jones
- Number of pages
- 550
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602580732
- ISBN
- 9781602580732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 56.04
€ 56.04
Hardcover. The founding fathers' words, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof", are the constitutional means of ensuring, however imperfectly, the American freedom to stand for something sacred. This book relocates religious identity, placing it within the individual citizen of America. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JPVH4. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Baylor University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602584198
- ISBN
- 9781602584198
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 47.33
€ 47.33
Paperback. A collection of essays offering a comprehensive amendment-by-amendment, clause-by-clause account of the Bill of Rights' recent transmutation. The contributors explore the original meaning of the amendments, as well as the history, theory and practice behind those amendments. Editor(s): Hickok, Eugene W. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; JPVH; LND. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 754.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813913360
- ISBN
- 9780813913360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.38
€ 42.38
Hardback. Using national studies of Latinos, this study investigates whether they engage in bloc voting or are likely to do so in the future. It draws on Hispanics' political attitudes, values and behaviours, as well as on the histories of other ethnic groups. Series: Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JPHF; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813916606
- ISBN
- 9780813916606
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 71.15
€ 71.15
paperback. This volume demonstrates how visions of home, past and present have helped to shape African-American's sense of place, often under hostile conditions. It focuses on the ways in which an exiled people has located itself through such activities as "yard work". Editor(s): Gundaker, Grey. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL1; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918242
- ISBN
- 9780813918242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.51
€ 37.51
Paperback. Using national studies of Latinos, this study investigates whether they engage in bloc voting or are likely to do so in the future. It draws on Hispanics' political attitudes, values and behaviours, as well as on the histories of other ethnic groups. Series: Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Num Pages: 228 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL4; JPHF; JPVH; JPVK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 228
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918297
- ISBN
- 9780813918297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.85
€ 32.85
Paperback. Does every increase in the power of government entail a loss of liberty for the people? This text examines how four key founders of the American Republic wrestled with this question during its first two decades. Num Pages: 224 pages, 4 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; JPA; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919126
- ISBN
- 9780813919126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.00
€ 32.00
Paperback. Tracing the history of political rhetoric in nineteenth-century America and Britain, Andrew Robertson shows how modern election campaigning was born. Even a decade after the American Revolution, the author shows, British and American political culture had much in common. Num Pages: 288 pages, 12ill. BIC Classification: 1DB; 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBT; JPVL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813923444
- ISBN
- 9780813923444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.97
€ 30.97
hardcover. Offers an account of how as a lawyer for Muhammad Ali, for the doctors who ended Jim Crow at American hospitals, and for scores of death row inmates, the author became a deeply involved activist in the civil rights movement. This book is useful to lawyers and to students of the history of the 1960s, civil rights, and African American studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; JPVH1; LAS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 585.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780813925011
- ISBN
- 9780813925011
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.09
€ 53.09
Paperback. The foreign-born population in the United States comes in disproportionately large numbers from Latin America and Asia. Focusing on the period from 1965 to the year 2020, this work presents an evidence-based examination of the consequences that these demographic changes might have for the contemporary politics of the United States. Editor(s): Lee, Taeku; Ramakrishnan, S. Karthick; Ramirez, Ricardo. Series: Race, Ethnicity and Politics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 26 tables & 7 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JFFN; JFSL; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813925547
- ISBN
- 9780813925547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.94
€ 36.94
Paperback. Focused on the inside story of law reform, this book contains portraits of some figures, including Thurgood Marshall, William Kuntsler, and the black law professor Derrick Bell, as well as of movers and shakers such as the attorney C B King of Albany, Georgia, and Margaret Burnham. Num Pages: 336 pages, 15 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; BGA; JPVH1; LAT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813926957
- ISBN
- 9780813926957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.11
€ 31.11
Hardback. Exploring the interface between cultural politics of Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, this book shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of authentic blackness as a cultural identity. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928593
- ISBN
- 9780813928593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.03
€ 76.03
Paperback. Exploring the interface between cultural politics of Black Power and the Black Arts movements and the production of postwar African American popular culture, this book shows how the reliance of Black politics on an oppositional image of African Americans was the formative moment in the construction of authentic blackness as a cultural identity. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813928609
- ISBN
- 9780813928609
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.47
€ 34.47
Paperback. Series: American Literatures Initiative. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSL3; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813935263
- ISBN
- 9780813935263
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.59
€ 33.59
Hardback. Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute Series. Num Pages: 248 pages, 9 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; JFSL3; JNF; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813938899
- ISBN
- 9780813938899
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.52
€ 63.52
Public Opinion and International Intervention: Lessons from the Iraq W...
. Ed(S): Sobel, Richard; Furia, Peter; Barret...
paperback. Rarely has a foreign policy event spawned such interest in international public opinion as has the Iraq War. Editor(s): Sobel, Richard; Furia, Peter; Barrett, Bethany. Num Pages: 322 pages, tables, figures. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 3JMC; HBWS5; JPS; JPVK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 150 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Potomac Books United States
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781597974936
- ISBN
- 9781597974936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 27.20
€ 31.99
€ 27.20
Hardback. This book examines whether we are moving towards an integrated regional system of legal provision for minorities. It illustrates the tension between newer member states, many of which have an interest in seeing minority issues addressed, and established members, which remain hesitant in committing themselves fully to a minority rights regime. Editor(s): Weller, M.; Blacklock, Denika; Nobbs, Katherine. Series: Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Num Pages: 306 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JFSL1; JPSN2; JPVH; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230001299
- ISBN
- 9780230001299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.93
€ 64.93
Hardback. In this timely volume, fourteen international contributors explore the relationship between media and trust, beginning with an examination of the decline of trust in key institutions. The book concludes by considering the future implications for media communication and exploring potential directions for further research in this Age of Suspicion. Editor(s): Bakir, Vian; Barlow, David M. Num Pages: 259 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFD; JPA; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 259
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230002548
- ISBN
- 9780230002548
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.75
€ 122.75
Hardback. The volume is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary approach to analyzing an enormously significant region in ways that clarify the kind of everyday life and work that is generated in a major urban global manufacturing site amid insecurity, inequality, and a virtually absent state. Editor(s): Staudt, Kathleen; Fragoso, Julia E. Monarrez; Fuentes, Cesar M. Num Pages: 271 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLCM; JFSG; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 475.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230100312
- ISBN
- 9780230100312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.53
€ 64.53
Hardback. This book details the factors contributing to the degenerative trend of mass, warrantless government surveillance which imperils civil liberties, and specifies recommendations for constructive change. It also provides a platform for grassroots efforts to stop the decline before it is too late. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JPS; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 146 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230103047
- ISBN
- 9780230103047
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.55
€ 64.55