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Sociocultural Alternatives
This book provides evidence that the emergence of Asian new religious movements (NRMs) was predominantly the result of anti-colonial ideology from loc...
Catholic Women in Memphis, 1950–1970
This book examines the intersections of faith, race, and gender within the social justice movement in the civil rights era in Memphis, Tennessee. The ...
The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing
In recent years, community policing has transformed American law enforcement by promising to build trust between citizens and officers. Today, three-q...
The Struggle for Workers' Rights in a Catholic Hospital
When unions undertake labor organizing campaigns, they often do so from strong moral positions, contrasting workers’ rights to decent pay or better ...
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An American City in Black and White
Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize Benjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist “An insightful, powerful, and moving book.” —Kevin Boyle, author...
A Guide to the Graham Greene Archives
Over a 60-year career, Graham Greene was a prolific writer. While his published works established him as one of the great writers of the twentieth cen...
A comprehensive film guide depicting films about the pirates that roamed the seven seas. Interesting facts on actors and other personal that made thes...
Solidarity or Sabotage?
The principles of trade unionism are based on working people acting together in solidarity with each other, to improve wages, working conditions, and ...
A Life of Hilaire Belloc
With access to previously unpublished material in the form of Hilaire Belloc's letters and photographs, Pearce's major new biography uncovers a romant...
Stay on the cutting edge of today’s most promising trends in complementary and alternative medical treatments with Dr. David Rakel’s Integrative M...
Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History
Winner, 2023 Columbia University Press Distinguished Book Award Winner, 2023 Frank Luther Mott / Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award Winner, 2023 Journalis...
An Analysis of the Authorship Theories, 2d ed.
Theories stating that plays attributed to Shakespeare were in fact written by other authors have existed for more than 200 years; some theories have b...
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The Art & Craft of Photography, 1895-1925
Restoring a gifted art photographer to his place in the American canon and, in the process, reshaping and expanding our understanding of early 20th-ce...
Interpretation and Controversy in New York Archaeology, 1923-2018
Levanna was a famous and well-visited archaeological site in central New York, along the eastern side of Cayuga Lake, during the Great Depression. It ...
Essays on the Cervical Cancer Inquiry, 1987-88
The Cervical Cancer Inquiry and its report (known as the Cartwright Report) were momentous events in the recent history of New Zealand. Critical issue...
Investigations from the North and the South
Focusing on concepts that have been central to investigation of the history and politics of marginalized and disenfranchised populations, this book as...
The Role of the People's Liberation Army
The contributions contained herein address the role of the Chinese military in shaping its country's security environment. Of course, the PLA itself i...
Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
The story of the black freedom struggle in America has been overwhelmingly male-centric, starring leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and...
How to Be a Woman in the Age of Mortification
In the spirit of Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad and Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist comes a courageous, in-depth investigation into the modern epidemic of ...
Nutrition aside, there are other interesting topics worth exploring in the pursuit of health. Can cancer be prevented? Why doesn’t everyone live lon...
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A History of the Mahican Indians, 1600-1830
This history of the Mahicans begins with the appearance of Europeans on the Hudson River in 1609 and ends with the removal of these Native people to W...
The Untold Story of the Friendship between Helen Keller and Journalist Joseph Edgar Chamberlin
In 1888, young Helen Keller traveled to Boston with her teacher, Annie Sullivan, where they met a man who would change her life: Boston Transcript col...
Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
Many prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period wa...
The Story of Clyde Kennard
In the years following Brown v. Board of Education, countless Black citizens endured violent resistance and even death while fighting for their consti...
The Life of Greer Garson
In this first-ever biography of Greer Garson, Michael Troyan sweeps away the many myths that even today veil her life. The true origins of her birth, ...
Ichabod Higgins (1662-1728) and Richard Higgins (1664-1732), direct descendants of English immigrant Richard Higgins, lived in Eastham, Massachusetts....
Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries
Many U.S. corporations and the goods they produce negatively impact our society without breaking any laws. We are all too familiar with the tobacco in...
Local Struggles, a National Movement
After decades of scholarship on the civil rights movement at the local level, the insights of bottom-up movement history remain essentially invisible ...
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the ...
Exposure, Toxicity and Health Effects
Formaldehyde is virtually ubiquitous in the modern environment due to its cost-effective nature, its use in resin formation, and its preservative prop...
The Forty-First Ohio Volunteer Infantry
On August 26, 1861, one hundred volunteers met at Camp Wood and formed Company A. These men, for the most part, were well educated and left to us a se...
How Conflicts Over Gender and Sexuality Changed the West German Catholic Church
A rich analysis of how issues related to gender and sexuality transformed the West German Catholic Church...
Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century
Since the onset of the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 following the murder of George Floyd, America has grappled with its racial history, leading...
The End of World War II and the Remaking of Europe
The definitive account of the 1945 Potsdam Conference: the historic summit where Truman, Stalin, and Churchill met to determine the fate of post-World...