Human rights, civil rights Books

""The Rights and the Wrongs of the Poor in a Series of Letters"" is a book written by Thomas Brothers and published in 1842. The book is a collection of letters that address the issues of poverty and social inequality in England during the 19th century...

The book ""The Provincial Councilors of Pennsylvania: Who Held Office Between 1733 and 1776"" was written by Charles Penrose Keith and was first published in 1883. This book is a historical account of the provincial councilors who held office in...

""The Mortgage On The Hip-Roof House"" is a novel written by Albion Winegar Tourgee and published in 1896. The story follows the life of a young man named John Remington, who inherits a hip-roof house from his grandfather. However, the house comes with a...

The Game of Lawn-Tennis: With the Laws and Regulations for the Management of Prize Meetings (1890) is a comprehensive guide to the sport of lawn tennis, written by Cavendish. The book covers all aspects of the game, from the equipment needed to the rules...

Facts And Fallacies Of Modern Protection is a book written by Bernhard Ringrose Wise in 1879. It is an analysis of the economic theory of protectionism, which is the practice of imposing tariffs or other barriers on imported goods to protect domestic...

""Los Despachos de la Diplomacia Pontificia en Espa�����a V1 (1896)"" es un libro escrito por Ricardo de Hinojosa. En este libro, el autor analiza la correspondencia diplom�����tica entre la Santa Sede y Espa�����a durante el siglo XIX. El libro se...

""Storia della Restaurazione della Repubblica di Genova l'anno 1814, sua caduta e riunione al Piemonte l'anno 1815"" ����� un libro diviso in due volumi scritti da Giuseppe Martini nel 1858. Il libro racconta la storia della Repubblica di Genova durante...

This book examines EU external border violence and the role of Frontex, and how it can be made legally and politically accountable for these incidents.

This book discusses terrorism and the rise of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India and examines how this movement has become a threat to democracy in that country.

Through an examination of selected cases, this book problematizes how collective identities are not structurally guaranteed but rather constructed in dialectically interrelated positions and identity layers. The authors show the kind of impact that these...

This book uses a practice-driven and empirically founded approach to address the question of whether and how international attention can protect and enable domestic human rights activists in authoritarian settings.

This book challenges the conventional security-based international policy frameworks that have developed for dealing with HIV/AIDS during and after conflicts, and examines first-hand evidence and experiences of conflict and HIV/AIDS.

This major new Handbook provides a cutting-edge and transdisciplinary overview of the main issues, debates, state-of-the-art methods, and key concepts in peace and conflict studies today. The fields of peace and conflict studies have grown exponentially...

Based on original research and personal encounters, this book narrates the real-life-stories of women locked up in Indian prisons for alleged or actual violations of the state's criminal laws. It contextualises women offenders' experiences of the...

El partidismo de la Fuerza Armada ha sido refrendado desde el Tribunal Supremo de Justicia por la Sentencia 651 del 11 de junio de 2014, la cual valida la intervención de sus integrantes en actos políticos del PSUV: "la participación de los integrantes...

Hamilton explores in a short history how all men gained the vote, self-government and the secret ballot in South Australia (1856), Victoria (1857) and New South Wales (1858). A vital text for scholars of democracy, Australian Studies, Political Science,...

Kakizaki re-examines the real image of the Thai-Japanese alliance during World War II by focusing on the incidents and accidents occurred by the passage or stationing of the Japanese army in Thailand.

This book provides practical tools, models, and frameworks for thinking about how story is structured to help us think about conflict, using a wide range of examples.

This book examines the Civil Rights Movement from the perspective of a single year, 1964.

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book discusses the potential of social innovation in the pursuit of social justice in Africa. This book will be of interest for researchers and policy makers across the fields of human rights, economics,...

This book explores recent developments, constraints and opportunities relating to the advancement of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa.Despite many positive developments in relation to sexual and reproductive health in recent...

Originally compiled and written by North Korean defector and author Lim Il, this English-language edition, thoroughly annotated by Dr. Adam Zulawnik, is a fascinating collection of 34 interviews with highly prominent North Korean defectors residing...

This timely collection brings together original explorations of the COVID-19 pandemic and its wide-ranging, global effects on human rights. The contributors argue that a human rights perspective is necessary to understand the pervasive consequences of...

This thought provoking book begins with an historiography of Calvinist political theory and interpretations/definitions of natural law. Narrative of individuals (Ancient Greece to Protestant Reformation) who contributed to natural law. Biography of...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

The Venerable Sayadaw U Pandita of Burma (also known as Myanmar), was one of the foremost authorities on vipassana (insight) meditation and a pioneer of the Western mindfulness movement. With thousands of students in centers worldwide, Burma's most...

From a donated typewriter that frequently breaks down, people on Alabama's death row have literally cut and pasted together a newsletter, On Wings of Hope, for the last three decades to educate the public about the death penalty. This newsletter, a labor...

Keith M. Finley's From Slavery to Segregation explores the key features shaping southern politics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as explained in the South's defense of its racial systems. It treats slavery and segregation as part of the...

In this collection of conversations, Dr. Horne confronts the history of settler colonialism and fighting fascism while giving dazzling insights on Jazz, Claude Barnett, Paul Robeson, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Shirley Graham Du Bois, while delivering deeper...

This history of the black community of Indianapolis in the 20th century focuses on methods of political action-protracted negotiations, interracial coalitions, petition, and legal challenge-employed to secure their civil rights. These methods of "polite...

The importance of youth's substantive participation for the realization of inclusive reconciliation practices has rarely been acknowledged. Agency and Ownership in Reconciliation provides a comprehensive, nuanced, and empirical account of the...

While the scholarly study of culture as a politically contested sphere in Palestine/Israel has become an established field over the past two decades, this volume highlights some particular understudied aspects of it.

The impasse currently affecting human rights as a language used to express struggles for dignity is, to a large extent, a reflection of the epistemological and political exhaustion which blights the global North. Since the global hegemony of human rights...

Benedict Rogers, born in London, England, first went to China at age 18 to teach English for six months in Qingdao (1992), three years after the Tiananmen Square massacre. That opened the door to a thirty-year adventure with China, from teaching English...

When the regime led by Slobodan Milošević came to an end in October 2000, expectations for social transformation in Serbia and the rest of the Balkans were high. The international community declared that an era of human rights had begun, while...

In <i>Conscientious Objectors in Israel</i>, Erica Weiss examines the lives of Israelis who have refused to perform military service for reasons of conscience. Based on long-term fieldwork, this ethnography chronicles the personal experiences...

This is a comprehensive account of the momentous events which shaped the political landscape not only of Palestine and Israel but of the entire Middle East region. Addressing the most controversial issues, including the alarming escalation in suicide...

Young women on the border between Vietnam and China find themselves caught between a violent custom and a vicious criminal underworld... The multi-award-winning documentary 'Sisters for Sale' is an incredible true story of hope, courage, and...

The Swahili coast of Africa is often described as a paragon of transnational culture and racial fluidity. Yet, during a brief period in the 1960s, Zanzibar became deeply divided along racial lines as intellectuals and activists, engaged in bitter debates...

Das Buch ""Das Interesse Deutschlands An Dem Grossen Osterreichischen Anlehen Und Die Steuerkraft Oesterreichs"" wurde im Jahr 1854 vom Verlag B. G. Teubner ver������ffentlicht. In diesem Werk besch�����ftigt sich der Autor mit der Frage, warum...

Das Buch ""Das Erste Deutsche Parlament Und Die Wehrfragen: Unter Benutzung Archivalischer Quellen"" von Emil Knorr wurde im Jahr 1887 ver������ffentlicht. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit dem ersten deutschen Parlament und den Fragen der Verteidigung unter...

While the 2011 Egyptian revolution has already become the subject of much debate, the roots of the socio-economic context which made the revolution possible have seldom been explored. Roberto Roccu addresses this gap and in doing this provides the first...

Due in large part to humanitarian law and transitional justice, the categories of detained-disappeared and forced disappearance are today well established - so much so that in some places like Argentina and Uruguay an intense social life has taken shape...

Europe has long been regarded as a unique place for the promotion and furthering of LGBT rights. This important and compelling study investigates the alleged uniqueness and its ties to a relatively long history of LGBT and queer movements in the region...

Informed by witness testimonies, Eurafrican Migration details how the perilous journeys undertaken by irregular migrants are enabled by complex networks of guides during the Sahara phase, and explores the relationship between migrants and the criminal...

In Pakistan, myriad constituencies are grappling with reinterpreting women's rights. This book analyzes the Government of Pakistan's construction of an understanding of what constitutes women's rights, moves on to address traditional views and...