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Ladies of Honor and Merit Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 244
ISBN: 9780822947165
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Description:
In the late eighteenth century, enlightened politicians and upper-class women in Spain debated the right of women to join one of the country’s most prominent scientific institutions: the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country. Societies such as these, as Elena Serrano describes in her book, were founded on the idea that laypeople could contribute to the advancement of their country by providing “useful knowledge,” and their fellows often referred to themselves as improvers, or friends of the country. After intense debates, the duchess of Benavente, along with nine distinguished ladies, claimed, won, and exercised the right of women to participate in shaping the future of their nation by inaugurating the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, or the Committee of Ladies of Honor and Merit.
Psychic Investigators Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 236
ISBN: 9780822947073
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Description:
Psychic Investigators examines British anthropology’s engagement with the modern spiritualist movement during the late Victorian era. Efram Sera-Shriar argues that debates over the existence of ghosts and psychical powers were at the center of anthropological discussions on human beliefs. He focuses on the importance of establishing credible witnesses of spirit and psychic phenomena in the writings of anthropologists such as Alfred Russel Wallace, Edward Burnett Tylor, Andrew Lang, and Edward Clodd.
Region Out of Place Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 314
ISBN: 9780822946212
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Illustrations: 50 b&w illustrations
Description:
"Campbell takes the concept of regional identity and blows it up, showing that regional concerns were always mediated by national and international dynamics. This rich cultural history exposes the symbolic shorthand used to depict the Northeast and grants fresh insight into how actors constructed a regional identity with a variety of audiences in mind. The case studies presented here should interest students and tap into complex debates about representation and authenticity.
Resistance in the Bluegrass Cover Resistance in the Bluegrass Cover
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Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780813195261
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780813187204
Pub Date: 31 May 2022
Description:
From the anti-segregation sit-ins of the 1960s to the protests in response to the killing of Breonna Taylor, the rest of the nation - and often the world - has watched as Kentuckians boldly fought against instances of injustice. In Resistance in the Bluegrass, Farrah Alexander outlines the ways in which Kentucky's citizens have been models in the fight against intersectional issues of racial injustice, economic inequality, education, climate change, immigration, political representation, LGBTQ+ rights, and women's rights, while exploring and celebrating decades of Kentucky's contributions to social justice movements and the names behind them. Resistance in the Bluegrass gives engaged citizens-or those wishing to become more engaged-both inspiration and guidance on how they too can make a difference across the commonwealth.
Roadside South Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9781938086823
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Description:
Much of the American South, especially its small towns and rural areas, is connected not by interstate highways but through a web-like network of country roads, many of which appear only on the most detailed of maps. These are the backroads that most Southerners drive on every day. Unlike the interstates, whose roadsides have been largely scrubbed clean of regional character, these smaller roads travel through unplanned, vernacular landscapes that tell much about local life, both past and present, and suggest that we make connections between the two.
The Arduous Road to Revolution Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 116
ISBN: 9788869774072
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Series: Politics
Description:
The right to rebel against an authoritarian power is part of liberal and democratic culture. As early as the late seventeenth century, John Locke theorised that if a state abuses its citizens, they have the right to revolt. Nowadays, information and communication technologies can help the early stages of revolt.
The Behavior of Financial Markets under Rational Expectations Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9781626430877
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Description:
The financial markets have become more and more important in modern society. Their behaviour and impact relies crucially on the behaviour of market participants, aka the investors of different types. Although descriptions of the financial markets on the macro level have caught the attention of investors, regulators, and the ordinary people, how the market participants interact with each other in the financial market may provide deeper insights on how and why the financial markets behave.
Woman Today Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 302
ISBN: 9788869774058
Pub Date: 28 Sep 2022
Series: Sociology
Description:
Research on gender inequality uses limited and sectoral areas as a reference. A team of scholars, academics and researchers from fourteen different countries – Cuba, Haiti, India, Iraq, Iran, Italy, Ivory Coast, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Tunisia, United States and Venezuela – bring out instead in a synchronous and transversal way the gender discrimination for women’s experiences at work, in family, for education. Results show that in the varied landscape of countries considered over 50 percent believe it is still difficult to be a woman in their own country today.
Death of the Daily News Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 196
ISBN: 9780822947196
Pub Date: 27 Sep 2022
Description:
The City of McKeesport in southwestern Pennsylvania once had a population of more than fifty thousand people and a newspaper that dated back to the nineteenth century. Technology has caused massive disruption to American journalism, throwing thousands of reporters out of work, closing newsrooms, and leaving vast areas with few traditional news sources – including McKeesport. With the loss of their local paper in 2015, residents now struggle to make sense of what goes on in their community and to separate facts from gossip – often driven by social media.
Making Sense of Mental Health Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 226
ISBN: 9781739789213
Pub Date: 20 Sep 2022
Imprint: Liffey Press
Illustrations: 10 diagrams
Description:
Mental health difficulties bring us face to face with our vulnerability as human beings, and after two years of struggling with the effects of Covid-19 concerns about mental health worldwide have never been higher. But our discussions are still fraught with issues of language and understanding. Are we all on a ‘spectrum’ of mental wellness?
Symbols and Myths in Liberal Democratic Political Systems Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 214
ISBN: 9788869773907
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2022
Series: Politics
Description:
The volume consists of a collection of fifteen contributions to Political Theory, the focuses of which represent an interaction between different themes and perspectives. The collection brings together a series of philosophical, moral, political, psychological, medical, anthropological and mytho-symbolical issues, divided into three main sections. A first section concerns ethical, moral and jurisdictional constitutional issues of Political Theory, including contributions by Fabrizio Sciacca, Cassandra Basile, Andrea Germani and Paola Russo.
America's Israel Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780813195926
Pub Date: 23 Aug 2022
Illustrations: 12 b&w halftones, 1 map, 2 graphs, 1 table
Description:
One of the defining features of United States foreign policy since World War II has been the nation's special relationship with Israel. This informal alliance, rooted in shared values and culture, grew out of a moral obligation to promote Israel's survival in the aftermath of the Holocaust as US policymakers provided military aid, weapons, and political protection. In return, Israel served American interests through efforts to contain communism and terrorism in the region.
John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 354
ISBN: 9780813196091
Pub Date: 02 Aug 2022
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Illustrations: 31 b&w halftones
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John Hervey Wheeler (1908–1978) was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary would play a key role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina. Utilizing previously unexamined sources from the John Hervey Wheeler Collection at the Atlanta University Center Robert W.
The Gentle American Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 560
ISBN: 9781463244491
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2022
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Description:
How many lives can one man save? Never enough, Horton realized. As his ship backed away from Smyrna’s wharf, he could better see the helpless, teeming crowd on the waterfront trapped between the sea and a raging inferno.
Culture and Conflict Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 292
ISBN: 9788772194349
Pub Date: 28 Jul 2022
Illustrations: Illustrations, color
Description:
Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture. But what we regard as distinctive today in our cultural heritage or day-to-day cultural experience is deeply rooted in the rich diversity of the national currents of the nineteenth century. Culture and Conflict: Nation-Building in Denmark and Scandinavia, 1800–1930 explores the many strands of Danish and Scandinavian culture that helped to shape these cultural identities.
#MeToo and Beyond Cover #MeToo and Beyond Cover
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Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780813195599
Pub Date: 26 Jul 2022
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780813195605
Pub Date: 26 Jul 2022
Description:
#NiUnaMenos#Aufschrei#LoSHA Before #MeToo became the massive global movement we know today, these were the hashtags that represented mobilisations from Ukraine to Latin America that demanded accountability for the intersecting experiences of sexual violence and racism, xenophobia, and misogyny inflicted on women, transgender people, and girls. Lead by activists such as Tarana Burke, who coined the phrase "me too," the movement provided a call to action for survivors across the world to speak out about their experiences. In #MeToo and Beyond, M.