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Citizenship

  • Beyond Redemptionby Carole Emberton

    University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 36.00

    In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone’s lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked the land as slaves to the white supremacists who would bring an end to Reconstruction in... more...

  • Told You Soby Ralph Nader; Jim Hightower

    Seven Stories Press 2013; US$ 29.95

    ?What sets Ralph Nader apart is that he has moved beyond social criticism to effective political action.? ? The New York Times  The column is the most natural literary form for a citizen?s advocate, and Ralph Nader may be its most robust and forceful practitioner. The Big Book of Ralph Nader Columns presents a panoramic portrait of the problems... more...

  • The Suffragette Derbyby Michael Tanner

    Biteback Publishing 2013; US$ 24.78

    On Wednesday 4 June 1913, fledgling newsreel cameras captured just over two-and-a-half minutes of neverto-be-forgotten British social and sporting history. The 250,000 people thronging Epsom Downs carried with them a quartet of combustible elements: a fanatical, publicity-hungry suffragette; a scapegoat for the Titanic disaster and the pillar of the... more...

  • Southern Leagueby Larry Colton

    Grand Central Publishing 2013; US$ 14.99

    "Birmingham is probably the most thoroughly segregated city in the United States. Its ugly record of brutality is widely known. Negroes have experienced grossly unjust treatment in the courts. There have been more unsolved bombings in Negro homes and churches in Birmingham than in any other city in the nation." Martin Luther King, Jr.... more...

  • Terrorism, Rights the Rule of Lawby Barry Vaughan; Shane Kilcommins

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95

    The rule of law is becoming a victim of the struggle against terrorism. Many countries are reviewing their security procedures and questioning whether due process rights hinder them in the war on terror. There is increasing emphasis on preventive detention or strategies of disablement that cut into the liberties of suspects who may not have committed... more...

  • Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalizationby Michael Goodhart

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 47.95

    Is global democracy possible? The most prominent institutional manifestations of this concept-the UN, WTO, IMF and World Bank-have been skewered as cloistered anti-democratic institutions by anti-globalization activists. Meanwhile, proponents of globalization advocate reforming these institutions to make them more transparent. Michael Goodhart argues... more...

  • Cybercrimeby Brian D. Loader; Douglas Thomas

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 59.95

    Cybercrime focuses on the growing concern about the use of electronic communication for criminal activities and the appropriateness of the countermeasures that are being adopted by law enforcement agencies, security services and legislators to address such anxieties. Fuelled by sensational media headlines and news coverage which has done much to... more...

  • Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Lifeby Susanna Trnka; Christine Dureau; Julie Park

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 125.00

    What does disgust have to do with citizenship? How might pain and pleasure, movement, taste, sound and smell be configured as aspects of national belonging? Senses and Citizenships: Embodying Political Life examines the intersections between sensory phenomena and national and supra-national forms of belonging, introducing the new concept of sensory... more...

  • Lanternsby Marian Wright Edelman

    Beacon Press 2013; US$ 28.00

    Marian Wright Edelman, "the most influential children's advocate in the country" ( The Washington Post ), shares stories from her life at the center of this century's most dramatic civil rights struggles. She pays tribute to the extraordinary personal mentors who helped light her way: Martin Luther King, Jr., Robert F. Kennedy, Fannie Lou Hamer,... more...

  • Controlby Glenn Beck

    Threshold Editions 2013; US$ 12.00

    When our founding fathers secured the Constitutional ?right of the people to keep and bear arms,? they also added the admonition that this right SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. It is the only time this phrase appears in the Bill of Rights. So why aren?t more people listening? History has proven that guns are essential to self-defense and liberty?but tragedy... more...