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The Movement

The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

By: James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History and the College Thomas C Holt,Thomas Cleveland Holt

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The Movement

The African American Struggle for Civil Rights

By: James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History and the College Thomas C Holt,Thomas Cleveland Holt

The civil rights movement was among the most important historical developments of the twentieth century and one of the most remarkable mass movements in American history. In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-twentieth-century freedom struggle, re-centering the narrative around the mobilization of ordinary people.

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151

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0197525822

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9780197525821

Historical Dictionary of the 1940s

By: James Gilbert Ryan,Leonard C Schlup

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Historical Dictionary of the 1940s

By: James Gilbert Ryan,Leonard C Schlup

The only available historical dictionary devoted exclusively to the 1940s, this book offers readers a ready-reference portrait of one of the twentieth century's most tumultuous decades. In nearly 600 concise entries, the volume quickly defines a historical figure, institution, or event, and then points readers to three sources that treat the subject in depth. In selecting topics for inclusion, the editors and authors offer a representative slice of life as contemporaneous Americans saw it - with coverage of people; movements; court cases; and economic, social, cultural, political, military, and technological changes. The book focuses chiefly on the United States, but places American lives and events firmly within a global context.

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613

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Routledge

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1317468651

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9781317468653

History of the Middle Ages

300-1500

By: James Westfall Thompson

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History of the Middle Ages

300-1500

By: James Westfall Thompson

First published in 1931, this book covers the broad period of time between the Christian Roman Empire instituted in the fourth century and the period of the Renaissance. The author traces the main events of medieval history — striking a balance between political, institutional, social and cultural history — with no event of major importance escaping recognition. In addition to covering medieval Europe in detail, it also includes sections on the Byzantine Empire and the foundation of Islam. Many maps are also included to geographically illustrate key points. This book will be of interest to students of history.

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495

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Routledge

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1317217004

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9781317217008

Ancient Libraries

By: James Westfall Thompson

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Ancient Libraries

By: James Westfall Thompson

James Westfall Thompson was an American historian specializing in the history of medieval and early modern Europe, particularly of the Holy Roman Empire and France. Thompson's work on ancient libraries gives an in depth look in to how the Libraries of the ancient East, ancient Greece and ancient Rome were established and managed. It also contains technical information such as the format of books, library architecture, cataloguing and classification, administration, book production, and bookselling.

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109

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Read Books Ltd

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1473389992

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9781473389991

The Death Penalty

An Historical and Theological Survey

By: James J. Megivern

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The Death Penalty

An Historical and Theological Survey

By: James J. Megivern

A comprehensive history of the death penalty in the West that provides more material on capital punishment in Western Christian history than is available in any other work in English.

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642

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Paulist Press

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1616437928

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9781616437923

The Americas in the Spanish World Order

The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century

By: James Muldoon

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The Americas in the Spanish World Order

The Justification for Conquest in the Seventeenth Century

By: James Muldoon

Juan de Solorzano Pereira (1575-1654) was a lawyer who spent eighteen years as a judge in Peru before returning to Spain to serve on the Councils of Castile and of the Indies. Considered one of the finest lawyers in Spain, his work, De Indiarum Jure, was the most sophisticated defense of the Spanish conquest of the Americas ever written, and he was widely cited in Europe and the Americas until the early nineteenth century. His work, and that of the Spanish School of international law theorists generally, is often seen as leading to Hugo Grotius and modern international law. However, as James Muldoon shows, the De Indiarum Jure represents the fullest development of a medieval Catholic theory of international order that provided an alternative to the Grotian theory.

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254

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512809578

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9781512809572

The King's Army

Warfare, Soldiers and Society During the Wars of Religion in France, 1562-76

By: James B. Wood

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The King's Army

Warfare, Soldiers and Society During the Wars of Religion in France, 1562-76

By: James B. Wood

Historians have long ignored the military aspect of the wars of religion which raged in France during the late sixteenth century, dismissing the conflicts as aimless or hopelessly confused. In contrast, this meticulously researched analysis of the royal army and its operations during the early civil wars brings warfare back to the centre of the picture. James B. Wood explains the reasons for the initial failure of the monarchy to defeat the Huguenots, and examines how that failure prolonged the conflict. He argues that the nature and outcome of the civil wars can only be explained by the fusion of religious rebellion and incomplete military revolution. This study makes an important contribution to the history of military forces, warfare and society, and will be of great interest to those engaged in the debate over the 'Military Revolution' in early modern Europe.

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372

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Cambridge University Press

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0521525136

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9780521525138

Mos Christianorum

The Roman Discourse of Exemplarity and the Jewish and Christian Language of Leadership

By: James Petitfils

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Mos Christianorum

The Roman Discourse of Exemplarity and the Jewish and Christian Language of Leadership

By: James Petitfils

The preferred moral curriculum of a Roman education abounded with exemplary stories of Rome's native heroes. To inculcate conceptions of virtuous leadership, politicians and populace alike deployed exempla as rhetorical vehicles of the mos maiorum (way of the ancestors). James Petitfils explores Jewish and Christian participation in this widespread pedagogical practice. After surveying Roman discourse on exemplary leadership, the author consults several texts, written in significantly Romanized environments, celebrating Jewish or Christian ancestral leaders (Josephus' Antiquities 2-4, Philo's Mosis 1-2, 1 Clement, and The Letter of the Churches of Vienne and Lyons ). He highlights their respective appropriation, adaptation, and redeployment of the Roman moral idiom on exemplary leadership in the promotion of self-consciously non-Roman ancestral exempla and languages of leadership.

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316

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161539044

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9783161539046

The Early Middle Ages

By: James A. Corrick

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The Early Middle Ages

By: James A. Corrick

The Early Middle Ages, the 500 years following the fall of Rome, was a violent time of invasion and war that saw the breakdown of society. Yet, this period saw important social and political changes, leading first to the civilization of the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance and then to modern western culture.

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1560062460

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Book's by James Westfall Thompson

The Movement

The Movement

Historical Dictionary of the 1940s

Historical Dictionary of the 1940s

History of the Middle Ages

History of the Middle Ages

Ancient Libraries

Ancient Libraries

The Death Penalty

The Death Penalty

The Americas in the Spanish World Order

The Americas in the Spanish World Order

The King's Army

The King's Army

Mos Christianorum

Mos Christianorum

The Early Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages

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