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Born of Conviction

White Methodists and Mississippi's Closed Society

By: Joseph T. Reiff

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Born of Conviction

White Methodists and Mississippi's Closed Society

By: Joseph T. Reiff

In early 1963, twenty-eight white Methodist ministers caused a firestorm of controversy by publishing a statement of support for race relations change. Born of Conviction explores the statement's resulting influences on their lives, their reasons for signing the statement, and the various interpretations and legacies of the document.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190246812

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9780190246815

All Souls Day

The World War II Battle and the Search for a Lost U.S. Battalion

By: Joseph M. Pereira,John L. Wilson

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All Souls Day

The World War II Battle and the Search for a Lost U.S. Battalion

By: Joseph M. Pereira,John L. Wilson

The U.S. Army attacked three villages near the German-Belgium border, surprising the Germans who surrendered with little resistance. The German army regrouped and counterattacked. A brief but horrific battle ensued, and as the enemy pressed forward, the Americans retreated in haste, leaving behind their wounded and their dead. Discussion of this week-long conflict that began on All Souls Day, November 2, 1944, has been confined to officer training school, in part due to its heavy losses and ignominy. After the war the U.S. Army returned to the battlefield to bring home its fallen. To its dismay it found that many of these men had vanished. The disappearances were puzzling and for decades the U.S. government searched unsuccessfully for clues. After poring over now-declassified battlefield reports and interviewing family members, the authors reconstruct a spellbinding story of love and sacrifice, honor and bravery, as well as a portrait of the gnawing pain of families not knowing what became of their loved ones. Ultimately this work of history and in-depth contemporary journalism proffers a glimmer of light in the ongoing search.

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264

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U of Nebraska Press

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1640124225

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9781640124226

Just Give Money to the Poor

The Development Revolution from the Global South

By: Joseph Hanlon,Armando Barrientos,David Hulme

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Just Give Money to the Poor

The Development Revolution from the Global South

By: Joseph Hanlon,Armando Barrientos,David Hulme

* Argues strongly for overlooked approach to development by showing how the poor use money in ways that confound stereotypical notions of aid and handouts * Team authored by foremost scholars in the development field Amid all the complicated economic theories about the causes and solutions to poverty, one idea is so basic it seems radical: just give money to the poor. Despite its skeptics, researchers have found again and again that cash transfers given to significant portions of the population transform the lives of recipients. Countries from Mexico to South Africa to Indonesia are giving money directly to the poor and discovering that they use it wisely “ to send their children to school, to start a business and to feed their families. Directly challenging an aid industry that thrives on complexity and mystification, with highly paid consultants designing ever more complicated projects, Just Give Money to the Pooroffers the elegant southern alternative “ bypass governments and NGOs and let the poor decide how to use their money. Stressing that cash transfers are not charity or a safety net, the authors draw an outline of effective practices that work precisely because they are regular, guaranteed and fair. This book, the first to report on this quiet revolution in an accessible way, is essential reading for policymakers, students of international development and anyone yearning for an alternative to traditional poverty-alleviation methods.

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233

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Kumarian Press

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1565493907

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9781565493902

Science Papers, Chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical

By: Daniel Hanbury,Joseph Ince

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Science Papers, Chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical

By: Daniel Hanbury,Joseph Ince

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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566

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385515327

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9783385515321

Triumph of the Expert

Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism

By: Joseph Morgan Hodge

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Triumph of the Expert

Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism

By: Joseph Morgan Hodge

Triumph of the Expert is a history of British colonial policy and thinking and its contribution to the emergence of rural development and environmental policies in the late colonial and postcolonial period.

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425

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Ohio University Press

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0821417177

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9780821417171

Mozambique & the Great Flood of 2000

By: Frances Christie,Joseph Hanlon

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Mozambique & the Great Flood of 2000

By: Frances Christie,Joseph Hanlon

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200

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Indiana University Press

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0253339782

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9780253339782

Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature

Relational Worlds

By: Joseph Hankinson

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Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature

Relational Worlds

By: Joseph Hankinson

This book compares the Victorian British poet Robert Browning and the twentieth-century Ghanaian poet and novelist Kojo Laing—two writers whose texts frequently foreground multi-scalar transregional cartographies, points of connection and translation, and imaginative kinships between different linguistic and cultural communities. Starting from the numerous and surprising points of connection and resemblance between both authors’ texts, this book puts pressure on critical practices that would keep writers like Laing and Browning separate, positing instead the importance of paying attention to the transnational, cross-cultural, and cross-temporal imaginative relationships texts themselves generate. By comparing two writers whose texts represent different points of view on a number of shared and congruent contexts, this book seeks an original way of understanding the relationship between texts and (post-) colonial contexts, texts and other texts. Browning’s and Laing’s shared tendency to foreground trans- and post-national cartographies of relation and difference, and their similarly translational aesthetics, both demand a probing of the disciplinary separation between ‘English Literature’ and ‘Comparative Literature’, as well as ‘literature’ and ‘comparison’, and a fresh awareness of the ways in which literature itself makes comparisons and affiliations. It also involves a version of ‘world literature’ intent on accentuating the relational worlds (linguistic, imaginative, ethical) that texts themselves generate; a criticism sensitive to the ways in which writers from different times and places can still be seen to overlap.

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224

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Springer Nature

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3031187768

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9783031187766

The Vietnam Lobby

The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955-1975

By: Joseph G. Morgan

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The Vietnam Lobby

The American Friends of Vietnam, 1955-1975

By: Joseph G. Morgan

Established in 1955 as a private advocacy group, the American Friends of Vietnam worked to influence U.S. attitudes and policies toward Vietnam for nearly two decades. AFV members wrote articles, gave speeches, sponsored aid drives, and forged ties with journalists, academics, and government officials in an effort to generate American assistance for South Vietnam. In The Vietnam Lobby, Joseph Morgan shifts the focus away from the much-examined antiwar demonstrations that took place in America to concentrate instead on the actions of those who endorsed U.S. intervention in Vietnam. Drawing on a wide range of documentary sources, Morgan presents a comprehensive study of the AFV and its activities. He traces the group's establishment and growth, examines its internal organization and politics, and, ultimately, evaluates its effectiveness in guiding government policy and public opinion. Morgan also assesses the charges of antiwar critics who claimed the AFV exerted an excessive, perhaps disastrous, influence in shaping America's Vietnam policy. Finally, he offers insights into the thinking of those who believed that the United States had the unique ability--even the obligation--to help shape Vietnam's future. Originally published in 1997. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

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209

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807863505

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9780807863503

The History of Landholding in Ireland

By: Joseph Fisher

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The History of Landholding in Ireland

By: Joseph Fisher

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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174

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385553148

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9783385553149

When Courts Do Politics

Public Interest Law and Litigation in East Africa

By: Joseph Oloka-Onyango

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When Courts Do Politics

Public Interest Law and Litigation in East Africa

By: Joseph Oloka-Onyango

Using the phenomenon of public interest litigation (PIL) as the primary focus of analysis, this book explores the manner in which the judicial branch of government in the three East African states of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda has engaged with questions traditionally off-limits to adjudication and court-based resolution. It is rooted in an incisive investigation of the history of politics and governance in the sub-region, accompanied by an extensive repertoire of judicial decisions. It also provides a critical and informative account of the manner in which courts of law have engaged with State power in a bid to alternatively deliver or subvert justice to the socially marginalized and the politically victimized. The focus of the book is on judicial struggles over sexual and gender-based discrimination, social justice and poverty, and the adjudication of presidential elections. Employing the device of case deconstruction and analysis, the study uncovers the conceptual and structural factors which have witnessed public interest litigation emerge as a critical factor in the struggle for more inclusive and equitable structures of governance and social order. Needless to say, as judges battle with time-honoured legal precedents, received dogmas and contending (and often antagonistic) societal forces, the struggle in the courts is neither straightforward nor necessarily always transformative.

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380

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443864099

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9781443864091

Way of Death

Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730–1830

By: Joseph Calder Miller

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Way of Death

Merchant Capitalism and the Angolan Slave Trade, 1730–1830

By: Joseph Calder Miller

This acclaimed history of Portuguese and Brazilian slaving in the southern Atlantic is now available in paperback. With extraordinary skill, Joseph C. Miller explores the complex relationships among the separate economies of Africa, Europe, and the South Atlantic that collectively supported the slave trade. He places the grim history of the trade itself within the context of the rise of merchant capitalism in the eighteenth century. Throughout, Miller illuminates the experiences of the slaves themselves, reconstructing what can be known of their sufferings at the hands of their buyers and sellers.

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800

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299115631

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9780299115630

Wrapping Authority

Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal

By: Joseph Hill

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Wrapping Authority

Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal

By: Joseph Hill

Since around 2000, a growing number of women in Dakar, Senegal have come to act openly as spiritual leaders for both men and women. As urban youth turn to the Fayḍa Tijāniyya Sufi Islamic movement in search of direction and community, these women provide guidance in practicing Islam and cultivating mystical knowledge of God. While women Islamic leaders may appear radical in a context where women have rarely exercised Islamic authority, they have provoked surprisingly little controversy. Wrapping Authority tells these women’s stories and explores how they have developed ways of leading that feel natural to themselves and those around them. Addressing the dominant perceptions of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular, Joseph Hill reveals how women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim women into their leadership. These female leaders present spiritual guidance as a form of nurturing motherhood; they turn acts of devotional cooking into a basis of religious authority and prestige; they connect shyness, concealing clothing, and other forms of feminine “self-wrapping” to exemplary piety, hidden knowledge, and charismatic mystique. Yet like Sufi mystical discourse, their self-presentations are profoundly ambiguous, insisting simultaneously on gender distinctions and on the transcendence of gender through mystical unity with God.

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348

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University of Toronto Press

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1487517025

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9781487517021

The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period

An Operational Perspective

By: Joseph Moretz

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The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period

An Operational Perspective

By: Joseph Moretz

Joseph Moretz's innovative work focuses on what battleships actually did in the inter-war years and what its designed war role in fact was. In doing so, the book tells us much about British naval policy and planning of the time. Drawing heavily on official Admiralty records and private papers of leading officers, the author examines the navy's operational experience and the evolution of its tactical doctrine during the interwar period. He argues that operational experience, combined with assumptions about the nature of a future naval war, were more important in keeping the battleship afloat than conservatism in Navy.

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Routledge

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1136340432

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9781136340437

Book's by Joseph Currey

Born of Conviction

Born of Conviction

All Souls Day

All Souls Day

Just Give Money to the Poor

Just Give Money to the Poor

Science Papers, Chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical

Science Papers, Chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical

Triumph of the Expert

Triumph of the Expert

Mozambique & the Great Flood of 2000

Mozambique & the Great Flood of 2000

Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature

Kojo Laing, Robert Browning and Affiliative Literature

The Vietnam Lobby

The Vietnam Lobby

The History of Landholding in Ireland

The History of Landholding in Ireland

When Courts Do Politics

When Courts Do Politics

Way of Death

Way of Death

Wrapping Authority

Wrapping Authority

The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period

The Royal Navy and the Capital Ship in the Interwar Period

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