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Going Up the River

Travels in a Prison Nation

By: Joseph T. Hallinan

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Going Up the River

Travels in a Prison Nation

By: Joseph T. Hallinan

The American prison system has grown tenfold in thirty years, while crime rates have been relatively flat: 2 million people are behind bars on any given day, more prisoners than in any other country in the world — half a million more than in Communist China, and the largest prison expansion the world has ever known. In Going Up The River, Joseph Hallinan gets to the heart of America’s biggest growth industry, a self-perpetuating prison-industrial complex that has become entrenched without public awareness, much less voter consent. He answers, in an extraordinary way, the essential question: What, in human terms, is the price we pay? He has looked for answers to that question in every corner of the “prison nation,” a world far off the media grid — the America of struggling towns and cities left behind by the information age and desperate for jobs and money. Hallinan shows why the more prisons we build, the more prisoners we create, placating everyone at the expense of the voiceless prisoners, who together make up one of the largest migrations in our nation’s history.

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290

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0812968441

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9780812968446

The Autonomy of History

Truth and Method from Erasmus to Gibbon

By: Joseph M. Levine

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The Autonomy of History

Truth and Method from Erasmus to Gibbon

By: Joseph M. Levine

He offers a number of case histories to show that by the end of the eighteenth century, recourse to "matter of fact" became pervasive, and the new claims for history were met by skepticism in a debate that still echoes today."--BOOK JACKET.

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720

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University of Chicago Press

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0226475417

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9780226475417

Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise

Iconographic and Textual Studies on Late Antiquity

By: Annewies van den Hoek,John Joseph Herrmann

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Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise

Iconographic and Textual Studies on Late Antiquity

By: Annewies van den Hoek,John Joseph Herrmann

These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entertainments, pagan cults, mythic heroes, beasts, monsters, and biblical visions are themes dealt with on the patrician and popular levels. With interpretive supplements from these diverse realms, it is possible to achieve greater insight into the life, attitudes, and thought of Late Antiquity.

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604

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BRILL

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9004256938

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9789004256934

Chitty on Contracts

By: Joseph Chitty

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Chitty on Contracts

By: Joseph Chitty

When it comes to contract law 'Chitty on Contracts' is the foundation on which to base any case. It proivdes you with the depth of insight you require, so you can confidently cite it in court.

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2943

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Sweet & Maxwell

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0414047990

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9780414047990

Decolonization in St. Lucia

Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945–2010

By: Tennyson S. D. Joseph

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Decolonization in St. Lucia

Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945–2010

By: Tennyson S. D. Joseph

Tennyson S. D. Joseph builds upon current research on the anticolonial and nationalist experience in the Caribbean. He explores the impact of global transformation upon the independent experience of St. Lucia and argues that the island's formal decolonization roughly coincided with the period of the rise of global neoliberalism hegemony. Consequently, the concept of “limited sovereignty” became the defining feature of St. Lucia's understanding of the possibilities of independence. Central to the analysis is the tension between the role of the state as a facilitator of domestic aspirations on one hand and a facilitator of global capital on the other. Joseph examines six critical phases in the St. Lucian experience. The first is 1940 to 1970, when the early nationalist movement gradually occupied state power within a framework of limited self-government. The second period is 1970 to 1982 during which formal independence was attained and an attempt at socialist-oriented radical nationalism was pursued by the St. Lucia Labor Party. The third distinctive period was the period of neoliberal hegemony, 1982-1990. The fourth period (1990-1997) witnessed a heightened process of neoliberal adjustment in global trade which destroyed the banana industry and transformed the domestic political economy. A later period (1997-2006) involved the SLP's return to political power, resulting in tensions between an earlier radicalism and a new and contradictory accommodation to global neoliberalism. The final period (2006-2010) coincides with the onset of a crisis in global neoliberalism during which a series of domestic conflicts reflected the contradictions of the dominant understanding of sovereignty in narrow, materialist terms at the expense of its wider anti-systematic, progressive, and emancipator connotations.

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384

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Univ. Press of Mississippi

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1628468289

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9781628468281

Housekeeping in the Blue Grass

By: Joseph Dommers Vehling

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Housekeeping in the Blue Grass

By: Joseph Dommers Vehling

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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210

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385428408

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9783385428409

In Search of Another Country

Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution

By: Joseph Crespino

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In Search of Another Country

Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution

By: Joseph Crespino

In the 1960s, Mississippi was the heart of white southern resistance to the civil-rights movement. To many, it was a backward-looking society of racist authoritarianism and violence that was sorely out of step with modern liberal America. White Mississippians, however, had a different vision of themselves and their country, one so persuasive that by 1980 they had become important players in Ronald Reagan's newly ascendant Republican Party. In this ambitious reassessment of racial politics in the deep South, Joseph Crespino reveals how Mississippi leaders strategically accommodated themselves to the demands of civil-rights activists and the federal government seeking to end Jim Crow, and in so doing contributed to a vibrant conservative countermovement. Crespino explains how white Mississippians linked their fight to preserve Jim Crow with other conservative causes--with evangelical Christians worried about liberalism infecting their churches, with cold warriors concerned about the Communist threat, and with parents worried about where and with whom their children were schooled. Crespino reveals important divisions among Mississippi whites, offering the most nuanced portrayal yet of how conservative southerners bridged the gap between the politics of Jim Crow and that of the modern Republican South. This book lends new insight into how white Mississippians gave rise to a broad, popular reaction against modern liberalism that recast American politics in the closing decades of the twentieth century.

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382

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Princeton University Press

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1400832713

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9781400832712

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Going Up the River

Going Up the River

The Autonomy of History

The Autonomy of History

Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise

Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise

Chitty on Contracts

Chitty on Contracts

Decolonization in St. Lucia

Decolonization in St. Lucia

Housekeeping in the Blue Grass

Housekeeping in the Blue Grass

In Search of Another Country

In Search of Another Country

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