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  • The Anti-Slavery Project

    From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking

    by Joel Quirk ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the twentieth century. Wherever laws against slavery were introduced, governments found ways of continuing similar forms of coercion and exploitation, such as ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Anti-Slavery Project

    From the Slave Trade to Human Trafficking

    by Joel Quirk ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    It is commonly assumed that slavery came to an end in the nineteenth century. While slavery in the Americas officially ended in 1888, millions of slaves remained in bondage across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East well into the first half of the twentieth century. Wherever laws against slavery were introduced, governments found ways of continuing similar forms of coercion and exploitation, such as ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Contemporary Slavery

    The Rhetoric of Global Human Rights Campaigns

    Edited by Annie Bunting, Joel Quirk ...
    This volume brings together a cast of leading experts to carefully explore how the history and iconography of slavery has been invoked to support a series of government interventions, activist projects, legal instruments, and rhetorical performances. However well-intentioned these interventions might be, they nonetheless remain subject to a host of limitations and complications. Recent efforts to ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Research as More Than Extraction

    Knowledge Production and Gender-Based Violence in African Societies

    Edited by Annie Bunting, Allen Kiconco, Joel Quirk ...
    Series series Studies in Conflict, Justice, and Social Change
    This volume offers practical, detailed guidance and case studies on how to avoid exacerbating inequalities while researching gender-based violence and other related issues in Africa.Wartime violence and its aftermath present numerous practical, ethical, and political challenges that are especially acute for researchers working on gender-based and sexual violence. Drawing upon applied examples from ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Mobility Makes States

    Migration and Power in Africa

    Edited by Darshan Vigneswaran, Joel Quirk ...
    Human mobility has long played a foundational role in producing state territories, resources, and hierarchies. When people move within and across national boundaries, they create both challenges and opportunities. In Mobility Makes States, chapters written by historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists explore different patterns of mobility in sub-Saharan Africa and how ... Read more

    $57.59 USD

  • Mobility Makes States

    Migration and Power in Africa

    Edited by Darshan Vigneswaran, Joel Quirk ...
    Human mobility has long played a foundational role in producing state territories, resources, and hierarchies. When people move within and across national boundaries, they create both challenges and opportunities. In Mobility Makes States, chapters written by historians, political scientists, sociologists, and anthropologists explore different patterns of mobility in sub-Saharan Africa and how ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • International Orders in the Early Modern World

    Before the Rise of the West

    Edited by Shogo Suzuki, Yongjin Zhang, Joel Quirk ...
    Series series New International Relations
    This book examines the historical interactions of the West and non-Western world, and investigates whether or not the exclusive adoption of Western-oriented ‘international norms’ is the prerequisite for the construction of international order.This book sets out to challenge the Eurocentric foundations of modern International Relations scholarship by examining international relations in the early ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Slavery by Another Name (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

    by Douglas A. Blackmon ...
    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • This groundbreaking historical expose unearths the lost stories of enslaved persons and their descendants who journeyed into freedom after the Emancipation Proclamation and then back into the shadow of involuntary servitude shortly thereafter in “The Age of Neoslavery.”By turns moving, sobering, and shocking, this unprecedented Pulitzer Prize-winning account reveals the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Enigma of Clarence Thomas

    by Corey Robin ...
    A groundbreaking revisionist take on the Supreme Court justice everyone knows about but no one knows.“One of the marvels of Robin’s razor-sharp book is how carefully he marshals his evidence. . . . It isn’t every day that reading about ideas can be both so gratifying and unsettling.”**—**The New York TimesMost people can tell you two things about Clarence Thomas: Anita Hill accused him of s... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Childhood in a Global Perspective

    by Karen Wells ...
    This popular book provides a compelling introduction to thinking about childhood in rigorous and critical ways. Karen Wells offers a unique global perspective on children’s lives, showing how the notion of childhood varies widely and is continuously being radically re-shaped.Taking children seriously as active participants in society, the book explores key social issues such as how children are ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Populism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Cas Mudde, Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Populism is a central concept in the current media debates about politics and elections. However, like most political buzzwords, the term often floats from one meaning to another, and both social scientists and journalists use it to denote diverse phenomena. What is populism really? Who are the populist leaders? And what is the relationship between populism and democracy? This book answers these ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Civilization

    The West and the Rest

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    **From the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower“A dazzling history of Western ideas.”—The Economist“Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an eye for the felicitous phrase.” —Wall Street Journal“[W]ritten with vitality and verve . . . a tour de force.” —Boston Globe**Western civilization’s rise to global dominance is the single most important ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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