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An innovative narrative approach combines history, politics, and legal doctrine to explore the origin and evolution of Americans' constitutional right to free speech.

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In his critically acclaimed history, award-winning author Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement when more than 700 American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to register black voters and educate black children.

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Unlike most leading works that focus on a broad spectrum of the woman's rights movement, Israel Kugler's volume provides an in-depth analysis of the drive for equalty for women during a specific, influential era in American history: the pioneering efforts of woman's rights organizations in the post-Civil War period.

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Gandhi showed the world that steadfastly and nonviolently adhering to the truth gave the world a practical alternative to the madness of war and violence.

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Based on the litigation strategy and court papers filed in the case of Joseph C Steffan v Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense, et al, this title argues that gays constitute a politically powerless class that has been unjustly deprived of its constitutional right to equal protection under the law.

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With gender as its central focus, this book offers a transnational, multi-faceted understanding of citizenship as legislated, imagined, and exercised since the late eighteenth century. Framed around three crosscutting themes - agency, space and borders - leading scholars demonstrate the study of citizenship's evolving relationship with democracy.

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Challenging the conventional view of Vietnam as the aggressor, this volume vindicates Vietnam's role in the Cambodian conflict, while at the same time revealing the treachery of U.S. foreign policy toward Cambodia.

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A discussion of the formal procedures used to enact civil rights and the policy concessions necessitated by the use of these procedures. Nina M. Moore analyzes 40 years of civil rights lawmaking and argues that there is a fundamental incompatibility between race and governance.

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This volume provides a cross-disciplinary examination of hate speech. Beginning with the decision of the US Supreme Court in RAV versus St Paul, the book analyses the problem from historical, anthropological, comparative-legal and US constitutional law perspectives.

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While recognizing their fears, Nicholas Wolfson argues that it is impossible to separate bad speech from good speech without fatally compromising the uniquely American concept of free speech, and that efforts to modify our concept of free speech for a greater egalitarian good can only result in undue state influence over private speech.

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While recognizing their fears, Nicholas Wolfson argues that it is impossible to separate bad speech from good speech without fatally compromising the uniquely American concept of free speech, and that efforts to modify our concept of free speech for a greater egalitarian good can only result in undue state influence over private speech.

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McGuire's study fills a major gap in social histories of the Second World War by placing Hastie's role in proper historical perspective.

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A significant and timely study of Hegel's social theory - there has been a resurgence of scholarly interest in Hegel in recent years.

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Presents a study of Hegel's social theory. This book outlines an alternative approach to a liberal politics of difference. It begins by constructing a definition of oppression that illuminates, from a liberal perspective, its salient features.

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"This book grew out of a workshop, Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Discourses, which we convened under the auspices of the Australian Human Rights Centre at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney and the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, with financial and infrastructure support from UNSW Law and a grant from the Australian National Commission for UNESCO."

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In this powerful book, journalist and film maker John Pilger strips away the layers of deception, dissembling language and omission that prevent us from understanding how the world really works.

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Provides more than 350 entries, focusing primarily on propaganda created by the U.S. government throughout its existence.

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By offering the reader insight into the evolution of political communication as an academic field, this reference will be useful to students and scholars in the disciplines of political science, political communication, mass communication, U.S. history, and related fields, as well as academic and selected public libraries.

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A comprehensive textbook that overviews common technologies utilized within the homeland security enterprise with an emphasis on contemporary homeland security mission areas and end-user applications.

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A comprehensive textbook that overviews common technologies utilized within the homeland security enterprise with an emphasis on contemporary homeland security mission areas and end-user applications.

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Contains contributions from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors from Australia, New Zealand and North America including Marcia Langton, Gillian Triggs, Joe Williams, Paul Chartrand and Noel Pearson. This book also covers topics as diverse as treaty and agreement making in Australia, New Zealand and British Columbia.

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Explores the relationship between overseas developments and the most important reform movement in modern American history, the struggle for racial justice. This book argues that civil rights leaders were interested in the world beyond America and incorporated their understanding of overseas matters into their reform program.