Roger Nash Baldwin and the Dilemma of Political Action
Author : Israel Robin Schaffer
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Israel Robin Schaffer
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,1 MB
Release : 1972
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Author : Roger Nash Baldwin
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Page : 1332 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Civil rights
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Teacher of sociology, Washington University, 1906-09; pioneering work in probation, social and political reform movements, St. Louis, 1906-17; pacifist organizations in New York (N.Y.), conscientious objectors, Free Speech League, Theodore Schroeder; American Civil Liberties Union: formation and development, 1920-50, cooperation with other organizations, defense policies, publicity tactics, relations with New Deal; celebrated cases: Mooney-Billings, Scottsboro, Sacco-Vanzetti; contact with anarchists; Industrial Workers of the World, 1910-20; William D. Haywood; Negro rights; Indian independence movement, India League; travel abroad and work for international agencies, 1924-54; visits to Russia, postwar Japan, Korea, and Germany.
Author : Roger Nash Baldwin
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Page : 11 pages
File Size : 30,63 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Civil rights
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Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0674256522
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Author : Samuel Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 16,13 MB
Release : 2021-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317947819
Since its founding after World War I, the American Civil Liberties Union has become an integral part of American society. The history of the ACLU parallels the extension of civil rights and liberties in the United States. With a total of 1454 entries spanning almost three quarters of a century, this annotated bibliography provides an important research tool for scholars, attorneys, and policy analysts. The author has organized the work into six chapters: general works concerning the ACLU, the history of the organization, contemporary and related civil liberties issues, ACLU leaders, and resources to guide scholars.
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Page : 614 pages
File Size : 44,14 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Union catalogs
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Author : Ellis Cose
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620973837
Published to coincide with the ACLU's centennial, a major new book by the nationally celebrated journalist and bestselling author For a century, the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to keep Americans in touch with the founding values of the Constitution. As its centennial approached, the organization invited Ellis Cose to become its first ever writer-in residence, serving as an "embedded journalist" with complete editorial independence. The result is Cose's groundbreaking Our Democracy, If We Can Keep It: The ACLU and Its 100-Year Battle for Our Rights, the most authoritative account ever of America's premier defender of civil liberties. A vivid work of history and journalism, Our Democracy, If We Can Keep It is not just the definitive story of the ACLU but also an essential account of America's rediscovery of rights it had granted but long denied. Cose's narrative begins with World War I and brings us to today, chronicling the ACLU's role through the horrors of 9/11, the saga of Edward Snowden, and the phenomenon of Donald Trump. A chronicle of America's most difficult ethical quandaries from the Red Scare, the Scottsboro Boys' trials, Japanese American internment, McCarthyism, and Vietnam, Our Democracy, If We Can Keep It weaves these accounts into a deeper story of American freedom--one that is profoundly relevant to our present moment.
Author : Nick Srnicek
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1784780987
This major new manifesto offers a “clear and compelling vision of a postcapitalist society” and shows how left-wing politics can be rebuilt for the 21st century (Mark Fisher, author of Capitalist Realism) Neoliberalism isn’t working. Austerity is forcing millions into poverty and many more into precarious work, while the left remains trapped in stagnant political practices that offer no respite. Inventing the Future is a bold new manifesto for life after capitalism. Against the confused understanding of our high-tech world by both the right and the left, this book claims that the emancipatory and future-oriented possibilities of our society can be reclaimed. Instead of running from a complex future, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams demand a postcapitalist economy capable of advancing standards, liberating humanity from work and developing technologies that expand our freedoms. This new edition includes a new chapter where they respond to their various critics.
Author : Michele L. Louro
Publisher : Global and International Histo
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2018-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108419305
Examines the emergence of anti-imperialist internationalism during the interwar years from the perspective of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Author : Victor A. Dyck
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1493 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2021-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000377830
The sterile insect technique (SIT) is an environment-friendly method of pest control that integrates well into area-wide integrated pest management (AW-IPM) programmes. This book takes a generic, thematic, comprehensive, and global approach in describing the principles and practice of the SIT. The strengths and weaknesses, and successes and failures, of the SIT are evaluated openly and fairly from a scientific perspective. The SIT is applicable to some major pests of plant-, animal-, and human-health importance, and criteria are provided to guide in the selection of pests appropriate for the SIT. In the second edition, all aspects of the SIT have been updated and the content considerably expanded. A great variety of subjects is covered, from the history of the SIT to improved prospects for its future application. The major chapters discuss the principles and technical components of applying sterile insects. The four main strategic options in using the SIT — suppression, containment, prevention, and eradication — with examples of each option are described in detail. Other chapters deal with supportive technologies, economic, environmental, and management considerations, and the socio-economic impact of AW-IPM programmes that integrate the SIT. In addition, this second edition includes six new chapters covering the latest developments in the technology: managing pathogens in insect mass-rearing, using symbionts and modern molecular technologies in support of the SIT, applying post-factory nutritional, hormonal, and semiochemical treatments, applying the SIT to eradicate outbreaks of invasive pests, and using the SIT against mosquito vectors of disease. This book will be useful reading for students in animal-, human-, and plant-health courses. The in-depth reviews of all aspects of the SIT and its integration into AW-IPM programmes, complete with extensive lists of scientific references, will be of great value to researchers, teachers, animal-, human-, and plant-health practitioners, and policy makers.