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The Prison of Democracy : Race, Leavenworth, and the Culture of Law
Benson, Sara M

Built in the 1890s at the center of the nation, Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was designed specifically to be a replica of the US Capitol Building. But why? The Prison of Democracy explains the political significance of a prison built to mimic one of America’s monuments to democracy. Locating Leavenworth in memory, history, and law, the prison geographically sits at the borders of Indian T…

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-
ISBN/ISSN
9780520969490
Collation
vii, 203 p.
Series Title
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Call Number
365.978138 PRI S
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Rituals, runaways, and the Haitian Revolution : collective action in the Afri…
Eddins, Crystal Nicole

The Haitian Revolution was perhaps the most successful slave rebellion in modern history; it created the first and only free and independent Black nation in the Americas. This book tells the story of how enslaved Africans forcibly brought to colonial Haiti through the trans-Atlantic slave trade used their cultural and religious heritages, social networks, and labor and militaristic skills to su…

Edition
Edisi 2
ISBN/ISSN
9781009256148
Collation
xiii, 355p.: ill.
Series Title
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Call Number
305.89607294 EDD r
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Paternalism to partnership : the administration of Indian affairs, 1786-2021
DeJong, David H.

Paternalism to Partnership examines the administration of Indian affairs from 1786, when the first federal administrator was appointed, through 2021. David H. DeJong examines each administrator through a biographical sketch and excerpts of policy statements defining the administrator’s political philosophy, drawn from official reports or the administrator’s own writings. The Indian Offic…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781496230584
Collation
xvii, 476 p.
Series Title
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Call Number
323.1197 DEJ p
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A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism
Ricci, David M.

Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, globali…

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ISBN/ISSN
9781108785440
Collation
x, 258p: ill,
Series Title
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Call Number
320.473 DAV
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The wealthy, the brilliant, the few : elite education in contemporary America…
Spieler, Sophie

How do the US make sense of their own elite educational system, given that it seems to be at odds with core American values, such as equality of opportunity or upward mobility? Sophie Spieler explores scholarly and journalistic investigations, self-representational texts, and fictional narratives revolving around the Ivy League and its peers in order to understand elite education and its peculi…

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ISBN/ISSN
9783839457290
Collation
273 p.
Series Title
Volume 33 in the series American Culture Studies
Call Number
370.73 SPI t