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Slavery and Resistance
"Describes slavery in the United States from colonial times up to the Civil War"--Provided by publisher.
Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions
This book probes the origins of the practice of nonviolence in early India and traces its path within the Jaina, Hindu, and Buddhist traditions, including its impact on East Asian Cultures. It then turns to a variety of contemporary issues relating to this topic such as: vegetarianism, animal and environmental protection, and the cultivation of religious tolerance.
The Civil War
"Describes the role of African Americans during the Civil War (1861-1865)"--Provided by publisher.
Keywords for Children’s Literature
49 original essays on the essential terms and concepts in children's literature
Children's Films
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Gender(ed) Identities
This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children's and young adult literature. It complements and updates the scholarship in the field by creating a rich, cohesive examination of core questions around gender and sexuality in classic and contemporary texts. By providing an expansive treatment of gender and sexuality across genres, eras, and national literature, the collection explores how readers encounter unorthodox as well as traditional notions of gender. It begins with essays exploring how children's and YA literature construct communities formed by gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and in face-to-face and virtual spaces. Sect...
Prizing Children's Literature
Children's book awards have mushroomed since the early twentieth-century and especially since the 1960s, when literary prizing became a favored strategy for both commercial promotion and canon-making. There are over 300 awards for English-language titles alone, but despite the profound impact of children’s book awards, scholars have paid relatively little attention to them. This book is the first scholarly volume devoted to the analysis of Anglophone children's book awards in historical and cultural context. With attention to both political and aesthetic concerns, the book offers original and diverse scholarship on prizing practices and their consequences in Australia, Canada, and especial...
THE WAR ON COFFEE, Volume One
The prohibitions on coffee in Egypt, Syria, Turkey from the 1500s to the 1700s.
Why Drug Wars Fail, Volume One
A study of prohibitions: why they fail, how they begin, what causes them, who benefits, the methods and results. Drug wars are not only failures, they are counterproductive and are associated with regime change. They are motivated by political jealousy, social disruption, bad medicine, economic greed and religious hysteria.
