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'This book makes uncomfortable reading both in its detailed analysis of terrorism and its causes, and in the critique of state responses, particularly in modern times. It is unusual to have such a defence of a 'human rights framework' from a counter-terrorism practitioner rather than from within the legal fraternity. It is this that makes the case even more persuasive. All who are involved in counter-terrorism strategy should consider carefully the arguments put forward.'Global Policy JournalFor more than 150 years, nationalist, populist, Marxist and religious terrorists have all been remarkably consistent and explicit about their aims: provoke states into over-reacting to the threat they po...
Autobiography and Decolonization is the first book to give serious academic attention to autobiographies of nationalist leaders in the process of decolonization, attending to them not simply as partial historical documents, but as texts involved in remaking the world views of their readers. Holden examines the autobiographies of: -Mohandas K. Gandhi -Marcus Garvey -Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford -Lee Kuan Yew -Nelson Mandela -Jawaharlal Nehru -and Kwame Nkrumah
Synopsis of: Wills from originals up to 1860, Grantee with acreage - location, wife's name and witnesses - grantor, Deeds up to 1800, Marriage records 1824-1828 and Alphabetical arrangement of State Census 1782 and 1784, Revolutionary soldiers pensions residing in the county 1835.
"No other official record or group of records is as historically significant as the 1790 census of the United States. The taking of this census marked the inauguration of a process that continues right up to our own day--the enumeration at ten-year intervals of the entire American population" -- publisher website (June 2007).