A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the…

Dedicated to a praxis of social and political activism rooted in students’ development as citizens and workers, the labor of teachers as action researchers, cultural workers, and social mediators is…

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by…

Examines how Martin Luther King’s life and work had a profound, if unpredictable, impact on the course of the United States since the civil rights era. Collectively, these pieces explore…

‘…a very superior textbook, avoiding most of the pitfalls of the genre…the wheat-to-chaff ratio is gratifyingly high, in a field with more chaff than most…it must have been a difficult…

On July 14th, 1966, Richard Franklin Speck swept through a quiet Chicago townhouse like a summer tornado and stabbed, strangled, and killed eight young nurses in a violent sexual rampage…

After 1949 the Chinese Communists carried out land reform, the collectivization of agriculture, and the formation of people’s communes. The new economic and political organizations that emerged have made peasant…

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: Von Boeckmann-Jones co., printers Subjects: Agriculture Education Business