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Len Fox, 1905-2004, Rowan Cahill
Len Fox, 1905-2004, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
Obituary on the life of Australian author, journalist, historian, and Left activist Len Fox.
Flags Of Convenience: Shipping Industry Patriotism, Rowan Cahill
Flags Of Convenience: Shipping Industry Patriotism, Rowan Cahill
Rowan Cahill
An account of the growth of 'flag of convenience' shipping during the twentieth century, with critical attention to the dynamics that drive the industry.
Introduction: The Problem Of The Color Line, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Introduction: The Problem Of The Color Line, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Fifty years after Dr. W. E. B. DuBois wrote these words in The Souls of Black Folk, the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education case dramatized them. This legal action forced the United States to confront the explicit racial caste system imposed on African Americans prior to the constitutional protections guaranteed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Brown decision also highlighted how politics, wedded to the maintenance of white supremacy, supported the well-organized de Jure terror system common …
"Surat Bahr Al Rum"(Picture Of The Sea Of Byzantium): Possible Meanings Underlying The Forms, Karen C. Pinto
"Surat Bahr Al Rum"(Picture Of The Sea Of Byzantium): Possible Meanings Underlying The Forms, Karen C. Pinto
Karen C. Pinto
In this paper I will display, examine, and deconstruct the "classical" medieval Islamic conception of the Mediterranean as seen through colorful, miniature maps found in medieval Arabic and Persian geographical manuscripts from the 11th to 17th centuries. In his classic book "Mohammad and Charlemagne" (1939), the Belgian scholar Henri Pirenne set forth what has since come to be known as the Pirenne thesis, expressing the dominant European view that the sudden advent of Islam on the "other" side of the Mediterranean disrupted the unity of the "Roman Lake" forever. "With Islam a new world was established on those Mediterranean shores, …
Introduction: The Problem Of The Color Line, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
Introduction: The Problem Of The Color Line, Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
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"The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line." Fifty years after Dr. W. E. B. DuBois wrote these words in The Souls of Black Folk, the 1954 Brown v. the Board of Education case dramatized them. This legal action forced the United States to confront the explicit racial caste system imposed on African Americans prior to the constitutional protections guaranteed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Brown decision also highlighted how politics, wedded to the maintenance of white supremacy, supported the well-organized de Jure terror system common …
Further Additions To The Bibliography Of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), Charles H. Smith
Further Additions To The Bibliography Of Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), Charles H. Smith
Charles Kay Smith
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