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  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (9)
  • Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp
  • USA  (10)
  • English Studies  (10)
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781107476622 , 1107476623 , 9781107094666 , 9781107476622
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 508 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge companion to the United States Constitution
    DDC: 342.7302
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    Keywords: United States ; United States ; Constitutional law ; Constitutional law United States ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Verfassungsrecht ; USA ; Verfassungsrecht
    Abstract: This Companion provides a broad, historically informed introduction to the study of the US constitutional system. In place of the usual laundry lists of cases, doctrines, and theories, it presents a picture of the constitutional system in action, with separate sections devoted to constitutional principles, organizational structures, and the various legal and extra-legal 'actions' through which litigators and average citizens have attempted to bring about constitutional change. Finally, the volume covers a number of subjects that are rarely discussed in works aimed at a general audience, but which are critical to ensuring that constitutional rights are honored in the day-to-day lives of citizens. These include standing and causes of action, suits against officeholders, and the inner workings of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). This Companion places present-day constitutional controversies in historical context, and offers insights from a range of disciplines, including history, political science, and law.
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108381659
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 332 pages)
    DDC: 305.896/073
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    Keywords: King, Martin Luther ; Geschichte 1963-1972 ; Stadt ; Rassenunruhen ; Cambridge, Md. ; Baltimore, Md. ; York, Pa. ; USA
    Abstract: Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He challenges both conservative and liberal interpretations, emphasizing that these riots must be placed within historical context to be properly understood. By focusing on three specific cities as case studies - Cambridge and Baltimore, Maryland, and York, Pennsylvania - Levy demonstrates the impact which these uprisings had on millions of ordinary Americans. He shows how conservatives profited politically by constructing a misleading narrative of their causes, and also suggests that the riots did not represent a sharp break or rupture from the civil rights movement. Finally, Levy presents a cautionary tale by challenging us to consider if the conditions that produced this 'Great Uprising' are still predominant in American culture today.
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107415713
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 372 pages)
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    DDC: 306.440973
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    Keywords: Linguistic minorities ; Immigrants ; Languages in contact ; Code-switching (Linguistics) ; Sprache ; Einwanderung ; USA ; USA ; Einwanderung ; Sprache
    Abstract: Exploring the complex relationship between language and immigration in the United States, this timely book challenges mainstream, historically established assumptions about American citizenship and identity. Set within both a historical and a current political context, this book covers hotly debated topics such as language and ethnicity, the relationship between non-native English and American identity, perceptions and stereotypes related to foreign accents, code-switching, hybrid language forms such as Spanglish, language and the family, and the future of language in America. Work from the fields of linguistics, education policy, history, sociology, and politics are brought together to provide an accessible overview of the key issues. Through specific examples and case studies, immigrant America is presented as a diverse, multilingual, and multidimensional space in which identities are often hybridized and always multifaceted
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139178013
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 231 Seiten) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kibbee, Douglas A., 1949 - Language and the law
    DDC: 342.73087
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    Keywords: Linguistic minorities Legal status, laws, etc. ; United States. ; Linguistic minorities Legal status, laws, etc ; Linguistic minorities ; Legal status, laws, etc ; United States ; United States ; Languages ; Law and legislation ; United States Languages ; Law and legislation. ; United States Languages ; Law and legislation ; USA ; Sprachliche Minderheit ; Rechtssystem ; Ungleichheit
    Abstract: Language policy is a topic of growing importance around the world, as issues such as the recognition of linguistic diversity, the establishment of official languages, the status of languages in educational systems, the status of heritage and minority languages, and speakers' legal rights have come increasingly to the forefront. One fifth of the American population do not speak English as their first language. While race, gender and religious discrimination are recognized as illegal, the US does not currently accord the same protections regarding language; discrimination on the basis of language is accepted, and even promoted, in the name of unity and efficiency. Setting language within the context of America's history, this book explores the diverse range of linguistic inequalities, covering voting, criminal and civil justice, education, government and public services, and the workplace, and considers how linguistic differences challenge our fundamental ideals of democracy, justice and fairness.
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139649728
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 346 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
    DDC: 323.1196/0730904
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    Keywords: Schwarze ; Protestbewegung ; USA
    Abstract: How do social movements die? Some explanations highlight internal factors like factionalization, whereas others stress external factors like repression. Christian Davenport offers an alternative explanation where both factors interact. Drawing on organizational, as well as individual-level, explanations, Davenport argues that social movement death is the outgrowth of a coevolutionary dynamic whereby challengers, influenced by their understanding of what states will do to oppose them, attempt to recruit, motivate, calm, and prepare constituents while governments attempt to hinder all of these processes at the same time. Davenport employs a previously unavailable database that contains information on a black nationalist/secessionist organization, the Republic of New Africa, and the activities of authorities in the US city of Detroit and state and federal authorities.
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521841321 , 0521601096 , 9780521841320 , 9780521601092
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 496 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to culture
    DDC: 973.9
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    Keywords: Popular culture History 20th century ; United States Civilization 20th century ; United States Intellectual life 20th century ; United States Social conditions 20th century ; United States Study and teaching ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Landeskunde ; Geschichte 1900-2005 ; USA ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1900-2005 ; USA ; Kultur ; Zivilisation ; Gesellschaftsleben ; Geschichte 1900-2000
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511153952
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (272 pages)
    DDC: 302.22440973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900 - 2000 ; Analphabetismus ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; USA
    Abstract: This book addresses critical questions facing public education at the twenty-first century.
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  • 8
    ISBN: 3518411330
    Language: German
    Pages: 398 S , 22 cm
    Edition: 1. Aufl.
    Uniform Title: Secrets 〈dt.〉
    DDC: 5.2;9.3b/XD-US/XC-SO
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    Keywords: Mann ; Familie ; Tradition ; Mann ; Jugendliebe ; Rückkehr ; Belletristische Darstellung ; Mogadischu ; Mogadischu ; USA ; Maxaman Cabdulle Xasan's Rebellion, Somalia, 1900-1920 ; Fiction ; Interpersonal relations ; Fiction ; Somalia ; Fiction ; Fiktionale Darstellung ; Mogadischu ; Mann ; Familie ; Tradition ; Geschichte 1991 ; Mogadischu ; Mann ; Jugendliebe ; Rückkehr ; USA
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511583629
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 277 pages)
    DDC: 306.360973
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kontraktarbeiter ; Kontrakttheorie ; Abschaffung ; Sklaverei ; USA
    Abstract: In the era of slave emancipation no ideal of freedom had greater power than that of contract. The antislavery claim was that the negation of chattel status lay in the contracts of wage labor and marriage. Signifying self-ownership, volition, and reciprocal exchange among formally equal individuals, contract became the dominant metaphor for social relations and the very symbol of freedom. This 1999 book explores how a generation of American thinkers and reformers - abolitionists, former slaves, feminists, labor advocates, jurists, moralists, and social scientists - drew on contract to condemn the evils of chattel slavery as well as to measure the virtues of free society. Their arguments over the meaning of slavery and freedom were grounded in changing circumstances of labor and home life on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. At the heart of these arguments lay the problem of defining which realms of self and social existence could be rendered market commodities and which could not.
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511571404
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 262 pages)
    DDC: 306/.484
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Markt ; Theater ; USA ; Britisch-Nordamerika ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: Drawing on a variety of disciplines and documents, Professor Agnew illuminates one of the most fascinating chapters in the formations of Anglo-American market culture. Worlds Apart traces the history of our concepts of the marketplace and the theatre and the ways in which these concepts are bound together. Focusing on Britain and America in the years 1550 to 1750, the book discusses the forms and conventions that structured both commerce and theatre. As marketing practice broke free of its traditional boundaries and restraints, it challenged longstanding popular assumptions about the constituents of value, the nature of identity, the signs of authenticity, and the limits of liability. New exchange relations bred new legal and commercial fictions to authorise them, but they also bred new doubts about the precise grounds upon which the self and its 'interests' were to be represented. Those same doubts, Professor Agnew shows, animated the theatre as well. As actors and playwrights shifted from ecclesiastical and civic drama to professional entertainments, they too devised authenticating fictions, fictions that effectively replicated the bewildering representational confusions of the new 'placeless market'.
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