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Restoring Natural Capital: Science, Business, and Practice (Science Practice Ecological Restoration)
How can environmental degradation be stopped? How can it be reversed? And how can the damage already done be repaired? The authors of this volume argue that a two-pronged approach is needed: reducing demand for ecosystem goods and services and better management of them, coupled with an increase in s... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2007 -
Holocaust Memory and Racism in the Postwar World
by Tony Kushner • Dan J. Puckett • Milton Shain • Suzanne D. Rutland • David Slucki • James Jordan • Marjorie N. Feld • Michael E. Staub • Michael Rothberg • Sarah Phillips Casteel • Avril Alba • Bashir Bashir • Amos Goldberg • Steven Cooke • Donna-Lee Frieze • Shirli Gilbert • Dorota GlowackaThe Holocaust is often invoked as a benchmark for talking about human rights abuses from slavery and apartheid to colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Western educators and politicians draw seemingly obvious lessons of tolerance and anti-racism from the Nazi past, and their work rests on the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Against Popery: Britain, Empire, and Anti-Catholicism (Early American Histories)
by Tim Harris • Andrew R. Murphy • Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker • Anthony Milton • Brendan McConville • Laura M. Stevens • Susan P. Liebell • Clare Haynes • Cynthia J. Van Zandt • Craig Gallagher • Peter W. WalkerAlthough commonly regarded as a prejudice against Roman Catholics and their religion, anti-popery is both more complex and far more historically significant than this common conception would suggest. As the essays collected in this volume demonstrate, anti-popery is a powerful lens th... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020