Humanitarianism in the Modern World
Humanitarianism in the Modern World

Author: Norbert Götz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-07-23

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1108493521

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A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.

Holocaust and Rescue
Holocaust and Rescue

Author: Pamela Shatzkes

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13:

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This book challenges the widely held view which condemns as weak and half-hearted, Anglo-Jewish efforts on behalf of European Jews during the Nazi period. Anglo-Jewish organizations achieved remarkable successes in the pre-war years, combining their administrative expertise with the financial guarantee of maintenance to accomplish the rescue of over fifty thousand refugees. By tragic contrast, their lack of political and diplomatic experience during wartime rendered them almost entirely incapable of influencing an intransigent government engaged in global war to save Jewish lives. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Contract with the Skin
Contract with the Skin

Author: Kathy O'Dell

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780816628872

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Having oneself shot. Putting out fires with the bare hands and feet. Biting the body and photographing the marks. Sewing one's own mouth shut--all in front of an audience. What do these kinds of performances tell us about the social and historical context in which they occurred? Fascinating and accessibly written, CONTRACT WITH THE SKIN addresses the question in relation to psychoanalytic and legal concepts of masochism. 34 photos.

Invisible Punishment
Invisible Punishment

Author: Meda Chesney-Lind

Publisher: The New Press

Published: 2011-05-10

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1595587365

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In a series of newly commissioned essays from the leading scholars and advocates in criminal justice, Invisible Punishment explores, for the first time, the far-reaching consequences of our current criminal justice policies. Adopted as part of “get tough on crime” attitudes that prevailed in the 1980s and '90s, a range of strategies, from “three strikes” and “a war on drugs,” to mandatory sentencing and prison privatization, have resulted in the mass incarceration of American citizens, and have had enormous effects not just on wrong-doers, but on their families and the communities they come from. This book looks at the consequences of these policies twenty years later.

The Other Blacklist
The Other Blacklist

Author: Mary Washington

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2014-04-22

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0231152701

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Revealing the formative influence of 1950s leftist radicalism on African American literature and culture.