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  • Animal Rights/Human Rights

    Entanglements of Oppression and Liberation

    by David Nibert ...
    This accessible and cutting-edge work offers a new look at the history of western 'civilization,' one that brings into focus the interrelated suffering of oppressed humans and other animals. Nibert argues persuasively that throughout history the exploitation of other animals has gone hand in hand with the oppression of women, people of color, and other oppressed groups. He maintains that the ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Animal Oppression and Human Violence

    Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict

    by David Nibert ...
    Series series Critical Perspectives on Animals: Theory, Culture, Science, and Law
    Jared Diamond and other leading scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labor, and tools of war has advanced the development of human society. But by comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert reaches a strikingly different conclusion. He finds in the domestication of animals, which he renames ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Animal Oppression and Malev(i)olence

    Hunting, Domesecration, Capitalism, and the Deformation of Human Society

    by David Nibert ...
    Series series Critical Animal Studies and Theory
    While the dominant cultural narrative depicts the history of hunting, capturing, and killing of other animals as beneficial for human development, historical and contemporary evidence shows otherwise. This book reveals that the human practice of stalking, killing, exploiting, and eating other animals led to the social construction of a malev(i)olent and predacious form of masculinity and the start ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Meatsplaining

    The Animal Agriculture Industry and the Rhetoric of Denial

    Edited by Jason Hannan ...
    Series series Animal Publics
    The animal agriculture industry, like other profit-driven industries, aggressively seeks to shield itself from public scrutiny and uses a distinct set of rhetorical strategies to deflect criticism. These tactics are fundamental to modern animal agriculture but have long evaded critical analysis. In Meatsplaining, academic and activist contributors investigate the many forms of denialism ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Animal Oppression and Capitalism

    [2 volumes]

    Edited by David Nibert ...
    This important two-volume set unapologetically documents how capitalism results in the oppression of animals ranging from fish and chickens to dogs, elephants, and kangaroos as well as in environmental destruction, vital resource depletion, and climate change.Most traditional narratives portray humanity's use of other animals as natural and necessary for human social development and present the ... Read more

    $151.89 USD

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    A Man and His Dog's Struggle to Find Salvation

    by Zachary Anderegg ...
    While hiking on a solo vacation in a remote, uninhabitable region of Arizona, Zachary Anderegg happened upon Riley, an emaciated puppy clinging to life, at the bottom of a 350-foot canyon. In a daring act of humanity that trumped the deliberate savagery behind Riley’s presence in such a place, Zak single-handedly orchestrated a delicate rescue. What didn’t come out in the initial burst of ... Read more

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  • Why Nations Fail

    The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

    by Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson ...
    NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York TimesFINALIST: ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Indian Givers

    How Native Americans Transformed the World

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    An utterly compelling story of how the cultural, social, and political practices of Native Americans transformed the way life is lived throughout the world, with a new introduction by the author“As entertaining as it is thoughtful . . . Few contemporary writers have Weatherford’s talent for making the deep sweep of history seem vital and immediate.”—The Washington PostAfter 500 years, the world’s ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Global Economic History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert C. Allen ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Concise History of Canada

    by Professor Margaret Conrad ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Margaret Conrad's history of Canada begins with a challenge to its readers. What is Canada? What makes up this diverse, complex and often contested nation-state? What was its founding moment? And who are its people? Drawing on her many years of experience as a scholar, writer and teacher of Canadian history, Conrad offers astute answers to these difficult questions. Beginning in Canada's deep past ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask

    by Anton Treuer ...
    "I had a profoundly well-educated Princetonian ask me, 'Where is your tomahawk?' I had a beautiful woman approach me in the college gymnasium and exclaim, 'You have the most beautiful red skin.' I took a friend to see Dances with Wolves and was told, 'Your people have a beautiful culture.' . . . I made many lifelong friends at college, and they supported but also challenged me with questions like, ... Read more

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  • "All the Real Indians Died Off"

    And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans

    by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Dina Gilio-Whitaker ...
    Series Book 5 - Myths Made in America
    Unpacks the twenty-one most common myths and misconceptions about Native AmericansIn this enlightening book, scholars and activists Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Dina Gilio-Whitaker tackle a wide range of myths about Native American culture and history that have misinformed generations. Tracing how these ideas evolved, and drawing from history, the authors disrupt long-held and enduring myths such as: ... Read more

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