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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “simon henderson”
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  • Sidelined

    How American Sports Challenged the Black Freedom Struggle

    by Simon Henderson ...
    Series series Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
    A sociologist and oral historian explores the interwoven histories of sports and civil rights activism in this extensively researched volume.In 1968, noted sociologist Harry Edwards established the Olympic Project for Human Rights, calling for a boycott of that year's games in Mexico City as a demonstration against racial discrimination. Though the boycott never materialized, Edwards's ideas ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Harold Pinter

    by Guido Almansi, Simon Henderson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1983, Harold Pinter is an original study into the work of one of Britain’s foremost dramatists.The book celebrates Pinter’s elusiveness as a writer. It considers his position as a specifically contemporary writer of the post-modernist tradition, and explores his use of language as a sophisticated means of non-communication, acting as a smokescreen behind which his characters lie ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Aspects of American History

    by Simon Henderson ...
    Aspects of American History examines major themes, personalities and issues across American history, using topic focused essays. Each chapter focuses on key events and time periods within a broad framework looking at liberty and equality, the role of government and national identity. The volume engages with its central themes through a broad ranging examination of aspects of the American past, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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    My Uncle Freddie: The Complete Series 1-6

    A Full-Cast BBC Radio Comedy Drama

    by Alex Y. Ferguson ...
    Narrated by Alex Y. Ferguson, Art Davies, Shaun Prendergast, Gareth Brown, Karl Boyd, Simon Henderson, Jamie Bell, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 55 min

    A lively comedy drama about a young boy growing up in 1930s Tyneside with the help of his favourite uncleLecky Ferguson is growing up in a penniless but close-knit family in Jarrow. He relies on his imaginative Uncle Freddie for explanations of the world’s many mysteries. Packed with humour and adventure, this award-winning full-cast drama tells the life of a young man that is far from ordinary ... Read more

    $21.84 USD

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    John A. Macdonald, Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, and the Making of North America

    by James Laxer ...
    Staking Claims to a Continent is a highly readable examination of how Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, and Sir John A. Macdonald took part in a daring game of nation building that has impacted the global order to the present day.Three political leaders presided over the reshaping of the North American continent during the fiery 1860s. Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln were both born in Kentucky ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Strange Career of Jim Crow

    by C. Vann Woodward;William S. McFeely ...
    C. Vann Woodward who died in 1999 at the age of 91 was America's most eminent Southern historian the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now to honor his long and truly distinguished career Oxford is pleased to publish this special commemorative edition of Woodward's most influential work The Strange Career of Jim Crow. ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Secret Life of Plays

    by Steve Waters ...
    A guide to the hidden workings of plays and the trade secrets that govern their writing - by the acclaimed playwright Steve Waters.Drawing on a wide range of drama, both historical and modern, Waters takes the reader through the key elements of dramatic writing – scenes, acts, space, time, characters, language and images – to show how a play is more than the sum of its parts, with as much inner ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 1867

    How the Fathers Made a Deal

    by Christopher Moore ...
    “In the 1860s, western alienation began at Yonge Street, and George Brown was the Preston Manning of the day.” So begins Christopher Moore’s fascinating 1990s look at the messy, dramatic, crisis-ridden process that brought Canada into being – and at the politicians, no more lovable or united than our own, who, against all odds, managed to forge a deal that worked.From the first chapter, he turns a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Birth of a White Nation

    The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today

    by Jacqueline Battalora ...
    Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration of the moment in time when "white people,” as a separate and distinct group of humanity, were invented through legislation and the enactment of laws. The book provides a thorough examination of the underlying reasons as well as the ways in which “white people” were created. It also explains how the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Freedoms We Lost

    Consent and Resistance in Revolutionary America

    by Barbara Clark Smith ...
    A brilliant and original examination of American freedom as it existed before the Revolution, from the Smithsonian's curator of social history.The American Revolution is widely understood—by schoolchildren and citizens alike—as having ushered in "freedom" as we know it, a freedom that places voting at the center of American democracy. In a sharp break from this view, historian Barbara Clark Smith ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Comedy: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Matthew Bevis ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that writers and speakers enjoy - and risk - when they tell a joke, indulge in bathos, talk nonsense, or encourage irony? This Very Short Introduction explores comedy both as a literary genre, and as a range ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • A Concise History of the United States of America

    by Susan-Mary Grant ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    Born out of violence and the aspirations of its early settlers, the United States of America has become one of the world's most powerful nations. The book begins in colonial America as the first Europeans arrived, lured by the promise of financial profit, driven by religious piety and accompanied by diseases which would ravage the native populations. It explores the tensions inherent in a country ... Read more

    $31.99 USD