Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity After World War II
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    Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity After World War II
    Sahr Conway-Lanz
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    Everyday on the news, we hear tallies of how many Iraqis were killed the previous day in America's current war in Iraq. Most of these victims are not soldiers, and have nothing to do with the war--they are just innocent civilians, caught in the cross-fire. They are the war's "collateral damage."

    This book is a history of America's attempt to reconcile the atrocity of modern warfare, only realized after WWII and the development of the atomic bomb, with the idea that killing innocent civilians was off-limits and not justified to win a war. Conway-Lanz considers both policy makers' responses to the issues, as well as the on-going debate by the public on their perceptions of war violence against civilians, starting after WWII for the most complete examination of modern American discourse on this topic.

    Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1956-1961
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    Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1956-1961
    Mark V. Tushnet
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    From the 1930s to the early 1960s civil rights law was made primarily through constitutional litigation. Before Rosa Parks could ignite a Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Supreme Court had to strike down the Alabama law which made segregated bus service required by law; before Martin Luther King could march on Selma to register voters, the Supreme Court had to find unconstitutional the Southern Democratic Party's exclusion of African-Americans; and before the March on Washington and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Supreme Court had to strike down the laws allowing for the segregation of public graduate schools, colleges, high schools, and grade schools. Making Civil Rights Law provides a chronological narrative history of the legal struggle, led by Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, that preceded the political battles for civil rights. Drawing on interviews with Thurgood Marshall and other NAACP lawyers, as well as new information about the private deliberations of the Supreme Court, Tushnet tells the dramatic story of how the NAACP Legal Defense Fund led the Court to use the Constitution as an instrument of liberty and justice for all African-Americans. He also offers new insights into how the justices argued among themselves about the historic changes they were to make in American society. Making Civil Rights Law provides an overall picture of the forces involved in civil rights litigation, bringing clarity to the legal reasoning that animated this "Constitutional revolution", and showing how the slow development of doctrine and precedent reflected the overall legal strategy of Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP.

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    3 out of 5 stars Very informative but dry.......1999-11-20

    This book is a decisive history of Thurgood Marshall's actions and the effects that he had on the civil rights of African-Americans while he worked with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His successes, failures, and discussions of his effects make it a very informative book. It is quite obvious that the author spent a great amount of time researching his topic of choice. The book is absolutely full of quotes from people of the time and very detailed factual accounts of events. Unfortunately, the content is not written in an extremely appealing matter. It tends to drone on and on about various cases and actions which have no major significance in history nor in the life of Marshall. If you can read through the dry spots, though, its a great book. You can really get a felling for the social climate of the era as well as the thoughts and feelings of Marshall himself. As a research tool, this was definitely the most valuable book I came across. If I was rating this book based on its information it would be an easy five. Ultimately, it is a good book for pleasure reading but not the best. I would have to say that Juan Williams' Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary is the best. If you are interested in Marshall's career, though, you want to look at Tushnet's other book Making Constitutional Law : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1961-1991.
    Asylum Seekers and the State: The Politics of Protection in a Security-Conscious World
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      Asylum Seekers and the State: The Politics of Protection in a Security-Conscious World
      Claudia Tazreiter
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      Kosovo and the Challenge of Humanitarian Intervention: Selective Indignation, Collective Action, and International Citizenship
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        The Kosovo conflict has the potential to redraw the landscape of international politics, with significant ramifications for the UN, major powers, regional organizations, and the way in which we understand and interpret world politics. Can the veto now effectively be circumvented to launch selective enforcement operations? Can the humanitarian imperative be reconciled with the principle of state sovereignty? This publication offers interpretations of the Kosovo crisis from numerous perspectives: the conflict-parties, NATO allies as well as the immediate region surrounding the conflict. Country perspectives are followed by scholarly analyses of the longer-term normative, operational and structural consequences of the Kosovo crisis for world politics.
        Into a World of Hate: A Journey Among the Extreme Right
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        Into a World of Hate: A Journey Among the Extreme Right
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        A chilling journey into the networks of right-wing radicals at home and abroad, Into a World of Hate unravels the shocking story behind the growth of white nationalist extremism through the lives of its true believers.

        Award-winning investigative reporter Nick Ryan spent six frightening years talking to neo-nazis, skinheads, and white supremacists from the U.S. to London to terrorist cells in Scandinavia and Europe, gaining unparalleled insight into what drives these groups.

        In bars and backstreets, Ryan got to know the pale faces of the boy-next-door killers, barely men, burning with frustration, needing belief, prepared to act--loners and zealots like Oklahoma bomber Timothy McVeigh. Ryan spoke to people who loved their children, worked nine to five and thought of themselves as respectable citizens, yet subscribed to organizations bent on creating a self-contained nationalist homeland where only white Christians are welcome. Sometimes in fear for his life, he interviewed some of the topmen running the biggest hate organizations in the world.

        A disturbing work of investigative journalism at its best, Into a World of Hate gives us a fearless and troubling look into a tribal world of maleness, hate and violence.


        Visit Nick Ryan's website at: http://www.nickryan.net

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        1 out of 5 stars racists are sooo scary.......2006-10-13

        I found this book interesting but quite distasteful. The "journalist" is so biased its laughable. As western communities crumle and become more disfunctional white people will have to wake up and face some unpleasant truths. We owe this to ourselves and our children! The multi culti morass we find ourselves in is a terrible failure and we need to wake up and fix this problem. Weak men like Ryan are a product of 30 odd years of marxist, feel good, sappy politics.

        5 out of 5 stars It's personal.......2006-02-27

        This book is a great read. OK, fair enough, this isn't the one you want if you're looking for a book with academic analysis of the far-right; it's too anecdotal, too personal. But it's pretty clear from the get-go that a stuffy but fair academic treatise is not what the author intends. He intends to provide a personal account of his journey through the far right, which of course is going to be pretty anecdotal. And in this he succeeds. There's lots to shake your head at, both in the sense of dismay and also disbelief; plenty to get riled up about and also the occasional chortle (choking in your throat a bit). Whatever you get out of this, you won't regret having spent the time reading it.

        5 out of 5 stars A really interesting read.......2005-11-15

        An interesting and well written book. Many thanks to the author Nick Ryan - this vivid account of his experience with the far right took me right out of my comfort zone. Thank you!

        4 out of 5 stars a justified comparison to Orwell.......2005-04-14

        Nick Ryan HOMELAND tells the story of an epic journey across Europe and the United States, in the underground world of right wing extremism. This was a concealed world until September 11 and its tidal wave of nationalism gave it the impetus to emerge with a new strength.
        Ryan's journey starts in London where he meets members of secretive right wing extremist groups such as Combat 18 (18 because of the position of Adolph Hitler's initials in the alphabet). These small size groups are nonetheless powerful and thrive on fear and violence. They are often associated with football and a music scene that conveys their ideology and which provide them with an important source of income.
        In this universe, the British National Party is the clean and presentable face of a movement whose roots dive deeper into the Nation and the Western World. At the heart of these movements, Ryan meets up with your "white next-door neighbour", usually a single young man who is looking for simple answers to the questions of life and identity.
        Lost in a world whose values and customs are increasingly varied and entangled, our white supremacist is looking for moral guidance and a sense to give to his life. He is in need of beliefs, craving to belong to a community.
        Ryan's first chapters are not an easy read mainly because he decided to blend narratives and dialogues. However, this helps us remembering that we are here facing real individuals and not imaginary monsters. Pass the first sixty pages and the journey kicks off. Ryan meets more and more people involved in the dark side of the western civilisation and starts to earn their trust. This long and painful process (both professionally and personally) will open many doors that would have remained closed to many lounge-investigators.
        Nick Ryan will ultimately be introduced to some of the white supremacists "thinkers". They are recluse or outsiders but can also be very public figures such as Pat Buchanan who entered the US presidential election. Ryan describes how they feel ignored by the politics, their voice unheard and their feeling of being powerless. Therefore, it becomes a sense of duty to protect the white race, to act even if this means violence because the political system and the society do not offer any other choice. Ryan's interlocutors define their way as being outside conventional politics and the old concept of Right and Left. This is a way which concern is to save the White race endangered by other "lower cultures".
        During this journey Ryan is crossing from one world to another and is undergoing a maturation process. He will sometimes become friend with the people he meets and interviews and realise that it is not all black and white even in a White world.
        By the end of his odyssey, Ryan is back to where the right wing movements are the most developed, East Germany. Shouldn't that be extremely worrying that these extremists' movements are booming and thriving in the country that invented and put into action the principle of National Socialism?
        Ryan's writing is both informative and emotionally powerful. This is not an essay on nationalism or white supremacist movement but a personal journey, a document, a piece that can be used to expose the real driving force behind racism and nationalism.
        One of the many merits of Ryan's book is that it provides a useful resource to understand these extremist's beliefs and respond to them. It is an edifying piece of work about a rising phenomenon becoming more and more acceptable and a different approach prompting a justified comparison to Orwell's journey to Wigan.

        4 out of 5 stars An important and prescient book.......2004-12-20

        Nick Ryan has written an excellent book that will one day be recognised for its prescience. Courting a web of extremists, he travels in search of explanations for the often sordid and pathetic reality of race haters. There are some truly frightening revelations here: about the 'comradeship' networks of modern Germany, the tortured Christian fundamentalist in Arkansas, the links to the suave Pat Buchanan, the brutality of Combat 18 leader Charlie Sargent. Homeland is an important book, ahead of its time, worthy of comparison with the reportage of Orwell and Paul Theroux at their best.
        Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery
        Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
        • Good Legal History
        • Excellent legal history of the battle to abolish slavery
        • Great research on an important case
        • A Story with Amazingly Long Reach
        • A Handy Treatment of the Epic Somerset Case
        Though the Heavens May Fall: The Landmark Trial That Led to the End of Human Slavery
        Steven M. Wise
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        "Brings to brilliant life the great case that started the downfall of slavery on both sides of the Atlantic." -Anthony Lewis, author of Gideon's Trumpet

        The case of James Somerset, an escaped slave, in June of 1772 in London's Westminster Hall was a decisive turning point in human history. Steven Wise has uncovered fascinating new revelations in this case, which statesmen of the time threatened would bring the economy of the British Empire to a crashing halt. In a gripping, hour-by-hour narrative of the trial and the inflamed participants, Wise leads the reader to the extraordinary and unexpected decision by the great conservative judge, Lord Mansfield, which led to the United States' own abolition movement. As the case drew to a close, and defenders of slavery pleaded with him to maintain the system, Mansfield's reply has resounded down through more than two centuries: "Let Justice be done, though the Heavens may fall."

        "Wise has an eye for evocative detail and an interest in the trappings and procedures of an 18th-century courtroom that do as much to engage the reader as the drama of the trials themselves. And he has a good lawyer's love of those moments in which the true poetry of humane justice finds its voice." -New York Times Book Review

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        4 out of 5 stars Good Legal History.......2006-09-12

        This is a neat history of the Somerset Case, the 1772 English court case that outlawed slavery in the United Kingdom (but not in the British Empire). The case was epochal, and, for that reason alone, readers interested in legal history should read this book. Unfortunately, the narrative is a bit convoluted and weighed down with too many unnecessary details and too much 18th century British legal lore, as if the author felt he had to use everything he turned up during his research. That's too bad. Otherwise, the book is highly recommended.

        5 out of 5 stars Excellent legal history of the battle to abolish slavery.......2006-02-28

        Dr. Wise writes in a story telling manner that is easy to read and understand. He tells the legal history of the battle to abolish slavery as it developed a couple of centuries before Abe Lincoln's Emancipation Act speech in the United States. He lets the readers understand the evolutionary factors of the alive world of law, and learn facts about slavery abolishment that many may not know.

        5 out of 5 stars Great research on an important case.......2005-05-02

        As on reads this book we know the author has done a careful and excellent job of research in records which it is great still exist. Somerset's case was decided June 22, 1772 by Lord Mansfield and was a vital step to the eventual ending of slavery. This book is so meticulously researched, with careful citations of every case mentioned, that it is a joy to read.

        5 out of 5 stars A Story with Amazingly Long Reach.......2005-03-24

        This is a fascinating book on several levels.

        First it is the story of a landmark trial that first freed slaves in England - with the comment: "The air of England is too pure for a slave to breath in." This story is well worth telling. The hero of the story is Granville Sharp, a Government clerk who educated himself in the law and used his own small income to bring cases on slavery to the bench.

        The second point that I find interesting is the fact that this was done in court. Parliment could have ended slavery at any time, but didn't. This is saying that even 250 years ago the elected officials didn't want to tackle the difficult issues but passed it over to the courts to take the heat. This rings a familar tone with the way the Congress left it to the courts to handle the segregation issues in the United States. (And today they passed the buck to the courts regarding keeping the feeding tube in the lady in Florida.)

        Third, this case took place in 1772, long before the American declaration of independence in 1776. It specifically restricted it's enforcement to England proper, not their colonies -- "Colonial slavery, he wrote, was a different matter." Had those words been different, slavery would have been outlawed in the United States as well. What a difference that might have made in the American Revolutionary War? Might it have eliminated the Civil War where 600,000 Americans were killed?

        Beyond these issues, the book itself is well researched, written in a manner as interesting as a novel.

        4 out of 5 stars A Handy Treatment of the Epic Somerset Case.......2005-02-09

        This volume is a compact, but complete, treatment of the famous 1772 Somerset decision by Lord Mansfield that confirmed that slavery was not legal within Great Britain (but left slavery intact in British colonies and possessions). The key actor upon which the entire narrative focuses is abolitionist Granville Sharp, who initiated several cases challenging the legality of slavery in Britain until he was finally successful in Somerset. His crusade demonstrates the merits of not being easily discouraged by initial setbacks. Given the fact that he subsisted on and financed litigation through a clerk's salary, one can only stand in amazement at his determination to terminate the practice. The author does a good job in discussing the background and character of Lord Mansfield, certainly one of the most influential actors in the development of English law. The reconstruction of the trial itself is well done. While the research is predominantly based upon secondary sources, as is appropriate in a "popular" history, the narrative is quite easy for the non-lawyer as well as the legal professional to read and profit from--no mean accomplishment in legal history volumes. The endnotes identify valuable sources for further reading on this topic. I found chapter 16, "The Mansfield Judgment," particularly interesting in that apparently there is no 100% official text of Mansfield's decision. The author also does a good job in discussing post-decision developments that reflected the impact of the holding, including some in America. A good solid treatment of an incredibily important legal development.
        Transnational Citizenship: Membership and Rights in International Migration
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          Rainer Baubock
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          Wives without Husbands: Marriage, Desertion, and Welfare in New York, 1900-1935 (Gender and American Culture)
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            Anna R. Igra
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            Release Date: 2006-11-01

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            Shedding new light on contemporary campaigns to encourage marriage among welfare recipients and to prosecute "deadbeat dads," Wives without Husbands traces the efforts of Progressive reformers to make "runaway husbands" support their families. Anna R. Igra investigates the interrelated histories of marriage and welfare policy in the early 1900s, revealing how reformers sought to make marriage the solution to women's and children's poverty.

            Igra taps a rich trove of case files from the National Desertion Bureau, a Jewish husband-location agency, and follows hundreds of deserted women through the welfare and legal systems of early twentieth-century New York City. She integrates a broad range of topics, including Americanization as a gendered process, breadwinning as a measure of manhood, the relationship between consumer culture and social policy formation, the class dimensions of family law, and the Jewish community as a source of welfare policy innovation. Igra analyzes the history of antidesertion reform from its emergence in social policy debates, through the establishment of domestic relations courts, to Depression relief programs. She shows that early twentieth-century reformers, by attempting to make instrumental use of poor people's intimate relations, anticipated welfare policies in our own time that promote marriage as an answer to poverty.
            Bloodlines: Recovering Hitler's Nuremberg Laws, from Patton's Trophy to Public Memorial
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              Anthony M. Platt
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              At the end of World War II, an American military intelligence team retrieved an original copy of the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, signed by Hitler, and turned over this rare document to General George S. Patton. In 1999, after fifty-five years in the vault of the Huntington Library in southern California, the Nuremberg Laws resurfaced and were put on public display for the first time at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

              In this far-ranging, interdisciplinary study that is part historical analysis, part cultural critique, part detective story, and part memoir, Tony Platt explores a range of interrelated issues: war-time looting, remembrance of the holocaust, German and American eugenics, and the public responsibilities of museums and cultural centers.

              This book is based on original research by the author and co-researcher, historian Cecilia O'Leary, in government, military, and library archives; interviews and oral histories; and participant observation. It is both a detailed, scholarly analysis and a record of the author's activist efforts to correct the historical record.
              From Migrants to Citizens:   Membership in a Changing World
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                Alexander T. Aleinikoff , and Editors
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                Citizenship policies are changing rapidly in the face of global migration trends and the inevitable ethnic and racial diversity that follows. The debates are fierce. What should the requirements of citizenship be? How can multi-ethnic states forge a collective identity around a common set of values, beliefs and practices? What are appropriate criteria for admission and rights and duties of citizens? This book includes nine case studies that investigate immigration and citizenship in Australia, the Baltic States, Canada, the European Union, Israel, Mexico, Russia, South Africa and the United States. This complete collection of essays scrutinizes the concrete rules and policies by which states administer citizenship, and highlights similarities and differences in their policies. From Migrants to Citizens3/4the only comprehensive guide to citizenship policies in these liberal-democratic and emerging states3/4will be an invaluable reference for scholars in law, political science, and citizenship theory. Policymakers and government officials involved in managing citizenship policy in the United States and abroad will find this an excellent, accessible overview of the critical dilemmas that multi-ethnic societies face as a result of migration and global interdependencies at the end of the twentieth century. Contributors include Lowell Barrington, Manuel Becerra Ramirez, Miriam Feldblum, J. Donald Galloway, George Ginsburgs, Chikako Kashiwazaki, Jonathan E. Klaaren, Marco Martiniello, Ayelet Shachar, Stephen Castles, and Gianni Zappal.

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