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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A reference guide to a wide range of topics that provides information on various issues related to art, astronomy, business, sports, history, medicine, philosophy, photography, biology, film, economics, geography, the Internet, and more.
Publisher
Thomson/Gale
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Main features of this set include: over 5,000 entries devoted to terms, concepts, events, movements, cases and persons significant to U.S. law; definitions of legal terms; cross-references; "in focus" pieces that accompany related entries providing additional facts, details, arguments, or controversial issues; sidebars providing highlights of some facet of entries; biographies of people who have played a part in creating or shaping U.S. law; milestone...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In nearly 700 entries, this set documents the full range of the African American experience during the period from the arrival of the first slave ship to the death of Frederick Douglass, and shows how all aspects of American culture, history, and national identity have been profoundly influenced by the experience of African Americans.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --publisher...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With an unprecedented scope and cutting-edge scholarship, this encyclopedia draws together the diverse historical and contemporary experiences in the United States of Latinos and Latinas from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic Central America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The Supreme Court has continued to write constitutional history over the thirteen years since publication of the highly acclaimed first edition of The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court. Two justices have joined the high court, more than 800 cases have been decided, and a good deal of new scholarship has appeared on many of the topics treated in the Companion. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist presided over the impeachment trial of President Bill...
Author
Publisher
Facts on File
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
"Throughout America's history women have contributed to more than their own goals of freedom and equality, and have vitally galvanized reform movements for religious tolerance, abolition, civil rights, wildlife conservation, environmental protection, and nuclear disarmament. More than 500 entries examine virtually every aspect of the experiences, struggles, and achievements of women in the United States: important and pioneering figures, key events...
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Encyclopedia of the Ancient Maya offers an A-Z overview of the ancient Maya culture from its inception around 3000 BC to the Spanish Conquest after AD 1600 and contains over two hundred entries written by more than sixty researchers exploring subjects ranging from food, clothing and shelter to the now-deciphered Maya writing system.
Series
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From D.W. Griffith's Birth of a Nation in 1915 to the recent Get Out, audiences and critics alike have responded to racism in motion pictures for more than a century. Whether subtle or blatant, racially biased images and narratives erase minorities, perpetuate stereotypes, and keep alive practices of discrimination and marginalization. Even in the 21st century, the American film industry is not "color blind," evidenced by films such as Babel (2006),...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Providing the most important information about theatre and performance from ancient Greece to the present day, this two volume encyclopedia has a thematic contents, a timeline, a general bibliography and an index of plays to complement the A-Z entries.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
This text includes substantial entries from all disciplines on the topic of ancient Egypt. Among the multitude of subjects covered are religion and mythology, medicine, art, archaeology sociology, trade and commerce, dialects, and agriculture.