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“timothy fitzgerald”

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  • A Diamond in the Rough : Social Activism and an American Dream -- the 70s and 80s in San Jose

    by Timothy K. Fitzgerald ...
    A Diamond in the Rough is a continuation of Timothy K. Fitzgeralds trilogy begun with Wawona Brotherhood, outlining student activism during the Vietnam War and his campus fight for racial equality.----In his second historical volume outlining the subsequent redevelopment of downtown San Jose, the real-life characters of volume one enter mainstream society in the 70s and 80s to fight urban renewal. ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Religion and the Secular

    Historical and Colonial Formations

    by Timothy Fitzgerald ...
    Religion has dominated colonialism since the 16th century. 'Religion and the Secular' critically examines how religion has been used to subject indigenous concepts to the needs of colonial powers. Essays present the colonial relationship from the perspective of colonized cultures - including Mexico, Guatemala, Vietnam, India, Japan, South Africa and Canada - and colonizing powers, namely England, ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Discourse on Civility and Barbarity

    by Timothy Fitzgerald ...
    In recent years scholars have begun to question the usefulness of the category of ''religion'' to describe a distinctive form of human experience and behavior. In his last book, The Ideology of Religious Studies (OUP 2000), Timothy Fitzgerald argued that ''religion'' was not a private area of human existence that could be separated from the public realm and that the study of religion as such was ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Local Matters

    Race, Crime, and Justice in the Nineteenth-Century South

    by Ariela J. Gross, Judith Schafer, Laura F. Edwards, Lou Falkner Williams, Michael W. Fitzgerald, Sally E. Hadden, Timothy S. Huebner ...
    Series series
    Much of the current reassessment of race, culture, and criminal justice in the nineteenth-century South has been based on intensive community studies. Drawing on previously untapped sources, the nine original papers collected here represent some of the best new work on how racial justice can be shaped by the particulars of time and place.Although each essay is anchored in the local, several ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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