Drawing on a large body of documents, including eyewitness accounts and evidence from the site itself, Keith explores the racial tensions that led to the Colfax massacre - during which surrendering blacks were mercilessly slaughtered - and ...
What are the roots of conflict, wars, revolutions and genocidal violence? This authoritative reference work is aimed at anyone with a serious interest in contemporary academic thinking about the individual in society.
By the end of World War I the Hawaiian Islands had become what a Japanese guidebook called a "Japanese village in the Pacific, " with Japanese immigrant workers making up nearly half the work force on the Hawaiian sugar plantations.
In this book, David Sowell traces the history of artisan labor organizations in Bogota and examines long-term political activity of Colombian artisans in the century after independence.