A Master Plan for the Renovation and Redevelopment of Belle Alliance Plantation, Assumption Parish, La
Title | A Master Plan for the Renovation and Redevelopment of Belle Alliance Plantation, Assumption Parish, La PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Fabricius |
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Pages | |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Belle Alliance Plantation (Assumption Parish, La.) |
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Comprehensive Plan, Assumption Parish, Louisiana
Title | Comprehensive Plan, Assumption Parish, Louisiana PDF eBook |
Author | South Central Planning and Development Commission (La.) |
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Release | 1979 |
Genre | Assumption Parish (La.) |
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Golden Gulag
Title | Golden Gulag PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Wilson Gilmore |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2007-01-08 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0520938038 |
Since 1980, the number of people in U.S. prisons has increased more than 450%. Despite a crime rate that has been falling steadily for decades, California has led the way in this explosion, with what a state analyst called "the biggest prison building project in the history of the world." Golden Gulag provides the first detailed explanation for that buildup by looking at how political and economic forces, ranging from global to local, conjoined to produce the prison boom. In an informed and impassioned account, Ruth Wilson Gilmore examines this issue through statewide, rural, and urban perspectives to explain how the expansion developed from surpluses of finance capital, labor, land, and state capacity. Detailing crises that hit California’s economy with particular ferocity, she argues that defeats of radical struggles, weakening of labor, and shifting patterns of capital investment have been key conditions for prison growth. The results—a vast and expensive prison system, a huge number of incarcerated young people of color, and the increase in punitive justice such as the "three strikes" law—pose profound and troubling questions for the future of California, the United States, and the world. Golden Gulag provides a rich context for this complex dilemma, and at the same time challenges many cherished assumptions about who benefits and who suffers from the state’s commitment to prison expansion.
Fixing Haiti
Title | Fixing Haiti PDF eBook |
Author | Jorge Heine |
Publisher | United Nations University Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9280811975 |
Haiti may well be the only country in the Americas with a last name. References to the land of the "black Jacobins" are almost always followed by the phrase "the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere". To that dubious distinction, on 12 January 2010 Haiti added another, when it was hit by the most devastating natural disaster in the Americas, a 7.0 Richter scale earthquake. More than 220,000 people lost their lives and much of its vibrant capital, Port-au-Prince, was reduced to rubble. Since 2004, the United Nations has been in Haiti through MINUSTAH, in an ambitious attempt to help Haiti raise itself by its bootstraps. This effort has now acquired additional urgency. Is Haiti a failed state? Does it deserve a Marshall-plan-like program? What will it take to address the Haitian predicament? In this book, some of the world's leading experts on Haiti examine the challenges faced by the first black republic, the tasks undertaken by the UN, and the new role of hemispheric players like Argentina, Brazil and Chile, as well as that of Canada, France and the United States.
On Revolution
Title | On Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Hannah Arendt |
Publisher | Penguin Group |
Pages | 40 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Revolutions |
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Bethlehem Revisited
Title | Bethlehem Revisited PDF eBook |
Author | Floyd I. Brewer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 501 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Bethlehem (N.Y.) |
ISBN | 9780963540201 |
Learning to be
Title | Learning to be PDF eBook |
Author | Edgar Faure |
Publisher | UNESCO |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1972-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9231042467 |