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In this unapologetic and sharp-witted perspective about the evolving Black experience in Canada and around the world, a rhythmic fusion of spoken word, satire, and soulful dialect emerges steady as a heartbeat through a journey of raw truths and deep-rooted questions.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: We're Looking at the World Upside Down -- Chapter 2: The Hidden African Civilizations -- Chapter 3: The Richest Man in History -- Chapter 4: A Chosen Land and a Chosen People -- Chapter 5: They Came before Columbus -- Chapter 6: The Queen Called King -- Chapter 7: The Birth of a Nation -- Chapter 8: L'Ouverture and the Taking of Saint-Domingue -- Chapter 9: The Great Escape of Ona Judge -- Chapter 10: Haiti and El Libertador's Great Betrayal -- Chapter 11: The First Black President -- Chapter 12: Frederick Douglass: Wrestling with the Master -- Chapter 13: The African Alliance That Almost Was -- Chapter 14: Maroon Communities in the United States -- Chapter 15: Maroon Communities in the African Diaspora -- Chapter 16: No New Babies -- Chapter 17: Revolts of the Enslaved in the United States -- Chapter 18: Revolts of the Enslaved throughout the Diaspora -- Chapter 19: White Wars and Black Lives -- Chapter 20: The Seminole Wars and the Legend of John Horse -- Chapter 21: Great Escapes during the Antebellum -- Chapter 22: Passing: Another Kind of Resistance -- Chapter 23: The Disasters of Chiriquí and Île à Vache -- Chapter 24: The Battle of Pine Swamp at Timbuctoo -- Chapter 25: Harriet Tubman: The Greatest American Who Ever Was -- Chapter 26: The Real Independence Day -- Chapter 27: Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due -- Chapter 28: The Origin and Purpose of Black History Month -- Chapter 29: Black Freedom, White Anger, and a Red Summer -- Chapter 30: What Will the Neighbors Think? -- Chapter 31: A Negro with a Gun -- Chapter 32: Negroes with Guns -- Chapter 33: The King's Speech -- Chapter 34: From Civil Rights to Human Rights -- Chapter 35: Black Panthers Around the World -- Chapter 36: How the Kids Got Free Breakfast -- Chapter 37: Rosa the Revolutionary.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Frontispiece -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Subject and Setting -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1 The Background of the Study -- Chapter 2 Housing Problems and High Flats in Glasgow -- Chapter 3 Method of the Study -- Chapter 4 General Information About the Housing Studied -- Chapter 5 Physical Character of the Flats: Tenants' Views -- Chapter 6 Physical Character of the Estates: Tenants' Views -- Chapter 7 The Services and Facilities at Three Estates -- Chapter 8 The Older Tenants -- Chapter 9 Families with Children -- Chapter 10 Other Types of Household -- Chapter 11 High Flats and Social Contacts -- Chapter 12 The Case for Investment in Staff -- Chapter 13 Conclusions -- Appendices: -- A: Basic Information on Examples of Multi-Storey Housing Visited in Areas Other Than Glasgow. 1968 -- B: Number of and Reasons for Tenants' Movement Out of 5 Estates -- C: Graffiti -- D: Facilities Within 1/2 Mile Radius of Estate -- E: A Note on Lift Waiting Times and Failures -- F: Tenants' Associations and Kindred Bodies -- 1 An Analysis of 13 Tenants' Associations -- 2 Cranhill Tenants' Association. Statement of Income and Expenditure -- 3 Scotstoun House Social Club. Application Form -- G: Extra-Mural Course, New Homes and New Neighbours -- H: Tables -- J: The Jeely Piece Song (Courtesy of Scotia Kinnaird).

Europe against Revolution seeks to uncover the roots of historically-informed ideas of Europe and of European history, while underlining the fundamental differences between the writings of the older counter-revolutionary Europeanists and their self-appointed successors and detractors in the twenty-first century.

Meeting the Challenge of the Commons: An Emerging Field of Common Core Research -- Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons in Belgium -- Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons in Canada -- Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons in Croatia -- Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons in Germany -- Meeting the Challenge of the Commons in Italy -- Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons in The Netherlands -- La Propriété Face aux Défis des biens Communs au Québec -- Property Meeting the Challenges of the Commons in Russia -- Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons in Slovakia -- Property Meeting the Challenges of the Commons in South Africa -- Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons in Spain -- Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons in Sweden -- Property Meeting the Challenge of the Commons in the United States.

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Traditional elements in the Chinese Legal System -- Chapter 3. International Law as a pioneer in the Chinese domestic juridical system. Chapter 4. The Evolution of the Chinese Legal System: Building a "Rule of Law" with Chinese Characteristics. Chapter 5. Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind: legal internal elements and international vocations -- Chapter 6 -- Building a Community of Shared Future for Mankind in International Law through the Chinese International Relations Theories -- Chapter 7. A new Symbiotic global order -- Some final remarks: Symbols and Signs. .

Front Matter -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction: uneven development - addressing causes versus treating symptoms -- PART I Nature-made versus policy-made sources of uneven development -- 1. Uneven economic development: identifying the blind spots of mainstream economics -- 2. Geography, uneven development and population density: attempting a non-ethnocentric approach to development -- 3. Redirecting growth: inclusive, sustainable and innovation-led -- PART II Assumptions, abstractions and approaches to uneven development -- 4. Altered states: Cartesian and Ricardian dreams -- 5. Gender and uneven development -- 6. Dependency theory: strengths, weaknesses, and its relevance today -- 7. The need to centre imperialism in studies of uneven development -- 8. Imperialism: a note on the unequal treaties of modern China and Japan -- PART III Understanding mechanisms that create and prevent inequality -- 9. Physiocracy, guillotines and antisemitism? Did economics emulate the wrong Enlightenment? -- 10. Technological retrogression and persistent poverty -- PART IV When nations and systems decline and collapse -- 11. When nations collapse: a note on Jacob Bielfeld's 'On the Decline of States' (1760) -- 12. Free trade with the former COMECON countries as unequal exchange -- 13. Escaping the poverty trap in China: the co-evolution of diversity in property and economic development -- 14. Recent experiences of successful economic policies: the case of Uzbekistan -- PART V Finance versus the real economy -- 15. Uneven development, financialised capitalism and subordination -- 16. Unequal growth and the single currency: the fiscal policy paradox -- PART VI Ecology -- 17. Identifying ecologically unequal exchange in the world-system: implications for development -- Conclusion: what are the important lessons from history? -- Index.