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ABC-CLIO

Contemporary World Issues

This award-winning series offers comprehensive, one-volume reference handbooks on important topics related to health, education, the environment, and social and ethical issues.

Twenty-four hour cable news. Millions of internet sites. Information overload. How can we sort through the information? Assess the analyses? Trust the sources?

A world of questions demands a library of answers. Contemporary World Issues covers the controversial topics that students, readers, and citizens want to read about, write about, and know more about.

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Voices of the Afghanistan War

Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

BRIAN L. STEED AND SHERI STEED, EDITORS

Greenwood

April 2023, 315pp, 8 1/2x11 Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7443-7 $109.00, £81.00, €94,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7444-4

The War in Afghanistan was the longest military conflict in American history. In a diverse collection of primary documents, this book explores the evolving legacy of the war and its impact on the countless lives it changed forever.

FEATURES

• Tells the story of the War in

Afghanistan from American and

Afghan perspectives • Includes political, diplomatic, religious, social, cultural, and personal accounts of the war and its lasting legacies • Reveals insights into the war that many may know little or nothing about

BRIAN L. STEED is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel with more than 30 years of civilian and uniformed experience. SHERI STEED is an editor, blogger, and professional organizer with step-bystep-declutter.com.

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Voices of World War I

Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

PRISCILLA ROBERTS

Greenwood

June 2023, 252pp, 8 1/2x11 Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7356-0 $109.00, £81.00, €94,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7357-7

Bringing together a diverse collection of primary source documents, this book illuminates the events and experiences of World War I from a variety of perspectives, from soldiers on the front lines to civilians supporting the war effort at home.

FEATURES

• Offers documents from a variety of perspectives, including the British,

Germans, Russians, and Americans; civilians and combatants; and wellknown leaders and everyday soldiers • Explores issues of race and gender through the experiences of African

Americans and women during

World War I • Features sidebars that define glossary terms and highlight interesting supplemental information, enhancing students' experience as they read • Provides necessary contextual information and guiding questions for each document

PRISCILLA ROBERTS, PhD, is associate professor of business at the City University of Macau.

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African American Activism and Political Engagement

An Encyclopedia of Empowerment

ANGELA JONES, EDITOR

The 57 Black men and women who served in the House of Representatives in 2021 accounted for 13% of the House's total membership—about the same as the percentage of the nation's overall population that was Black. But that same year, only 3 of the Senate's 100 senators were Black, and not a single governor was Black.

This authoritative encyclopedia provides a wide-ranging survey of the history, development, and current state of African American political activism and influence in American life and culture. This book begins with a suite of seven long-form essays on various aspects of Black political involvement and empowerment, including the importance of Black women in early labor organizing; campaigns defending Black voting rights against suppression and disenfranchisement; the Black Lives Matter movement; and the contributions and legacy of the nation's first Black president, Barak Obama.

The encyclopedia itself contains approximately 200 authoritative entries on a wide assortment of topics related to African American political activism and empowerment, including biographical profiles of key leaders and activists, political issues and topics of particular interest to African American voters and lawmakers, important laws and court cases, influential organizations, and pivotal events in American culture that have influenced the trajectory of Black participation in the nation's political life.

FEATURES

• A suite of long-form essays provide insights into areas of triumph and struggle for Black Americans seeking equitable treatment and representation in U.S. politics • Approximately 200 encyclopedia entries cover African American political power and representation, with a special focus on contributions of women and LGBTQ figures who have been historically underappreciated • Includes extensive discussion of current threats to Black voting rights • Includes two informative glossaries, one dedicated to relevant organizations and the other focusing on notable documentaries on Black political icons and movements

ABC-CLIO

May 2023, 448pp, 7x10 Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7631-8 $97.00, £72.00, €84,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7632-5

SAMPLE TOPICS

• Abolition • Black Churches • Black Press • Civil Disobedience • Civil Rights and the

Constitution

• Grass Roots

Organizing • Historically Black

Colleges and

Universities • Intersectionality • Jim Crow • Political Parties

• Reparations • Voting Rights and

Voter Suppression

ANGELA JONES is professor of sociology at Farmingdale State College, State University of New York. Jones's research interests include African American political thought and protest, race, gender, sexuality, sex work, feminist theory, and queer theory.

Greenwood

May 2023, 310pp, 8 1/2x11 Hardcover: 978-1-4408-7577-9 $111.00, £83.00, €96,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-7578-6

DAVID L. HUDSON JR. is an award-winning professor at Belmont University College of Law, where he teaches constitutional law and First Amendment law.

ABC-CLIO

June 2023, 335pp, 7x10 Hardcover: 978-1-4408-6834-4 $97.00, £72.00, €84,00 eBook: 978-1-4408-6835-1

KARA E. STOOKSBURY, PhD, is professor of political science and chair of the Department of History, Political Science, and Sociology at Carson-Newman University in Jefferson City, TN.

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Capital Punishment

A Documentary and Reference Guide

DAVID L. HUDSON JR.

This book showcases and explains key primary documents that reflect and have influenced the history of capital punishment in the United States. By presenting and examining a wide range of fascinating and momentous documents, including court decisions and transcripts, legislation, personal accounts and perspectives, congressional testimony, and government documents issued from all political perspectives, students will gain valuable insight into the evolution of public opinion and government policy on the death penalty in America. To better understand these documents, each primary source is prefaced with an introduction and followed by scholarly analysis. These documents and accompanying analysis complement one another, helping students gain a better and more accurate understanding of the viewpoints, convictions, and perspectives that have shaped American attitudes and practices toward capital punishment since the United States' earliest days.

FEATURES

• Provides a detailed overview of the history of—and controversies about—capital punishment in the United States • Offers a unique mix of government documentation, court cases, and political/social advocacy perspectives • Expert commentary supplies context for primary documents on capital punishment • Readers Guide to Related Documents organizes all featured primary sources by theme for researchers

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Today's Civil Rights and Liberties Issues

Democrats and Republicans

KARA E. STOOKSBURY

Both the Democratic and Republican parties claim that they have the best interests of the nation and its people at heart, and they are equally adamant that they have the best policy solutions to address the nation's problems and challenges. Each volume in the Across the Aisle reference series examines the stated policy positions and actual voting/legislative records of the two parties (they are not always the same) on important areas of public policy, both historically and in the present day.

This volume of Across the Aisle, on the parties' records and rhetoric concerning the protection of American civil rights and liberties, sorts through the rhetorical clutter and partisan distortions that typify so many disputes between Republicans and Democrats and provides an accurate, balanced, and evenhanded overview of the parties' attitudes and records on vital civil rights and liberties questions pertaining to voting rights, political representation, abortion, guns, free speech, and other high-interest issues.

FEATURES

• Identifies key milestones and policy decisions that shape contemporary debates over each issue • Uses a nonpartisan, unbiased, and impartial lens to help readers understand not only where parties stand on contested civil rights issues, but how these disagreements reflect larger ideological and partisan views • Informs readers about the ethical, historical, and legal context of each issue

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