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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael p johnson”
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  • Black Masters

    by Michael P. Johnson, James L. Roark ...
    "A remarkably fine work of creative scholarship." —C. Vann Woodward, New York Review of BooksIn 1860, when four million African Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were "free people of color." But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and Thomas Jefferson to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson ... Read more

    Was $21.99 CAD Now $15.99 CAD

  • Supporting Shrinkage

    Better Planning and Decision-Making for Legacy Cities

    by Michael P. Johnson, Justin B. Hollander, Eliza W. Kinsey, George R. Chichirau, Charla M. Burnett ...
    Demonstrates how residents can play a leading role in the positive transformation of their communities in the face of economic and population decline.Supporting Shrinkage describes a new approach to citizen-engaged, community-focused planning methods and technologies for cities and regions facing decline, disinvestment, shrinkage, and social and physical distress. The volume evaluates the benefits ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Health and Health Care as Social Problems

    by Elizabeth M. Armstrong, Michael Betz, Robert S. Broadhead, Diana Dull, Stephen L. Fielding, Samuel R. Friedman, Josh Gamson, Herb Haines, Karl Hufbauer, Michael P. Johnson, Maren Klawiter, Frances B. McCrea, Carol Klaperman Morrow, Lenahan O'Connell, Stephen J. Pfhol, Deborah Potter, Ernest Quimby, C Amanda Rittenhouse, Joseph W. Schneider, Steven P. Wallace, Candace West ...
    Series series Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
    This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness are at least partly socially produced, and that health care is not an unfettered good and often ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Decision Science for Housing and Community Development

    Localized and Evidence-Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities

    by Michael P. Johnson, Jeffrey M. Keisler, Senay Solak, David A. Turcotte, Armagan Bayram, Rachel Bogardus Drew ...
    Series series Wiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science
    A multidisciplinary approach to problem-solving in community-based organizations using decision models and operations research applicationsA comprehensive treatment of public-sector operations research and management science, Decision Science for Housing and Community Development: Localized and Evidence-Based Responses to Distressed Housing and Blighted Communities addresses critical problems in ... Read more

    $143.99 CAD

  • No Chariot Let Down

    Charleston's Free People on the Eve of the Civil War

    by Michael P Johnson, James L. Roark ...
    These thirty-four letters, written by members of the William Ellison family, comprise the only sustained correspondence by a free Afro-American family in the late antebellum South. Born a slave, Ellison was freed in 1816, set up a cotton gin business, and by his death in 1861, he owned sixty-three slaves and was the wealthiest free black in South Carolina. Although the early letters are ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Community-Based Operations Research

    Decision Modeling for Local Impact and Diverse Populations

    Edited by Michael P. Johnson ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This edited volume is an introduction to diverse methods and applications in operations research focused on local populations and community-based organizations that have the potential to improve the lives of individuals and communities in tangible ways. The book's themes include: space, place and community; disadvantaged, underrepresented or underserved populations; international and transnational ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

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    The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

    by Eric Foner ...
    The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched ... Read more

    $18.29 CAD

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  • Madness Rules the Hour

    Charleston, 1860 and the Mania for War

    by Paul Starobin ...
    From Lincoln's election to secession from the Union, this compelling history explains how South Carolina was swept into a cultural crisis at the heart of the Civil War."The tea has been thrown overboard -- the revolution of 1860 has been initiated." -- Charleston Mercury, November 8, 1860In 1860, Charleston, South Carolina, embodied the combustible spirit of the South. No city was more fervently ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • My Escape From Slavery & Reconstruction (Mobi Classics)

    by Frederick Douglass ...
    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, Nook, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on all electronic devices including eReaders, Smartphones and other Mobile Devices with a small display. ... Read more

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  • Fugitive Slaves and the Unfinished American Revolution

    Eight Cases, 1848-1856

    by Gordon S. Barker ...
    This book posits that the American Revolution--waged to form a "more perfect union"--still raged long after the guns went silent. Eight major fugitive slave stories of the antebellum era are described and interpreted to demonstrate how fugitive slaves and their abolitionist allies embraced Patrick Henry's motto "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" and the principles enshrined in the Declaration of ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • David Ruggles

    A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City

    by Graham Russell Gao Hodges ...
    Series series The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture
    David Ruggles (1810–1849) was one of the most heroic — and has been one of the most often overlooked — figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass. ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Rehearsal for Reconstruction

    The Port Royal Experiment

    by Willie Lee Rose ...
    Series series Galaxy Books
    This award-winning study presents an engaging account of the attempt at reconstruction that occurred in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the beginning of the Civil War. Serving as a kind of dress rehearsal for Reconstruction, the Port Royal Experiment not only helped to shape federal policy for Reconstruction, but it also influenced the nation by adding to the initial war aim of the Union, ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD