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Explains why so many efforts by liberals to help the black underclass not only fail but often harm the intended beneficiaries. The intentions behind welfare programs may be noble, but in practice they have slowed the self-development that was...
"Finnish scholar Hamalainen presents a corrective to a dominant narrative of American history, revising the notion of European invaders easily conquering American Indian tribes and introducing Native American agency where Indigenous tribes were pre..."
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"A massive and ambitious book that offers an important counter-narrative to what most of us learned/assume about Native Americans in the first few hundred years of European colonization of the continent. The author, who teaches at Oxford and has wr..."
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"A beautiful, uplifting, positive book that encourages children to love and appreciate the body they were born in."
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Studies Sir Alan Burns' career and his arguments in defense of European colonialism. Bruce Gilley describes Burns' intellectual and policy battles with opponents of colonialism and his efforts to slow the decolonization process.