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The Politics of Voter Suppression Defending and Expanding Americans’ Right to Vote


Free Download Janice Nittoli, "The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans’ Right to Vote"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0801450853 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.5 mb
The Politics of Voter Suppression arrives in time to assess actual practices at the polls this fall and to reengage with debates about voter suppression tactics such as requiring specific forms of identification. Tova Andrea Wang examines the history of how U.S. election reforms have been manipulated for partisan advantage and establishes a new framework for analyzing current laws and policies. The tactics that have been employed to suppress voting in recent elections are not novel, she finds, but rather build upon the strategies used by a variety of actors going back nearly a century and a half. This continuity, along with the shift to a Republican domination of voter suppression efforts for the past fifty years, should inform what we think about reform policy today.

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Hul! Hul! The Suppression of the Santal Rebellion in Bengal, 1855


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English | April 1, 2022 | ISBN: 1787385426 | 328 pages | PDF | 13 Mb
If not for the famous Indian mutiny-rebellion of 1857, the Santal "Hul" (rebellion) of 1855 would today be remembered as the most serious uprising that the East India Company ever faced. Instead, this rebellion-to which 10 per cent of the Bengal Army’s infantry was committed and in which at least 10,000 Santals died-has been forgotten. While its memory lived among Santals, British officers published little about it, and most of the sepoys involved died in 1857. In the words of one British officer, the Hul was "not war … but execution", and perhaps thus was dismissed as unworthy of attention by military historians.

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The Suppression Of Dissent How the State and Mass Media Squelch USAmerican Social Movements


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English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415652774, 0415978106 | EPUB | pages: 388 | 0.6 mb
Using mechanism-based social-movement theory, this book explores a wide range of twentieth century episodes of contention, involving such groups as mid-century communists, the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, and the modern-day globalization movement.

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Decoherence Suppression in Quantum Systems 2008


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2009 | 189 Pages | ISBN: 9814295833 | PDF | 4 MB
This volume provides an overview on the decoherence suppression methods in quantum computing, open quantum systems, quantum error correction and fault-tolerant quantum computing. It also includes concepts in geometric quantum computing by composite pulses. Quantum wipe effect is explained as an approach for suppressing decoherence of the system. A short contribution on the implementation of holonomic quantum gates with NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) is presented. The lecture notes contributed to this volume are prepared in a self-contained manner hence readers with limited knowledge on the topics could understand the discussions by following the sequence of chapters which begin with mathematical frameworks and progress to the most updated outcomes of the fields. The volume will be useful for a broad audience from graduate students to researchers interested in the field.

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