Focused on major events and social movements of the twentieth century, we highlight work that psychologists have done that allow us, as a field, to take seriously the relationships between social-level events and individuals' identities and self-representations, emotional lives and well-being, ...
He became concerned for social justice, advocating improved housing for industrial workers, a national education system, and retirement benefits for the elderly. John Ruskin An English engraver, worked in a tradition of Old Style roman typographic design that had begun over two hundred years earlier...
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During the first half of the 19th century, movements to extend voting rights to non-property-owning white male labourers resulted in the elimination of most property qualifications for voting, but this expansion of suffrage was accompanied by brutal suppression of American Indians and increasing restr...
This era resonated with a spirit of liberation and progress, paralleling the global movements of that time, such as the establishment of international organizations like the United Nations (1945) and the Organization of African Unity (1963). Within this context, Modernist architecture emerged as a ...
This nation’s relatively weak party institutions and labor organizations and the prevalence of civil rights and social justice movements, often in confrontation with various countermovements and authorities, have also contributed to the prevalence of politically infused violence. ...
The main stems derive from two distinct nineteenth-century social movements, one promoting the conservation of natural resources and the other public health. This article reviews the social, legal, intellectual, and ideological development of the US environmental movement from its earliest influences in...
The purpose of this book series is to publish high quality volumes on the history of law and justice. Legal history can be a deeply provocative and ...
Populism was part of a great wave of working-class political movements then rising up in the industrialized countries. The British Labour Party was founded at about the same time, and Populists on occasion looked to it for inspiration. The Australian Labor Party, for its part, actually consider...
For those in the hippie or peace movements, 1967 represented the “Summer of Love”. Simultaneously, black Americans living in the centrums of the great cities of the United States had much different experiences alleging: chronic unemployment, unlawful detainments by their local police, and poor ...