books about: expropriation

books about: expropriation

books:

Expropriation

Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide, and Expropriation in Contemporary North ...

Ward Churchill

Common Courage Pr, 1992

Compels rethinking the whole of US history [4 1/2 stars]
Too bad that the bottom-line economics of publishing have let this searing account of Indigenous struggles over land and ecology go out of print. Because of its concentration on environmental and land-use issues, this is one of the author's most focused works, though ...

The Agrarian Dispute: The Expropriation of American-Owned Rural Land in Postrevolutionary Mexico (American ...
John Dwyer

Duke University Press, 2008

In the mid-1930s the Mexican government expropriated millions of acres of land from hundreds of U.S. property owners as part of President Lázaro Cárdenas?s land redistribution program. Because no compensation was provided to the Americans a serious crisis, which John J. Dwyer terms ?the agrarian dispute,? ensued between the two countries. Dwyer?s ...

Limits to Medicine: Medical Nemesis, the Expropriation of Health

Ivan Illich

Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd, 2000

Another brilliant, well-written book by Illich!
In this book, much like Deschooling Society, Illich attacks the issue from all sides. He consistenly provides an excellent argument with examples, statistics, and well-done research. Though this book is not quite as fast-paced as Deschooling Society, it is equally ...

Investment Arbitration in Eastern Europe: In Search of a Definition of Expropriation
Kaj Hober

JurisNet, LLC, 2007

Investment Arbitration in Eastern Europe: In Search of a Definition of Expropriation focuses on investment arbitrations in Eastern Europe, and in particular on the concept of expropriation the core of the law of protection of foreign investment. This treatise brings together in one volume awards rendered in a geographic area where investment ...

The Deutsche Bank and the Nazi Economic War Against the Jews: The Expropriation of Jewish-Owned Property
Harold James

Cambridge University Press, 2001

Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest financial institution, played an important role in the expropriation of Jewish-owned enterprises during the Nazi dictatorship, both in the existing territories of Germany, and in the areas seized by the German army during World War II, particularly Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. Drawing on new and previously ...

Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy: Coming to Terms with Forced Labor, Expropriation, Compensation, and ...

Transaction Publishers, 2004

Since the mid-1990s, political, legal, and historical debates about Nazi theft and confiscation of property, the use of slave labor during World War II, and restitution and compensation have reemerged. Revisiting the National Socialist Legacy presents completely new historical research on these issues conducted worldwide. This volume responds to ...