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Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900
Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Volume 13
(CMR 13) covering Western Europe in the period 1700-1800 is a
further volume in a general history of relations between the two
faiths from the 7th century to the early 20th century. It comprises
a series of introductory essays and also the main body of detailed
entries which treat all the works, surviving or lost, that have
been recorded. These entries provide biographical details of the
authors, descriptions and appraisals of the works themselves, and
complete accounts of manuscripts, editions, translations and
studies. The result of collaboration between numerous leading
scholars, CMR 13, along with the other volumes in this series, is
intended as a basic tool for research in Christian-Muslim
relations. Section editors: Clinton Bennett, Luis F. Bernabe Pons,
Jaco Beyers, Emanuele Colombo, Karoline Cook, Lejla Demiri, Martha
Frederiks, David D. Grafton, Stanislaw Grodz, Alan Guenther,
Vincenzo Lavenia, Emma Gaze Loghin, Gordon Nickel, Claire Norton,
Radu Paun, Reza Pourjavady, Douglas Pratt, Charles Ramsey, Peter
Riddell, Umar Ryad, Mehdi Sajid, Cornelia Soldat, Karel Steenbrink,
Ann Thomson, Carsten Walbiner.
The "superb" (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood
against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil
rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall
Harlan. They say that history is written by the victors. But not in
the case of the most famous dissenter on the Supreme Court. Almost
a century after his death, John Marshall Harlan's words helped end
segregation and gave us our civil rights and our modern economic
freedom. But his legacy would not have been possible without the
courage of Robert Harlan, a slave who John's father raised like a
son in the same household. After the Civil War, Robert emerges as a
political leader. With Black people holding power in the Republican
Party, it is Robert who helps John land his appointment to the
Supreme Court. At first, John is awed by his fellow justices, but
the country is changing. Northern whites are prepared to take away
black rights to appease the South. Giant trusts are monopolizing
entire industries. Against this onslaught, the Supreme Court seemed
all too willing to strip away civil rights and invalidate labor
protections. So as case after case comes before the court,
challenging his core values, John makes a fateful decision: He
breaks with his colleagues in fundamental ways, becoming the
nation's prime defender of the rights of Black people, immigrant
laborers, and people in distant lands occupied by the US. Harlan's
dissents, particularly in Plessy v. Ferguson, were widely read and
a source of hope for decades. Thurgood Marshall called Harlan's
Plessy dissent his "Bible"--and his legal roadmap to overturning
segregation. In the end, Harlan's words built the foundations for
the legal revolutions of the New Deal and Civil Rights eras.
Spanning from the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement and
beyond, The Great Dissenter is a "magnificent" (Douglas Brinkley)
and "thoroughly researched" (The New York Times) rendering of the
American legal system's most significant failures and most
inspiring successes.
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