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BoD - Books on Demand Le XVIIIe siècle à Montbard
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Bohlau Verlag Der Februaraufstand 1934: Fakten und Mythen
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Duncker & Humblot Der Bedrohte Leviathan: Staat Und Revolution in
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Schwabe Verlag Basel 1989 Der Unvollendete Aufbruch
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Romania: The Unfinished Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Romanian revolution was motivated by a desire for greater political and intellectual freedom and economic prosperity. It was the bloodiest of the eastern European transitions due to Ceausescu's cult of personality. However, many of the goals of the revolution are still unfulfilled. The lack of civil society, charges of political corruption, the failure to transform the economy, and concerns over the protection of ethnic minority rights are all factors in Romania's failure to become a fully integrated European country. Tracing the country's political history and examining Romania's postcommunist politics, economic transition and foreign policy, this book contemplates the prospects for this country as it enters the twenty first century.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 History of Romania: 1944–1964; Chapter 3 History of Romania: 1965–1989; Chapter 4 Romanian Political Development: 1990–1999; Chapter 5 Romanian Economic Policy: 1990–1999; Chapter 6 Romanian Foreign Policy: 1990–1999;
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Alpha Editions Balochistan: In Quest of Freedom
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Zeitouna Wall Talk: Graffiti of the Egyptian Revolution
Book SynopsisAn epic journey through the street art and graffiti of the January 2011 Egyptian revolutionThe Egyptian Revolution of 2011 gave birth to an unprecedented explosion of popular political and social expression in the form of bold, defiant, and often unforgettable street art and graffiti. This acted as both the revolution's chronicle, its commentary and response to the headlong rush of events, and as a driver of the revolution, a powerful means of influencing and directing what people felt, thought, and did during the heady days and months that followed from the 25 January 2011 uprising. Wall Talk takes us on an epic journey through the street art and graffiti that filled Egypt's streets between the twenty-fifth of January 2011 and the thirtieth of June 2012. Matched with a corresponding timeline of the key events of those eighteen months, it presents an enthralling and invaluable record of a moment in time that changed the course of Egyptian history forever.
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The University of Chicago Press Foucault and the Iranian Revolution Gender and
Book SynopsisFoucault and the Iranian Revolution informs current discussion on the divisions that have reemerged among Western intellectuals over the response to radical Islamism after September 11.Trade Review"I am very impressed by the authors' clarity of thought, meticulousness of research, and important insights. Their book's originality lies in the way it links Foucault's main ideas to the Iranian revolution, thereby illuminating one through the other. The authors remind us of Foucault's immense influence on the dominant views in the current debates on Islamism and Iran." - Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran"
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University of Chicago Press Foucault and the Iranian Revolution
Book SynopsisFoucault and the Iranian Revolution informs current discussion on the divisions that have reemerged among Western intellectuals over the response to radical Islamism after September 11.Trade Review"I am very impressed by the authors' clarity of thought, meticulousness of research, and important insights. Their book's originality lies in the way it links Foucault's main ideas to the Iranian revolution, thereby illuminating one through the other. The authors remind us of Foucault's immense influence on the dominant views in the current debates on Islamism and Iran." - Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran"
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The University of Chicago Press Peasants Against the State The Politics of Market
Book SynopsisStephen Bunker challenges the image of peasants as passive victims and argues that coffee growers in the Bugisu District of Uganda, because they own land and may choose which crops to produce, maintain an unusual degree of economic and political independence. Focusing on peasant struggles for market control over coffee exports in Bugisu from colonial times through the reign and overthrow of Idi Amin, Bunker shows that these freeholding peasants acted collectively and used the state's dependence on coffee export revenues to effectively influence and veto government programs inimical to their interests. Bunker's work vividly portrays the small victories and great trials of ordinary people struggling to control their own economic destiny while resisting the power of the world economy.
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The University of Chicago Press Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist
Book SynopsisPoliticians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new. Drawing on pragmatist theories of social action, Revolutionizing Repertoires sets out to examine what happens when the repertoire of practices available to political actors is dramatically reconfigured. Taking as his case study the development of a distinctively Latin American style of populist mobilization, Robert S. Jansen analyzes the Peruvian presidential election of 1931. He finds that, ultimately, populist mobilization emerged in the country at this time because newly empowered outsiders recognized the limitations of routine political practice and understood how to modify, transpose, invent, and recombine practices in a whole new way. Suggesting striking parallels to the recent populist turn in global politics, Revolutionizing Reper
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The University of Chicago Press Spent Cartridges of Revolution An Anthropological
Book SynopsisWhat happens to a revolutionary town after the revolution? This anthropological history studies the Namiquipan peasants, who supported Pancho Villa in the revolution of 1910-1920, but who now consider themselves mere spent cartridges of a struggle that benefitted other classes.
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The University of Chicago Press Sri LankaEthnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of
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The University of Chicago Press James Joyce and the Irish Revolution The Easter
Book SynopsisTrade Review“An important development in the understanding of the Irish relationship to Joyce’s work – and of his relationship to his native country. . . . For this superb, transformative undertaking the author deserves our gratitude.” * Dublin Review of Books *“The Easter Rising, far from being consigned to nostalgia, is seen as a catalyst for global processes of decolonization . . . [Gibbons’s] tracing of connections and influences—real, virtual, and suggestive—between revolution in the street and in the word results in richly layered and sometimes erudite chapters that repay close reading . . [and] open up many fascinating paths.” * Irish Times *"One of Ireland’s most profound if idiosyncratic cultural critics, Luke Gibbons, seeks to bring these two revolutions into the same framework in his important new work, James Joyce and the Irish Revolution: The Easter Rising as Modern Event. Through a series of engrossing vignettes drawn from a wide array of contemporary sources, he positions Joyce’s 'revolution of the word' under the light emitted by the 1916 Easter Rising and sets out to 'reclaim what was radical in the Irish revolution for a modernist project akin to that of Joyce’s.'" * Jacobin *“The interest key figures in the Rising and the subsequent War of Independence (1919–21) showed in Joyce’s work and its revolutionary potential is . . . compelling. For example, Gibbons shines a light on the Irish revolutionary leader Ernie O’Malley, who devoted considerable attention to Joyce . . . [Gibbons’s] case is unassailable. Political radicalism and radical art call one another to arms.” * Times Literary Supplement *“This is a study deserving of an audience beyond the confines of Irish literary criticism. Underscoring the electrifying analysis is the hard evidence of patient scholarship and profound insight that makes this book one of the most original interventions to appear during the Decade of Centenaries.” * History Ireland *“Gibbons examines how the aesthetic innovations in James Joyce’s Ulysses reflect the political turmoil of Ireland’s 1916 Easter Rising and subsequent War of Independence . . . with some eye-opening insights.” * Publishers Weekly *"This book is a ground-breaking and original addition to the decade of centenaries. Luke Gibbons’ familiarity with the ‘underworld’ figures of the anti-Treatyites and supporters, who understood Ulysses because of their lived experience, extends our understanding of the more commonly reported Free Staters’ refusal of Ulysses, mainly on moral censorship grounds. Replete with a superb index and 56 pages of exemplary footnotes, a study in themselves, it is a generous book. It is a work that manages to yoke modernist literary expression with a broad array of transnational political effects." * Australasian Journal of Irish Studies *“Gibbons may well be Ireland’s most brilliant literary and cultural critic: a distinctive voice and a decisive eye. Here, as always, Gibbons’s commentary ebbs around observed details with a verve worthy of Benjamin, as he makes clear not only that Joyce’s work was revolutionary but also that it was recognized as such by some of the revolutionaries themselves. This is an immensely rich and suggestive work, an instant classic of Irish literary criticism." -- Enda Duffy, University of California, Santa Barbara"This book positively bristles with intelligence and erudition. Gibbons reads Ulysses and the Easter Rising as compelling instances of an alliance between political radicalism and formal/technical innovation. At the same time, he decisively rewrites our understanding of Ulysses’s reception history, demonstrating that many of Joyce’s first interpreters saw his literary experiments as direct engagements with Ireland’s turbulent political history.” -- Marjorie Howes, Boston College“In this pioneering investigation, Gibbons has convincingly reinterpreted the Easter Rising as a global and modernizing event. His Joycean cast of characters—artists, freedom fighters, and a surprising number who were both—highlights the cultural aspects of the 1916 Rising in a new modernist and international vein.” -- Mary E. Daly, University College DublinTable of ContentsList of Figures Preface Abbreviations Introduction: James Joyce and the Irish Revolution 1. “Old Haunts”: Photographic Memory, Motion, and the Republic of Letters 2. Modern Epic and Revolution: Montage in the Margins 3. “A World That Ran Through Things”: Ulysses, the Easter Rising, and Spatial Form 4. The Easter Rising as Modern Event: Media, Technology, and Terror 5. “Paving Over the Abyss”: Ireland, War, and Literary Modernism 6. “Through the Eyes of Another Race”: Ulysses, Roger Casement, and the Politics of Humanitarianism 7. Transatlantic “Usable Pasts”: America, Literary Modernism, and the Irish Revolution 8. On Another Man’s Text: Ernie O’Malley, Politics, and Irish Modernism 9. Beyond Disillusionment: Desmond Ryan, Ulysses, and the Irish Revolution Acknowledgments Notes Index
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McGill-Queen's University Press From the Battlefield to the Stage
Book SynopsisKnown today chiefly for his surrender to the American forces at Saratoga in 1777, General John Burgoyne led a multidimensional life. From the Battlefield to the Stage remembers him as not only a participant in one of Britain’s worst military disasters but also a brave soldier, successful playwright, reforming politician, and popular socialite.Trade Review“From the Battlefield to the Stage has the merit of brevity, clear writing, and rich contextualization based on Poser’s admirable knowledge of the culture and politics of eighteenth-century Britain. This is a fresh account of Burgoyne, and the first major biography of the enigmatic general in decades.” Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy, author of The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire"A welcome contextualization of a multifaceted and previously misunderstood man. In this new work, Poser snatches the general off the battlefield at Saratoga and removes him from the confines of military history. Poser's From the Battlefield to the Stage adds depth and truth to 'Gentleman Johnny,' by filling in the gaps of previous biographies to do justice to a figure who is more than his failures." American History Magazine"From the Battlefield to the Stage looks beyond Burgoyne’s military service, casting him as an enlightened participant in the cultural and political spheres of eighteenth century Britain. Poser argues convincingly that Burgoyne deserves to be remembered for much more than Saratoga ... ." Times Literary Supplement“The greatest strength of this book is how much time Poser devotes to Burgoyne’s life before and after the thunderclap of Saratoga. Clearly an engaging man (he won over the father of the woman he eloped with) the impression created is of a character whose company was very agreeable. For students of the War of Independence, From the Battlefield to the Stage is essential reading, but it will also appeal to anyone with a wider interest in 18th century cultural history.” History of War
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Columbia University Press Ideology and Revolution in Modern Europe An
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Columbia University Press Before the Revolution Vietnamese Peasants Under
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Columbia University Press Public SexGay Space Between MenBetween Women
Book SynopsisThis examination of the events of the Iranian Revolution highlights class politics and the contention for power within the context of changing ideological relations between the state and civil society. The author characterizes the post-revolutionay order as a Third World variant of fascism.
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Columbia University Press Class Politics and Ideology in the Iranian
Book SynopsisThis examination of the events of the Iranian Revolution highlights class politics and the contention for power within the context of changing ideological relations between the state and civil society. The author characterizes the post-revolutionay order as a Third World variant of fascism.
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Columbia University Press Genealogies of Terrorism Revolution State
Book SynopsisVerena Erlenbusch rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in favor of a historico-philosophical investigation into the conditions under which uses of this contested term become meaningful. Genealogies of Terrorism is an empirically grounded and philosophically rigorous critical history with important political implications.Trade ReviewErlenbusch-Anderson’s work is a brilliant contribution to Critical Terrorism Studies, not only deconstructing the labelling processes of this violence, but analysing these in relation to the historical, social, and political contexts that allowed the emergence of these dispositifs, and reflecting on the power relations embedded in these processes and societies in general. * Critical Studies on Terrorism *Makes a valuable contribution to an under-developed literature and she offers some tantalizing points of departure for future explorations of an important and timely subject. Genealogies is an eminently worthwhile read. * ID: International Dialogue *In Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, Empire, Verena ErlenbuschAnderson takes on the ambitious project of providing a broadly Foucauldian genealogical account of the concept and practice of “terrorism.” -- Wendy Lynne Lee * ID: International Dialogue *One can only be impressed by the depth and scope of Erlenbusch-Anderson’s treatment of terrorism. . . . I should think that the impact of her book will reach beyond philosophy and political theory, beyond the academy. It is, to borrow a phrase, must reading for anyone who wants to understand the historical emergence of terrorism and how it continues to shape the contemporary world. -- Michael Clifford * Syndicate *This is an urgently needed intervention. The longstanding shared academic/policy-maker endeavor to define terrorism has failed spectacularly, to the point that cliché now best expresses the term’s meaning. . . . Genealogies of Terrorism is a refreshing refusal of both philosophical and political orthodoxies that have only obscured clarity on the subject of terrorism, whether they be a dogmatic insistence on the definitional enterprise or the outright refusal of history. -- C. Heike Schotten * Perspectives on Politics *Erlenbusch-Anderson provides an eloquent account of terrorism as a dispositif and compiles an impressive amount of historical evidence to locate and excavate various uses of the word 'terrorism' throughout its history. -- Sarah DiMaggio * Syndicate *Inspired by Wittgenstein and Foucault, and contemporary debates about concepts, in this remarkable book Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson undertakes a significant examination of terrorism. Rather than assuming its meaning and looking for that in her sources, she instead allows a multifaceted understanding to emerge from a historical study of texts and practices. A powerful and urgent intervention for our troubled times. -- Stuart Elden, University of WarwickThis book is political philosophy at its best. It offers an instructive model of mobilizing philosophical genealogy for a critique of a highly-charged idea. It complicates the seeming obviousness with which the concept of 'terrorism' is today purveyed. Through meticulous historical and philosophical analysis, this book shows how the concept of terrorism came to be an explosive, dangerous, and contested political idea. -- Colin Koopman, University of OregonVerena Erlenbusch-Anderson’s careful genealogy of 'terrorism'—tracking the term’s multiple and overdetermined meanings since its first appearance as a political concept in the late eighteenth century—powerfully shows us how we all too frequently ask the wrong questions about terrorism. This critical book offers a necessary corrective to how we think about terrorism, and it reshapes the grounds upon which we should have any meaningful debate about terrorism in the present moment. -- Andrew Dilts, Loyola Marymount UniversityAn empirically rich, carefully contextualized and well-documented study of the different forms that terrorism has taken over time. * Political Theory *Offers scholars, students, and policymakers alike a lot to think about. * H-War *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. The Trouble with Terrorism2. The Emergence of Terrorism3. State Terrorism Revisited4. Terrorism and Colonialism5. Reimagining Terrorism at the End of History6. Towards a Critical Theory of Terrorism: Genealogy and NormativityNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Freedom from Liberation
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis discerning study delves into the life and work of Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854), the enslaved Cuban poet and author of Spanish America's only known slave narrative, Autobiografía de un esclavo (written in 1836, first published in Spanish in 1937). . . A valuable contribution to the field of Latin American and Caribbean studies. . . . Recommended. * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Liberalisms at Odds: Slavery and the Struggle for an Autochthonous Literature.2. In Spite of Himself: Unconscious Resistance and Melancholy Attachments in Manzano's Autobiography.3. Being Adequate to the Task: An Abolitionist Translates the Desire to Be Free.4. Freedom Without Equality: Slave Protagonists, Free Blacks, and Their Bodies.EpilogueAppendixBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Egypt beyond Tahrir Square
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMomani and Mohamed's edited book will have value for scholars and students concerned with the study of Egypt, across a range of disciplinary boundaries. * Middle Eastern Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Egypt's Revolutionary Spirit across TimeBelal Fadl and Maissaa Almustafa2. Egyptian Revolutionaries' Unrealistic ExpectationsMohammad Fadel3. Egypt's Revolutionary Moment Turned UprisingSahar Aziz4. The New Intellectual in Egypt's RevolutionsShereen Abouelnaga5. The Muslim Brotherhood: Between Opposition and PowerDalia Fahmy6. Copts' Role in Modern EgyptMai Mogib Mosad7. Egyptian Media Capturing the RevolutionMohamad Hamas Elmasry and Mohammed El-Nawawy8. The Egyptian Military and the Presidency: Continuity and ChangeDina Rashed9. Policing Egypt During Revolutionary TimesHesham Genidy and Justine SalamConclusion: Moving Beyond TahrirIsmail Alexandrani and Isaac FriesenNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Egypt beyond Tahrir Square
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMomani and Mohamed's edited book will have value for scholars and students concerned with the study of Egypt, across a range of disciplinary boundaries. * Middle Eastern Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Egypt's Revolutionary Spirit across TimeBelal Fadl and Maissaa Almustafa2. Egyptian Revolutionaries' Unrealistic ExpectationsMohammad Fadel3. Egypt's Revolutionary Moment Turned UprisingSahar Aziz4. The New Intellectual in Egypt's RevolutionsShereen Abouelnaga5. The Muslim Brotherhood: Between Opposition and PowerDalia Fahmy6. Copts' Role in Modern EgyptMai Mogib Mosad7. Egyptian Media Capturing the RevolutionMohamad Hamas Elmasry and Mohammed El-Nawawy8. The Egyptian Military and the Presidency: Continuity and ChangeDina Rashed9. Policing Egypt During Revolutionary TimesHesham Genidy and Justine SalamConclusion: Moving Beyond TahrirIsmail Alexandrani and Isaac FriesenNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Women and the Decade of Commemorations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What an impressive collection of scholarly insights and reflections on the many overlooked but hugely influential roles played by Irish women in those convulsive times through the Great War, the Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War. The eyes cast over the history of those times have often been blinkered. Facts, truths, perspectives and analyses which could have offered more complete account did not always make it through the embedded filters which both subtly and unsubtly skewed the narratives away from what the stories of women could add and infill. This collection of very fine essays helps redress the imbalance. It offers us important pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of our history that we did not know we had lost but that we have been lost without."—Mary McAleese, Former President of Ireland"Crucially, 'to commemorate' is 'to call to remembrance' and this volume of essays is a clarion call: making newly visible Irish women's historical agency and international impact, and countering a century of oblivion and neglect."—Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College DublinTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Naming Names: Countering Oblivious Remembering in the Decade of Commemorations1. Remembered for Being Forgotten: The Women of 1916, Memory and Commemoration2. Unity of Unionism? Gender, Covenant and Commemoration3. 1916 and After: Remembering 'Ordinary' Women's Experiences of Revolutionary Ireland4. Women of the Rising in Australia: Memory and Commemoration 1916-20165. 'Sick on the Irish Sea, Dancing Across the Atlantic': (Anti)Nostalgia in Women's Diasporic Remembrance of Revolution6. 'No Conscription Now! Or after the harvest': Women and anti-conscription in Ireland and England7. Emerging from the 'historical shadow': Memory and Commemoration of Irish Women's Experiences in the First World War8. Commemorating a missing history: Tracing the visual and material culture of the Irish women's suffrage campaign, 1908 – 19189. Irish Suffrage: Remembrance, Commemoration and Memorialization10. Tea, Sandbags and Cathal Brugha: Kathy Barry's Civil Wars11. Curators of Memory: Women and the Centenary of the Easter Rising12. Exhibiting Éire: Representations of Women in the Easter Rising Centenary Commemorations13. Waking the Feminists: Gender 'Counts'14. 'No Country for Young Women': (Re)producing the Irish State15. Remembering the Home and the Northern Irish Troubles16. Negotiating the past: Women's 'Troubled' and 'Troubling' History in Centennial IrelandBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Women and the Decade of Commemorations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"What an impressive collection of scholarly insights and reflections on the many overlooked but hugely influential roles played by Irish women in those convulsive times through the Great War, the Rising, the War of Independence and the Civil War. The eyes cast over the history of those times have often been blinkered. Facts, truths, perspectives and analyses which could have offered more complete account did not always make it through the embedded filters which both subtly and unsubtly skewed the narratives away from what the stories of women could add and infill. This collection of very fine essays helps redress the imbalance. It offers us important pieces of the jigsaw puzzle of our history that we did not know we had lost but that we have been lost without."—Mary McAleese, Former President of Ireland"Crucially, 'to commemorate' is 'to call to remembrance' and this volume of essays is a clarion call: making newly visible Irish women's historical agency and international impact, and countering a century of oblivion and neglect."—Margaret Kelleher, Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, University College DublinTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Naming Names: Countering Oblivious Remembering in the Decade of Commemorations1. Remembered for Being Forgotten: The Women of 1916, Memory and Commemoration2. Unity of Unionism? Gender, Covenant and Commemoration3. 1916 and After: Remembering 'Ordinary' Women's Experiences of Revolutionary Ireland4. Women of the Rising in Australia: Memory and Commemoration 1916-20165. 'Sick on the Irish Sea, Dancing Across the Atlantic': (Anti)Nostalgia in Women's Diasporic Remembrance of Revolution6. 'No Conscription Now! Or after the harvest': Women and anti-conscription in Ireland and England7. Emerging from the 'historical shadow': Memory and Commemoration of Irish Women's Experiences in the First World War8. Commemorating a missing history: Tracing the visual and material culture of the Irish women's suffrage campaign, 1908 – 19189. Irish Suffrage: Remembrance, Commemoration and Memorialization10. Tea, Sandbags and Cathal Brugha: Kathy Barry's Civil Wars11. Curators of Memory: Women and the Centenary of the Easter Rising12. Exhibiting Éire: Representations of Women in the Easter Rising Centenary Commemorations13. Waking the Feminists: Gender 'Counts'14. 'No Country for Young Women': (Re)producing the Irish State15. Remembering the Home and the Northern Irish Troubles16. Negotiating the past: Women's 'Troubled' and 'Troubling' History in Centennial IrelandBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press Varieties of Russian Activism
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Much has been written about Russian activism, but this volume takes the reader into unexpected realms, to the (almost) hidden and liminal spaces of everyday life. The excellent studies of this book give dedicated tribute to the many forms of Russian engaged citizenship way beyond political apathy. This volume is an eye opener and an enjoyable, even adventurous read for academics and interested parties alike."—Christian Fröhlich, HSE University, Russia"What Russian citizens want from their state—and from one another—has become a question of global significance. By embracing the complexity and contradictions of authoritarian contention, Varieties of Russian Activism does more than any recent book to help us understand how Russian society functions today, and what might happen when Russia once again belongs to its citizens."—Sam Greene, Director, Democratic Resilience at the Center for European Policy Analysis and Professor, Kings College RussiaTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Everyday Activism: Tracking the Evolution of Russian State and Society Relations, by Jeremy Morris, Andrei Semenov, and Regina SmythIntroduction to Part 1: The Building Blocks of Everyday Activism: Identity, Networks, and Social Trust2. Cultural Production as Activism: National Theaters, Philharmonics, and Cultural Organizations in Russia's Regional Capitals, by Katie L. Stewart3. The Promotion of Minority Languages in Russia's Ethnic Republics: Social Media and Grassroots Activities, by Guzel Yusupova4. From Neighbors to Activists: Shared Grievances and Collective Solutions, by Regina Smyth, Madeline McCann, and Katherine HitchcockIntroduction to Part 2: Organizational Roles in Mobilization for Activism: Communication, Cooperation, and Conjunction5. Social Activism in the Russian Orthodox Church, by John P. Burgess6. The River of Urban Resistance: Renovation and New Civic Infrastructures in Moscow, by Anna Zhelnina7. Activists and Experiential Entanglement in Russian Labor Organizing, by Jeremy Morris8. Skateboarding Together: Generational Civic Activism and Non-Transition to Politics in Sosnovyi Bor, by Anna A. Dekalchuk and Ivan S. GrigorievIntroduction to Part 3: Institutional Environment and Opportunity Structures for Urban Activism9. Policy Activism in Urban Governance: The Case of Master Plan Development in Perm, by Eleonora Minaeva10. Urban Planning and Civic Activism, by Carola Neugebauer, Andrei Semenov, Irina Shevtsova, and Daniela Zupan11. Manipulating Public Discontent in Russia: The Role of Trade Unions in the Protests against Pension Reform, by Irina Meyer-Olimpieva12. Active Urbanites in an Authoritarian Regime: Aleksei Navalny's Presidential Campaign, by Jan Matti Dollbaum, Andrei Semenov, and Elena Sirotkina13. Why Grassroots Activism Matters, by Jeremy Morris, Andrei Semenov, and Regina SmythIndex
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Indiana University Press Blissful Blindness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Inasmuch as we live in an age of historical amnesia, this book seeks to critically assess how and in what ways the crimes of the Soviet period were absolved or denied or abetted by Western political analysts, journalists, political actors of the Right and the Left, fellow travelers, members and non-members of the Communist parties."—George O. Liber, author of Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954Table of ContentsIntroduction: Escape from Truth1. Dreaming of Russia2. Ex Oriente Lux3. In the Soviet Theater of Life4. Wonderland5. Stalin Presents6. A Black-and-White Western7. The Curtain Falls, the Show Goes On8. The Passing of an Illusion?CodaBibliographyNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press Blissful Blindness
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Inasmuch as we live in an age of historical amnesia, this book seeks to critically assess how and in what ways the crimes of the Soviet period were absolved or denied or abetted by Western political analysts, journalists, political actors of the Right and the Left, fellow travelers, members and non-members of the Communist parties."—George O. Liber, author of Total Wars and the Making of Modern Ukraine, 1914-1954Table of ContentsIntroduction: Escape from Truth1. Dreaming of Russia2. Ex Oriente Lux3. In the Soviet Theater of Life4. Wonderland5. Stalin Presents6. A Black-and-White Western7. The Curtain Falls, the Show Goes On8. The Passing of an Illusion?CodaBibliographyNotesIndex
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Indiana University Press Surmounting the Barricades Women in the Paris
Book SynopsisCovers revolutionary women leaders in the Paris Commune.Trade ReviewConceived as a contribution to the history of French feminism, Carolyn Eichner's study implicitly links the feminists of the 1848 Revolution with those of the late nineteenth century by demonstrating the Paris Commune's central importance as a catalyst for one important strand of feminist activism.... Eichner argues convincingly that these women have been little recognized by historians of the Commune, in part because of their predominant focus on the overpowering figure of Louise Michel and on the 'incendiaries' who came to personify the insurrection itself.... In her view, they must be recognized first and foremost as feminists, revealing elements of continuity within feminism and a legacy for future struggles over women's suffrage at the century's end.... [Her three principal protagonists] were caught up in internal socialist debatesover goals and strategies, as they attempted to define their own forms of 'feminist socialism' that could generate a 'gendered critique of class analysis.'... In the civil war that was the Commune all three women chose to subordinate gender questions to the overriding issue of class struggle... [The] historiography of feminism and socialism has tended tomarginalize the Communardes on the grounds that these militants demanded social and economic equality over and above individual women's rights.... Eichner makes a strong case that the legacy of these women was to keep this strand of feminism and its agenda alive. —European History Quarterly 38:1 Jan. 2008 * European History Quarterly *For 72 days following the disastrous 1871 Franco-Prussian War, working-class and socialist Parisians challenged the French government. At the end of May 1871, the French Army stormed the city, attacked the insurgents' barricades, and left over 25,000 rebels dead. Most textbooks ignore the role women played in this revolt. Eichner (women's studies, Univ. of South Florida) corrects this oversight. She uses three revolutionaries, Elisabeth Dmitrieff, Andre Leo, and Paule Mink to represent the greater number of nameless female communards who challenged the strict gender and class boundaries that relegated French women to a status equal to that of minor children. Chapters explore the short-lived Commune from a refreshingly new feminist perspective. Each of the three women brought their different strengths to this revolt, representing the differing constituencies of women present on the barricades. Dmitrieff excelled at labor organizing, Leo used her writing skills to challenge the accepted roles allocated by French society to all women, and Mink specialized in grassroots activism. Despite the failure of the Commune, all of Eichner's protagonists continued their public activism, refusing to allow their dreams for an egalitarian society to die. Summing Up: Recommended. Most academic levels/libraries. -- R. V. A. Gomez * Anne Arundel Community College , 2005oct CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Before1. The Actors and the Action2. Politics and Ideas: Setting the Stage Part II: During3. Elisabeth Dmitrieff and the Union des femmes: Revolutionizing Women's Labor4. André Léo and the Subversion of Gender: The Battle Over Women's Place5. Paule Mink and the clubistes: Anti-Clericalism and Popular RevolutionPart III: After6. Dmitrieff and Léo in the Aftermath: Radicalizing History7. Mink in the Aftermath: Radicalizing the FutureConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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Indiana University Press The Melodramatic Thread Spectacle and Political
Book SynopsisIn France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country's political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, the author sheds light on democratization in modern France.Trade Review"Lehning’s application of the themes of melodrama to French political culture offers new insights into French history. His style is livelyclear, and highly readable." —Venita Datta, Wellesley College"In this thoroughly researched and persuasive book, Lehning (history, Univ. of Utah) provides a fascinating reading of public performances in modern France.... This is an important contribution to the study of French culture and the democratization process.... Essential." —Choice"The analyses in this book make a real contribution to debates about the ways in which art, particularly popular art, and politics interact; how politics itself is theatrical in the French case; and the role of ritual in politics and the function of politics as ritual and ceremony." —John Gaffney, Aston University, European History Quarterly, Vol. 40 No.3 2010"Short books on large subjects are often stimulating to read and critique, and Lehning's falls into that category." —Sarah Maza, Northwestern University, JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY, Vol. 81.3 Sept. 2009Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Varieties of Performance in Nineteenth-Century Paris3. Boulevard Spectacles of the Third Republic4. Spectacles of Light and Darkness between the World Wars5. Commercial Spectacles in Postwar Paris6. ConclusionSelected BibliographyIndex
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MH - Indiana University Press The Great War in Russian Memory
Book SynopsisCommemorating the First World War in the Soviet UnionTrade ReviewThis important book radically alters understanding of the Russian and Sovet responses to WWI during the interwar period and up to 1945. . . The book deserves a wide readership. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *[This book] has . . . the merit of being an important contribution in intergrating Soviet WWI memories into the history of European war representation, without underestimating the peculiarities of Russian history and culture. * wwiindex.blogspot.com *Petrone's achievement in this important book is to have set a convincing benchmark for a discussion that will run for many years. * H-Memory *Karen Petrone has devoted years to her project, producing a readable and compendious study that weaves its way through early Soviet culture, literature, and art with commendable determination. What results is a lively review of traces of imperial Russia's last great war, ranging from poetry to novels and posters to the (doomed) Moscow Military History Museum. * American Historical Review *Overall, this book offers a detailed and comprehensive survey of World War I discourse. . . . After reading The Great War in Russian Memory, there is little doubt that THE Russian experience of war merits closer study in a broader, European context. * Canadian Slavonic Papers *Was the memory of the Great War somehow reflected in the Soviet cult of the Second World War? These questions are merely an indication of how engaging and welcome Petrone's book is. This is cultural history at its best. * Journal of Contemporary History *Professor Petrone has provided an important account of Russia's dealing with its forgotten war—which turns out to have been not so forgotten after all. Hopefully, this volume will lead to further studies of how World War I came to resonate in Russian cultural, historical and political memory. * Slavic and East European Journal *Petrone has revealed new and fascinating lines of inquiry into an important topic. Indeed, she has reset the research agenda on Russian World War One memory, and future scholars will hereafter be following in her footsteps.Oct 2013 * Slavonic and East European Review *T]his excellent work of scholarship is a timely reminder of Russia's participation in the Great War, connection to Europeanwide practices of memory and remembrance, and therefore deserves a place in future international commemorations of the Great War. * Europe-Asia Studies *[W]orld War I was not completely forgotten, but when one compares Russia to every other country, this book's main contribution is its detailed confirmation of an incredible story of the near total elimination of public memory of the most traumatic historical event in Russian history in the entire century from 1815 to 1917.January 2013 * The Russian Review *[T]his book serves as a timely and poignant reminder of this dark chapter in human history and reveals the dangers of ignoring history. * Bowling Green Daily News *[An] illuminating and refreshing book. * New Books in Russia and Eurasia *[E]xcellent . . . Petrone's work [is] . . . an invaluable contribution to understanding how those who shaped the Red Army after 1917 saw the Great War and what it meant.25.4 2012 * Journal of Slavic Military Studies *The Great War in Russian Memory is an important addition to both the literature on World War I and Russian/Soviet historiography. It provides fertile ground for further research, which should aim to go beyond accepted paradigms about the European experience and examine how Russian memory became Soviet. * Laboratorium *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The Great War in Russian Memory2. Spirituality, the Supernatural, and the Memory of World War I3. The Paradoxes of Gender in Soviet War Memory4. Violence, Morality, and the Conscience of the Warrior5. World War I and the Definition of Russianness6. Arrested History7. Disappearance and Reappearance8. Legacies of the Great WarNotesBibliographyIndex
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University of Notre Dame Press After Insurgency
Book SynopsisAfter Insurgency documents the development of El Salvador's Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional guerrilla movement from armed insurgency to a competitive political party.Trade Review“Uniquely placed to investigate and analyze the social and political developments that followed the Salvadoran civil war, Ralph Sprenkels offers multiple perspectives in After Insurgency. He provides fascinating in-depth case studies, including the post-war development of a repopulated village, a longitudinal ethnography highlighting the lives of individual former guerrillas, and an analysis of the role of their veterans’ organizations, which result in a richly detailed tapestry of a complex legacy. This remarkable study will be a rewarding read, not only for scholars of Latin America, but also for those concerned more generally with revolutionary movements, identity politics, and postwar political transitions.” —Margaret E. Ward, author of Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War"After Insurgency offers a brilliant analysis of the postwar trajectory of El Salvador’s guerrilla force, one of the strongest such movements in Latin American history. Ralph Sprenkels, himself a participant in Central American struggles, balances attention to on-the-ground, lived experience of peasant rebels after peace accords with an examination of the rise of electoral clientelism and institutional genealogies among the former revolutionaries. In a major contribution to the study of post–Cold War political imaginaries, he goes beyond the trope of disillusionment to probe how relations among leaders and grassroots activists transformed over time, eventually rising to political power—at a price." —Ellen Moodie, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign“Sprenkels, who aided the guerrilla forces during the war, used his grass-roots contacts to conduct revealing interviews with wartime combatants. The book gives a nuanced, humane assessment of the lives of former revolutionaries in peacetime.” —Foreign Affairs"Ralph Sprenkels's book is a foundational contribution to understanding the postwar period in El Salvador. It combines innovative and insightful political ethnographic methods with deep and precise knowledge of the dynamics among the five groups that made up the now-ruling FMLN. The author offers us the story of what happened to the rank and file that participated in the revolutionary forces, of the forgotten ones who did not rise to power, and of their struggles to survive in a postwar environment for which they were ill-prepared. The research by Sprenkels is key to understanding the dramatic situation of violence and poverty that this Central American country continues to experience." —Horacio Castellanos Moya, author of Senselessness and The Dream of My Return“El Salvador is a source of immense learning about violence, war, and post war politics. This book captures some of the most important themes for scholars as well as peace and development practitioners. It does so through outstanding attention to methodology and sources, and a capacity for critical reflection alongside a deep personal engagement with the post war realities of the country. This is a very significant contribution to our understanding of insurgent and postinsurgent politics.” —Jenny Pearce, London School of Economics“Ralph Sprenkels has produced a seminal book on the ‘afterlife’ of revolutions. Based on his outstanding research and long commitment with the FMLN, this study is an honest and impartial account about personal fortunes and misfortunes of combatants and loyalists, and the transformation of revolutionary devotion in political routine.” —Dirk Kruijt, author of Guerrillas: War and Peace in Central America"After Insurgency: Revolution and Electoral Politics in El Salvador reflects a deep and unprecedented access to sources, largely interviews and observations of organizations, but also documentary materials, made available because of Ralph Sprenkels's long personal history of involvement with the organizations and people under examination. No studies of comparable richness exist for El Salvador, and I have yet to read anything on any of the other insurgencies or postinsurgencies in Latin America that equals it." —Erik Ching, Furman University"By highlighting the often overlooked aspects concerning former guerilla transformation, the book not only contributes to research on El Salvador’s postwar developments and democratic transition but also to research on insurgency, especially the understudied field of post-insurgency." —DemocratizationTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Captions Acronyms Protagonists 1. Introduction: echoes of revolution Part 1. Drawing out insurgent relations 2. El Salvador’s insurgency: a relational account 3. Interlude: with the FPL in Chalatenango, 1992-1995 4. Post-insurgent reconversion Part 2. Ethnographies of post-insurgency 5. Inside Chalatenango’s former ‘People’s Republic’ 7. FMLN veterans’ politics 6. Postwar life trajectories of former guerrilla fighters 8. Salvadoran politics and the enduring legacies of insurgency References
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University of Notre Dame Press Emma Goldman Mother Earth and the Anarchist
Book SynopsisThis book unveils the history and impact of an unprecedented anarchist awakening in early twentieth-century America. Mother Earth, an anarchist monthly published by Emma Goldman, played a key role in sparking and spreading the movement around the world.One of the most important figures in revolutionary politics in the early twentieth century, Emma Goldman (18691940) was essential to the rise of political anarchism in the United States and Europe. But as Rachel Hui-Chi Hsu makes clear in this book, the work of Goldman and her colleagues at the flagship magazine Mother Earth (19061917) resonated globally, even into the present day. As a Russian Jewish immigrant to the United States in the late nineteenth century, Goldman developed a keen voice and ideology based on labor strife and turbulent politics of the era. She ultimately was deported to Russia due to agitating against World War I. Hsu takes a comprehensive look at Goldman's impact and leTrade Review"Emma Goldman, 'Mother Earth,' and the Anarchist Awakening demonstrates the substantial impact that anarchism had in the U.S. during what's called the classical era of the movement. By carefully analyzing Emma Goldman's journal Mother Earth, Rachel Hsu illuminates a fascinating and influential site of anarchist print culture in the early twentieth century." —Kathy E. Ferguson, author of Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets"Hsu’s holistic study of a familiar anarchist periodical breaks new ground by unlocking spatial and transnational dimensions and by examining anarchism’s reach beyond its milieu. How did anarchism gain a broader appeal? Read this book." —Tom Goyens, editor of Radical Gotham“This is a remarkable and groundbreaking book. Hsu not only treats the ideas of Emma Goldman and her comrades with unusual depth and care, she also examines how these radicals’ multifaceted activities impacted—and continue to impact—the wider world. The result is a revelatory exploration of anarchism’s far-reaching but forgotten influence on American history.” —Kenyon Zimmer, author of Immigrants against the State"[Rachel Hui-Chi] Hsu examines the early-20th-century anarchist movement in the US through a case study of the anarchist magazine Mother Earth (1906–17) and the main figure behind it, Emma Goldman (1869–1940), a Russian Jewish immigrant and prominent anarchist political activist. The book thematically presents Goldman's preferred political tactics and those of her associates." —ChoiceTable of ContentsList of Maps List of Images Introduction: An Anarchist Awakening Revealed Part 1 Practices 1. Headquarters Stance 2. Propaganda Space 3. National Movement 4. Transnational Networks Part 2 Themes 5. Sex Radicalism 6. Modern Drama 7. Labor Activism 8. Free Speech and Anti-Militarism Epilogue
£31.50
Pennsylvania State University Press Jean Jaures The Inner Life of Social Democracy
Book SynopsisA study in social democratic political theory that examines the writings of Jean Jaurès (1859-1914), the parliamentary and philosophical leader of French socialism.Trade Review“Jean Jaurès is one of the most interesting figures of French socialism and the Second International. Geoffrey Kurtz’s intelligent and thoughtful book succeeds admirably in capturing the man’s philosophical erudition, political courage, and contemporary importance. Jaurès’s deep commitment to reformism, cosmopolitanism, and pacifism anchored one of the important wings of the international socialist movement, and his equally important intellectual work informed generations of students and activists alike. Kurtz succeeds admirably in uncovering ‘the inner life of social democracy,’ and his own courage in approaching his subject contributes to a very important and revealing examination of what it means to be a socialist.”—John Ehrenberg,Long Island University“Jean Jaurès, perhaps the most remarkable exponent of social democracy not just in France but anywhere, deserves to be better known. Geoffrey Kurtz’s introduction to his life and work succeeds brilliantly in reviving both Jaurès and the unduly neglected social democratic tradition in French political culture. This book deserves to be read by all students of European politics.”—Arthur Goldhammer,Harvard University“Geoffrey Kurtz has written an excellent biography of Jean Jaurès. It is high time for a new appreciation of this leading figure in the early French labor movement. Kurtz beautifully situates Jaurès in his intellectual and political milieu even as he illuminates his enduring relevance for contemporary progressive theory and practice.”—Stephen Eric Bronner,Rutgers University“Geoffrey Kurtz’s insightful book is both a biographical and analytical survey of Jaurès’s political and philosophical thought that accurately describes him as a forerunner of the reformist orientation of French socialism. It places emphasis on Jaurèsian idealism, as opposed to Marxist materialism, in socialist theory and practice.”—Leslie Derfler,Florida Atlantic UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Problem of Hope The Battle Is Never Won Democracy Unfrozen A Socialist State of Grace The Question of Method Life in Common Conclusion: An Awkward Politics Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Washington Press The Art of Resistance
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chronology of Major Events Introduction: Painting by Candlelight in Mao’s China Part One | Cartoonists 1. Ding Cong’s True Story of the Outcast Ah Q 2. Feng Zikai Protests the Giant Hedge Cutters Part Two | Academy Painters and a President 3. Li Keran’s Luminous Path through Mountains 4. Li Kuchan’s Eagle Gazes Far 5. Huang Yongyu’s Eye Talk 6. Pan Tianshou’s Nocturne for a Plum Tree Part Three | Communist Idealist Shi Lu 7. Inside the Secret Notebook 8. At Cliff ’s Edge 9. From Trauma to Recovery Conclusion Appendix: Poems from Shi Lu’s Secret Notebook, ca. 1973–75 Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Wisconsin Press Written in Blood Revolutionary Terrorism and
Book SynopsisOffers a new interpretation of the emergence of modern terrorism, arguing that it formed in the Russian literary imagination well before any shot was fired or bomb exploded. Lynn Ellen Patyk contends that the prototype for the terrorist was the Russian writer, whose seditious word was interpreted as a violent assault on autocratic authority.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin Daytime Stars
Book SynopsisFor 872 days during World War II, the city of Leningrad endured a crushing blockade at the hands of German forces. Amid the devastation, Olga Berggolts broadcast her poems on the one remaining radio station. Berggolts wrote her memoir Daytime Stars in the spirit of the thaw after Stalin's death. In it, she celebrated the ideals of the revolution and the heroism of the Soviet people.
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Yale University Press Libya
Book SynopsisThe entire story of Qaddafi's corrupt and repressive regime, the details of its downfall, and what Libya's future may hold in storeTrade Review“In this timely reflection on one of recent history’s most outlandish demagogues, Pargeter follows Qaddafi as he seized power through a 1969 military coup, rebelling against the Western-backed king and his paternalistic system. . . . Her informed analysis contextualizes the long-fermenting stew of oppression and anger that was to finally erupt in civil war, and addresses the challenges the National Transitional Council faces as it struggles to rebuild a nation.”—Publishers Weekly * Publishers Weekly *“Her account is well-researched and draws upon direct observation. She keeps the story moving and asks the right questions: how did Gaddafi remain in power for so long, why did his end come as it did, and can Libya now be turned into a functioning state?”—Nicholas Hagger, European Quarterly -- Nicholas Hagger * European Quarterly *
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Yale University Press Moscow Vanguard Art
Book SynopsisA comprehensive survey of art in Moscow in the era of the Soviet Union that champions the unquenchable spirit of artistic experimentation in the face of political repression
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Yale University Press Empire and Jihad
Book SynopsisA panoramic, provocative account of the clash between British imperialism and Arab jihadism in Africa between 1870 and 1920Trade Review“Superb, compelling, exuberantly written…Filled with fascinating but sensitive portraits and cliche-busting, balanced analysis. Radical but nuanced, Faulkner changes the way we think about the subject.”—Simon Sebag Montefiore, BBC History Magazine ‘Books of the Year’ “Faulkner tells the earlier story of British imperialism in northeast Africa...[and] is right to say the British decision to reconquer the Sudan in the 1890s was not from fear of jihadism, but concern that the French might seize the headwaters of the Nile.”—James Barr, The Times “Neil Faulkner’s Empire and Jihad: The Anglo-Arab Wars of 1870–1920 is about missions and beliefs, dubious political schemes and still more dubious wars, jingoism and jihad. But, above all, it is about people. . . . Senselessness and sorrow hang heavily over Mr. Faulkner’s vivid North-East African panorama; its viewer will never again look at an antique piano or billiard ball the same way.”—Maxwell Carter, Wall Street Journal ‘Neil Faulkner has written an epic account of the British Empire’s activities in Africa and the Middle East. His book has the rare virtue of combining scholarship and readability and is informed throughout by an uncompromising radicalism. An important, indeed tremendous, contribution.’—John Newsinger, author of The Blood Never Dried: A People’s History of the British Empire ‘Empire and Jihad will become necessary reading for any historian of the modern Middle East. Knowledgeable and critical of the Western historiography, it is a salient if not sobering bridge between the Anglo-Arab Wars of the nineteenth century and the “war on terror” in the twenty-first century.’—Warren Dockter, author of Churchill and the Islamic World ‘Faulkner examines the great question that hung over nineteenth-century Africa: who would control it? For most Africans, Tory jingo and Mahdist jihad were two faces of one coin. The inevitable losers, as always, were the dispossessed multitudes, “the wretched of the earth”. This is their story as much as it is that of Gordon, Kitchener, and the “Mad Mullah”, and it is grippingly told.’—Tim Mackintosh-Smith, author of Arabs
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Yale University Press The Last Revolutionaries
Book SynopsisThe story of a poor man and radical activist who fought to revive the French Revolution, and whose failure heralded the republic’s defeatTrade Review“Segments of The Last Revolutionaries are cinematic (the story would make for a gripping screenplay). And Mason writes about complex concepts, such as the notion of the legitimate insurrection, with clarity, impressing on the reader the urgency of contemporary political debates.”—Rhys Jones, Financial Times“A superbly-realised vision of Gracchus Babeuf, a man who emerged from poverty with a fiery and humane idealism, and whose bitter defeat opened the road from revolutionary justice to cynical tyranny.”—David Andress, University of Portsmouth“Mason brilliantly explores the public debate engendered by the trial of Babeuf and so doing provides a new interpretation of the demise of the French Revolution.”—Timothy Tackett, author of Becoming a Revolutionary“A new and striking account of the life, ideas, following and fate of a neglected French revolutionary whose attempts to balance social justice, individual freedom and democracy speak powerfully to current concerns.”—Colin Jones, author of The Great Nation“Very much a book for our times. Mason’s retelling of the trial of Gracchus Babeuf and the French Revolution shows how democracies end. Historians of revolutions and all those concerned with the arc of social justice movements have much to learn from this remarkable story.”—Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Pennsylvania
£23.75
WW Norton & Co The 911 Commission Report Final Report of the
Book SynopsisThe publisher of the authorized edition of The 9/11 Report presents an audio edition of the seminal, bestselling report.Trade Review"Meticulous in its reconstruction and unflinching in its conclusions." -- Time"A document of historic sweep and almost unprecedented detail." -- Washington Post
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Chang Chunchiao and Shanghais January Revolution
Book SynopsisUnderstanding Shanghai's January Revolution provides us with an opportunity to develop better our more abstract, theoretical understanding of the functioning of the Chinese political system and the dynamics of the social system in which it operates.
£11.48
LUP - University of Michigan Press The Cultural Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Chinese Communist system was from its very inception based on an inherent contradiction and tension, and the Cultural Revolution is the most violent manifestation of that contradiction. This volume collects papers prepared for a research conference on the topic convened by the University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies in March 1968.
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University of California Press Vietnam
Book SynopsisAmidst the revolutionary euphoria of August 1945, most Vietnamese believed that colonialism and war were being left behind in favor of independence and modernization. In this title, the author explains what became the largest, most intense mobilization of human resources ever seen in Vietnam.Trade Review"I come away from this book with much admiration for the research that has gone into it. There clearly is no other book out there, using Vietnamese sources, that gives us a context for evaluating the war that followed." H-Diplo Roundtable "Discerning, meticulously researched." -- Nathaniel L. Moir Michigan War Studies ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Preface Introduction 1. Forming the DRV Government 2. The Government at Work 3. Defense 4. Peace or War? 5. Seeking Foreign Friends 6. Material Dreams and Realities 7. Dealing with Domestic Opposition 8. The Indochinese Communist Party and the Vie?t Minh 9. Mass Mobilization Epilogue Notes Sources Index
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University of California Press Empire in Waves
Book SynopsisSurfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really as simple as popular culture suggests? In this first international political history of the sport, Scott Laderman shows that while wave riding is indeed capable of stimulating tremendous pleasure, its globalization went hand in hand with the blood and repression of the long twentieth century. Emerging as an imperial instrument in post-annexation Hawaii, spawning a form of tourism that conquered the littoral Third World, tracing the struggle against South African apartheid, and employed as a diplomatic weapon in America's Cold War arsenal, the saga of modern surfing is only partially captured by Gidget, the Beach Boys, and the film Blue Crush. From nineteenth-century American empire-building in the Pacific to the low-wage labor of the surf industry today, Laderman argues that surfing in fact closely mirrored American foreign relations. Yet despite its less-than-golden past, the sport continues to captivate people worldwide. Whether in El Salvador or Indonesia or points between, the modern history of this cherished pastime is hardly an uncomplicated story of beachside bliss. Sometimes messy, occasionally contentious, but never dull, surfing offers us a whole new way of viewing our globalized world.Trade Review"What Laderman presents is a fascinating account of a sport whose proponents believed it to be apolitical, but facing the politics of a modern world." H-Net "Laderman's history offers intriguing moments in which he pulls together surfing narratives of soldiers and other state agents- illustrating the degree to which pleasure and power were intimately linked in the world that American foreign policy produced." -- Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez The Journal of American History "An authoritative account of the intersection of politics and surfing." -- Brian Unger The Surfer's Journal "A richly documented and compactly written monograph." -- Richard O. Davies American Historical Review "Well-written and engaging." -- Glyn Ford Asian Review of Books "Empire in Waves deserves the widest possible audience... An excellent example of entertaining writing from a scholar." -- Ed Jaggard Journal of Sports History "Empire in Waves raises important and underanalysed issues in surfing history and culture. With its impressive notes and bibliography, it will contribute to university classrooms and aid academic research in future surfing scholarship." The Journal of Pacific History "Empire of Waves is the best (anti-)beach book I've read in a long time. I highly recommend taking Laderman on vacation with you-he'll absolutely ruin it." -- Tim Paulson Make Magazine "Laderman's highly-readable and broadly-documented analysis of surfing's political history is a timely arrival, not only to the rapidly-evolving scholarly index of surf studies, but also to a contemporary waveriding culture forcefully embracing the political potential of surf-driven initiatives in the form of non-profits, Enviro Business, and drives for sustainability across the surfing world." Canadian Journal of HistoryTable of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION. A Political History of Surfing CHAPTER 1. How Surfing Became American: The Imperial Roots of Modern Surf Culture CHAPTER 2. A World Made Safe for Discovery: Travel, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Politics of Surf Exploration CHAPTER 3. Paradise Found: The Discovery of Indonesia and the Surfing Imagination CHAPTER 4. When Surfing Discovered It Was Political: Confronting South African Apartheid CHAPTER 5. Industrial Surfing: The Commodification of Experience EPILOGUE. A New Millennium NOTES INDEX
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University of California Press Hotel Mexico
Book SynopsisIn 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. In this study of the afterlives of the '68 Movement, the author explores how urban spaces - material but also literary, photographic, and cinematic - became an archive of 1968, providing a framework for de facto modes of justice for years to come.Trade Review"In this skillful work of interdisciplinary rigor Hotel Mexico is the first study to situate the ’68 movement within urban culture and space by using the methodologies of collective memory and cultural studies. ... In this refreshing study, Flaherty employs an impressive array of sources to weave a deeply more complex narrative of 1960s Mexico than academics tend to tell in similar books." * Planning Perspectives *"Flaherty understands students’ 'spatiopolitical imaginations' as offering counterhegemonic visions of their rights to the city (136). Hotel Mexico rightly argues that urban space was a constant site of political struggle." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments introduction 1. city of palaces 2. revenge of dust 3. urban logistics and kinetic environments 4. gestures of hospitality 5. satellites 6. mobilization and mediation 7. dwellings Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press The History of Terrorism
Book SynopsisBeginning with the Zealots of the first century CE, this book features contributors who go on to discuss the Assassins of the Middle Ages, the 1789 Terror movement in Europe, Bolshevik terrorism during the Russian Revolution, Stalinism, "resistance" terrorism during World War II, and Latin American revolutionary movements of the late 1960s.Trade Review"This book represents an interesting effort to form an all pervading model to expand the current understanding of terrorism, posing history as a mirror; The History of Terrorism: From Antiquity to ISIS exhibits an ambitious attempt to decipher the commonalities of different versions of terrorism, which is crystallised into a recommendable book for sociologists, anthropologists and social scientists who are interested by these types of hot topics." * International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies *"...a useful reference on the history of terrorism focusing on prehistory, the French Revolution through the national liberation movement, and then terrorism since 1968." * Terrorism & Political Violence *Table of ContentsPreface to the 2016 Edition Preface to the 2007 Edition 1 Introduction (Gerard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin) 2 Terrorism as a Strategy of Insurgency (Ariel Merari) PART I: THE PREHISTORY OF TERRORISM 3 Zealots and Assassins (Gerard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin) 4 Manifestations of Terror through the Ages (Gerard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin) PART II: TERRORISM FROM 1789 TO 1968 5 The Invention of Modern Terror (Gerard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin) 6 Anarchist Terrorists of the Nineteenth Century (Olivier Hubac-Occhipinti) 7 Russian Terrorism, 1878-1908 132 (Yves Ternon) 8 The "Golden Age" of Terrorism (Gerard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin) 9 Lenin, Stalin, and State Terrorism (Gerard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin) 10 Terrorism in Time of War: From World War II to the Wars of National Liberation (Gerard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin) PART III: TERRORISM SINCE 1968 11 From 1968 to Radical Islam (Gerard Chaliand and Arnaud Blin) 12 The Roots of Islamic Radicalism (Philippe Migaux) 13 Al Qaeda (Philippe Migaux) 14 The Future of the Islamist Movement (Philippe Migaux) 15 Suicide Operations: Between War and Terrorism (Francois Gere) 16 The United States Confronting Terrorism (Arnaud Blin) 17 Terrorism in Southeast Asia-Threat and Response (Rohan Gunaratna) 18 Jihadism in the Age of ISIS (Gerard Chaliand) Bibliography Bibliographical Addendum, 2006-2016 Contributors Index
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