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Author : Manuel Pérez-García
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1786837110
Author : John Bentley Mays
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UVA:X004113064
An extraordinary narrative and honest exploration of the heart of the real American South. An account of one man's rediscovery of his Southern roots and heritage, forgotten during decades of self-exile from his homeland.
Author : Lyda Favali,Roy Pateman
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2003-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253109842
In Eritrea, state, traditional, and religious laws equally prevail, but any of these legal systems may be put into play depending upon the individual or individuals involved in a legal dispute. Because of conflicting laws, it has been difficult for Eritreans to come to a consensus on what constitutes their legal system. In Blood, Land, and Sex, Lyda Favali and Roy Pateman examine the roles of the state, ethnic groups, religious groups, and the international community in several key areas of Eritrean law -- blood feud or murder, land tenure, gender relations (marriage, prostitution, rape), and female genital surgery. Favali and Pateman explore the intersections of the various laws and discuss how change can be brought to communities where legal ambiguity prevails, often to the grave harm of women and other powerless individuals. This significant book focuses on how Eritrea and other newly emerging democracies might build pluralist legal systems that will be acceptable to an ethnically and religiously diverse population.
Author : Barr McClellan
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781632204219
Blood, Money, & Power exposes the secret, high-level conspiracy in Texas that led to President John F. Kennedy’s death and the succession of Lyndon B. Johnson as president in 1963. Attorney Barr McClellan, a former member of L.B.J.’s legal team, uses hundreds of newly released documents, including insider interviews, court papers, and the Warren Commission, to illuminate the maneuvers, payoffs, and power plays that revolved around the assassination of Kennedy and to expose L.B.J.’s involvement in the murder plot. In addition to revealing new information, McClellan answers common questions surrounding the assassination of our thirty-fifth president. Who had the opportunity, motive, and means to assassinate J.F.K.? Who controlled the investigation and findings of the Warren Commission? This historically significant book is proof that absolute power, money, blood, corruption, and deception were at the heart of politics in the early 1960s, and it represents the very best investigative journalism has to offer.
Author : Timothy Snyder
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465032976
From the author of the international bestseller On Tyranny, the definitive history of Hitler’s and Stalin’s politics of mass killing, explaining why Ukraine has been at the center of Western history for the last century. Americans call the Second World War “the Good War.” But before it even began, America’s ally Stalin had killed millions of his own citizens—and kept killing them during and after the war. Before Hitler was defeated, he had murdered six million Jews and nearly as many other Europeans. At war’s end, German and Soviet killing sites fell behind the Iron Curtain, leaving the history of mass killing in darkness. Assiduously researched, deeply humane, and utterly definitive, Bloodlands is a new kind of European history, presenting the mass murders committed by the Nazi and Stalinist regimes as two aspects of a single story. With a new afterword addressing the relevance of these events to the contemporary decline of democracy, Bloodlands is required reading for anyone seeking to understand the central tragedy of modern history and its meaning today.
Author : Linda Tate
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780821418727
Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative traces Linda Tate’s journey to rediscover the Cherokee-Appalachian branch of her family and provides an unflinching examination of the poverty, discrimination, and family violence that marked their lives. In her search for the truth of her own past, Tate scoured archives, libraries, and courthouses throughout Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois, and Missouri, visited numerous cemeteries, and combed through census records, marriage records, court cases, local histories, old maps, and photographs. As she began to locate distant relatives — fifth, sixth, seventh cousins, all descended from her great-greatgrandmother Louisiana — they gathered in kitchens and living rooms, held family reunions, and swapped stories. A past that had long been buried slowly came to light as family members shared the pieces of the family’s tale that had been passed along to them. Power in the Blood is a dramatic family history that reads like a novel, as Tate’s compelling narrative reveals one mystery after another. Innovative and groundbreaking in its approach to research and storytelling, Power in the Blood shows that exploring a family story can enhance understanding of history, life, and culture and that honest examination of the past can lead to healing and liberation in the present.
Author : Benjamin Hoy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197528716
The untold history of the multiracial making of the border between Canada and the United States. Often described as the longest undefended border in the world, the Canada-US border was born in blood, conflict, and uncertainty. At the end of the American Revolution, Britain and the United States imagined a future for each of their nations that stretched across a continent. They signed treaties with one another dividing lands neither country could map, much less control. A century and a half later, Canada and the United States had largely fulfilled those earlier ambitions. Both countries had built nations that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific and had made an expansive international border that restricted movement. The vision that seemed so clear in the minds of diplomats and politicians never behaved as such on the ground. Both countries built their border across Indigenous lands using hunger, violence, and coercion to displace existing communities and to disrupt their ideas of territory and belonging. The border's length undermined each nation's attempts at control. Unable to prevent movement at the border's physical location for over a century, Canada and the United States instead found ways to project fear across international lines They aimed to stop journeys before they even began.
Author : Todd Gordon,Jeffery R. Webber
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-07T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781552668450
Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction examines the increasing presence of Canadian mining companies in Latin America and the environmental and human rights abuses that have occurred as a result. By following the money, Gordon and Webber illustrate the myriad ways Canadian-based multinational corporations, backed by the Canadian state, have developed extensive economic interests in Latin America over the last two decades at the expense of Latin American people and the environment. Latin American communities affected by Canadian resource extraction are now organized into hundreds of opposition movements, from Mexico to Argentina, and the authors illustrate the strategies used by the Canadian state to silence this resistance and advance corporate interests.
Author : Alan Glynn
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571275434
A private security contractor loses it in the Congo, with deadly consequences, while in Ireland the ex-prime minister struggles to write his memoir. A tabloid star is killed in a helicopter crash and three years later a young journalist is warned off the story. As a news story breaks in Paris, a US senator prepares his campaign to run for office. What links these things and who controls what we know? With echoes of John Le Carré, 24 and James Ellroy, Alan Glynn has written another crime novel of and for our times - a ferocious thriller that moves from Dublin to New York via West Africa, and thrillingly explores the legacy of corruption in big business, the West's fear of China, the fate of ex-military, the role of back room political players, and the quick fix of online news.
Author : Frances J. Latchford
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780773558007
What personal truths reside in biological ties that are absent in adoptive ties? And why do we think adoptive and biological ties are essentially different when it comes to understanding who we are? At a time when interest in DNA and ancestry is exploding, Frances Latchford questions the idea that knowing one's bio-genealogy is integral to personal identity or a sense of family and belonging. Upending our established values and beliefs about what makes a family, Steeped in Blood examines the social and political devaluation of adoptive ties. It takes readers on an intellectual journey through accepted wisdom about adoption, twins, kinship, and incest, and challenges our naturalistic and individualistic assumptions about identity and the biological ties that bind us, sometimes violently, to our families. Latchford exposes how our desire for bio-genealogical knowledge, understood as it is by family and adoption experts, pathologizes adoptees by posing the biological tie as a necessary condition for normal identity formation. Rejecting the idea that a love of the self-same is fundamental to family bonds, her book is a reaction to the wounds families suffer whenever they dare to revel in their difference. A rejoinder to rhetoric that defines adoptees, adoptive kin, and their family intimacies as inferior and inauthentic, Steeped in Blood's view through the lens of critical adoption studies decentres our cultural obsession with the biological family imaginary and makes real the possibility of being family in the absence of blood.
Author : Thomas Cobb
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780816521104
Thomas Cobb introduces the day when the Power brothers engaged the Graham County Sheriff's Department in the bloodiest shootout in Arizona history. Cobb cunningly weaves the story of the Power brothers' escape with flashbacks of the boys' father's life and his struggle to make a living ranching, logging, and mining in the West around the turn of the century. Deftly drawn characters and cleverly concealed motivations work seamlessly to blend a compelling family history with a desperate story of the brothers as they attempt to escape.
Author : David Warren Sabean
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0521347785
This book is based on a series of episodes from village or small town life in the duchy of WÜrttemberg in southwest Germany between 1580 and 1800, in which state authorities conducted a special investigation into local events. The cases and characters involved include peasants' refusal to celebrate church rituals; a self-proclaimed prophet who encountered an angel in his vineyard; a thirteen-year-old-witch; a paranoid pastor; a murder; and live burial of a village bull.
Author : Stacey Marie Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1956600043
Nobody can hear your screams from the depths of hell... Those who survived Halálház, never imagined going back. But this isn't Halálház, this is Věrhăza, and nothing can prepare any of them for this. With General Markos in control of the new prison, torture and cruelty is taken to a whole new level. But what Brexley is forced to do, will not only change her, but the course of this war. With her powers starting to show themselves, Brexley risks everything to save those she loves from dying; but in doing so, she exposes her abilities to Istvan. When she and Warwick are tortured and used as experiments, she finds that Istvan's deceit and betrayal go far deeper than she ever knew. And what he will do to stay in control. As Brexley's powers grow, so does the hate and darkness inside. Her hands are marked red, her soul heavy in guilt. There has been so much death, pain, and agony. When does someone break? How much can one person take before the hero turns into the villain....
Author : Tory Forest
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798987750308
Endra is a huntress, fierce and brash, who yearns for glory befitting someone of her bloodline. Born into the mystical land of Kaelenwood Forest, Endra swore an oath to defend her sacred home and those who dwell in it. When an intruder jeopardizes the very thing she's bound to protect, Endra and her fae brethren take action. Magical secrets and ancient knowledge will be revealed as a mysterious threat emerges. Endra will acquire new allies while trekking out on this wild adventure, great violence lurking around every corner. And a newfound power will erupt inside of her, altering the course of Endra's life forever. Kinship, desire, and hate-filled sorrow will carve out her fate of this epic journey of self-discovery. Can she find the strength within to save that which she holds most dear? Or will Endra be consumed by it, destroying herself in the process?
Author : Michael Vatikiotis
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1474602002
'A lively and learned guide to the politics, personalities and conflicts that are shaping a dynamic group of countries' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A fascinating and many-layered portrait of Southeast Asia' THANT MYINT-U Thought-provoking and eye-opening, BLOOD AND SILK is an accessible, personal look at modern Southeast Asia, written by one of the region's most experienced outside observers. This is a first-hand account of what it's like to sit at the table with deadly Thai Muslim insurgents, mediate between warring clans in the Southern Philippines and console the victims of political violence in Indonesia - all in an effort to negotiate peace, and understand the reasons behind endemic violence. Peering beyond brand new shopping malls and shiny glass towers in Bangkok and Jakarta, Michael Vatikiotis probes the heart of modern Southeast Asia. Why are the region's richest countries such as Malaysia riddled with corruption? Why do Myanmar, Thailand and the Philippines harbour unresolved violent insurgencies? How do deepening religious divisions in Indonesia and Malaysia and China's growing influence affect the region and the rest of the world? Vatikiotis tells the story of modern Southeast Asia using vivid portraits of the personalities who pull the strings, mixed with revealing analysis that is underpinned by decades of experience in the countries involved, from their silk-sheathed salons to blood-spattered streets. The result is a fascinating study of the dynamics of power and conflict in one of the world's fastest growing regions.