Captive Revolution

Author : Nahla Abdo
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745334946

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Captive Revolution by Nahla Abdo Pdf

Women throughout the world have always played their part in struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression. However, there are hardly any academic books on Arab political prisoners, fewer still on the Palestinians who have been detained in their thousands for their political activism and resistance. Nahla Abdo's Captive Revolution seeks to break the silence on Palestinian women political detainees, providing a vital contribution to research on women, revolutions, national liberation and anti-colonial resistance. Based on the stories of the women themselves, Abdo draws on a wealth of oral history and primary research in order to analyse Palestinian women's anti-colonial struggle, their agency and their treatment as political detainees. Making crucial comparisons with the experiences of women political detainees in other conflicts, and emphasising the vital role Palestinian political culture and memorialisation of the 'Nakba' have had on their resilience and resistance, Captive Revolution is a rich and revealing addition to our knowledge of this little-studied phenomenon.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 1783711868

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Captive Revolution by Anonim Pdf

Author : Larry G. Bowman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015016898085

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Captive Americans by Larry G. Bowman Pdf

"The purpose of this book is to attempt to describe and evaluate the conditions which American military and civilian personnel endured as captives of the British military forces during the American Revolution"--Pref.

Author : Xiaokai Yang,Susan McFadden
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019388136

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Captive Spirits by Xiaokai Yang,Susan McFadden Pdf

In the midst of the Cultural Revolution a Rebel Red Guard anonymously circulated an essay condemning the Chinese Party elite as a decadent, exploitative 'new red capitalist class'. The subversive yet truthful nature of the message stung the top Communist leadership in Beijing. Incredibly, the writer, Yang Xiguang, was only nineteen years old, a star high school pupil and the son of high-ranking Hunan officials. Denounced as a 'counterrevolutionary' by Chairman Mao himself, Yang was hunted down, arrested in 1968, and sentenced to ten years in prison. Captive Spirits is his remarkable story of life in the Chinese gulag during one of the most tumultuous periods of modern Chinese history.

Author : Susan Crawford
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780300167375

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Captive Audience by Susan Crawford Pdf

Ten years ago, the United States stood at the forefront of the Internet revolution. With some of the fastest speeds and lowest prices in the world for high-speed Internet access, the nation was poised to be the global leader in the new knowledge-based economy. Today that global competitive advantage has all but vanished because of a series of government decisions and resulting monopolies that have allowed dozens of countries, including Japan and South Korea, to pass us in both speed and price of broadband. This steady slide backward not only deprives consumers of vital services needed in a competitive employment and business market—it also threatens the economic future of the nation. This important book by leading telecommunications policy expert Susan Crawford explores why Americans are now paying much more but getting much less when it comes to high-speed Internet access. Using the 2011 merger between Comcast and NBC Universal as a lens, Crawford examines how we have created the biggest monopoly since the breakup of Standard Oil a century ago. In the clearest terms, this book explores how telecommunications monopolies have affected the daily lives of consumers and America's global economic standing.

Author : Renee Hudson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781531507206

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Latinx Revolutionary Horizons by Renee Hudson Pdf

A necessary reconceptualization of Latinx identity, literature, and politics In Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution. Rather than viewing Latinx as solely a category of identification, she argues for an expansive, historicized sense of the term that illuminates its political potential. Claiming the “x” in Latinx as marking the suspension and tension between how Latin American descended people identify and the future politics the “x” points us toward, Hudson contends that latinidad can signal a politics grounded in shared struggles and histories rather than merely a mode of identification. In this way, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons reads against current calls for cancelling latinidad based on its presumed anti-Black and anti-Indigenous framework. Instead, she examines the not-yet-here of latinidad to investigate the connection between the revolutionary history of the Americas and the creation of new genres in the hemisphere, from conversion narratives and dictator novels to neoslave narratives and testimonios. By comparing colonialisms, she charts a revolutionary genealogy across a range of movements such as the Mexican Revolution, the Filipino People Power Revolution, resistance to Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and the Cuban Revolution. In pairing nineteenth-century authors alongside contemporary Latinx ones, Hudson examines a longer genealogy of Latinx resistance while expanding its literary canon, from the works of José Rizal and Martin Delany to those of Julia Alvarez, Jessica Hagedorn, and Leslie Marmon Silko. In imagining a truly transnational latinidad, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons thus rewrites our understanding of the nationalist formations that continue to characterize Latinx Studies.

Author : Sharmila Purkayastha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009273176

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Of Captivity and Resistance by Sharmila Purkayastha Pdf

An intervention in the field of dissenting writings by women political detainees in India in the 1970s, and it straddles three interlinked areas: politics, prison and writing. It focuses on writings arising out of Bengal's Naxalite movement (1967-1975) and from the pan-Indian period of Emergency (1975-1977).

Author : Jack Harpster,Ken Stalter M.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313385667

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Captive! by Jack Harpster,Ken Stalter M.D. Pdf

This book recounts the amazing life story of a 16-year-old American Revolutionary-era soldier, including his captivity, adoption, and eventual flight to freedom from the Iroquois Six-Nation Indian tribes. The story is retold with historical accuracy and an even-handed treatment of the conflicting interests of the loyalists, Iroquois, and Patriots. David Ogden was born into an unusually tumultuous time in America—the colonials were struggling to throw off the yoke of British rule while also battling the Iroquois tribes for control of their ancestral lands. The bibliography of anyone who survived a life in the late 1700s frontier days of New York would be a great tale, but David Ogden's story stands alone, even within historical context of his times. Captive! The Story of David Ogden and the Iroquois is a compelling true adventure story of one young colonial soldier's bravery, choosing a daunting 126-mile race to freedom fraught with the risk of death over being assimilated into an alien society. This story is told with all the factual historical information that was missing from all the original captivity narratives, but accurately retains the flavor of the period and the voice of the 18th-century protagonist.

Author : T. Cole Jones
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812296556

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Captives of Liberty by T. Cole Jones Pdf

Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as traitors to be punished, and British abuse of American prisoners, both tacitly condoned and at times officially sanctioned, proliferated. Meanwhile, more than seventeen thousand British and allied soldiers fell into American hands during the Revolution. For a fledgling nation that could barely afford to keep an army in the field, the issue of how to manage prisoners of war was daunting. Captives of Liberty examines how America's founding generation grappled with the problems posed by prisoners of war, and how this influenced the wider social and political legacies of the Revolution. When the struggle began, according to T. Cole Jones, revolutionary leadership strove to conduct the war according to the prevailing European customs of military conduct, which emphasized restricting violence to the battlefield and treating prisoners humanely. However, this vision of restrained war did not last long. As the British denied customary protections to their American captives, the revolutionary leadership wasted no time in capitalizing on the prisoners' ordeals for propagandistic purposes. Enraged, ordinary Americans began to demand vengeance, and they viewed British soldiers and their German and Native American auxiliaries as appropriate targets. This cycle of violence spiraled out of control, transforming the struggle for colonial independence into a revolutionary war. In illuminating this history, Jones contends that the violence of the Revolutionary War had a profound impact on the character and consequences of the American Revolution. Captives of Liberty not only provides the first comprehensive analysis of revolutionary American treatment of enemy prisoners but also reveals the relationship between America's political revolution and the war waged to secure it.

Author : Robert C. Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032843651

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Voices from Captivity by Robert C. Doyle Pdf

Doyle shows that, though setting and circumstances may change, POW stories share a common structure and are driven by similar themes. Capture, incarceration, isolation, propaganda, torture, capitulation or resistance, death, spiritual quest, escape, liberation and repatriation are recurrent key motifs in these narratives.

Author : Lawrence A. Peskin
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801891397

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Captives and Countrymen by Lawrence A. Peskin Pdf

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1 CAPTIVITY AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE -- 1 Captivity and Communications -- 2 The Captives Write Home -- 3 Publicity and Secrecy -- PART 2 THE IMPACT OF CAPTIVITY AT HOME -- 4 Slavery at Home and Abroad -- 5 Captive Nation: Algiers and Independence -- 6 The Navy and the Call to Arms -- PART 3 CAPTIVITY AND THE AMERICAN EMPIRE -- 7 Masculinity and Servility in Tripoli -- 8 Between Colony and Empire -- 9 Beyond Captivity: The Wars of 1812 -- Conclusion Captivity and Globalization -- Appendix: Lists of Letters from Captives -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X, Y, Z.

Author : Czesław Miłosz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Communism
ISBN : OCLC:3857318

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The Captive Mind by Czesław Miłosz Pdf

Author : Yesenia Barragan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108832328

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Freedom's Captives by Yesenia Barragan Pdf

Freedom's Captives offers a compelling, narrative-driven history of the gradual abolition of slavery in the majority-black Colombian Pacific.

Author : Sorcha Thomson,Pelle Valentin Olsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755647002

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Palestine in the World by Sorcha Thomson,Pelle Valentin Olsen Pdf

The Palestinian national liberation movement – or the Palestinian revolution as it is known in Arabic – emerged during the 1960s as an iconic cause of the global Left. This volume highlights the different practices of international solidarity that characterised this period, and how they shaped and were shaped by the global trajectory of the Palestinian movement. Bringing together scholars with versatile linguistic and interdisciplinary skills, Palestine in the World puts the Palestinian movement into conversation with the models of transnational politics that emerged through the revolutionary period. From participation in a vibrant sphere of intellectual and cultural production, the work of travelling revolutionaries as delegates, volunteers, and militants, and the connected mobilisations that took place in different corners of the world, international solidarity with and from the Palestinian movement was integral to its ascendance on the global stage. By treating the Palestinian revolution as a world phenomenon - with cases from Cuba, France, the US, the GDR, Japan and more - this volume reveals the forms of solidarity that shaped the rise of the movement and their afterlives today. It illuminates the rich connected histories of international solidarity that positioned the Palestinian movement as an iconic anticolonial struggle.

Author : Douglas A. Jones
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780472052264

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The Captive Stage by Douglas A. Jones Pdf

A revealing exploration of Northern proslavery sentiment during the period before the Civil War