Political Awakenings

Author : Harry Kreisler
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458731838

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Political Awakenings by Harry Kreisler Pdf

As a kid, Noam Chomsky handed out the Daily Mirror at his uncle's newsstand on 72nd Street, inadvertently finding himself in a buzzing intellectual and political hub for European immigrants in New York. Iranian human rights Nobelist Shirin Ebadi and her husband signed their own legal contract, attempting to restore equality to their marriage after the Iranian Revolution effectively erased the legal rights of women. Elizabeth Warren set out to expose those frauds declaring bankruptcy and taking advantage of the system-only to discover, in her research, a very different story of hard-working middle-class families facing economic collapse in the absence of a social safety net. While studying at Oxford, a young Tariq Ali made a bet with a friend that he could work the Vietnam War into every single answer on his final exams. In this rousing, thoughtful, often funny, and always inspiring volume, a diverse and impressive group of thinkers reflect on those formative experiences that shaped their own political commitments. A fascinating new window into the revealing links between the personal and the political, Political Awakenings will engage readers across generations.

Author : Anton Drexler
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530963982

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My Political Awakening by Anton Drexler Pdf

My Political Awakening: From the Journal of a German Socialist Worker by Anton Drexler, Honorary Chairman and Founder of the National Socialist German Workers Party, is translated from the 1923 third edition of the German original Mein politisches Erwachen: Aus dem Tagebuch eines deutschen sozialistischen Arbeiters. Obviously, Drexler was a key figure in the earliest history of what would soon, under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, become the NSDAP, rise to power and give birth to the Third Reich.

Author : Rene Lemarchand
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520338630

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Political Awakening in the Congo by Rene Lemarchand Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1964.

Author : Abdul Rahman (Tunku, Putra Al-Haj)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Malaysia
ISBN : UOM:39015014141785

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Political Awakening by Abdul Rahman (Tunku, Putra Al-Haj) Pdf

Author : Vikram K. Chand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173008190822

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Mexico's Political Awakening by Vikram K. Chand Pdf

A bottom-up perspective on democratization, correcting analyses that view the process in Mexico as flowing down from the President. The author challenges existing theories by stressing the importance of strong social institutions for the development of democracy.

Author : Joshua Mitchell
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781641772839

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American Awakening by Joshua Mitchell Pdf

America has always been committed to the idea that citizens can work together to build a common world. Today, three afflictions keep us from pursuing that noble ideal. The first and most obvious affliction is identity politics, which seeks to transform America by turning politics into a religious venue of sacrificial offering. For now, the sacrificial scapegoat is the white, heterosexual, man. After he is humiliated and purged, who will be the object of cathartic rage? White women? Black men? Identity politics is the anti-egalitarian spiritual eugenics of our age. It demands that pure and innocent groups ascend, and the stained transgressor groups be purged. The second affliction is that citizens oscillate back and forth, in bipolar fashion, at one moment feeling invincible on their social media platforms and, the next, feeling impotent to face the everyday problems of life without the guidance of experts and global managers. Third, Americans are afflicted by a disease that cannot quite be named, characterized by an addictive hope that they can find cheap shortcuts that bypass the difficult labors of everyday life. Instead of real friendship, we seek social media “friends.” Instead of meals at home, we order “fast food.” Instead of real shopping, we “shop” online. Instead of counting on our families and neighbors to address our problems, we look to the state to take care of us. In its many forms, this disease promises release from our labors, yet impoverishes us all. American Awakening chronicles all of these problems, yet gives us hope for the future.

Author : Stéphane Lacroix
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674265257

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Awakening Islam by Stéphane Lacroix Pdf

Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stéphane Lacroix has now given us a penetrating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave birth to Osama bin Laden. The result is a history that has never been told before. Lacroix shows how thousands of Islamist militants from Egypt, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries, starting in the 1950s, escaped persecution and found refuge in Saudi Arabia, where they were integrated into the core of key state institutions and society. The transformative result was the Sahwa, or “Islamic Awakening,” an indigenous social movement that blended political activism with local religious ideas. Awakening Islam offers a pioneering analysis of how the movement became an essential element of Saudi society, and why, in the late 1980s, it turned against the very state that had nurtured it. Though the “Sahwa Insurrection” failed, it has bequeathed the world two very different, and very determined, heirs: the Islamo-liberals, who seek an Islamic constitutional monarchy through peaceful activism, and the neo-jihadis, supporters of bin Laden's violent campaign. Awakening Islam is built upon seldom-seen documents in Arabic, numerous travels through the country, and interviews with an unprecedented number of Saudi Islamists across the ranks of today’s movement. The result affords unique insight into a closed culture and its potent brand of Islam, which has been exported across the world and which remains dangerously misunderstood.

Author : Robert William Fogel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0226256626

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The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism by Robert William Fogel Pdf

Robert William Fogel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economic Science in 1993. "To take a trip around the mind of Robert Fogel, one of the grand old men of American economic history, is a rare treat. At every turning, you come upon some shiny pearl of information."—The Economist In this broad-thinking and profound piece of history, Robert William Fogel synthesizes an amazing range of data into a bold and intriguing view of America's past and future—one in which the periodic Great Awakenings of religion bring about waves of social reform, the material lives of even the poorest Americans improve steadily, and the nation now stands poised for a renewed burst of egalitarian progress.

Author : Jack Turner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226817149

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Awakening to Race by Jack Turner Pdf

The election of America’s first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeking out opportunities. Often this argument is made in the name of the long tradition of self-reliance and American individualism. In Awakening to Race, Jack Turner upends this view, arguing that it expresses not a deep commitment to the values of individualism, but a narrow understanding of them. Drawing on the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin, Turner offers an original reconstruction of democratic individualism in American thought. All these thinkers, he shows, held that personal responsibility entails a refusal to be complicit in injustice and a duty to combat the conditions and structures that support it. At a time when individualism is invoked as a reason for inaction, Turner makes the individualist tradition the basis of a bold and impassioned case for race consciousness—consciousness of the ways that race continues to constrain opportunity in America. Turner’s “new individualism” becomes the grounds for concerted public action against racial injustice.

Author : Joshua Mitchell
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781641771313

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American Awakening by Joshua Mitchell Pdf

America has always been committed to the idea that citizens can work together to build a common world. Today, three afflictions keep us from pursuing that noble ideal. The first and most obvious affliction is identity politics, which seeks to transform America by turning politics into a religious venue of sacrificial offering. For now, the sacrificial scapegoat is the white, heterosexual, man. After he is humiliated and purged, who will be the object of cathartic rage? White women? Black men? Identity politics is the anti-egalitarian spiritual eugenics of our age. It demands that pure and innocent groups ascend, and the stained transgressor groups be purged. The second affliction is that citizens oscillate back and forth, in bipolar fashion, at one moment feeling invincible on their social media platforms and, the next, feeling impotent to face the everyday problems of life without the guidance of experts and global managers. Third, Americans are afflicted by a disease that cannot quite be named, characterized by an addictive hope that they can find cheap shortcuts that bypass the difficult labors of everyday life. Instead of real friendship, we seek social media “friends.” Instead of meals at home, we order “fast food.” Instead of real shopping, we “shop” online. Instead of counting on our families and neighbors to address our problems, we look to the state to take care of us. In its many forms, this disease promises release from our labors, yet impoverishes us all. American Awakening chronicles all of these problems, yet gives us hope for the future.

Author : David L. Ellis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004337855

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Politics and Piety by David L. Ellis Pdf

David L. Ellis analyzes the connections between political conservatism and Prussia’s neo-Pietist religious revival, especially in Brandenburg and Pomerania, in the years surrounding the revolution of 1848.

Author : Ravinderjit Kaur
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India)
ISBN : 8170247098

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Political Awakening in Kashmir by Ravinderjit Kaur Pdf

Covers the period 1901-1931.

Author : Lauren Duca
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501181641

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How to Start a Revolution by Lauren Duca Pdf

Teen Vogue award-winning columnist Lauren Duca shares a “fun, pithy, and intelligent” (Booklist) guide for challenging the status quo in a much-needed reminder that young people are the ones who will change the world. Journalist Lauren Duca has become an exciting and authoritative voice on the experience of millennials in today’s society. Dan Rather agrees, saying “we need fresh, intelligent, and creative voices—like Lauren’s—now as much—perhaps more—than ever before.” Now, she explores the post-Trump political awakening and lays the groundwork for a re-democratizing moment as it might be built out of the untapped potential of young people. Duca investigates and explains the issues at the root of our ailing political system and reimagines what an equitable democracy would look like. It begins with young people getting involved. This includes people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman ever to be elected to Congress; David and Lauren Hogg, two survivors of the Parkland, Florida shooting who went on to become advocates for gun control; Amanda Litman, who founded the nonprofit organization Run for Something, to assist progressive young people in down ballot elections; and many more. Called “the millennial feminist warrior queen of social media” by Ariel Levy and “a national newsmaker” by The New York Times, Duca combines extensive research and first-person reporting to track her generation’s shift from political alienation to political participation. Throughout, she also drays on her own story as a young woman catapulted to the front lines of the political conversation (all while figuring out how to deal with her Trump-supporting parents).

Author : George Lenczowski
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Middle East
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119388713

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The Political Awakening in the Middle East by George Lenczowski Pdf

Author : Swapan Dasgupta
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789353055301

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Awakening Bharat Mata by Swapan Dasgupta Pdf

The rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was much more than an ordinary electoral phenomenon: it brought to the fore two contrasting views of nationhood: between those who saw modern India in terms of secular republicanism and on the other hand were those who sought to blend technological modernity with the country's Hindu inheritance. The Right's ascendancy and the debates that accompanied it, anticipated many of the concerns that find reflection today in the United States and Europe. The phenomenon of Hindu nationalism was also a profound intellectual challenge to the loose Left-liberal consensus that had prevailed in India since Jawaharlal Nehru became Prime Minister in 1947. The idea of Hindutva and the political character of the BJP have been closely scrutinised by scholars, and the impulse has been to view India's Right-wing politics as either a variant of fascism or merely a collection of sectarian prejudices. In fact, the inspiration for the Right in India has come from multiple and often contradictory sources, including the influence of individuals such as Sarvarkar, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Swami Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo, not to mention the Arya Samaj movement. This collection is an attempt to showcase the phenomenon of Hindu nationalism in terms of how it perceives itself. Many of the concerns that drive the Indian Right are located in the country's nationalist culture. In trying to locate some of the ideas, attitudes and beliefs that define the Indian Right, Awakening Bharat Mata also seeks to identify the nature of Indian conservatism and identify its similarities and differences with political thought in the West. This book is not about Hindu nationalism in power but as a social and political movement and its aim is to encourage a more informed understanding of an idea that will remain relevant in Indian life far beyond victories and defeats in elections.