Precarious Paths To Freedom

Author : Aragorn Storm Miller
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780826356888

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Precarious Paths to Freedom by Aragorn Storm Miller Pdf

Miller analyzes US-Venezuelan relations during the 1950s and 1960s as a case study for the broader political dynamics of the hemisphere and beyond during the critical period of the global Cold War. He addresses the perception that US foreign policy toward Latin America was an overwhelming failure in which initiatives intended to promote democracy and modernization, and to insulate the hemisphere from the ideological struggles of the global Cold War, reaped only authoritarian regimes, uneven and sluggish economic growth, and abstract debates over capitalism and communism that distracted attention from Latin America’s pressing socioeconomic problems. Precarious Paths to Freedom demonstrates that Washington rather achieved success by cultivating a partnership with a democratizing Venezuela. From 1958 onward US policymakers identified Venezuela as the crucial bulwark against political extremism and as the ideal partner in the creation of a modernized, prosperous, and pro-US Latin America.

Author : Anne Miller
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781418562496

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Permission to Speak Freely by Anne Miller Pdf

In May 2008, Anne Jackson asked a question on her blog, “What is one thing you feel you can’t say in church?” Hundreds responded. Everyone had a story. Permission to Speak Freely is the unique new project and movement of author Anne Jackson, who is finished with keeping brokenness in the dark. Bringing to light the original intent of God’s sanctuary as a place of help and healing, Anne reveals that through confession, both to God and to others, we can live lives that are whole and healed. Told with disarming transparency, Anne shares what led to her own addictions and the ensuing lifestyle that left her wounded and withdrawn, but ultimately rescued and redeemed. She includes dramatic stories of others who also learned to abandon their fear, pride, and masks; to identify their hurts; and to find the courage to speak freely. Their confessions, submitted as mixed media pieces, photography, and sketches, were collected from people across the world, and are included throughout the book. Readers will share in the opportunity to find their own path to redemption and freedom.

Author : Kurt Weyland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108483551

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Revolution and Reaction by Kurt Weyland Pdf

Explains how bold efforts at profound progressive change provoked a powerful reactionary backlash that led to the imposition of brutal, regressive dictatorships.

Author : Garry Desmarais
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557255450

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The Path to Freedom by Garry Desmarais Pdf

Author : Cassandra Pybus
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807055182

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Epic Journeys of Freedom by Cassandra Pybus Pdf

Cassandra Pybus adds greatly to the work of [previous] scholars by insisting that slaves stand at the center of their own history . . . Her 'biographies' of flight expose the dangers that escape entailed and the courage it took to risk all for freedom. Only by measuring those dangers can the exhilaration of success be comprehended and the unspeakable misery of failure be appreciated.--Ira Berlin, from the Foreword During the American Revolution, thousands of slaves fled their masters to find freedom with the British. Epic Journeys of Freedom is the astounding story of these runaways and the lives they made on four continents. Having emancipated themselves, with the rhetoric about the inalienable rights of free men ringing in their ears, these men and women struggled tenaciously to make liberty a reality in their own lives. This alternative narrative of freedom fought for and won is uniquely compelling; historian Cassandra Pybus's groundbreaking research has uncovered individual stories of runaways who left America to forge difficult new lives in far-flung corners of the British Empire. Harry, for example, one of George Washington's slaves, escaped from Mount Vernon in 1776, was evacuated to Nova Scotia in 1783, and eventually relocated to Sierra Leone in West Africa with his wife and three children. Ralph Henry, who ran away from the Virginia firebrand Patrick Henry in 1776, took a similar path to precarious freedom in Sierra Leone, while others, such as John Moseley and John Randall, were evacuated with the British forces to England. Stranded in England without skills or patronage during a period of high unemployment, they were among thousands of newly freed poor blacks who struggled just to survive. While some were relocated to Sierra Leone, others, like Moseley and Randall, found themselves transported to the distant penal colony of Botany Bay, in Australia. Epic Journeys of Freedom, written in the best tradition of history from the bottom up, is a fascinating insight into the meaning of liberty; it will change forever the way we think about the American Revolution.

Author : Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780197634202

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Building Peace Rebuilding Patriarchy by Johnston Pdf

"After discussions of the media environments in the three countries, an overview and critique of current theories of media systems highlight how existing frameworks rest on the misguided presumption that nations and their press freedom landscapes exist within a state of linear democratization-that societies have progressed and will continue to progress from non-democracy to democracy-when, in actuality, specific events can unravel structures and derail democracy-building processes. Many existing frameworks are grounded in Western ways of thinking and tend to take a universalistic approach to the press that doesn't account for transitions and change. Press freedom means different things in different countries and within different contexts, making it difficult for any theory to aptly apply, thus, a more detailed set of considerations for understanding media systems outside of the Western world is needed"--

Author : Jeffrey M. Shaw
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625640581

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Illusions of Freedom by Jeffrey M. Shaw Pdf

Illusions of Freedom examines the opinions and ideas of two twentieth-century writers--Thomas Merton, a Catholic monk living in the United States, and Jacques Ellul, a French Protestant. Contemporaries, they never met or corresponded with each other, but their critique of the influence that technology was beginning to have on the human condition is strikingly similar. Both Merton and Ellul drew upon the ideas of others in formulating their worldview, to include Karl Barth, Soren Kierkegaard, Aldous Huxley, and Karl Marx. Jeffrey Shaw examines the influence that these other philosophers had on Merton and Ellul as they formulated their own ideas on technology's impact on freedom. Tracing the similarities, and in some cases the differences, between their critiques of technology and the idea that progress is always to be seen as something inherently good, one finds that they bring a unique perspective to the debate and offer readers an alternative avenue for reflecting on the meaning of technology and its impact on our lives in the twenty-first century.

Author : Sandra Willendorf
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783752644678

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Fighting for Freedom by Sandra Willendorf Pdf

The former slave gets into the eye of the Caribbean hurricane during the French Revolution there in 1794. He fights in Napoleonic Wars and get English Pow. He returns back to Guadeloupe after his release and takes part in the rebellion of the Bataillon des Antilles in May 1802 when slavery was to be reintroduced by the order of Napoleon. The unit is expelled from the island. François is ordered to serve in Mantua, where he escapes and finds refuge in the Danish duchy of Holstein. He settles there and founds a family in October 1806. François is a direct ancestor of the author. His biography is retraced. The conditions of slave trade are analyzed for Nigeria, the trade itself as are society and culture in Guadeloupe. Which are the factors leading to the rebellion of May 1802? How Guadeloupe deals with it and the reintroduction of slavery? The deportation of the soldiers causes an international diplomatic affair. Which policy does Napoleon lead referring to people of color? What happens in the unit of Black Pioneers in Mantua? François is literally fighting for freedom and a humble decent life, free of the construct of slavery. He finds his freedom in the Danish duchy of Holstein. The book contributes a micro-historic view to the macro-history.

Author : Felicity Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107024397

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Montaigne and the Life of Freedom by Felicity Green Pdf

A new interpretation of the Essais, situating Montaigne's project of self-study in the context of a broader commitment to liberty.

Author : American Society for Legal History. Northeastern States Branch
Publisher : MICHIE
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044412778

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Essays in Legal History in Honor of Felix Frankfurter by American Society for Legal History. Northeastern States Branch Pdf

Author : Fred Dallmayr
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813165806

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Freedom and Solidarity by Fred Dallmayr Pdf

Fred Dallmayr bridges the gap between the self and the outside world in 'Freedom and Solidarity'. Drawing on new scholarship and his work with the World Public Forum Dialogue of Civilizations, he challenges dominant worldviews and heralds new possibilities for political thought and practice.

Author : Derek Thrower
Publisher : Robert Hale
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002163916

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The Lonely Path to Freedom by Derek Thrower Pdf

Author : Antonio García-Trevijano
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780761848578

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A Pure Theory of Democracy by Antonio García-Trevijano Pdf

'This is not a democracy,' Antonio Garc'a-Trevijano denounces in the first pages of this book. To confront the great lie that Europe does have democratic regimes, a lie rooted in people's confounding of the liberties they enjoy with the political freedom that they lack, the author builds a realistic theory of democracy to end the false idea that corruption, state crime, and public immorality are democracy's (undesirable) products and not the natural and inevitable fruits of oligarchic regimes. Thanks to a superb review of the events that mark the history of democracy, the author reveals the obstacles that, from the 17th century English revolution, the United States' War of Independence, and the French Revolution, opposed political freedom, deviating old Europe's democratic possibilities toward the current parties' state. There exist important theories of the state and of constitution, but none that can be called a theory of democracy. Antonio Garc'a-Trevijano's original theory, a modern synthesis of Rousseau's pure democracy and Montesquieu's political freedom, responds to European need for a theory of democracy as a real alternative to the corrupted parties' regime that was engendered by Western pragmatism during the Cold War.

Author : Bertrand Russell
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : EAN:4066338114495

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Proposed Roads to Freedom by Bertrand Russell Pdf

Proposed Roads to Freedom is a philosophical treaty written by Bertrand Russell which explores the different ways of improving society with the aim to create a better life for everyone, a life that is aimed at creation instead possession. In a society structured around possession, such as the imperialist capitalism, people who own property can force the masses who own nothing or next to nothing to do whatever they want. In practice, this leads to violation of human rights and exploitation of men, women and children. Russell discusses movements and theories to change society in order to eliminate problems of capitalism. He considers and gives a detailed and informative overview of the systems of anarchism, syndicalism and socialism; and propounds his views as to the most desirable form of societal organization.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : United States
ISBN : WISC:89062264213

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Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States: Civil War sketches and incidents by Anonim Pdf