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Author : Susan Banfield
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015016934740
Recounts the political, social, and economic turmoil that took place during the French Revolution.
Author : Spencer Ackerman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781984879783
A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021 "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. The result is a narrative of the last 20 years that is upsetting, discerning and brilliantly argued." —The New York Times "One of the most illuminating books to come out of the Trump era." —New York Magazine An examination of the profound impact that the War on Terror had in pushing American politics and society in an authoritarian direction For an entire generation, at home and abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, the era pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance; weakened the rule of law through indefinite detentions; sanctioned torture; and manipulated the truth about it all. These conflicts have yielded neither peace nor victory, but they have transformed America. What began as the persecution of Muslims and immigrants has become a normalized feature of American politics and national security, expanding the possibilities for applying similar or worse measures against other targets at home, as the summer of 2020 showed. A politically divided and economically destabilized country turned the War on Terror into a cultural—and then a tribal—struggle. It began on the ideological frontiers of the Republican Party before expanding to conquer the GOP, often with the acquiescence of the Democratic Party. Today’s nativist resurgence walked through a door opened by the 9/11 era. And that door remains open. Reign of Terror shows how these developments created an opportunity for American authoritarianism and gave rise to Donald Trump. It shows that Barack Obama squandered an opportunity to dismantle the War on Terror after killing Osama bin Laden. By the end of his tenure, the war had metastasized into a bitter, broader cultural struggle in search of a demagogue like Trump to lead it. Reign of Terror is a pathbreaking and definitive union of journalism and intellectual history with the power to transform how America understands its national security policies and their catastrophic impact on civic life.
Author : George Alfred Henty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : France
ISBN : UOM:39015073483532
Author : Valdemar Langlet
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510701946
The memoirs of a man who saved thousands from the Nazi death camps. Although not as well-known as Raoul Wallenberg, Valdemar Langlet was the savior of thousands of Jews in Budapest in the last two years of World War II. Entirely without the permission or the financial support of the Swedish Red Cross, he issued so-called “Letters of Protection,” which were passport-like documents with official-looking stamps that frequently saved Hungarian Jews from deportation to the death camps. Then chaos broke out in the streets and the Germans put their Arrow Cross allies in power. With the approaching Red Army threatening to turn the city into a battleground, Langlet risked his life to shelter Jews and other refugees in safe houses throughout Budapest. A gifted linguist, Langlet was able to deal directly with Hungarian officials, who were often themselves eager to have the protection of the Swedish Red Cross emblem on their own houses as the war drew closer to the capital. Later, he communicated with the Soviet commanders who took control after fierce fighting had destroyed much of Budapest. This is a unique and fascinating memoir of a man who saved thousands of lives during one of the most terrible episodes in world history without official authority or support from his own country. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
Author : Charles Townshend
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780198809098
"Is terrorism crime or war? Can there be a 'war against terrorism'? In this fully updated edition, Charles Townshend unravels the questions at the heart of the problem of terrorism - its causes, methods, effects, and limitations - suggesting that it must be understood as a political strategy whose threat can be rationally grasped and answered"--Publisher's description.
Author : John Mortimer
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241968147
Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Now, for the first time, the sensational story of the Penge Bungalow Murders case is told in full: how, shortly after the war, Rumpole took on the seemingly impossible task of defending young Simon Jerold, accused of murdering his father and his father's friend with a German officer's gun. And how the inexperienced young brief was left alone to pursue the path of justice, in a case that was to echo through the Bailey for years to come.
Author : Ronen Steinberg
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501739255
The Afterlives of the Terror explores how those who experienced the mass violence of the French Revolution struggled to come to terms with it. Focusing on the Reign of Terror, Ronen Steinberg challenges the presumption that its aftermath was characterized by silence and enforced collective amnesia. Instead, he shows that there were painful, complex, and sometimes surprisingly honest debates about how to deal with its legacies. As The Afterlives of the Terror shows, revolutionary leaders, victims' families, and ordinary citizens argued about accountability, retribution, redress, and commemoration. Drawing on the concept of transitional justice and the scholarship on the major traumas of the twentieth century, Steinberg explores how the French tried, but ultimately failed, to leave this difficult past behind. He argues that it was the same democratizing, radicalizing dynamic that led to the violence of the Terror, which also gave rise to an unprecedented interrogation of how society is affected by events of enormous brutality. In this sense, the modern question of what to do with difficult pasts is one of the unanticipated consequences of the eighteenth century's age of democratic revolutions.
Author : Rachel Hope Cleves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521884358
In this book, Cleves argues that American fears of the violence of the French Revolution led to antislavery, antiwar, and public education movements.
Author : Grace Dalrymple Elliott
Publisher : [London] Rodale Press [1859]
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : France
ISBN : OXFORD:503706632
"Published posthumously by her grand-daughter. Grace Dalrymple Elliott was a beautiful Scots courtesan who was mistress to a string of powerful and influential men including the Prince of Wales. In this journal she claims to have been imprisoned in Paris four times and to have acted as a go-between for Marie Antoinette and Louis XVIII. Napoleon himself is said to have proposed to her."--Abebooks.
Author : Howard G. Brown
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0813927293
"Filled with critical insights, Brown's revisionist study utilizes an impressive array of archival sources, some only recently cataloged, to support his thesis that the French Revolution survived until 1802 and the Consulate regime.... This volume should be a priority for all historians and serious students interested in modern French history. Summing Up: Essential."--Choice "What Brown has done is to put all historians of the French Revolution in his debt by the thoroughness with which he explores an important aspect of the complex and interrelated problems posed by any attempt to create a new social and moral order based on principles that could prove to be self-contradictory and were neither understood nor welcomed by a substantial proportion of the population."--English Historical Review "This is one of the most important pieces of scholarship on the French Revolution since the 1989 bicentennial."--David Bell, Johns Hopkins University For two centuries, the early years of the French Revolution have inspired countless democratic movements around the world. Yet little attention has been paid to the problems of violence, justice, and repression between the Reign of Terror and the dictatorship of Napoleon Bonaparte. In Ending the French Revolution, Howard Brown analyzes these years to reveal the true difficulty of founding a liberal democracy in the midst of continual warfare, repeated coups d'état, and endemic civil strife. By highlighting the role played by violence and fear in generating illiberal politics, Brown speaks to the struggles facing democracy in our own age. The result is a fundamentally new understanding of the French Revolution's disappointing outcome. Howard G. Brown, Professor of History at Binghamton University, State University of New York, is the author of War, Revolution, and the Bureaucratic State: Politics and Army Administration in France, 1791-1799 and coeditor of Taking Liberties: Problems of a New Order from the French Revolution to Napoleon. Winner of the American Historical Association's 2006 Leo Gershoy Award and the University of Virginia's 2004 Walker Cowen Memorial Prize for an outstanding work of scholarship in eighteenth-century studies
Author : Jörg Baberowski
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300136982
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. What Was Stalinism? -- 2. Imperial Spaces of Violence -- 3. Pyrrhic Victories -- 4. Subjugation -- 5. Dictatorship of Dread -- 6. Wars -- 7. Stalin's Heirs -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Author : Edmond de Pressensé,John Power Lacroix
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Church and state
ISBN : WISC:89013484027
Author : Michel Parry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Horror tales
ISBN : 0552103357
Author : David Andress
Publisher : Farrar Straus & Giroux
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0374273413
An incisive new interpretation of the French Revolution and its violent upheaval looks at troubling parallels between the Terror and the rise of today's political and religious fundamentalism, arguing that the violence of the French Revolution resulted from dogmatic and fundamental thinking that led to a pointless bloodletting.
Author : Mark Morrison,Penelope Love
Publisher : Chaosium
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1568824513
Reign of Terror is an epic two-part historical scenario, set during the French Revolution, and playable as a stand-alone mini-campaign or as an historical interlude for use with Chaosium's premium campaign Horror on the Orient Express.