Struggle By The Pen

Author : Ondřej Klimeš
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004288096

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Struggle by the Pen by Ondřej Klimeš Pdf

In Struggle by the Pen, Ondřej Klimeš explores the emergence of national consciousness and nationalist ideology of Uyghurs in Xinjiang from c. 1900-1949. Drawing from texts written by modern Uyghur intellectuals, politicians and propagandists throughout this period, he identifies diverse types of Uyghur discourse on the nation and national interest, and traces the emergence and construction of modern Uyghur national identity. The author also demonstrates that the modern Uyghur intelligentsia regarded political emancipation and social modernization as the two most important interests of their nation, and that they envisaged Uyghurs as citizens of a modern republican state founded on the principles of representative government. This book thus presents a new perspective on Uyghur intellectual history and on Republican Xinjiang.

Author : Charles Lindholm,José Pedro Zúquete
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804774222

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The Struggle for the World by Charles Lindholm,José Pedro Zúquete Pdf

What do Mexico's Zapatistas, the French National Front, Slow Food, rave subculture, and al-Qaeda all have in common? From right-wing to left-wing to no-wing, they all proudly proclaim their mission to defend their distinctive identities against modernity's homogenizing processes. This controversial book establishes fundamental similarities between anti-globalization "aurora" movements that aim to destroy the modern world and bring a radiant new dawn to humankind. While these groups often despise one another, they nonetheless share many fundamental characteristics, goals, and attitudes. Drawing on the original writings and actions of various anti-globalist groups, the authors reveal a common tendency toward charismatic leadership, good versus evil worldviews, the quest for authentic identity, concern with ritual, and unbending demands for total commitment. These movements, however they pursue world transformation and personal transcendence, are a prominent and continuing aspect of our present condition. This book is a strong reminder that, no matter what the cause, revolution is not a thing of the past and the fervent search for another world continues.

Author : Peter den Hertog
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526772398

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Why Did Hitler Hate the Jews? by Peter den Hertog Pdf

This investigation into the Nazi leader’s mindset is “an inherently fascinating study . . . a work of meticulously presented and seminal scholarship”(Midwest Book Review). Adolf Hitler’s virulent anti-Semitism is often attributed to external cultural and environmental factors. But as historian Peter den Hertog notes in this book, most of Hitler’s contemporaries experienced the same culture and environment and didn’t turn into rabid Jew-haters, let alone perpetrators of genocide. In this study, the author investigates what we do know about the roots of the German leader’s anti-Semitism. He also takes the significant step of mapping out what we do not know in detail, opening pathways to further research. Focusing not only on history but on psychology, forensic psychiatry, and related fields, he reveals how Hitler was a man with highly paranoid traits, and clarifies the causes behind this paranoia while explaining its connection to his anti-Semitism. The author also explores, and answers, whether the Führer gave one specific instruction ordering the elimination of Europe’s Jews, and, if so, when this took place. Peter den Hertog is able to provide an all-encompassing explanation for Hitler’s anti-Semitism by combining insights from many different disciplines—and makes clearer how Hitler’s own particular brand of anti-Semitism could lead the way to the Holocaust.

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MSU:31293017395454

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The history of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray Pdf

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10750555

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The History of Pendennis, His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy by William Makepeace Thackeray Pdf

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWEF5Y

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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray Pdf

Author : Richard J. Golsan
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498550338

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The Vichy Past in France Today by Richard J. Golsan Pdf

The Vichy Past in France Today: Corruptions of Memory is an interdisciplinary study examining the continuing impact of the memory of Vichy and World War II in French politics, literature, intellectual discourse and debates, and the law. It argues that despite multiple efforts in all of these areas to come to terms with France’s World War II past and to fulfill a “duty to memory” to Vichy’s Jewish victims, the nation is still not reconciled to the so-called “Dark Years,” even seventy years after the Liberation. Indeed the Vichy past “occupies” important recent works of literature, inflects much political discussion and debate, often serving as a metaphor for political (and moral) evil. Its legacies include the passage of problematic laws that dangerously distort and simplify complex historical realities. Chapter I examines the historical and legal legacies of the 1990s trials for crimes against humanity and traces their impact on the so-called “memorial laws” of the new century. Chapter II revisits the 2002 presidential elections in France and the impact of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s first round victory on intellectual and cultural debate. Chapter III explores Alain Badiou’s controversial characterization of Sarkozy’s presidential victory as a return of “Petainism” in The Meaning of Sarkozy. The discussion is cast against the backdrop of Badiou’s “radical” political thought and Sarkozy’s political uses and misuses of the World War II past. Chapter IV examines the controversy surrounding the publication of Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones (2006) and its morally and historically problematic portrayal of an unrepentant Nazi and SS officer. Chapter V discusses Yannick Haenel’s fictional recreation of the Polish resistance hero Jan Karski (The Messenger, 2009) in his novel by that name, and the polemics between the novel’s author and the maker of the classic Holocaust documentary film, Shoah, Claude Lanzmann. The Conclusion first explores the ways in which the memory of Vichy inflects literary and political reflections on the recent terrorist attacks in France. It also examines strategies proposed by French philosophers for moving beyond the “impasse” of Vichy’s memory in France before concluding with a different strategy proposed by the author for the French nation to move beyond the memory of the Dark Years.

Author : Brothers in Pen
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387844920

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Brothers in Pen: Pens Up, Don't Shoot by Brothers in Pen Pdf

Author : Craig Martin,Debbie Olson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040107188

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The Undead Child in Popular Culture by Craig Martin,Debbie Olson Pdf

In this study of representations of children and childhood, a global team of authors explores the theme of undeadness as it applies to cultural constructions of the child. Moving beyond conventional depictions of the undead in popular culture as living dead monsters of horror and mad science that transgress the borders between life and death, rejuvenation, and decay, the authors present undeadness as a broader concept that explores how people, objects, customs, and ideas deemed lost or consigned to the past might endure in the present. The chapters examine nostalgic texts that explore past incarnations of childhood, mementos of childhood, zombie children, spectral children, images and artefacts of deceased children, as well as states of arrested development and the inability or refusal to embrace adulthood. Expanding undeadness beyond the realm of horror and extending its meaning conceptually, while acknowledging its roots in the genre, the book explores attempts at countering the transitory nature of childhoods. This unique and insightful volume will interest scholars and students working on popular culture and cultural studies, media studies, film and television studies, childhood studies, gender studies, and philosophy.

Author : William Henry Thomes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Slavery
ISBN : UOMDLP:aan3648:0001.001

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A Slaver's Adventures on Land and Sea by William Henry Thomes Pdf

Author : Marina Sitrin
Publisher : AK Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781904859581

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Horizontalism by Marina Sitrin Pdf

A powerful oral history of modern day revolutionary Argentina. The social movements, neighborhood assemblies, and occupied factories.

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWEF7W

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The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray: The history of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray Pdf

Author : Graham T. Nessler
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626871

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An Islandwide Struggle for Freedom by Graham T. Nessler Pdf

Reinterpreting the Haitian Revolution as both an islandwide and a circum-Caribbean phenomenon, Graham Nessler examines the intertwined histories of Saint-Domingue, the French colony that became Haiti, and Santo Domingo, the Spanish colony that became the Dominican Republic. Tracing conflicts over the terms and boundaries of territory, liberty, and citizenship that transpired in the two colonies that shared one island, Nessler argues that the territories' borders and governance were often unclear and mutually influential during a tumultuous period that witnessed emancipation in Saint-Domingue and reenslavement in Santo Domingo. Nessler aligns the better-known history of the French side with a full investigation and interpretation of events on the Spanish side, articulating the importance of Santo Domingo in the conflicts that reshaped the political terrain of the Atlantic world. Nessler also analyzes the strategies employed by those claimed as slaves in both colonies to gain liberty and equal citizenship. In doing so, he reveals what was at stake for slaves and free nonwhites in their uses of colonial legal systems and how their understanding of legal matters affected the colonies' relationships with each other and with the French and Spanish metropoles.

Author : Sabiha Sertel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781788315999

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The Struggle for Modern Turkey by Sabiha Sertel Pdf

Sabiha Sertel was born into revolution in 1895, as an independent Turkey rose out of the dying Ottoman Empire. The nation's first professional female journalist, her unrelenting push for democracy and social reforms ultimately cost Sertel her country and freedom. Shortly before her death in 1968, Sertel completed her autobiography Roman Gibi (Like a Novel), which was written during her forced exile in the Soviet Union. Translated here into English for the first time, and complete with a new introduction and comprehensive annotations, it offers a rare perspective on Turkey's history as it moved to embrace democracy, then violently recoiled. The book reveals the voice of a passionate feminist and committed socialist who clashes with the young republic's leadership. A unique first-hand account, the text foreshadows Turkey's increasingly authoritarian state. Sertel offers her perspective on the fierce divisions over the republic's constitution and covers issues including freedom of the press, women's civil rights and the pre-WWII discussions with European leaders about Hitler's rising power. More information about the book, photographs, reviews and events can be found at a special website dedicated to the book: www.struggleformodernturkey.com

Author : William Makepeace Thackeray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNRZV

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The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray Pdf