The Devils Of Cardona

Author : Matthew Carr
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101982754

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The Devils of Cardona by Matthew Carr Pdf

"A thrilling quest for justice... [A] novel that is as exciting as it is enlightening from its first pages to its satisfying end.” —The New York Times Book Review “A page-turner in the proper sense… Mr. Carr has written a gripping and enjoyable novel.” —The Wall Street Journal The gripping story of the dangerous high-stakes worlds of politics and religion in sixteenth-century Spain as a mysterious Muslim killer retaliates against the Catholic Church. In March 1584, the priest of Belamar de la Sierra, a small town in Aragon near the French border, is murdered in his own church. Most of the town’s inhabitants are Moriscos, former Muslims who converted to Catholicism. Anxious to avert a violent backlash on the eve of a royal visit, an adviser to King Philip II appoints local magistrate Bernardo de Mendoza to investigate. A soldier and humanist, Mendoza doesn’t always live up to the moral standards expected of court officials, but he has a reputation for incorruptibility. From the beginning, Mendoza finds almost universal hatred for the priest. And it isn’t long before he’s drawn into a complex and dangerous world in which greed, fanaticism, and state policy overlap. And as the killings continue, Mendoza's investigation is overshadowed by the real prospect of an ethnic and religious civil war. By turns an involving historical thriller and a novel with parallels to our own time, The Devils of Cardona is an unexpected and compelling read.

Author : Asim Qureshi
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789650761

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A Virtue of Disobedience by Asim Qureshi Pdf

‘I hope that this short thought provoking meditation on rightful responses to injustice will trigger a societal discussion for the conscience and future of liberal democracies.’ Marc Sageman, former CIA officer ‘I find Qureshi’s personal tone profound and loud, and it does what all good works of politics and anti-racism should. It makes visible the most intimate ways white power impacts us, destroy us, and has us dream about our futures.’ Yassir Morsi, author of Radical Skin, Moderate Masks ‘Drawing on an extraordinary range of influences that includes Primo Levi, Tupac Shakur, fourteenth century Islamic jurists and the Qu’ran, Qureshi weaves a moving account of his personal political journey through the horrors of the early 21st century into an inspirational call for racial and political justice and critical Islamic scholarship.’ Matthew Carr, author of Blood & Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain In this new work of political philosophy, Asim Qureshi reflects on injustice he sees in the world around him. Covering issues from torture and extrajudicial killings, to racism and discrimination, A Virtue of Disobedience takes the reader on a journey through the history of oppression, and begins a conversation about how previous acts of resistance and disobedience, through faith and virtue, can be liberating in the range of contemporary issues communities face today.

Author : Matthew Carr
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849040273

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Blood and Faith by Matthew Carr Pdf

In 1609, King Philip III signed an edict denouncing the Muslim inhabitants of Spain as heretics, traitors, and apostates. Later that year, the entireMuslim population was given three days to leave Spanish territory, on threat of death. In a brutal and traumatic exodus, entire families and communitieswere obliged to abandon homes and villages where they had lived for generations. By 1614 Muslim Spain had effectively ceased to exist. Blood and Faith is Matthew Carrs riveting chronicle of this virtually unknown episode, set against the vivid historical backdrop of the history of Muslim Spain.

Author : Mathew Carr
Publisher : Pegasus Crime
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1643134248

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Black Sun Rising by Mathew Carr Pdf

A riveting thriller combining real historical events and characters with a sinister detective story of eugenics, racism, and nationalist paranoia. Barcelona, summer 1909. When the scientist and explorer Randolph Foulkes is blown up in a random terrorist bomb attack, private detective Harry Lawton is hired by the man’s widow to identify the beneficiary of a large payment Foulkes had made shortly before his death. Lawton’s arrival in the Catalan capital coincides with a series of unusual killings that appear to have been carried out by a blood-drinking animal in the Ramblas district and adds another element of instability to a city already teetering on the brink of insurrection. Lawton soon meets and teams up with Esperanza Claramunt, a young anarchist whose lover was one of the victims of the “beast of the Ramblas,” and the Catalan crime reporter Bernat Mata, who has begun investigating these crimes. So what begins as a straightforward investigation into presumed marital infidelity turns into something far more sinister, as Lawton probes Foulkes’ connections to the mysterious Explorers Club, the Barcelona political police, and an eccentric Austrian hypnotist. Adrift in a city gripped by rebellion and lawlessness, Lawton enters a labyrinth of murder, corruption, political conflict, and crazed racial pseudo-science where no one’s survival is guaranteed.

Author : Matthew CARR
Publisher : Sonatine
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9782355846687

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Les Diables de Cardona by Matthew CARR Pdf

Espagne, XVIe siècle : un mystérieux tueur musulman s'en prend à l'Église catholique. 1584. Le prêtre de Belamar de la Sierra, un petit village d'Aragon à la frontière avec la France, est assassiné, son église profanée. Sur les murs : des inscriptions en arabe. Est-ce l'œuvre de celui qui se fait appeler le Rédempteur, dont tout le monde ignore l'identité, et qui a promis l'extermination de tous les chrétiens, avec la même violence que celle exercée sur les musulmans ? La plupart des habitants de la région sont en effet des morisques, convertis de force au catholicisme, et qui pratiquent encore l'islam en secret. À la veille d'une visite royale, Bernardo de Mendoza, magistrat à Valladolid, soldat et humaniste, issu d'une famille juive, est chargé de l'enquête. Très vite, les tensions s'exacerbent entre les communautés, une véritable guerre de religion se profile. Et les meurtres continuent, toujours aussi inexplicables. Entre l'Inquisition et les extrémistes morisques et chrétiens, la tâche de Mendoza va se révéler ardue. Historien et spécialiste des religions, Matthew Carr nous transporte dans un XVIe siècle d'un réalisme époustouflant. Sa connaissance des mœurs de l'époque, son sens de l'intrigue, son empathie pour ses personnages, font de ce plaidoyer pour la liberté une œuvre inoubliable.

Author : Raphael Minder
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781849048033

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The Struggle for Catalonia by Raphael Minder Pdf

Analyses with rare impartiality what sets the Catalans apart from Spain, and how the separatist debate is playing out.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05
Category : Talking books
ISBN : UFL:31262095581004

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Talking Book Topics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew Carr
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781620972335

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Fortress Europe by Matthew Carr Pdf

Singled out by Foreign Affairs for its reporting on “the brutal frontiers of new Europe,” Fortress Europe is the story of how the world’s most affluent region—and history’s greatest experiment with globalization—has become an immigration war zone, where tens of thousands have died in a humanitarian crisis that has galvanized the world’s attention. Journalist Matthew Carr brings to life remarkable human dramas, based on ex- tensive interviews and firsthand reporting from the hot zones of Europe’s immigration battles, in a narrative that moves from the desperate immigrant camps at the mouth of the Channel Tunnel in Calais, France, to the chaotic Mediterranean sea, where African migrants have drowned by the thousands. Speaking with key European policy makers, police, soldiers on the front lines, immigrant rights activists, and an astonishing range of migrants themselves, Carr offers a lucid account both of the broad issues at stake in the crisis and its exorbitant human costs. The paperback edition includes a new afterword by the author, which offers an up-to-the-minute assessment of the 2015 crisis and a searing critique of Europe’s response to the new waves of refugees.

Author : Matthew Carr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Terrorism
ISBN : 184904080X

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The Infernal Machine by Matthew Carr Pdf

Today, political violence has become the scourge of our world and terrorism is routinely described as a uniquely modern evil. Yet however unprecedented in scope the new terrorist organizations might appear, Matthew Carr argues in this definitive history of terrorism that they are merely offshoots of a spectacular bombing in 1881: the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II by terrorists ...or were they freedom fighters? Thus begins a narrative of extraordinary sweep that Publishers Weekly called 'engrossing, unsettling' and the Boston Globe praised as 'brave and wise' and 'a book for the ages.' In The Infernal Machine, Carr unearths the complex realities of terrorist violence and its indelible impact on nations as different as Italy, Argentina, France, Algeria, Ireland, Russia, Japan, and the United States. Spanning over a century of world history, The Infernal Machine reveals stunning similarities in societies' responses to terrorism despite profound political and cultural differences. Carr demonstrates again and again that the true impact of terrorism has been felt in the overreactions of government and the media to acts of political violence. This encyclopedic and diagnostic primer for our frightening times allows us to see our current predicament against a background of striking historical parallels.

Author : Dean N. Jensen
Publisher : Crown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307986580

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Queen of the Air by Dean N. Jensen Pdf

A true life Water for Elephants, Queen of the Air brings the circus world to life through the gorgeously written, true story of renowned trapeze artist and circus performer Leitzel, Queen of the Air, the most famous woman in the world at the turn of the 20th century, and her star-crossed love affair with Alfredo Codona, of the famous Flying Codona Brothers. Like today's Beyonce, Madonna, and Cher, she was known to her vast public by just one name, Leitzel. There may have been some regions on earth where her name was not a household expression, but if so, they were likely on polar ice caps or in the darkest, deepest jungles. Leitzel was born into Dickensian circumstances, and became a princess and then a queen. She was not much bigger than a good size fairy, just four-foot-ten and less than 100 pounds. In the first part of the 20th century, she presided over a sawdust fiefdom of never-ending magic. She was the biggest star ever of the biggest circus ever, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Greatest Show on Earth. In her life, Leitzel had many suitors (and three husbands), but only one man ever fully captured her heart. He was the handsome Alfredo Codona, the greatest trapeze flyer that had ever lived, the only one in his time who, night after night, executed the deadliest of all big-top feats, The Triple--three somersaults in midair while traveling at 60 m.p.h. The Triple, the salto mortale, as the Italians called it, took the lives of more daredevils than any other circus stunt.

Author : Matthew Carr
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620970782

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Sherman's Ghosts by Matthew Carr Pdf

This “thought-provoking” military history considers the influence of General Sherman’s Civil War tactics on American conflicts through the twentieth century (The New York Times). “To know what war is, one should follow our tracks,” Gen. William T. Sherman once wrote to his wife, describing the devastation left by his armies in Georgia. Sherman’s Ghosts is an investigation of those tracks, as well as those left across the globe by the American military in the 150 years since Sherman’s infamous “March to the Sea.” Sherman’s Ghosts opens with an epic retelling of General Sherman’s fateful decision to terrorize the South’s civilian population in order to break the back of the Confederacy. Acclaimed journalist and historian Matthew Carr exposes how this strategy, which Sherman called “indirect warfare,” became the central preoccupation of war planners in the twentieth century and beyond. He offers a lucid assessment of the impact Sherman’s slash-and-burn policies have had on subsequent wars and military conflicts, including World War II and in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and even Iraq and Afghanistan. In riveting accounts of military campaigns and in the words of American soldiers and strategists, Carr finds ample evidence of Sherman’s long shadow. Sherman’s Ghosts is a rare reframing of how we understand our violent history and a call to action for those who hope to change it.

Author : Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Publisher : Institut d'Estudis Catalans
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1985-07-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9788472830714

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The Spirit of Catalonia by Institut d'Estudis Catalans Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:30000108628326

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Abstracts of Folklore Studies by Anonim Pdf

Author : Erika Cardona
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0999163019

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Little Bear Teddy by Erika Cardona Pdf

Little Bear Teddy has the perfect plan of practicing his football skills on the lawn after school, but a big storm comes and ruins the neighborhood. He has to move to a home in a new city and isn't very thrilled, but it turns out that moving isn't so bad after all.

Author : Matthew Carr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787380738

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Savage Frontier by Matthew Carr Pdf