The Indispensable Zinn

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781595586933

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The Indispensable Zinn by Howard Zinn Pdf

A “well-chosen anthology of the radical historian’s prodigious output,” from A People’s History of the United States and lesser known sources (Kirkus Reviews). When Howard Zinn died in early 2010, millions of Americans mourned the loss of one of the nation’s foremost intellectual and political guides; a historian, activist, and truth-teller who, in the words of the New York Times’s Bob Herbert, “peel[ed] back the rosy veneer of much of American history to reveal sordid realities that had remained hidden for too long.” A collection designed to highlight Zinn’s essential writings, The Indispensable Zinn includes excerpts from Zinn’s bestselling A People’s History of the United States; his memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train; his inspiring writings on the civil rights movement, and the full text of his celebrated play, Marx in Soho. Noted historian and activist Timothy Patrick McCarthy provides essential historical and biographical context for each selection. With a foreword by Noam Chomsky and an afterword from Zinn’s former Spellman College student and longtime friend, Alice Walker, The Indispensable Zinn is both a fitting tribute to the legacy of a man whose “work changed the way millions of people saw the past,” and a powerful and accessible introduction for anyone coming to Zinn’s essential body of work for the first time (Noam Chomsky).

Author : Robert Cohen,Sonia E. Murrow
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780820368931

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Rethinking America's Past by Robert Cohen,Sonia E. Murrow Pdf

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Civil disobedience
ISBN : 9781608462599

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Howard Zinn Speaks by Howard Zinn Pdf

Howard Zinn weaves rich historical narratives that inspire and captivate.

Author : David Detmer
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781785356797

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Zinnophobia by David Detmer Pdf

Zinnophobia offers an extended defense of the work of radical historian Howard Zinn, author of the bestselling A People's History of the United States, against his many critics. It includes a discussion of the attempt to ban Zinn's book from Indiana classrooms; a brief summary of Zinn's life and work; an analysis of Zinn's theorizing about bias and objectivity in history; and a detailed response to twenty-five of Zinn's most hostile critics, many of whom are (or were) eminent historians. 'A major contribution to bringing Zinn’s great contributions to even broader public attention, and exposing features of intellectual and political culture that are of no little interest.' Noam Chomsky

Author : Carroll L. Estes,with Nicholas B. DiCarlo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429619588

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Aging A-Z by Carroll L. Estes,with Nicholas B. DiCarlo Pdf

This provocative, intellectually charged treatise serves as a concise introduction to emancipatory gerontology, examining multiple dimensions of persistent and hotly debated topics around aging, the life course, the roles of power, politics and partisanship, culture, economics, and communications. Critical perspectives are presented as definitions for reader understanding, with links to concepts of identity, knowledge construction, social networks, social movements, and inequalities. With today’s intensifying concentration of wealth and corporatization, precarity is the fate for growing numbers of the world’s population. Intersectionality as an analytic concept offers a new appreciation of how social advantage and disadvantage accumulate, and how constructions of race, ethnicity, class, ability, and gender influence aging. The book’s entries offer a bibliographic compendium, crediting the salience of early pioneering theorists and locating these within the cutting-edge of research (social, behavioral, policy, and gene–environment sciences) that currently advances our understandings of human development, trauma, and resilience. Accompanying these foundations are theories of resistance for advancing human rights and the dignity of marginalized populations.

Author : Khairudin Aljunied,Syed Muhd. Khairudin Aljunied
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9780197514412

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Shapers of Islam in Southeast Asia by Khairudin Aljunied,Syed Muhd. Khairudin Aljunied Pdf

"One of the largest Muslim populations in the world today resides in Southeast Asia. The region has also produced its own pedigree of reformers who have critiqued the limits of Islamic thought and propounded new lines of thinking in the road to construct a better ummah. This book captures the progressive and pluralistic nature of Islamic reformism in Southeast Asia from the mid-twentieth century onwards, a period can now be regarded as the age of networked Islam. Offering a fresh conceptualization that could be well applied in the parts of the Islamic world, the author shows how several influential Muslim intellectuals have given rise to an "Islamic reformist mosaic" in Southeast Asia. Representing different strands of reformist thinking, these shapers of Islam form a unified and coherent frame of thought that distinguishes itself from the ultra-traditionalist and ultra-secularist leanings. This fascinating study is indispensable to anyone interested in understanding the challenges facing Islam and other religions in the modern world"--

Author : Jim Downs,Erica Armstrong Dunbar,T. K. Hunter,Timothy Patrick McCarthy
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231549875

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Reckoning with History by Jim Downs,Erica Armstrong Dunbar,T. K. Hunter,Timothy Patrick McCarthy Pdf

Reckoning with History brings together original essays from a diverse group of historians who consider how writing about the past can engage with the urgent issues of the present. The contributors—all former students of the distinguished Columbia University historian Eric Foner—explore the uses and politics of history through key episodes across a wide range of struggles for freedom. They shed new light on how different groups have defined and fought for freedom throughout American history, as well as the ways in which the ideal of freedom remains unrealized today. Covering a broad range of topics, these essays offer insight into how historians practice their craft in different ways and illuminate what it means to be a socially and politically engaged historian.

Author : Robert E. Babe
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781498506823

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Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky Meet Harold Innis by Robert E. Babe Pdf

Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky Meet Harold Innis is an original, critical, in-depth analysis of the media and communication thought of Canada’s most highly acclaimed scholar, Harold Adams Innis. Even in Canada, however, Innis’s writings until now have been only partially cited and interpreted: Innis is usually stereotyped as being merely an economic historian fixated on previous civilizations, whereas in fact he was an astute analyst whose main concerns were with present problems and future trajectories. In the United States, meanwhile, Innis’s media and communication writings have been quite neglected and even denigrated. Drawing on Innis’s less frequently cited work, including his long neglected Political Economy in the Modern State, Robert Babe opens up Innis’s media scholarship as a whole, unfolding it in startling critical, yet ultimately appreciative ways. By comparing Innis’s media scholarship with Wilbur Schramm's and Noam Chomsky's, moreover, Babe tests the claims, positions, and modes of analysis not only of Innis, but also of the other two celebrated scholars as well, casting new light on their works and allowing the reader to imagine what sort of discourses might have been possible had the three been in conversation together. Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky Meet Harold Innis provides comparative insight into foundational media scholarship in the United States and Canada, and explores in some detail the relevance of Innis for twenty-first century digitized society.

Author : Jason Olsen
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476642611

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Mark Gruenwald and the Star Spangled Symbolism of Captain America, 1985-1995 by Jason Olsen Pdf

From 1985 to 1995, Mark Gruenwald was the head writer for Captain America. During this decade, Gruenwald wrote some of the most essential stories in Captain America's history and guided the comic through an eventful period of both world history and comic book history. This book dissects the influence of the world at large on Gruenwald's stories and the subsequent influence of Gruenwald's work on the world of comics. The book's ten chapters discuss a wide range of topics including the generational tensions inherent in a comic about a G.I. Generation hero, written by a baby boomer, for an audience of Gen Xers; the enduring threat of the Red Skull and the never-ending aura of World War II; the rising popularity of vigilante characters during the '90s; and how Captain America fits into the war on drugs and its "just say no" mentality. Set against the declining American patriotism of the 1980s and 1990s, this book places special emphasis on the symbolism of the most American of superheroes.

Author : Paul Lauter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781580469906

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Our Sixties by Paul Lauter Pdf

The social movements of the 1960s - still vital and challenging - seen through the author's experiences as a civil rights activist, a feminist, an antiwar organizer, and a radical teacher.

Author : Helen Fordham
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030308773

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George Seldes’ War for the Public Good by Helen Fordham Pdf

This book examines the idea of fake news through an analysis of the work of early to mid-twentieth century press critic George Seldes. By examining fake news - also known as propaganda and misinformation - from this period it becomes evident that it is a phenomenon that emerges in response to particular social, political and economic conditions. It is, therefore, not a new process but always a feature of the media ecosystem. Seldes’ work makes evident that contemporary anxieties about the role, function, future and credibility of journalism were expressed in the 1930s and 1940s. The same fears were circulated about the consequences of fake news and propaganda on democratic debate. The same concerns were also expressed about how technology extends the circulation of propaganda and fake news, and affects journalism practices. An analysis of Seldes’ media criticism of the fake news, lies and propaganda in daily newspapers in the 1930s and 1940s exposes the historical nature and impact of fake news on public debate, and affirms the critical role of journalists in exposing fake news.

Author : Alain F. Corcos
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781627878685

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The Folly of War by Alain F. Corcos Pdf

During all its history humanity it seems, has not learned a thing about the stupidity of war and its horrors. Today, the Middle East is in flames, Israelis are fighting the Palestinians; there is killing each day in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and other parts of the world; cities are destroyed by incessant bombing. Victims are fleeing the killing, and emigration to Europe is at an all-time high. But contrary to the young soldiers in the US who learn about the inhumanness of war when they are sent to Vietnam or the Middle East, Alain Corcos lived through War World II as a teenager, then escaped with his brother from Nazi France across the Spanish border and joined the Allied Forces in Casablanca in March 1944, three months before D-Day. As an old man today, Corcos had time to reflect on war, and in his book The Folly of War he paints the pains that soldiers and civilians go through in any kind of war. He wonders if humanity is ready for peace. Wouldn't it be more reasonable to work together than killing each other for foolish reasons? We face many challenges -- the threat of nuclear war, overpopulation, climate change, and worldwide pandemics, to name a few. Corcos explores real solutions that offer hope instead of continued destruction.

Author : Meg Gorzycki
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532618499

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Caesar Ate My Jesus by Meg Gorzycki Pdf

What the hell happened on the way to making the world a better place? We boomers were told our success would be unlimited. We had democracy and capitalism, and God was on our side. We took our religious teachings seriously, and set out to end bigotry, violence, and destitution. Inevitably, we collided with American Caesars, whose power and wealth was sufficient to dominate national and international affairs. Political and religious Caesars appropriated Jesus and used him to justify war, sexism, racism, dictatorships, and poverty. What were the faithful to do? Lots of boomers I know tossed the spiritual baby out with the religious institution's bathwater, and became cynical about civic engagement. It is not time to abandon hope in our goodness, however, and it is not time to surrender our conscience to Caesar. Our experiences as boomers teach us that it is possible to bring the love of God to bear in our lives, despite Caesar's constant pressure to cherish power, wealth, celebrity, and things more than we cherish people. This book is for folks who are ready to get off Caesar's treadmill and dig deeply into their hearts and minds to see what remains of the Kingdom of God within.

Author : John Shattuck,Sushma Raman,Mathias Risse
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781620977248

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Holding Together by John Shattuck,Sushma Raman,Mathias Risse Pdf

A bold new assessment of the multipronged attack on rights in the United States, and how to push back An overwhelming majority of Americans agree that rights are essential to their freedom, and that rights today are severely threatened. The promise of rights has been reimagined at pivotal moments in American history—from the American Revolution to the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement. Can today become another time of transformation? Holding Together is about the promise of rights as a source of American identity, the struggle to realize rights by countless Americans to whom the promise has been denied or not fulfilled, the hijacking of rights by politicians who seek power by dividing and polarizing, and the way forward in which rights can bring Americans together instead of tearing them apart. Drawing on a series of town hall meetings with representative groups of citizens across the country discussing their concerns over rights, new national opinion polls from all demographic groups and political perspectives conducted in 2020 and 2021, and extensive research, Holding Together is a road map for an American rights revival. John Shattuck, Sushma Raman, and Mathias Risse present a comprehensive account of the current state of rights in the United States—and concrete recommendations to policy makers and citizens on how to reclaim them.

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015080880506

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The Zinn Reader by Howard Zinn Pdf

Represents Howard Zinn through the depth and breadth of his concerns in one volume. Whether his subject is war, race, politics, economic justice or history itself, each of his works serves as a reminder that embracing one's subjectivity can mean embracing one's humanity. The result is a monumental book that will remain, alongside A People's History of the United States, as an essential and necessary Zinn text.