The People S State

Author : Mary Fulbrook
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300176384

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The People's State by Mary Fulbrook Pdf

What was life really like for East Germans, effectively imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain? The headline stories of Cold War spies and surveillance by the secret police, of political repression and corruption, do not tell the whole story. After the unification of Germany in 1990 many East Germans remembered their lives as interesting, varied, and full of educational, career, and leisure opportunities: in many ways “perfectly ordinary lives.” Using the rich resources of the newly-opened GDR archives, Mary Fulbrook investigates these conflicting narratives. She explores the transformation of East German society from the ruins of Hitler's Third Reich to a modernizing industrial state. She examines changing conceptions of normality within an authoritarian political system, and provides extraordinary insights into the ways in which individuals perceived their rights and actively sought to shape their own lives. Replacing the simplistic black-and-white concept of “totalitarianism” by the notion of a “participatory dictatorship,” this book seeks to reinstate the East German people as actors in their own history.

Author : Mary Fulbrook,Professor of German History Mary Fulbrook
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300108842

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The People's State by Mary Fulbrook,Professor of German History Mary Fulbrook Pdf

An insight into the experience of life within the East German dictatorship

Author : Howard Zinn
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0060528427

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A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Pdf

Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.

Author : Alan McDougall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107052031

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The People's Game by Alan McDougall Pdf

From star players to rioting fans, The People's Game examines how football shaped the history of communist East Germany.

Author : Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807013144

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An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (10th Anniversary Edition) by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Pdf

New York Times Bestseller Now part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul Peck Recipient of the American Book Award The first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land. The centuries-long genocidal program of the US settler-colonial regimen has largely been omitted from history. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian and activist Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz offers a history of the United States told from the perspective of Indigenous peoples and reveals how Native Americans, for centuries, actively resisted expansion of the US empire. With growing support for movements such as the campaign to abolish Columbus Day and replace it with Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest led by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States is an essential resource providing historical threads that are crucial for understanding the present. In An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Dunbar-Ortiz adroitly challenges the founding myth of the United States and shows how policy against the Indigenous peoples was colonialist and designed to seize the territories of the original inhabitants, displacing or eliminating them. And as Dunbar-Ortiz reveals, this policy was praised in popular culture, through writers like James Fenimore Cooper and Walt Whitman, and in the highest offices of government and the military. Shockingly, as the genocidal policy reached its zenith under President Andrew Jackson, its ruthlessness was best articulated by US Army general Thomas S. Jesup, who, in 1836, wrote of the Seminoles: “The country can be rid of them only by exterminating them.” Spanning more than four hundred years, this classic bottom-up peoples’ history radically reframes US history and explodes the silences that have haunted our national narrative. An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States is a 2015 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature.

Author : William J. Novak
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807863657

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The People’s Welfare by William J. Novak Pdf

Much of today's political rhetoric decries the welfare state and our maze of government regulations. Critics hark back to a time before the state intervened so directly in citizens' lives. In The People's Welfare, William Novak refutes this vision of a stateless past by documenting America's long history of government regulation in the areas of public safety, political economy, public property, morality, and public health. Challenging the myth of American individualism, Novak recovers a distinctive nineteenth-century commitment to shared obligations and public duties in a well-regulated society. Novak explores the by-laws, ordinances, statutes, and common law restrictions that regulated almost every aspect of America's society and economy, including fire regulations, inspection and licensing rules, fair marketplace laws, the moral policing of prostitution and drunkenness, and health and sanitary codes. Based on a reading of more than one thousand court cases in addition to the leading legal and political texts of the nineteenth century, The People's Welfare demonstrates the deep roots of regulation in America and offers a startling reinterpretation of the history of American governance.

Author : Hong Sheng,Nong Zhao
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : China
ISBN : 9789814383844

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China's State-owned Enterprises by Hong Sheng,Nong Zhao Pdf

The Nature, the Performance, and the Reform of State-owned Enterprises provides a detailed description of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China with respect to both efficiency and income distribution. It shows that state ownership in the form of SOEs does not use resources efficiently and has a poor record in income distribution. Moreover, SOEs are found to enjoy unfair advantages in their competition with other firms. To illustrate the point, the book presents data revealing how favored policies, monopolistic powers, and subsidies benefit SOEs. These advantages are worth several trillion yuans a year. It is a sad irony that such wealth of the people is used to beef up the revenues of the SOEs, making their accounts look much better than they should be.This book, with its rich empirical data and information, is an authoritative reference for researchers interested in SOEs. It is also a good read for students of social sciences and the public to learn more about SOEs.

Author : John Walker,Benjamin Humphrey Smart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : English language
ISBN : IBNN:BN000648189

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Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Adapted to the Present State of Literature and Science by John Walker,Benjamin Humphrey Smart Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House Internal Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119494719

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National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) and Peoples Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ), Part 1, Hearings Before ... by United States. Congress. House Internal Security Pdf

Author : Howard Zinn,Anthony Arnove
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781583229477

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Voices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn,Anthony Arnove Pdf

Here in their own words are Frederick Douglass, George Jackson, Chief Joseph, Martin Luther King Jr., Plough Jogger, Sacco and Vanzetti, Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Mark Twain, and Malcolm X, to name just a few of the hundreds of voices that appear in Voices of a People's History of the United States, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Paralleling the twenty-four chapters of Zinn's A People's History of the United States, Voices of a People’s History is the long-awaited companion volume to the national bestseller. For Voices, Zinn and Arnove have selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites. Zinn has written short introductions to the texts, which range in length from letters or poems of less than a page to entire speeches and essays that run several pages. Voices of a People’s History is a symphony of our nation’s original voices, rich in ideas and actions, the embodiment of the power of civil disobedience and dissent wherein lies our nation’s true spirit of defiance and resilience.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Subversive activities
ISBN : MINN:31951P00475109Y

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National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) and Peoples Coalition for Peace & Justice (PCPJ) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Subversive activities
ISBN : LOC:00024276582

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National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC) and Peoples Coalition for Peace & Justice (PCPJ): July 13-15, 1971 (including index) by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Internal Security Pdf

Author : Joy Lisi Rankin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780674988514

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A People’s History of Computing in the United States by Joy Lisi Rankin Pdf

Does Silicon Valley deserve all the credit for digital creativity and social media? Joy Rankin questions this triumphalism by revisiting a pre-PC time when schools were not the last stop for mature consumer technologies but flourishing sites of innovative collaboration—when users taught computers and visionaries dreamed of networked access for all.

Author : Michigan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B3683389

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Public and Local Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan by Michigan Pdf

Includes regular, special, adjourned and extra sessions

Author : Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781541788480

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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear by Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling Pdf

A tiny American town's plans for radical self-government overlooked one hairy detail: no one told the bears. Once upon a time, a group of libertarians got together and hatched the Free Town Project, a plan to take over an American town and completely eliminate its government. In 2004, they set their sights on Grafton, NH, a barely populated settlement with one paved road. When they descended on Grafton, public funding for pretty much everything shrank: the fire department, the library, the schoolhouse. State and federal laws became meek suggestions, scarcely heard in the town's thick wilderness. The anything-goes atmosphere soon caught the attention of Grafton's neighbors: the bears. Freedom-loving citizens ignored hunting laws and regulations on food disposal. They built a tent city in an effort to get off the grid. The bears smelled food and opportunity. A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear is the sometimes funny, sometimes terrifying tale of what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Complete with gunplay, adventure, and backstabbing politicians, this is the ultimate story of a quintessential American experiment -- to live free or die, perhaps from a bear.