Tom Paine and Revolutionary America
Eric Foner
A critical biography of the Revolutionary pamphleteer, exploring the origins, expression, and impact of his ideas and the place of his radical ideology in the eighteenth-century world.
Read Time: ~5.2 hr
Changing Venezuela by taking power
by Gregory Wilpert (2007)
About this book
Exposing the self-serving logic behind much middle-class opposition to Venezuela's elected leader, this book argues that the Chavez government has instituted one of the progressive constitutions, but warns that they have yet to overcome the dangerous spectres of the country's past.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreChanging Venezuela by taking power Lead Character
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"Despite its centrality to the political life of India and Pakistan, Kashmir has met with rather perfunctory treatment from historians of South Asia. The few works of history and politics that have appeared on this region, moreover, insist on defining Kashmiri culture, history, and identity in terms of the ahistorical concept of Kashmiriyat, or a uniquely Kashmiri cultural identity. This book, in contrast, questions the notion of any transcendent cultural uniqueness and Kashmiriyat by returning Kashmir to the mainstream of South Asian historiography. It examines the hundred-year impact of indirect colonial rule on Kashmirs class formation. It studies the uses (and abuses) made of Kashmirs political elites by the state. It looks at the responses of Kashmirs society to social and economic restructuring. It shows that while all these historical changes had a profound impact on the political culture of the Kashmir Valley, there is nothing very inevitable or quite definite about the 'political regionalism' and 'Islamic particularism' of this area. Using local language sources and every important archive, this major history of the formation of Kashmir shows precisely how the Kashmir Valley assumed the position it has come to occupy in postcolonial South Asia."--Jacket.
La memoria incómoda
Alejandro R.H. Carbonell
La memoria incómoda es un testimonio personal de uno de los abogados que sobrevivieron a aquella espantosa matanza atribuida a la extrema derecha ocurrida en Madrid en 1977, en un despacho de abogados. En enero de 2017 se cumplen 40 años de aquéllos lamentables hechos que sucedieron en el umbral de la transición a la democracia en España. Cuatro abogados y un administrativo resultaron muertos y otros cuatro abogados heridos de gravedad. El libro (2002) escrito con la pulsión del instante y la serenidad del recuerdo cuenta aquellos hechos y muchos otros, que fueron consecuencia de aquel tiempo que trajo la libertad política a nuestro país. Esta es su tercera edición actualizada. Es un libro atípico, pero un testimonio imprescindible de la transición y por eso está en la calle; para que la historia de Atocha perviva en la memoria colectiva y como homenaje a los que murieron allí el 24 de Enero de 1977.
The long shadow of the Civil War
Victoria E. Bynum
The Long Shadow of the Civil War relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern states--North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas--Victoria E. Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers, defiant women, socialists, populists, free blacks, and large interracial kin groups that belie stereotypes of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the Confederate cause. Centered on the concepts of place, family, and community, Bynum's insightful and carefully documented work effectively counters the idea of a unified South caught in the grip of the Lost Cause.