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Download or read book Hear Our Defeats written by Laurent Gaudé and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “propulsive” historical novel about the battles—won, lost, and ongoing—that define us, from a winner of the Goncourt Prize (Library Journal, starred review). Assem, a French intelligence officer, is tasked with tracking down a former member of the US Special Forces suspected of drug trafficking during the war in Afghanistan. En route to Beirut, he shares a night with Mariam, an Iraqi archaeologist, who is in a race against time to save ancient artifacts across the Middle East from the destruction wreaked by ISIS. Woven into these two forceful, gripping storylines are meditations on humankind’s bellicose history—Hannibal’s failed march on Rome and the burning of his fleet on the waters of the Mediterranean; Grant’s pursuit of the Confederates into rural Virginia; Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Courthouse; and Emp. Haile Selassie’s swift retreat from Ethiopia: all turning points in world history, each showing a different facet of how nations and individuals face defeat. This novel is filled with both a philosophical sensibility and a riveting immediacy, seamlessly taking us across the battlefields of our past to reflect on the implications of conflicts being waged today. “Hear Our Defeats is not a conventional historical novel, in the sense of trying to recreate the past imaginatively. Rather, it draws on a series of past episodes, from four discrete epochs—deliberately separated in time and place—to convey a message about time, violence and humanity.” —The Times Literary Supplement
Book Synopsis Shays's Rebellion by : Leonard L. Richards
Download or read book Shays's Rebellion written by Leonard L. Richards and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful armed rebellion against the state of Massachusetts. Their desperate struggle was fueled by the injustice of a regressive tax system and a conservative state government that seemed no better than British colonial rule. But despite the immediate failure of this local call-to-arms in the Massachusetts countryside, the event fundamentally altered the course of American history. Shays and his army of four thousand rebels so shocked the young nation's governing elite—even drawing the retired General George Washington back into the service of his country—that ultimately the Articles of Confederation were discarded in favor of a new constitution, the very document that has guided the nation for more than two hundred years, and brought closure to the American Revolution. The importance of Shays's Rebellion has never been fully appreciated, chiefly because Shays and his followers have always been viewed as a small group of poor farmers and debtors protesting local civil authority. In Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle, Leonard Richards reveals that this perception is misleading, that the rebellion was much more widespread than previously thought, and that the participants and their supporters actually represented whole communities—the wealthy and the poor, the influential and the weak, even members of some of the best Massachusetts families. Through careful examination of contemporary records, including a long-neglected but invaluable list of the participants, Richards provides a clear picture of the insurgency, capturing the spirit of the rebellion, the reasons for the revolt, and its long-term impact on the participants, the state of Massachusetts, and the nation as a whole. Shays's Rebellion, though seemingly a local affair, was the revolution that gave rise to modern American democracy.
Book Synopsis The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing by : Darina Al-Joundi
Download or read book The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing written by Darina Al-Joundi and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Homeland actress’s “recollections of her unconventional youth in war-torn Beirut are heartbreaking yet humorous . . . in this unique” memoir (Publishers Weekly). Raised in 1970s Lebanon on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. She spent her adolescence defying death in Beirut nightclubs as bombs fell across the city. The more oppressive the country became, the more drugs and anonymous sex she had, fueling the resentment directed at her daily by the same men who would spend the night with her. As the war dies down, she begins to incur the consequences of her lifestyle. On his deathbed, her father’s last wish is for his favorite song, “Sinnerman” by Nina Simone, to be played at his funeral instead of the traditional suras of the Koran. When she does just that, the final act of defiance elicits a catastrophic response from her surviving family members. In this dramatic true story, Darina Al-Joundi is defiantly passionate about living her life as a liberated woman, even if it means leaving everyone and everything behind in this “beautifully taut and relentlessly unemotional” memoir (Kirkus).
Book Synopsis The Rebellion Record by : Frank Moore
Download or read book The Rebellion Record written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Four Great Evils of the Day by : Henry Edward Manning
Download or read book The Four Great Evils of the Day written by Henry Edward Manning and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc by : Frank Moore
Download or read book The Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc written by Frank Moore and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daniel Shays's Honorable Rebellion by : Daniel Bullen
Download or read book Daniel Shays's Honorable Rebellion written by Daniel Bullen and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 25, 1787, in Springfield, Massachusetts, militia Major General William Shepard ordered his cannon to fire grapeshot at a peaceful demonstration of 1,200 farmers approaching the federal arsenal. The shots killed four and wounded twenty, marking the climax of five months of civil disobedience in Massachusetts, where farmers challenged the state's authority to seize their farms for flagrantly unjust taxes. Government leaders and influential merchants painted these protests as a violent attempt to overthrow the state, in hopes of garnering support for strengthening the federal government in a Constitutional Convention. As a result, the protests have been hidden for more than two hundred years under the misleading title, "Shays's Rebellion, the armed uprising that led to the Constitution." But this widely accepted narrative is just a legend: the "rebellion" was almost entirely nonviolent, and retired Revolutionary War hero Daniel Shays was only one of many leaders. Daniel Shays's Honorable Rebellion: An American Story by Daniel Bullen tells the history of the crisis from the protesters' perspective. Through five months of nonviolent protests, the farmers kept courts throughout Massachusetts from hearing foreclosures, facing down threats from the government, which escalated to the point that Governor James Bowdoin ultimately sent an army to arrest them. Even so, the people won reforms in an electoral landslide. Thomas Jefferson called these protests an honorable rebellion, and hoped that Americans would never let twenty years pass without such a campaign, to rein in powerful interests. This riveting and meticulously researched narrative shows that Shays and his fellow protesters were hardly a dangerous rabble, but rather a proud people who banded together peaceably, risking their lives for justice in a quintessentially American story.
Book Synopsis Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada by : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Download or read book Official Reports of the Debates of the House of Commons of the Dominion of Canada written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Some Social Theories of the Revolution, Our Present Day Retrogressions, the Steps Back by : Theodore Gilman
Download or read book Some Social Theories of the Revolution, Our Present Day Retrogressions, the Steps Back written by Theodore Gilman and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Shays's Rebellion by : Leonard L. Richards
Download or read book Shays's Rebellion written by Leonard L. Richards and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2003-08-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shays and his army of 4,000 rebels so shocked the young nation's governing elite - even drawing the retired General George Washington back into the service of his country - that ultimately the Articles of Confederation were discarded in favor of a new constitution, the very document that has guided the nation for more than 200 years and brought closure to the American Revolution."
Book Synopsis Plain talk about the Protestantism of to-day. From the French by : Louis Gaston A. de Ségur
Download or read book Plain talk about the Protestantism of to-day. From the French written by Louis Gaston A. de Ségur and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rebellion Record written by Moore and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Latter-day Pamphlets by : Thomas Carlyle
Download or read book Latter-day Pamphlets written by Thomas Carlyle and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Iowa and the Rebellion by : Lurton Dunham Ingersoll
Download or read book Iowa and the Rebellion written by Lurton Dunham Ingersoll and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-28 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.
Book Synopsis A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897: 1861-1869 by : United States. President
Download or read book A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897: 1861-1869 written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 1861-1869 by : United States. President
Download or read book 1861-1869 written by United States. President and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
