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Between Genius and Genocide

Author : Daniel Charles
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780224064446
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (644 download)

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Download or read book Between Genius and Genocide written by Daniel Charles and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The astonishing story of the man who developed nitrogen fertilizer and the first chemical weapons. In January 1934, as Hitler's shadow began to fall across Europe, a short, bald man carrying a German passport arrived at the Hotel Euler in Basle. He seemed haunted and restless, as though he urgently needed to be elsewhere. Fritz Haber, Nobel laureate in chemistry, confidante of Albert Einstein and German war hero, had arrived in Basle a broken man and, three days later, he died leaving an uncertain legacy. For some, the great German chemist was a benefactor of humanity, winner of a Nobel prize for inventing a way to nourish farmers' fields with nitrogen captured from the air. (Our bodies bear witness to this invention's power: half of the essential nitrogen atoms in our flesh come from a Haber-style factory.) For others, he was a war criminal who personally supervised the unleashing of chlorine clouds against British, French and Canadian troops in World War I. Tragedy marked his life. A week after the first gas attack in 1915, Haber's wife took his pistol and shot herself. And in 1933, when Hitler came to power, 'the Jew Haber' was among the first scientists driven out of Germany. Haber's friend Albert Einstein wrote sardonically. Within a year, Haber was dead - denied honour both in his homeland and abroad. No life reveals the moral paradox of science - its capacity to create and destroy - more clearly than Fritz Haber's. Loving the Blonde Beast reveals a life filled with ambition, patriotism, hubris and tragedy, set amidst huge technological advances, arms races, mounting imperialism and war.

White Reconstruction

Author : Dylan Rodriguez
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823289400
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book White Reconstruction written by Dylan Rodriguez and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “compelling study” of how the idea of white supremacy persists long after the Civil Rights Act—“as thoughtful as it is fierce” (David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History). We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial–colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white terrorism, and white fascist statecraft proliferated. Thinking across a variety of archival, testimonial, visual, and activist texts—from Freedmen’s Bureau documents and the “Join LAPD” hiring campaign to Barry Goldwater’s hidden tattoo and the Pelican Bay prison strike—Dylan Rodríguez counter-narrates the long “post–civil rights” half-century as a period of White Reconstruction, in which the struggle to reassemble the ascendancy of White Being permeates the political and institutional logics of diversity, inclusion, formal equality, and “multiculturalist white supremacy.” Throughout White Reconstruction, Rodríguez considers how the creative, imaginative, speculative collective labor of abolitionist praxis can displace and potentially destroy the ascendancy of White Being and Civilization in order to create possibilities for insurgent thriving.

The Chemists' War

Author : Michael Freemantle
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN 13 : 1849739897
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book The Chemists' War written by Michael Freemantle and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2015 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1914-18 war has been referred to as the 'chemists' war' and to commemorate the centenary this collection of essays will examine various facets of the role of chemistry in the First World War. Written by an experienced science writer, this will be of interest to scientists and historians with an interest in this technologically challenging time.

"A Problem from Hell"

Author : Samantha Power
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465050891
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book "A Problem from Hell" written by Samantha Power and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From former UN Ambassador and author of the New York Times bestseller The Education of an Idealist Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning book on America's repeated failure to stop genocides around the world In her prizewinning examination of the last century of American history, Samantha Power asks the haunting question: Why do American leaders who vow "never again" repeatedly fail to stop genocide? Power, a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the former US Ambassador to the United Nations, draws upon exclusive interviews with Washington's top policymakers, thousands of declassified documents, and her own reporting from modern killing fields to provide the answer. "A Problem from Hell" shows how decent Americans inside and outside government refused to get involved despite chilling warnings, and tells the stories of the courageous Americans who risked their careers and lives in an effort to get the United States to act. A modern classic and "an angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book" (New Republic), "A Problem from Hell" has forever reshaped debates about American foreign policy. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner of the Raphael Lemkin Award

"Exterminate All the Brutes"

Author : Sven Lindqvist
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1620977052
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book "Exterminate All the Brutes" written by Sven Lindqvist and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa—and the terrible myths and lies that it spawned “A book of stunning range and near genius. . . . The catastrophic consequences of European imperialism are made palpable in the personal progress of the author, a late-twentieth-century pilgrim in Africa. Lindqvist’s astonishing connections across time and cultures, combined with a marvelous economy of prose, leave the reader appalled, reflective, and grateful.” —David Levering Lewis “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist’s widely acclaimed masterpiece, is a searching examination of Europe’s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as his point of departure, the award-winning Swedish author takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven with a modern-day travelogue. Retracing the steps of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward, “Exterminate All the Brutes” exposes the roots of genocide in Africa through Lindqvist’s own journey through the Saharan desert. As he shows, fantasies not merely of white superiority but of actual extermination—“cleansing” the earth of the so-called lesser races—deeply informed the colonialism and racist ideology that ultimately culminated in Europe’s own Holocaust. Conquerors’ stories are the ones that inform the self-mythology of the West—whereas the lives and stories of those displaced, enslaved, or killed are too often ignored and forgotten. “Exterminate All the Brutes” forces a crucial reckoning with a past that still echoes in our collective psyche—a reckoning that compels us to acknowledge the exploitation and brutality at the heart of our modern, globalized society. As Adam Hochschild has written, “Lindqvist’s work leaves you changed.”

War of Annihilation

Author : Geoffrey P. Megargee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1461646839
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Download or read book War of Annihilation written by Geoffrey P. Megargee and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 22, 1941, Hitler began what would be the most important campaign of the European theater. The war against the Soviet Union would leave tens of millions of Soviet citizens dead and large parts of the country in ruins. The death and destruction would result not just from military operations but also from the systematic killing and abuse that the German army, police, and SS directed against Jews, Communists, and ordinary citizens. In War of Annihilation, noted military historian Geoffrey P. Megargee provides a clear, concise history of the Germans' opening campaign of conquest and genocide in 1941. By drawing on the best of military and Holocaust scholarship, Megargee dispels the myths that have distorted the role of Germany's military leadership in both the military operations themselves and the unthinkable crimes that were part of them.

A Higher Form of Killing

Author : Diana Preston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1620402122
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book A Higher Form of Killing written by Diana Preston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed historian chronicles the birth of weapons of mass destruction during World War I, including the use of poison gas by the Germans at Ypres, the torpedoes that sunk the Lusitania and an aerial bombardment of London by a zeppelin.

Between Vengeance and Forgiveness

Author : Martha Minow
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080704508X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Between Vengeance and Forgiveness written by Martha Minow and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2001-01-17 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of collective violence and genocide is the twentieth century's most terrible legacy. Martha Minow, a Harvard law professor and one of our most brilliant and humane legal minds, offers a landmark book on our attempts to heal after such large-scale tragedy. Writing with informed, searching prose of the extraordinary drama of the truth commissions in Argentina, East Germany, and most notably South Africa; war-crime prosecutions in Nuremberg and Bosnia; and reparations in America, Minow looks at the strategies and results of these riveting national experiments in justice and healing.

A Problem from Hell

Author : Samantha Power
Publisher : Fourth Estate
ISBN 13 : 9780008359386
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book A Problem from Hell written by Samantha Power and published by Fourth Estate. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 2003 A shattering history of the last hundred years of genocidal war that itemises in authoritative, persuasive manner exactly what the West knew and when, and what it chose to do, and what not to do, with that knowledge.

Music and Genocide

Author : Klimczyk Wojciech
Publisher : Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas
ISBN 13 : 9783631660034
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Music and Genocide written by Klimczyk Wojciech and published by Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the music of genocide? Can the experience of ultimate terror be expressed in music? How does music reflect on genocide? How do we perceive music after genocide? What is music and what is silence in a world marked by mass killings? Is post-genocidal silence really possible or appropriate?

Nairobi Heat

Author : Mukoma Wa Ngugi
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612190073
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book Nairobi Heat written by Mukoma Wa Ngugi and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cop from Wisconsin pursues a killer through the terrifying slums of Nairobi and the memories of genocide IN MADISON, WISCONSIN, it’s a big deal when African peace activist Joshua Hakizimana—who saved hundreds of people from the Rwandan genocide—accepts a position at the university to teach about “genocide and testimony.” Then a young woman is found murdered on his doorstep. Local police Detective Ishmael—an African-American in an “extremely white” town—suspects the crime is racially motivated; the Ku Klux Klan still holds rallies there, after all. But then he gets a mysterious phone call: “If you want the truth, you must go to its source. The truth is in the past. Come to Nairobi.” It’s the beginning of a journey that will take him to a place still vibrating from the genocide that happened around its borders, where violence is a part of everyday life, where big-oil money rules and where the local cops shoot first and ask questions later—a place, in short, where knowing the truth about history can get you killed.

Redefining Genocide

Author : Doctor Damien Short
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783601701
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Redefining Genocide written by Doctor Damien Short and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this highly controversial and original work, Damien Short systematically rethinks how genocide is and should be defined. Rather than focusing solely on a narrow conception of genocide as direct mass-killing, through close empirical analysis of a number of under-discussed case studies – including Palestine, Sri Lanka, Australia and Alberta, Canada – the book reveals the key role played by settler colonialism, capitalism, finite resources and the ecological crisis in driving genocidal social death on a global scale.

Educational Genocide

Author : Horace 'Rog' B. Lucido
Publisher : R&L Education
ISBN 13 : 1607097192
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Educational Genocide written by Horace 'Rog' B. Lucido and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across our country educational policies and practices are killing our students' desire to learn and teachers' passion to teach. The central theme of this book is that high-stakes testing is having a critically deleterious effect on our students. The fallout impacts parents, teachers, schools, districts and states. Horace 'Rog' Lucido uses language and supporting evidence that is clear and relatable to the reader. Rarely is the topic of teacher care and concern for students ever embedded in works on educational theory and practice, but here it is championed as the driving force for change, exposing the causes and chronicling the effects of educational malfeasance.

Pioneers of Genocide Studies

Author : Samuel Totten
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351499637
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of Genocide Studies written by Samuel Totten and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the early efforts that emerged in the struggle against Nazism, and over the past half century, the field of genocide studies has grown in reach to include five genocide centers across the globe and well over one hundred Holocaust centers. This work enables a new generation of scholars, researchers, and policymakers to assess the major foci of the field, develop ways and means to intervene and prevent future genocides, and review the successes and failures of the past.The contributors to Pioneers of Genocide Studies approach the questions of greatest relevance in a personal way, crafting a statement that reveals one's individual voice, persuasions, literary style, scholarly perspectives, and relevant details of one's life. The book epitomizes scholarly autobiographical writing at its best. The book also includes the most important works by each author on the issue of genocide.Among the contributors are experts in the Armenian, Bosnian, and Cambodian genocides, as well as the Holocaust against the Jewish people. The contributors are Rouben Adalian, M. Cherif Bassiouni, Israel W. Charney, Vahakn Dadrian, Helen Fein, Barbara Harff, David Hawk, Herbert Hirsch, Irving Louis Horowitz, Richard Hovannisian, Henry Huttenbach, Leo Kuper, Raphael Lemkin, James E. Mace, Eric Markusen, Robert Melson, R.J. Rummel, Roger W. Smith, Gregory H. Stanton, Ervin Staub, Colin Tatz, Yves Ternan, and the co-editors. The work represents a high watermark in the reflections and self-reflections on the comparative study of genocide.

Eyes of the Heart

Author : Catherine Filloux
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082487580X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Eyes of the Heart written by Catherine Filloux and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of six plays by award-winning playwright Catherine Filloux: Eyes of the Heart; Kidnap Road; Lemkin’s House; Mary and Myra; Selma ’65; and Silence of God. The plays have both national and international settings. Subjects include key figures in the history of human and civil rights; genocide; crimes against women; international human rights law; U.S. Civil Rights Movement; and Women’s Suffrage. SEVERAL OF THE REAL-LIFE FIGURES IN FILLOUX'S PLAYS: *Ingrid Betancourt, Colombian politician and activist, kidnapped by FARC revolutionary forces in 2002 *Myra Bradwell, first U.S. woman lawyer, instrumental in getting Mary Todd Lincoln released from an insane asylum in 1875 *Raphael Lemkin, originator of the term "genocide," activist lawyer, and advisor on war crimes *Mary Todd Lincoln, widow of President Abraham Lincoln *Viola Liuzzo, Civil Rights activist murdered by the KKK in 1965 *Pol Pot, head of the Khmer Rouge regime, responsible for the deaths of nearly two million Cambodians *William Proxmire, U.S. senator, advocate in Congress for the adoption of the International Convention for the Punishment of Genocide.

Worse Than War

Author : Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786746564
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Worse Than War written by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's books are events. They stir passionate public debate among political and civic leaders, scholars, and the general public because they compel people to rethink the most powerful conventional wisdoms and stubborn moral problems of the day. Worse Than War gets to the heart of the phenomenon, genocide, that has caused more deaths in the modern world than military conflict. In doing so, it challenges fundamental things we thought we knew about human beings, society, and politics. Drawing on extensive field work and research from around the world, Goldhagen explores the anatomy of genocide -- explaining why genocides begin, are sustained, and end; why societies support them, why they happen so frequently and how the international community should and can successfully stop them. As a great book should, Worse than War seeks to change the way we think and to offer new possibilities for a better world. It tells us how we might at last begin to eradicate this greatest scourge of humankind.

Natives and Academics

Author : Devon Abbott Mihesuah
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803282438
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book Natives and Academics written by Devon Abbott Mihesuah and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten leading Native scholars examine the state of scholarly research and writing on Native Americans. Their distinctive perspectives and telling arguments lend clarity to the heated debate about the purpose and direction of Native American scholarship. All too frequently, Native Americans have little control over how they and their ancestors are researched and depicted in scholarly writings. The relationship between Native peoples and the academic community has become especially rocky in recent years. Both groups are grappling with troubling questions about research ethics, methodology, and theory in the field and in the classroom. In this timely and illuminating anthology, ten leading Native scholars examine the state of scholarly research and writing on Native Americans. They offer distinctive, frequently self-critical perspectives on several important issues: the representativeness of Native informants, the merits of various methods of data collection, the veracity and role of oral histories, the suitability of certain genres of scholarly writing for the study of Native Americans, the marketing of Native culture and history, and debates about cultural essentialism. Some contributors propose alternative forms of scholarship. Special attention is also given to the experiences, responsibilities, and challenges facing Native academics themselves. With lively prose and telling arguments, Natives and Academics lends clarity to the heated debate about the purpose and direction of Native American scholarship.