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Download or read book Conquered City written by Victor Serge and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1919–1920: St. Petersburg, city of the czars, has fallen to the Revolution. Camped out in the splendid palaces of the former regime, the city’s new masters seek to cement their control, even as the counterrevolutionary White Army regroups. Conquered City, Victor Serge’s most unrelenting narrative, is structured like a detective story, one in which the new political regime tracks down and eliminates its enemies—the spies, speculators, and traitors hidden among the mass of common people. Conquered City is about terror: the Red Terror and the White Terror. But mainly about the Red, the Communists who have dared to pick up the weapons of power—police, guns, jails, spies, treachery—in the doomed gamble that by wielding them righteously, they can put an end to the need for terror, perhaps forever. Conquered City is their tragedy and testament.
Download or read book A Woman in Berlin written by and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-07-11 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. She tells of the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject.
Book Synopsis Midnight City by : J. Barton Mitchell
Download or read book Midnight City written by J. Barton Mitchell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord of the Flies meets War of the Worlds in J. Barton Mitchell's alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world where two teens and a young girl with amazing powers must stop the aliens' mysterious plan Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Assembly. The human adult population is gone, having succumbed to the Tone---a powerful, telepathic super-signal broadcast across the planet that reduces them to a state of complete subservience. But the Tone has one critical flaw. It only affects the population once they reach their early twenties, which means that there is one group left to resist: Children. Holt Hawkins is a bounty hunter, and his current target is Mira Toombs, an infamous treasure seeker with a price on her head. It's not long before Holt bags his prey, but their instant connection isn't something he bargained for. Neither is the Assembly ship that crash-lands near them shortly after. Venturing inside, Holt finds a young girl who remembers nothing except her name: Zoey. As the three make their way to the cavernous metropolis of Midnight City, they encounter young freedom fighters, mutants, otherworldly artifacts, pirates, feuding alien armies, and the amazing powers that Zoey is beginning to exhibit. Powers that suggest she, as impossible as it seems, may just be the key to stopping the Assembly once and for all. Midnight City is the breathtaking first book of the Conquered Earth series.
Book Synopsis Muslims' Conquest of New York City and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ: Prophet Muhammad's Prophecies of the End's Time by : F. M. Mossa
Download or read book Muslims' Conquest of New York City and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ: Prophet Muhammad's Prophecies of the End's Time written by F. M. Mossa and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scattered here and there in the Quran and the Books of Sunna-books in which the Prophet's authentically-traced-back sayings and speeches are compiled-are numerous future incidents that, according to Muslims beliefs, will inevitably take place in the ordinary course of events before the coming of Doomsday. These Prophetical ahaddieth which bear signs or show plainly presages of the end's time usually begin with the expressions "The Hour will not occur before ...," or "Before the coming of the Hour...," followed by narrations or hints of a number of future events or, in some cases, natural phenomena, the occurrence of which will give-and has already given, indeed-to people obvious warnings that humankind's worldly life is nearing its end.
Book Synopsis City of Inmates by : Kelly Lytle Hernández
Download or read book City of Inmates written by Kelly Lytle Hernández and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This book explains how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world's leading incarcerator. Marshaling more than two centuries of evidence, historian Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks how histories of native elimination, immigrant exclusion, and black disappearance drove the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles. In this telling, which spans from the Spanish colonial era to the outbreak of the 1965 Watts Rebellion, Hernandez documents the persistent historical bond between the racial fantasies of conquest, namely its settler colonial form, and the eliminatory capacities of incarceration. But City of Inmates is also a chronicle of resilience and rebellion, documenting how targeted peoples and communities have always fought back. They busted out of jail, forced Supreme Court rulings, advanced revolution across bars and borders, and, as in the summer of 1965, set fire to the belly of the city. With these acts those who fought the rise of incarceration in Los Angeles altered the course of history in the city, the borderlands, and beyond. This book recounts how the dynamics of conquest met deep reservoirs of rebellion as Los Angeles became the City of Inmates, the nation's carceral core. It is a story that is far from over.
Download or read book The Conquered written by Eleni Kefala and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conquered probes issues of collective memory and cultural trauma in three sorrowful poems composed soon after the conquest of Constantinople and Tenochtitlán. These texts describe the fall of an empire as a fissure in the social fabric and an open wound on the body politic, and articulate, in a familiar language, the trauma of the conquered.
Book Synopsis Niccolo Machiavelli by : Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Download or read book Niccolo Machiavelli written by Raymond Angelo Belliotti and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-02-03 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machiavelli is usually understood as a thinker who separated morality from politics or who championed Roman, pagan morality over conventional, Christian morality. Belliotti argues, instead, that Machiavelli's innovation is his understanding of the perhaps irresolvable moral conflicts that exist within political leaders who fulfill the duties of their offices while accepting the authority of absolute moral principles. Machiavelli is a moral pessimist who insists that politicians must 'risk their souls' when performing their public responsibilities. Politicians and military leaders must dirty their hands in service to their constituents. This is especially the case when one strong man founds a state or reforms a corrupt state. History washes away_that is, excuses_many of the horrifying deeds that are required in such cases. Belliotti does not try to domesticate Machiavelli by picturing him as a liberal humanist inclined only toward free government. Nor does he paint him as a teacher of evil. Instead, the book offers a balanced understanding of the Florentine, with special focus on his insights and his myopias. Machiavelli's view of human nature and his conclusion that international affairs have always been and will always be a series of zero-sum contests lead him to stunning discoveries and glaring errors alike.
Book Synopsis Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC by : William J. Hamblin
Download or read book Warfare in the Ancient Near East to 1600 BC written by William J. Hamblin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-09-27 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book available that covers this subject, Warfare in the Ancient Near East is a groundbreaking and fascinating study of ancient near Eastern military history from the Neolithic era to the middle Bronze Ages. Drawing on an extensive range of textual, artistic and archaeological data, William J. Hamblin synthesizes current knowledge and offers a detailed analysis of the military technology, ideology and practices of Near Eastern warfare. Paying particular attention to the earliest known examples of holy war ideaology in Mesopotamia and Egypt, Hamblin focuses on: * recruitment and training of the infantry * the logistics and weaponry of warfare * the shift from stone to metal weapons * the role played by magic * narratives of combat and artistic representations of battle * the origins and development of the chariot as military transportation * fortifications and siegecraft *developments in naval warfare. Beautifully illustrated, including maps of the region, this book is essential for experts and non-specialists alike.
Book Synopsis The Ancient City by : Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Download or read book The Ancient City written by Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this influential study, French historian Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges initiated a new approach to Greek and Roman city organization. Fustel de Coulanges' 1864 masterpiece, La Cité antique, drew upon physical evidence as well as ancient documents rather than the usual post-Classical histories. The result is a fresh, accurate, and detailed portrait of the religious, family, and civic life of Periclean Athens and Rome during the time of Cicero. This fascinating sociological account reveals the significance of kinship and the cult of the family hearth and ancestors to ancient Hellenic and Latin urban culture. It chronicles the rise of family-centered pagan belief systems, tracing their gradual decline to the spread of Christianity. Fustel cites ancient Indian and Hebrew texts as well as Greek and Roman sources. The ingenuity of his interpretations, along with his striking prose style, offer readers a vital and enduring historic survey.
Book Synopsis The Ancient City a Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome by : Fustel de Coulanges
Download or read book The Ancient City a Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome written by Fustel de Coulanges and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-11 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Book Synopsis Birth of a Colonial City by : Ranjit Sen
Download or read book Birth of a Colonial City written by Ranjit Sen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long before Calcutta was ‘discovered’ by Job Charnock, it thrived by the Hugli since times immemorial. This book, and its companion Colonial Calcutta, is a biographical account of the when, the how and the what of a global city and its emergence under colonial rule in the 1800s. Ranjit Sen traces the story of how three clustered villages became the hub of the British Empire and a centre of colonial imagination. He examines the historical and geopolitical factors that were significant in securing its prominence, and its subsequent urbanization which was a colonial experience without an antecedent. Further, it sheds light on Calcutta’s early search for identity — how it superseded interior towns and flourished as the seat of power for its hinterland; developed its early institutions, while its municipal administration slowly burgeoned. A sharp analysis of the colonial enterprise, this volume lays bare the underbelly of the British Raj. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, South Asian history, urban studies, British Studies and area studies.
Book Synopsis The Image of an Ottoman City by : Heghnar Watenpaugh
Download or read book The Image of an Ottoman City written by Heghnar Watenpaugh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This urban and architectural study of Aleppo reconstructs the city’s evolution over the first two centuries of Ottoman rule and proposes a new model for the understanding of the reception and adaptation of imperial forms, institutions and norms in a provincial setting.
Book Synopsis The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Translated Into English; with Notes and Dissertations by : Dionysius (of Halicarnassus.)
Download or read book The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis, Translated Into English; with Notes and Dissertations written by Dionysius (of Halicarnassus.) and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis by : Dionysius (of Halicarnassus.)
Download or read book The Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halicarnassensis written by Dionysius (of Halicarnassus.) and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Roman Antiquities by : Dionysius (Halicarnassensis)
Download or read book The Roman Antiquities written by Dionysius (Halicarnassensis) and published by . This book was released on 1758 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Macedonian Conquest by : Charles Oman
Download or read book A History of Greece from the Earliest Times to the Macedonian Conquest written by Charles Oman and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Norman Conquest of England by : Edward A. Freeman
Download or read book The History of the Norman Conquest of England written by Edward A. Freeman and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-23 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
