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Author : Michael Rick Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book History, Body Politic, and Vengeance written by Michael Rick Smith and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. Cole Jones
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812296559
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Captives of Liberty written by T. Cole Jones and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as traitors to be punished, and British abuse of American prisoners, both tacitly condoned and at times officially sanctioned, proliferated. Meanwhile, more than seventeen thousand British and allied soldiers fell into American hands during the Revolution. For a fledgling nation that could barely afford to keep an army in the field, the issue of how to manage prisoners of war was daunting. Captives of Liberty examines how America's founding generation grappled with the problems posed by prisoners of war, and how this influenced the wider social and political legacies of the Revolution. When the struggle began, according to T. Cole Jones, revolutionary leadership strove to conduct the war according to the prevailing European customs of military conduct, which emphasized restricting violence to the battlefield and treating prisoners humanely. However, this vision of restrained war did not last long. As the British denied customary protections to their American captives, the revolutionary leadership wasted no time in capitalizing on the prisoners' ordeals for propagandistic purposes. Enraged, ordinary Americans began to demand vengeance, and they viewed British soldiers and their German and Native American auxiliaries as appropriate targets. This cycle of violence spiraled out of control, transforming the struggle for colonial independence into a revolutionary war. In illuminating this history, Jones contends that the violence of the Revolutionary War had a profound impact on the character and consequences of the American Revolution. Captives of Liberty not only provides the first comprehensive analysis of revolutionary American treatment of enemy prisoners but also reveals the relationship between America's political revolution and the war waged to secure it.
Author : George Jonas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743291646
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Vengeance written by George Jonas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discloses the Israeli plan to assassinate the known terrorist leaders responsible for the Munich massacre of Israeli athletes and chronicles the story of the hit-squad's leader, a man morally destroyed by his mission.
Author : Violet Kupersmith
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812993322
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Build Your House Around My Body written by Violet Kupersmith and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part puzzle, part revenge tale, part ghost story, this ingenious novel spins half a century of Vietnamese history and folklore into “a thrilling read, acrobatic and filled with verve” (The New York Times Editors’ Choice). FINALIST FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION’S FIRST NOVEL PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus Reviews “Fiction as daring and accomplished as Violet Kupersmith’s first novel reignites my love of the form and its kaleidoscopic possibilities.”—David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas Two young women go missing decades apart. Both are fearless, both are lost. And both will have their revenge. 1986: The teenage daughter of a wealthy Vietnamese family loses her way in an abandoned rubber plantation while fleeing her angry father and is forever changed. 2011: A young, unhappy Vietnamese American woman disappears from her new home in Saigon without a trace. The fates of these two women are inescapably linked, bound together by past generations, by ghosts and ancestors, by the history of possessed bodies and possessed lands. Alongside them, we meet a young boy who is sent to a boarding school for the métis children of French expatriates, just before Vietnam declares its independence from colonial rule; two Frenchmen who are trying to start a business with the Vietnam War on the horizon; and the employees of the Saigon Spirit Eradication Co., who find themselves investigating strange occurrences in a farmhouse on the edge of a forest. Each new character and timeline brings us one step closer to understanding what binds them all. Build Your House Around My Body takes us from colonial mansions to ramshackle zoos, from sweaty nightclubs to the jostling seats of motorbikes, from ex-pat flats to sizzling back-alley street carts. Spanning more than fifty years of Vietnamese history and barreling toward an unforgettable conclusion, this is a time-traveling, heart-pounding, border-crossing fever dream of a novel that will haunt you long after the last page.
Author : Paolo Amorosa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192589040
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Rewriting the History of the Law of Nations written by Paolo Amorosa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the interwar years, international lawyer James Brown Scott wrote a series of works on the history of his discipline. He made the case that the foundation of modern international law rested not, as most assumed, with the seventeenth-century Dutch thinker Hugo Grotius, but with sixteenth-century Spanish theologian Francisco de Vitoria. Far from being an antiquarian assertion, the Spanish origin narrative placed the inception of international law in the context of the discovery of America, rather than in the European wars of religion. The recognition of equal rights to the American natives by Vitoria was the pedigree on which Scott built a progressive international law, responsive to the rise of the United States as the leading global power and developments in international organization such as the creation of the League of Nations. This book describes the Spanish origin project in context, relying on Scott's biography, changes in the self-understanding of the international legal profession, as well as on larger social and political trends in US and global history. Keeping in mind Vitoria's persisting role as a key figure in the canon of international legal history, the book sheds light on the contingency of shared assumptions about the discipline and their unspoken implications. The legacy of the international law Scott developed for the American century is still with the profession today, in the shape of the normalization and de-politicization of rights language and of key concepts like equality and rule of law.
Author : Kyle Wiggins
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319937464
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book American Revenge Narratives written by Kyle Wiggins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Revenge Narratives critically examines the nation’s vengeful storytelling tradition. With essays on late twentieth and twenty-first century fiction, film, and television, it maps the coordinates of the revenge genre’s contemporary reinvention across American culture. By surveying American revenge narratives, this book measures how contemporary payback plots appraise the nation’s political, social, and economic inequities. The volume’s essays collectively make the case that retribution is a defining theme of post-war American culture and an artistic vehicle for critique. In another sense, this book presents a scholarly coming to terms with the nation’s love for vengeance. By investigating recent iterations of an ancient genre, contributors explore how the revenge narrative evolves and thrives within American literary and filmic imagination. Taken together, the book’s diverse chapters attempt to understand American culture’s seemingly inexhaustible production of vengeful tales.
Author : Max Haiven
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780745340562
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Revenge Capitalism written by Max Haiven and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capitalism has become a system of economic revenge, meted out against oppressed populations around the globe.
Author : Israel Smith Clare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Library of Universal History and Popular Science ... written by Israel Smith Clare and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Basil Edward Hammond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bodies Politic and Their Governments written by Basil Edward Hammond and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Author : L. J. Jordanova
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299122942
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Sexual Visions written by L. J. Jordanova and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates that gender as a metaphor has had an exceptionally vigorous life in the history of biological and medical sciences.
Author : Samuel Walter Burgess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Historical Illustrations of the Origin and Progress of the Passions, and Their Influence on the Conduct of Mankind written by Samuel Walter Burgess and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bert De Munck
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351245767
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)
Download or read book Guilds, Labour and the Urban Body Politic written by Bert De Munck and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new view on the relation between labour and community through a focus on craft guilds. In the Southern Netherlands, occupational guilds were both powerful and governed by manufacturing masters, enabling the latter to imprint their mark upon urban society in an economic, socio-cultural and political way. While the urban community was deeply indebted to a corporative spirit and guild ethic originating in medieval Germanic and Christian traditions, guild-based artisans succeeded in being accepted as genuine political (and, hence, rational) actors – their political identity and agency being based upon their skills and trustworthiness. In the long run, this corporative spirit and power inexorably waned. Yet this book shows that an adequate understanding of the development of European modernity – i.e., proletarianisation and the emergence of a modern economy and modern economic and political thinking – requires taking seriously the ruins upon which it is build. These histories can actually be recounted as purifications of sorts, in which the economic was separated from the political, the individual from the social, and the transcendent from the material. While the religiously inspired corporative nature of the urban body politic waned, the urban artisans lost their credibility as political (and rational) actors.
Author : John Henry Blunt
Publisher : London : Rivingtons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Doctrinal and Historical Theology written by John Henry Blunt and published by London : Rivingtons. This book was released on 1870 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Jared Ingersoll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Second War Between the United States of America, and Great Britain written by Charles Jared Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Jared Ingersoll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Historical Sketch of the Second War Between the United States of America, and Great Britain: Events of 1814 written by Charles Jared Ingersoll and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Bercaw
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034008
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Gender and the Southern Body Politic written by Nancy Bercaw and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
