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The Event and Its Terrors

Author : Stuart John McLean
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804744408
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The Event and Its Terrors written by Stuart John McLean and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Event and its Terrors undertakes a critical reimagining of one of the major events of Irish historythe Great Famine of the 1840sand of its subsequent legacies. Drawing on a wide range of sources, past and present, it considers the emergence of the Famine as an object of historical knowledge and controversy with reference both to the experience of modernity and to the production of academic and nationalist histories in colonial and post-independence Ireland. In doing so, it explores the possibility of alternative modes of engagement with the past via contemporary eyewitness accounts, oral histories, literature, folklore, and present-day commemorative events.

Twelve Days of Terror

Author : D. G. D. Fernicola
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 149302325X
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Twelve Days of Terror written by D. G. D. Fernicola and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon the 100th anniversary of the most terrifying stretch of shark attacks in American history--a wave said to have been the inspiration for Jaws--comes a reissue of the classic Lyons Press account and investigation. In July 1916, a time when World War I loomed over America and New York City was in the midst of a deadly polio epidemic, the tri-state area sought relief at the Jersey shore. The Atlantic’s refreshing waters proved to be utterly inhospitable, however. In just twelve days, four swimmers were violently and fatally mauled in separate shark attacks, and a fifth swimmer escaped an attack within inches of his life. In this thoroughly researched account, Dr. Richard Fernicola, the leading expert on the attacks, presents a riveting portrait, investigation, and scientific analysis of the terrifying days against the colorful backdrop of America in 1916 in Twelve Days of Terror.

The Terror That Comes in the Night

Author : David J. Hufford
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812292596
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Terror That Comes in the Night written by David J. Hufford and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hufford's work exploring the experiential basis for belief in the supernatural, focusing here on the so-called Old Hag experience, a psychologically disturbing event in which a victim claims to have encountered some form of malign entity while dreaming (or awake). Sufferers report feeling suffocated, held down by some "force," paralyzed, and extremely afraid. The experience is surprisingly common: the author estimates that approximately 15 percent of people undergo this event at some point in their lives. Various cultures have their own name for the phenomenon and have constructed their own mythology around it; the supernatural tenor of many Old Hag stories is unavoidable. Hufford, as a folklorist, is well-placed to investigate this puzzling occurrence.

Hidden Terrors

Author : A. J. Langguth
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504050045
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Hidden Terrors written by A. J. Langguth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “devastating” exposé of the United States’ Latin American policy and the infamous career and assassination of agent Dan Mitrione (Kirkus Reviews). In 1960, former Richmond, Indiana, police chief Dan Mitrione moved to Brazil to begin a new career with the United States Agency for International Development. During his ten years with the USAID, Mitrione trained and oversaw foreign police forces in extreme counterinsurgency tactics—including torture—aimed at stomping out communism across South America. Though he was only a foot soldier in a larger secret campaign, he became a symbol of America’s brutal interventionism when he was kidnapped and executed by Tupamaro rebels in Montevideo, Uruguay. In Hidden Terrors, former New York Times Saigon bureau chief A. J. Langguth chronicles with chilling detail Mitrione’s work for the USAID on the ground in South America and Washington, DC, where he shared his expertise. Along the way, Langguth provides an authoritative overview of America’s efforts to destabilize communist movements and prop up military dictators in South America, presenting a “powerful indictment of what the United States helped to bring about in this hemisphere” (The New York Times). Even today, the tactics Mitrione helped develop continue to influence operations in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and black sites around the globe.

Liberal Terror

Author : Brad Evans
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745665799
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Liberal Terror written by Brad Evans and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security is meant to make the world safer. Yet despite living in the most secure of times, we see endangerment everywhere. Whether it is the threat of another devastating terrorist attacks, a natural disaster or unexpected catastrophe, anxieties and fears define the global political age. While liberal governments and security agencies have responded by advocating a new catastrophic topography of interconnected planetary endangerment, our desire to securitize everything has rendered all things potentially terrifying. This is the fateful paradox of contemporary liberal rule. The more we seek to secure, the more our imaginaries of threat proliferate. Nothing can therefore be left to chance. For everything has the potential to be truly catastrophic. Such is the emerging state of terror normality we find ourselves in today. This illuminating book by Brad Evans provides a critical evaluation of the wide ranging terrors which are deemed threatening to advanced liberal societies. Moving beyond the assumption that liberalism is integral to the realisation of perpetual peace, human progress, and political emancipation on a planetary scale, it exposes how liberal security regimes are shaped by a complex life-centric rationality which directly undermines any claims to universal justice and co-habitation. Through an incisive and philosophically enriched critique of the contemporary liberal practices of making life more secure, Evans forces us to confront the question of what it means to live politically as we navigate through the dangerous uncertainty of the 21st Century.

Fictionalizing Anthropology

Author : Stuart J. McLean
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452955689
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Fictionalizing Anthropology written by Stuart J. McLean and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than humans? Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature not as “evidence” to support explanations based on an appeal to social context or history but as modes of engagement with the materiality of expressive media—including language—that always retain the capacity to disrupt or exceed the human projects enacted through them. At once comparative in scope and ethnographically informed, Fictionalizing Anthropology draws on an eclectic range of sources, including ancient Mesopotamian myth, Norse saga literature, Hesiod, Lucretius, Joyce, Artaud, and Lispector, as well as film, multimedia, and performance art, along with the concept of “fabulation” (the making of fictions capable of intervening in and transforming reality) developed in the writings of Bergson and Deleuze. Sharing with proponents of anthropology’s recent “ontological turn,” McLean insists that experiments with language and form are a performative means of exploring alternative possibilities of collective existence, new ways of being human and other than human, and that such experiments must therefore be indispensable to anthropology’s engagement with the contemporary world.

Essays on James Clarence Mangan

Author : S. Sturgeon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137273380
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Essays on James Clarence Mangan written by S. Sturgeon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of essays to focus on the extraordinary literary achievement of James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849), increasingly recognized as one of the most important Irish writers of the nineteenth century. It features contributions by acclaimed contemporary writers including Paul Muldoon and Ciaran Carson.

Cities Beyond Borders

Author : Dr Nicolas Kenny
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 147243479X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Cities Beyond Borders written by Dr Nicolas Kenny and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-12-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching also to Asia and Africa, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, Cities Beyond Borders explores the methodological and heuristic implications of studying cities in relation to one another.

The Terror

Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316003883
Total Pages : 784 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Terror written by Dan Simmons and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "masterfully chilling" novel that inspired the hit AMC series (Entertainment Weekly). The men on board the HMS Terror — part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage — are entering a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, they struggle to survive with poisonous rations, a dwindling coal supply, and ships buckling in the grip of crushing ice. But their real enemy is even more terrifying. There is something out there in the frigid darkness: an unseen predator stalking their ship, a monstrous terror clawing to get in. “The best and most unusual historical novel I have read in years.” —Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe

Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere

Author : Poe Ballantine
Publisher : Hawthorne Books
ISBN 13 : 098347754X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Love & Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere written by Poe Ballantine and published by Hawthorne Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fans of Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" and John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" will embrace Poe Ballantine's "Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere." Poe Ballantine's "Free Rent at the Totalitarian Hotel" included in Best American Essays 2013, and for well over twenty years, Poe Ballantine traveled America, taking odd jobs, living in small rooms, trying to make a living as a writer. At age 46, he finally settled with his Mexican immigrant wife in Chadron, Nebraska, where they had a son who was red-flagged as autistic. Poe published four books about his experiences as a wanderer and his observations of America. But one day in 2006, his neighbor, Steven Haataja, a math professor from the local state college disappeared. Ninety five days later, the professor was found bound to a tree, burned to death in the hills behind the campus where he had taught. No one, law enforcement included, understood the circumstances. Poe had never contemplated writing mystery or true crime, but since he knew all the players, the suspects, the sheriff, the police involved, he and his kindergarten son set out to find out what might have happened.

The Works of Orville Dewey, D.D.

Author : Orville Dewey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Orville Dewey, D.D. written by Orville Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dublin University Magazine

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dublin University Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ireland's Great Hunger

Author : David A. Valone
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761849009
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Ireland's Great Hunger written by David A. Valone and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers collected here are a product of the second conference on Ireland's Great Hunger held at Quinnipiac University in 2005. This volume, focused on the theses of relief, representation, and remembrance, contains essays from a broad range of disciplines including works of history, literary criticism, anthropology, and art history.

Annual Register

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 910 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Annual Register written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, Arts, Sciences and Literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)

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Imaging the Great Irish Famine

Author : Niamh Ann Kelly
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838608710
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Imaging the Great Irish Famine written by Niamh Ann Kelly and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing images we currently associate with dispossession. People across the world are driven out of their homes and countries on a wave of conflict, poverty and famine, and our main sites for engaging with their loss are visual news and social media. In a reappraisal of the viewer's role in representations of displacement, Niamh Ann Kelly examines a wide range of commemorative visual culture from the mid-nineteenth-century Great Irish Famine. Her analysis of memorial images, objects and locations from that period until the early 21st century shows how artefacts of historical trauma can affect understandings of enforced migrations as an ongoing form of political violence. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of museum and heritage studies, material culture, Irish history and contemporary visual cultures exploring dispossession.

Universal Terrors, 1951-1955

Author : Tom Weaver
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627762
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Universal Terrors, 1951-1955 written by Tom Weaver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Universal Studios created the first cinematic universe of monsters--Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy and others became household names during the 1930s and 1940s. During the 1950s, more modern monsters were created for the Atomic Age, including one-eyed globs from outer space, mutants from the planet Metaluna, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the 100-foot high horror known as Tarantula. This over-the-top history is the definitive retrospective on Universal's horror and science fiction movies of 1951-1955. Standing as a sequel to Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas and John Brunas's Universal Horrors (Second Edition, 2007), it covers eight films: The Strange Door, The Black Castle, It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon, This Island Earth, Revenge of the Creature, Cult of the Cobra and Tarantula. Each receives a richly detailed critical analysis, day-by-day production history, interviews with filmmakers, release information, an essay on the score, and many photographs, including rare behind-the-scenes shots.