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Book Synopsis Seditious Histories by : Craig J. Reynolds
Download or read book Seditious Histories written by Craig J. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of eleven essays by senior Asianist Craig Reynolds features debates about meaning in Southeast Asian and Thai history. He explores themes that have hitherto been treated superficially in Thai historical writing, including Siam’s semicolonialism in the late nineteenth century, the concepts of militarism and masculinity, collective memory and dynastic succession, the relationship of manual knowledge to ethnoscience, and the dialectics of globalization. Other more familiar topics under Reynolds’s microscope, treated with new material and approaches, include cultural nationalism and religious history.
Book Synopsis City of Sedition by : John Strausbaugh
Download or read book City of Sedition written by John Strausbaugh and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a single definitive narrative, City of Sedition tells the spellbinding story of the huge-and hugely conflicted-role New York City played in the Civil War. No city was more of a help to Abraham Lincoln and the Union war effort, or more of a hindrance. No city raised more men, money, and materiel for the war, and no city raised more hell against it. It was a city of patriots, war heroes, and abolitionists, but simultaneously a city of antiwar protest, draft resistance, and sedition. Without his New York supporters, it's highly unlikely Lincoln would have made it to the White House. Yet, because of the city's vital and intimate business ties to the Cotton South, the majority of New Yorkers never voted for him and were openly hostile to him and his politics. Throughout the war New York City was a nest of antiwar "Copperheads" and a haven for deserters and draft dodgers. New Yorkers would react to Lincoln's wartime policies with the deadliest rioting in American history. The city's political leaders would create a bureaucracy solely devoted to helping New Yorkers evade service in Lincoln's army. Rampant war profiteering would create an entirely new class of New York millionaires, the "shoddy aristocracy." New York newspapers would be among the most vilely racist and vehemently antiwar in the country. Some editors would call on their readers to revolt and commit treason; a few New Yorkers would answer that call. They would assist Confederate terrorists in an attempt to burn their own city down, and collude with Lincoln's assassin. Here in City of Sedition, a gallery of fascinating New Yorkers comes to life, the likes of Horace Greeley, Walt Whitman, Julia Ward Howe, Boss Tweed, Thomas Nast, Matthew Brady, and Herman Melville. This book follows the fortunes of these figures and chronicles how many New Yorkers seized the opportunities the conflict presented to amass capital, create new industries, and expand their markets, laying the foundation for the city's-and the nation's-growth. WINNER OF THE FLETCHER PRATT AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION BOOK
Book Synopsis My Seditious Heart by : Arundhati Roy
Download or read book My Seditious Heart written by Arundhati Roy and published by Haymarket Books+ORM. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two decades of commentary by the New York Times–bestselling author: “An electrifying political essayist . . . uplifting . . . galvanizing.” —Booklist From the Booker Prize-winning author of such works as The God of Small Things and The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, My Seditious Heart collects nonfiction spanning over twenty years and chronicles a battle for justice, rights, and freedoms in an increasingly hostile world. Taken together, these essays are told in a voice of unique spirit, marked by compassion, clarity, and courage. Radical and superbly readable, they speak always in defense of the collective, of the individual, and of the land, in the face of the destructive logic of financial, social, religious, military, and governmental elites. “Her lucid and probing essays offer sharp insights on a range of matters, from crony capitalism and environmental depredation to the perils of nationalism and, in her most recent work, the insidiousness of the Hindu caste system. In an age of intellectual logrolling and mass-manufactured infotainment, she continues to offer bracing ways of seeing, thinking and feeling.” —Pankaj Mishra, Time Magazine Praise for Arundhati Roy: “Arundhati Roy combines her brilliant style as a novelist with her powerful commitment to social justice in producing these eloquent, penetrating essays.” —Howard Zinn “One of the most confident and original thinkers of our time.” —Naomi Klein “The scale of what Roy surveys is staggering. Her pointed indictment is devastating.” —The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book A Seditious Affair written by KJ Charles and published by Loveswept. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: K. J. Charles turns up the heat in her new Society of Gentlemen novel, as two lovers face off in a sensual duel that challenges their deepest beliefs. Silas Mason has no illusions about himself. He’s not lovable, or even likable. He’s an overbearing idealist, a Radical bookseller and pamphleteer who lives for revolution . . . and for Wednesday nights. Every week he meets anonymously with the same man, in whom Silas has discovered the ideal meld of intellectual companionship and absolute obedience to his sexual commands. But unbeknownst to Silas, his closest friend is also his greatest enemy, with the power to see him hanged—or spare his life. A loyal, well-born gentleman official, Dominic Frey is torn apart by his affair with Silas. By the light of day, he cannot fathom the intoxicating lust that drives him to meet with the Radical week after week. In the bedroom, everything else falls away. Their needs match, and they are united by sympathy for each other’s deepest vulnerabilities. But when Silas’s politics earn him a death sentence, desire clashes with duty, and Dominic finds himself doing everything he can to save the man who stole his heart. And look for the enticing Society of Gentlemen series by KJ Charles: THE RUIN OF GABRIEL ASHLEIGH | A FASHIONABLE INDULGENCE | A SEDITIOUS AFFAIR | A GENTLEMAN’S POSITION Don’t miss any of the captivating Sins of the Cities novels: AN UNSEEN ATTRACTION | AN UNNATURAL VICE | AN UNSUITABLE HEIR Praise for A Seditious Affair “This book is so good I read it in one sitting. I just couldn’t put it down. K. J. Charles has long been one of my favorite authors, and this book doesn’t disappoint. A Seditious Affair is a beautiful love story interwoven with the realism of the political unrest of the time—another winner from K. J. Charles!”—USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer “Without doubt, A Seditious Affair is one of the best books I’ve read this year.”—All About Romance “I still haven’t gotten over how much I loved this book. I so look forward to reading the next novel in K. J. Charles’s Society of Gentlemen series.”—Unquietly Me “Gah! It’s always the books I love the most that leave me flailing and tongue tied. . . . A Seditious Affair is not a fluffy read but it is a story you can really sink your teeth into. It’s complex, sensual, raw and gosh darn it—super romantic. It’s one of my favorite reads of [the year].”—For What It’s Worth
Book Synopsis A History of English Law by : Sir William Searle Holdsworth
Download or read book A History of English Law written by Sir William Searle Holdsworth and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of English Law: Book IV (1485-1700). The common law and its rivals by : Sir William Searle Holdsworth
Download or read book A History of English Law: Book IV (1485-1700). The common law and its rivals written by Sir William Searle Holdsworth and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Europe, from the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the Accession of Louis Napoleon, in 1852 by : Archibald Alison
Download or read book History of Europe, from the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the Accession of Louis Napoleon, in 1852 written by Archibald Alison and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Uneasy Military Encounters by : Ruth Streicher
Download or read book Uneasy Military Encounters written by Ruth Streicher and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uneasy Military Encounters presents a historically and theoretically grounded political ethnography of the Thai military's counterinsurgency practices in the southern borderland, home to the greater part of the Malay-Muslim minority. Ruth Streicher argues that counterinsurgency practices mark the southern population as the racialized, religious, and gendered other of the Thai, which contributes to producing Thailand as an imperial formation: a state formation based on essentialized difference between the Thai and their others. Through a genealogical approach, Uneasy Military Encounters addresses broad conceptual questions of imperial politics in a non-Western context: How can we understand imperial policing in a country that was never colonized? How is "Islam" constructed in a state that is officially secular and promotes Buddhist tolerance? What are the (historical) dynamics of imperial patriarchy in a context internationally known for its gender pluralism? The resulting ethnography excavates the imperial politics of concrete encounters between the military and the southern population in the ongoing conflict in southern Thailand.
Book Synopsis The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860 by : Thomas Erskine May
Download or read book The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third, 1760-1860 written by Thomas Erskine May and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Managing Heritage, Making Peace by : Annie E. Coombes
Download or read book Managing Heritage, Making Peace written by Annie E. Coombes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenya stands at a crossroads in its history and heritage, as the nation celebrates its fiftieth anniversary of independence from Britain in 2013. At this important juncture, what parts of its history, including the Mau Mau uprising, do citizens and state wish to remember and commemorate and what is best forgotten or occluded? What does heritage mean to ordinary Kenyans, and what role does it play in building nationhood and forging peace and reconciliation? Focusing on the 1990s to the present, "Managing Heritage, Making Peace" is a timely exploration of the ways in which Kenyans are engaging with the past in the present, including such local initiatives as the community peace museums movement, local and national monuments and other notable commemorative actions. The authors show how Kenya is facing a continuing crisis over nationhood, heritage, memory and identity, which must be resolved to achieve social cohesion and peace.
Book Synopsis Masters of the World by : Mary A. M. Marks
Download or read book Masters of the World written by Mary A. M. Marks and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Student's Legal History by : Richard Storry Deans
Download or read book The Student's Legal History written by Richard Storry Deans and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third by : Thomas Erskine May
Download or read book The Constitutional History of England Since the Accession of George the Third written by Thomas Erskine May and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 by : Terri Diane Halperin
Download or read book The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 written by Terri Diane Halperin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to democracy when dissent is treated as treason? In May 1798, after Congress released the XYZ Affair dispatches to the public, a raucous crowd took to the streets of Philadelphia. Some gathered to pledge their support for the government of President John Adams, others to express their disdain for his policies. Violence, both physical and political, threatened the safety of the city and the Union itself. To combat the chaos and protect the nation from both external and internal threats, the Federalists swiftly enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts. Oppressive pieces of legislation aimed at separating so-called genuine patriots from objects of suspicion, these acts sought to restrict political speech, whether spoken or written, soberly planned or drunkenly off-the-cuff. Little more than twenty years after Americans declared independence and less than ten since they ratified both a new constitution and a bill of rights, the acts gravely limited some of the very rights those bold documents had promised to protect. In The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, Terri Diane Halperin discusses the passage of these laws and the furor over them, as well as the difficulties of enforcement. She describes in vivid detail the heated debates and tempestuous altercations that erupted between partisan opponents: one man pulled a gun on a supporter of the act in a churchyard; congressmen were threatened with arrest for expressing their opinions; and printers were viciously beaten for distributing suspect material. She also introduces readers to the fraught political divisions of the late 1790s, explores the effect of immigration on the new republic, and reveals the dangers of partisan excess throughout history. Touching on the major sedition trials while expanding the discussion beyond the usual focus on freedom of speech and the press to include the treatment of immigrants, Halperin’s book provides a window through which readers can explore the meaning of freedom of speech, immigration, citizenship, the public sphere, the Constitution, and the Union.
Book Synopsis A History of England by : James Franck Bright
Download or read book A History of England written by James Franck Bright and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Constitutional History of England by : Thomas Erskine May
Download or read book The Constitutional History of England written by Thomas Erskine May and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The constitutional history of England, 1760-1860 by : Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.)
Download or read book The constitutional history of England, 1760-1860 written by Thomas Erskine May (baron Farnborough.) and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
