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Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 35,3 MB
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 030779847X
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Author : James Krapfl
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 34,80 MB
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0801469422
In this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia’s “gentle revolution,” James Krapfl shifts the focus away from elites to ordinary citizens who endeavored—from the outbreak of revolution in 1989 to the demise of the Czechoslovak federation in 1992—to establish a new, democratic political culture. Unique in its balanced coverage of developments in both Czech and Slovak lands, including the Hungarian minority of southern Slovakia, this book looks beyond Prague and Bratislava to collective action in small towns, provincial factories, and collective farms. Through his broad and deep analysis of workers’ declarations, student bulletins, newspapers, film footage, and the proceedings of local administrative bodies, Krapfl contends that Czechoslovaks rejected Communism not because it was socialist, but because it was arbitrarily bureaucratic and inhumane. The restoration of a basic “humanness”—in politics and in daily relations among citizens—was the central goal of the revolution. In the strikes and demonstrations that began in the last weeks of 1989, Krapfl argues, citizens forged new symbols and a new symbolic system to reflect the humane, democratic, and nonviolent community they sought to create. Tracing the course of the revolution from early, idealistic euphoria through turns to radicalism and ultimately subversive reaction, Revolution with a Human Face finds in Czechoslovakia’s experiences lessons of both inspiration and caution for people in other countries striving to democratize their governments.
Author : Robert Armstrong
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Christian democracy
ISBN : 9780896081376
Two of the leading U.S. experts on Central America provide the definitive study of the history and reality of the situation in El Salvador through the early 1980s.
Author : David Howard Adeney
Publisher : IVP Books
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 38,18 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Education
ISBN :
Mao Tse-tung's atheistic teaching governs all aspects of life in China today. But at the time of the 1949 revolution there were flourishing churches and student Christian Fellowships. What happened to them? David Adeney was in China during the revolution and the critical years in which Communism took root there. His first-hand account of life under the Communist régime describes the impact of Communist teaching on Christian students in the universities--the focal point of propaganda--and on the church as a whole. Now based in Singapore, he maintains his interest in modern China. He includes a chapter on the future of Christian witness in Communist countries generally.
Author : Michael John
Publisher :
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 1936
Category :
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Author : Fred Schwarz
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Anarchism
ISBN :
Author : Jacob Leib Talmon
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520044494
Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 1992-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0679736239
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Author : William Watson
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 11,52 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Zhuying Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 12,11 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000220893
Focusing on the influence of Maoist ideology and masculinist power on the representations of women in revolutionary opera films made during the Cultural Revolution, this book considers the gendered hierarchy between masculinity and femininity in relation to the historic and cultural context in which they were made. Using feminist methodology and epistemology to locate women’s social identity, this book explores the sociological connections between the masculinisation of women and masculinist domination in the context of the Cultural Revolution. Through film analysis, the author examines whether women, rather than 'liberated', were in fact re-gendered and oppressed by masculinist power. By critically evaluating gender hierarchy during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, the book provides hitherto neglected insights into gender within its social and cultural context. This an interdisciplinary book which should appeal to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including gender studies, Asian studies, China studies, cultural studies and film studies.