The Vertigo Years

The Vertigo Years
Author: Philipp Blom
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2010-11-02
Genre: History
ISBN: 0465020291

Examines how changes from the Industrial Revolution prior to World War I brought about radical transformation in society, changes in education, and massive migration in population that led to one of the bloodiest events in history.

Monster of the Twentieth Century

Monster of the Twentieth Century
Author: Robert Thomas Tierney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2015-06-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520961595

This extended monograph examines the work of the radical journalist Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s anti-imperialist movement of the early twentieth century. It includes the first English translation of Imperialism (Teikokushugi), Kotoku’s classic 1901 work. Kotoku Shusui was a Japanese socialist, anarchist, and critic of Japan’s imperial expansionism who was executed in 1911 for his alleged participation in a plot to kill the emperor. His Imperialism was one of the first systematic criticisms of imperialism published anywhere in the world. In this seminal text, Kotoku condemned global imperialism as the commandeering of politics by national elites and denounced patriotism and militarism as the principal causes of imperialism. In addition to translating Imperialism, Robert Tierney offers an in-depth study of Kotoku’s text and of the early anti-imperialist movement he led. Tierney places Kotoku’s book within the broader context of early twentieth-century debates on the nature and causes of imperialism. He also presents a detailed account of the different stages of the Japanese anti-imperialist movement. Monster of the Twentieth Century constitutes a major contribution to the intellectual history of modern Japan and to the comparative study of critiques of capitalism and colonialism.

Magick Without Tears

Magick Without Tears
Author: Aleister Crowley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1991
Genre: Magic
ISBN: 9781561840182

Crowley at his absolute best. An annotated and very personal encyclopedia of magical instruction covering the Qabalah, the major schools and symbols of magick, meditation and astral projection, the tarot, astrology, pentacles, lamens, talismans, and much, much more.

J'accuse !

J'accuse !
Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: Bibebook
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-06-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9782824702377

J'accuse...! est le titre d'un article rédigé par Émile Zola lors de l'affaire Dreyfus et publié dans le journal L'Aurore du 13 janvier 1898 sous forme d'une lettre ouverte au Président de la République Félix Faure. Zola s'est appuyé en partie sur un dossier écrit en 1896 par l'écrivain Bernard Lazare. J'accuse...! paraît deux jours après l'acquittement d'Esterhazy par le conseil de guerre (11 janvier), qui semble ruiner tous les espoirs nourris par les partisans d'une révision du procès condamnant Dreyfus. Zola y attaque nommément les généraux, les officiers responsables de l'erreur judiciaire ayant entraîné le procès et la condamnation, les experts en écritures coupables de « rapports mensongers et frauduleux. » Extrait : Un homme néfaste a tout mené, a tout fait, c'est le lieutenant-colonel du Paty de Clam, alors simple commandant. Il est l'affaire Dreyfus tout entière ; on ne la connaîtra que lorsqu'une enquête loyale aura établi nettement ses actes et ses responsabilités. Il apparaît comme l'esprit le plus fumeux, le plus compliqué, hanté d'intrigues romanesques, se complaisant aux moyens des romans-feuilletons, les papiers volés, les lettres anonymes, les rendez-vous dans les endroits déserts, les femmes mystérieuses qui colportent, de nuit, des preuves accablantes. C'est lui qui imagina de dicter le bordereau à Dreyfus ; c'est lui qui rêva de l'étudier dans une pièce entièrement revêtue de glaces ; c'est lui que le commandant Forzinetti nous représente armé d'une lanterne sourde, voulant se faire introduire près de l'accusé endormi, pour projeter sur son visage un brusque flot de lumière et surprendre ainsi son crime, dans l'émoi du réveil.

The Martyrs of Columbine

The Martyrs of Columbine
Author: J. Watson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2003-05-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1403970009

On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve fellow students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Two of the victims of the Columbine massacre, Cassie Bernall and Rachel Scott, reportedly were asked by the gunmen if they believed in God. Both supposedly answered 'Yes' and were killed. Within days of their death, Cassie and Rachel were being hailed as modern-day martyrs and are seen by many American evangelicals as the sparks of a religious revival among teenagers. Cassie and Rachel, as innocents martyred for faith, also became useful symbols for those seeking to advance a conservative political agenda and to lay the blame for Columbine at the feet of their liberal opponents. According to police investigators, however, Cassie and Rachel may never have been asked by their killers about God. They may have been simply victims of a senseless crime rather than martyrs to a cause. The Martyrs of Columbine provides a careful examination of the available evidence and attempts to discover what really occurred. Despite these questions the martyr-stories continued to be told and the religious and political use of Cassie and Rachel continues. The popular significance of the martyrs of Columbine persists, and may even be growing. How and why is this happening? The Martyrs of Columbine is a groundbreaking investigation of what this tragedy has come and will come to mean in American religion, politics, and culture.

J'Accuse

J'Accuse
Author: Emile Zola
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781730902116

J'accuse (+Biographie et Bibliographie) (6X9po Glossy Cover Finish):J'accuse...! est le titre d'un article rédigé par Émile Zola lors de l'affaire Dreyfus et publié dans le journal L'Aurore du 13 janvier 1898 sous forme d'une lettre ouverte au Président de la République Félix Faure. Zola s'est appuyé en partie sur un dossier écrit en 1896 par l'écrivain Bernard Lazare.J'accuse...! paraît deux jours après l'acquittement d'Esterhazy par le conseil de guerre (11 janvier), qui semble ruiner tous les espoirs nourris par les partisans d'une révision du procès condamnant Dreyfus. Zola y attaque nommément les généraux, les officiers responsables de l'erreur judiciaire ayant entraîné le procès et la condamnation, les experts en écritures coupables de « rapports mensongers et frauduleux. »

A Cubism Reader

A Cubism Reader
Author: Mark Antliff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 720
Release: 2008
Genre: Art, Modern
ISBN:

"This definitive anthology covers the historical genesis of cubism from 1906 to 1914, with documents that range from manifestos and poetry to exhibition prefaces and reviews to articles that address the cultural, political, and philosophical issues related to the movement. Most of the texts Mark Antliff and Patricia Leighten have selected are from French sources, but their inclusion of carefully culled German, English, Czech, Italian, and Spanish documents speaks to the international reach of cubist art and ideas. Equally wide-ranging are the writers represented--a group that includes Guillaume Apollinaire, Gertrude Stein, Jean Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, Francis Picabia, André Salmon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Henri Le Fauconnier, and many others."--Publisher description.