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Author | : Alma Guillermoprieto |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030742667X |
From the esteemed New Yorker correspondent comes an incisive volume of essays and reportage that vividly illuminates Latin America’s recent history. Only Alma Guillermoprieto, the most highly regarded writer on the region, could unravel the complex threads of Colombia’s cocaine wars or assess the combination of despotism, charm, and political jiu-jitsu that has kept Fidel Castro in power for more than 40 years. And no one else can write with such acumen and sympathy about statesmen and campesinos, leftist revolutionaries and right-wing militias, and political figures from Evita Peron to Mexico’s irrepressible president, Vicente Fox. Whether she is following the historic papal visit to Havana or staying awake for a pre-dawn interview with an insomniac Subcomandante Marcos, Guillermoprieto displays both the passion and knowledge of an insider and the perspective of a seasoned analyst. Looking for History is journalism in the finest traditions of Joan Didion, V. S. Naipaul, and Ryszard Kapucinski: observant, empathetic, and beautifully written.
Author | : R. J. Unstead |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Kyle Ward |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 2011-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1458729923 |
In this thought-provoking study (Library Journal ), historian Kyle Ward-the widely acclaimed co-author of History Lessons-gives us another fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way we learn about our history. Juxtaposing passages from...
Author | : Linda Kalof |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2007-08-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781861893345 |
Taking in a wide range of visual and textual materials, Linda Kalof in Looking at Animals in Human History unearths many surprising and revealing examples of our depictions of animals.
Author | : Nicolas Rashevsky |
Publisher | : MIT Press (MA) |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
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Author | : Nicholas Chare |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2020-11-29 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1000226352 |
Through a series of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary interventions, leading international scholars of history and art history explore ways in which the study of images enhances knowledge of the past and informs our understanding of the present. Spanning a diverse range of time periods and places, the contributions cumulatively showcase ways in which ongoing dialogue between history and art history raises important aesthetic, ethical and political questions for the disciplines. The volume fosters a methodological awareness that enriches exchanges across these distinct fields of knowledge. This innovative book will be of interest to scholars in art history, cultural studies, history, visual culture and historiography.
Author | : R. J. Unstead |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Jacques Attali |
Publisher | : Skyhorse |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2011-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1628721332 |
What will planet Earth be like in twenty years? At mid-century? In the year 2100? Prescient and convincing, this book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future. Never has the world offered more promise for the future and been more fraught with dangers. Attali anticipates an unraveling of American hegemony as transnational corporations sever the ties linking free enterprise to democracy. World tensions will be primed for horrific warfare for resources and dominance. The ultimate question is: Will we leave our children and grandchildren a world that is not only viable but better, or in this nuclear world bequeath to them a planet that will be a living hell? Either way, he warns, the time to act is now.
Author | : Ronald Grigor Suny |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1993-05-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780253207739 |
As a new independent Republic of Armenia is established among the ruins of the Soviet Union, Armenians are rethinking their history—the processes by which they arrived at statehood in a small part of their historic homeland, and the definitions they might give to boundaries of their nation. Both a victim and a beneficiary of rival empires, Armenia experienced a complex evolution as a divided or an erased polity with a widespread diaspora. Ronald Grigor Suny traces the cultural and social transformations and interventions that created a new sense of Armenian nationality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Perceptions of antiquity and uniqueness combined in the popular imagination with the experiences of dispersion, genocide, and regeneration to forge an Armenian nation in Transcaucasia. Suny shows that while the limits of Armenia at times excluded the diaspora, now, at a time of state renewal, the boundaries have been expanded to include Armenians who live beyond the borders of the republic.
Author | : News & Advance (Newspaper: Lynchburg, Va.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Lynchburg (Va.) |
ISBN | : 9781597256803 |