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Author | : Suzy Hansen |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2017-08-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0374712441 |
Winner of the Overseas Press Club of America's Cornelius Ryan Award • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • Named a Best Book of the Year by New York Magazine and The Progressive "A deeply honest and brave portrait of of an individual sensibility reckoning with her country's violent role in the world." —Hisham Matar, The New York Times Book Review In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Suzy Hansen, who grew up in an insular conservative town in New Jersey, was enjoying early success as a journalist for a high-profile New York newspaper. Increasingly, though, the disconnect between the chaos of world events and the response at home took on pressing urgency for her. Seeking to understand the Muslim world that had been reduced to scaremongering headlines, she moved to Istanbul. Hansen arrived in Istanbul with romantic ideas about a mythical city perched between East and West, and with a naïve sense of the Islamic world beyond. Over the course of her many years of living in Turkey and traveling in Greece, Egypt, Afghanistan, and Iran, she learned a great deal about these countries and their cultures and histories and politics. But the greatest, most unsettling surprise would be what she learned about her own country—and herself, an American abroad in the era of American decline. It would take leaving her home to discover what she came to think of as the two Americas: the country and its people, and the experience of American power around the world. She came to understand that anti-Americanism is not a violent pathology. It is, Hansen writes, “a broken heart . . . A one-hundred-year-old relationship.” Blending memoir, journalism, and history, and deeply attuned to the voices of those she met on her travels, Notes on a Foreign Country is a moving reflection on America’s place in the world. It is a powerful journey of self-discovery and revelation—a profound reckoning with what it means to be American in a moment of grave national and global turmoil.
Author | : David Lowenthal |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 1985-11-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521294805 |
Lowentahal looks at the benefits and burdens of the past, how we study the past, and how we change it.
Author | : United States. Central Intelligence Agency |
Publisher | : Potomac Books |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781574886412 |
By intelligence officials for intelligent people
Author | : Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl |
Publisher | : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2020-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9783837645545 |
This multidisciplinary collection critically examines conditions and representations of old age and aging in Eastern and Southeastern Europe from various perspectives. By shedding light on these culturally specific contexts, it widens our understanding of the aging process in all its diversity and challenges the presumptions of aging studies.
Author | : Richard Rosecrance |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2019-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1501743120 |
If the possibilities for peace are to be increased in the next generation, America should change its role in world affairs from dominant superpower to ordinary country. That is the conclusion reached by ten distinguished specialists, five of them writing from abroad, as they reflect on recent U.S. foreign policy and survey its prospects. Ranging over crucial issues in military affairs, in the political sphere, and in the field of economics, their essays point out errors and misjudgments of the past and offer realistic, thought-provoking recommendations for the future.
Author | : Zareena Grewal |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1479800562 |
Considers the question: what does it mean to be Muslim and American? In Islam Is a Foreign Country, Zareena Grewal explores some of the most pressing debates about and among American Muslims: what does it mean to be Muslim and American? Who has the authority to speak for Islam and to lead the stunningly diverse population of American Muslims? Do their ties to the larger Muslim world undermine their efforts to make Islam an American religion? Offering rich insights into these questions and more, Grewal follows the journeys of American Muslim youth who travel in global, underground Islamic networks. Devoutly religious and often politically disaffected, these young men and women are in search of a home for themselves and their tradition. Through their stories, Grewal captures the multiple directions of the global flows of people, practices, and ideas that connect U.S. mosques to the Muslim world. By examining the tension between American Muslims’ ambivalence toward the American mainstream and their desire to enter it, Grewal puts contemporary debates about Islam in the context of a long history of American racial and religious exclusions. Probing the competing obligations of American Muslims to the nation and to the umma (the global community of Muslim believers), Islam is a Foreign Country investigates the meaning of American citizenship and the place of Islam in a global age.
Author | : Andrew Wear |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2020-08-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1786079003 |
Denmark is set to achieve 100 per cent renewable energy by 2030. Iceland has topped the gender equality rankings for a decade and counting. South Korea’s average life expectancy will soon reach ninety. How have these places achieved such remarkable outcomes? And how can we apply those lessons to our own communities? The future we want is already here - it's just not evenly distributed. By bringing together for the first time tried and tested solutions to society's most pressing problems, from violence to inequality, Andrew Wear shows that the world we want to live in is already within reach. Solved is a much-needed dose of optimism in an atmosphere of doom and gloom. Informative, accessible and revelatory, it is a celebration of the power of human ingenuity to make the future brighter for everyone.
Author | : Rajika Bhandari |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2021-09-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1647421845 |
Growing up in middle-class India, Rajika Bhandari has seen generations of her family look westward, where an American education means status and success. But she resists the lure of America because those who left never return—they all become flies trapped in honey in a land of opportunity. As a young woman, however, she finds herself heading to a US university to study, following her heart and a relationship. When that relationship ends and she fails in her attempt to move back to India as a foreign-educated woman, she returns to the US and finds herself in a job where the personal is political and professional: she is immersed in the lives of international students who come to America from over 200 countries, the universities that attract them, and the tangled web of immigration that a student must navigate. An unflinching and insightful narrative that explores the global appeal of a Made in America education that is a bridge to America’s successful past and to its future, America Calling is both a deeply personal story of Bhandari’s search for her place and voice, and an incisive analysis of America’s relationship with the rest of the world through the most powerful tool of diplomacy: education. At a time of growing nationalism, a turning inward, and fear of the “other,” America Calling is ultimately a call to action to keep America’s borders—and minds—open.
Author | : Rebecca Morgan Frank |
Publisher | : Carnegie Mellon Poetry |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9780887486258 |
Author | : Hans Michelmann |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2009-01-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0773576185 |
Foreign Relations in Federal Countries addresses questions such as: What constitutional powers do the federal governments and constituent states have to conduct foreign affairs? To what degree are relations between orders of government regularized by formal agreement or informal practice? What roles do constituent governments have in negotiation and implementation of international treaties? The volume offers a comparative perspective on the conduct of foreign relations in twelve federal countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, India, Malaysia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States.