Историческая литература
Различные книги в жанре Историческая литератураDancing with Dynamite
Grassroots social movements played a major role electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America. Subsequent relations between these states and «the streets» remain troubled. Contextualizing recent developments historically, Dangl untangles the contradictions of state-focused social change, providing lessons for activists everywhere.
Black Bloc, White Riot
A.K. Thompson is the first scholar to offer an analysis and investigation of the black bloc (the masked, militant, and decentralized anti-globalization army that is inextricably linked to our memory of the mass protests at the turn of the century) that refuses to shy away from the issue of violence – and the only scholar to suggest the positive and liberatory effects of the black bloc on white middle-class politics. Revisiting the struggles against globalization in Canada and the US at the turn of the century, Black Bloc, White Riot explores the connection between political violence and the white middle class. Arguing that the white middle class was annexed from the field of politics during the 20th century, Thompson considers the dynamics of the anti-globalization movement as an expression of the struggle to reconnect with political being. Drawing on movement literature, contemporary and critical theory, and practical investigations – and jumping off from the unlikely triad of George Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Clash guitarist Joe Strummer – the book considers why violence must once again become a central category of activist political reckoning. Each chapter in Black Bloc, White Riot engages with a key debate from the period of anti-globalization struggles. Whether considering the tensions between «direct» and «mass» action, «summit hopping» and «local organizing,» or «non-violence» and «diversity of tactics,» the author highlights the ways in which activist tactics and the struggle against globalization itself were qualitatively transformed by the experience of violence.
The People's Pension
The People's Pension covers a period of Social Security history that no one else has covered, let alone in so much depth, and it presents a unique interpretation of why the politics of Social Security have played out as they have since the Reagan years.Slated to release in April 2012, The People's Pension will make its appearance in the midst of the presidential primaries, when Social Security will undoubtedly be a major issue. The fate of Social Security has been in question for years now, and with the recent threat that checks might not be going out in August, the fear of scrapping the program altogether seems increasingly plausible.Written in a clear, accessible style, The People's Pension will be of interest to every working American who worries about their future with Social Security, as well as political or social policy analysts and scholars, anarchists and left libertarians, grassroots activists, labor organizers, progressive lawmakers committed to defending Social Security, anyone interested in the history of the U.S. from the Reagan era on, and conservative and center-right opponents of Social Security.
Dispersing Power
“Zibechi goes to Bolivia to learn. Like us, he goes with questions, questions that stretch far beyond the borders of Bolivia. How do we change the world and create a different one? How do we get rid of capitalism? How do we create a society based on dignity? What is the role of the state and what are the possibilities of changing society through anti-state movements?… the most important practical and theoretical questions that have risen from the struggles in Latin America and the world in the last fifteen years or so.... The book is beautiful, exciting, stimulating.... Do read it and also give it your friends.”—John Holloway, from the Foreword“Raúl Zibechi recounts in wonderful detail how dynamic and innovative Bolivian social movements succeeded in transforming the country. Even more inspiring than the practical exploits, though, are the theoretical innovations of the movements, which Zibechi highlights, giving us new understandings of community, political organization, institution, and a series of other concepts vital to contemporary political thought.”—Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire, Multitude, and CommonwealthThis, Raúl Zibechi's first book translated into English, is an historical analysis of social struggles in Bolivia and the forms of community power instituted by that country's indigenous Aymara. Dispersing Power, like the movements it describes, explores new ways of doing politics beyond the state, gracefully mapping the «how» of revolution, offering valuable lessons to activists and new theoretical frameworks for understanding how social movements can and do operate independently of state-centered models for social change.
Walking the Choctaw Road
Oklahoma, or «Okla Homma,» is a Choctaw word meaning «Red People.» In this collection, acclaimed storyteller Tim Tingle tells the stories of his people, the Choctaw People, the Okla Homma. For years, Tim has collected stories of the old folks, weaving traditional lore with stories from everyday life. Walking the Choctaw Road is a mixture of myth stories, historical accounts passed from generation to generation, and stories of Choctaw people living their lives in the here and now. The Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers selected Tim as «Contemporary Storyteller Of The Year» for 2001, and in 2002, Tim was the featured storyteller at the National Storyteller Festival in Jonesboro, Tennessee. Tim Tingle lives in Canyon Lake, Texas.
On the Edges of Whiteness
From 1942 to 1950, nearly twenty thousand Poles found refuge from the horrors of war-torn Europe in camps within Britain’s African colonies, including Uganda, Tanganyika, Kenya and Northern and Southern Rhodesia. On the Edges of Whiteness tells their improbable story, tracing the manifold, complex relationships that developed among refugees, their British administrators, and their African neighbors. While intervening in key historical debates across academic disciplines, this book also gives an accessible and memorable account of survival and dramatic cultural dislocation against the backdrop of global conflict.
Black Music
"Jones has learned—and this has been very rare in jazz criticism—to write about music as an artist."—Nat Hentoff ksBlack Music is a book about the brilliant young jazz musicians of the early 1960s: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, Sun Ra, and others. It is composed of essays, reviews, interviews, liner notes, musical analyses, and personal impressions from 1959–1967. Also includes Amiri Baraka's reflections in a 2009 interview with Calvin Reid of Publishers Weekly.LeRoi Jones (now known as Amiri Baraka) is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. He was named Poet Laureate of New Jersey from 2002 to 2004 by the New Jersey Commission on Humanities. His most recent book, Tales of the Out & the Gone (Akashic Books, 2007), was a New York Times Editors' Choice and winner of a PEN/Beyond Margins Award. He lives in Newark, New Jersey.
Artificial Light
"Artificial Light beats the bejeezus out of the last dozen Thomas Pynchons, the last nineteen Don DeLillos, and the last forty-three Kurt Vonneguts."–Richard MeltzerStunningly written in prose that is poetic, gripping, and highly adventurous, Artificial Light may be the first American novel to successfully treat the alternative rock scene of the 1990s as a subject for serious literature.James Greer, a novelist and screenwriter, has written for Spin, Tennis Magazine, Sunfish Holy Breakfast, and Paris Hilton. He is the author of Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock 'n' Roll (Grove, 2005). He lives in Los Angeles.
Cast Out
Throughout history, those arrested for vagrancy have generally been poor men and women, often young, able-bodied, unemployed, and homeless. Most histories of vagrancy have focused on the European and American experiences. Cast Out: Vagrancy and Homelessness in Global and Historical Perspective is the first book to consider the shared global heritage of vagrancy laws, homelessness, and the historical processes they accompanied. In this ambitious collection, vagrancy and homelessness are used to examine a vast array of phenomena, from the migration of labor to social and governmental responses to poverty through charity, welfare, and prosecution. The essays in Cast Out represent the best scholarship on these subjects and include discussions of the lives of the underclass, strategies for surviving and escaping poverty, the criminalization of poverty by the state, the rise of welfare and development programs, the relationship between imperial powers and colonized peoples, and the struggle to achieve independence after colonial rule. By juxtaposing these histories, the authors explore vagrancy as a common response to poverty, labor dislocation, and changing social norms, as well as how this strategy changed over time and adapted to regional peculiarities. Part of a growing literature on world history, Cast Out offers fresh perspectives and new research in fields that have yet to fully investigate vagrancy and homelessness. This book by leading scholars in the field is for policy makers, as well as for courses on poverty, homelessness, and world history. Contributors: Richard B. Allen David Arnold A. L. Beier Andrew Burton Vincent DiGirolamo Andrew A. Gentes Robert Gordon Frank Tobias Higbie Thomas H. Holloway Abby Margolis Paul Ocobock Aminda M. Smith Linda Woodbridge