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In this 1913 volume, Adams sets out the case for the necessity of the impartiality of law. Concerned about the dangers stemming from the great wealth and private power newly being created in America, he argues that the justice system can only be satisfactory when applied in an entirely egalitarian manner. Chapters include "The Collapse of Capitalistic Government," "The Limitations of the Judicial Function," "American Courts as Legislative Chambers,"...
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Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, revolution, democracy, and ecology-terms often bandied about but seldom explored in the original and exciting way that has become Michael Parenti's trademark.
Parenti shows how "rational fascism" renders service to capitalism, how corporate power undermines democracy, and how revolutions are a mass empowerment against the forces of exploitative privilege....
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Cuando Ángel Perelman escribió este libro, todavía no había pasado una década del nefasto golpe de Estado que derrocó al general Perón. Aquella autodenominada "Revolución Libertadora" -popularmente rebautizada "Revolución fusiladora"- fue sucedida por gobiernos conducidos por civiles y militares que siguieron proscribiendo, persiguiendo y reprimiendo al peronismo. Las acciones de la restauración oligárquica expresada en los distintos gobiernos...
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À l'occasion des commémorations des 175 ans de la Belgique, redécouvrez ses événements marquants!
Cet ouvrage, qui peut se lire dans sa continuité, est conçu comme un outil qui permet de :
- replacer un personnage et/ou un événement dans leurs contextes historiques ;
- situer rapidement des faits politiques, économiques ou culturels qui ont jalonnés l'histoire de la Belgique ;
- se familiariser, grâce à des notices biographiques,...
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De Eve à Brigitte Bardot.
Depuis la mythique Ève, écoutant le serpent, en passant par Wu Zitan, l'impératrice de Chine, femme d'une beauté incomparable dont l'ascension sur le trne fut constellée de sang, jusqu'à Brigitte Bardot, une des premières impudiques du cinéma, découvrez l'Histoire des femmes les plus scandaleuses de tous les temps. Parmi elles : Isabeau de Bavière, reine nymphomane; Madame de Montespan, qui aurait participé à...
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R. R. Palmer (1909–2002) was professor emeritus of history at Yale University and a guest scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He taught at Princeton University from 1936 to 1963. He was the author of many books, including the two-volume The Age of the Democratic Revolution (Princeton), the first volume of which won the Bancroft Prize in 1960, and the translator of The Coming of the French Revolution by Georges Lefebvre. Isser...
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The bayonet is an essential item of a soldier's kit even on today's modern hi-tech battlefield. This work examines the origins of this humble weapon and the 'cult of the bayonet' as espoused by the Russian General Alexander Suvorov who asserted that The bullet misses, the bayonet does not. The first bayonets appeared in France in the early 17th century and soon they were being used by every army in Europe. The author examines the spread of this simple...
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Extrait : "« La Bastille, écrivait Sainte-Foix, est un château qui, sans être fort, est un des plus redoutables de l'Europe, et dont je ne dirai rien. » - « Il est plus sûr, répétait-on dans Paris, de s'en taire que d'en parler. » A l'extrémité de la rue Saint-Antoine, à l'entrée du faubourg, apparaissaient les huit tours hautes, sombres, massives, plongeant leurs pieds moussus dans des flaques d'eau boueuse."
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Imagine you could see the smiles of the people mentioned in Samuel Pepys's diary, hear the shouts of market traders, and touch their wares. How would you find your way around? Where would you stay? What would you wear? Where might you be suspected of witchcraft? Where would you be welcome? This is an up-close-and-personal look at Britain between the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 and the end of the century. The last witch is sentenced to death...
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Dans La grande dégringolade - La France de Louis XIV à aujourd'hui, l'auteur émet le constat selon lequel le « sens de l'histoire » semble différent, voire inversé, dans la mesure o l'on considère la nation française ou bien les Français eux-mêmes. Il met ainsi en lumière le rle capital de l'abandon de la Nouvelle-France et les funestes conséquences de ce revers historique. Dans cette réflexion étonnante, bien d'autres renoncements...
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La part réservée à l'Organisation Spéciale dans l'histoire de la Fédération de France du FLN a laissé dans l'ombre une dimension importante de la lutte de libération en territoire français. Entre les différents tenants de la lutte armée un contentieux est né que le temps n'a pas aidé à résoudre.
L'Organisation Spéciale de la Fédération de France du FLN était-elle un détachement de l'organisation civile contrlé par le comité...
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Ziba Mir-Hosseini, a social anthropologist, works as a freelance researcher and consultant. She is the author of Marriage on Trial: A Study of Islamic Family Law in Iran and Morocco and the co-director of a documentary, Divorce Iranian Style, filmed in Tehran.
Following the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and the re-introduction of Sharica law relating to gender and the family, women's rights in Iran suffered a major setback. However, as the implementers...
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Highland Resistance takes as its subject the record of land-centred (and by implication culture- and nationality- centred) conflict in the Highlands of Scotland during the two and a half centuries since the Jacobite rising of 1745. The book tells the story of anti-landlord agitation and direct-action land-raiding from the great sheep-drives in Sutherland at the end of the eighteenth century, on through the anti-eviction resistance that characterised...
15) A people's history of the American Revolution: how common people shaped the fight for independence
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[This book] view[s] the revolution through the eyes of common folk. Their stories have long been overlooked in the mythic telling of America's founding, but are crucial to a comprehensive understanding of the fight for independence. Now, the experiences of farmers, laborers, rank and file soldiers, women, Native Americans, and African Americans - found in diaries, letters, memoirs and other long-ignored primary sources - create a gritty account of...
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In The Egyptians, journalist Jack Shenker uncovers the roots of the uprising that succeeded in toppling Hosni Mubarak, one of the Middle East's most entrenched dictators, and explores a country now divided between two irreconcilable political orders. Challenging conventional analyses that depict contemporary Egypt as a battle between Islamists and secular forces, The Egyptians illuminates other, equally important fault lines: far-flung communities...
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Un ouvrage qui marqua le mouvement de la dissidence chrétien, connu sous le nom de « Petite Église ».
Ce mouvement est né du Concordat de 1802 mais largement préparé par l'obligation faite aux prêtres, en 1790, d'obtempérer au Serment Civique qui transformait ceux-ci en fonctionnaires publics. Cet ukase de l'Assemblée Nationale provoqua l'exil d'une nuée de prêtres dont une grande partie débarqua en Angleterre o ils formeront la petite...
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Many Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other. Yet for Israel's founders, the state that emerged against all odds in 1948 was anything but ordinary. Born from the ashes of genocide and a long history of suffering, Israel was conceived to be unique, a model society and the heart of a prosperous new Middle East. It is this paradox, says historian Michael Brenner--the Jewish people's wish for a homeland...
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In his latest collection of essays, Neil Davidson brings his formidable analytical powers to bear on the concept of the capitalist nation-state. Through probing inquiry, Davidson draws out how nationalist ideology and consciousness is used to bind the subordinate classes to "the nation," while simultaneously using "the state" as a means of conducting geopolitical competition for capital.
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Are you taking over, or are you taking orders? Are you going backwards, or are you going forwards? White riot--I wanna riot.White riot--a riot of my own. The Clash, "White Riot" Ten years after the battle in Seattle sparked an historic struggle against the forces of multinational conglomeration and American imperialism, the anti-globalization generation is ready to reflect on a decade of organizing that changed the face of mass action around the globe....
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