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Author: J. B. Durbin Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781484808177 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
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Book One in the Paine Saga. A CIA-manufactured plague was bioengineered to attack coca plants in an effort to eliminate cocaine production. The plague mutates and destroys food plants worldwide. Governments collapsed and billions died. Follow Michael Paine Martin, the son of a mercenary leader, as he tries to protect himself and his family from the ravages of anarchy. Thirteen-year old Mike shivered from the cold and loss of blood. He had rolled out of bed and grabbed the first weapon he could reach when the alarm had sounded and immediately regretted his choice. The twelve-gauge automatic shotgun he carried was heavy, and his shoulder hurt from its massive recoil. The only good thing was that he really didn't have to be right on target to get a kill. Unfortunately, it did not protect him from the wild burst from the automatic rifle of the first marauder he shot. Two of the bullets had punched holes through the calf of his left leg, requiring the application of a tourniquet. Mike limped through the rest of the fire fight, losing all feeling in his left foot and fighting the blackness that threatened to overcome him. Even though his vision was blurry, he managed to kill at least three attackers at close range. He collapsed against a wall, breathing heavily, light-headed and on the verge of nausea from the death he had wrought and the physical pain he was feeling. He felt, rather than saw, movement behind him and, in reflex, brought up his weapon, squeezing the trigger. As the shotgun went off, it was jerked from his hand and he was knocked to the ground. Mike closed his eyes and prepared for the end.
Author: J. B. Durbin Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub ISBN: 9781484808177 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 268
Book Description
Book One in the Paine Saga. A CIA-manufactured plague was bioengineered to attack coca plants in an effort to eliminate cocaine production. The plague mutates and destroys food plants worldwide. Governments collapsed and billions died. Follow Michael Paine Martin, the son of a mercenary leader, as he tries to protect himself and his family from the ravages of anarchy. Thirteen-year old Mike shivered from the cold and loss of blood. He had rolled out of bed and grabbed the first weapon he could reach when the alarm had sounded and immediately regretted his choice. The twelve-gauge automatic shotgun he carried was heavy, and his shoulder hurt from its massive recoil. The only good thing was that he really didn't have to be right on target to get a kill. Unfortunately, it did not protect him from the wild burst from the automatic rifle of the first marauder he shot. Two of the bullets had punched holes through the calf of his left leg, requiring the application of a tourniquet. Mike limped through the rest of the fire fight, losing all feeling in his left foot and fighting the blackness that threatened to overcome him. Even though his vision was blurry, he managed to kill at least three attackers at close range. He collapsed against a wall, breathing heavily, light-headed and on the verge of nausea from the death he had wrought and the physical pain he was feeling. He felt, rather than saw, movement behind him and, in reflex, brought up his weapon, squeezing the trigger. As the shotgun went off, it was jerked from his hand and he was knocked to the ground. Mike closed his eyes and prepared for the end.
Author: James C. Scott Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691161038 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 198
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A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to life James Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited, and often very funny defense of an anarchist way of seeing—one that provides a unique and powerful perspective on everything from everyday social and political interactions to mass protests and revolutions. Through a wide-ranging series of memorable anecdotes and examples, the book describes an anarchist sensibility that celebrates the local knowledge, common sense, and creativity of ordinary people. The result is a kind of handbook on constructive anarchism that challenges us to radically reconsider the value of hierarchy in public and private life, from schools and workplaces to retirement homes and government itself. Beginning with what Scott calls "the law of anarchist calisthenics," an argument for law-breaking inspired by an East German pedestrian crossing, each chapter opens with a story that captures an essential anarchist truth. In the course of telling these stories, Scott touches on a wide variety of subjects: public disorder and riots, desertion, poaching, vernacular knowledge, assembly-line production, globalization, the petty bourgeoisie, school testing, playgrounds, and the practice of historical explanation. Far from a dogmatic manifesto, Two Cheers for Anarchism celebrates the anarchist confidence in the inventiveness and judgment of people who are free to exercise their creative and moral capacities.
Author: John Ferling Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1632862115 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 515
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From acclaimed historian John Ferling, the story of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe's involvement in the American and French Revolutions and their quest for sweeping change in both America and Europe. Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe hazarded all in quest of revolutions. As founding fathers, they risked their lives and their liberty for American independence, and as reformers, each rejoiced at the opportunity to be part of the French Revolution, praying that it in turn would inspire others to sweep away Europe's monarchies and titled nobilities. For these three men, real revolution would lead to substantive political and social alterations and an escape from royal and aristocratic rule. But as the eighteenth century unfolded, these three separated onto different routes to revolution-two became soldiers, two became writers, and two became statesmen-and their united cause but divided means reshaped their country and the Western world. Apostles of Revolution spans a crucial time in Western Civilization. The era ranged from the American insurgency against Great Britain to the Declaration of Independence, from desperate engagements on American battlefields to the bloody Terror in France. It culminates with the tumultuous election of 1800, the outcome of which – according to Jefferson – saved the American Revolution. Written as a sweeping narrative of a turbulent and pivotal era, Apostles of the Revolution captures the spirit of our founding fathers and the history of America and Europe's great turning point.
Author: Priya Satia Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674250559 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 385
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A New Statesman Book of the Year “Time’s Monster is not a conventional history...The conclusion [Satia] arrives at ultimately is that it was the discipline of History itself, ever since its emergence as a field of academic inquiry in nineteenth century Europe, that provided well-intentioned, highly-educated Western liberals with a set of ethical tools for the management of their consciences as they unleashed murderous violence on ‘backward’ peoples across the planet...Built into the foundations of History, and indeed, many other disciplines in the Humanities, is the repression of some of the most important questions about human existence on this planet...Satia’s fearlessness in tackling big questions, even to the point of indicting the very discipline that has raised her to a position of not-inconsiderable eminence, suggests that she might well be the historian who could summon the courage to plunge into this chasm.”—Amitav Ghosh, Scroll An award-winning author reconsiders the role of historians in political debate. For generations, British thinkers told the history of an empire whose story was still very much in the making. While they wrote of conquest, imperial rule in India, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean was consolidated. While they described the development of imperial governance, rebellions were brutally crushed. As they reimagined empire during the two world wars, decolonization was compromised. Priya Satia shows how these historians not only interpreted the major political events of their time but also shaped the future that followed. Satia makes clear that historical imagination played a significant role in the unfolding of empire. History emerged as a mode of ethics in the modern period, endowing historians from John Stuart Mill to Winston Churchill with outsized policymaking power. At key moments in Satia’s telling, we find Britons warding off guilty conscience by recourse to particular notions of history, especially those that spotlighted great men helpless before the will of Providence. Braided with this story is an account of alternative visions articulated by anticolonial thinkers such as William Blake, Mahatma Gandhi, and E. P. Thompson. By the mid-twentieth century, their approaches had reshaped the discipline of history and the ethics that came with it. Time’s Monster demonstrates the dramatic consequences of writing history today as much as in the past. Against the backdrop of enduring global inequalities, debates about reparations, and the crisis in the humanities, Satia’s is an urgent moral voice.
Author: J. C. D. Clark Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192548980 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 504
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Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was England's greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of Man. No one else combined the roles of activist and theorist, or did so in the 'age of revolutions', fundamental as it was to the emergence of the 'modern world'. But his fame meant that he was taken up and reinterpreted for current use by successive later commentators and politicians, so that the 'historic Paine' was too often obscured by the 'usable Paine'. J. C. D. Clark explains Paine against a revised background of early- and mid-eighteenth-century England. He argues that Paine knew and learned less about events in America and France than was once thought. He de-attributes a number of publications, and passages, hitherto assumed to have been Paine's own, and detaches him from a number of causes (including anti-slavery, women's emancipation, and class action) with which he was once associated. Paine's formerly obvious association with the early origin and long-term triumph of natural rights, republicanism, and democracy needs to be rethought. As a result, Professor Clark offers a picture of radical and reforming movements as more indebted to the initiatives of large numbers of men and women in fast-evolving situations than to the writings of a few individuals who framed lasting, and eventually triumphant, political discourses.
Author: Colin Ward Publisher: ISBN: 9781629632384 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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The argument of this book is that an anarchist society, a society which organises itself without authority, is always in existence. Through a wide-ranging analysis - drawing on examples from education, urban planning, welfare, housing, the environment, the workplace, and the family, to name but a few - Colin Ward demonstrates that the roots of anarchist practice are not so alien or quixotic as they might at first seem but lie precisely in the ways that people have always tended to organise themselves when left alone to do so.
Author: Craig Nelson Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101201789 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 433
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A fresh new look at the Enlightenment intellectual who became the most controversial of America's founding fathers Despite his being a founder of both the United States and the French Republic, the creator of the phrase "United States of America," and the author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine is the least well known of America's founding fathers. This edifying biography by Craig Nelson traces Paine's path from his years as a London mechanic, through his emergence as the voice of revolutionary fervor on two continents, to his final days in the throes of dementia. By acquainting us as never before with this complex and combative genius, Nelson rescues a giant from obscurity-and gives us a fascinating work of history.
Author: J. B. Durbin
Author: J. B. Durbin
Author: James C. Scott
Author: John Ferling
Author: Priya Satia
Author: J. C. D. Clark
Author: Charles Janeway Stillé
Author: Brian McCartin
Author: Colin Ward
Author: Craig Nelson
Author: John Fiske