Author: James TodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rajasthan (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan
Author: James TodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rajasthan (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaits
Author: David LindsayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education of princes
Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Iowa Journal of History
Author: World list of social science periodicals
Author: Bulletin of Information Series
Author: Writers and Missionaries
Author: Adam ShatzPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1804290645
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
What does it mean to be a politically committed writer? Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How can one remain a dispassionate thinker when involved in the cut and thrust of politics? And, in an age of horror and crisis, what does it mean to be a committed writer? Shatz interrogates the major figures of twentieth and twenty-first century thought and finds within their lives and work the roots of our present intellectual and geopolitical situation. Charting the role of the committed intellectual through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre on the Algerian War and Edward Said's lifelong solidarity with the Palestinian people, to Fouad Ajami's role as the "native informant" for pro-intervention cause in the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, alongside philosophers and critics Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida and Claude Lévi-Strauss and the novelists Michel Houllebecq and Richard Wright, each struggled to reconcile their writing and their politics, their thought and their commitments. Writers and Missionaries is an erudite and incisive work of intellectual elucidation and biographical enquiry that demands that we interrogate anew the relation of thought and action in the struggle for a more just world.
Calendar of state papers
Author: Notes on Wisconsin Territory
Author: Albert Miller LeaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
The British in Iowa
Author: Jacob Van der ZeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 358
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Israel, the Embattled Ally
Author: Nadav SafranPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674468821
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Through thirty turbulent years, the United States has been deeply enmeshed in Israel's destiny. Seldom in the history of international relations has such a world power been involved so intensely for so long with such a small power. How this phenomenon came to pass and how it will affect the future are explained in this compelling history of Israel and its relations with the United States—from the 1947 United Nations resolution through Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy to Carter's peace campaign. To form the backdrop for this extraordinary relationship, Nadav Safran paints a detailed portrait of the historical forces that combined to create the Jewish state. He unfolds panel after panel of Israeli life—its physical environment, people, economy, politics, and religion. He examines Israel's responses to the many security crises it has faced since becoming a nation, and presents a clear and thorough exposition of its defense strategy and descriptions of all its wars. Safran then presents his brilliant analysis of Israel and America in international politics. Cutting through the tangle of the Arab–Israeli conflict, the East–West struggle, the disagreement among Western powers, the conflicts within and among the Arab states, and the impact of special interest groups in the United States on its foreign policy, Safran deftly pursues fluctuations in the American–Israeli relationship as it moved from simple friendship to an alliance of friends. A concluding chapter recapitulates the highlights of that evolution and projects its relevance for the future of the Middle East and American–Israeli relations.