Author: Ruth First
Publisher: Africana Pub.
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: Eric Drott
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520950089
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 363

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In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May ’68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the world. Eric Drott examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May ’68 on a wide variety of music in France, from the initial shock of 1968 through the "long" 1970s and the election of Mitterrand and the socialists in 1981. Drott’s detailed account of how diverse music communities developed in response to 1968 and his pathbreaking reflections on the nature and significance of musical genre come together to provide insights into the relationships that link music, identity, and politics.

Author: Raymond Aron
Publisher: New York : Praeger Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Monograph on the general background to youth unrest and university student revolt and on the problems exposed during the crisis of may 1968 in France - covers political aspects and psychological aspects, the revolutionary social movements, etc., and concludes that while students may be expressing a malaise which is common to the whole of western civilisation, they may also be preparing the destruction of the 'liberal order' of which the university is the best guarantor. References.

Author: Eric Drott
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520268962
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. Drott examines the social, political, and cultural effects of May '68 on a variety of music in France.

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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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Author: Jesse Kauffman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674286014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Jesse Kauffman explains why Germany’s ambitious attempt at nation-building in Poland during WWI failed. The educational and political institutions Germany built for its satellite state could not alleviate Poland’s hostility to the plundering of its resources to fuel Germany’s war effort.

Author: Laura Madokoro
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971515
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Laura Madokoro recovers the lost history of millions of displaced Chinese who fled the Communist Revolution and recounts humanitarian efforts to find homes for them outside China. Entrenched bigotry in predominantly white countries, the spread of human rights, Cold War geopolitics, and the Vietnam War shaped refugee policies that still hold sway.

Author: Paul B. Miller
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813931290
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Although the questions of modernity and postmodernity are debated as frequently in the Caribbean as in other cultural zones, the Enlightenment—generally considered the origin of European modernity—is rarely discussed as such in the Caribbean context. Paul B. Miller constellates modern Caribbean writers of varying national and linguistic traditions whose common thread is their representation of the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolution in the Caribbean. In a comparative reading of such writers as Alejo Carpentier (Cuba), C. L. R. James (Trinidad), Marie Chauvet (Haiti), Maryse Condé (Guadeloupe), Reinaldo Arenas (Cuba), and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá (Puerto Rico), Miller shows how these authors deploy their historical imagination in order to assess and reevaluate the elusive and often conflicted origins of their own modernity. Miller documents the conceptual and ideological shift from an earlier generation of writers to a more recent one whose narrative strategies bear a strong resemblance to postmodern cultural practices, including the use of parody in targeting their discursive predecessors, the questioning of Enlightenment assumptions, and a suspicion regarding the dialectical unfolding of history as their precursors understood it. By positing the Cuban Revolution as a dividing line between the earlier generation and their postmodern successors, Miller confers a Caribbean specificity upon the commonplace notion of postmodernity. The dual advantage of Elusive Origins's thematic specificity coupled with its inclusiveness allows a reflection on canonical writers in conjunction with lesser-known figures. Furthermore, the inclusion of Francophone and Anglophone writers in addition to those from the Hispanic Caribbean opens up the volume geographically, linguistically, and nationally, expanding its contribution to a nonessentialist understanding of the Caribbean in a Latin American, Atlantic, and global context.

Author: Drew R. McCoy
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807838322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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By investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought--an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions--Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980.

Author: Barry M. Rubin
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674768031
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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The world looks on, amazed, as Yasir Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shake hands on the White House lawn. Unprecedented as the moment may be, the agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization is merely the latest twist in one of the most remarkable tales in history--a story now told by Barry Rubin. Map.