Author: Gerald R. BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780978122010
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages :
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Vista Tales-
Author: Gerald R. BrownPublisher:
ISBN: 9780978122010
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages :
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Paramilitarism and the Assault on Democracy in Haiti
Author: Jeb SpraguePublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1583673032
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
In this path-breaking book, Jeb Sprague investigates the dangerous world of right-wing paramilitarism in Haiti and its role in undermining the democratic aspirations of the Haitian people. Sprague focuses on the period beginning in 1990 with the rise of Haiti’s first democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and the right-wing movements that succeeded in driving him from power. Over the ensuing two decades, paramilitary violence was largely directed against the poor and supporters of Aristide’s Lavalas movement, taking the lives of thousands of Haitians. Sprague seeks to understand how this occurred, and traces connections between paramilitaries and their elite financial and political backers, in Haiti but also in the United States and the Dominican Republic. The product of years of original research, this book draws on over fifty interviews—some of which placed the author in severe danger—and more than 11,000 documents secured through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. It makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of Haiti today, and is a vivid reminder of how democratic struggles in poor countries are often met with extreme violence organized at the behest of capital.
Jewry in Music
Author: David ConwayPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139505351
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 357
Book Description
David Conway analyses why and how Jews, virtually absent from Western art music until the end of the eighteenth century, came to be represented in all branches of the profession within fifty years as leading figures – not only as composers and performers, but as publishers, impresarios and critics. His study places this process in the context of dynamic economic, political, sociological and technological changes and also of developments in Jewish communities and the Jewish religion itself, in the major cultural centres of Western Europe. Beginning with a review of attitudes to Jews in the arts and an assessment of Jewish music and musical skills, in the age of the Enlightenment, Conway traces the story of growing Jewish involvement with music through the biographies of the famous, the neglected and the forgotten, leading to a radical contextualisation of Wagner's infamous 'Judaism in Music'.
Landmarks of Toronto; A Collection of Historical Sketches of the Old Town of York from 1792 Until 1833, and of Toronto from 1834 to 1898
Author: J. Ross RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781375801478
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
A Scriptural Rosary
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780819870872
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
The Rosary is a way of contemplation, which simply means to look on the face of Christ. With Mary, we remember the mysteries of Christ's life, and with her, we "learn Christ." Praying the Scriptural Rosary brings us into contact with the Word of God: it
Little England on the Veld
Author: Peter RandallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Metis Dictionary of Biography
Author: Lawrence J. BarkwellPublisher:
ISBN: 9781927531037
Category : Métis
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Music of the Jews in the Diaspora (up to 1800)
Author: Alfred SendreyPublisher: New York : T. Yoseloff
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
A History of Harrow School, 1324-1991
Author: Christopher TyermanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780198227960
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
This is the first modern history of one of the most famous schools in the English-speaking world. It takes an even-handed approach, covering the schools failings as well as its successes. It includes frank discussions of Harrow's financial, educational, and sexual scandals along with a survey of its many great moments as the school of Byron, Churchill (and six other prime ministers), and Nehru.
Author: Maja Van Steensel