Rebel Land

Author : Christopher de Bellaigue
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408810891
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel Land written by Christopher de Bellaigue and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-04-19 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging and impassioned look at Turkey's identity crisis 'A brilliant literary thriller, an incursion into forbidden territory that is all the more gripping for being true' The Times 'Sifting through propaganda, partisan accounts and evasive oral histories, de Bellaigue delivers a comprehensive primer in Turkish political history' Guardian _______________________________ What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? In Rebel Land the acclaimed author and journalist Christopher de Bellaigue journeys to Turkey's inhospitable eastern provinces to find out. Immersing himself in the achingly beautiful district of Varto, a place left behind in Turkey's march to modernity, medieval in its attachment to race and religious sect, he explores the violent history of conflict between Turks, Kurds and Armenians, and the maelstrom, of emotion and memories, that defines its inhabitants even today. The result is a compellingly personal account of one man's search into the past, as de Bellaigue, mistrusted by all he meets, and particularly by the secret agents of the State, applies his investigative flair and fluent Turkish to unlock jealously-guarded taboos and hold humanity's excesses up to the light of a very modern sensibility.

Author : Christopher de Bellaigue
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101196270
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel Land written by Christopher de Bellaigue and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An esteemed journalist travels to Turkey to investigate the legacy of the Armenian genocide and the quest for Kurdish statehood. In 2001, Christopher de Bellaigue, then the Economist's correspondent in Istanbul, wrote a piece about the history of Turkey for The New York Review of Books. In it, he briefly discussed the killing and deportation of half a million Armenians in 1915. These massacres, he suggested, were best understood as part of the struggles that attended the end of the Ottoman empire. After the story was published, the magazine was besieged with letters. This wasn't war, the correspondents said; it was genocide. And the death toll was not half a million but three times that many. De Bellaigue was mortified. How had he gotten it so wrong? He went back to Turkey, but found that the national archives had sealed all documents pertaining to those times. Undeterred and armed with a stack of contraband histories, he set out to the conflicted southeastern Turkish city of Varto to discover what had really happened. There, de Bellaigue found a place in which the centuries-old conflict among Turks, Armenians, and Kurds was still very much alive. His government escort began their association by marching with him arm in arm through the town's shopping district to show his presence; the local police chief, sent by the central office in Ankara to keep an eye on the Kurds, was sure he was a spy. He found houses built from the ruins of old Armenian churches, young boys playing soccer with old skulls, and a cast of villagers who all seemed unwilling to talk. What emerges is both an intellectual detective story and a reckoning with memory and identity that brings to life the basic conflicts of the Middle East: between statehood and religion, imperial borders and ethnic identity. Combining a deeply informed view of the area's history with the testimonials of the townspeople who slowly come to trust him, de Bellaigue unravels the enigma of the Turkish twentieth century, a time that contains the death of an empire, the founding of a nation, and the near extinction of a people. Rebel Land exposes the historical and emotional fault lines that lie behind many of today's headlines: about Turkey and its faltering bid for membership into the EU, about the Kurds and their bid for nationhood, and the Armenians' campaign for genocide recognition.

Author : Joanna Swanger
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498506607
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel Lands of Cuba written by Joanna Swanger and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-05-06 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative history of Cuban campesinos, from 1934 to 1974, covers two regions marked by extreme differences in race, gender, and land tenure: Oriente and Escambray.

Author : Kathryn Thomas
Publisher : E-Book Publishing World Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel's Property (Book 1) written by Kathryn Thomas and published by E-Book Publishing World Inc.. This book was released on with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is book 1 of the Satan's Martyrs MC romance series! Books 2 and 3 of this motorcycle club romance are available everywhere now! He put me back together… just so he could break me again. He saved me in my darkest moment. But it was only for his own savage pleasure. I should’ve run away when I had the chance. It’s too late. Because now, I belong to the rebel. HOPE I was reaching my breaking point when Killian came into my life. There was no hiding what he is—a beast. A rugged, savage beast. A beast who plays hard. Who takes control in ways I never knew I wanted. In ways I never knew I needed. I have to be careful around him. But when he leaves me gasping for more… When his words make me shiver at what’s to come... I realize that I don’t want him to let me go. Not now. Not ever. I want him to own me for good. KILLIAN The outlaw life has made me numb. Once upon a time, I was a fiery, vicious biker. Ready to ride ‘til midnight and fight ‘til dawn. I loved everything about the club: The patch with colors that terrified any man who dared think to challenge me. The tattoos and muscle that brought willing females flocking to my bed. The money that flowed in like a damn waterfall. It all made me feel like a god. But lately, I don’t feel much of anything. My brother is finally out of prison. I should be happy. But instead… I’m numb. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Until Hope walked in. Something about her wakes me up again. Maybe taking the curvy girl for a ride will rekindle the flame that used to burn so brightly inside me. But it turns out that she’s far too innocent to be a part of my world. She isn’t ready for this: The drugs. The violence. The darkness. But once you go biker, you never go back. And I don’t care if she wants to run screaming for the hills. I’m gonna do what I always planned on doing: Pinning her to my bed. Pressing my lips to her ear. And telling her her grim new reality: She’s mine now. Forever.

Author : Moira Young
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1442430001
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel Heart written by Moira Young and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing is certain and no one is safe in the second book in the highly praised Dust Lands trilogy, which MTV's Hollywood Crush blog called "better than The Hunger Games." It seemed so simple: Defeat the Tonton, rescue her kidnapped brother, Lugh, and then order would be restored to Saba's world. Simplicity, however, has proved to be elusive. Now, Saba and her family travel west, headed for a better life and a longed-for reunion with Jack. But the fight for Lugh's freedom has unleashed a new power in the dust lands, and a formidable new enemy is on the rise. What is the truth about Jack? And how far will Saba go to get what she wants? In this much-anticipated follow-up to the riveting Blood Red Road, a fierce heroine finds herself at the crossroads of danger and destiny, betrayal and passion.

Author : Silvana R. Siddali
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807130421
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Property to Person written by Silvana R. Siddali and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most historians accept the proposition that in the first two years of the Civil War the North's primary aim was to reestablish the Union and the Constitution, not to emancipate slaves. But when northerners began clamoring for the confiscation of southern land and slaves as a punitive, military, and revenue-raising tactic, the constitutional right to personal property, particularly human property, came into question. In From Property to Person, Silvana R. Siddali traces the resulting discourse among northern voters, politicians, military leaders, and President Lincoln, elucidating how emancipation ultimately became an essential political cause in the North. After the outbreak of civil war, many northern citizens demanded that slaves be seized as contraband without necessarily endorsing their emancipation. Siddali examines the public and political debates in the North over southerners' private property rights and explains how these deliberations set in motion the first major reconsideration of the Constitution since the Bill of Rights. Fundamental questions arose: Who had the right to control the war effort? What were the rights of rebellious citizens in a democratic Republic? How did one define human bondage that is implicitly protected in the nation's founding documents? Would the destruction of slavery irreparably damage the Constitution? Through the two Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862, the author argues, Americans worked out a conundrum between property rights and constitutionally protected civil liberties. The right of all human beings to freedom now trumped white southerners' right to human property. In a rich analysis of editorials, pamphlets, letters, and congressional speeches, From Property to Person reveals the swift transformation in rhetoric concerning the Constitution and its protection of private property rights. The Confiscation Acts paved the way for the Reconstruction Amendments by fostering support for a broader reach by the federal government into private property rights and envisioning a new interpretation of an individual citizen's rights and obligations.

Author : Lord Henry Home Kames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Statute Law of Scotland Abridged. With Historical Notes written by Lord Henry Home Kames and published by . This book was released on 1769 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexander Macaulay Markham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Report on the Tenth Revision of Settlement of the District of Bijnour, North-Western Provinces, 1874 written by Alexander Macaulay Markham and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Theodore W. Allen
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839763949
Total Pages : 801 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Invention of the White Race written by Theodore W. Allen and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, tour de force analysis of the birth of slavery, racism, and white supremacy in the American South—and how it shaped our modern world. “A must-read for all social justice activists, teachers, and scholars.” —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States Long heralded as a classic study of the origin of white privilege from the activist who first coined the term, Theodore W. Allen’s work remains an indispensable resource for making sense of our conflicted present, a reference point for everyone from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Nell Irvin Painter to Reni-Eddo Lodge and Aníbal Quijano. When the first Africans arrived in Virginia in 1619, there were no “white” people there. Nor, according to colonial records, would there be for another sixty years. In this seminal work, available for the first time here in a single volume, Allen tells how America’s ruling classes created the category of the “white race” as a means of social control. Since that early invention, white privileges have enforced the myth of racial superiority, a fact central to maintaining rulingclass domination over ordinary working people of all colors throughout the history of the Atlantic world. Spanning centuries and nations, Allen’s analysis takes us from the plantations of Northern Ireland and the mines of Peru to the sugar fields of Brazil and colonies of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia. His account records lives of hardscrabble immigrant survival, Faustian bargains with white supremacy, the tragedy of human bondage, and the stubborn, unbreakable resistance to the global color line.

Author : Michael Knight
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0761551654
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empire at War written by Michael Knight and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Exhaustive details on every unit. All heroes, ground vehicles, infantry, buildings, and starships covered. • Statistics and full information on every planet in the galaxy • Expert walkthroughs of each mission in both campaigns: Rebel and Imperial • Tips and hints for winning the Skirmish and multiplayer games • Battle-proven tactics for ground and space combat • Strategies for victory in the Galactic Conquest games