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Sukarno and the Indonesian Coup - The Untold Story (Hardcover): Helen-Louise Hunter Sukarno and the Indonesian Coup - The Untold Story (Hardcover)
Helen-Louise Hunter
R2,622 Discovery Miles 26 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On September 30, 1965, six of Indonesia's highest ranking generals were killed in an effort by President Sukarno to crush an alleged coup. The events of that were part of a rapidly growing power struggle pro and anti-Communist factions. The elimination of the generals, however, did little to increase and preserve Sukarno's power, though, and he was stripped of the presidency in 1967. Hunt's work is a unique and original examination of the events that culminated on that night in September, 1965. It is the first detailed account of the Indonesian Coup that reveals the previously unknown workings of the PKI's ultra-secret Special Bureau, a clandestine organization within the Communist Party that may be the prototype of other similar entities that flourished around the world in the mid-50's and 60s. No such expose of secret communist organizations committed to covert killings of the top military or political leaders of the country has ever been published. She establishes beyond any doubt that the PKI, under Chairman Aidit's direction, using the capabilities of a secret organization within the PKI that only Aidit and a handful of trusted high-level members of the Communist Party even knew about, and, most importantly, acting with President Sukarno's full knowledge and approval, planned and then-dramatically-failed to execute a bold plan to kill the top leadership of the Army and proclaim a new socialist state under President Sukarno's leadership with PKI Chairman Aidit as his proclaimed successor. At the time of the coup, government analysts as well as non-government scholars were of two minds. Some, like the group at Cornell University, were convinced that the PKI (Indonesian CommunistParty) had not been involved, that the coup was the action mid-level army officers against the top leadership. That was the official line at the time. Others were convinced that the PKI alone had planned and executed the coup in its long-held desire to remove the pro-U.S. army leadership. No one at the time saw the hand of Indonesia's world-famous President Sukarno in the affair.

5/1/1968 - Rethinking France's Last Revolution (Hardcover, New): J. Jackson, A. Milne, J Williams 5/1/1968 - Rethinking France's Last Revolution (Hardcover, New)
J. Jackson, A. Milne, J Williams
R1,648 Discovery Miles 16 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An accessible collection of essays about one of the most dramatic moment in France's modern history: the "event" of 1968. Often seen purely as a student revolution, the events of 1968 in fact impacted on almost every aspect of French society - theatre, film, gender relations, sexuality, race and immigration, farmers, workers. This volume of essays, written by young researchers and established scholars from France, Britain and the United States is the only book in English to explore the full diversity of this extraordinary upheaval. It takes us out of Paris to the regions of France, out of the student Latin Quarter into the factories, and shows how the events of 1968 continued to reverberate throughout the next decade, and how their legacy is still highly contested in France today.

Media and Revolt - Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present (Paperback): Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Erling... Media and Revolt - Strategies and Performances from the 1960s to the Present (Paperback)
Kathrin Fahlenbrach, Erling Sivertsen, Rolf Werenskjold
R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? How have activists influenced public attention via visual symbols, images, and protest performances in that period? And how do mass media cover and frame specific protest issues? Drawing on contributions from media scholars, historians, and sociologists, this volume explores the dynamic interplay between social movements, activists, and mass media from the 1960s to the present. It introduces the most relevant theoretical approaches to such issues and offers a variety of case studies ranging from print media, film, and television to Internet and social media.

Winds of Change - - a revolution of dandelions and democracy - (Hardcover): Rivera Sun Winds of Change - - a revolution of dandelions and democracy - (Hardcover)
Rivera Sun
R1,059 Discovery Miles 10 590 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Libya since 1969 - Qadhafi's Revolution Revisited (Hardcover, New): D. Vandewalle Libya since 1969 - Qadhafi's Revolution Revisited (Hardcover, New)
D. Vandewalle
R1,365 R1,128 Discovery Miles 11 280 Save R237 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume provides the first fully comprehensive evaluation of Libya since the Qadhafi coup in 1969. Throughout the different chapters the authors explore the rise of the military in Libya, the impact of its self-styled revolution on Libyan society and economy.

Homage to Catalonia (Hardcover): George Orwell Homage to Catalonia (Hardcover)
George Orwell
R842 Discovery Miles 8 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Loyalists and Community in North America (Hardcover, New): Timothy M. Barnes, Robert M. Calhoon Loyalists and Community in North America (Hardcover, New)
Timothy M. Barnes, Robert M. Calhoon
R2,918 Discovery Miles 29 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first collection of Loyalist scholarship to span the 13 independent states and the Florida and Canadian provinces that remained loyal to the Crown in the American Revolution. The Loyalists disrupted the colonial communities in which they lived in ways that helped define the Revolution. Loyalist garrison towns became a pathological environment of violence and suspicion, which brought out the worst in patriot, British, and Loyalist behavior. In Canada, Loyalist exiles tried to create model Anglo-American communities, but in the end had to jettison Loyalist ideology to claim a new British North American identity.

Common Sense (Hardcover): Thomas Paine Common Sense (Hardcover)
Thomas Paine; Edited by Tony Darnell
R447 Discovery Miles 4 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Islam and the Arab Revolutions - The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy (Paperback): Usaama Al-Azami Islam and the Arab Revolutions - The Ulama Between Democracy and Autocracy (Paperback)
Usaama Al-Azami
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Arab revolutions of 2011 were a transformative moment in the modern history of the Middle East, as people rose up against long-standing autocrats throughout the region to call for 'bread, freedom and dignity'. With the passage of time, results have been decidedly mixed, with initial success stories like Tunisia contrasting with the emergence of even more repressive dictatorships in places like Egypt, with the backing of several Gulf states. Focusing primarily on Egypt, this book considers a relatively understudied dimension of these revolutions: the role of prominent religious scholars. While pro-revolutionary ulama have justified activism against authoritarian regimes, counter-revolutionary scholars have provided religious backing for repression, and in some cases the mass murder of unarmed protestors. Usaama al-Azami traces the public engagements and religious pronouncements of several prominent ulama in the region, including Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Ali Gomaa and Abdullah bin Bayyah, to explore their role in either championing the Arab revolutions or supporting their repression. He concludes that while a minority of noted scholars have enthusiastically endorsed the counter-revolutions, their approach is attributable less to premodern theology and more to their distinctly modern commitment to the authoritarian state.

By the Light of Fireflies - A Novel of Sybil Ludington (Hardcover): Jenni L Walsh By the Light of Fireflies - A Novel of Sybil Ludington (Hardcover)
Jenni L Walsh
R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa (Hardcover): S. Weigert Traditional Religion and Guerrilla Warfare in Modern Africa (Hardcover)
S. Weigert
R3,001 Discovery Miles 30 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study examines a political-military tradition in sub-Saharan Africa which has survived colonialism as well as the Cold War. Five modern African insurgencies are evaluated: Madagascar 1947, Kenya (Mau Mau) 1952-63, Cameroon (UPC) 1955-70, Congo/Zaire (Kwilu) 1964-8 and Mozambique (RENAMO) 1977-92. These case-studies demonstrate a persistent link between traditional African religion and contemporary nationalist movements whose political as well as military significance has frequently been underestimated and often misunderstood.

The Imaginary Revolution - Parisian Students and Workers in 1968 (Hardcover): Michael Seidman The Imaginary Revolution - Parisian Students and Workers in 1968 (Hardcover)
Michael Seidman
R3,080 Discovery Miles 30 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little that had not already been challenged and altered in the late fifties and early sixties. The workers' strikes led to fewer working hours and higher wages, but these reforms reflected the secular demands of the French labor movement. "May 1968" was remarkable not because of the actual transformations it wrought but rather by virtue of the revolutionary power that much of the media and most scholars have attributed to it and which turned it into a symbol of a youthful, renewed, and freer society in France and beyond.

The Specht Journal - A Military Journal of the Burgoyne Campaign (Hardcover): Helga Doblin The Specht Journal - A Military Journal of the Burgoyne Campaign (Hardcover)
Helga Doblin; Edited by Mary C. Lynn
R2,923 Discovery Miles 29 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Specht Journal" is one of the major diaries written by Braunschweig military personnel during the Burgoyne campaign of the American Revolutionary War. From the departure from Wolfenbuttel on February 22, 1776 to the end on Winter Hill near Boston on November 9, 1777, the narrator faithfully accounts for each day of the ill-fated campaign. He describes the astonishing affair at Ticonderoga, the short battle at Hubbardton, and the toilsome march south to Fort Miller via Forts Ann and Edward. The campaign ends after two indecisive battles at Saratoga, where Burgoyne, without supplies and badly outnumbered, has to sign a Convention with the victorious American commander Horatio Gates.

Development Challenges and Solutions After the Arab Spring (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016): Ali Kadri Development Challenges and Solutions After the Arab Spring (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Ali Kadri
R2,686 R1,995 Discovery Miles 19 950 Save R691 (26%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since the events of 2011, most Arab countries have slipped into a state of war, and living conditions for the majority of the working population have not changed for the better. This edited collection examines the socioeconomic conditions and contests the received policy framework to demonstrate that workable alternatives do exist.

Egyptian Cinema and the 2011 Revolution - Film Production and Representing Dissent (Hardcover): Ahmed Ghazal Egyptian Cinema and the 2011 Revolution - Film Production and Representing Dissent (Hardcover)
Ahmed Ghazal
R3,617 Discovery Miles 36 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Egypt's film industry is the largest in the Middle East, with an output that spreads across the region and the world. In the run-up to and throughout the 2011 Revolution, a complex relationship formed between the industry and the people's uprising. Both a form of political expression and a documentation of historical events, 'revolutionary' film techniques have contributed to the cultural memory of 2011. At the same time, these films and their makers have been the target of increasing state control and intervention. Ahmed Ghazal, drawing upon his own background in film-making, looks at the way in which Egyptian film has shaped, and been shaped by, the events leading up to and beyond Egypt's 2011 revolution. Drawing on interviews with protagonists in the industry, analysis of films, and archival research, he analyses the critical issues affecting the political economy of the industry. He also explores the technological developments of independent productions and the cinematic themes of dictatorship, poverty, corruption and police brutality that have accompanied the people's calls for freedom - and the counterrevolution that has tried to suppress them.

Contesting the Repressive State - Why Ordinary Egyptians Protested During the Arab Spring (Hardcover): Kira D. Jumet Contesting the Repressive State - Why Ordinary Egyptians Protested During the Arab Spring (Hardcover)
Kira D. Jumet
R3,555 Discovery Miles 35 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Looking at political mobilization in the years leading up to the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, one can notice a stark disparity between the number of people who participated in online organizing and the number of individuals who protested in the streets. During one silent demonstration organized by the We are all Khaled Said Facebook page in 2010, when the numbers in the streets were limited, one activist posted, "Where are the people who said they were coming? Where are the 10,000 men and women?" For years prior to the Arab Spring, opposition activists in Egypt organized protests with limited success. So why and how did thousands of Egyptian citizens suddenly take to the streets against the Mubarak regime in January 2011? Contesting the Repressive State not only answers this question, but asks specifically why and how people who are not part of political movements choose to engage or not engage in anti-government protest under repressive regimes. The central argument is that individuals are rational actors and their decisions to protest or not protest are based on the intersection of three factors: political opportunity structures, mobilizing structures, and framing processes (or the way in which the media presents particular issues). In turn, specific situations and frames trigger emotion in people, and it is this emotion that drives people to protest. Each chapter looks at a different facet of the revolutionary process (grievances, online participation, media framing, government violence) and identifies a relationship between key structural factors in each and the emotional responses they produce. Contesting the Repressive State is based on 170 interviews conducted in Egypt, during the Arab Spring, both with people who participated in street protests and those who did not. Ultimately, Kira D. Jumet explores how social media, violent government repression, changes in political opportunities, and the military influenced individual decisions to protest or not protest.

The Politics of Shari'a Law - Islamist Activists and the State in Democratizing Indonesia (Hardcover): Michael Buehler The Politics of Shari'a Law - Islamist Activists and the State in Democratizing Indonesia (Hardcover)
Michael Buehler
R2,880 Discovery Miles 28 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Islamization of politics in Indonesia after 1998 presents an underexplored puzzle: why has there been a rise in the number of shari'a laws despite the electoral decline of Islamist parties? Michael Buehler presents an analysis of the conditions under which Islamist activists situated outside formal party politics may capture and exert influence in Muslim-majority countries facing democratization. His analysis shows that introducing competitive elections creates new pressures for entrenched elites to mobilize and structure the electorate, thereby opening up new opportunities for Islamist activists to influence politics. Buehler's analysis of changing state-religion relations in formerly authoritarian Islamic countries illuminates broader theoretical debates on Islamization in the context of democratization. This timely text is essential reading for students, scholars, and government analysts.

France: An Adventure History (Hardcover): Graham Robb France: An Adventure History (Hardcover)
Graham Robb
R838 R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Save R109 (13%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

A SPECTATOR and PROSPECT Book of the Year 'Ceaselessly interesting, knowledgeable and evocative' Spectator 'A fresh way to write history' Alan Johnson 'A quirky, amused, erudite homage to France . . . ambitious and original' The Times _____ France: An Adventure History is a profoundly original and endlessly entertaining history of France, from the first century BC to the present day, based on countless new discoveries and thirty years of exploring France on foot, by bicycle and in the library. Beginning with the Roman army's first recorded encounter with the Gauls and ending with the Gilets Jaunes protests in the era of Emmanuel Macron, each chapter is an adventure in its own right. Along the way, readers will find the usual faces, events and themes of French history - Louis XIV, the French Revolution, the French Resistance, the Tour de France - but all presented in a shining new light. Graham Robb does not offer a standard dry list of facts and dates, but instead a panorama of France, teeming with characters, full of stories, journeys and coincidences, giving readers a thrilling sense of discovery and enlightenment. France: An Adventure History is a vivid, living history of one of the world's most fascinating nations by a ceaselessly entertaining writer in complete command of subject and style. _____ 'A rich and vibrant narrative . . . clear-eyed but imaginative storytelling' Financial Times 'Full of life' Prospect

Latin America Between Colony and Nation - Selected Essays (Hardcover): J. Lynch Latin America Between Colony and Nation - Selected Essays (Hardcover)
J. Lynch
R3,021 Discovery Miles 30 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on a key period in Latin American history, the transition from colonial status, via the revolutions for independence, to national organization. The essays provide in-depth studies of eighteenth-century society, the colonial state, and the roots of independence in Spanish America. The relation of Spanish America to the age of democratic revolution and the reaction of the Church to revolutionary change are newly defined, and leadership of Simon Bolivar is subject to particular scrutiny. National organization saw the emergence of new political leaders, the caudillos, and the marginalization of many people who sought relief in popular religion and millenarian movements.

Challenge and Change - Right-Wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation (Hardcover): June Melby Benowitz Challenge and Change - Right-Wing Women, Grassroots Activism, and the Baby Boom Generation (Hardcover)
June Melby Benowitz
R2,190 Discovery Miles 21 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the mid-twentieth century, a grassroots movement of women-mostly white, middle-class, and conservative-sought to shape the political, cultural, and social ideologies of the baby boomers in what they perceived was a quickly changing world poisoned by communism. In Challenge and Change, June Melby Benowitz draws on a wide variety of primary sources to highlight the connections between the women of the Old Right, the New Right, and today's Tea Party. Through interviews, as well as through their letters to presidents, editors, and one another, Benowitz allows these women to speak for themselves. She examines the issues that stirred them to action-education, health, desegregation, moral corruption, war, patriotism, and the Equal Rights Amendment-and explores the development of the right-wing women's movement and its growth from the mid-twentieth into the twenty-first century.

Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution (Hardcover, New): Andrew Stephen Walmsley Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution (Hardcover, New)
Andrew Stephen Walmsley
R3,255 Discovery Miles 32 550 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"A readable and tightly argued political and social biography that provides numerous insights into Massachusetts' history on the eve of the revolution."
--"Historical Journal of Massachusetts"

"A candid and readable biography . . . [Walmsley] gives a vivid account of the descent of a controversial and sometimes misunderstood figure of the period."
"--Choice"

"Usefully emphasizes the economic and personal influences on the politics of Massachusetts."
-- "Religious Studies Review"

"A significant addition. Hutchinson definitely needed a more complete treatment than he heretofore had received and Walmsley has neatly provided it. A genuine pleasure to read."
--"Charles P. Neimeyer, author of America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army"

"Given the enduring fascination of the American Revolution, this fine biography of Thomas Hutchinson should find a wide and appreciative audience. Historian Stephen Walmsely's persuasive study of the loyalist governor of Massachusetts Bay portrays an honorable but unimaginative official who remains true to his aristocratic conception of duty but helpless to arrest the forces wrenching his native land away from Crown rule. Putting a human face on an epic conflict, Walmsley finds hutchinson's radical opponents motivated less by ideas and principles than by ambition, greed, and personal animus. Indeed, Walmsley's graphic description of the mob violence, deployed by the patriots to intimidate Hutchinson and subvert the rule of law, will leave readers pondering who were the villains and who the heroes in this superb reconsideration of the nation's origins."
--"Allen Matusow, Rice University"

Rarely in Americanhistory has a political figure been so pilloried and despised as Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of Massachusetts and an ardent loyalist of the Crown in the days leading up to the American revolution.

In this narrative and analytic life of Hutchinson, the first since Bernard Bailyn's Pulitzer-Prize-winning biography a quarter century ago, Andrew Stephen Walmsley traces Hutchinson's decline from well- respected member of Boston's governing class to America's leading object of revolutionary animus. Walmsley argues that Hutchinson, rather than simply a victim of his inability to understand the passions associated with a revolutionary movement, was in fact defeated in a classic political and personal struggle for power. No mere sycophant for the British, Hutchinson was keenly aware of how much he had to lose if revolutionary forces prevailed, which partially explains his evolution from near- Whig to intransigent loyalist. His consequent vilification became a vehicle through which the growing patriot movement sought to achieve legitimacy.

An entertaining and thought-provoking view of revolutionary events from the perspective of the losing side, Thomas Hutchinson and the Origins of the American Revolution tells the story of the American Revolution through the prism of one of its most famous detractors.

Rebel Governance in Civil War (Hardcover): Ana Arjona, Nelson Kasfir, Zachariah Mampilly Rebel Governance in Civil War (Hardcover)
Ana Arjona, Nelson Kasfir, Zachariah Mampilly
R2,887 Discovery Miles 28 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is the first book to examine and compare how rebels govern civilians during civil wars in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Drawing from a variety of disciplinary traditions, including political science, sociology, and anthropology, the book provides in-depth case studies of specific conflicts as well as comparative studies of multiple conflicts. Among other themes, the book examines why and how some rebels establish both structures and practices of rule, the role of ideology, cultural, and material factors affecting rebel governance strategies, the impact of governance on the rebel/civilian relationship, civilian responses to rebel rule, the comparison between modes of state and non-state governance to rebel attempts to establish political order, the political economy of rebel governance, and the decline and demise of rebel governance attempts.

War, Women, and Power - From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Hardcover): Marie E. Berry War, Women, and Power - From Violence to Mobilization in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina (Hardcover)
Marie E. Berry
R2,879 Discovery Miles 28 790 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Rwanda and Bosnia both experienced mass violence in the early 1990s. Less than ten years later, Rwandans surprisingly elected the world's highest level of women to parliament. In Bosnia, women launched thousands of community organizations that became spaces for informal political participation. The political mobilization of women in both countries complicates the popular image of women as merely the victims and spoils of war. Through a close examination of these cases, Marie E. Berry unpacks the puzzling relationship between war and women's political mobilization. Drawing from over 260 interviews with women in both countries, she argues that war can reconfigure gendered power relations by precipitating demographic, economic, and cultural shifts. In the aftermath, however, many of the gains women made were set back. This book offers an entirely new view of women and war, and includes concrete suggestions for policy makers, development organizations, and activists supporting women's rights.

Conversations About History, Volume 1 (Hardcover): Howard Burton Conversations About History, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Howard Burton
R896 Discovery Miles 8 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution (Hardcover): N Keddie Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution (Hardcover)
N Keddie
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book consists of a series of interrelated chapters analyzing why Iran, among all countries, has seen so many revolutionary movements in the past century; the degree to which its religion, Shi'ism, is revolutionary; and the history of revolutionary and resistance movements in the modern Muslim world. The author stresses historical change, such as the change of Twelver Shi'ism from political quietism to revolutionary opposition, and also previously unnoticed factors in revolution, such as the multi-urban character of all Iran's modern revolutions.

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