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Resentment in History (Hardcover)
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Resentment in History (Hardcover)
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This book, by a renowned and distinguished historian, is an
arresting account of the role that resentment has played throughout
history, from Antiquity and early Christianity through to the
present day. At the origin of resentment we always find an injury,
an act of humiliation, an affront, a trauma. Those who feel
victimized cannot react because they are powerless. They brood on
their desire for revenge, which they cannot satisfy but which
constantly nags at them. Until finally they explode with anger.
This period of waiting may also be accompanied by a repudiation of
the oppressor's values and a rehabilitation of the victim's own
values, and this gives the oppressed new strength, fuelling the act
of revolt or revenge. Ferro effortlessly weaves together historical
examples such as the role played by resentment in the French and
Russian revolutions, the resentment against the historical
suffering of African Americans that underpinned the Civil Rights
movement and the rise of black power, and the revival of resentment
by proponents of radical Islam whose violent acts of terror in New
York, London and elsewhere have shaken the world.
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