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Tropic of Chaos - Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition): Christian Parenti Tropic of Chaos - Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
Christian Parenti
R435 R411 Discovery Miles 4 110 Save R24 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure.

In "Tropic of Chaos," investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency.

Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism"--a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.

Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder (Hardcover): Christian Parenti Radical Hamilton - Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder (Hardcover)
Christian Parenti
R596 Discovery Miles 5 960 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In retelling the story of the radical Alexander Hamilton, Parenti rewrites the history of early America and the global economy. For much of the twentieth century, Hamilton-sometimes seen as the bad boy of the founding fathers or portrayed as the patron saint of bankers-was out of fashion. In contrast his rival Thomas Jefferson, the patrician democrat and slave owner who feared government overreach, was claimed by all. But more recently, Hamilton has become a subject of serious interest again. He was a contradictory mix: a tough soldier, austere workaholic, exacting bureaucrat, sexual libertine, glory-obsessed romantic with suicidal tendencies-and pioneer of industrialisation. As Parenti argues, we have yet to fully appreciate Hamilton as the primary architect of American capitalism and the developmental state. In exploring his life and work, Parenti rediscovers this gadfly as a pathbreaking political thinker and institution builder. In this vivid portrait, Hamilton emerges as a singularly important historical figure: a thinker and politico who laid the foundation for America's ascent to global supremacy and mass industrialisation-for better or worse.

Lockdown America - Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Paperback, 2nd edition): Christian Parenti Lockdown America - Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Christian Parenti
R862 R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Save R73 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why is criminal justice so central to American politics? "Lockdown America "notonly documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the federalization of the war oncrime, it also explains the political and economic history behind themassive crackdown. This updated edition includes an afterword on the War on Terror, a meditation on surveillance and the specter of terrorism as they help reanimate the criminal justice attack. Written in vivid prose, "Lockdown America "willpropel readers toward a deeper understanding of the links between crimeand politics in a period of gathering economic crisis.

The Soft Cage - Surveillance in America, From Slavery to the War on Terror (Paperback): Christian Parenti The Soft Cage - Surveillance in America, From Slavery to the War on Terror (Paperback)
Christian Parenti
R558 Discovery Miles 5 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

On a typical day, you might make a call on a cell phone, withdraw money at an ATM, visit the mall, and make a purchase with a credit card. Each of these routine transactions leaves a digital trail for government agencies and businesses to access. As cutting-edge historian and journalist Christian Parenti points out, these everyday intrusions on privacy, while harmless in themselves, are part of a relentless (and clandestine) expansion of routine surveillance in American life over the last two centuries-from controlling slaves in the old South to implementing early criminal justice and tracking immigrants. Parenti explores the role computers are playing in creating a whole new world of seemingly benign technologies-such as credit cards, website "cookies," and electronic toll collection-that have expanded this trend in the twenty-first century. "The Soft Cage" offers a compelling, vitally important history lesson for every American concerned about the expansion of surveillance into our public and private lives.

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