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Award-winning novelist Steve Stern s exhilarating epic recounts the
story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town
ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end
of the twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable
teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him
back to life is nothing short of miraculous.
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This collection of essays challenges our understanding of the
history of native Andean rebellion during the last three centuries.
The contributors-historians and anthropologists from a number of
countries-move beyond the traditional structural analysis of
society to a finer understanding of people as actors. Native Andean
initiatives and consciousness are clearly placed at the center of
this inquiry, which merges the best methods of history an
anthropology. Stern begins with a vigorously argued theoretical
essay in which he identifies major findings and arguments running
throughout the book, demonstrates their pertinence to the more
general field of peasant studies, and draws out the implications
for theory and method. He reappraises the role of peasant
consciousness and political horizons; and the significance of
ethnic factors in explaining "peasant" consciousness and revolt.
The case studies themselves revamp the history of Andean peasant
rebellion and consciousness in Peru and Bolivia. This is
accomplished by studying violent uprisings as transitional moments
within a long-term trajectory embracing varied forms of resistance,
and by scrutinizing closely the ideological and cultural aspects of
domination, political legitimacy, and rebellion. The results
sharply alter our understanding of three major historical problems:
the crisis of Spanish colonial rule and the outbreak of native
Andean insurrection in the eighteenth century; the response to
peasants to creole wars and nation-building efforts in the
nineteenth century; and the political strategies and dilemmas of
Andean peasants in the context of populist and radical politics in
the twentieth century.
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Foxy Ladies (Paperback)
Steve Stern; Illustrated by Lorraine Hall
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R495
Discovery Miles 4 950
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"An astonishing writer ... who has secured himself a seat in the
distinguished history of Jewish-American letters". -- The
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steve Stern returns with lyrically comic tales about the Pinch,
a backwater Jewish community in Memphis, whose misbegotten citizens
refer to themselves as "the lost tribe". Stern's dreamers are
plagued by history, lust, solitude, and the extravagance of their
own fevered imaginations.
Stern is a consummate spinner of tales, a mythmaker. A Plague of
Dreamers evokes the American Jewish experience, weaving a tapestry
of tradition and assimilation and, ultimately, of
transformation.
The revolutionary war launched by Shining Path, a Maoist
insurgency, was the most violent upheaval in modern Peru's history,
claiming some 70,000 lives in the 1980s-1990s and drawing
widespread international attention. Yet for many observers, Shining
Path's initial successes were a mystery. What explained its
cult-like appeal, and what actually happened inside the Andean
communities at war? In How Difficult It Is to Be God Carlos Ivan
Degregori-the world's leading expert on Shining Path and the
intellectual architect for Peru's highly regarded Truth and
Reconciliation Commission-elucidates the movement's dynamics. An
anthropologist who witnessed Shining Path's recruitment of
militants in the 1970s, Degregori grounds his findings in deep
research and fieldwork. He explains not only the ideology and
culture of revolution among the insurgents, but also their capacity
to extend their influence to university youths, Indian communities,
and competing social and political movements. Making Degregori's
most important book available to English-language readers for the
first time, this translation includes a new introduction by the
editor, historian Steve J. Stern, who analyses the author's
achievement, why it matters, and the debates it sparked. For anyone
interested in Peru and Latin America's age of "dirty war," or in
the comparative study of revolutions, Maoism, and human rights,
this book will provide arresting new insights.
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