D'autres livres qui pourraient vous intéresser

• 

  Muslim Zion - Pakistan as a...

  Faisal Devji

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  “Offers a detailed analysis of the various political and ideological forces that were at play in the buildup to Pakistan’s creation.” (Los Angeles Review of Books) 
   
  Pakistan is both the embodiment of national ambitions fulfilled and, in the eyes of many observers, a failed state. Muslim Zion cuts to the core of the geopolitical paradoxes entangling Pakistan to argue that India’s rival has never been a nation-state in the conventional sense. Pakistan is instead a distinct type of political geography, whose closest ideological parallel is the state of Israel. 
   
  A year before the 1948 establishment of Israel, Pakistan was founded on a philosophy that accords with Zionism in surprising ways. Faisal Devji understands Zion as a political form rather than a holy land, one that rejects hereditary linkages between ethnicity and soil in favor of membership based on an idea of belonging. Like Israel, Pakistan came into being through the migration of a minority population, inhabiting a vast subcontinent, who abandoned old lands in which they feared persecution to settle in a new homeland. Just as Israel is the world’s sole Jewish state, Pakistan is the only country to be established in the name of Islam. 
   
  Revealing how Pakistan’s troubled present continues to be shaped by its past, Muslim Zion is a penetrating critique of what comes of founding a country on an unresolved desire both to join and reject the world of modern nation-states. 
   
  “A trenchant analysis . . . of Islamic politics.” ?Publishers Weekly 
   
  “Intellectual history as a page-turner.” —Noah Feldman, author of Cool War: The Future of Global Competition 
   
  “Brilliantly written, deeply felt . . . an important contribution.” —Anatol Lieven, author of Pakistan: A Hard Country 
   
  “A remarkable book.” —New Republic

  Voir livre

• 

  The Feminist Papers - A...

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  By the matriarch of feminism, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Women tackles women's rights decades before the women’s suffrage movement began. In what is widely considered the very first feminist manifesto, her writing has paved the way of progress for generations to come.

  Voir livre

• 

  The Making of the President 1960

  Theodore H. White

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy. With this narrative history of American politics in action, Theodore White revolutionized the way presidential campaigns are reported. Now back in print, freshly repackaged, and with a new foreword written by Robert Dallek, The Making of the President 1960 remains the most influential publication about the election of John F. Kennedy.

  Voir livre

• 

  The Little Red Book of Corbyn Jokes

  Jason Sinclair

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Whichever side of the Labour Party you're on, you could probably use a good laugh right now…
  So rejoice, comrades, for we have the solution. Packed with devastating wit, this priceless compendium has all the finest jokes, scenes and anecdotes to see you through a long, hard political winter.
  The Little Red Book of Corbyn Jokes - putting the 'ha' into the hard left.
  A socialist lion walked into a bar. The barman said, 'What's the big Clause Four?'
  My wife said to me, 'For my anniversary, I want you to get me something expensive,' so I registered her as a supporter of the Labour Party.
  Why did the chicken cross the road? Neoliberalism.

  Voir livre

• 

  Unlikely Radicals - The Story of...

  Charlie Angus

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  For twenty-two years politicians and businessmen pushed for the Adams Mine landfill as a solution to Ontario’s garbage disposal crisis. This plan to dump millions of tonnes of waste into the fractured pits of the Adams Mine prompted five separate civil resistance campaigns by a rural region of 35,000 in Northern Ontario. Unlikely Radicals traces the compelling history of the First Nations people and farmers, environmentalists and miners, retirees and volunteers, Anglophones and Francophones who stood side by side to defend their community with mass demonstrations, blockades, and non-violent resistance.

  Voir livre

• 

  My Fellow Prisoners

  Mikhail Khodorkovsky

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this “illuminating and brave” prison memoir (The Washington Post).   Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil company Yukos revived the Russian oil industry, Khodorkovsky began sponsoring programs to encourage civil society and fight corruption. Then he was arrested at gunpoint.   Sentenced to ten years in a Siberian penal colony on fraud and tax evasion charges in 2003, Khodorkovsky was put on trial again in 2010 and sentenced to fourteen years on new charges that contradicted the previous ones. While imprisoned, Khodorkovsky fought for the rights of his fellow prisoners, going on hunger strike four times.   After he was pardoned in 2013, he vowed to continue fighting for prisoners’ rights, and this book is dedicated to that work. A moving portrait of the prisoners Khodorkovsky met, My Fellow Prisoners is an eye-opening account of Russia’s brutal prison system.  “Vivid, humane and poignant” —Financial Times

  Voir livre