American Inquisition

Author : Eric L. Muller
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807831735
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Inquisition written by Eric L. Muller and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Free to Die for Their Country" comes the story of the internment of 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry in 1942, and the administrative tribunals that had been designed to pass judgment on those suspected of being disloyal.

Author : Griffin Fariello
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 : 9780393037326
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Scare written by Griffin Fariello and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1995 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrayal of the Cold War at home features stories of ordinary men and women who risked everything for their beliefs and of those that hunted them down

Author : Eric L. Muller
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807885277
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Inquisition written by Eric L. Muller and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the U.S. government forced 70,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals to pass judgment on who was loyal and who was disloyal. In American Inquisition, Eric Muller relates the untold story of exactly how military and civilian bureaucrats judged these tens of thousands of American citizens during wartime. Some citizens were deemed loyal and were freed, but one in four was declared disloyal to America and condemned to repressive segregation in the camps or barred from war-related jobs. Using cultural and religious affiliations as indicators of Americans' loyalties, the far-reaching bureaucratic decisions often reflected the agendas of the agencies that performed them rather than the actual allegiances or threats posed by the citizens being judged, Muller explains. American Inquisition is the only study of the Japanese American internment to examine the complex inner workings of the most draconian system of loyalty screening that the American government has ever deployed against its own citizens. At a time when our nation again finds itself beset by worries about an "enemy within" considered identifiable by race or religion, this volume offers crucial lessons from a recent and disastrous history.

Author : Griffin Fariello
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393346412
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Scare: Memories of the American Inquisition written by Griffin Fariello and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable document of an era that permanently changed the American political landscape.

Author : Stanley I. Kutler
Publisher : Hill & Wang
ISBN 13 : 9780809001576
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Inquisition written by Stanley I. Kutler and published by Hill & Wang. This book was released on 1982 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the U.S. government's crusade against communism during the 1940s and 1950s as thousands of American citizens were harassed and persecuted during the Cold War

Author : Luis R. Corteguera
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 081220705X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death by Effigy written by Luis R. Corteguera and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On July 21, 1578, the Mexican town of Tecamachalco awoke to news of a scandal. A doll-like effigy hung from the door of the town's church. Its two-faced head had black chicken feathers instead of hair. Each mouth had a tongue sewn onto it, one with a forked end, the other with a gag tied around it. Signs and symbols adorned the effigy, including a sambenito, the garment that the Inquisition imposed on heretics. Below the effigy lay a pile of firewood. Taken together, the effigy, signs, and symbols conveyed a deadly message: the victim of the scandal was a Jew who should burn at the stake. Over the course of four years, inquisitors conducted nine trials and interrogated dozens of witnesses, whose testimonials revealed a vivid portrait of friendship, love, hatred, and the power of rumor in a Mexican colonial town. A story of dishonor and revenge, Death by Effigy also reveals the power of the Inquisition's symbols, their susceptibility to theft and misuse, and the terrible consequences of doing so in the New World. Recently established and anxious to assert its authority, the Mexican Inquisition relentlessly pursued the perpetrators. Lying, forgery, defamation, rape, theft, and physical aggression did not concern the Inquisition as much as the misuse of the Holy Office's name, whose political mission required defending its symbols. Drawing on inquisitorial papers from the Mexican Inquisition's archive, Luis R. Corteguera weaves a rich narrative that leads readers into a world vastly different from our own, one in which symbols were as powerful as the sword.

Author : Cullen Murphy
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618091564
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Jury written by Cullen Murphy and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A narrative history of the Inquisition, and an examination of the influence it exerted on contemporary society, by the author of ARE WE ROME?

Author : Edward Peters
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520066304
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inquisition written by Edward Peters and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1989-04-14 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume is actually three histories in one: of the legal procedures, personnel, and institutions that shaped the inquisitorial tribunals from Rome to early modern Europe; of the myth of The Inquisition, from its origins with the anti-Hispanists and religious reformers of the sixteenth century to its embodiment in literary and artistic masterpieces of the nineteenth century; and of how the myth itself became the foundation for a "history" of the inquisitions.

Author : George Alexander Kohut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Martyrs of the Inquisition in South America written by George Alexander Kohut and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Lawrence Powell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231527845
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inquisition of Climate Science written by James Lawrence Powell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern science is under the greatest and most successful attack in recent history. An industry of denial, abetted by news media and "info-tainment" broadcasters more interested in selling controversy than presenting facts, has duped half the American public into rejecting the facts of climate science—an overwhelming body of rigorously vetted scientific evidence showing that human-caused, carbon-based emissions are linked to warming the Earth. The industry of climate science denial is succeeding: public acceptance has declined even as the scientific evidence for global warming has increased. It is vital that the public understand how anti-science ideologues, pseudo-scientists, and non-scientists have bamboozled them. We cannot afford to get global warming wrong—yet we are, thanks to deniers and their methods. The Inquisition of Climate Science is the first book to comprehensively take on the climate science denial movement and the deniers themselves, exposing their lack of credentials, their extensive industry funding, and their failure to provide any alternative theory to explain the observed evidence of warming. In this book, readers meet the most prominent deniers while dissecting their credentials, arguments, and lack of objectivity. James Lawrence Powell shows that the deniers use a wide variety of deceptive rhetorical techniques, many stretching back to ancient Greece. Carefully researched, fully referenced, and compellingly written, his book clearly reveals that the evidence of global warming is real and that an industry of denial has deceived the American public, putting them and their grandchildren at risk.