Despots Paradise

Author : Michael Brown
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781721072675
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Despot's Paradise written by Michael Brown and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 3: "The Despot's Paradise" GLITTER IS SHOT DOWN! While following a lead on the Hellkin battle group that attacked Simmal, the Atlantis reaches the edge of the Naziortol star system. The Naziortol system is ruled by a species of extreme xenophobes who will attack anyone who trespasses into their territory. When Bowen discovers that the Atlantis' new stealth fighters have been sabotaged, he is forced to order Glitter to fly a jury rigged stealth fighter. However, when Glitter's makeshift stealth system fails while she is deep inside Naziortol territory, she is shot down. Now Bowen's ground crew has to race to fix the sabotaged stealth fighters. Meanwhile, Glitter is captured by the Naziortol. Will Glitter manage to escape the Naziortol? Will the Atlantis manage to mount a rescue?

Author : Arthur Henry Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of the Enlightened Despot, 1660-1789 written by Arthur Henry Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Javier A. Galván
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476600163
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Dictators of the 20th Century written by Javier A. Galván and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 20th century, the emergence of authoritarian dictatorships in Latin America coincided with periods of social convulsion and economic uncertainty. This book covers 15 dictators representing every decade of the century and geographically from the Caribbean and North and Central and South America. Each chapter covers their personal information (childhood, education, marriage, family...), assumption of power, relationship with the United States, oppression of civilians, and collapse of their regimes. The book also investigates inherent contradictions in U.S. foreign policy: promoting democracy abroad while supporting brutal dictatorships in Latin America. Such analysis requires multiple perspectives and this work embraces an evaluation of the influence of military dictatorships on cultural elements such as art, literature, journalism, music and cinema, while drawing on data from documentary archives, court case files, investigative reports, international treaties, witness testimonies, and personal letters from survivors. The dramatic experiences of courageous individuals who challenged these 15 oppressors are also recounted.

Author : Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620877465
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Desktop Digest of Despots and Dictators written by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Desktop Digest of Dictators and Despots is a compendium and quick reference guide to history’s most notorious absolutist rulers and authoritarian regimes. In a handsome hardcover format, this handy encyclopedia of totalitarians is as informative as it is titillating, a lurid panorama of history’s most malignant autarchs with original full-color portraits and accompanying psychobiographical profiles. From pharaohs to ayatollahs, from Caesar to Hitler, here are fifty-three profiles of history’s most warped personalities and their shocking crimes. Roman Emperor Nero, who lit the roads to the Coliseum’s night games by lining them with human torches made of the burning bodies of crucified Christians Alfredo Stroessner, under whose administration Paraguay offered comfortable refuge to former Nazis while rifle-toting “sportsmen” flocked to the countryside on weekends to legally hunt Indians Idi Amin, the dictator of Uganda, where power outages at the capitol were a routine occurrence because the sluiceways at the nearby hydroelectric dam were clogged with the bodies of so many citizens executed in his torture cells that the pampered local disposal team—the crocodiles—couldn’t eat them fast enough The horrifying pageant of tyranny has trailed in its wake a vicious train of exploitation, intolerance and oppression—war, conquest, subjugation, slavery, imprisonment, torture and execution—which continues unabated to the present day. Dictators never disappoint when it comes to proving that absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is the perfect handbook for educators, armchair historians, and pop-culture pundits.

Author : John Keane
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674660064
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Despotism written by John Keane and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A disturbing in-depth exposé of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world. One day they’ll be like us. That was once the West’s complacent and self-regarding assumption about countries emerging from poverty, imperial rule, or communism. But many have hardened into something very different from liberal democracy: what the eminent political thinker John Keane describes as a new form of despotism. And one day, he warns, we may be more like them. Drawing on extensive travels, interviews, and a lifetime of thinking about democracy and its enemies, Keane shows how governments from Russia and China through Central Asia to the Middle East and Europe have mastered a formidable combination of political tools that threaten the established ideals and practices of power-sharing democracy. They mobilize the rhetoric of democracy and win public support for workable forms of government based on patronage, dark money, steady economic growth, sophisticated media controls, strangled judiciaries, dragnet surveillance, and selective violence against their opponents. Casting doubt on such fashionable terms as dictatorship, autocracy, fascism, and authoritarianism, Keane makes a case for retrieving and refurbishing the old term “despotism” to make sense of how these regimes function and endure. He shows how they cooperate regionally and globally and draw strength from each other’s resources while breeding global anxieties and threatening the values and institutions of democracy. Like Montesquieu in the eighteenth century, Keane stresses the willing complicity of comfortable citizens in all these trends. And, like Montesquieu, he worries that the practices of despotism are closer to home than we care to admit.

Author : Mark Goldie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521374224
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought written by Mark Goldie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Bülent Diken
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178660390X
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Despotism written by Bülent Diken and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ours is a post-political society that cannot imagine radical change; a ‘one dimensional’ society in which politics is reduced to economic concerns. Paradoxically, however, everybody today is subjected to the imperative of regular radical change. Populations have grown accustomed to the idea that one constantly needs to adapt to radical transformations, modify one’s life strategy in tune with the demands of the market on the one hand and the politics of security on the other. Indeed, the idea that there are unquestionable authorities, the idea of ‘despotism’, no longer refers to exceptional circumstances in which politics is suspended but rather seems to have become normalized as part of daily life. This book aims to articulate the genealogy of the despotism-economy-voluntary servitude nexus focusing on their different constellations in the prism of social theory and political philosophy. As it traces the genealogy of this nexus its concern is the field of formation, intervention and intelligibility that arises when and as the three concepts encounter one another.

Author : David Aitchison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Despot and His Rule. To the Free Church Presbytery of Glasgow These Pages are Inscribed written by David Aitchison and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Klaas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190934999
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Despot's Accomplice written by Brian Klaas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the world is steadily becoming less democratic. The true culprits are dictators and counterfeit democrats. But, argues Klaas, the West is also an accomplice, inadvertently assaulting pro-democracy forces abroad as governments in Washington, London and Brussels chase pyrrhic short-term economic and security victories. Friendly fire from Western democracies against democracy abroad is too high a price to pay for a myopic foreign policy that is ultimately making the world less prosperous, stable and democratic. The Despot's Accomplice draws on years of extensive interviews on the frontlines of the global struggle for democracy, from a poetry-reading, politician-kidnapping general in Madagascar to Islamist torture victims in Tunisia, Belarusian opposition activists tailed by the KGB, West African rebels, and tea-sipping members of the Thai junta. Cumulatively, their stories weave together a tale of a broken system at the root of democracy's global retreat.

Author : Charles Egbert Craddock
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1434465985
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Despot of Broomsedge written by Charles Egbert Craddock and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-04-30 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Noailles Murfree (1850-1922) was an American fiction writer of novels and short stories who wrote under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. She has been favorably compared to Bret Harte and Sarah Orne Jewett, creating post-Civil War American local-color literature. She is considered by many to be Appalachia's first significant female writer and her work a necessity for the study of Appalachian literature.