Farewell To Revolution

Author : Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801427183
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell, Revolution written by Steven L. Kaplan and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Revolution should be remembered has been the focus of debates concerned as much with France's future as with its past. Kaplan both reviews these debates and reconstructs - in sometimes hilarious detail - events leading up to the official commemoration. Bringing to bear the skills of the archival historian and the ethnographer, he masterfully explains how a particular political culture attempts to come to terms with its past.

Author : S. F. Kissin
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Revolution written by S. F. Kissin and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1978 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cyrus Kadivar
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1617977950
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell Shiraz written by Cyrus Kadivar and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2017-06-16 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1999 during a trip to Cairo, Cyrus Kadivar, an exiled Iranian living in London, visited the tomb of the last shah and opened a Pandora's box. Haunted by nostalgia for a bygone era, he recalled a protected and idyllic childhood in the fabled city of Shiraz and his coming of age during the 1979 Iranian revolution. Back in London, he reflected on what had happened to him and his family after their uprooting and decided to conduct his own investigation into why he lost his country. He spent the next ten years seeking out witnesses who would shed light on the last days of Pahlavi rule. Among those he met were a former empress, ex-courtiers, disaffected revolutionaries, and the bereaved relatives of those who perished in the cataclysm. In Farewell Shiraz, Kadivar tells the story of his family and childhood against the tumultuous backdrop of twentieth-century Iran, from the 1905-1907 Constitutional Revolution to the fall of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, before presenting accounts of his meetings with key witnesses to the Shah's fall and the rise of Khomeini. Each of the people interviewed provides a richly detailed picture of the momentous events that took place and the human drama behind them. Combining exquisite vignettes with rare testimonials and first-hand interviews, Farewell Shiraz draws us into a sweeping yet often intimate account of a vanished world and offers a compelling investigation into a political earthquake whose reverberations still live with us today.

Author : Everett Dean Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Revolution written by Everett Dean Martin and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory Clark
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400827817
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Farewell to Alms written by Gregory Clark and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are some parts of the world so rich and others so poor? Why did the Industrial Revolution--and the unprecedented economic growth that came with it--occur in eighteenth-century England, and not at some other time, or in some other place? Why didn't industrialization make the whole world rich--and why did it make large parts of the world even poorer? In A Farewell to Alms, Gregory Clark tackles these profound questions and suggests a new and provocative way in which culture--not exploitation, geography, or resources--explains the wealth, and the poverty, of nations. Countering the prevailing theory that the Industrial Revolution was sparked by the sudden development of stable political, legal, and economic institutions in seventeenth-century Europe, Clark shows that such institutions existed long before industrialization. He argues instead that these institutions gradually led to deep cultural changes by encouraging people to abandon hunter-gatherer instincts-violence, impatience, and economy of effort-and adopt economic habits-hard work, rationality, and education. The problem, Clark says, is that only societies that have long histories of settlement and security seem to develop the cultural characteristics and effective workforces that enable economic growth. For the many societies that have not enjoyed long periods of stability, industrialization has not been a blessing. Clark also dissects the notion, championed by Jared Diamond in Guns, Germs, and Steel, that natural endowments such as geography account for differences in the wealth of nations. A brilliant and sobering challenge to the idea that poor societies can be economically developed through outside intervention, A Farewell to Alms may change the way global economic history is understood.

Author : Steven L. Kaplan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780801427183
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell, Revolution written by Steven L. Kaplan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His book suggests that the charged relationship between history and politics that enlivened the bicentennial may be the Revolution's most enduring legacy.

Author : Chantal Thomas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 147670645X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell, My Queen written by Chantal Thomas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows a woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie Antoinette, as she recounts her memories of living at Versailles during the final days of the French revolution.

Author : Timothy J. Clark
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300089103
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell to an Idea written by Timothy J. Clark and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this text, acclaimed art historian T.J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly, in extreme terms, to the ongoing disaster called modernity.

Author : Charles Farkas
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438447590
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vanished by the Danube written by Charles Farkas and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Germany's invasion of Hungary in 1944 marked the end of a culture that had dominated Central Europe from the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. In this poignant memoir, Charles Farkas offers a testament to this vanished way of life—its society, morality, personal integrity, wealth, traditions, and chivalry—as well as an eyewitness account of its destruction, begun at the hands of the Nazis and then completed under the heel of Soviet Communism. Farkas's recollections of growing up in Budapest, a city whose grandeur embraced—indeed spanned—the Danube River; his vivid descriptions of everyday life in Hungary before, during, and after World War II; and his ultimate flight to freedom in the United States remind us that behind the larger historical events of the past century are the stories of the individual men and women who endured and, ultimately, survived them.

Author : Valentin Rasputin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810113299
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Farewell to Matyora written by Valentin Rasputin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fine example of Village Prose from the post-Stalin era, Farewell to Matyora decries the loss of the Russian peasant culture to the impersonal, soulless march of progress. It is the final summer of the peasant village of Matyora. A dam will be completed in the fall, destroying the village. Although their departure is inevitable, the characters over when, and even whether, they should leave. A haunting story with a heartfelt theme, Farewell to Matyora is a passionate plea for humanity and an eloquent cry for a return to an organic life.