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Robespierre
For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758-94) was a great revolutionary martyr who succeeded in leading the French Republic to safety in the face of overwhelming military odds. For many others, he was the first modern dictator, a fanatic who instigated the murderous Reign of Terror in 1793-94. This masterful biography combines new research into Robespierre's dramatic life with a deep understanding of society and the politics of the French Revolution to arrive at a fresh understanding of the man, his passions, and his tragic shortcomings. Peter McPhee gives special attention to Robespierre's formative years and the development of an iron will in a frail boy conceived o...
Music and Cosmopolitanism
In Music and Cosmopolitanism, Cristina Magaldi examines music making in a past globalized world. This volume focuses on one city, Rio de Janeiro, and how it became part of a larger world through music and performance. Magaldi describes a process of creating connections beyond national borders, one that is familiar to contemporary city residents, but which was already dominant at the turn of the 20th century, as new technological developments led to alternative ways of making and experiencing music.
Políticas da raça
Esta coletânea, escrita por pesquisadores brasileiros e estrangeiros, aborda um longo período da história do nosso país: dos anos 1870, com o início do movimento abolicionista, a 2010, quando o STF julgou constitucionais as cotas raciais na Universidade de Brasília. Entre outros assuntos abordados estão: a formação dos quilombos; a migração de libertos por São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro; os negros no movimento republicano brasileiro; as representações culturais dos negros na música, na cultura, nas artes e na religião; linchamentos raciais no Oeste paulista; a luta entre imigrantes e ex-escravizados pela posse de terra e por moradia; a atuação dos negros na luta contra a monarq...
Liberty or Death
A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globe The French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime’s study of eighteenth-century France and Europe to create an entirely fresh account of the world’s first great modern revolution—its origins, drama, complexity, and significance. Was the Revolution a major turning point in French—even world—history, or was it instead a protracted period of violent upheaval and ...
The Lost Gentleman
"Category: historical"--Page 4 of cover.
Tales of Enlightenment*
Welcome to Tales of Enlightenment*. Found on bookshelves between John Clarke and David Sedaris, Kit Fennessy's writing has been compared to Roald Dahl; only with slightly shorter legs.Tales of Enlightenment* delivers another tour de force, providing you with an emergency hatch from the humdrum of everyday life into a realm of comedy, escapism and metaphysics.Inside this hot little mover, you'll find:· Zarkan Coridian, Alien Schoolboy· The worst job ever· Ghosts bound for revenge· Vampires· Whippets running amok· Life in the Hot Seat· The channeling of Shakespeare, Ricky Gervais, and others· Poems that will make you laugh and cry· Comics Galore· ¿and so much more!This book may open your inner eye and allow the mystic light of wisdom in¿ if you're ready for the next step in your karmic evolution. An instant classic, Tales of Enlightenment* is another gem from the author that brought you Tales of the Dark and the Hidden People.
Enciclopédia brasileira da diáspora africana
Obra que reúne, num único volume, uma significativa massa de informações multidisciplinares sobre o universo da cultura africana e afrodescendente. Traz ao conhecimento de um público amplo assuntos até agora restritos a especialistas e de difícil acesso aos leigos. Os verbetes, em ordem alfabética, abrangem uma vasta área de conhecimentos, incluindo personalidades, fatos históricos, países, religiões, fauna, flora, festas, instituições, idiomas etc. Edição revista, atualizada e ampliada.
Race and Transnationalism in the Americas
National borders and transnational forces have been central in defining the meaning of race in the Americas. Race and Transnationalism in the Americas examines the ways that race and its categorization have functioned as organizing frameworks for cultural, political, and social inclusion—and exclusion—in the Americas. Because racial categories are invariably generated through reference to the “other,” the national community has been a point of departure for understanding race as a concept. Yet this book argues that transnational forces have fundamentally shaped visions of racial difference and ideas of race and national belonging throughout the Americas, from the late nineteenth century to the present. Examining immigration exclusion, indigenous efforts toward decolonization, government efforts to colonize, sport, drugs, music, populism, and film, the authors examine the power and limits of the transnational flow of ideas, people, and capital. Spanning North America, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean, the volume seeks to engage in broad debates about race, citizenship, and national belonging in the Americas.
