The Captive Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Captive Republic write by Mark McKenna. This book was released on 1996-12-23. The Captive Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The idea of an Australian republic has existed from the moment the First Fleet sailed into Sydney Harbour. This book is a comprehensive history of republican thought and activity in Australia and traces republican debate in Australia from 1788. It explains the pivotal role played by republican philosophies in the decades before responsible government was granted to the Australian colonies in 1856 and prior to federation in 1901. Mark McKenna also describes the often erratic appearance of republicanism during the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the period after 1975, when the issue of a republic became a prominent and increasingly fixed term on the political agenda. This book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in political and intellectual history. It calls for a higher level of public debate about the republic and makes an outstanding contribution to this debate itself.
The Captive and the Gift
The Captive and the Gift - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Captive and the Gift write by Bruce Grant. This book was released on 2016-05-15. The Captive and the Gift available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Caucasus region of Eurasia, wedged in between the Black and Caspian Seas, encompasses the modern territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, as well as the troubled republic of Chechnya in southern Russia. A site of invasion, conquest, and resistance since the onset of historical record, it has earned a reputation for fearsome violence and isolated mountain redoubts closed to outsiders. Over extended efforts to control the Caucasus area, Russians have long mythologized stories of their countrymen taken captive by bands of mountain brigands.In The Captive and the Gift, the anthropologist Bruce Grant explores the long relationship between Russia and the Caucasus and the means by which sovereignty has been exercised in this contested area. Taking his lead from Aleksandr Pushkin's 1822 poem "Prisoner of the Caucasus," Grant explores the extraordinary resonances of the themes of violence, captivity, and empire in the Caucasus through mythology, poetry, short stories, ballet, opera, and film. Grant argues that while the recurring Russian captivity narrative reflected a wide range of political positions, it most often and compellingly suggested a vision of Caucasus peoples as thankless, lawless subjects of empire who were unwilling to acknowledge and accept the gifts of civilization and protection extended by Russian leaders.Drawing on years of field and archival research, Grant moves beyond myth and mass culture to suggest how real-life Caucasus practices of exchange, by contrast, aimed to control and diminish rather than unleash and increase violence. The result is a historical anthropology of sovereign forms that underscores how enduring popular narratives and close readings of ritual practices can shed light on the management of pluralism in long-fraught world areas.
Captive Society
Captive Society - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Captive Society write by Saeid Golkar. This book was released on 2015-06-16. Captive Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Iran's Organization for the Mobilization of the Oppressed (Sazeman-e Basij-e Mostazafan), commonly known as the Basij, is a paramilitary organization used by the regime to suppress dissidents, vote as a bloc, and indoctrinate Iranian citizens. Captive Society surveys the Basij's history, structure, and sociology, as well as its influence on Iranian society, its economy, and its educational system. Saied Golkar's account draws not only on published materials—including Basij and Revolutionary Guard publications, allied websites, and blogs—but also on his own informal communications with Basij members while studying and teaching in Iranian universities as recently as 2014. In addition, he incorporates findings from surveys and interviews he conducted while in Iran.
Congressional Record
Congressional Record - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Congressional Record write by United States. Congress. This book was released on 1971. Congressional Record available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The New Republic
The New Republic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New Republic write by Herbert David Croly. This book was released on 1922. The New Republic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
