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Book Killing the Elites

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jean-Philippe Belleau
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2024-10-29
  • ISBN : 0231560028
  • Pages : 614 pages

Download or read book Killing the Elites written by Jean-Philippe Belleau and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer and fall of 1964, a massacre took place in the small town of Jérémie, Haiti. After an ill-fated uprising, the brutal regime of François “Papa Doc” Duvalier ordered reprisals against the town that some of the insurgents were allegedly from. Entire families—all from the town’s upper class—were slaughtered. Through a rich historical ethnography of the massacre, Jean-Philippe Belleau offers a new account of the workings of the Duvalier regime and an innovative analysis of anti-elite violence. Killing the Elites meticulously reconstructs the various phases of the massacre, identifying the victims and perpetrators, tracing the social ties that linked them, and examining the varying degrees of culpability from the state to bystanders. Although Duvalier and the military were responsible, the killings were attributed to popular social grievances. Examining how the Haitian state has brutalized the upper classes, Belleau develops a new theory of anti-elite violence. He challenges views that ideology or social difference can readily drive people to kill their neighbors and that the upper classes fall victim to popular rough justice, showing that social bonds within the town prevented organized violence from spreading. The state, Belleau underscores, is the primary perpetrator of violence against elites. Drawing on interviews with eyewitnesses and former regime members as well as a wide range of unexplored primary sources, this book provides a new lens on Haiti under Duvalier and reveals why the victimization of the elite is essential to mass violence.

Book The Beautiful  Mysterious and Confusing Montr  al Underground City

Download or read book The Beautiful Mysterious and Confusing Montr al Underground City written by Montreal Underground City and published by Montreal Underground City. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montréal’s underground city is one of the most famous of the world, attracting millions of tourists specifically to discover the secrets of the underground city. Its winding corridors and confusing passages also make it hard to navigate and discover the beauty lying beneath the city. With this guide, not only will you be able to find your way, discover the secrets of the underground city through exclusive content and breathtaking images, including: -The history of the underground -The 6 places you just can’t miss -Art of the Underground -And much more! Montréal’s underground city remains a mystery for most (including Montrealers!) but with this guide you’ll learn everything there is to know about the underground city, from how to get there to things to do. Montreal Underground City has a mission to create a better experience for all navigators of the underground city, whether they be tourists or Montrealers. By redesigning a new map and combining the newest technologies with their unique database, Montreal Underground City gives free resources to those wishing to visit the underground or use the underground tunnels to get from one section to another without stepping outside.

Book Political Bodies Body Politic

Download or read book Political Bodies Body Politic written by Darlene M. Juschka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Political Bodies/Body Politic' draws on feminism, gender studies, and queer theory to examine how myth, symbol and ritual express belief systems. The book explores the operation of gender in a variety of social and historical contexts, ranging from feminist speculative fiction and systems of belief to popular culture and ancient historical texts. 'Political Bodies/Body Politic' makes an original contribution to religious and feminist studies in its examination of gender in human communication and belief systems.

Book Double Trouble

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Double Trouble written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Moon Phoenix  Scottsdale   Sedona

Download or read book Moon Phoenix Scottsdale Sedona written by Kathleen Bryant and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Moon Phoenix, Scottsdale & Sedona, longtime Arizona resident Kathleen Bryant covers the hot spots of the Valley of the Sun, including Phoenix's sandstone peaks, the red rocks and vortexes of Sedona, and the best golf courses and shopping Scottsdale has to offer. Discover the rich culture of the Native American tribes who first settled the Valley, venture north to the leafy respite of Oak Creek Canyon, marvel at larger-than-life cacti at the Desert Botanical Garden, or explore fossils at the Mesa Southwest Museum. Packed with information on the best dining, transportation, and accommodations, Moon Phoenix, Scottsdale & Sedona caters to a range of travel budgets. With unique travel strategies such as Desert Romance and Southwest Heritage, Moon Phoenix, Scottsdale & Sedona gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience. This ebook and its features are best experienced on iOS or Android devices and the Kindle Fire.

Book The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle

Download or read book The North American Carbon Budget and Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains full text of book and appendixes. Cf. menu frames of CD-ROM.

Book White Piano

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicole Brossard
  • Publisher : Coach House Books
  • Release : 2013-03-22
  • ISBN : 1770563458
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book White Piano written by Nicole Brossard and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "White Piano holds an acute sense of what poetry is, its danger. . . . Brossard knows well that 'life is only good for living' and that living is incarnated in the material of language, that sounds, those carriers of sense, can propel it in front of the world."—Le Devoir Between the verbs quivering and streaming, White Piano unfolds its variations like musical scores. Pronouns and persons, poetry and prose: White Piano, superbly translated from the French, narrates a constellation of questions and offers a "language that cultivates its own craters of fire and savoir-vie." Nicole Brossard is one of North America's foremost practitioners of innovative writing.

Book American Exodus

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  • Author : Giles Slade
  • Publisher : New Society Publishers
  • Release : 2013-11-05
  • ISBN : 0865717494
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book American Exodus written by Giles Slade and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeking higher ground – how rising global temperatures will lead to unprecedented waves of human migration

Book Walking as Artistic Practice

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  • Author : Ellen Mueller
  • Publisher : State University of New York Press
  • Release : 2023-10-01
  • ISBN : 1438494823
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Walking as Artistic Practice written by Ellen Mueller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walking as Artistic Practice lays out foundational information about the history of walking and its development as an artistic practice, making it accessible to readers of all backgrounds. It also provides guidance on how to analyze and discuss walking artworks, with vocabulary support, over three hundred examples, and over seventy-five exercises. The chapters offer a variety of topical approaches, allowing readers and instructors to craft an experience most suited to their interests and needs. Themes include observational and sensory experience, leading versus following, who walks where (identity and positionality), rituals, place, activism, connections to drawing, and embodiment. Appendices include information on documentation, sample syllabi, readings and resources, brainstorming tips, community engagement guidance, and tips for travel-based study. Instructors will appreciate this text because it has so many resources to direct students to when they have questions about analysis, history, community engagement, or documentation approaches. It's the type of book that students will hang onto long after the course is done because it is so practical and useful.

Book Science  Magic and Religion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary Bouquet
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9781571815200
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Science Magic and Religion written by Mary Bouquet and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the idea of the museum as a ritual site, this volume looks at contemporary experience across Europe and Africa to reveal the different ways in which various actors involved in cultural production dramatize and ritualize such places

Book The Boundary Rider

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  • Author : Art Gallery of New South Wales
  • Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Boundary Rider written by Art Gallery of New South Wales and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ARTnews

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 960 pages

Download or read book ARTnews written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Art Museums

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  • Author : Christine Sylvester
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-12-03
  • ISBN : 1317263510
  • Pages : 279 pages

Download or read book Art Museums written by Christine Sylvester and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art/Museums takes the study of international relations to the art museum. It seeks to persuade those who study international relations to take art/museums seriously and museum studies to take up the insights of international relations. And it does so at a time when both international relations and art are said to be at an end-that is, out of control and beyond sight of their usual constituencies. The book focuses on the British Museum, the National Gallery of London, the Museum of Iraq, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty museums, the Guggenheim museums, and "museum" spaces instantly created by the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. The art includes works over which museums might struggle, acquire through questionable means, hoard and possibly lose, such as the Parthenon sculptures, Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks, the ancient art of Babylon, modern art, and the art/museum itself in an era of rapid museum expansion. Bringing art, museums, and international relations together draws on the art technique of collage, which combines disparate objects, themes, and time periods in one work to juxtapose unexpected elements, leaving the viewer to relate objects that are not where they are expected to be.

Book Ulysses Travel Guide Montreal

Download or read book Ulysses Travel Guide Montreal written by Ulysses travel guides and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 2006 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook contains: 18 walking, cycling or driving tours to help you discover the city's hidden treasures, star-rated so you can better organize your time; More than 250 restaurants and 70 hotels, with our favourites clearly indicated; More than 30 maps to help you get your bearings and make sure you don't miss a thing! Entire chapters devoted to entertainment (with 70 of the best nightspots) and shopping (including everything from hip second-hand stores to upscale boutiques)!

Book Art   Text

Download or read book Art Text written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dominique Blain

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  • Author : Dominique Blain
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780936080321
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Dominique Blain written by Dominique Blain and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dominique Blain

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  • Author : Louise Déry
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 108 pages

Download or read book Dominique Blain written by Louise Déry and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: