Author: Thierry Wolton
Publisher: Humanitas SA
ISBN: 973506457X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Cu o prefață a autorului la ediția româneascã Traducere de Adina Cobuz, Wilhelm Tauwinkl, Emanoil Marcu, Vlad Russo, Mariana Piroteală, Marieva-Cătălina Ionescu, Georgeta-Anca Ionescu și Elena Ciocoiu Carte recompensată cu Premiul Jan Michalski (Elveția, 2017) și Premiul Aujourd'hui (Franța, 2018) „Avem dictatura proletariatului, avem o putere care face uz de teroare.“ – Lenin „Nu s-a ucis la scară suficient de mare. Noi trebuie să ucidem, şi afirmăm că a ucide este un lucru bun.ׅ“ – Mao „Comunismul este conștiința vinovată mondială. Nici o altă ideologie, într-un interval de timp comparabil, nu a cucerit atât de multe țări, atât de multe minți și nu a distrus atâtea vieți omenești. Și tocmai omul se află în inima cărții mele. Nu inventez nimic în această istorie a comunismului, nu există dialoguri fabricate, toate situațiile despre care vorbesc sunt atestate, în general sunt cunoscute, nu sunt eu cel dintâi care le descoperă. Meritul meu, singurul pe care îl am în raport cu această narațiune, este acela de a fi adus laolaltă sute de elemente disparate, pentru a vedea lucrurile în ansamblu. Am vrut să-l iau pe cititor de mână și să-l însoțesc de-a lungul istoriei dramatice a comunismului. Sper că am reușit; în această carte există carne și viață.“ – Thierry Wolton „O întreprindere extraordinară. Thierry Wolton sfâșie vălul care încă acoperă crimele regimului comunist și sfidează imperativele care-au împiedicat condamnarea lui chiar din timpul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial.“ – Alain Besançon „Thierry Wolton propune o manieră inedită de a sublinia «caracterul universal malign» al ideii comuniste. Volumul 1 al trilogiei, al cărui subiect central sunt «călăii», arată cum, din URSS și până în Etiopia, fiecare generație de conducători preia de la precedenta metodele prin care «constrâng realitatea să se supună canoanelor utopiei», cu prețul exterminării unor populații întregi. Avem de-a face aici cu un sfâșietor și întunecat tablou al unei himere din care cu greu izbutim să ne desprindem.“ – Philosophie Magazine „N-ai cum să nu te-ntrebi, citind aceste pagini care valorează greutatea lor în sânge, cum de, în numele fericirii și al libertății, unii oameni au putut să dea dovadă, și încă în mod sistematic, de o asemenea cruzime față de alți oameni. După căderea Zidului Berlinului, după căderea regimurilor comuniste din Europa și implozia Uniunii Sovietice, ai crede că ne-am eliberat de «spectrul comunismului». Și totuși, în lipsa unei condamnări internaționale efective, nici crimele comunismului nu pot fi judecate în adevărata lor lumină.“ – Le Figaro
O istorie mondiala a comunismului. Incercare de investigatie istorica
Author: Thierry Wolton
Publisher: Humanitas SA
ISBN: 973506457X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Cu o prefață a autorului la ediția româneascã Traducere de Adina Cobuz, Wilhelm Tauwinkl, Emanoil Marcu, Vlad Russo, Mariana Piroteală, Marieva-Cătălina Ionescu, Georgeta-Anca Ionescu și Elena Ciocoiu Carte recompensată cu Premiul Jan Michalski (Elveția, 2017) și Premiul Aujourd'hui (Franța, 2018) „Avem dictatura proletariatului, avem o putere care face uz de teroare.“ – Lenin „Nu s-a ucis la scară suficient de mare. Noi trebuie să ucidem, şi afirmăm că a ucide este un lucru bun.ׅ“ – Mao „Comunismul este conștiința vinovată mondială. Nici o altă ideologie, într-un interval de timp comparabil, nu a cucerit atât de multe țări, atât de multe minți și nu a distrus atâtea vieți omenești. Și tocmai omul se află în inima cărții mele. Nu inventez nimic în această istorie a comunismului, nu există dialoguri fabricate, toate situațiile despre care vorbesc sunt atestate, în general sunt cunoscute, nu sunt eu cel dintâi care le descoperă. Meritul meu, singurul pe care îl am în raport cu această narațiune, este acela de a fi adus laolaltă sute de elemente disparate, pentru a vedea lucrurile în ansamblu. Am vrut să-l iau pe cititor de mână și să-l însoțesc de-a lungul istoriei dramatice a comunismului. Sper că am reușit; în această carte există carne și viață.“ – Thierry Wolton „O întreprindere extraordinară. Thierry Wolton sfâșie vălul care încă acoperă crimele regimului comunist și sfidează imperativele care-au împiedicat condamnarea lui chiar din timpul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial.“ – Alain Besançon „Thierry Wolton propune o manieră inedită de a sublinia «caracterul universal malign» al ideii comuniste. Volumul 1 al trilogiei, al cărui subiect central sunt «călăii», arată cum, din URSS și până în Etiopia, fiecare generație de conducători preia de la precedenta metodele prin care «constrâng realitatea să se supună canoanelor utopiei», cu prețul exterminării unor populații întregi. Avem de-a face aici cu un sfâșietor și întunecat tablou al unei himere din care cu greu izbutim să ne desprindem.“ – Philosophie Magazine „N-ai cum să nu te-ntrebi, citind aceste pagini care valorează greutatea lor în sânge, cum de, în numele fericirii și al libertății, unii oameni au putut să dea dovadă, și încă în mod sistematic, de o asemenea cruzime față de alți oameni. După căderea Zidului Berlinului, după căderea regimurilor comuniste din Europa și implozia Uniunii Sovietice, ai crede că ne-am eliberat de «spectrul comunismului». Și totuși, în lipsa unei condamnări internaționale efective, nici crimele comunismului nu pot fi judecate în adevărata lor lumină.“ – Le Figaro
Publisher: Humanitas SA
ISBN: 973506457X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Cu o prefață a autorului la ediția româneascã Traducere de Adina Cobuz, Wilhelm Tauwinkl, Emanoil Marcu, Vlad Russo, Mariana Piroteală, Marieva-Cătălina Ionescu, Georgeta-Anca Ionescu și Elena Ciocoiu Carte recompensată cu Premiul Jan Michalski (Elveția, 2017) și Premiul Aujourd'hui (Franța, 2018) „Avem dictatura proletariatului, avem o putere care face uz de teroare.“ – Lenin „Nu s-a ucis la scară suficient de mare. Noi trebuie să ucidem, şi afirmăm că a ucide este un lucru bun.ׅ“ – Mao „Comunismul este conștiința vinovată mondială. Nici o altă ideologie, într-un interval de timp comparabil, nu a cucerit atât de multe țări, atât de multe minți și nu a distrus atâtea vieți omenești. Și tocmai omul se află în inima cărții mele. Nu inventez nimic în această istorie a comunismului, nu există dialoguri fabricate, toate situațiile despre care vorbesc sunt atestate, în general sunt cunoscute, nu sunt eu cel dintâi care le descoperă. Meritul meu, singurul pe care îl am în raport cu această narațiune, este acela de a fi adus laolaltă sute de elemente disparate, pentru a vedea lucrurile în ansamblu. Am vrut să-l iau pe cititor de mână și să-l însoțesc de-a lungul istoriei dramatice a comunismului. Sper că am reușit; în această carte există carne și viață.“ – Thierry Wolton „O întreprindere extraordinară. Thierry Wolton sfâșie vălul care încă acoperă crimele regimului comunist și sfidează imperativele care-au împiedicat condamnarea lui chiar din timpul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial.“ – Alain Besançon „Thierry Wolton propune o manieră inedită de a sublinia «caracterul universal malign» al ideii comuniste. Volumul 1 al trilogiei, al cărui subiect central sunt «călăii», arată cum, din URSS și până în Etiopia, fiecare generație de conducători preia de la precedenta metodele prin care «constrâng realitatea să se supună canoanelor utopiei», cu prețul exterminării unor populații întregi. Avem de-a face aici cu un sfâșietor și întunecat tablou al unei himere din care cu greu izbutim să ne desprindem.“ – Philosophie Magazine „N-ai cum să nu te-ntrebi, citind aceste pagini care valorează greutatea lor în sânge, cum de, în numele fericirii și al libertății, unii oameni au putut să dea dovadă, și încă în mod sistematic, de o asemenea cruzime față de alți oameni. După căderea Zidului Berlinului, după căderea regimurilor comuniste din Europa și implozia Uniunii Sovietice, ai crede că ne-am eliberat de «spectrul comunismului». Și totuși, în lipsa unei condamnări internaționale efective, nici crimele comunismului nu pot fi judecate în adevărata lor lumină.“ – Le Figaro
Njinga of Angola
Author: Linda M. Heywood
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674979060
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
“The fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary world leaders.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Though largely unknown in the West, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga was one of the most multifaceted rulers in history, a woman who rivaled Queen Elizabeth I in political cunning and military prowess. In this landmark book, based on nine years of research and drawing from missionary accounts, letters, and colonial records, Linda Heywood reveals how this legendary queen skillfully navigated—and ultimately transcended—the ruthless, male-dominated power struggles of her time. “Queen Njinga of Angola has long been among the many heroes whom black diasporians have used to construct a pantheon and a usable past. Linda Heywood gives us a different Njinga—one brimming with all the qualities that made her the stuff of legend but also full of all the interests and inclinations that made her human. A thorough, serious, and long overdue study of a fascinating ruler, Njinga of Angola is an essential addition to the study of the black Atlantic world.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates “This fine biography attempts to reconcile her political acumen with the human sacrifices, infanticide, and slave trading by which she consolidated and projected power.” —New Yorker “Queen Njinga was by far the most successful of African rulers in resisting Portuguese colonialism...Tactically pious and unhesitatingly murderous...a commanding figure in velvet slippers and elephant hair ripe for big-screen treatment; and surely, as our social media age puts it, one badass woman.” —Karen Shook, Times Higher Education
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674979060
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
“The fascinating story of arguably the greatest queen in sub-Saharan African history, who surely deserves a place in the pantheon of revolutionary world leaders.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Though largely unknown in the West, the seventeenth-century African queen Njinga was one of the most multifaceted rulers in history, a woman who rivaled Queen Elizabeth I in political cunning and military prowess. In this landmark book, based on nine years of research and drawing from missionary accounts, letters, and colonial records, Linda Heywood reveals how this legendary queen skillfully navigated—and ultimately transcended—the ruthless, male-dominated power struggles of her time. “Queen Njinga of Angola has long been among the many heroes whom black diasporians have used to construct a pantheon and a usable past. Linda Heywood gives us a different Njinga—one brimming with all the qualities that made her the stuff of legend but also full of all the interests and inclinations that made her human. A thorough, serious, and long overdue study of a fascinating ruler, Njinga of Angola is an essential addition to the study of the black Atlantic world.” —Ta-Nehisi Coates “This fine biography attempts to reconcile her political acumen with the human sacrifices, infanticide, and slave trading by which she consolidated and projected power.” —New Yorker “Queen Njinga was by far the most successful of African rulers in resisting Portuguese colonialism...Tactically pious and unhesitatingly murderous...a commanding figure in velvet slippers and elephant hair ripe for big-screen treatment; and surely, as our social media age puts it, one badass woman.” —Karen Shook, Times Higher Education
Meeting God in the Other
Author: Alina Patru
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643911920
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The present volume unites 44 studies to honor Prof. Dr. Dorin Oancea, Romanian-Orthodox theologian and religious studies scholar, well known as a bridge-builder between Eastern and Western Christian Traditions. The manifold studies reflect upon the fundaments of interfaith and inter-confessional openness, offer insightful examples from past and present, or point to the loci where this openness can and should be achieved today. A meaningful collection for all those interested in present day ecumenical theology, in inter-confessional studies or theology of religions.
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643911920
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The present volume unites 44 studies to honor Prof. Dr. Dorin Oancea, Romanian-Orthodox theologian and religious studies scholar, well known as a bridge-builder between Eastern and Western Christian Traditions. The manifold studies reflect upon the fundaments of interfaith and inter-confessional openness, offer insightful examples from past and present, or point to the loci where this openness can and should be achieved today. A meaningful collection for all those interested in present day ecumenical theology, in inter-confessional studies or theology of religions.
Central Africans and Cultural Transformations in the American Diaspora
Author: Linda M. Heywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher Description
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521002783
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Publisher Description
Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660
Author: Linda M. Heywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521770653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521770653
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.
Romanian Studies at the Turn of the Century
Author: Kurt W. Treptow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The topic 'Romanian Studies at the Turn of the Century' was chosen as the theme for the Fifth International Conference of the Center for Romanian Studies, held in Iasi, Romania, from 28th June to 1st July 1999. During the sessions held at the Palace of Culture in Iasi, participants discussed the current status and future direction of Romanian studies in the areas of history, literature, and culture. This volume is a collection of the papers presented at this important international conference.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The topic 'Romanian Studies at the Turn of the Century' was chosen as the theme for the Fifth International Conference of the Center for Romanian Studies, held in Iasi, Romania, from 28th June to 1st July 1999. During the sessions held at the Palace of Culture in Iasi, participants discussed the current status and future direction of Romanian studies in the areas of history, literature, and culture. This volume is a collection of the papers presented at this important international conference.
Monographic Series
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Faithful Bodies
Author: Heather Miyano Kopelson
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147986028X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano Kopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in the puritan Atlantic, demonstrating how the categories of “white,” “black,” and “Indian” developed alongside religious boundaries between “Christian” and “heathen” and between “Catholic” and “Protestant.” Faithful Bodies focuses on three communities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In this “puritan Atlantic,” religion determined insider and outsider status: at times Africans and Natives could belong as long as they embraced the Protestant faith, while Irish Catholics and English Quakers remained suspect. Colonists’ interactions with indigenous peoples of the Americas and with West Central Africans shaped their understandings of human difference and its acceptable boundaries. Prayer, religious instruction, sexual behavior, and other public and private acts became markers of whether or not blacks and Indians were sinning Christians or godless heathens. As slavery became law, transgressing people of color counted less and less as sinners in English puritans’ eyes, even as some of them made Christianity an integral part of their communities. As Kopelson shows, this transformation proceeded unevenly but inexorably during the long seventeenth century.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147986028X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
In the seventeenth-century English Atlantic, religious beliefs and practices played a central role in creating racial identity. English Protestantism provided a vocabulary and structure to describe and maintain boundaries between insider and outsider. In this path-breaking study, Heather Miyano Kopelson peels back the layers of conflicting definitions of bodies and competing practices of faith in the puritan Atlantic, demonstrating how the categories of “white,” “black,” and “Indian” developed alongside religious boundaries between “Christian” and “heathen” and between “Catholic” and “Protestant.” Faithful Bodies focuses on three communities of Protestant dissent in the Atlantic World: Bermuda, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. In this “puritan Atlantic,” religion determined insider and outsider status: at times Africans and Natives could belong as long as they embraced the Protestant faith, while Irish Catholics and English Quakers remained suspect. Colonists’ interactions with indigenous peoples of the Americas and with West Central Africans shaped their understandings of human difference and its acceptable boundaries. Prayer, religious instruction, sexual behavior, and other public and private acts became markers of whether or not blacks and Indians were sinning Christians or godless heathens. As slavery became law, transgressing people of color counted less and less as sinners in English puritans’ eyes, even as some of them made Christianity an integral part of their communities. As Kopelson shows, this transformation proceeded unevenly but inexorably during the long seventeenth century.
Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola
Author: Cécile Fromont
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271094109
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These “practical guides” present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century west-central Africa and outline the primarily visual catechization methods the friars devised for the region. Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola brings this overlooked visual corpus to public and scholarly attention. This beautifully illustrated book includes full-color reproductions of all the images in the atlas, in conjunction with rarely seen related material gathered from collections and archives around the world. Taking a bold new approach to the study of early modern global interactions, art historian Cécile Fromont demonstrates how visual creations such as the Capuchin vignettes, though European in form and crafstmanship, emerged not from a single perspective but rather from cross-cultural interaction. Fromont models a fresh way to think about images created across cultures, highlighting the formative role that cultural encounter itself played in their conception, execution, and modes of operation. Centering Africa and Africans, and with ramifications on four continents, Fromont’s decolonial history profoundly transforms our understanding of the early modern world. It will be of substantial interest to specialists in early modern studies, art history, and religion.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271094109
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Early modern central Africa comes to life in an extraordinary atlas of vivid watercolors and drawings that Italian Capuchin Franciscans, veterans of Kongo and Angola missions, composed between 1650 and 1750 for the training of future missionaries. These “practical guides” present the intricacies of the natural, social, and religious environment of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century west-central Africa and outline the primarily visual catechization methods the friars devised for the region. Images on a Mission in Early Modern Kongo and Angola brings this overlooked visual corpus to public and scholarly attention. This beautifully illustrated book includes full-color reproductions of all the images in the atlas, in conjunction with rarely seen related material gathered from collections and archives around the world. Taking a bold new approach to the study of early modern global interactions, art historian Cécile Fromont demonstrates how visual creations such as the Capuchin vignettes, though European in form and crafstmanship, emerged not from a single perspective but rather from cross-cultural interaction. Fromont models a fresh way to think about images created across cultures, highlighting the formative role that cultural encounter itself played in their conception, execution, and modes of operation. Centering Africa and Africans, and with ramifications on four continents, Fromont’s decolonial history profoundly transforms our understanding of the early modern world. It will be of substantial interest to specialists in early modern studies, art history, and religion.
Exploring Cultural History
Author: Melissa Calaresu
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351937634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Over the past 30 years, cultural history has moved from the periphery to the centre of historical studies, profoundly influencing the way we look at and analyze all aspects of the past. In this volume, a distinguished group of international historians has come together to consider the rise of cultural history in general, and to highlight the particular role played in this rise by Peter Burke, the first professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and one of the most prolific and influential authors in the field. Reflecting the many and varied interests of Peter Burke, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of topics, geographies and chronologies. Grouped into four sections, 'Historical Anthropology', 'Politics and Communication', 'Images' and 'Cultural Encounters', the collection explores the boundaries and possibilities of cultural history; each essay presenting an opportunity to engage with the wider issues of the methods and problems of cultural history, and with Peter Burke's contributions to each chosen theme. Taken as a whole the collection shows how cultural history has enriched the ways in which we understand the traditional fields of political, economic, literary and military history, and permeates much of what we now understand as social history. It also demonstrates how cultural history is now at the heart of the coming together of traditional disciplines, providing a meeting ground for a variety of interests and methodologies. Offering a wide international perspective, this volume complements another Ashgate publication, Popular Culture in Early Modern England, which focuses on Peter Burke's influence on the study of popular culture in English history.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351937634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Over the past 30 years, cultural history has moved from the periphery to the centre of historical studies, profoundly influencing the way we look at and analyze all aspects of the past. In this volume, a distinguished group of international historians has come together to consider the rise of cultural history in general, and to highlight the particular role played in this rise by Peter Burke, the first professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge and one of the most prolific and influential authors in the field. Reflecting the many and varied interests of Peter Burke, the essays in this volume cover a broad range of topics, geographies and chronologies. Grouped into four sections, 'Historical Anthropology', 'Politics and Communication', 'Images' and 'Cultural Encounters', the collection explores the boundaries and possibilities of cultural history; each essay presenting an opportunity to engage with the wider issues of the methods and problems of cultural history, and with Peter Burke's contributions to each chosen theme. Taken as a whole the collection shows how cultural history has enriched the ways in which we understand the traditional fields of political, economic, literary and military history, and permeates much of what we now understand as social history. It also demonstrates how cultural history is now at the heart of the coming together of traditional disciplines, providing a meeting ground for a variety of interests and methodologies. Offering a wide international perspective, this volume complements another Ashgate publication, Popular Culture in Early Modern England, which focuses on Peter Burke's influence on the study of popular culture in English history.