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Bayou of Pigs: The True Story of an Audacious Plot to Turn a Tropical Island into a Criminal Paradise»rank: 22206par: Stewart Bell
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London: The Biography»rank: 21872par: Peter Ackroyd
Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:When the eminent novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd finished writing London: The Biography, he almost immediately had a heart attack, such was the effort of his 800-page work about the 'human body' that is this most fascinating of cities. And not just any human body either, but 'envisaged in the form of a young man with his arms outstretched in a gesture of liberation... it embodies the energy and exaltation of a city continually beating in great waves of progress and of confidence.' Probably there is no one better ... |
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The Wretched of the Earth»rank: 1359par: Frantz Fanon
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist and anticolonialist intellectual; The Wretched of the Earth is considered by many to be one of the canonical books on the worldwide black liberation struggles of the 1960s. Within a Marxist framework, using a cutting and nonsentimental writing style, Fanon draws upon his horrific experiences working in Algeria during its war of independence against France. He addresses the role of violence in decolonization and the challenges of political organization and the class collisions and questions of cultural hegemony in the creation ... |
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Toronto: The Way We Were»rank: 1065par: Mike Filey
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist and anticolonialist intellectual; The Wretched of the Earth is considered by many to be one of the canonical books on the worldwide black liberation struggles of the 1960s. Within a Marxist framework, using a cutting and nonsentimental writing style, Fanon draws upon his horrific experiences working in Algeria during its war of independence against France. He addresses the role of violence in decolonization and the challenges of political organization and the class collisions and questions of cultural hegemony in the creation ... |
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Madness, Betrayal and the Lash: The Epic Voyage of Captain George Vancouver»rank: 2791par: Stephen Bown
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist and anticolonialist intellectual; The Wretched of the Earth is considered by many to be one of the canonical books on the worldwide black liberation struggles of the 1960s. Within a Marxist framework, using a cutting and nonsentimental writing style, Fanon draws upon his horrific experiences working in Algeria during its war of independence against France. He addresses the role of violence in decolonization and the challenges of political organization and the class collisions and questions of cultural hegemony in the creation ... |
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The Cash Nexus: Economics And Politics From The Age Of Warfare Through The Age Of Welfare, 1700-2000»rank: 1525par: Niall Ferguson
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Frantz Fanon (1925-61) was a Martinique-born black psychiatrist and anticolonialist intellectual; The Wretched of the Earth is considered by many to be one of the canonical books on the worldwide black liberation struggles of the 1960s. Within a Marxist framework, using a cutting and nonsentimental writing style, Fanon draws upon his horrific experiences working in Algeria during its war of independence against France. He addresses the role of violence in decolonization and the challenges of political organization and the class collisions and questions of cultural hegemony in the creation ... |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings»rank: 18424par: Maya Angelou
Chroniques et points de vue:From :ln this first of five volumes of autobiography, poet Maya Angelou recounts a youth filled with disappointment, frustration, tragedy, and finally hard-won independence. Sent at a young age to live with her grandmother in Arkansas, Angelou learned a great deal from this exceptional woman and the tightly knit black community there. These very lessons carried her throughout the hardships she endured later in life, including a tragic occurrence while visiting her mother in St. Louis and her formative years spent in California--where an unwanted pregnancy changed her life forever. ... |
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Postwar»rank: 35054par: Tony Judt
Chroniques et points de vue: :World War ll may have ended in 1945, but according to historian Tony Judt, the conflict's epilogue lasted for nearly the rest of the century. Calling 1945-1989 'an interim age,' Judt examines what happened on each side of the lron Curtain, with the West nervously inching forward while the East endured the 'peace of the prison yard' until the fall of Communism in 1989 signaled their chance to progress. Though he proposes no grand, overarching theory of the postwar period, Judt's massive work covers the broad strokes as well as ... |
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The Match»rank: 2646par: Mark Frost
Chroniques et points de vue: :World War ll may have ended in 1945, but according to historian Tony Judt, the conflict's epilogue lasted for nearly the rest of the century. Calling 1945-1989 'an interim age,' Judt examines what happened on each side of the lron Curtain, with the West nervously inching forward while the East endured the 'peace of the prison yard' until the fall of Communism in 1989 signaled their chance to progress. Though he proposes no grand, overarching theory of the postwar period, Judt's massive work covers the broad strokes as well as ... |
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Northern Rover: The Life Story of Olaf Hanson»rank: 2733par: A. L. Karras
Chroniques et points de vue: :World War ll may have ended in 1945, but according to historian Tony Judt, the conflict's epilogue lasted for nearly the rest of the century. Calling 1945-1989 'an interim age,' Judt examines what happened on each side of the lron Curtain, with the West nervously inching forward while the East endured the 'peace of the prison yard' until the fall of Communism in 1989 signaled their chance to progress. Though he proposes no grand, overarching theory of the postwar period, Judt's massive work covers the broad strokes as well as ... |