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Author |
: Mark Schorr |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0671676350 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780671676353 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gunpower by : Mark Schorr
Author |
: Patrick Blanchfield |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781788736695 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1788736699 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gunpower by : Patrick Blanchfield
How might we break a 500 year cycle of American violence? America as a nation was built upon, enshrines, and runs on gunpower. From the original founding of the US to its present economic life, from its interventions abroad to its struggles at home, guns are everywhere. Without guns, the original territorial seizures and ethnic cleansing of the North American continent would never have been possible, nor would the institution of chattel slavery. Without guns, the policing required for America's capitalist industrialization would have been unthinkable, and so too would have been its ascent as a global military power and foremost arms dealer. Guns are the only object to be named in America's founding legal documents. Today, Americans own some 40% of all guns on the planet. Gunpower is, quite literally, constitutional to the American enterprise. Weaving together narrative history with contemporary politics, Gunpower offers a unique vision of America's past, present, and future in relation to gun violence and gun control. Rejecting the reductive distinctions between "pro-gun" and "anti-gun," Democrat and Republican, Gunpower cuts through deadlocked debates to offer an account of what lies at the heart of the matter: the operations of power that America's gun saturation sustains. For those tired of the predictable cycles of horror, outrage, and resignation that have defined American debates over guns, Gunpower offers a vital toolkit for navigating a new landscape of protest, organizing, and political possibility.
Author |
: Patrick Blanchfield |
Publisher |
: Verso |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2021-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1788736672 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781788736671 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gunpower by : Patrick Blanchfield
How might we break a 500 year cycle of American violence? America as a nation was built upon, enshrines, and runs on gunpower. From the original founding of the US to its present economic life, from its interventions abroad to its struggles at home, guns are everywhere. Without guns, the original territorial seizures and ethnic cleansing of the North American continent would never have been possible, nor would the institution of chattel slavery. Without guns, the policing required for America's capitalist industrialization would have been unthinkable, and so too would have been its ascent as a global military power and foremost arms dealer. Guns are the only object to be named in America's founding legal documents. Today, Americans own some 40% of all guns on the planet. Gunpower is, quite literally, constitutional to the American enterprise. Weaving together narrative history with contemporary politics, Gunpower offers a unique vision of America's past, present, and future in relation to gun violence and gun control. Rejecting the reductive distinctions between "pro-gun" and "anti-gun," Democrat and Republican, Gunpower cuts through deadlocked debates to offer an account of what lies at the heart of the matter: the operations of power that America's gun saturation sustains. For those tired of the predictable cycles of horror, outrage, and resignation that have defined American debates over guns, Gunpower offers a vital toolkit for navigating a new landscape of protest, organizing, and political possibility.
Author |
: Marshall G. S. Hodgson |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 478 |
Release |
: 1974 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076005484790 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Venture of Islam: The gunpowder empires and modern times by : Marshall G. S. Hodgson
Author |
: Charles Hall (H.) |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: CHI:20864295 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sea Power by : Charles Hall (H.)
Author |
: Suzanne Schneider |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2021-09-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781839762444 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1839762446 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Apocalypse and the End of History by : Suzanne Schneider
How the political violence of modern jihad echoes the crises of western liberalism In this authoritative, accessible study, historian Suzanne Schneider examines the politics and ideology of the Islamic State (better known as ISIS). Schneider argues that today’s jihad is not the residue from a less enlightened time, nor does it have much in common with its classical or medieval form, but it does bear a striking resemblance to the reactionary political formations and acts of spectacular violence that are upending life in Western democracies. From authoritarian populism to mass shootings, xenophobic nationalism, and the allure of conspiratorial thinking, Schneider argues that modern jihad is not the antithesis to western neoliberalism, but rather a dark reflection of its inner logic. Written with the sensibility of a political theorist and based on extensive research into a wide range of sources, from Islamic jurisprudence to popular recruitment videos, contemporary apocalyptic literature and the Islamic State's Arabic-language publications, the book explores modern jihad as an image of a potential dark future already heralded by neoliberal modes of life. Surveying ideas of the state, violence, identity, and political community, Schneider argues that modern jihad and neoliberalism are two versions of a politics of failure: the inability to imagine a better life here on earth.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 776 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B4012127 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Inter-noise by :
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: |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1052 |
Release |
: 1911 |
ISBN-10 |
: SRLF:C0000157941 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Engineering by :
Author |
: Nicole Kornher-Stace |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 416 |
Release |
: 2022-04-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781982142759 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1982142758 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Firebreak by : Nicole Kornher-Stace
"New Liberty City, 2134. Two corporations have replaced the US, splitting the country's remaining forty-five states (five have been submerged under the ocean) between them: Stellaxis Innovations and Greenleaf. There are nine supercities within the continental US, and New Liberty City is the only amalgamated city split between the two megacorps, and thus at a perpetual state of civil war as the feeds broadcast the atrocities committed by each side. Here, Mallory streams Stellaxis's wargame SecOps on BestLife, spending more time jacked in than in the world just to eke out a hardscrabble living from tips. When a chance encounter with one of the game's rare super-soldiers leads to a side job for Mal - looking to link an actual missing girl to one of the SecOps characters. Mal's sudden burst in online fame rivals her deepening fear of what she is uncovering about BestLife's developer, and puts her in the kind of danger she's only experienced through her avatar."--Publisher's description
Author |
: Patrick Brugh |
Publisher |
: Changing Perspectives on Early |
Total Pages |
: 273 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781580469685 |
ISBN-13 |
: 158046968X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700 by : Patrick Brugh
How gunpowder technology exploded heroes, heroics, and war stories from 1400 to 1700, and how German writers tried to glue them back together