1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455457203321

Autore

Stetson Erlene <1949->

Titolo

Glorying in tribulation [[electronic resource] ] : the lifework of Sojourner Truth / / Erlene Stetson, Linda David

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, : Michigan State University Press, 1994

ISBN

0-87013-908-8

0-585-18839-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DavidLinda

Disciplina

305.5/67/092

B

Soggetti

African American abolitionists

Abolitionists - United States

Social reformers - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Michigan State University Press publisher's circle book"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-233) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Speaking of Shadows; Chapter 2. The Country of the Slave; Chapter 3. The Claims of Human Brotherhood; Chapter 4. Sojourners; Chapter 5. I Saw The Wheat Holding Up Its Head; Chapter 6. Harvest Time for the Black Man, and Seed-Sowing Time for Woman: Nancy Works in the Cotton Field; Appendices; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Glorying in Tribulation, Stetson presents a new dimension of Sojourner Truth''s character. Much of the information regarding this oft-quoted African American woman is either the stuff of legend or is in dispute. This important new biography takes both legend and fact and sets them into a larger historical context. The authors utilize archival sources, and other forms of direct and indirect evidence to create a better understanding of Truth. We see her victories as well as her defeats--we see her as a real person. Truth comes alive in the pages of this book through her poignant, prophetic w



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996588060703316

Titolo

This Time We Knew : Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia / / Thomas Cushman, Stjepan Mestrovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [1996]

©1996

ISBN

0-8147-2370-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (424 p.)

Classificazione

MG 91096

Disciplina

949.702/4

949.7103

Soggetti

World politics - 1989-

Genocide - Bosnia and Hercegovina

Yugoslav War, 1991-1995

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- One. Introduction -- Two. The Complicity of Serbian Intellectuals in Genocide in the 1990s -- Three. Bosnia: The Lessons of History? -- Four. No Pity for Sarajevo; The West's Serbianization; When the West Stands In for the Dead -- Five. Israel and the War in Bosnia -- Six. The Politics of Indifference at the United Nations and Genocide in Rwanda and Bosnia -- Seven. The West Side Story of the Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Wars in Slovenia, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Eight. Serbia's War Lobby: Diaspora Groups and Western Elites -- Nine. Moral Relativism and Equidistance in British Attitudes to the War in the Former Yugoslavia -- Ten. The Former Yugoslavia, the End of the Nuremberg Era, and the New Barbarism -- Eleven. War and Ethnic Identity in Eastern Europe: Does the Post-Yugoslav Crisis Portend Wider Chaos? -- Twelve. The Anti-Genocide Movement on American College Campuses: A Growing Response to the Balkan War -- Thirteen. Western Responses to the Current Balkan War -- Appendix 1. A Definition of Genocide -- Appendix 2. Text of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide -- Appendix 3. Indictments



by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

We didn't know. For half a century, Western politicians and intellectuals have so explained away their inaction in the face of genocide in World War II. In stark contrast, Western observers today face a daily barrage of information and images, from CNN, the Internet, and newspapers about the parties and individuals responsible for the current Balkan War and crimes against humanity. The stories, often accompanied by video or pictures of rape, torture, mass graves, and ethnic cleansing, available almost instantaneously, do not allow even the most uninterested viewer to ignore the grim reality of genocide. And yet, while information abounds, so do rationalizations for non-intervention in Balkan affairs - the threshold of real genocide has yet to be reached in Bosnia; all sides are equally guilty; Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia is a threat to the West; it will only end when they all tire of killing each other - to name but a few. In This Time We Knew, Thomas Cushman and Stjepan G. Mestrovic have put together a collection of critical, reflective, essays that offer detailed sociological, political, and historical analyses of western responses to the war. This volume punctures once and for all common excuses for Western inaction. This Time We Knew further reveals the reasons why these rationalizations have persisted and led to the West's failure to intercede, in the face of incontrovertible evidence, in the most egregious crimes against humanity to occur in Europe since World War II.Contributors to the volume include Kai Erickson, Jean Baudrillard, Mark Almond, David Riesman, Daniel Kofman, Brendan Simms, Daniele Conversi, Brad Kagan Blitz, James J. Sadkovich, and Sheri Fink.



3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00004161

Autore

KOMAI, Akira

Titolo

An Introduction to Japanese Kanbun / Akira Komai & Thomas H. Rohlian

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Nagoya, : University of Nagoya, 1990

ISBN

49-306-8990-2

Edizione

[Prima edizione 1988]

Descrizione fisica

xiv,150 p. ; 26 cm

Classificazione

GIA II E

Altri autori (Persone)

ROHLICH, Thomas H.

Soggetti

Lingua giapponese - Kanbun

Lingua di pubblicazione

Molteplice

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia