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UNINA9910787491603321 |
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Titolo |
'These strange criminals' : an anthology of prison memoirs by conscientious objectors from the Great War to the Cold War / / edited by Peter Brock |
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Toronto ; ; Buffalo ; ; London : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2004 |
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1-4426-5789-8 |
1-4426-2080-3 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (530 pages) |
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Soggetti |
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Conscientious objectors |
World War, 1914-1918 - Conscientious objectors |
World War, 1939-1945 - Conscientious objectors |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Conscientious objectors |
World War, 1914-1918 - Prisoners and prisons |
World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Prisoners and prisons |
Biographies. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Document Credits -- Part One: The Great War -- Introduction -- Britain -- STEPHEN HOBHOUSE -- E. WILLIAMSON MASON -- HUBERT W. PEET -- JOHN HOARE -- GEORGE EWAN -- ROBERT PRICE -- Canada -- JOHN EVANS -- New Zealand -- ARCHIBALD BAXTER -- United States -- ARTHUR DUNHAM -- ALBERT VOTH -- PHILIP GROSSER -- Part Two: The Good War -- Introduction -- Britain -- ALEXANDER BRYAN -- PETER BROCK -- ROBERT L. HOCKLEY -- ERNEST SPRING -- KATHLEEN LONSDALE -- KATHLEEN WIGHAM -- New Zealand -- IAN HAMILTON -- Australia -- PHIL HANCOX -- United States -- ROGER W. AXFORD -- ALFRED HASSLER -- MALCOLM PARKER -- LOWELL NAEVE -- DONALD BENEDICT -- DONALD WETZEL -- Part Three: Cold-War America -- |
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Introduction -- BRADFORD LYTTLE -- JEFFREY PORTEOUS -- J.K. OSBORNE -- 'JOHNSON' -- DAVID MILLER -- Appendix -- Further Reading. |
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Sometimes intensely moving, and often inspiring, these memoirs show that in some cases, individual conscientious objectors - many well-educated and politically aware - sought to reform the penal system from within either by publicizing its dysfunction or through further resistance to authority. |
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UNINA9910783407603321 |
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Autore |
Chen Ruoxi <1938-> |
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Titolo |
The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Revised Edition [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-07129-7 |
0-253-11094-7 |
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Edizione |
[2nd ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (237 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Chen, Ruoxi |
China - History - Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976 - Fiction |
East Asian Languages & Literatures |
Languages & Literatures |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; TOC; Editor's Preface to the Revised Edition; Introduction to the Revised Edition by Perry Link; The Execution of Mayor Yin; Jingjing's Birthday; Night Duty; Residency Check; Ren Xiulan; The Big Fish; Geng Er in Beijing; Nixon's Press Corps |
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Praise for the first edition:""... in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival -- and sometimes the defeat -- of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity."" -- Time""The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales... is captured in the very lightly revised translations of |
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this new edition... Highly recommended."" -- ChoiceA classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view o |
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