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尋人啟事 : 中國維權人士與被失蹤的公義
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ISBN: 9789881881366 9881881366 Year: 2016 Publisher: [香港] 中國維權律師關注組

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Une guerre d'extermination : Espagne 1936-1945
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ISBN: 9782701196213 Year: 2016 Publisher: Paris : Belin,

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"Espagne, 1936 : le général Franco déclenche un coup d'Etat contre le gouvernement de Front populaire qui plonge le pays dans une guerre civile de près de trois années. Cette guerre a fait plusieurs centaines de milliers de morts, hommes, femmes et enfants, et jeté sur les routes plus d'un demi-million de réfugiés, contraints à l'exil. L'auteur démontre, point par point, en quoi cette guerre civile a mis en oeuvre toutes les logiques et pratiques de l'extermination de masse : exécutions sommaires par milliers, procès factices, torture et viols systématiques, emprisonnements abusifs... Professeur à la London School of Economics, Paul Preston est reconnu dans le monde entier comme le plus grand historien de la guerre d'Espagne. Une guerre d'extermination, son oeuvre majeure, éclaire de façon poignante et implacable une dimension sous-estimée et peu connue de l'histoire de l'Europe contemporaine."


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Jallad
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ISBN: 1783716940 1783716932 9781783716937 9781783716944 9781783716951 1783716959 9780745335711 0745335713 9780745335704 0745335705 Year: 2016 Publisher: London


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Founding Weimar : violence and the German Revolution of 1918-1919
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ISBN: 131679220X 1316792684 1316793168 1316793648 131679508X 1316794601 1316335623 1107115124 1107535522 1316789322 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The German Revolution of 1918-1919 was a transformative moment in modern European history. It was both the end of the German Empire and the First World War, as well as the birth of the Weimar Republic, the short-lived democracy that preceded the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship. A time of great political drama, the Revolution saw unprecedented levels of mass mobilisation and political violence, including the 'Spartacist Uprising' of January 1919, the murders of Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, and the violent suppression of strikes and the Munich Councils' Republic. Drawing upon the historiography of the French Revolution, Founding Weimar is the first study to place crowds and the politics of the streets at the heart of the Revolution's history. Carefully argued and meticulously researched, it will appeal to anyone with an interest in the relationship between violence, revolution, and state formation, as well as in the history of modern Germany.


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Dictators and their Secret Police : coercive institutions and state violence
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ISBN: 1316713326 1316489035 1316711994 1107139848 1316505316 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press,

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How do dictators stay in power? When, and how, do they use repression to do so? Dictators and their Secret Police explores the role of the coercive apparatus under authoritarian rule in Asia - how these secret organizations originated, how they operated, and how their violence affected ordinary citizens. Greitens argues that autocrats face a coercive dilemma: whether to create internal security forces designed to manage popular mobilization, or defend against potential coup. Violence against civilians, she suggests, is a byproduct of their attempt to resolve this dilemma. Drawing on a wealth of new historical evidence, this book challenges conventional wisdom on dictatorship: what autocrats are threatened by, how they respond, and how this affects the lives and security of the millions under their rule. It offers an unprecedented view into the use of surveillance, coercion, and violence, and sheds new light on the institutional and social foundations of authoritarian power.


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The logic cf compromise in Mexico
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ISBN: 1469627752 1469627760 9781469627762 9781469627755 9781469627748 1469627744 9798890849373 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chapel Hill [North Carolina] [Place of publication not identified] University of North Carolina Press [publisher not identified]

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In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be found in the countryside. Using newly available sources, including declassified secret police files and oral histories, McCormick looks at large-scale sugar cooperatives in Morelos and Puebla, two major agricultural regions that serve as microcosms of events across the nation. She argues that Mexico's rural peoples, despite shouldering much of the financial burden of modernization policies, formed the PRI regime's most fervent base of support. McCormick demonstrates how the PRI exploited this support, using key parts of the countryside to test and refine instruments of control--including the regulation of protest, manipulation of collective memories of rural communities, and selective application of violence against critics--that it later employed in other areas, both rural and urban. With three peasant leaders, brothers named Ruben, Porfirio, and Antonio Jaramillo, at the heart of her story, McCormick draws a capacious picture of peasant activism, disillusion, and compromise in state formation, revealing the basis for an enduring political culture dominated by the PRI. On a broader level, McCormick demonstrates the connections among modern state building in Latin America, the consolidation of new forms of authoritarian rule, and the deployment of violence on all sides.


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State Terror, State Violence : Global Perspectives
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ISBN: 3658111801 365811181X Year: 2016 Publisher: Wiesbaden : Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden : Imprint: Springer VS,

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The volume critically discusses theoretical discourses and theoretically informed case studies on state violence and state terror. How do states justify their acts of violence? How are these justifications critiqued? Although legally state terrorism does not exist, some states nonetheless commit acts of violence that qualify as state terror as a social fact. In which cases and under what circumstances do (illegitimate) acts of violence qualify as state terrorism? Geographically, the volume covers cases and discourses from the Caucasus, South East and Central Asia, the Middle East, and North America.   The Content -Foundations - Cases   Target Groups Researchers and students from the field of political and social science   The Editor Bettina Koch is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA (USA).


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Children and the Afterlife of State Violence : Memories of Dictatorship
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ISBN: 1137563281 1349948527 134957385X Year: 2016 Publisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book examines memories of political violence in Chile after the 1973 coup and a 17-years-long dictatorship. Based on individual and group interviews, it focuses on the second generation children, adults today, born to parents who were opponents of Pinochet´s regime. Focusing on their lived experience, the intersection between private and public realms during Pinochet’s politics of fear regime, and the afterlife of violence in the post-dictatorship, the book is concerned with new dilemmas and perspectives that stem from the intergenerational transmission of political memories. It reflects critically on the role of family memories in the broader field of memory in Chile, demonstrating the dynamics of how later generations appropriate and inhabit their family political legacies. The book suggests how the second generation cultural memory redefines the concept of victimhood and propels society into a broader process of recognition.


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Phases of terrorism in the age of globalization : from Christopher Columbus to Osama bin Laden
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ISBN: 134956866X 1137552336 1137552344 9781137552334 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Palgrave MacMillan,

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“Asafa Jalata’s book offers a complex definition of terrorism through a global historical analysis of the spread of colonialism and capitalism involving the West and the Rest. Rejecting a narrow Western construction of terrorism, Jalata focuses on acts of terrorism, and policies supporting them, committed by state actors from above as well as resistance from below. Jalata examines terrorism from above in the colonial Americas, Australia, and Africa. These analyses not only lay the groundwork for critiquing the growth of al-Qaeda and the spread of multi-national terrorism in the 21st century, but they also make a case for fundamental humanitarian policy changes to promote peace and empowerment.” —Wanda Rushing, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, University of Memphis, USA, and author of The Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South.


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An American Genocide : The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
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ISBN: 9780300181364 9780300182170 0300182171 0300181361 0300181361 Year: 2016 Publisher: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press,

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The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $ 1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians. Besides evaluating government officials' culpability, Madley considers why the slaughter constituted genocide and how other possible genocides within and beyond the Americas might be investigated using the methods presented in this groundbreaking book.

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History of North America --- anno 1800-1899 --- California --- Indians of North America --- State-sponsored terrorism --- Indians, Treatment of --- Indians --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Mission Indians of California --- Government violence --- Governmental violence --- State-sponsored violence --- State terrorism --- Violence, Governmental --- Violence, State-sponsored --- Political atrocities --- Terrorism --- Crimes against --- Government relations --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer --- 1800-1899 --- California. --- USA. --- Kalifornien --- History --- Umschulungswerkstätte für Siedler und Auswanderer --- USA --- Bitterfeld --- Calif. --- CA --- State of California --- Provincia de Californias --- Departamento de Californias --- Alta California (Province) --- Cal. --- Cali. --- Californias (Province) --- CF --- Chia-chou --- Kʻaellipʻonia --- Kʻaellipʻonia-ju --- Kʻaellipʻoniaju --- Kalifornii --- Kalifornii͡ --- Kalifornija --- Ḳalifornyah --- Ḳalifornye --- Kālīfūrniy --- Kaliphornia --- Karapōnia --- Kariforunia --- Kariforunia-sh --- Medinat Ḳalifornyah --- Politeia tēs Kaliphornias --- Shtat Kalifornii͡ --- Upper California --- Kalifornii︠a︡ --- Kālīfūrniyā --- Kariforunia-shū --- Shtat Kalifornii︠a︡ --- Πολιτεία της Καλιφόρνιας --- Καλιφόρνια --- Штат Каліфорнія --- Калифорния --- Калифорнија --- Калифорнии --- Каліфорнія --- קאליפארניע --- קליפורניה --- מדינת קליפורניה --- كاليفورنيا --- カリフォルニア --- カリフォルニア州 --- 캘리포니아 --- 캘리포니아 주 --- 캘리포니아주 --- California [state] --- Kalifornien.

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