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This book sheds new light on the intertwined history of music and politics through an exploration of Dutch political songs. In the emotionally charged climate of the Dutch revolutionary period at the close of the eighteenth century, songs became a powerful voice, speaking directly to people's bodies to engage them in political action. Emphasizing the performative nature of the songs and the interplay between imagination and embodied expression in singing practices, this book shows how beyond merely creating communities, the songs were also instrumental in mobilising, imagining, and affirming these collectives. It uncovers the diverse roles of these songs, showing how they were used to polarize and unite, to mourn and celebrate, and how they were employed to imagine and to embody togetherness throughout the Dutch revolutionary period, thereby creating a fixed repertoire of feelings on which various political regimes of that time relied.
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In critiquing the mainstream view that total war advances democracy, War and Democracy reveals how politics during the war transforms societal actors who become crucial to postwar political settlements and the prospects for democratic reform.
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What kind of freedom, and what kind of individual, has the French Revolutionary tradition sought to propagate? Paul Cohen finds a distinctly French articulation of freedom in the texts and lives of eight renowned cultural critics who lived between the eighteenth century and the present day. Arranged not according to the lives and times of its protagonists but to the narrative themes and structures they held in common, Cohen's study discerns a single master narrative of liberty in modern France. He captures these radicals, whose tradition bids them to resist the authority of power structures and public opinion. They denounce bourgeois and utilitarian values, the power of Church and State, and the corrupting influence of everyday politics, and they dream of a revolutionary rupture, a fleeting instant of sometimes violent but always meaningful transgression. An eloquent and insightful work on French political culture, Freedom's Moment also helps explain how France, even as it has oscillated between political stagnation and crisis, has held onto its faith that liberty, equality, and fraternity remain within its grasp. Examines the ideas of Rousseau, Robespierre, Stendahl, Michelet, Bergson, Peguy, Sartre, and Foucault.
Liberty --- Philosophy, French. --- French philosophy --- History. --- Philosophy, French --- History --- freedom, france, french, european, europe, liberty, free, cultural studies, culture, narrative themes, radicals, authority, power structures, public opinion, church and state, religion, government, revolutionary, politics, political, philosophy, equality, fraternity, jean-jacques rousseau, michel foucault, maximilien robespierre, stendhal, marie-henri beyle, jules michelet, henri-louis bergson, charles pierre peguy, jean-paul sartre.
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"Revolutionary Visions examines recent cinematic depictions of Jewish involvement in 1960s and 1970s revolutionary movements in Latin America. In order to explore the topic, the book bridges critical theory on religion, politics, and hegemony from regional Latin American, national, and global perspectives. Placing these theories in dialogue with recent films, the author asks the following questions: How did revolutionary commitment change Jewish community and families in twentieth-century Latin America? How did Jews contribute to revolutionary causes and what is the place of Jews in the legacies of revolutionary movements? How is film used to project self-representations of Jewish communities in the national project for a mainstream audience? Jewish involvement in revolutionary movements is rife with contradictions. On the one hand, it was a natural progression of patterns of political participation, based on the ideological affinities shared between Socialist movements and Marxist revolutionary politics. On the other hand, involvement in revolutionary politics would also upset the status quo of Jewish communities due to the extreme nature of revolutionary practices (e.g. guerrilla warfare), revolutionary groups' alignment with Palestine, and the assimilation into non-Jewish culture that revolutionary involvement often entailed. These contradictions between Jewish self-identification and revolutionary activity continue to confound cultural understandings of the points of contact between identities and political affinities. In this way, Revolutionary Visions contributes to timely debates within cultural studies surrounding identities and politics."--
Motion pictures --- Jews in motion pictures. --- Jews --- Revolutions --- History. --- History --- Latin America --- Hebrews --- Israelites --- Jewish people --- Jewry --- Judaic people --- Judaists --- Ethnology --- Religious adherents --- Semites --- Judaism --- 1960s. --- 1970s. --- Jewish community. --- Jews in Latin America. --- Jews. --- Latin America. --- Latin American film. --- Marxist. --- cinema. --- cultural studies. --- film cricitism. --- film studies. --- politics. --- revolutionary politics. --- socialist. --- Amerique latine --- Histoire --- 1900-1999 --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America
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Nasser's Gamble draws on declassified documents from six countries and original material in Arabic, German, Hebrew, and Russian to present a new understanding of Egypt's disastrous five-year intervention in Yemen, which Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser later referred to as "my Vietnam." Jesse Ferris argues that Nasser's attempt to export the Egyptian revolution to Yemen played a decisive role in destabilizing Egypt's relations with the Cold War powers, tarnishing its image in the Arab world, ruining its economy, and driving its rulers to instigate the fatal series of missteps that led to war with Israel in 1967. Viewing the Six Day War as an unintended consequence of the Saudi-Egyptian struggle over Yemen, Ferris demonstrates that the most important Cold War conflict in the Middle East was not the clash between Israel and its neighbors. It was the inter-Arab struggle between monarchies and republics over power and legitimacy. Egypt's defeat in the "Arab Cold War" set the stage for the rise of Saudi Arabia and political Islam. Bold and provocative, Nasser's Gamble brings to life a critical phase in the modern history of the Middle East. Its compelling analysis of Egypt's fall from power in the 1960's offers new insights into the decline of Arab nationalism, exposing the deep historical roots of the Arab Spring of 2011.
Israel-Arab War, 1967 --- Nasser, Gamal Abdel, --- Yemen (Republic) --- Yemen, North --- Egypt --- North Yemen --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر --- مَصر --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- History --- Participation, Egyptian. --- Military policy --- Foreign relations --- Naser, Gamalʹ Abdelʹ, --- Abdul Nasser, Gamal, --- Abdel Nasser, Gamal, --- Nasir, Gamal Abdul, --- ʻAbd al-Nāṣir, Jamāl, --- Naser, G. A., --- עבד אל־נאצר, ג׳מאל --- اصر، جمال عبد ال --- جمال عبد الناصر --- جمال عبد الناصر، --- عبد الناصر، جمال --- عبد الناصر، جمال، --- عبد الناصر، جنال --- عبد ناصر، جمال --- عبدالناصر، جمال --- عبدالناصر، جمال، --- ماصر، جمال عبدال --- ناصر، جمال --- ناصر، جمال عبد --- ناصر، جمال عبد ، --- ناصر، جمال عبد ال --- ناصر، جمال عبد ال، --- ناصر، جمال عبد، --- ناصر، جمال عبدال --- ناصر، جمال. --- ناصر، جمل عبدال --- نسر، گمل ابدل --- نصر.جمال عبدال --- Jamal Abdolnaser, --- Abdolnaser, Jamal, --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Polemology --- Nasser, Gamal 'Abd --- anno 1960-1969 --- Russia --- Yemen --- Arab Communists. --- Arab Socialist Union. --- Arab Spring. --- Arab nationalism. --- Arab summits. --- Arab unity. --- Arab world. --- Arabian peninsula. --- Arab–Israeli conflict. --- Cold War conflict. --- Cuban missilie crisis. --- Egypt. --- Egyptian intervention. --- Egyptian memoirs. --- Egyptian neutrality. --- Egyptian revolution. --- Egyptian taboos. --- Faysal. --- Free Officers. --- Gamal Abdel Nasser. --- Khrushchev. --- Liberation Rally. --- Lyndon Johnson. --- Nasser regime. --- Nasser. --- Ottoman mother-state. --- Palestine. --- Qāsim regime. --- Saudi Arabia. --- Saudi–Egyptian relations. --- Saudi–Egyptian struggle. --- Six Day War. --- Six-Day War. --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet–Egyptian relationship. --- Syria. --- US Sixth Fleet. --- US aid. --- US diplomatic cables. --- US–Egyptian relations. --- US–Saudi alliance. --- United Arab Republic. --- Western security. --- Yemen. --- Yemeni politics. --- civil war. --- counterinsurgency. --- domestic performance. --- financial aid. --- hegemony. --- inter-Arab tensions. --- inward-focused policy. --- pan-Arabism. --- political participation. --- power struggle. --- pro-Israel policy. --- revolution. --- revolutionary ideals. --- revolutionary movements. --- revolutionary politics. --- solidarity.
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