Regionalists on the Left
Title | Regionalists on the Left PDF eBook |
Author | Michael C. Steiner |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 534 |
Release | 2015-02-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0806148950 |
“Nothing is more anathema to a serious radical than regionalism,” Berkeley English professor Henry Nash Smith asserted in 1980. Although regionalism in the American West has often been characterized as an inherently conservative, backward-looking force, regionalist impulses have in fact taken various forms throughout U.S. history. The essays collected in Regionalists on the Left uncover the tradition of left-leaning western regionalism during the 1930s and 1940s. Editor Michael C. Steiner has assembled a group of distinguished scholars who explore the lives and works of sixteen progressive western intellectuals, authors, and artists, ranging from nationally prominent figures such as John Steinbeck and Carey McWilliams to equally influential, though less well known, figures such as Angie Debo and Américo Paredes. Although they never constituted a unified movement complete with manifestos or specific goals, the thinkers and leaders examined in this volume raised voices of protest against racial, environmental, and working-class injustices during the Depression era that reverberate in the twenty-first century. Sharing a deep affection for their native and adopted places within the West, these individuals felt a strong sense of avoidable and remediable wrong done to the land and the people who lived upon it, motivating them to seek the root causes of social problems and demand change. Regionalists on the Left shows also that this radical regionalism in the West often took urban, working-class, and multicultural forms. Other books have dealt with western regionalism in general, but this volume is unique in its focus on left-leaning regionalists, including such lesser-known writers as B. A. Botkin, Carlos Bulosan, Sanora Babb, and Joe Jones. Tracing the relationship between politics and place across the West, Regionalists on the Left highlights a significant but neglected strain of western thought and expression.
Regionalism, Ethnicity, and Left Politics
Title | Regionalism, Ethnicity, and Left Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Sajal Basu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | History |
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"Regionalism and provincialism in politics is not new in India. The problems of linguistic and cultural identity, ethnicity and autonomy demands have led to violent expressions like Dravidaland, Khalistan, Nagalim, Jharkhand, Gorkhaland, Kamtapur, and the like. Far from disrupting the democratic structure, the autonomy movements not only extend the base of democracy, but also develop language, script, improvise symbols of identity, leading to new awareness of community history. Framed in five chapters on Regional Dimensions, Politics of Provincialism, Politics of Ethnicity, Politics of Secular Mobilisation and Figments of Left Politics, this study intends to analyse different aspects of democratic politics and movements in India. In the appendices, clippings on movements and the issues of immigration, influx of Bangladeshis, identity, political murders, starvation deaths, facts and fictions of left politics have been included to make this anthology meaningful both to the liberal, leftist supporters and general readers."
European Regionalism and the Left
Title | European Regionalism and the Left PDF eBook |
Author | Gerard Strange |
Publisher | |
Pages | 207 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | European Union countries |
ISBN | 9781781704615 |
Written against a backdrop of global economic and political turbulence as well as mounting crisis for the European Union this book examines the relationship between contemporary European regionalism and the broadly defined political left.
Press Review
Title | Press Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 986 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN |
Press Review, Second Section, General Staff, General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces
Title | Press Review, Second Section, General Staff, General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Forces PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Army. A.E.F., 1917-1919. General staff, G-2 |
Publisher | |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
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Regionalism and Modern Europe
Title | Regionalism and Modern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Xosé M. Núñez Seixas |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2018-12-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1474275214 |
Providing a valuable overview of regionalism throughout the entire continent, Regionalism in Modern Europe combines both geographical and thematic approaches to examine the origins and development of regional movements and identities in Europe from 1890 to the present. A wide range of internationally renowned scholars from the USA, the UK and mainland Europe are brought together here in one volume to examine the historical roots of the current regional movements, and to explain why some of them - Scotland, Catalonia and Flanders, among others – evolve into nationalist movements and even strive for independence, while others – Brittany, Bavaria – do not. They look at how regional identities - through regional folklore, language, crafts, dishes, beverages and tourist attractions - were constructed during the 20th century and explore the relationship between national and subnational identities, as well as regional and local identities. The book also includes 7 images, 7 maps and useful end-of-chapter further reading lists. This is a crucial text for anyone keen to know more about the history of the topical – and at times controversial – subject of regionalism in modern Europe.
Western American Literature
Title | Western American Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | American literature |
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