Biting at the Grave
Title | Biting at the Grave PDF eBook |
Author | Padraig O'Malley |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 1991-10-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780807002094 |
"In an eloquent and haunting book, O'Malley makes the fanaticism of [the hunger strikers] and their supporters, the obdurate and morally discredited tactics of the British Government and the hopeless combat of the Protestant and Roman Catholic factions in the Northern Ireland struggle explicable, and exposes the politics behind it."--The New York Times Book Review
Biting at the Grave
Title | Biting at the Grave PDF eBook |
Author | Padraig O'Malley |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Hunger strikes |
ISBN | 9780856404535 |
Hunger
Title | Hunger PDF eBook |
Author | James Vernon |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 394 |
Release | 2007-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780674026780 |
This book draws together social, cultural, and political history to show us how we came to have a moral, political, and social responsibility toward the hungry. Vernon forcefully reminds us how many perished from hunger in the empire and reveals how their history was intricately connected with the precarious achievements of Britain’s welfare state.
Breaking Enmities
Title | Breaking Enmities PDF eBook |
Author | P. Grant |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 250 |
Release | 2016-07-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1349277266 |
This book discusses relationships among religion, literature and ethnicity in Northern Ireland since 1967. The introduction provides a theoretical account of how literature engages sectarian prejudices, allowing these to be played out in ways that can help to dissolve or mitigate the alienating effects of traditional enmities. Subsequent chapters deal with identity, endogamy, education, gender, and imprisonment. Each chapter combines an analysis of specific cultural issues with a critical assessment of relevant works by key authors. A conclusion offers an assessment of relationships between Northern Ireland and other modern societies facing analogous problems in a post-modern world marked by rapid globalisation.
The Real Peace Process
Title | The Real Peace Process PDF eBook |
Author | Siobhan Garrigan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 222 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1134940475 |
The Good Friday Agreement resulted in the cessation of paramilitary violence in Northern Ireland. However, prejudice and animosity between Protestants and Catholics remains. The Real Peace Process draws on extensive fieldwork in Protestant and Catholic churches across Ireland to analyse how Christian worship can become caught up in sectarianism. The book examines the need for a peace process that changes hearts and minds and not merely civic structures of their inhabitants. Aspects of everyday worship – ranging from the spatial and symbolic to the verbal, musical and interpersonal – are explored as the means by which sectarianism can be challenged and transformed.
The Business of Martyrdom
Title | The Business of Martyrdom PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey W Lewis |
Publisher | Naval Institute Press |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2012-04-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1612510973 |
The Business of Martyrdom is the only comprehensive history of suicide bombing from its origins in Imperial Russia to the present day. It makes use of a framework from the history and philosophy of technology to explain the diffusion and evolution of suicide bombing over the past several decades. It is primarily a work of synthesis meant to reach a broad audience and endeavors to integrate as much of the recent scholarly literature as possible, including reconciling explanatory mechanisms that seem to be at odds with one another. In addition, this book is able to draw on very recent changes in suicide bombing in the years 2008-2010 that allow it to have a slightly different perspective than earlier studies. For the first time the global number of suicide attacks has declined significantly for three years in a row. This book therefore has the advantage of addressing the phenomenon of suicide bombing as a bounded phenomenon with limits to its growth and diffusion. To this point the impression that suicide bombers are the smartest bombs yet created has been widespread but confined to the area of metaphor. Drawing well-established ideas from the history of technology, The Business of Martyrdom argues that the metaphor should be taken literally. Suicide bombing is a technology that has been invented and re-invented at different times in different areas but always for the same purpose: resolving a mismatch in military capabilities between antagonists by utilizing the available cultural and human resources. Over the past several years, analysts have produced a large number of monographs and articles examining suicide bombing. The best contributions in this new and growing literature have shed considerable light on the complexity of suicide bombing in practice, particularly regarding the structure of the organizations that deploy suicide bombers and the relationships between these organizations and the recruits whom they utilize in their attacks. Nevertheless, nagging inconsistencies and questions remain. These inconsistencies can be explained by examining suicide bombing as a technological system that integrates human beings, cultures, and devices and directs them toward specific ends. Such an analysis requires that neither the individual bombers nor their sponsoring organizations be the basic unit of discussion. Instead, the bombers must be understood as components within a much larger system that has been shaped by a host of social, cultural, and operational constraints throughout its existence. Integrating insights from the historical analysis of other technological systems with the recent literature specifically devoted to suicide bombing therefore allows The Business of Martyrdom to develop a fuller understanding of suicide bombing as a unified yet diverse phenomenon.
Grave Sight
Title | Grave Sight PDF eBook |
Author | Charlaine Harris |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Clairvoyants |
ISBN | 9780575079236 |
Fantasy. A young woman possessing the ability to uncover the final location of a recently deceased individual and to share their last moments, Harper Connelly, aided by her manager, occasional bodyguard, and stepbrother Tolliver, uses her skill to find the dead