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The accelerating changes of the past generation have been accompanied by a comparably accelerated amnesia. The twentieth century has become "history" at an unprecedented rate. The world of 2007 is so utterly unlike that of even 1987, much less any earlier time, that we have lost…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Text of January 11, 1994 Cable -- Map -- Part I: The Movement Towards Genocide -- 1. R wandese Refugees and Immigrants in Uganda -- 2. An Historical Analysis of the Invasion…
Este libro está recorrido de principio a fin por la memoria de los acontecimientos que convierten el siglo xx en el más terrible período de la historia de los hombres. No pretende ser perspectiva ni balance, sino meditación obstinada y narración inédita de lo que, desde 1914, ha…
De sabres et d'utopies: visions d'Amérique latine
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Looks at the lives of Israeli prime ministers Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, and Menachem Begin, and the events surrounding their leadership in Israel.
Looks at the lives of Israeli prime ministers Levi Eshkol, Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin, and Menachem Begin, and the events surrounding their leadership in Israel.
Boorstin describes how 'pseudo-events'(events such as press conferences and presidential debates, manufactured solely in order to be reported) and 'celebrity' (a 'person known for his well-knownness') combine to create a vision of American culture inundated by its own illusions.
"A monumental study of social and political change in Europe and the United States during this period of cultural revolution. Paying particular attention to the impact of the sixties on the lives of ordinary people, Marwich exposes as myths and caricatures many of the accepted v…
