In Praise of Barbarians : Essays Against the Empire.
The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men's burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Haymarket Books,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Contents; part one romans at home; one the end of american exceptionalism; two great and glorious days; three occupied america; four vermont's pied piper; five the anti-bush cometh?; six jumping off the bandwagon; seven oedipus bush; eight what's the matter with america?; nine the democrats after november; part two legions at war; ten bush's ultimate thule?; eleven the scalping party; twelve the ungrateful volcano; thirteen war-mart; fourteen the pentagon as global slumlord; fifteen the urbanization of empire; part three the unease in gaul; sixteen heavy metal freeway.
- Seventeen cry californiaeighteen think big: recall the system; nineteen the day of the locust; twenty striking southern california; twenty-on emel's nazi matinee; twenty-two inside the sunshine gulag; twenty-three riotous real estate; twenty-four the great wall of capital; twenty-five vigilante man; twenty-six border invasion; twenty-seven arnie reprogrammed; part four dark water rising; twenty-eight our summer vacation: 50,000 dead; twenty-nine the.