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Agitation with a Smile : Howard Zinn's Legacies and the Future of Activism.

Agitation with a Smile offers a reappraisal of Howard Zinn's political thought and situates his efforts in a contemporary context, looking toward the nature of activism and dissent in the future. This is the first book to provide a substantive account and assessment of Zinn's philosophy an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bird, Stephen
Otros Autores: Silver, Adam, Yesnowitz, Joshua
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Agitation with a Smile: A Framework for Reassessing the Contributions of Howard Zinn; Interlude "Ludlow Massacre"; Zinn as Historian and Public Intellectual ; Chapter 2 Legacies and Breakthroughs: The Long View on Zinnian History; Chapter 3 The US Left in Generational Perspective: A Study of Howard Zinn's Trajectory; Chapter 4 Thinking the Radical Public Intellectual: The Exemplar of Howard Zinn; Zinn in Theory.
  • Chapter 5 Against All Authority: Howard Zinn's Pragmatic Anarchism, Active Resistance, and Radical DemocracyChapter 6 The Forbidden Word: Howard Zinn as Anarchist; Chapter 7 Politics against the Law: Howard Zinn on Academic Freedom beyond the Academy; Interlude "Dear Diary"; Zinn in Practice; Chapter 8 War Is a Condition in Need of a Cure; Chapter 9 Howard Zinn: A Moral Example for G.I. Resistance; Chapter 10 Archivists of Optimism: Zinn and the Arts; Interlude "Walking"; Zinn Today and Tomorrow; Chapter 11 Two, Three, Many Zinns: Media Culture and the Dilemmas of Democratic Transformation.
  • Chapter 12 For Howard Zinn: The Things That Count and Cannot Be CountedChapter 13 Reassessing Zinn: Critical Reflections; Afterword Howard Zinn's Legacy of Words and Action; Notes; References; Index; About the Contributors.