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Promoted ContentHumanities & Social SciencesJuly 2024
Coup in Damascus
Husni al-Za'im and the birth of Syrian military rule
by Carl Rihan
Coup in Damascus is a history of Syria's first military regime. It plots the the fall of Syria's democracy and the rise of its military rulers, particularly Husni al-Zaim, whose brief rule in 1949 represented a profoundly transformative moment for the Syrian nation. It is a history of the thoughts, intentions and motives of political actors underpinning the events that have marked Syria's history after the first Arab-Israeli war, and focuses mainly on the interaction between local, regional and international actors. Unlike most histories of the modern Middle East that tackle broad intervals and that focus on the sequences of events, this history seeks to reconstruct the thought processes behind the events, and anchor them within the epoch's existing political and socioeconomic conditions. It draws on several methodological influences, particularly R.G. Collingwood's 'history as re-enactment of the past'.
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Trusted PartnerOctober 2017
Not Our Day to Die
by Michael Sullivan
It was work for Mike Sullivan–a flying job like the ones he'd done most of his life in many parts of the world–ferrying people, medicine, crops, supplies and almost anything else you can think of among the isolated jungle villages of Guatemala. Life in the farming co-ops there was simple, peaceful, and good, based on bedrocks of family, community, and faith.Then the repression began. A failed attempt at a coup had led to continued fighting between rebels and government, though in areas far from the almost-utopian Ixcan region. U.S. military and CIA intervention helped defeat the insurgency, but the social inequalities that had led to the movement remained, and the revolution went underground. The Guatemalan army, searching everywhere for those who opposed it, increased its control over the isolated jungle area. Co-op directors, teachers, catechists, and then anyone suspected of being one of or assisting the guerrillas was selectively "disappeared." The army turned to a scorched-earth policy, killing animals, burning crops, uprooting fruit trees, destroying towns, massacring their people. Throughout the Ixcan, those who survived fled. Some returned to their original mountain villages, others crossed the border into Mexico, and a third group survived for sixteen years hiding in the jungle–men, women, and children. Primeval growth took over the land as the war with the guerrilla movement raged on to encompass the entire nation.When finally peace accords were signed, the people of the Ixcan returned. Homes were rebuilt, land reclaimed, the area thrived again. But sixteen years were lost, along with countless lives. For Mike Sullivan, who had returned there when his help was needed, the story of those years–of how the people of the Ixcan survived, and of the many who didn't–was one that had to be told. In three visits, he conducted the interviews that form this book, talking with the villagers he'd known long before. At first, they spoke hesitantly, then with the flood force of vivid memory, telling of their first arrival at the Ixcan, the lives they'd made, and the years of the repression and worse. Their stories are gripping, fascinating, painful–but most of all, deeply human as we witness their struggle to survive and feel the force of the simple values that ultimately carried them through to a new and better life.
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Der Putsch, der nie stattfand
Roman
by Muñoz Molina, Antonio / Übersetzt von Zurbrüggen, Willi
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Das Spiel meines Lebens
by Herausgegeben von Suchorski, Julia; Beiträge von Reng, Ronald; Beiträge von Stanišic, Saša; Beiträge von Mayer, Ayla; Beiträge von Verollet, Misha; Beiträge von Schröder, Christoph; Beiträge von Stefanidis, Alexandros; Beiträge von Putsch, Christian; Beiträge von Westermann, Christine; Beiträge von Wells, Benedict; Beiträge von Spiller, Christian; Beiträge von Friedrichs, Julia; Beiträge von Schmidt, Jochen; Beiträge von Kaube, Jürgen; Beiträge von Pletzinger, Thomas; Beiträge von Fuchs, Kirsten; Beiträge von Knipphals, Dirk; Beiträge von Hulpe, Marius; Beiträge von Winkler, Philipp; Beiträge von Feldhaus, Kai; Beiträge von Fiebrig, Stefanie; Beiträge von Bredekamp, Horst; Beiträge von Willmann, Frank; Beiträge von Roloff, Simon; Beiträge von Kröchert, Michael
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Ursinis grosser Coup
Ein Tatsachenroman über die moderne Mafia
by Russo, Enzo / Übersetzt von Raith, Werner
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Der große Coup
Aus den geheimen Tage- und Nachtbüchern des Johann Peter Eckermann
by Sparschuh, Jens
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