Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War: The Journals of by Giles Scott-Smith,Charlotte A. Lerg

History As Propaganda: Tibetan Exiles versus the People's Republic of China

Regardless of chinese language efforts to prevent overseas international locations from granting him visas, the Dalai Lama has turn into some of the most recognizable and top enjoyed humans on this planet, drawing huge, immense crowds at any place he is going. in contrast, China's charismatically-challenged leaders allure crowds of protestors waving Tibetan flags and shouting "Free Tibet!

Historical Justice and Memory (Critical Human Rights)

Historic Justice and reminiscence highlights the worldwide circulation for old justice—acknowledging and redressing old wrongs—as probably the most major ethical and social advancements of our instances. Such ancient wrongs contain acts of genocide, slavery, structures of apartheid, the systematic persecution of presumed enemies of the kingdom, colonialism, and the oppression of or discrimination opposed to ethnic or non secular minorities.

Interpretations of History: From Confucius to Toynbee: Volume 29 (Routledge Library Editions: Historiography)

During this quantity, initially released in 1961, the writer provides an exposition of the meanings given to historical past. half 1 describes the conceptions of historical past impied in regular religions and cultures, Confucian and Taoist, Hindu and Buddhist, Zoroastrian and Muslim, Greek and Roman, Jewish and Christian.

The Partition of Bengal: Fragile Borders and New Identities

This examine appears on the wealthy literature that has been spawned in the course of the ancient mind's eye of Bengali-speaking writers in West Bengal and Bangladesh via problems with homelessness, migration and exile to determine how the Partition of Bengal in 1947 has thrown an extended shadow over thoughts and cultural practices.