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In this short companion to his book From Fascism to Populism in History, world-renowned historian Federico Finchelstein explains why fascists regarded simple and often hateful lies as truth, and why so many of their followers believed the falsehoods.
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“A journey through the heart of darkness, the pain of trauma, the complexity of justice, and the sorrow of survival, Becoming Human Again reveals the struggle for healing and forgiveness through the lives and words of those who know it best—its survivors.”
—Stephen D. Smith, Finci-Viterbi Executive Director of USC Shoah Foundation and UNESCO Chair on Genocide Education
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“The cast reads like something out of The Canterbury Tales. Brings to life the history and also the great variety of people, languages, religions, interests, and behaviors along the most remarkable of migratory routes.”
—Sunday Times (UK)
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“In these essays about places around the globe, Hochschild’s graceful, informative, straightforward writing always finds the telling detail as well as the people of courage in the most horrifying of situations. Focusing on some of the direst eras of recent history, these potent essays nevertheless find reason for hope in the idealism of individuals.”
—Kirkus Review
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“Is Trump fascist? A proto-fascist? Fascist-curious? In his thoughtful new book, From Fascism to Populism in History, New School historian Federico Finchelstein concedes that Trump’s campaign ‘had clear fascist and racist undertones,’ and he cites the ‘fascist pedigree’ of Trump’s ‘America first’ slogan.”
—The Washington Post
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“Paul Farmer speaks directly to young people grappling with big decisions: about the values they will live by, the work they will choose, where their responsibility for other people begins and ends. But these questions concern all of us. And, for anyone struggling with these issues, I can’t imagine a more challenging yet inspiring guide than Paul Farmer.”
—Jim Yong Kim, former President of the World Bank Group, cofounder of Partners In Health
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“In this remarkable ethnography, we see Somali piracy as an economy of capture and redistribution intimately tied to a long history of Indian Ocean trade. Rather than an outmoded aberration, Dua argues for piracy as one among many infrastructures of protection that knit together a transregional geography of power, property, and profit. A truly impressive achievement.”
––Ajantha Subramanian, author of Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India
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“An imaginative, timely intervention in debates on the popular but contested idea of the Anthropocene, Barak’s account of coal and the British Empire in the Middle East effectively historicizes many of our contemporary anxieties and concerns. His wide-ranging and impeccable scholarship and his judicious discussion of ‘energy transition’ in the Middle East will make this book compulsory reading for all historians and students of energy regimes.”
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of The Crises of Civilization: Exploring Global and Planetary Histories
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“Based on visits to the Turkish-Syrian border, online interviews with jihadists, and the access to leaders he enjoys as one of the Arab world’s most respected journalists, Atwan draws a convincing picture of the Islamic State as a well-run organization that combines bureaucratic efficiency and military expertise with a sophisticated use of information technology.”
—Malise Ruthven, New York Review of Books
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“One of the best books available on what is commonly perceived in the West as the ‘refugee crisis’ but is in fact a world rent by fear and conflict, with refugees as one symptom.
—Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University, and former Director of the London School of Economics
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“Deftly pairing his deep legal expertise with a searching moral dialogue, Khaled A. Beydoun breaks down U.S. Islamophobia as the full-fledged system that it is—one with a very specific history, but tightly linked to other forms of white supremacy. This book meets the moment, but it is also packed with staying power. A crucial contribution to building the powerful, broad-based, and diverse movement that is our only hope.”
—Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything
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“A meticulous 440-page study of international law, of Israel’s sustained attacks against Gaza and its people and offers what may well be the definitive history of one of the most horrifying and sustained campaigns of collective punishment in modern world history.”
—Jeremy Scahill, The Intercept
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“Any good dialectical analysis lives or dies by its synthesis, and Patel and Moore’s is spot on. Particularly, the concept of cheap lives stands out as a novel way to tie the important threads of critical thought on capitalism’s history into a coherent tapestry of how it persists, as well as a way to comprehend and resist capitalism in 2017.”
—Los Angeles Review of Books
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“Perhaps the most disturbing challenge to our consciences in these days is the massive refugee crisis, which will not go away and whose solution calls for a wisdom, a breadth of vision, and a humanitarian concern that go far beyond short-term political decisions. Conscious of the dimensions of this humanitarian crisis, these essays pay attention to its effects on children, families, and those who are most vulnerable in the face of exploitation.”
—His Holiness Pope Francis
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Balancing encounters with refugees and their families, smugglers, and visa officers, The Big Gamble contributes to ongoing debates about blurred boundaries between forced and voluntary migration, the complications of transnational marriages, the social matrix of smuggling, and the role of family expectations, emotions, and values in migrants’ choices of destinations.
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“A remarkably original work, Traveling with Sugar overflows with critical thought, haunting prose, and trenchant details. Its gripping personal stories trace painfully intimate connections between planetary crisis, economic disparities, and human health.
—Peter Redfield, author of Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors without Borders
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“This well-written and accessible introduction to problems of global health will shape the developing discipline’s future and bring attention to the pressing need for global health equity.”
—Medical Humanities
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“A fascinating, fresh interpretation of the mechanics of the twin codes of Bedouin behavior: the ‘code of honor’ . . . and the ‘code of modesty.’ The argument is compelling—it makes sense of honor killings, the veiling of women, and a seemingly excessive sexual modesty. There is a certain excitement here, as the pieces of the puzzle fall into place.”
—Inea Bushnaq, New York Times Book Review
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