The Verso Book of Dissent: From Spartacus to the Shoe-Thrower of Baghdad: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1844674487 ISBN 13: 9781844674480

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2010

Riassunto

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest—rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come. Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Greece, China and Egypt, via the dissident poets and philosophers of Islam and Judaism, through to the Arab slave revolts and anti-Ottoman rebellions of the Middle Ages. These sources were tapped during the Dutch and English revolutions at the outset of the Modern world, and in turn flowed into the French, Haitian, American, Russian and Chinese revolutions. More recently, resistance to war and economic oppression has flared up on battlefields and in public spaces from Beijing and Baghdad to Caracas and Los Angeles.

This anthology, global in scope, presents voices of dissent from every era of human history: speeches and pamphlets, poems and songs, plays and manifestos. Every age has its iconoclasts, and yet the greatest among them build on the words and actions of their forerunners. The Verso Book of Dissent will become an invaluable resource, reminding today’s citizens that these traditions will never die.

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Anglo-America's preeminent radical press. --Harpers Magazine

There is no doubt about the need for a radical publisher Verso is the leader in this field. --Publishers Weekly

A rigorously intelligent publisher. --Sunday Times

L'autore:

Audrea Lim is an associate editor at Verso Books.

Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics—includingPirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms andThe Obama Syndrome—as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of theNew Left Review and lives in London.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1844674487
• ISBN 13: 9781844674480
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 366
• Redattore: Hsiao Andrew, Lim Audrea