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The Party's interests come first: The life of Xi Zhongxun, father of Xi Jinping.
By @josephtorigian.bsky.social #glykoreads
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Captives and Companions: A History of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Islamic World.
By Justin Marozzi #glykoreads
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Dublin City Phia l tk F DCPL 700008 a alla roweressness in eston Ireland Life in a Palliative State The Green and the Gray COMMUNILIES UF VIULENCE The history of Union Ireland is typically told through its best-known historical events and leaders-from the 1798 Rising, the Great Famine, and the Irish Revolution, to Parnell and De Valera-and as moments of sectarian division and high parliamentary politics. Instead, Ciaran O'Neill here makes the case for a broader, more inclusive, and decentred approach that emphasizes transnational phenomena, a settler-colonial diaspora, and minority groups on the island. Through the lenses of power and 'powerlessness", he demonstrates that the received historiographical wisdoms suffer from several misconceptions: on the one hand they misconstrue the nature of power and the powerful, perpetuating historical myths about the 'ungovernability of Ireland. After securing the Union, the British state proceeded to govern Ireland with less and less certainty of ever persuading its citizens of its legitimacy. Despite all reforms and investment, there was a widespread sense that Ireland would never recover and be a willing partner in the Union. On the other hand they take at face value the nature of the so-called powerless, ignoring the myriad ways in which marginalized and diasporic groups negotiated and asserted their agency during the Union period, influencing and transforming the powerful centre in the process. The result is an untraditional and thought-provoking reappraisal of Union Ireland that raises important questions about colonialism and resistance-what it means to govern and be governed, and the long-lasting legacies of the spaces in between. PRESS Jacket image: Kathy Tynan,
Power and Powerlessness in Union Ireland: Life in a Palliative State.
By @ciaranon.bsky.social #glykoreads
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The last transport is a masterpiece of scholarship. his meticulously researched and evocative book presents the full story of the Jews of Rhodes before, during, and alter World War II. A vital and ground-breaking contribution to our understanding of the Holocaust and the end of Sephardi life in the Eastern Aegean ARON RODRIGUE, PROFESSOR OF JEWISH CULTURE AND HISTORY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, USA *The Last Transport tells the harrowing story of the Nazi extermination of the Jewish population of the Greek island of Rhodes. With his customary fine grained detail, Anthony McEligott describes Jewish life on the island, its brutal destruction in July 1944, and the fate of its victims and survivors. Moving, humane and brilliantly researched, this is a masterpiece: SIR RICHARD EVANS, EMERITUS FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, UK The deportation of 1,755 Jews from the islands of Rhodes and Cos in July 1944, shortly after the last deportation from Hungary, was the last transport to leave Greece for Auschwitz and brought to a close the last significant phase of the genocide of Europe's Jews (notwithstanding the death marches). Within six weeks of their deportation, the Germans were retreating from Greece and the Balkans as Hitler's empire shrank. This last deportation is frequently acknowledged in Holocaust literature but its significance for our understanding of the Nazi genocide of the Jews remains largely overlooked. The timing of the transport, when it was clear to the German military elite that Nazi Germany had lost the war, raises important questions in relation to long term ideological Nazi goals and the immediate contingency thrown up by war. Anthony McElligott, in this account of the last Greek transport of Jews to Auschwitz tells a compelling story of this previously underexplored event and sheds light on an important aspect of the Holocaust through an in-depth study of one Eastern Mediterranean community. ANTHONY MCELLIGOTT is Emeritus Professor of History
The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern Aegean.
By Anthony McElligott #glykoreads #InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDay
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The Quiet Before: On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas.
By @galbeckerman.bsky.social #glykoreads
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Crossing the Aegean: An Appraisal of the 1923 Compulsory Population Exchange Between Greece and Turkey. By Renée Hirschon #glykoreads
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In the footsteps of the Jews of Greece: From ancient times to the present day. By Anastasios Karababas #glykoreads
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Irish Questions and Jewish Questions: Crossovers in Culture. By @aidanbeatty.com and Dan O’Brien.
h/t @terryglavin.bsky.social #glykoreads
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How it all began: The personal account of a West German urban guerrilla. By Bommi Baumann #glykoreads
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Severed cables. Disrupted aviation. Arson. Sabotage. Assassination. Infiltration. Attacks designed to distract, to confuse, and to dismay an adversary - but not to provoke a response. Such is shadow warfare, causing damage and costing lives but operating below the traditional threshold of war.
War without end: Russia’s shadow warfare.
To secure its grip on power, Russia adopts Soviet practices coupled with modern tactics of covert influence, violence, and manipulation. cepa.org/comprehensiv... By @samagreene.bsky.social @andreisoldatov.bsky.social and Irina Borogan #glykoreads
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The crisis of German ideology:
Intellectual origins of the Third Reich.
By George L. Mosse #glykoreads
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Walter Ong emphasised that writing cools and rationalises thought. If you want to make your case in person or in a TikTok video you have innumerable means for bypassing logical argument. You can shout and weep and charm your audience into submission. You can play emotive music or show harrowing images. Such appeals are not rational but human beings are not perfectly rational animals and are inclined to be persuaded by them. A book can't yell at you (thank God!) and it can't cry. Without the array of logic-defeating appeals available to podcasters and YouTubers, authors are much more reliant on reason alone, condemned to painfully piece their arguments together sentence by sentence (I feel that agony now). Books are far from perfect but they are much more closely bound to the imperatives of logical argument than any other means of human communication ever devised. This is why Ong observed that pre-literate "oral" societies often strike visitors from literate countries as remarkably mystical, emotional, and antagonistic in their discourse and thinking 1.
As books die, we seem to be returning to these "oral" habits of thought. Our discourse is collapsing into panic, hatred and tribal warfare. Anti-scientific thought thrives at the highest level of the American government. Promoters of irrationality and conspiracy theories such as Candace Owens and Russell Brand find vast and credulous audiences online. Laid out on the page their arguments would seem absurd. On the screen, they are persuasive to many people. The rise of these emotional and irrational styles of thinking poses a profound challenge to our culture and politics. We may be about to find out that it is not possible to run the most advanced civilisation in the history of the planet with the intellectual apparatus of a pre-literate society.
The dawn of the post-literate society. And the end of civilisation: “We may be about to find out that it is not possible to run the most advanced civilisation in the history of the planet with the intellectual apparatus of a pre-literate society .” jmarriott.substack.com/p/the-dawn-o... #glykoreads
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LAFCADIO HEARN was born in 1850 of Irish-Greek parentage on one of the Ionian Islands and as a youth was educated in France and England. In 1869 he went to the United States, where he meagerly supported himself by journalism and the writing of books, with French, Negro, and Oriental backgrounds. He worked on newspapers in New York, Cincinnati, and New Orleans, traveled to the West Indies for a New Orleans newspaper, where he wrote several books recording his impressions and travels. The flight from Western materialism which characterized Hearn's life led him, in 1890, to Japan, which he found so attractive that he decided to spend the rest of his life there. Hearn taught in the Matsue Middle School in Shimane, where he met his wife, Setsuko Koizumi, the daughter of an Izumo samurai family; in the Kumamoto High School in Kyushu; and as a lecture of English at the Imperial University of Japan, Tokyo, from 1896 to 1903. He became a Japanese citizen, taking his wife's family name, Koizumi or "small spring," as a surname, and Yagumo or "eight clouds" as a given name. His last years were filled with the bitterness of disil-lusionment, for he found his adopted country embracing the very materialism from which he had fled; he died in 1904 and was buried in the Zoshigaya cemetery
Japan: An interpretation.
By Lafcadio Hearn #glykoreads
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Germany Through Jewish Eyes: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. By Shulamit Volkov #glykoreads
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Jewcentricity: Why the Jews are praised, blamed, and used to explain just about everything. By Adam Garfinkle #glykoreads
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Just in case you want to know more about the likes of her family, and her sort, please do read this highly informative book by David de Jong:” Nazi Billionaires: The Dark History of Germany's Wealthiest Dynasties.” #glykoreads
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The Great Game of Genocide: Imperialism, Nationalism, and the Destruction of the Ottoman Armenians. By Donald Bloxham #glykoreads
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#TheDinahProject: Recognition and justice for victims of sexual violence in conflict.
Remembering the atrocities of
October 7th, 2023. Holding perpetrators accountable. thedinahproject.org/wp-content/u... #glykoreads
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Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco’s Spain. By Paul Preston #glykoreads
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Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History. By @dirkmoses.bsky.social #glykoreads
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The "Jew" in Cinema: From The Golem to Don't Touch My Holocaust.
By @omerbartov.bsky.social #glykoreads
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A fantastic journey: The life and literature of Lafcadio Hearn. By Paul Murray. h/t @mgemancipation.bsky.social #glykoreads
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