Author: Stanley I. Kutler File Type: pdf An introduction to the events, objects, issues, places, and concepts that have shaped American history since pre-Columbian times. This work includes thousands of articles which cover a wide range of military, political, social, and economic subjects, including theatre, sports, battles, natural resources, food, education, and government agencies (FBI, CIA, and the Post Office).(source Bol.com)

Author: Sylvere Lotringer File Type: pdf The only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis of the most innovative post-68 radical movement in the West, the creative, futuristic, neo-anarchistic, postideological Autonomia. Most of the writers who contributed to the issue were locked up at the time in Italian jails.... I was trying to draw the attention of the American Left, which still believed in Eurocommunism, to the fate of Autonomia. The survival of the last politically creative movement in the West was at stake, but no one in the United States seemed to realize that, or be willing to listen. Put together as events in Italy were unfolding, the Autonomia issuewhich has no equivalent in Italy, or anywhere for that matterarrived too late, but it remains an energizing account of a movement that disappeared without bearing a trace, but with a big future still ahead of it.Sylvere LotringerSemiotext(e) is reissuing in book form its legendary magazine issue Italy Autonomia Post-Political Politics, originally published in New York in 1980. Edited by Sylvere Lotringer and Christian Marazzi with the direct participation of the main leaders and theorists of the Autonomist movement (including Antonio Negri, Mario Tronti, Franco Piperno, Oreste Scalzone, Paolo Virno, Sergio Bologna, and Franco Berardi), this volume is the only first-hand document and contemporaneous analysis that exists of the most innovative post-68 radical movement in the West. The movement itself was broken when Autonomia members were falsely accused of (and prosecuted for) being the intellectual masterminds of the Red Brigades but even after the end of Autonomia, this book remains a crucial testimony of the way this creative, futuristic, neo-anarchistic, postideological, and nonrepresentative political movement of young workers and intellectuals anticipated issues that are now confronting us in the wake of Empire. In the next two years, Semiotext(e) will publish eight books by such Italian Post-Fordist intellectuals as Antonio Negri, Christian Marazzi, Paolo Virno, and Bifo, as they update the theories of Autonomia for the new century. Sylvere Lotringer, general editor of Semiotext(e), lives in New York and Baja California. He is the author of Overexposed Perverting Perversions (Semiotext(e), 2007). Christian Marazzi, an Italian economist, lives in Switzerland. He is the author of Capital and Language From the New Economy to the War Economy and Socks Place, both forthcoming from Semiotext(e). **

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Author: Carol A. Mossman File Type: pdf Writing with a Vengeance examines the life and works of a nineteenth-century French courtesan, Celeste Venard, later the Countess de Chabrillan. A notorious Paris courtesan, Chabrillan married into the nobility, taught herself to write (penning two series of memoirs) and, upon being widowed, wrote novels to support herself - ten, between 1857 and 1885. These novels and memoirs constitute exceptional literary and historical documents, particularly as very few sex workers before the twentieth century have left written records of their lives. Writing with a Vengeance intertwines the courtesans autobiographical account of the horrors of her life on the streets with that eras political, medical, and cultural discourses surrounding prostitution. Though French society both silenced and refused to pardon the prostitute, Carol Mossmans literary analysis of Chabrillans novels contends that it is through the process of writing itself that she arrived at self-forgiveness and ultimately refashioned for her damaged self a new identity and narrative. **Review Fascinating study of the life and times of the Countess de Chabrillan Mossman is to be applauded for writing an account of a woman who was not destroyed by the deviant aspects of her life. The Countess Chabrillan, rather than colluding with those forms of misogynist fiction that preferred to condemn the prostitute, was a testament to the ability of women to demonstrate their many possible realities. (Mary Evans French Studies, vol 65042011) In this vibrantly written book, Mossman introduces readers to both a fascinating historical figure and an unexplored female author who offers an important vantage point through which to consider key questions in nineteenth-century French history and literature In recounting Chabriillans unfamiliar story, Mossman succeeds in introducing readers to a fascinating character whose life offers myriad windows into crucial axes of nineteenth-century culture. (Rachel Mesch H-France Review March 2011) The biographical, historical, and literary contexts Mossman provides not only create a rich backdrop for her main subject of study, but they also serve as a broader introduction to the period, such that Writing with Vengeance is supremely accessible, suitable even for undergraduates or others with little prior familiarity with the period. (Briana Lewis Nineteenth-Century French Studies, vol 411-22012-2013) About the Author Carol Mossman is Professor of French and Director of the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the University of Maryland, College Park.