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Author : David Getsy
Release : 2011
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis From Diversion to Subversion by : David Getsy
Download or read book From Diversion to Subversion written by David Getsy. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Examines the wide-ranging influence of games and play on the development of modern art in the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.
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Release : 1987
Genre : Communism
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Download or read book Problems of Communism written by . This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathleen J. Frydl
Release : 2013-04-22
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973 by : Kathleen J. Frydl
Download or read book The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973 written by Kathleen J. Frydl. This book was released on 2013-04-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Drug Wars in America, 1940–1973 argues that the US government has clung to its militant drug war, despite its obvious failures, because effective control of illicit traffic and consumption were never the critical factors motivating its adoption in the first place. Instead, Kathleen J. Frydl shows that the shift from regulating illicit drugs through taxes and tariffs to criminalizing the drug trade developed from, and was marked by, other dilemmas of governance in an age of vastly expanding state power. Most believe the 'drug war' was inaugurated by President Richard Nixon's declaration of a war on drugs in 1971, but in fact his announcement heralded changes that had taken place in the two decades prior. Frydl examines this critical interval of time between regulation and prohibition, demonstrating that the war on drugs advanced certain state agendas, such as policing inner cities or exercising power abroad.
Author : Hammad Nasar
Release : 2017
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Rock, Paper Scissors by : Hammad Nasar
Download or read book Rock, Paper Scissors written by Hammad Nasar. This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The artists in Rock, Paper, Scissors--Nujoom Alghanem, Sara Al Haddad, Vikram Divecha, Ramin & Ronki Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, Hind Mezaina, Deepak Unnikrishnan, WTD magazine, Lantian Xie and Mohamed Yousif--enact the habitation of home through playful gestures and acts.
Author : John P. Delury
Release : 2022-10-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Agents of Subversion by : John P. Delury
Download or read book Agents of Subversion written by John P. Delury. This book was released on 2022-10-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agents of Subversion reconstructs the remarkable story of a botched mission into Manchuria, showing how it fit into a wider CIA campaign against Communist China and highlighting the intensity—and futility—of clandestine operations to overthrow Mao. In the winter of 1952, at the height of the Korean War, the CIA flew a covert mission into China to pick up an agent. Trained on a remote Pacific island, the agent belonged to an obscure anti-communist group known as the Third Force based out of Hong Kong. The exfiltration would fail disastrously, and one of the Americans on the mission, a recent Yale graduate named John T. Downey, ended up a prisoner of Mao Zedong's government for the next twenty years. Unraveling the truth behind decades of Cold War intrigue, John Delury documents the damage that this hidden foreign policy did to American political life. The US government kept the public in the dark about decades of covert activity directed against China, while Downey languished in a Beijing prison and his mother lobbied desperately for his release. Mining little-known Chinese sources, Delury sheds new light on Mao's campaigns to eliminate counterrevolutionaries and how the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party used captive spies in diplomacy with the West. Agents of Subversion is an innovative work of transnational history, and it demonstrates both how the Chinese Communist regime used the fear of special agents to tighten its grip on society and why intellectuals in Cold War America presciently worried that subversion abroad could lead to repression at home.
