ISBN: 9780199375745

States around the world imprison people for their beliefs or politically-motivated actions. Oppositional movements of all stripes celebrate their comrades behind bars. Yet they are more t… Mehr…

States around the world imprison people for their beliefs or politically-motivated actions. Oppositional movements of all stripes celebrate their comrades behind bars. Yet they are more than symbols of repression and human rights. Dance in Chains examines the experiences of political prisonersthemselves in order to understand who they are, what they do, and why it matters. This is the first book to trace the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century. The letters, diaries, and memoirs of political prisoners, as well as the records of regime policies, relate the contest in the prison cell to political conflicts betweenregime and opposition. Padraic Kenney draws on examples from regimes ranging from communist and fascist to colonial and democratic, including Ireland, the United Kingdom, Poland, and South Africa. They include the Fenian Brotherhood, imprisoned in England and Ireland in the 1860s, and theirsuccessors during the Irish War of Independence and the Northern Ireland Troubles; Afrikaaners suspected of treason during the Boer War; socialists fighting for Polish freedom in the Russian Empire, and then Communists denouncing ""bourgeois"" rule in newly-independent Poland; the opponents ofapartheid South Africa and stalinist Poland; and those imprisoned by the United States in Guantanamo Bay detention camp today. Some prisons are well-known; in others, inmates suffered in obscurity. Through self-organization, education, and actions ranging from solitary non-cooperation to mass hungerstrikes, these prisoners transform their incarceration and counter states'' efforts to control them. While considering the international movements that have sought to publicize the plight of political prisoners, Dance in Chains examines the actions of the prisoners themselves to find universal answers to questions about the meaning and purpose of their imprisonment. | Dance in Chains by Padraic Kenney Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Books > History P10103, Padraic Kenney<

ISBN: 9780199375745

States around the world imprison people for their beliefs or politically-motivated actions. Oppositional movements of all stripes celebrate their comrades behind bars. Yet they are more t… Mehr…

States around the world imprison people for their beliefs or politically-motivated actions. Oppositional movements of all stripes celebrate their comrades behind bars. Yet they are more than symbols of repression and human rights. Dance in Chains examines the experiences of political prisonersthemselves in order to understand who they are, what they do, and why it matters. This is the first book to trace the history of modern political imprisonment from its origins in the mid-nineteenth century. The letters, diaries, and memoirs of political prisoners, as well as the records of regime policies, relate the contest in the prison cell to political conflicts betweenregime and opposition. Padraic Kenney draws on examples from regimes ranging from communist and fascist to colonial and democratic, including Ireland, the United Kingdom, Poland, and South Africa. They include the Fenian Brotherhood, imprisoned in England and Ireland in the 1860s, and theirsuccessors during the Irish War of Independence and the Northern Ireland Troubles; Afrikaaners suspected of treason during the Boer War; socialists fighting for Polish freedom in the Russian Empire, and then Communists denouncing ""bourgeois"" rule in newly-independent Poland; the opponents ofapartheid South Africa and stalinist Poland; and those imprisoned by the United States in Guantanamo Bay detention camp today. Some prisons are well-known; in others, inmates suffered in obscurity. Through self-organization, education, and actions ranging from solitary non-cooperation to mass hungerstrikes, these prisoners transform their incarceration and counter states'' efforts to control them. While considering the international movements that have sought to publicize the plight of political prisoners, Dance in Chains examines the actions of the prisoners themselves to find universal answers to questions about the meaning and purpose of their imprisonment. | Dance in Chains by Padraic Kenney Hardcover | Indigo Chapters Baby > History P10103, Padraic Kenney<

2001, ISBN: 9780199375745

[ED: Buch], [PU: OXFORD UNIV PR], Neuware - A study of the role of political imprisonment in the modern world in regimes ranging from communist to fascist to colonial to democratic., DE, … Mehr…

[ED: Buch], [PU: OXFORD UNIV PR], Neuware - A study of the role of political imprisonment in the modern world in regimes ranging from communist to fascist to colonial to democratic., DE, [SC: 0.00], Neuware, gewerbliches Angebot, 242x167x28 mm, 344, [GW: 638g], Banküberweisung, PayPal, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten)<

2017, ISBN: 9780199375745

Political Imprisonment in the Modern World, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], Oxford University Press Inc, 2017