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The Colonial Bastille

A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940

By: Peter Zinoman

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The Colonial Bastille

A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940

By: Peter Zinoman

Zinoman makes original contributions on multiple fronts, including colonial systems; prisons as social institutions; political life in prison; public campaigns concerning prisons; and released prisoners in action. He also takes us beyond the colonial/anticolonial, nationalist/communist, and war/peace dichotomies that have long dominated Vietnam studies."—David Marr, author of Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 "This is a wonderful, lucidly argued, and meticulously documented book."—Ann Stoler, author of Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things

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Univ of California Press

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0520224124

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The Colonial Bastille

A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940

By: Peter Zinoman

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The Colonial Bastille

A History of Imprisonment in Vietnam, 1862-1940

By: Peter Zinoman

Peter Zinoman's original and insightful study focuses on the colonial prison system in French Indochina and its role in fostering modern political consciousness among the Vietnamese. Using prison memoirs, newspaper articles, and extensive archival records, Zinoman presents a wealth of significant new information to document how colonial prisons, rather than quelling political dissent and maintaining order, instead became institutions that promoted nationalism and revolutionary education.

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Univ of California Press

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0520925173

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9780520925175

Vietnamese Colonial Republican

The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung

By: Peter Zinoman

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Vietnamese Colonial Republican

The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung

By: Peter Zinoman

This volume is a comprehensive study of VietnamÕs greatest and most controversial 20th century writer who died tragically in 1939 at the age of 28. Vu Trong Phung is known for a remarkable collection of politically provocative novels and sensational works of non-fiction reportage that were banned by the communist state from 1960 to 1986. Leading Vietnam scholar, Zinoman, resurrects the life and work of an important intellectual and author in order to reveal a neglected political project that is excluded from conventional accounts of modern Vietnamese political history. He sees Vu Trong Phung as a leading proponent of a localized republican tradition that opposed colonialism, communism, and unfettered capitalismÑand that led both to the banning of his work and to the durability of his popular appeal in Vietnam today.

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Univ of California Press

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0520276280

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9780520276284

Dumb Luck

A Novel

By: Trọng Phụng Vũ,Peter Zinoman

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Dumb Luck

A Novel

By: Trọng Phụng Vũ,Peter Zinoman

This once banned book is the first colonial-era Vietnamese novel to be translated into English and published in the West

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University of Michigan Press

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0472068040

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9780472068043

Vietnamese Colonial Republican

The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung

By: Peter Zinoman

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The Political Vision of Vu Trong Phung

By: Peter Zinoman

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Life and Work

By: Peter Shelley

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Philip Seymour Hoffman

The Life and Work

By: Peter Shelley

Philip Seymour Hoffman (1967-2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, film producer, and film and stage director, best known for his memorable supporting roles in independent films. Considered one of the best actors of his generation, he died of a drug overdose at age 46 after years of sobriety. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his titular role in Capote (2005), and Best Supporting nominations for Doubt (2008) and The Master (2012). This biography covers his life and career and provides an appendix listing his film, television and stage appearances.

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McFarland

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1476662436

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9781476662435

Punishment in Paradise

Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony

By: Peter M. Beattie

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Punishment in Paradise

Race, Slavery, Human Rights, and a Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Penal Colony

By: Peter M. Beattie

Throughout the nineteenth century the idyllic island of Fernando de Noronha, which lies two hundred miles off Brazil's northeastern coast, was home to Brazil's largest forced labor penal colony. In Punishment in Paradise Peter M. Beattie uses Noronha as a case study to understand nineteenth-century Brazil's varied social and cultural values, especially in relation to justice, class, color, civil condition, human rights and labor. As Brazil’s slave population declined after 1850, the use of colonial-era disciplinary practices at Noronha—such as flogging and forced labor—stoked anxieties about human rights and Brazil’s international image. Beattie contends that the treatment of slaves, convicts, and other social categories subject to coercive labor extraction were interconnected and that reforms that benefitted one of these categories made them harder to deny to others. In detailing Noronha's history and the end of slavery as part of an international expansion of human rights, Beattie places Brazil firmly in the purview of Atlantic history.

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Duke University Press

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0822375893

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9780822375890

Past Due

The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy

By: Peter S. Goodman

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The End of Easy Money and the Renewal of the American Economy

By: Peter S. Goodman

How Main Street was hit by—and might recover from—the financial crisis, by The New York Times's national economics correspondent When the financial crisis struck in 2008, Main Street felt the blow just as hard as Wall Street. The New York Times national economics correspondent Peter S. Goodman takes us behind the headlines and exposes how the flow of capital from Asia and Silicon Valley to the suburbs of the housing bubble perverted America's economy. He follows a real estate entrepreneur who sees endless opportunity in the underdeveloped lots of Florida—until the mortgages for them collapse. And he watches as an Oakland, California-based deliveryman, unable to land a job in the biotech industry, slides into unemployment and a homeless shelter. As Goodman shows, for two decades Americans binged on imports and easy credit, a spending spree abetted by ever-increasing home values—and then the bill came due. Yet even in a new environment of thrift and pullback, Goodman argues that economic adaptation is possible, through new industries and new safety nets. His tour of new businesses in Michigan, Iowa, South Carolina, and elsewhere and his clear-eyed analysis point the way to the economic promises and risks America now faces.

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348

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Macmillan

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1429918764

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9781429918763

Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema

By: Peter Hutchings

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Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema

By: Peter Hutchings

Horror is one of the most enduring and controversial of all cinematic genres. Horror films range from subtle and poetic to graphic and gory, but what links them together is their ability to frighten, disturb, shock, provoke, delight, irritate, and amuse audiences. Horror’s capacity to take the form of our evolving fears and anxieties has ensured not only its notoriety but also its long-term survival and international popularity. This second edition has been comprehensively updated to capture all that is important and exciting about the horror genre as it exists today. Its new entries feature the creative personalities who have developed innovative forms of horror, and recent major films and cycles of films that ensure horror’s continuing popularity and significance. In addition, many of the other entries have been expanded to include reference to the contemporary scene, giving a clear picture of how horror cinema is constantly renewing and transforming itself. The Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema traces the development of the genre from its beginnings to the present. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries. The entries cover all major movie villains, including Frankenstein and his monsters, the vampire, the werewolf, the mummy, the zombie, the ghost and the serial killer; film directors, producers, writers, actors, cinematographers, make-up artists, special-effects technicians, and composers who have helped shape horror history; significant production companies; major films that are milestones in the development of the horror genre; and different national traditions in horror cinema – as well as popular themes, formats, conventions, and cycles.

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447

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538102447

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9781538102442

Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963

By: Nu-Anh Tran,Tuong Vu

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Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963

By: Nu-Anh Tran,Tuong Vu

Western observers have long considered communism to be synonymous with Vietnam’s modern historical experience. Eager to make sense of the North Vietnamese victory in the Vietnam War, scholars and journalists have spilled much ink on the history of Vietnamese communists. But this preoccupation has obscured the diversity of ideas and experiences that defined Vietnam in the twentieth century, in which communism represented just one of many tendencies. Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963, posits that republicanism shaped modern Vietnam no less profoundly than communism. Republicans championed representative government, the universal rights of man, civil liberties, and the primacy of the nation. These ideas infused the thinking of Vietnamese reformers, dissidents, and revolutionaries from the 1900s onward, including many men and women who went on to lead the struggle for independence. Republicanism was also one of the chief inspirations for the establishment of the Republic of Vietnam (also known as South Vietnam) in 1955. This interdisciplinary volume brings together eleven essays by historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists, who make use of fresh sources to study the development of republicanism from the colonial period to the First Republic of Vietnam (1955–1963). The introduction by coeditors Nu-Anh Tran and Tuong Vu critically analyzes the existing scholarship on the First Republic, explains how the concept of republicanism can illuminate developments in the Saigon-based state, and situates the regime in a comparative context with South Korea. Peter Zinoman’s chapter reviews the historiography on republicanism and modern Vietnam and heralds the arrival of the “republican moment” in the field of Vietnam studies. Several chapters by Nguyễn Lương Hải Khôi, Martina Thucnhi Nguyen, and Yen Vu examine the transformation of republican ideas. Nu-Anh Tran and Duy Lap Nguyen explore competing concepts of democracy and the factional politics of the First Republic. The essays by Jason Picard, Cindy Nguyen, Hoàng Phong Tuấn, Nguyễn Thị Minh, and Y Thien Nguyen analyze nation- and state-building efforts in the 1950s and 1960s. Collectively, the essays give voice to Vietnamese republicans, from the ideas they espoused to the institutions they built and the legacies they left behind.

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824893832

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9780824893835

Dumb Luck

A Novel

By: Trọng Phụng Vũ,Peter Zinoman

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Dumb Luck

A Novel

By: Trọng Phụng Vũ,Peter Zinoman

This once banned book is the first colonial-era Vietnamese novel to be translated into English and published in the West

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University of Michigan Press

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0472068040

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Peter 2.0

By: Peter B. Scott-Morgan

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Peter 2.0

By: Peter B. Scott-Morgan

Aceasta este uimitoarea poveste adevărată a omului de știință Peter Scott-Morgan: el a devenit prima persoană din lume care, îmbinând umanitatea cu robotica, s-a transformat în cyborg uman: Peter 2.0. Peter, strălucit om de știință, află că va pierde tot ce iubește. Soțul. Familia. Prietenii. Posibilitatea de a călători. Toate vor dispărea. Însă nu renunță. Jură că nu va lăsa să se întâmple asta și caută un nou început… Peter are boala neuronală motorie, o afecțiune despre care află că-i va distruge celulele nervoase și îi va pune capăt vieții. Însă, folosindu-și cunoștințele științifice, mânat de speranță și dragoste, își învinge teama și disperarea și pornește pe un nou drum, care-i permite nu numai să supraviețuiască, ci și să facă progrese uluitoare. Cercetările sale în domeniul roboticii demonstrează că un diagnostic terminal este negociabil, lucru care va rescrie cu siguranță viitorul. Și va schimba lumea. „Povestea lui Peter este una dintre cele mai convingătoare pe care le vei auzi vreodată. Îi îndemn pe toți să o citească." – Stephen Fry „Scott-Morgan este cu adevărat unic. În felul în care își povestește dragostea, mai degrabă decât în detaliile tehnice ale transformării lui în cyborg, stă reușita cărții sale." – The Times „Sunt uluitoare optimismul, curajul și capacitatea lui Peter de a găsi soluții radicale la probleme care au pus în încurcătură cele mai strălucite minți din Marea Britanie." – Daily Telegraph „Fascinant și extrem de emoționant." – Sun

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Editura Trei SRL

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6067893118

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9786067893113

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

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Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

By: Peter Godfrey-Smith

BBC R4 Book of the Week ‘Brilliant’ Guardian ‘Fascinating and often delightful’ The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter?

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HarperCollins UK

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0008226288

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9780008226282

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The Colonial Bastille

The Colonial Bastille

The Colonial Bastille

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Vietnamese Colonial Republican

Vietnamese Colonial Republican

Dumb Luck

Dumb Luck

Vietnamese Colonial Republican

Vietnamese Colonial Republican

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Punishment in Paradise

Punishment in Paradise

Past Due

Past Due

Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema

Historical Dictionary of Horror Cinema

Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963

Building a Republican Nation in Vietnam, 1920–1963

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Dumb Luck

Peter 2.0

Peter 2.0

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life

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