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This new politics challenged the class power of urban elites as well as the centralizing tendencies of national social-democratic movements

Theodore Allen explores the transformation that turned African bond-laborers into slaves and segregated them from their fellow proletarians of European origin

This is a book not only for historians

we have to reconsider our assumptions on what any kind of peace might look like

The Man Who Closed the Asylums keyword-ida-b-wells This new politics challenged theIn 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia's own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and therapy was largely a matter of electric and insulin shocks. The corridors stank, and for many of the interned the doors were locked