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Dissenting

The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (Omohundro Institute ...

Saul Cornell

The University of North Carolina Press, 1999

Offers historical perspective on anti-govnmt. US politics
This is a very well written book that provides an interesting perspective on the roots of anti-federal and dissenting viewpoints from the beginnings of the United States. For better or worse, many of the views of today's militias and anti-government protesters have ...

Dissenting Voices in America's Rise to Power
David Mayers

Cambridge University Press, 2007

This book offers a major rereading of US foreign policy from Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana expanse to the Korean War. This period of one hundred and fifty years saw the expansion of the United States from fragile republic to transcontinental giant. David Mayers explores the dissenting voices which accompanied this dramatic ascent, ...

JFK: The Last Dissenting Witness

Bill Sloan

Pelican Publishing Company, 1992

Excellent Book
This is a great eyewitness account of the events that day, and provides more proof that the assassination of JFK was an inside job. The objective reader can only conclude that our own government not only killed JFK, but also did everything possible to cover it up. ...

The Untamed Tongue: A Dissenting Dictionary

Thomas Stephen Szasz

Open Court Publishing Company, 1990

The entire mental health profession is a load of crap!
Szasz is a psychiatrist who realized that the entire mental health profession is a load of crap - and so are politics, religion, and American sexual morality. In "The Untamed Tongue," Szasz dissects the language of almost every single field of human "knowledge," ...

Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures: The Multiple Selves and Strange Destinations of Ashis Nandy

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

This volume is the first attempt to engage with one of the world's leading political and cultural theorists, Ashis Nandy. It includes a selection of Nandy's writings as well as analytical perspectives on his work.

Challenging the New Orientalism: Dissenting Essays on the "War Against Islam"

M. Shahid Alam

Islamic Publications International, 2007

A debunking of myths
Challenging New Orientalism is more than a mere collection of "dissenting essays." No, this compendium is a lantern, illuminating the truths behind many of the Orientalist myths that have distorted Western perceptions of Islamicate societies. One such claim is that ...

Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays

Frederick Crews

Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007

Brilliant demolition of various idealist nonsenses
Frederick Crews is a retired teacher from the University of California, Berkeley. In this brilliant collection of essays, he passes judgment on `Intelligent Design' creationism, UFO reports, satanic mind control, alien abductions, previous incarnations and telepathy. ...

Ernest Gruening and the American Dissenting Tradition (Harvard Historical Studies)
Robert David Johnson

Harvard University Press, 1998

Ernest Gruening is perhaps best known for his vehement fight against U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, where he set himself apart by casting one of two votes against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964. However, as Robert Johnson shows in this political biography, it's Gruening's sixty-year public career in its entirety that provides an ...

Dissenting Electorate: Those Who Refuse to Vote and the Legitimacy of Their Opposition

McFarland & Company, 2000

Great contribution to political (and anti-political) theory
In a 1984 speech, Wendy McElroy -- a great individualist anarchist and co-editor of this collection -- said, "[I]t has become necessary for individualist anarchism to develop a comprehensive defense of anti-political theory in order to counter the grotesque spectacle ...

The Bible on Culture: Belonging or Dissenting? (Faith and Culture Series)

Lucien Legrand

Orbis Books, 2000

An Outstanding Resource
This is a welcome addition to the "Faith and Culture" series published by Orbis and under the general editorship of Robert Schreiter. Legrand does a masterful job of systematically surveying the various subtle and complex ways the biblical authors respond to the ...

Towards a New Past: Dissenting Essays in American History

Vintage Books, 1969

Dissenting esssays in American history.

The Dissenting Voice: The New Essay of Spanish America, 1960-1985 (Texas Pan American Series)
Martin S. Stabb

University of Texas Press, 1994

Political, social, and aesthetic change marked Latin American society in the years between 1960 and 1985. In this book, Martin Stabb explores how these changes made their way into the essayistic writings of twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals. Stabb posits that dissent--against ideology, against simplistic notions of technological progress, ...

The Dissenting Reader: Feminist Approaches to the Hebrew Bible
Eryl W. Davies

Ashgate Publishing, 2003

Few would deny that the Bible is an overwhelmingly patriarchal book that, over the centuries, has exercised considerable influence on the way in which women are perceived in society. From the opening chapters of Genesis, where woman is created to serve as man's "helper", to the pronouncements of Paul concerning the submission of wives to their ...

The Dissenting Tradition in American Education

James C. Carper, Thomas C. Hunt

Peter Lang Publishing, 2007

Government Institutionalized Education and Democracy
The very institutions we charge with teaching democracy act as dictators. Parents are blamed by schools failures by their own pedogogy of mediocrity. Schools model the militant disciplinary institutions like prisons and asylums. The truth behind organized education ...