Tag: book review
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★★★★☆ An intricate, idiosyncratic survey of empire and rebellion which makes a strong argument for the Atlantic character of the Age of Revolution As an academic text, THE MANY-HEADED HYDRA assumes familiarity with many names, places, and events that the typical reader might not be familiar with. References to Thermidor, Cromwell’s invasion of Ireland, 1688,…
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★★★★★ Fanon’s righteous fury is kept remarkably restrained as he examines the necessity and nature of violent anticolonialism There is much more in Wretched of the Earth than arguments for violent resistance to colonialism. There are reflections on the place of traditional arts in dynamic culture, contrasts drawn between the greater bourgeoisie of the metropole…
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★★★☆☆ Although erudite and often beautiful, the author’s liberal sympathies prevent him from fully developing his ‘thesis of violence’. If you consider Mike Duncan’s Revolutions Podcast: French Revolution series to be equivalent to a book, then Citizens is my third book on the French Revolution, the second being William Doyle’s Oxford History of the subject.…