Libya is coming in from the cold, but for most of the three decades following the 1969 revolution, the country was labelled a pariah state by the West. Dirk Vandewalle, one of only a handful of ...western scholars to visit during the time, is intimately acquainted with the country. This history - based on original research and his interviews with Libya's political elite - offers a lucid account of Libya's past, and corrects some of the misunderstandings about its present. The author takes the story from the 1900s, through the Italian occupation, the Sanusi monarchy and Qadhafi's self-styled revolution. The final chapter is devoted to the events which brought Libya back into the international fold. As the first comprehensive history of Libya over the last two decades, this book will be welcomed by students of the region, professionals and those who are visiting Libya for the first time.
On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most
important moment in LGBTQ history-depicted by the people who
influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969,
Greenwich Village: The New ...York City Police Department, fueled by
bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of
homophobia and transphobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a
neighborhood gay bar, in the middle of the night. The raid was met
with a series of responses that would go down in history as the
most galvanizing period in this country's fight for sexual and
gender liberation: a riotous reaction from the bar's patrons and
surrounding community, followed by six days of protests. Across 200
documents, Marc Stein presents a unique record of the lessons and
legacies of Stonewall. Drawing from sources that include
mainstream, alternative, and LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings,
state court decisions, political fliers, first-person accounts,
song lyrics, and photographs, Stein paints an indelible portrait of
this pivotal moment in the LGBT movement. In The Stonewall
Riots , Stein does not construct a neatly quilted, streamlined
narrative of Greenwich Village, its people, and its protests;
instead, he allows multiple truths to find their voices and speak
to one another, much like the conversations you'd expect to
overhear in your neighborhood bar. Published on the fiftieth
anniversary of the moment the first brick (or shot glass?) was
thrown, The Stonewall Riots allows readers to take stock
of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has stayed the
same. It offers campy stories of queer resistance, courageous
accounts of movements and protests, powerful narratives of police
repression, and lesser-known stories otherwise buried in the
historical record, from an account of ball culture in the
mid-sixties to a letter by Black Panther Huey P. Newton addressed
to his brothers and sisters in the resistance. For anyone committed
to political activism and social justice, The Stonewall
Riots provides a much-needed resource for renewal and
empowerment.
Sky Songs is a collection of essays that takes inspiration from the ancient seabed in which Jennifer Sinor lives, an elemental landscape that reminds her that our lives are shaped by all that has ...passed through.
Among the conflicts to break out during the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, the most famous took place in the summer of 1969 in Nyemo, a county to the south and west of Lhasa. In this incident, ...hundreds of villagers formed a mob led by a young nun who was said to be possessed by a deity associated with the famous warrior-king Gesar. In their rampage the mob attacked, mutilated, and killed county officials and local villagers as well as People's Liberation Army troops. This groundbreaking book, the first on the Cultural Revolution in Tibet, revisits the Nyemo Incident, which has long been romanticized as the epitome of Tibetan nationalist resistance against China. Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ben Jiao, and Tanzen Lhundrup demonstrate that far from being a spontaneous battle for independence, this violent event was actually part of a struggle between rival revolutionary groups and was not ethnically based.On the Cultural Revolution in Tibetproffers a sober assessment of human malleability and challenges the tendency to view every sign of unrest in Tibet in ethno-nationalist terms.
For much of the 20th century, American gays and lesbians lived in fear that public exposure of their sexualities might cause them to be fired, blackmailed, or even arrested. Today, they are enjoying ...an unprecedented number of legal rights and protections. Clearly, the tides have shifted for gays and lesbians, but what caused this enormous sea change?
In his gripping new book, Walter Frank offers an in-depth look at the court cases that were pivotal in establishing gay rights. But he also tells the story of those individuals who were willing to make waves by fighting for those rights, taking enormous personal risks at a time when the tide of public opinion was against them. Frank’s accessible style brings complex legal issues down to earth but, as a former litigator, never loses sight of the law’s human dimension and the context of the events occurring outside the courtroom.
Chronicling the past half-century of gay and lesbian history, Law and the Gay Rights Story offers a unique perspective on familiar events like the Stonewall Riots, the AIDS crisis, and the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Frank pays special attention to the constitutional issues surrounding same-sex marriage and closely analyzes the two recent Supreme Court cases addressing the issue. While a strong advocate for gay rights, Frank also examines critiques of the movement, including some coming from the gay community itself. Comprehensive in coverage, the book explains the legal and constitutional issues involved in each of the major goals of the gay rights movement: a safe and healthy school environment, workplace equality, an end to anti-gay violence, relationship recognition, and full integration into all the institutions of the larger society, including marriage and military service. Drawing from extensive archival research and from decades of experience as a practicing litigator, Frank not only provides a vivid history, but also shows where the battle for gay rights might go from here.
The elasticity of taxable income is vital when predicting the effect of taxes. Bunching at kinks/notches has been used to estimate this elasticity. We show that when the preference distribution is ...unrestricted, bunching at a kink or a notch is not informative about the size of the elasticity, and neither is the entire distribution of taxable income. Bunching identifies the taxable income elasticity when the preference distribution is correctly specified across the kink and provides bounds under restrictions on the preference distribution. We find wide bounds in an empirical example based on upper and lower bounds for the preference density.
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