Author: Houri Berberian File Type: pdf Three of the formative revolutions that shook the early twentieth-century world occurred almost simultaneously in regions bordering each other. Though the Russian, Iranian, and Young Turk Revolutions all exploded between 1904 and 1911, they have never been studied through their linkages until now. Roving Revolutionaries probes the interconnected aspects of these three revolutions through the involvement of the Armenian revolutionariesminorities in all of these empireswhose movements and participation within and across frontiers tell us a great deal about the global transformations that were taking shape. Exploring the geographical and ideological boundary crossings that occurred, Houri Berberians archivally grounded analysis of the circulation of revolutionaries, ideas, and print tells the story of peoples and ideologies in upheaval and collaborating with each other, and in so doing it illuminates our understanding of revolutions and movements.Reviews A refreshingly innovative work. Drawing on untapped and largely unknown resources, it analyzes hitherto overlooked interconnections between three revolutions with erudition and panache.bHouchang Chehabi, author of Distant Relations Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Yearsb Houri Berberians Roving Revolutionaries is as cosmopolitan and wide-ranging as its subject the Armenian activists who criss-crossed Europe and the Middle East in the early twentieth century. The book barges across borders just as they did, tracking the steamships and railways they rode, the newspapers and weapons they carried, and the impact their networks and ideas had on uprisings in Russia, Iran, and the Ottoman Empire.Charles Kurzman, author of Democracy Denied, 1905-1915 Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy Groundbreaking and theoretically sophisticated, this is a major contribution to global history and studies of revolution. Shattering the walls of insular history, Berberian puts the roving Armenian revolutionaries in their local, regional, global, and intellectual contexts.bBedross Der Matossian, author of Shattered Dreams of Revolution From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empireb

Author: Frances Moore Lappé File Type: epub In this completely revised and updated edition of the most authoritative text on world hunger, three of our foremost experts on food and agriculture expose the myths that prevent us from effectively addressing the problem. Drawing on and distilling the extensive research of the Institute for Food and Development Policy (known colloquially as Food First), the authors examine head-on the policies and politics that have kept hungry people from feeding themselves around the world, in both Third and First World countries. Written in a straightforward, easy-to-read style, World Hunger Twelve Myths shakes many tenaciously held beliefs most importantly, it convinces readers that by standing together with the hungry we can advance not only huminatarian interests but our own well-being.