Автор: Ali Tariq Название: The Obama Syndrome ISBN: 1844677575 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844677573 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 18470.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A prescient dissection of Obama`s overseas escalation and domestic retreat, fully updated.
Before the advent of synthetic fibers and cargo containers, jute sacks were the preferred packaging material of global trade, transporting the world's grain, cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, wool, guano, and bacon. Jute was the second-most widely consumed fiber in the world, after cotton. While the sack circulated globally, the plant was cultivated almost exclusively by peasant smallholders in a small corner of the world: the Bengal delta. This book examines how jute fibers entangled the delta's peasantry in the rhythms and vicissitudes of global capital.
Taking readers from the nineteenth-century high noon of the British Raj to the early years of post-partition Pakistan in the mid-twentieth century, Tariq Omar Ali traces how the global connections wrought by jute transformed every facet of peasant life: practices of work, leisure, domesticity, and sociality; ideas and discourses of justice, ethics, piety, and religiosity; and political commitments and actions. Ali examines how peasant life was structured and restructured with oscillations in global commodity markets, as the nineteenth-century period of peasant consumerism and prosperity gave way to debt and poverty in the twentieth century.
A Local History of Global Capital traces how jute bound the Bengal delta's peasantry to turbulent global capital, and how global commodity markets shaped everyday peasant life and determined the difference between prosperity and poverty, survival and starvation.
Автор: Ali Tariq Название: Leon Trotsky ISBN: 1608461866 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781608461868 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 13370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This illustrated introduction`s irreverent cartoons will amuse readers, and surprise them with its sophisticated portrait of Trotsky`s life and works.
Автор: Ali Tariq Название: Fear of Mirrors ISBN: 0857426419 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857426413 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 17970.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
In this novel from esteemed political writer Tariq Ali, a father, Vlady, loses his job when he refuses to renounce socialist beliefs in the newly unified Germany--and as a result wants to explain to his alienated son what their family's long and passionate involvement with communism has really meant. The story he tells is of Ludwik, a Polish secret agent and Gertrude, Vlady's mother, whose desire for Ludwik is matched only by her devotion to the communist ideal. As the plot unfolds through the political upheavals of the twentieth century, Vlady describes the hopes aroused by the Bolshevik revolution and discovers the almost unbearable truth about the family's betrayal. Written with deep political insight and sensitivity, Fear of Mirrors relates the extraordinary history of Central Europe from the perspective of those on the other side of the Cold War.
"Ali folds his drama around the tight, cultlike atmosphere of Communist Party life, peopled by idealists who find their lives encumbered by betrayals, power grabs, and corruption and who, in the post-Communist era, must come to terms with their complicity with Stalinism. . . . This is a valuable book, especially for those interested in the current thinking of the European left."--Publishers Weekly, on the first edition
Автор: Ali Tariq Название: The Leopard and the Fox: A Pakistani Tragedy ISBN: 0857426397 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857426390 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 15890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание:
The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected prime minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begin, the BBC hierarchy - under pressure from the Foreign Office - decided to cancel the project. Why? General Zia ul Haq, the dictator at the time, was leading the jihad against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He was backed by the USA. According to expert legal opinion, there was a possibility of a whole range of defamation suits from the head of state to judges involved in the case. In consequence, it was decided not to broadcast this hard-hitting and provocative play.
The Leopard and the Fox presents both the script and the story of censorship.
Автор: Ali Tariq Название: Banker for All Seasons: Bank of Crooks and Cheats Inc. ISBN: 0857426400 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857426406 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 15890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain. It was the badge of a remarkable Third World Bank...the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International).
BCCI soon become a global corporate empire with former US Presidents, ex-British Prime Ministers and a range of dictators on its payroll, all helping with promoting the company.
Tariq Ali was the first public voice to warn that the Bank was not all it seemed to be. Indeed, many of its own employees called BCCI the "Bank of Crooks and Cheats Incorporated". Some political analysts also predicted the company s collapse. The Bank finally imploded amidst a welter of scandal.
This revealing screenplay presents an account of the rise and fall of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Here, Ali reveals how BCCI lasted so long, how financial regulators failed to see what was going on and how BCCI pioneered a mode of operation that prepared the way for an even greater financial cataclysm, the fall of Enron.
Автор: Ali Tariq Название: The Assassination: Who Killed Indira G? ISBN: 0857426389 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857426383 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 15890.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Who killed Mrs Gandhi? We know the name of the assassins, but did they act alone? In this fictional filmscript, Tariq Ali suggests that larger forces were at work, exploiting genuine Sikh grievances to settle their own score with a prime minister who, whatever her faults, was fiercely independent of Washington and safeguarded Indian sovereignty with a zeal inherited from her father. Provocative and suggestive, this script planned as the second of a series was never completed. The Assassination is published here for the first time and completes Ali's trilogy, with The Leopard and The Fox and A Banker For All Seasons.
Автор: Ali, Tariq Название: Bush in babylon ISBN: 1844675122 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781844675128 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 21410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The bestselling history of the resistance in Iraq that vitalized the antiwar movement, fully updated
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