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The epochal shift toward neoliberalism--a web of related policies that, broadly speaking, reduced the footprint of government in society and reassigned economic power to private market forces--that began in the United States and Great Britain in the late 1970s fundamentally changed the world. Today, the word \"neoliberal\" is often used to condemn a broad swath of policies, from prizing free market principles over people to advancing privatization programs in developing nations around the world.

To be sure, neoliberalism has contributed to a number of alarming trends, not least of which has been a massive growth in income inequality. Yet as the eminent historian Gary Gerstle argues in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, these indictments fail to reckon with the full contours of what neoliberalism was and why its worldview had such persuasive hold on both the right and the left for three decades. As he shows, the neoliberal order that emerged in America in the 1970s fused ideas of deregulation with personal freedoms, open borders with cosmopolitanism, and globalization with the promise of increased prosperity for all. Along with tracing how this worldview emerged in America and grew to dominate the world, Gerstle explores the previously unrecognized extent to which its triumph was facilitated by the collapse of the Soviet Union and its communist allies. He is also the first to chart the story of the neoliberal order's fall, originating in the failed reconstruction of Iraq and Great Recession of the Bush years and culminating in the rise of Trump and a reinvigorated Bernie Sanders-led American left in the 2010s.

An indispensable and sweeping re-interpretation of the last fifty years, this book illuminates how the ideology of neoliberalism became so infused in the daily life of an era, while probing what remains of that ideology and its political programs as America enters an uncertain future.",{"_797":813,"_799":822,"_779":995},"Scholarly & Professional",{"_797":813,"_799":825,"_779":997},"Oxford University Press",{"_797":813,"_799":804,"_779":999},"Trade Paper",{"_797":813,"_799":830,"_779":831},{"_797":813,"_799":1002,"_779":1003},"language","English",{"_797":813,"_799":1005,"_779":1006},"bic_subject","HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS_USA_20TH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY HISTORY: c 1900 to c 2000_USA; POLITICAL SCIENCE & THEORY",{"_797":813,"_799":833,"_779":1008},"2023-08-17",{"_797":813,"_799":836,"_779":1010},"432",{"_797":840,"_799":731,"_779":1012},"ACT",{"_797":840,"_799":843,"_779":1014},"false",{"_797":840,"_799":845,"_779":1014},{"_797":840,"_799":847,"_779":1017},"04/06/2026",{"_797":840,"_799":850,"_779":1019},"53.0",{"_797":840,"_799":852,"_779":1021},"1",{"_797":855,"_799":856,"_779":1023},"American Politics,American History",{"_797":855,"_799":731,"_779":1025},"American Politics;American History",{"_797":855,"_799":860,"_779":1027},"AMEPOL,AMEHIS",{"_797":855,"_799":862,"_779":1029},"AMEPOL;AMEHIS",{"_797":855,"_799":864,"_779":1031},"AMERICAN POLITICS,HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS",{"_797":855,"_799":867,"_779":1033},"AMERICAN POLITICS;HISTORY OF THE AMERICAS",{"_797":855,"_799":869,"_779":1035},"POLITICS,HISTORY",{"_797":855,"_799":872,"_779":1037},"POLITICS;HISTORY",{"_797":855,"_799":874,"_779":875},{"_797":855,"_799":877,"_779":1040},"NON FICTION;NON FICTION",{"_797":855,"_799":879,"_779":1042},"POL",{"_797":855,"_799":882,"_779":1042},{"_764":1045},[1046],{"_767":116,"_768":-5,"_130":1047,"_209":1048,"_770":1056,"_776":1057,"_17":971,"_780":1059,"_782":1060},"gid://shopify/ProductVariant/46279052656837",{"_1049":1050,"_1051":1052,"_130":1053,"_35":974,"_1054":1055},"altText","The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order Cover Image","height",2048,"gid://shopify/ProductImage/42561060208837","width",1346,{"_772":773,"_774":1019},[1058],{"_751":752,"_779":971},"9780197676318",{"_784":1061},[1062],{"_787":1063},{"_789":116,"_133":1064},{"_751":729},{"_130":1066,"_17":1067,"_742":1068,"_761":1069,"_794":1071,"_762":1154},"gid://shopify/Product/8437893267653","Daring to Be Free : Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World","daring-to-be-free-resistance-rebellion-in-the-atlantic-slave-world",{"_35":1070},"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0625/6679/3413/files/978-0-241-60650-6.jpg?v=1759284598",[1072,1073,1075,1077,1079,1082,1084,1085,1087,1089,1091,1093,1094,1096,1098,-5,-5,-5,1100,1102,1104,1106,1107,1108,1110,1111,1112,1115,1117,1120,1121,1123,1125,1127,1128,1130,1132,1134,1136,1138,1140,1142,1143,1145,1147,-5,1148,1150,1151,1153],{"_797":798,"_799":17,"_779":1067},{"_797":798,"_799":801,"_779":1074},"HAZAREESINGH SUDHIR",{"_797":798,"_799":804,"_779":1076},"HB",{"_797":798,"_799":807,"_779":1078},"ALLEN",{"_797":798,"_799":1080,"_779":1081},"supplier_auckland","UBD",{"_797":798,"_799":810,"_779":1083},"GARD",{"_797":813,"_799":814,"_779":815},{"_797":813,"_799":17,"_779":1086},"Daring to Be Free",{"_797":813,"_799":988,"_779":1088},"Resistance and Rebellion in the Atlantic Slave World",{"_797":813,"_799":801,"_779":1090},"Sudhir Hazareesingh",{"_797":813,"_799":820,"_779":1092},"

The ending of the slave trade and abolition of slavery by European powers during the 19th century is generally told as the work of enlightened liberals fighting against entrenched slaving interests in Africa, the Caribbean, and European capitals. Sudhir Hazareesingh here turns this narrative on its head, showing how the enslaved resisted their oppressors from the earliest years of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century until the abolition of slavery in the United States in 1865, and how this opposition was the driving force for change.

Daring To Be Free portrays the struggle for liberation from the perspective of the enslaved, wherever possible in their own words. It shines a light on the lives of revolutionaries like Toussaint Louverture, Jose Antonio Aponte, Nat Turner, and the pregnant rebel Solitude; freed writers of narrative accounts like Frederick Douglass and Ottobah Cugoano; and the countless maroons, insurgents and conspirators whose acts of defiance destabilised the slave order in the colonies and galvanized the movement for abolition in France, Britain, and the United States. Hazareesingh gives particular emphasis to the powerful roles of women as campaigners, disruptors and warriors.

Drawing on written archives and oral history, as well as a rich body of secondary sources, the book traces the networks of cooperation that connected runaway settlements, covert rebellions and organized uprisings from Haiti, Jamaica, Brazil and Cuba to Mauritius and the United States. It shows us how the struggle for liberty was shaped not only by western Enlightenment ideals but by the spiritual, martial, and religious influences from the lives of the enslaved in Africa before the Middle Passage - and by the inspiring example of Haiti, the first successful anticolonial revolution and the first independent black state, which echoed down the 19th century.

Daring To Be Free reshapes our understanding of Atlantic slavery by portraying how enslaved lives were defined not by their dehumanisation at the hands of colonialists and slavers but by their own resilience, solidarity, and commitment to freedom. It also examines the afterlife of the slave trade in contemporary discussions about the legacy of slavery and possibilities for redress, reparations, and memorial in our own time.

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The epic story of the fall of the Inca Empire to Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in the aftermath of a bloody civil war, and the recent discovery of the lost guerrilla capital of the Incas, Vilcabamba, by three American explorers.

In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the emperor Atahualpa had defeated his brother Huascar. Pizarro and his men soon clashed with Atahualpa and a huge force of Inca warriors at the Battle of Cajamarca. Despite being outnumbered by more than two hundred to one, the Spaniards prevailed-due largely to their horses, their steel armour and swords, and their tactic of surprise. They captured and imprisoned Atahualpa. Although the Inca emperor paid an enormous ransom in gold, the Spaniards executed him anyway. The following year, the Spaniards seized the Inca capital of Cuzco, completing their conquest of the largest native empire the New World has ever known. Peru was now a Spanish colony, and the conquistadors were wealthy beyond their wildest dreams.

But the Incas did not submit willingly. A young Inca emperor, the brother of Atahualpa, soon led a massive rebellion against the Spaniards, inflicting heavy casualties and nearly wiping out the conquerors. Eventually, however, Pizarro and his men forced the emperor to abandon the Andes and flee to the Amazon. There, he established a hidden capital, called Vilcabamba-only recently rediscovered by a trio of colorful American explorers. Although the Incas fought a deadly, thirty-six-year-long guerrilla war, the Spanish ultimately captured the last Inca emperor and vanquished the native resistance.

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This first-hand reporting spanning from Ground Zero on the day of the 9/11 attacks through decades of trauma and healing offers a stark reminder of just how forcefully the events of September 11 and the war on terror have impacted the lives of countless Americans.

Mike Kelly was across the Hudson River when the two jets crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers in downtown Manhattan on September 11, 2001. His immediate goal was to get to the scene and gather some first-hand reporting to file on deadline. But this was just the first step of a decades-long journey through another kind of rubble, through the pain left behind and the unhealed scars of people's lives in the wake of a terrorist attack.

After Ground Zero traces the lives of a diverse portrait of Americans forced to confront the pain and mystery of the terrorism that tore apart their lives beginning on that September morning. From Kelly's on-the-ground reporting at Ground Zero to Iraq, the US Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Washington, D.C. and various spots in between, the book follows a line of survivors that range from first responders such as police, fire fighters, clergy, and construction workers, to soldiers deployed overseas, loved ones of those killed, and numerous others as they search for answers, policy changes, reparations and accountability, faith, and healing. Kelly's up-close storytelling is a powerful reminder of just how impactful the 9/11 attacks were and the ripple effect they have had in the decades that followed.

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The Shortest History Of The United States Of America

by Don Watson