Author: Nicholas A. Robins
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: americas, impulse, genocidal, insurgencies, native
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-10-05
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0253346169
ISBN-13: 9780253346162

This book investigates three Indian revolts in the Americas: the 1680 uprising of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish; the Great Rebellion in Bolivia, 1780–82; and the Caste War of Yucatan that began in 1849 and was not finally crushed until 1903. Nicholas A. Robins examines their causes, course, nature, leadership, and goals. He finds common features: they were revitalization movements that were both millenarian and exterminatory in their means and objectives; they sought to restore native rule and traditions to their societies; and they were movements born of despair and oppression that

Author: Geoff Simo
Publisher: Pluto Pre
Keywords: genocidal, tool, remedy, legal, economic, sanctions, imposing
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1999-07-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0745313957
ISBN-13: 9780745313955

This text gives an account of the use and misuse of economic sanctions world-wide, highlighting the ways in which sanctions have been employed, ultimately, as weapons of mass destruction, directed primarily against civilian populations. The author details the impact of economic sanctions on a global basis, highlighting their use as a foreign policy tool by powerful nations such as the United States, and revealing the extent to which the US has succeeded in promoting the use of sanctions - in direct violation of the UN charter - through its dominance of the UN Security Council. Using source mat