Rebecca Solnit

Hope In The Dark (eBook, ePUB)

Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope

This book argues for a new understanding of the breakthroughs that have changed our lives and our society. Multi-award winning columnist, author and activist Rebecca Solnit traces a history of people power over five decades and provides both a defence of protest and an exploration of hope in dark times.

Analysing recent breakthroughs - from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the US Supreme Court rulings in support of gay marriage - and contemporary movements - from the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq to the Zapatista uprising in Mexico - Solnit's grasp of change in the twentieth century creates a manifesto for optimism in the twenty-first.

"Great ... this book offers us the key to liberation - and that key is hope." Tony Benn

"Like Simon Schama, Solnit is a cultural historian in the desert-mystic mode, trailing ideas like swarms of butterflies." Harper's

"Radical, humane, witty, sometimes wonderfully dandyish, at other times, impassioned and serious." Alain De Botton (on Wanderlust)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847676832
• Artikelnr.: 38355640

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Solnit has written eighteen acclaimed works of non-fiction, including Wanderlust: A History of Walking and A Field Guide to Getting Lost. An activist, columnist and cultural historian, she has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lannan Literary Award. She lives in San Francisco.

Rezensionen

A short, elegant, passionate polemic on the history and future of progressive political engagement Robert Macfarlane