Best caribbean history books according to redditors
We found 367 Reddit comments discussing the best caribbean history books. We ranked the 131 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
We found 367 Reddit comments discussing the best caribbean history books. We ranked the 131 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
Other posters have touched on the heart of it, but here is a little elaboration if you want to know more:
The only recorded instance of pirates burying treasure anywhere is when Captain William Kidd buried a portion of his ship's cargo on Long Island before meeting with Richard Coote, Earl of Bellomont and Governor of New York. It bears mentioning that he didn't bury this treasure specifically to dig it up later, but because he was facing charges of murder and piracy and his goods were likely to be seized.
He buried the treasure to use as a bargaining chip with Bellomont, hoping it would give him leverage and help him avoid going to trial (Bellomont was one of his benefactors and had even financed a previous voyage). This tactic failed completely, and Kidd's treasure was simply dug up. There are rumors that portions of it remain buried, but this is almost certainly nonsense.
I'd also like to point out that Kidd, in terms of what we usually refer to as 'pirates', hardly qualifies at all. He was well known and respected among the colonial nobility, went to sea with the funds and blessings of many high-ranking people, and happened to end up on the wrong end of a political scandal and with his hand in the cookie jar, so to speak. His trial was rushed, and he may have even had a legitimate letter of marque, making him a privateer, not a pirate.
Robert Louis Stevenson used Kidd (or rather, the fictionalized Kidd-as-pirate that had persisted to the late 19th century) as a prototype for Long John Silver, and embellished the part about burying his treasure. Treasure Island is really the root of so many of the pirate icons we know and love (peg legs, parrots, buried treasure, etc.).
If you're interested in learning more, I recommend you take a look at Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates, The Pirate Hunter, and Under the Black Flag.
Edit: It's actually Gardiner's Island, as one of the above posters mentioned, which is near Long Island, but is separate.
The otherside of the mountain: the Mujahideen during the Soviet-afghan war and a great companian to the bear went over the mountain.
https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Afghan_Guerrilla_Warfare.html?id=3VJJDijysx8C&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
On Guerilla warfare: By Mao himself
https://books.google.com.au/books/about/On_Guerrilla_Warfare.html?id=4_yP6jTL1LgC&redir_esc=y
Guerilla warfare: by Che Guevera
https://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Warfare-Ernesto-Che-Guevara/dp/149299748X
Insurgency & Terrorism: in depth analysis of contemporary insugencies
https://www.amazon.com/Insurgency-Terrorism-Revolution-Apocalypse-Revised-ebook/dp/B001E2H5L0/ref=pd_aw_sim_351_1/132-8647266-8850646?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B001E2H5L0&pd_rd_r=3355dc30-a8e6-11e9-bd99-51f9e84bde3c&pd_rd_w=Dz8jC&pd_rd_wg=8Kasn&pf_rd_p=469620d9-3e90-496d-9dc8-b19f900ba5fe&pf_rd_r=M99YNW41VSS0RRKA56JM&psc=1&refRID=M99YNW41VSS0RRKA56JM
It was more complicated than that, you're correct. But economic questions weren't irrelevant. Rather than talk out of school (my specialization), I thought I should point you at titles that may help and which I don't have to hand because I'm not in my office:
I don't know if this is too long in the tooth now, but Immerman's The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention may have some insights. Bear in mind it's 1983 so the situation became substantially more complicated in the following 7-10 years. But this may tell you a lot about that early period. Walter LaFeber's Inevitable Revolutions (1993) may also be worth a perusal.
But for more recent studies of US policy relative to the Guatemalan coup and its aftermath, I think Bitter Fruit (new edition, 2005) may still be at the top of the heap. Nick Cullather assembled the official CIA history of the 1950s coup in 1999, but I have never laid eyes on that book. I've read bits of Immerman and all of LaFeber, but a long time ago. Hopefully this will give you someplace to start!
A few of the links are broken. Here:
> Studies by historian Robert Thurston
> Democracy, East Germany and the Berlin Wall
> The Russians are Coming: The Politics of Anti-Sovietism
> 1936 Constitution of the USSR
> Do Publicly Owned, Planned Economies Work?
> From Farm to Factory
> Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life
> 20 Reasons to Support Cuba
> Cuba: A Revolution in Motion
> Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion
> Cuban democracy fact sheet
> The Elected Delegate and the Dissident in Cuba’s Municipal Elections
> Korea Resilient! Socialism in Democratic Korea
> Western DPRK Propaganda: The Worst, Occasionally Hilarious, and Often Racist, Lies
Happy reading, comrades!
This book will make a good read, then.
Although this is not surprising given the US's history of perpetually intervening in Haitian affairs, it doesn't make it any less disgusting. Haitians are still being punished for rebelling against their European "masters" ("How dare they!") in 1791.
For those interested in Haitian history and politics, Peter Hallward has a really good [book] (http://www.amazon.com/Damming-Flood-Haiti-Politics-Containment/dp/1844674665/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395857301&sr=8-1&keywords=hallward) showing how the US has clamped down on any attempt by progressive Haitian governments (Aristide) to alleviate poverty and empower the poor.
> but there's several reasons why a militia would win over a large-scale state army.
I too have read a good deal on the subject of guerrilla warfare and I honestly feel this is playing down how difficult it is for the militia. It takes massive political support, something anarchism does not have right now, and an incredibly skilled leadership, which anarchism is also lacking. Also the opposition needs networks to communicate and spread propaganda and literature amongst the people. There has to be multiple channels being used simultaneously such as the internet, paper(s), etc. Unfortunately the internet won't be of much use if there is no power or supplies to repair the technology needed to access it and industrial printing presses are not only few and far between, but are also bourgeois/government owned. This isn't even taking into account the sheer amount of manpower and weaponry that is needed. The former of which anarchism lacks and the latter of which Americans do have in number, but not strength. The days of attacking enemy convoys and simply taking their weaponry is long pasted with the advent of modern technology and increasingly advanced counter insurgency tactics. That being said it is possible and I'd argue somewhat common for an insurgency to win a war, but it is far from as simple as your post makes it out to be and is most definitely not a sure thing. It also usually has an idea that everyone, read people other than simply anarchist, can really get behind, support, and even die for.
The main factor I left out is the use of land, which I suppose could be lumped under the skilled leadership criteria stated above. This issue is an extremely important one as the terrain used and knowing how to use said terrain has been known as the great equalizer of men. It makes irregular forces and regular forces equals when they otherwise wouldn't be. If anyone has any questions please send me a PM.
Also I suppose since I asked for the other users who posted on the subject of guerrilla warfare to post their sources I should include my main sources. These are the main and best ones I've read but there are many others.
Partisan Warfare by O Heilbrunn
Insurgency and Terrorism:From Revolution to Apocalypse by Bard E. O'Neill
War of the Flea:The Classic Study of Guerrilla Warfare by Robert Taber
On Guerrilla Warfare by Mao Tse-Tung. You can find this for free here.
Guerrilla Warfare by Che Guevara. You can find a part of this for free here.
>So you're right, this is something a lot more anarchists should consider.
Everyone of every ideology should. You never know when you will need to fight an organized army. Be it an invading one or your own.
Also if you don't mind me asking what books have you read on the subject? I'm looking for some new ones.
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It’s crazy how people think that we’re incapable. We have been slaved and forced to work for minimal pay for centuries. We have been working hard for other countries, people need to realize that we can do this for ourselves too. I suggest every Puerto Rican read war against all Puerto Rican’s it’s will open our eyes to our history
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>Amazon does, however, continue to sell the following works:
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>Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto — the manifesto of a movement that murdered more than 100 million people, specifically targeting an entire class of people — the bourgeoisie — for destruction; for sale in many editions from the richest capitalist in the world
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>Leon Trotsky’s Terrorism and Communism — a defense of political terrorism
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>Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf — also available in many editions — which is apparently less threatening to the current world order than my book.
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>The Unabomber’s Manifesto — which does seem to create a moral hazard. Want to get your book published? Start mailing out package bombs. Kill three people and injure 23 others, and your book might also be fit to stock at Amazon.com.
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>Valerie Solanas’ S.C.U.M. Manifesto — S.C.U.M. being an acronym for Society to Cut Up Men. Solanas published her manifesto in 1967. In 1968, she attempted to murder Andy Warhol.
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>The Anarchist’s Cookbook — corrected and updated to make it extra lethal
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>Osama Bin Laden’s Messages to the World — mastermind one of history’s greatest terrorist attacks, and you too might be fit to stock at Amazon.com
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>Voice of Hezbollah: The Statements of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah — apparently there’s a whole library of books by Islamist terrorists for sale at Amazon.com
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>Theodor Herzl, The Jewish State — the blueprint of the Zionist movement, which spawned the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine through terrorism, ethnic cleansing, and wars that continue to this day
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>Black Nationalist Manifestos by such writers as Marcus Garvey and Elijah Muhammad
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>Everybody Talks About the Weather . . . We Don’t: The Writings of Ulrike Meinhof
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>Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Guerrilla Warfare
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>Al-Qaida’s Doctrine for Insurgency: Abd al-Aziz al-Muqrin’s “a Practical Course for Guerrilla War”
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Oh, I have no need of one, and probably won't even WROL/post-SHTF. Plus, I doubt my hunter neighbors would appreciate me setting the forest on fire.
One must always be careful with such mods.
Che liked them, though.
https://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Warfare-Ernesto-Che-Guevara/dp/149299748X
https://www.amazon.ca/Salt-World-History-Mark-Kurlansky/dp/0676975356/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1540167131&sr=8-2&keywords=salt+book
There's a pretty good book about this, Sweetness and Power. Not UK-specific, but it looks at the intertwining of sugar and politics through history in a comprehensive way.
"The Sea Rover's Practice" is a great overview of how privateering worked in the age of sail. The book seems very well-sourced, but the focus is on the experience and the techniques of sea raiding and piracy rather than on the biographical details of individual pirates. The author is a former Navy SEAL, and he gleans the historical accounts for technical details as if building a handbook for becoming a pirate himself, or a training manual for his boat crew. He covers every aspect of a pirate voyage from financial investment to executing the raid to wasting the booty in a seaside tavern. The book also serves as a fantastic introduction to maritime life in the period as a whole; you will finish this book with a solid understanding of sailing life.
TL;DR: 10/10, http://i.imgur.com/9KtBsL8.jpg
i think cordingly is the top scholar in the area, and his book under the black flag is a great read.
There's a great book that goes into detail about this concept, although it's a bit dated by now. It's called the Nine Nations of North America.
cough
Books on Pirates:
The Invisible Hook.
Villains of All Nations
The Buccaneers of America
Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
The Sea Rovers Practice
The Buccaneers Realm
Empire of Blue Water
This book, The CIA in Guatemala: The Foreign Policy of Intervention, is actually good at painting a balanced portrait of this. In addition to telling the story of the two brothers and United Fruit Company, it provides a lot of context of the general Cold War anti-Soviet ambience, and the foreign policy mileu of the era. So much so that you switch around the title and subtitle so it was "The Foreign Policy of Intervention: The CIA in Guatemala" and it would still have been a suitable title for the book.
Yea. Check out Sheldon Stern: The Week The World Stood Still, I'm pretty sure that's where I first read about it.
You might also want to check out Robert Kennedy's Thirteen Days.
I'm sure there are more reference to it than that but I'd have to dig though my dead-tree media and I don't have that in front of me right now.
We do know why they're happening.
Have you ever read a history book? Generally speaking every single discussion* they ever had required a "note taker" and it's our custom to speak about these decisions a couple decades after. Obviously the whole truth isn't out there, and certainly not everyone tells the truth. But the motives behind everything I mentioned were clear as day.
I would encourage you to read books like
http://www.amazon.com/Legacy-Ashes-The-History-CIA/dp/0307389006
http://www.amazon.com/Osama-Bin-Laden-Michael-Scheuer/dp/0199898391
http://www.amazon.com/One-Minute-Midnight-Kennedy-Khrushchev/dp/1400078911
These men aren't all powerful, they don't take orders from some homogenous group that always retains the same position. And most importantly the information our leaders are given is often woefully inaccurate. The president more than anyone has the information that he is presented to him manipulated. Although some certainly have been more savvy than others.
"Damming the Flood" Peter Hallward.
The best book on the topic of Lavelas and US interventionism in Haiti.
http://www.amazon.com/Damming-Flood-Politics-Containment-Updated/dp/1844674665
https://books.google.fr/books/about/Cuba.html?id=NKMoAQAAMAAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y
https://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Its-Neighbours-Democracy-Motion/dp/1848138660
http://www.walterlippmann.com/raby-cuba.html
https://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Revolution-History-Fifties-Contemporary/dp/1861894023
https://www.globalresearch.ca/cuba-s-municipal-elections/19230
https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=2aMsi-A56ds&event=video_description&redir_token=h__7ueBq8usTw519jqAjXddOGZp8MTU2NDQzODM3M0AxNTY0MzUxOTcz&html_redirect=1&q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cuba-solidarity.org.uk%2Fresources%2Fdemocracyfactsheet2015.pdf
http://svensk-kubanska.se/val-i-kuba/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-11147157
Come on buddy, it's just basic geopolitics. It wasn't in the US's self interest to have an enemy country so close to their doorstep
Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevara http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Warfare-Ernesto-Che-Guevara/dp/149299748X it expounds on the lessons learned in the Cuban Revolution. Very practical.
Well, we do know that Anne Bonney wasn't hanged. At least, no record shows she was, and there are records showing she was pardoned (along with Mary Read) for being being pregnant.
Mary ended up dying from infections while imprisoned. And Anne disappears from the records. It's presumed she was whisked away by her father (a lawyer/merchant) back to Ireland or the American Colonies.
I am happy we have a trailer with more of her in; she is an impressive historical figure considering the time's bias against women (though she was from a somewhat well to do stock). And she supports the notion that pirates were writing their own codes against ruling monarchies of the time.
Interestingly enough, both Anne and Mary had major reasons in their development from even a young age to start dressing like men and functioning as them. Anne was a bastard daughter and her father raised her in secret as a young boy training to be a lawyer. Mary was raised poorly, and could get work passing as a sailor (male only at the time).
This cross-dressing is not unheard of. Lafayette was so eager to fight in the American Revolution he dressed and acted as a woman to cross the Atlantic in order to fight (something French soldiers from France were not permitted to do).
Somethings to consider for our modern age biases.
Most of my knowledge on this is from "Under the Black Flag" which I have been reading in excitement for this game.
Which reminds me, I keep meaning to buy this book.
Generally speaking there were two "very close calls":
In general, both of these situations share common characteristics. Both involve moments of jitteriness, compounded by physical proximity, mixed with the common human problems of crossed signals, mistrust, and over-reliance on low-level military officers to make decisions that would affect the whole nation if done poorly. They are also characterized by inadequate intelligence: the US thought it knew what had (and had not) been transferred to Cuba in 1962, but in reality there were many more nukes there than they realized, for example. In 1983, the US poorly understood the Soviet mindset with regards to the NATO exercises.
It is hard to determine which of the above cases is worse, in my mind. What makes the 1983 case potentially worse is in that both sides were much more nuclear-armed than in 1962 (where the US had many more arms than the USSR), and the delivery systems were at a point where both were in a use-it-or-lose-it situation (that is, they were fast and accurate, and so if the other side launched a surprise attack first, they could wipe out your nuclear assets very quickly unless you too replied in kind — and with very little time to make that call). But more to the point, in 1983 the United States was, in retrospect, remarkably ignorant of how jangled the Soviets were feeling, and did things that to the US looked like regular military exercises, but to the Soviets looked like a preliminary for a surprise nuclear attack. The Americans were shocked to find out, later, that the Soviets were taking the harsh militaristic language (which was really just for a domestic political audience, anyway) seriously. This kind of miscalculation is more fundamental than technical errors: it is about the way in which deterrence ultimately devolves down to human psychology in complex and very individual ways.
On the Cuban Missile Crisis, see Michael Dobbs, _One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War; on the 1983 war scare, see David Hoffman, The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy_.
There were, arguably, other "close calls" — accidents, bad early warning signals, mishaps. But the above two are generally regarded as the closest with regards to full nuclear war, because of the likelihood of escalation and all-out attack.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ACSNQE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813124379/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9562915719/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
this one so you know what will be used against you https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226841510/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
From Mao Tse-tung
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0252068920/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
this one would be one of the better ones for HK https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813124379/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0873649214/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1574885553/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
There are others, but these were handy from my collection.
The Sea Rover's Practice: Pirate Tactics and Techniques, 1630-1730.
https://www.amazon.com/War-Against-All-Puerto-Ricans/dp/1568585616
I'd definitely recommend Aviva Chomsky's A History of the Cuban Revolution for a good, brief introduction to and analysis of the history of the revolution. It's a quick, easy read and very good.
I recently read Visions of Power in Cuba: Revolution, Redemption, and Resistance 1959-1971 by Lillian Guerra, and I would very highly recommend it. It's not a communist take on things, but still incredibly interesting and great analysis of the first decade after the revolution.
I actually just spent the summer in Cuba, so I can give you some first hand experience with talking to people about immigration.
First, the people who fled Cuba in the 60s were largely upper class whites who were truly enemies of the revolution. These were the original "gusanos", or worms. Most Cubans living on the island don't seem to have much sympathy with them.
But after that it gets a bit more complicated. Beginning in the 90s with the collapse of the Soviet Union/socialist bloc (and thus of Cuba's most important partner -- they lost something like 80% of their exports essentially overnight) and the advent of the so called "Special Period", things got really, really fucking hard in Cuba. There was nothing to eat, no money, no oil, no hope. As is well known in the US, lots of Cubans did everything they could to get to Miami, especially on rafts. It is hard for me, even as a communist and a supporter (to an extent) of the Cuban government, to blame them at all for their decision. Hearing people's stories about their struggle in the 90s is... harrowing. Check out the documentary Balseros for a take on the rafters.
Nowadays, things are much better than in the 90s, largely thanks to Chavez/Venezuela. But plenty of Cubans still want to go to the US. It's hard when you're living in a relatively poor country next door to Empire to not dream of living inside it.
Of course, there have also been people over the years who have fled Cuba for "political" reasons, including many artists and intellectuals. I sympathize with them to some extent -- the political, artistic, cultural, etc repression, while understandable and perhaps necessary to some extent (though that's debatable), must have been (and to a lesser extent still is) very difficult to live under.
I think that the biggest thing I learned in Cuba was to just try to be more nuanced in my understanding of the situation. I still fully support the revolution, and think that overall the revolutionary government has done an admirable job that we have much to learn from. But they messed up in a big way on a lot of things, and it certainly isn't a cakewalk to live in Cuba right now. More than anything else I think Cuba needs a resurgence of the Left worldwide -- that's the only way for the country to recover enough economically to make some necessary political changes without sacrificing socialism.
If you are interested in true pirate history, Under the Black Flag is a splendid book.
Well I just ordered Spy Handler: Memoir of a KGB Officer which is about the spy who recruited Aldrich Ames after a recommendation from a friend.
Some that I have found recommendations from on other subreddits include:
One Minute to Midnight Not sure how scholarly this book is, but I read it, and it has perspective from all three sides of the conflict.
The latest video of Unpacked is about a quite unknown part of our history: some of the Spharadim who fled the expulsion of 1492 joined the Caribbeans and engaged in unlawful activities, notably targeting the Spaniards.
The video is short, so if you're looking for more info:
Jewish Pirates — Wikipedia
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean — JPost
Jewish Pirates (book on Amazon, no affiliation)
What about Sidney W. Mintz's Sweetness and Power? Published in 1986, it's 274 pages.
For those that don't know. Puerto Rico is a huge economic scam that the US government has been per enacting for the benefit of a hand full of billionaires. This scam also accounts for 5% of the US economy. We control the way they import and export, thus controlling their entire economy and preventing them from forming their own. This scam has led to the bull shit loans they were given with the future end goal of them defaulting in their loans and the all their assets being sold off to private interest. Their schools, infrastructure, prisons, naturals resources, utilities, you name it will eventually be given to their debtors and Puerto Rico will become a free market nightmare. Meanwhile whenever they attempt to get help from the government (fed loans or grants, or bankruptcy protection) congress votes it down because that hand full of families still needs to get their pay day.
https://www.amazon.com/War-Against-All-Puerto-Ricans/dp/1568585012/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1435763235&sr=1-1&keywords=nelson+denis&pebp=1435763237228&perid=0Y6VG7Q35DMERJN7WZ2C
You might be interested in reading Under the Black Flag: The Romance and Reality of Life Among the Pirates. I haven't gotten very far into it myself, but I've enjoyed the bit that I have read.
I think it was this NPR review that originally introduced me to the book.
Personally, I suggest A History of the Cuban Revolution. I bought this not too long ago and it looks wonderful. Also, it's author is the daughter of Noam Chomsky, whom I have quarrels with, but nevertheless is a wonderful author.
"Debunked."
http://i.imgur.com/Hsqr04i.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/XB3PEwX.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/lFNX15a.jpg
Source
>the conquistador and the padres saw this region[American Southwest] whole, without imaginary line between creating divisions between the state state of Sonora and the state of Arizona. The desert was the same, the cactuses were the same. And the descendants of the conquistadors are still here. Hispanics in New Mexico still refer to themselves as Spanish, rather than Mexican-Americans, partially out of snobbery, but also out of a sense of historical accuracy. in Santa Fe, because of intermarriage, the lineage is throughly European. Mexican Americans, by contrast, claim a far more indigenous North American ancestry.
Page 216 The Nine Nations of North America
Here's a decent book regarding the economic/political/sociological "cultures" of North America. Also seen in this map on /r/imaginarymaps
For the most part pirates couldn't take advantage of boat yards and the like. They would regularly careen ships (anchor them in shallow water and wait for the tide to go out) so they could defoul the bottoms and re coat them. While most pirate ships would have employed a carpenter for a lot of maintenance such as regular careening the carpenter would be supervising and using the work of the crew. Careening would have taken place more often on a pirate vessel since speed was soo important to them. The carpenter may have had some base pay but usually would have been paid in shares (a portion of the loot). Materials, sails, extra masts, etc would have been stolen off other ships. Since a pirate ship would normally have a lot more crew than a merchant vessel labor was in no short supply. So it probably wouldn't cost a pirate much if anything in actual $$$ but there would have been a huge investment in time/labor. I've been reading a great book on it, Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly https://www.amazon.com/Under-Black-Flag-Romance-Reality/dp/081297722X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1465908075&sr=8-1&keywords=Under+the+Black+Flag
Having said that there were shares set aside for ship maintenance. A pirate captain didn't really own his pirate ship the whole crew did, and when not in battle everything was voted on, including who the captain was, so any cost of maintenance that might have occurred would have been a distributed cost.
http://www.amazon.com/Sailing-Ships-War-1400-1860/dp/0831776560/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405749703&sr=8-1&keywords=sailing+ships+of+war+1400-1860
http://www.amazon.com/Harbors-High-Seas-Edition-Aubrey-Maturin/dp/0805066144/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1405749730&sr=8-2&keywords=patrick+o%27brian+reference
http://www.amazon.com/Under-Black-Flag-Romance-Reality/dp/081297722X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1405749757&sr=8-1&keywords=under+the+black+flag
all three good places to start. The second one is fantastic to have open and waiting while reading the O'Brian Books
Under The Black Flag (The link is to the Amazon page)
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/07/20-reasons-to-support-cuba/
http://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Revolution-Motion-Isaac-Saney/dp/1842773631
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=79273783e814b6a8747ea24710d15f0c
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/resources/democracyfactsheet2015.pdf
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi/article/187/all-in-this-together-cubarsquos-participatory-democracy
http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/the-elected-delegate-and-the-dissident-in-cuba%E2%80%99s-municipal-elections/
http://www.walterlippmann.com/cubanconstitution.html
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=fdfc7aee98499baaae696d5b1e04c065
https://www.amazon.com/Sweetness-Power-Place-Modern-History/dp/0140092331
This was a great read for me about history of sugar (and capitalism). And it has a whole great section about popularization of tea in England. I see a potential in a trading or tycoon game about influencing Europe with crops from exotic lands in the 18th century. Coffee, Tea, Cocoa. It could work well, we should brainstorm about it :)
You say that so confidently?...
I suggest some of these books:
Richard Gott: Cuba- a new history
Aviva Chomsky: A History of the Cuban Revolution
Marifeli Perez-Stable - The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy, 2nd Edition
Eduardo Galeano: Open Veins of Latin America
Lars Schoultz: That Infernal Little Cuban Republic: The United States and the Cuban Revolution
Under the Black Flag! Nonfiction, incredibly interesting, and a great read that's hard to put down.
They've got it for cheap on Amazon if you don't mind second-hand buying, hardcover too!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Under-Black-Flag-Romance-Reality/dp/081297722X
Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
No, this was a separate incident, detailed in One Minute to Midnight. This occurred during the Cuban Missile Crisis. I'm sorry that I can't recall the name of the pilot at the moment. It was declassified after the end of the cold war.
This has become a trendy topic recently, and there's been a lot of great material published. Here are a few books I'm a big fan of:
Cwiertka, Katarzyna J. Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity. London: Reaktion Books, 2006. This book has really stayed with me. It traces the imperial, military, economic, and political roots of the modern Japanese diet and then follows its export internationally. I love this book.
Norton, Marcy. Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures: a History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008. I've only read an article on chocolate that later made its way into this book, but it was fabulous. Not only an eye-opening exploration of chocolate's pre-colonial and colonial history in the New World, but a wonderful treatment of its introduction in the Old World. Norton does a fabulous job of demonstrating the complexity and multi-directionality of colonialism here, and of defending the place of taste within that history.
Mintz, Sidney W. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. New York: Penguin Books, 1985. This is an absolute classic. Mintz is an anthropologist, and this is an anthropologist's history of the role of sugar and the taste for sweetness in a multi-century sweep of world history. Mintz does so much here. Such a must-read.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. Tastes of Paradise: a Social History of Spices, Stimulants, and Intoxicants. New York: Vintage Books, 1993. This book is fun and readable, but not super scholarly. There are plenty of big provocative claims that make you rethink the use of stimulants in Europe -- but some of those claims need a bit more research, I think.
Gewertz, Deborah, and Frederick Errington. Cheap Meat: Flap Food Nations in the Pacific Islands. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. And why not a Pacific-centered book? This is also written by anthropologists. It focuses on Papua New Guinea and New Zealand -- and Tonga a bit -- and explores the flap food trade in Oceania. Flaps are fatty portions of sheep that are extremely unhealthy and are variously seen as cast-off waste food, a symbol of neo-colonialism, and a route toward some version of "the good life." Great book -- even if it has more questions than answers.
Hope that helps. There are plenty more. Let me know if you're interested in something specific.
Defoe
Woodard
Woodard
I'm guessing that these are the books they're using for history reference mainly.
Edit: Cordingly -Also a good resource book.
A lot of those stories sound bland because they were written by British Naval officers who tended to keep things short and to the point. A case in point being captain Bartholomew Roberts (if I remember it's been a while since I read about this) he was the most prolific pirate of all times in terms of ships captured, the reason for this being that he was known to be a harsh captain and ran his ship like a military vessel. The British finally caught up to him off the west coast in Africa and were finally able to take him down. What the reports fail to make a mention of was that they caught them in the middle of an intense storm with waterspouts apparently and that the only reason they were able to take him down was because most of his crew was still drunk from the night before since they raided a town. The actual history from the golden age of piracy is full of stories like this. Just gotta find the books that go into them a bit more.
This is the book a read years ago that has a ton of the stories you are looking for!
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/081297722X/ref=pd_aw_fbt_14_img_3/147-4147247-5238661?ie=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NE5GTF1HX6Z2548HD1D4
More on ZR/RIFLE:
ZR/RIFLE project
ZR Rifle / License to Kill
ZR Rifle : The Plot To Kill Kennedy and Castro: Cuba Opens Secret Files (Amazon)
Has some inaccuracies, but overall a great book about 20th century PR history: https://www.amazon.com/War-Against-All-Puerto-Ricans/dp/1568585012
>Basically us demands offensive missiles to be taken back. Negotiations. Russia says ok. Setup a Russia - US hotline. Doesn't sound very traumatic.
What? Jesus. No. That's all you got from it? The world came dangerously close to nuclear war and it was only thanks to the thinking of some very smart, level-headed men and a bit of luck that we're even here today.
Perfect example -- Google Khrushchev's second letter. (EDIT: Actually, this is a pretty good link on it.) Kennedy ignored it instead of getting antagonized even more. Do you really think Trump could do the same?
Finally, and I'm not meaning this as a slight against you -- but they really don't teach this in school anymore? If not, I strongly recommend you read One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs. Read it and imagine Trump in Kennedy's shoes. And then imagine if we would seriously be here today.
I highly encourage anyone who sees this to read "The Nine Nations of North America" by Joel Garreau. Its a bit dated now (35 years old), but its a fascinating look at the differences that have shaped our regional cultures.
A more modern take on this would be "American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America" by Colin Woodard. I haven't actually read this one yet, but it seems to be the progression of the work that Garreau laid out.
And most of them aren't the BBC. Most of them are books on communism. Most of them are just covers of books with no substance. Some webpages aren't even up anymore. A dailymail article with no source. Love the one that links to a book on amazon too, great source.
https://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Revolution-Motion-Isaac-Saney/dp/1842773631
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221064/Oppressive-grey-No-growing-communism-happiest-time-life.html
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=32DAA2871728468189A57E0233492A3A
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=ed2ba2da9895bf1653a04e6555b5246f
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3043d96567ceab152a0992313bcf82b9
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=bcb105833aa3f469f1131209e3875a9f
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=c22e40075143d321a449a15690f82720
https://rbth.co.uk/news/2014/08/19/poll_russians_say_aug_1991_events_are_tragedy_not_triumph_of_democracy_39129.html
https://clogic.eserver.org/2010/Ball.pdf
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=fa5b6de5135f49269cd2b35b727236f7
http://www.strongwindpress.com/pdfs/EBook/The_Battle_for_Chinas_Past.pdf
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=b83ac8a7e6c2d8ce3f809842521965f1
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=58B399C3CA70411186D2AD96230D649A
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5ba75f3113b0e1e4f36fc587ddfe2826
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=c02e1f533d33ecea7d9946f55a097bd0
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=69633412b4947eb197779d652ba6e331
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=FF14AB76713984526357FE8829DEAD3C
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3E3E1D3A68BF27293A12BC1076076C7B
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=79273783e814b6a8747ea24710d15f0c
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=fdfc7aee98499baaae696d5b1e04c065
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2638213/Tourist-took-camera-inside-North-Korea-expected-really-really-sad-people-shocked-seemingly-ordinary-lives-citizens.html
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=6b0447bc14808161362b828aee0a284a
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=ad84f6afb71fc78856edd02dcec65c7f
Your wiki even links to one of its own post whose source has been removed you you can't even check it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/2kwid3/a_model_of_democratic_and_participatory_socialist/
It’s about this:
https://www.amazon.com/Sweetness-Power-Place-Modern-History/dp/0140092331/ref=nodl_
>Thank you for that article, it did clarify your argument about cultural communities in America immensely.
I recommend picking up a copy of American Nations for yourself; it's quite illuminating. Our Patchwork Nation (book & website) and The Nine Nations of North America are also worth a look, but they are a bit ahistorical and place too much emphasis on economics rather than culture.
> I have to ask what the intentions are behind rejecting science...
With "science" lets be specific, as people (conservative or otherwise) tend to accept and promote scientific findings which confirm their biases. When people complain about conservative opposition to "science" they typically mean the following:
Rejection of Evolution
This position is assumed by many Evangelical Christians who embrace Biblical Litteralism. It is an article of their faith that the Bible, which states humanity was created in it's current form, is the true and inerrant word of God.
I think it's noteworthy that this issue has become more controversial, not less, over time; i.e. there are more people in America today rejecting evolution than there were in the 80s and 90s. I believe that for many Evangelicals rejecting evolution has become a necessary affirmation of their faith as part of the broader fight against Liberal cultural imperialism, which tends to be secular.
Rejection of Climate Change
The environmental movement in America is largely based in the liberal cultures of the Left Coast and Yankeedom (digression: I hate that name and tend to think of Woodard's "Yankeedom" as 'Greater New England'). In fact, the Left Coast was dubbed "Ecotopia" in The Nine Nations of North America, because of the importance of the environment to that culture.
This means that the primary proponents of climate science are the cultural enemies of America's Conservative cultures. By itself that would make the science suspect to those cultures.
Addressing the issues raised by climate change will require even more use of the federal government to enforce a cultural value of the aforementioned liberal cultures (specifically, environmentalism). It should come as no surprise that Conservatives increasingly suspect it's simply all propaganda meant to justify ever more cultural imperialism by the left.
Rejection of "Social Science"
On this front I have a lot of agreement with Conservatives. Much of "Social Science" seems, at best, to be a pseudo-science, heavily influenced by the biases and assumptions of its practitioners. Much of it also emerges from Universities based in liberal cultural regions, which explains why conservatives reject it.
Put simply, when it comes to the conservative "rejection" of science, what they are really rejecting is the arguments of Liberal Cultures, even when those arguments are right. The sad truth is, it doesn't matter if you've got the facts on your side, when the people you need to persuade can't trust you.
Scenario: two people come to you, asking you to choose a side in their argument. One is a trusted community leader or the representative of an industry that provides something you value and employs thousands of people. The other is someone who holds your beliefs in contempt and who promotes values you find offensive. Who would you believe?
Rejection of Healthcare
The great irony of the current health care debate is that the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare) was based off a plan from the Heritage Foundation (a conservative think tank). So why are Conservatives so adamant in rejecting it?
Again, it's a matter of trust. All they can see is an effort to bring healthcare under the control of the federal government, and thus under the control of the liberal cultures.
If a conservative President had proposed the plan they would have supported it. Instead they are opposing it, because they don't trust the intentions of the people pushing it.
Rejection of Education
I actually went to the trouble to look up the Common Core standards which conservatives are up in arms about. Frankly, I found them so vague and innocuous that I suspect they were only passed as a "feel good" measure to make it look like the administration was taking education seriously.
Nothing in them innately challenges conservative cultural values, so again I believe it's simply a matter of trust. It looks to them like Liberals using the federal government to indoctrinate their children, so they are fighting it tooth and nail.
>there are instances in which the conflicting values of a larger nation must be resolved
Very true, but unless you are going to use force, such resolutions require compromise and compromise requires trust. The cultural imperialism of America's liberal cultures, their open contempt for conservative values and their willingness to use the federal government to enforce their values on conservative communities, has destroyed any hope of establishing such trust.
>The fight for Civil Rights was an extremely controversial movement at the time, and many communities rejected it as progressive imperialism, which it certainly was. It was also the minority demanding change from the majority. If you look at it like that, making many people change for few might seem unfair but that is an extremely limited way of seeing. First of all, what exactly did the majority have to give up?
What the majority had to lose, was exactly what it did lose: the national consensus. In the wake of the Great Depression the Democratic party forged a political consensus between Americas various cultures, which allowed the nation to progress economically and stand united in the face of foreign threats.
That consensus, which prevailed into the early 1960s, saw America rise to the status of a global super power, entailed the strongest sustained economic expansion in our nation's history (before and since), and vastly expanded the middle class. That consensus was based on a social contract which entailed the liberal cultures ignoring the racist policies of the south.
Look at where we are today: declining global influence, rising economic inequality, and extreme political dysfunction. We have arrived at this situation precisely because the national consensus was sacrificed on the altar of liberal cultural imperialism.
That being said, it wasn't the passage of the Civil Rights Act which dealt the fatal blow. That act was, in many ways, simply an evolution of the national consensus. It was the product of a democratic process; passed by an elected congress and signed into law by an elected president.
The legalization of abortion, deregulation of contraception, and abolition of school prayer, were qualitatively different. They were forced on the nation by un-elected judges. These decisions were not the product of a national search for consensus and they galvanized the formation of the religious right, without which the Republican party would not have an effective electoral coalition.
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> It is infinitely less expensive to fund contraceptive services than to pay for pregnancy and childbirth
This is actually a very short sighted view. Since the wide spread adoption of contraception ,western nations have seen a marked demographic decline. If it weren't for immigration the U.S. population would be declining. Nations with aging and shrinking populations face stagnant or negative economic growth (see Japan).
Unfortunately, importing relatively uneducated workers from the third world to replace highly educated and productive first world workers who refuse to reproduce, is not a viable long term solution. Western nations might soon have to consider banning contraception in order to ensure their long term viability.
>insurance companies already "subsidize" men's sex lives, by covering erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra. That insurance companies were already covering those drugs was part of the reason why the Employment Equal Opportunity Commission ruled in 2000 that insurance companies providing prescription coverage could not exempt birth control.
That's a specious comparison. Erectile dysfunction is a medical problem requiring treatment. Fertility is not a disease, it is in fact a sign of health in premenopausal women. Comparing one to the other is like comparing reconstructive surgery with purely cosmetic surgery.
It's worth noting that the EEOC is an appointed body, not an elected one. Their rulings are not the product of a national debate in search of a consensus.
>Actually all the Planned Parenthoods in my area provide a big bag of free condoms to any person who asks for them.
Bully for them, but are they being required to by federal law? It's fine for an institution to promote your values in your culture. It's not alright for the federal government to coerce institutions in other cultures to enforce values which conflict with their own.
>>Men pay 70% of the taxes in this country
>And I'm gonna need sauce on this please.
Good catch. This figure is repeated often in the manosphere, so I cited it without confirmation. I think it emerged from this British report, but I can't find comparable numbers for the U.S. Given the disparity between male and female income in the U.S. it's likely men are paying more in taxes than women, but I can't find any hard numbers.
There are reasons why many (well relatively few) of us will never support statehood. I understand it is better than the current status, but I have no desire to secure a permanent subordinate relationship which my country has only been out of for a few months since 1493 (Spain granted some autonomy in 1898 but then US took over).
A few examples
I think "Ley Jones", FBI's carpetas, which are extremely well documented in Nelson Dennis' War Against All Puerto Ricans, and the continued incarceration of Oscar Lopez Rivera are additional atrocities that were more subtle.
The killing of Filiberto Ojeda Rios is arguably another, but I am biased with this one. Regardless, the way he was killed was objectively inhumane (shot him at his house after he didn't resist then stood outside, waiting hours for him to bleed out and die).
Due to all of these things as well as insular persecution (because yes, some Puerto Ricans are also guilty) I disagree with the notion that there can ever be a fully democratic decision regarding the territorial status. Our collective mindset has been severely tainted. PNP (statehood) and PPD (ELA/colony) parties have been the only ones in power. Both of them have time and time again to be corrupt as fuck and mostly used the territorial debate as something that differentiates them but they're mostly exactly the same. This is anecdotal, but the more educated someone is the higher the probability they support independence.
Hopefully the independent (as it is used in US, not in relation to territory) candidates that are running for this term will get some influence. If it was up to me, I'd give PIP (independence as in territorial status) a shot, but the island is filled with melons (green on the outside as in PIP but red inside as in PPD mostly due to fears that no one else will vote PIP).
Would write some more but I've final exams to take care of. Just a final note, the only thing Congress has done so far is propose a Fiscal Control Board which is so colonial that even the current PPD governor, who will bend his ass over for anything, is against it. I also expect we will soon have a humanitarian crisis (well IMO we already do but some disagree) due to high incidences of Zika virus while 1 doctor is leaving the island per day
Thank you reddit for at least discussing this. I am doing my undergraduate here in the mainland and most people don't even know where the island is and much less that I'm not an "international student". To those that do know, they think the island is a tropical paradise which is rich and everyone sips Bacardi on a golf cart while jacking off to mamasitas. Sadly even the most liberal Sanders supporters mostly shrug or don't care when I explain what is (and has been, for decades) actually going on.
Guerrilla Warfare
If you are really interested in this, I suggest the book Thirteen Days by Robert Kennedy. By documenting the Cuban Missile Crisis day by day, it describes the risk of a nuclear confrontation accelerating into a global disaster.
Welp, it was a crisis in which the whole world was almost obliterated, so it's actually worth spending time learning about. We could all be dead if the Kennedy brothers hadn't been there. JFK was determined not to get everyone killed or to let the crisis escalate to violent conflict. It was that determination IMO that saved the world.
Here's R. Kennedy's Memoir about it, here's the full movie about it, and here's the Wikipedia page about it where you very easily could have found the answer on your own (really, couldn't find it anywhere?), with about 10 minutes of reading and a little bit of critical thought. Next time do your own research, it'll stick in your mind.
Kushner describes it as a "city", but with no power, water grid, sewage system or stormwater management,[1] it's more of a squatter camp with roads than a city.
They want to build infrastructure, but since nobody owns the land they're squatting on, there's no way to raise money via land taxes. The technocrat answer to that would be individual septic tanks and solar panels, but because there's no land ownership and no law enforcement, you'd have to be nuts to invest any serious money in building a house, because a gang would just take it from you. Classic development trap.
Jonathan Katz talked about Corail/Cannan in The Big Truck That Went By, and he wasn't a fan. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009OZN6GM/ Published in 2013, but it doesn't sound like much has changed.
1: Port-au-Prince gets about twice as much rain as Seattle per year, and is routinely hit by hurricanes. If you don't manage the stormwater, it washes your house downhill. Sewage systems have also become important, since UN peacekeepers brought cholera with them after the earthquake.
This is a solid one
https://www.amazon.com/dp/081297722X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_CodyCbYNC7SBD
But he's not even close to being a communist, neither is anyone on the alt-right. Communism is basically the polar opposite of the alt-right.
You might want to be a little more informed- So here we go :D
SECTION 1: THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: THE SOVIET UNION MANUFACTURED A FAMINE IN UKRAINE
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: THE SOVIET UNION REPRESSED AND KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 3: THE SOVIET UNION AND THE EASTERN BLOC HAD NO DEMOCRACY
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 4: SOCIALISM IS AN ECONOMIC FAILURE
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 5: EVERYBODY HATED SOCIALISM
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 6: LIFE UNDER SOCIALISM WAS TERRIBLE
SECTION 2: THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: MAO KILLED MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: CHINA WAS A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP
SECTION 3: CUBA
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: CHE WAS A BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHER
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: CUBA HAS NO DEMOCRACY AND IS A HORRIBLE PLACE TO LIVE
SECTION 4: THE DPRK
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: NORTH KOREANS BELIEVE IN UNICORNS AND THEY THINK KIM JONG-UN IS IMMORTAL
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 2: THE DPRK IS A FASCIST MONARCHY
SECTION 5: THE PEOPLE'S (SOCIALIST) REPUBLIC OF ALBANIA
ANTI-COMMUNIST MYTH NUMBER 1: ALBANIA WAS A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP
tl;dr: bash the fash
I can't find the one I read, but just poking around amazon I found these:
Viet Cong Boobytraps, Mines And Mine Warfare Techniques by United States Army
Guerrilla Warfare by Ernesto Che Guevara
Guerrilla Warfare And Special Forces Operations, FM 31-21 by DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY
Try Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean interesting book.
Well I went looking for it online and I stumbled on the show!!! I'm sorry I had the title wrong. It's called under the Black flag. https://www.amazon.com/Under-Black-Flag-Romance-Reality/dp/081297722X
Sounds like you read this book:
https://www.amazon.ca/Salt-World-History-Mark-Kurlansky/dp/0676975356
Its an excellent read if you like history.
The history of grog is pretty interesting. This section of the wikipedia article was pulled almost wholecloth from The Sea Rover's Practice, which is a great book, if a bit dry.
British sailors came to be called limeys because the citrus juice of choice was lemons, until inconvenient political alliances limited access to the fruit, and the Brits switched to limes.
Edit: Sadly, the URL encoding doesn't seem to work. Sorry =(
I read
"Under the Black Flag" which is nonfiction but was very enjoyable.
[linky] (http://www.amazon.com/Under-Black-Flag-Romance-Reality/dp/081297722X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342402253&sr=8-1&keywords=under+the+black+flag)
The graphic novels
Set to Sea by drew weing
Baggywrinkles by lucy bellwood
Crogan's Vengeance by Chris Schweizer
Literature
Master and Commander by Patrick O' Brian (based on historical events)
Two years before the Mast by Henrey Dana (Embellished but trueish)
The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex by Owen Chase (True Story)
Endurance by Alfred Lansing (True Story)
The United States Navy Blue Jackets Manual by Thomas J. Cutler (useful for facts and lingo as it's made for teaching seamen the basics)
Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly (Historical info on Pirates)
Movies
Master and Commander (acurat for film)
Yellowbeard (comedy)
Cutthroat Island (Actiony)
Captains Courageous (Just a Film Classic)
Captain Blood (Buckle Swashing)
All links are to the Amazon.com Listings, but most of this should be available via resale or library for less.
Hope this helps.
> Under the Black Flag
Its on Amazon UK.
>I was hoping you could give me a link to what success in combating homelessness looks like in Cuba. The reason I mentioned economic homogeneity is that "eradicating homelessness" is easy if the bar is set pretty low to begin with.
Sure:
https://fresnoalliance.com/homeless-in-cuba-not-likely/
https://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/cuba_statistics.html
This book is good if you can buy it
Cuba has advanced leaps and bounds under the Castro's most notably in indicators of quality of life like healthcare, education/literacy, sanitation, etc. It has a mortality rate lower than the US and its medical system is lauded even by capitalist NGOs as exemplary.
>Note that my issue with your claim about Cuba is separate from what you said about NY, which to me sounds more success from a statistics standpoint than combating the actual underlying issues.
You're right that NY doesn't do so well at treating the underlying issues, but IMO ensuring there are beds for every homeless person in the city is great compared to what a lot of cities do.
Yeah. While the Russians developed the first ICBMs, technically (The R7), it was impractical as a weapon. And while Khrushchev claimed that the USSR was rolling out missiles "like sausages", the reality is that they barely had any in the early 60s.
The R7 was replaced with new developments like the R16 (Which was the first really functional ICBM for the USSR), and by the late 60s-early 70s, the gap had closed enough that MAD was a real thing. But in 1962, the USSR would have been blown off the face of the earth. The US would have been hurt, but probably would have survived.
Source: Mostly from Red Moon Rising, and One Minute to Midnight. Pop-History, but both really good books, and well worth reading.
On a flight to Japan years ago, I witnessed a man who had brought nothing more than this to entertain him. For 14 hours.
https://www.amazon.com/Under-Black-Flag-Romance-Reality/dp/081297722X is one of the best nonfiction book on pirates.
If you want a sword & sorcery, fantasy version of pirates, Red Seas Under Red Skies is a great read. If you want just piratey fiction, Captain Blood is one of the best pirate books. It's older, but still in print. I love that thing!
> So you’re saying that Cuba doesn’t restrict free speech?
No, they do. I just think that's an acceptable thing to do. Sure, free speech is nice but housing, education, and healthcare are more important. In an ideal world we'd have both, but a hungry and homeless man doesn't care for free speech.
> You don’t lose your job for speaking out against the government?
No, you don't. You are legally and constitutionally guaranteed a job in Cuba.
> Tell me, Why is he in Sweden if Cuba is so great and full of opportunities?
Cuba is a third world country and has difficulties due to the 50 year long embargo that prevents them from trading with virtually any western country that's allied with the US.
> News and media aren’t censored?
No, they are.
> Is it not true that owning a business isn’t heavily restricted to the point where most of your income goes to the government?
Lol. "Economic freedom". You're talking to a communist, why would I care about letting people own businesses? Cuba has worker co-operatives and public enterprise. Capitalism is inherently exploitative. Cuba not having private enterprise is a good thing.
> The president not having legislative power? Bunk.
> Taxi drivers don’t make more than doctors? Bunk.
If you want sources, here are sources.
> Racism and homophobia are super common
As for the whole LGBT thing... (again)
SRS and HRT are provided free of charge. This is more than can be said for a lot of countries.
CENESEX is a government-funded body in Cuba, best known for advocating tolerance of LGBT issues on the island. CENESEX stresses acceptance of sexual diversity and has attracted international attention in recent years for its campaigns for the rights of transgender persons, including the recognition of an individual’s gender identity, regardless of birth sex, and provision of state-funded sexual reassignment surgery.
Cuba also has an Assembly Against Homophobia and Transphobia, which last year launched a week dedicated to stamping out homophobia and transphobia, spearheaded by Mariela Castro.
All this said, yes Cuba still has a way to go. Cuba, despite being a socialist state, is very catholic, and so they can be conservative in some ways. But Cuba has improved over the years.
Yes, laws in the US vary from state to state, but on a national level the US is behind Cuba in many ways. And not only the US, but progressive countries like Sweden (where I'm from) are also behind in some respects.
The imprisonment of gay people 60 years ago was obviously horrible, and Cuba recognises that what they did was both morally wrong and unconstitutional.
In his autobiography My Life, Fidel Castro criticized the machismo culture of Cuba and urged for the acceptance of homosexuality. He made several speeches to the public regarding discrimination against homosexuals.
In a 2010 interview with Mexican newspaper La Jornada, Fidel Castro called the persecution of homosexuals while he was in power "a great injustice, great injustice!" Taking responsibility for the persecution, he said, "If anyone is responsible, it's me. We had so many and such terrible problems, problems of life or death. In those moments, I was not able to deal with that matter [of homosexuals]. I found myself immersed, principally, in the Crisis of October, in the war, in policy questions." Castro personally said that the negative treatment of gays in Cuba arose out of the country's pre-revolutionary attitudes toward homosexuality.
> I’m just saying It’s pretty clear that you won’t go to Cuba and record yourself talking to random people for obvious reasons. Doesn’t fit the narrative. Prove me wrong though. Go ahead.
A one-way flight from Gothenburg to Havana is $1,128. Buy me a ticket and I'll do what you ask.
Well, ok seems there was a misunderstanding between the historian and me. He was simply quoting it from a secondary source.
Finally, he was not sure where we would be able to find a copy of it but in the meantime, google scholars has more reliable sources than elsewhere.
Also, I didn't have the time to read it so I'm not sure how much it covers Black Beard but one book that was highly recommended for pirates is Under the black flag by David Cordingly
Hope this helps and sorry that I couldn't provide with more info.
This reminds me, whilst we are on the subject of bookstore purchases, I would highly reccommmend every American household buys a copy of this
> You first said it was political backlash, now you are saying that it was Hezbollah using civilians as human shields that didn't allow Israel to win.
No, no. I said it was political backlash and I still stand by it. Israel got political backlash because of civilian casualties. Militarily, they were winning against Hezbollah. Hezbollah could not capture 1 cm of Israeli lands while Israel was getting deeper and deeper into Lebanese territory. Israel retreated, but not because Hezbollah was too strong for them in any kind.
> And your argument that Israel has to massacre all lebanese Twelver shiite to win is just flawed, Hezbollah didn't have more than 5 thousand troops in 2006.
You can't kill all those 5 000 troops because they are guerilla fighters. That means that they hide in homes, schools, etc. That's how guerilla warfare takes place. You hide among the population to ambush the conventional army. This is a book for you to start with:
http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Warfare-Ernesto-Che-Guevara/dp/149299748X
> Lebanon was a big loser. Hezbollah not so much, they already have twice the rockets they had in 2006. Israel clearly didn't "lose", but they set objectives that they failed to achieve.
Hezbollah was militarily a loser. They got crushed, couldn't patrol their posts anymore openly like they used and had to use a big portion of their missiles/rockets.
The fact that they doubled their rockets now doesnt change that. If I lose my car today, but buy a new one next year, I still lost my old care despite having a new one.
>Pol Pot born Saloth Sar was a Cambodian politician and revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge from 1963 until 1997. From 1963 to 1981, he served as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea.
Ah so you'll also attribute everything the Democratic Republic of North Korea has done to be representative of Democracy?
Fucking hell do you not understand the concept of manipulation? That was Pol Pot's main game.
>That's because of the communist government. You really should know the basics before you talk bullshit.
I'm sorry, what? Vietnam was under French colonial rule. To end this, Vietnam had an independence war which expelled the French and kept them out permanently. Following that, the land reforms done were to end remnants of that preceding colonial system.
Do you not have any knowledge of the history of Vietnam outside the bullshit you might've learned in a middle school US history class?
>How about a video where you can watch it happening. You can be your own source!
Oh cool, the opposition leaders who promote fucking terrorism, boycott elections and lie about the state of Venezuela in order to get totally unbiased US support.
No, fuck them. I have no problem with their arrest, especially given that this was done in part (AFAIK) because they went against the rules of the house arrest they were under.
>Yeah, I'm done. I feel like you have to go to a school that only offers political studies classes to learn how to be this stupid.
Lmfao, ok here's some sources for you:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=ed2ba2da9895bf1653a04e6555b5246f
https://archive.org/details/IsTheRedFlagFlying
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=3043d96567ceab152a0992313bcf82b9
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=bcb105833aa3f469f1131209e3875a9f
https://gowans.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/democracy-east-germany-and-the-berlin-wall/
https://archive.org/details/TheRussiansAreComing
http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/russian/const/1936toc.html
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=c22e40075143d321a449a15690f82720
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=58B399C3CA70411186D2AD96230D649A
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=5ba75f3113b0e1e4f36fc587ddfe2826
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=c02e1f533d33ecea7d9946f55a097bd0
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=69633412b4947eb197779d652ba6e331
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=FF14AB76713984526357FE8829DEAD3C
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/07/20-reasons-to-support-cuba/
https://www.amazon.com/Cuba-Revolution-Motion-Isaac-Saney/dp/1842773631
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=79273783e814b6a8747ea24710d15f0c
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/resources/democracyfactsheet2015.pdf
http://www.cuba-solidarity.org.uk/cubasi/article/187/all-in-this-together-cubarsquos-participatory-democracy
http://dissidentvoice.org/2010/05/the-elected-delegate-and-the-dissident-in-cuba%E2%80%99s-municipal-elections/
http://www.walterlippmann.com/cubanconstitution.html
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=fdfc7aee98499baaae696d5b1e04c065
Now to tackle your wikipedia article:
Links regarding the USSR:
https://redscans.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/austin-murphy-the-triumph-of-evil.pdf
https://archive.org/details/HumanRightsInTheSovietUnion
https://www.scribd.com/document/36425175/Ludo-Martens-Another-View-of-Stalin
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=6513AE40D043D98FFE6031A776783160
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=202D73A751817E9D047121E74D02671C
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=a87ecbb483bf27f182f31626527035a6
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=e6bc9593a1787378b671944f51b393a9
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=2A465EA2A003644077523F690545F113
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=4f13589002a3dfa4b0139b332fef54ad
In regards to the PRC:
https://monthlyreview.org/commentary/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/
http://www.invent-the-future.org/2013/12/monster-liberator-legacy-mao-zedong/
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=b83ac8a7e6c2d8ce3f809842521965f1
https://www.quora.com/How-did-Mao-manage-to-kill-78-million-people/answer/Godfree-Roberts
https://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Warfare-Ernesto-Che-Guevara/dp/149299748X
I understand they are preparing a new edition as we speak to include recent events.
>They weren't targeted for being Jewish
That's not how we Jews remember it.
"The royal decree explicitly stated that the Inquisition was instituted to search out and punish converts from Judaism who transgressed against Christianity by secretly adhering to Jewish beliefs and performing rites and ceremonies of the Jews. No other group was mentioned, no other purpose indicated – a fact that in itself suggest a close relationship between the creation of the Inquisition and Jewish life in Spain. Other facts, too, attest to that relationship." — Benzio Netanyahu
"Unlike its earlier version, the Spanish Inquisition sought to punish Jews who had converted to Christianity but were not really "sincere" in their conversions." — aish.com
>Rather than just kicking all the Muslims and the Jews out they gave them a chance to convert instead
Yes, the Alhambra Decree was quite lenient. Convert, leave, or be tortured to death. Huh.
I have actually read many books on the JFK assassination like this one for instance. However I am not going to turn this discussion into a JFK analysis.
The fact that hurts is obviously USA's war crimes. But this I understand, it is not easy to counter.
voted for Bernie, then Jill Stein, listen to alex, democracy now, tyt, a bunch of youtube channels, no to fox news. I actually spent a lot of hours searching WikiLeaks myself. I only pay for internet. It is hard to get reliable info from anywhere these days. everyone is selling something.
but I know this is how your professors present your other to you.
I actually have an advanced degree but can tell when someone is speaking from emotion and indoctrination rather than evidence, as you just did with your ad hominem.
this book has evidence that 3 bankers got the US involved in WWI. It's a great book: http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520246713
check out this book. there are many like it for other countries that were victims to US involvement: https://www.amazon.com/CIA-Guatemala-Foreign-Policy-Intervention/dp/0292710836
just continue down this rabbit hole. review the sources yourself. they're all there.
Life in Debt is a good documentary about how the IMF destroys countries.
Watch Vice. Occasionally they cover this sort of thing.
OMG I found some too:
http://www.amazon.com/Guerrilla-Warfare-Ernesto-Che-Guevara/dp/149299748X