John Griogair BellMar 24, 2025

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/03/24/the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress/

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - The Hermetic Library Blog

Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Robert A Heinlein Robert A. Heinlein’s Hugo-winning novel The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is politically-oriented “hard” sf from the 1960s. Even if we are still fifty years short of the date of the story, being […]

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earthlingFeb 27, 2024

A Global History of Convicts and Penal Colonies by Clare Anderson

Between 1415, when the Portuguese first used convicts for colonization purposes in the North African enclave of Ceuta, to the 1960s and the dissolution of Stalin's gulags, global powers including the Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, British, Russians, Chinese and Japanese transported millions of convicts to forts, penal settlements and penal colonies all over the world.

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IHCFeb 15, 2024

📘 The book "Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century" has been published in paperback!

It was edited by Philip J. Havik, Helena Pinto Janeiro, Pedro Aires Oliveira, and Irene Flunser Pimentel.

👉 https://www.routledge.com/Empires-and-Colonial-Incarceration-in-the-Twentieth-Century/Havik-Pinto-Janeiro-Aires-Oliveira-Flunser-Pimentel/p/book/9781032002736

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Empires and Colonial Incarceration in the Twentieth Century

This book engages with a controversial issue, namely the establishment of penal colonies and concentration camps in imperial spaces, which have informed ongoing debates on the repressive practices of colonial rule and popular resistance against it. The contributors offer a reassessment of the history of politically motivated incarceration based upon a multi-disciplinary perspective in a global, imperial setting during the twentieth century. The introduction and seven chapters engage with c

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Show threadkilombavitaMay 14, 2021

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Exile to Paradise: Savagery and Civilization in Paris and the South Pacific, 1790-1900 by Alice Bullard

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According to the poet Victor Hugo, the year 1870/71 was France's année terrible. The country suffered a humiliating defeat by the Prussian military, and Parisians endured a cruel siege. In the wake of the siege, Paris exploded and revolutionaries proclaimed the birth of the Paris Commune.

The conservative government of the young Third Republic portrayed the Communards as savage destroyers of civilization. The Communards were depicted as plagued by original sin, the evil nature of fallen man, and atavistic degeneration.

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According to the poet Victor Hugo, the year 1870/71 was France's année terrible. The country suffered a humiliating defeat by the Prussian military, and...

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