When the World Turned Upside Down | Politics, Culture, and the Unimaginable Events of 2019-2022

Luis Martínez-Fernández

ISBN 10: 143319614X / ISBN 13: 9781433196140

Published by Peter Lang, 2023

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When the World Turned Upside Down | Politics, Culture, and the Unimaginable Events of 2019-2022 | Luis Martínez-Fernández | Taschenbuch | 440 S. | Englisch | 2023 | Peter Lang | EAN 9781433196140 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstr. 11, 10178 Berlin, r[dot]boehm-korff[at]peterlang[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When the World Turned Upside Down | Politics, Culture, and the Unimaginable Events of 2019-2022
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 143319614X
• ISBN 13: 9781433196140
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 150H x 24D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 150 millimeters height by 24 millimeters depth
• Weight: 614 grams
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Synopsis

When the World Turned Upside Down is a collection of 66 essays and opinion columns written between 2019 and 2022, a period of momentous—some unimaginable—developments in the United States and across the world. This book stands at the intersection of opinion journalism, history, and chronicling offering a dialogue between past and present (or present and past). They are, to use the often-quoted phrase, first drafts of history. Over the past five years, the world has witnessed several "unimaginables" about which the author felt compelled to write. Some of the book’s essays identify, analyze, and connect parallels between the U.S. Antebellum and Civil War and the contemporary increasingly polarized context that reached an explosive peak during the 2020 elections and the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Shrouded in a cloud of unprecedented global pestilence, the world has witnessed dramatic political and geopolitical change, mostly for the worse: China, Russia, Hungary, Belarus, Myanmar, Cuba, even Puerto Rico. Essays in this book discuss these transformations from a historical perspective as well as mass popular resistance, in places like Cuba, where they seemed unimaginable. The book’s final section, "Not Boring at All: Globalization and World Politics," explores the global ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic, geopolitical rearrangements related to China’s meteoric ascendance as a world power, Russia’s militaristic expansionism, and related topics.

About the Author

Dr. Luis Martínez-Fernández is a historian, university professor, nationally syndicated columnist, and public speaker whose fields of expertise include Latin America; the Caribbean; education; world cultures; and Latino/Hispanic politics, culture, and society.