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At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this remarkable work offers a lucid, affirmative and well-argued case for hope.
Tracing a history of activism and social change over the past five decades - including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Zapatista uprising in Mexico to Seattle in 1999, and the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq - Solnit proposes a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement.
Solnit's book is accessible and essential reading. Drawing from thinkers of the last century - including Woolf, Ghandi, Borges, Benjamin and Havel. She creates a manifesto for optimism for the twenty-first century and gives us all true reasons to never surrender.
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"This is a book to be cherished, something to keep close at hand for those dark moments when you wonder whether the world really is a better place than it was 50 years ago." (Independent on Sunday)
"Her passionate defence of direct action is a refreshingly corrective, while, crucially, her celebration of people power is proactive rather than complacent." (Metro)
"A jewel of a book. Solnit reveals where we were, where we are, and the step-by-step advances that have been made in human rights, as we stubbornly stumble out of the darkness." (Studs Terkel)
"A short, elegant, passionate polemic on the history and future of progressive political engagement." (Robert Macfarlane Guardian)
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"Her passionate defence of direct action is a refreshingly corrective, while, crucially, her celebration of people power is proactive rather than complacent." (Metro)
"A jewel of a book. Solnit reveals where we were, where we are, and the step-by-step advances that have been made in human rights, as we stubbornly stumble out of the darkness." (Studs Terkel)
"A short, elegant, passionate polemic on the history and future of progressive political engagement." (Robert Macfarlane Guardian)
An exploration of people power over five decades - a defence of protest and an exploration of hope in dark times
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1841956600
- ISBN 13 9781841956602
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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