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Slave insurrections --- Slave rebellions --- Slave revolts --- Slavery --- Revolutions --- Insurrections, etc.

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Imperial Japanese soldiers were notorious for blindly following orders, and their enemies in the Pacific War derided them as "cattle to the slaughter." But, in fact, the Japanese Army had a long history as one of the most disobedient armies in the world. Officers repeatedly staged coups d'états, violent insurrections, and political assassinations; their associates defied orders given by both the government and the general staff, launched independent military operations against other countries, and in two notorious cases conspired to assassinate foreign leaders despite direct orders to the contrary.In Curse on This Country, Danny Orbach explains the culture of rebellion in the Japanese armed forces. It was a culture created by a series of seemingly innocent decisions, each reasonable in its own right, which led to a gradual weakening of Japanese government control over its army and navy. The consequences were dire, as the armed forces dragged the government into more and more of China across the 1930s-a culture of rebellion that made the Pacific War possible. Orbach argues that brazen defiance, rather than blind obedience, was the motive force of modern Japanese history.Curse on This Country follows a series of dramatic events: assassinations in the dark corners of Tokyo, the famous rebellion of Saigō Takamori, the "accidental" invasion of Taiwan, the Japanese ambassador's plot to murder the queen of Korea, and the military-political crisis in which the Japanese prime minister "changed colors." Finally, through the sinister plots of the clandestine Cherry Blossom Society, we follow the deterioration of Japan into chaos, fascism, and world war.

Sociology, Military --- Military discipline --- Insubordination --- Military offenses --- Naval offenses --- Armies --- Discipline, Military --- Disciplinary power --- Discipline --- Military sociology --- Armed Forces --- Peace --- War --- War and society --- History. --- Japan --- History, Military --- J3372.80 --- J3375 --- J3382.50 --- J4880.70 --- J4480 --- History --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Meiji period (1867-1912) -- revolts, rebellion and opposition --- Japan: History -- Kindai, modern -- Taishō period (1912-1926) --- Japan: History -- Gendai, modern -- early Shōwa period (1920-1945) -- (patriotic) revolts --- Japan: Defense and military -- history -- Kindai (1850s- ), bakumatsu, Meiji, Taishō --- Japan: Economy and industry -- communication industries -- Gendai, modern (1926- ), Shōwa period, 20th century --- Japan: Economy and industry -- communication industries -- general and history

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The revolutionary wave that swept the Middle East in 2011 was marked by spectacular mobilization, spreading within and between countries with extraordinary speed. Several years on, however, it has caused limited shifts in structures of power, leaving much of the old political and social order intact. In this book, noted author Asef Bayat-whose Life as Politics anticipated the Arab Spring-uncovers why this occurred, and what made these uprisings so distinct from those that came before. This is both a history of the Arab Spring and a history of revolution writ broadly. Setting the 2011 uprisings side by side with the revolutions of the 1970s, particularly the Iranian Revolution, Bayat reveals a profound global shift in the nature of protest: as acceptance of neoliberal policy has spread, radical revolutionary impulses have diminished. Protestors call for reform rather than fundamental transformation. By tracing the contours and illuminating the meaning of the 2011 uprisings, Bayat gives us the book needed to explain and understand our post-Arab Spring world.

Arab Spring, 2010-. --- Revolutions --- Arab countries --- Politics and government --- Social change --- Arab States --- Arab states --- Arab Spring, 2010 --- -Revolutions --- Insurrections --- Rebellions --- Revolts --- Revolutionary wars --- History --- Political science --- Political violence --- War --- Government, Resistance to --- Arab Awakening, 2010 --- -Arab countries --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Middle East

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This volume takes readers beyond the battlefields and sectional divides of the U.S. Civil War to view the conflict from outside the national arena of the United States. Contributors position the American conflict squarely in the context of a wider transnational crisis across the Atlantic world, marked by a multitude of civil wars, European invasions and occupations, revolutionary independence movements and slave uprisings - all taking place in the tumultuous decade of the 1860s.

Slave insurrections --- Civil war --- Civil wars --- Intra-state war --- Rebellions --- Government, Resistance to --- International law --- Revolutions --- War --- Slave rebellions --- Slave revolts --- Slavery --- History --- Insurrections, etc. --- America --- Europe --- Latin America --- United States --- Americas --- New World --- Western Hemisphere --- Southern States --- Confederate States of America --- Council of Europe countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- Lost Cause mythology

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"From the inception of slavery as a pillar of the Atlantic World economy, both Europeans and Africans feared their mass extermination by the other in a race war. In the United States, says Kay Wright Lewis, this ingrained dread nourished a preoccupation with slave rebellions and would later help fuel the Civil War, thwart the aims of Reconstruction, justify Jim Crow, and even inform civil rights movement strategy. And yet, says Lewis, the historiography of slavery is all but silent on extermination as a category of analysis. Moreover, little of the existing sparse scholarship interrogates the black perspective on extermination. A Curse upon the Nation addresses both of these issues."--Provided by publisher.

United States --- Race relations --- History. --- Slavery --- Violence --- Slave rebellions --- African Americans --- Racism --- Fear --- Genocide --- Historiography. --- Crimes against. --- Political aspects --- Public opinion. --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- Fright --- Emotions --- Anxiety --- Horror --- Slave revolts --- Slave insurrections --- Revolutions --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Enslaved persons --- Insurrections, etc.