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Bekken on Keith, 'When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War'
LeeAnna Keith. When It Was Grand: The Radical Republican History of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2019. 352 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8090-8031-1.
Reviewed by Jon Bekken (Albright College) Published on H-Socialisms (July, 2020) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)
Printable Version: http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=54972
Braskén on Valencia-García, 'Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism'
Louie Dean Valencia-García. Antiauthoritarian Youth Culture in Francoist Spain: Clashing with Fascism. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. Illustrations. 272 pp. $35.95 (e-book), ISBN 978-1-350-03849-3; $35.95 (pdf), ISBN 978-1-350-03848-6; $120.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-1-350-03847-9.
Reviewed by Kasper E. Braskén (Abo Akademi University) Published on H-Socialisms (July, 2020) Commissioned by Gary Roth (Rutgers University - Newark)
Re: Satyogi on Ahmed, 'Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience'
Pooja Satyogi's Review of Ahmed, Talat, Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience, has captured the gist of Gandhi's portrayal by Talat Ahmed. She has been rather kind on the author as she doesn't say that the author has continued with the colonialists' view of Gandhi's actions as aimed at preserving the colonial order. Gandhiji was all for the overthrow of the decaying order. He was willing to mobilize people for its final overthrow, but never by violence, which would have made it more liked by the western educated elites of the subcontinent