Stephen Scott

Mar 19, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Farooque Chowdhury |P S Sahni |Stephen Scott |Chepal Sherpa

A Commentary on Shooting the Sun: Why Manipur Was Engulfed by Violence and the Government Remained SilentNandita Haksar, New Delhi, Speaking Tiger, 2023, pages – 260. Among many facets of experiences of living under totalitarian regimes like Nazism in Germany or Mussolini’s Italy during the 1930s, an overwhelming social psychology prevailed that of total control of the state in almost all aspects of social life.

Mar 18, 2024 | countercurrents.org | P S Sahni |Stephen Scott |Ellen Isaacs |Amit Sengupta

This small book for young children – through its fables – could garner the political forces to change the present regime in India. Titled ‘Brighten Your Life’ the book has been creatively conceptualized and written by Ms. Ira Khandelwal. It is being distributed free of cost for educational purposes to young school children and is aptly dedicated to all the children in the world. A few hard copies are available presently.

Mar 18, 2024 | countercurrents.org | Stephen Scott |Ellen Isaacs |Amit Sengupta |Gideon Polya

Harvard University Press presents Where the Negroes are Masters: An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade, by Randy J. Sparks. Cambridge, MA: 2014, 328 pages, $26.70. In Where the Negroes Are Masters, historian Randy Sparks brings to the fore in detail the story of an eighteenth-century African Gold Coast slave-trading-port by the name of Annamaboe (situated in present-day Ghana).

Feb 27, 2024 | socialistproject.ca | Stephen Scott

Latin America  •  February 27, 2024  •  “Slavery is associated … with the emergence of several of the most profoundly cherished ideals and beliefs in the Western tradition.” — Orlando PattersonThe subjugation and forced enslavement of Black bodies seized from the continent of Africa had been fundamental to the expansion and growth of the Atlantic domain since the early sixteenth century.

Feb 14, 2024 | scholarsbank.uoregon.edu | Stephen Scott

Standifird, Stephen ScottDate:1999-08During 1989, East Central Europe witnessed one of the most remarkable transformations in socio-political history. The economic transformation that followed represents one the most remarkable economic transitions in modern history. In Poland, the Warsaw Stock Exchange has greatly facilitated the transition from a centrally controlled to a market-based economy.