Hope in the Dark

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.

ISBN	1841956600	Pages	192
ISBN13	9781841956602 (What's this?)	Weight (grammes)	162
Publisher	Canongate Books Ltd	Published in	Edinburgh
Imprint	Canongate Books Ltd	Height (mm)	197
Format	Paperback	Width (mm)	128
Publication date	16 Jun 2005	Spine width (mm)	13
DEWEY	361.2	Academic level	General
DEWEY edition	DC22

1	Looking into darkness	1
2	When we lost	7
3	What we won	17
4	False hope and easy despair	23
5	A history of shadows	33
6	The millennium arrives : Nov. 9, 1989	47
7	The millennium arrives : Jan. 1, 1994	55
8	The millennium arrives : Nov. 30, 1999	63
9	The millennium arrives : Sept. 11, 2001	75
10	The millennium arrives : Feb. 15, 2003	81
11	Changing the imagination of change	85
12	On the indirectness of direct action	91
13	The angel of alternate history	101
14	Viagra for caribou	105
15	Getting the hell out of paradise	111
16	Across the great divide	121
17	After ideology, or alterations in time	133
18	The global local, or alterations in place	141
19	A dream three times the size of Texas	149
20	Doubt	159
21	Journey to the center of the world	165

* 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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