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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture. From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history.
How industrialization undid a region in MexicoScholars once treated regions as fundamental units of social organization, influencing the affairs of communities and households. Chris Kyle renews that perspective by charting the history of a preindustrial region in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. Examining the city of Chilapa and its surrounding countryside, he documents a region''s initial formation, subsequent evolution, and ultimate dissolution, brought about by the forces of industrialization.Feeding Chilapa traces the emergence of Chilapa as a textile center in the late eighteenth century, the reorganization of the city''s hinterland in the mid-nineteenth century, and the ultimate dissolution of the region in the mid-twentieth century. When improved transportation enabled the movement of cheap goods over long distances, subsistence and artisanal production declined or disappeared, and labor relations, settlement geography, and migration patterns were transformed. Kyle offers a new perspective on the immigration debate, exploring the factors that lead rural citizens to leave economically depressed regions for larger Mexican cities, border industries, or the United States.Written to be accessible to undergraduates, this volume offers a counterpoint to traditional community-based studies and our understanding of change in Latin America.Chris Kyle is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of numerous scholarly articles on rural Mexico.
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The #1 New York Times bestselling memoir of U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle, and the source for Clint Eastwood's blockbuster movie which was nominated for six academy awards, including best picture.From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. His fellow American warriors, whom he protected with deadly precision from rooftops and stealth positions during the Iraq War, called him ?The Legend?; meanwhile, the enemy feared him so much they named him al-Shaitan (?the devil?) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle, who was tragically killed in 2013, writes honestly about the pain of war?including the deaths of two close SEAL teammates?and in moving first-person passages throughout, his wife, Taya, speaks openly about the strains of war on their family, as well as on Chris. Gripping and unforgettable, Kyle's masterful account of his extraordinary battlefield experiences ranks as one of the great war memoirs of all time.
Extraordinario, inolvidable y cargado de adrenalina, el relato de Kyle se situa como una de las mejores autobiografias de guerra de todos los tiempos.
Chris Kyle var medlem af eliteenheden Navy SEAL og kendt for at være den mest dødbringende finskytte i det amerikanske militærs historie. Som finskytte har Chris Kyle udført 160 bekræftede drab — det reelle antal dræbte er sandsynligvis langt højere. Chris fortryder ikke et eneste af drabene og udtaler: "Det var min pligt at skyde fjenden. Det eneste jeg er ked af, er de soldater og venner, jeg ikke kunne redde. Jeg er ikke naiv og romantiserer ikke krig. De værste øjeblikke i mit liv har jeg haft som Navy SEAL, men jeg kan stå overfor Gud med ren samvittighed."American Sniper er en action-fyldt og dybt personlig øjenvidneskildring af krigens barske virkelighed, som kun én mand kan fortælle. Chris Kyle beretter ærligt om smerten ved krig, om at blive skudt to gange og om at miste to nære venner.
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