I Wouldn't Start from Here
Subtitle: the 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong
Contributors: Pelton, Robert Young
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 478
ISBN-13: 9781593763596; 9781282487222; 9781846271519
Subjects: Travel; Modern History; World politics; Social history; Ethnic conflict; Social conflict; War and society
Description: What is a jaded rock journalist doing dodging landmines to talk to mercenaries and terrorists? And what kind of conversation can a man who prefers hunting for perfect three-minute pop songs and tubes of beer have with devotees of fasting and ferocity? Sarajevo. Jerusalem. Kabul. Belfast. Kosovo. Gaza. Basra. New York City. Every place where recent history advertises the stubbornness, intolerance, bloodlust, and cowardice that sully our collective record, there the intrepid Andrew Mueller goes, skidding around the globe from failed state to ravaged war zone to desolate no-man's-land to try to u.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; Acknowledgements 461; Foreword XI; Introduction March 2007 1; 1 Jerusalem, Israel July 2001 10; 2 New York City, USA October 2001 16; 3 Kabul, Afghanistan March 2003 24; 4 Podujevo, Kosovo Polje and Pristina, Kosovo October 2004 34; 5 Tirana, Albania June 2003 45; 6 Jerusalem, Israel and West Bank, Palestine February 2001 58; 7 Beirut, Lebanon December 2001 70; 8 Djerba, Tunisia July 2002 88; 9 London, England July 2005 99; 10 Baghdad, Iraq May 2003 108; 11 Srebrenica, BosniaHerzegovina March 2004 133; 12 Kabul, Afghanistan March 2003 149.; title: 13 Kinmen and Taipei, Taiwan April 2005 16114 Sukhum, Abkhazia August 2005 176; 15 Luxembourg City, Luxembourg October 2004 194; 16 West Bank, Palestine December 2004January 2005 206; 17 Mitrovica, Pristina, Prizren and Prekaz, Kosovo October 2004 234; 18 Kumbo and Bamenda, Cameroon November 2005 249; 19 Belfast, Northern Ireland August 2001 276; 20 Belgrade, Serbia October 2000 289; 21 Belgrade, Serbia March 2000 296.