Hope in the dark: untold histories, wild possibilities

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At a time when political, environmental and social gloom can seem overpowering, this text offers a case for hope. Tracing a history of activism and social change over the past five decades, Solnit proposes a vision of cause-and-effect relations that provides new grounds for political engagement.;Foreword to the third edition : Grounds for hope -- Looking into the darkness -- When we lost -- What we won -- False hope and easy despair -- A history of shadows -- The millennium arrives: November 9, 1989 -- The millennium arrives: January 1, 1994 -- The millennium arrives: November 30, 1999 -- The millennium arrives: September 11, 2001 -- The millennium arrives February 15, 2003 -- Changing the imagination of change -- On the indirectness of direct action -- The angel of alternate history -- Viagra for Caribou -- Getting the hell out of paradise -- Across the great divide -- After ideology, or, Alterations in time -- The global local, or, Alterations in place -- A dream three times the size of Texas -- Doubt -- Journey to the center of the world -- Looking backward : the extraordinary achievements of ordinary people (2009) -- Everything's coming together while everything falls apart -- Backward and forward : an afterword.