Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions Books

La Guerra Oculta es un libro que ha sido calificado de "maldito" y ha provocadoindignadas críticas y grandes adhesiones. Su autor, el noble ruso Emmanuel Malynski, conoció, además de la vía del exilio, el ostracismo intelectual, porque en sus obras se...

Born to great riches, lord of vast feudal estates and many palaces, Felix Youssoupoff led the life of a Grand Lord in the days before the Russian Revolution. Married to a niece of Czar Nicholas II, he could observe at close range the rampant corruption...

Arguing against the idea that Marxism is a Eurocentric theory with nothing to teach the Global South, this book explores the lives and ideas of a remarkable set of revolutionaries, from Ho Chi Minh to Ali Shariati.

This book is the first to focus specifically upon the relationship between refugees and intercultural transfer over an extensive period of time. Since circa 1830, a series of groups have made their way to Britain, beginning with exiles from the failed...

In this carefully crafted and well-researched book, Don Iannone uses his poetry as a time machine to carry us back to the years before, during, and after the U.S. Civil War. This time machine transports us into today's world and sheds light on the future...

This is the only authorized and official English translation of the Green Book which was distributed globally by the Gaddafi regime. The Green Book is a short book setting out the political philosophy of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. The book was first...

We inhabit extraordinary times: times in which we are acutely aware of the intensity of what revolutionary thinker Frantz Fanon called "the glare of history's floodlights." The velocity and scale at which the revolt against police murder that began...

Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, few remember the ruthless tactics communists used to consolidate power. Others dismiss communist barbarity as typical of backward countries, as though they could not happen in advanced societies.This is the...

"There can be no more important issue than the issue of war with Mexico; for all other issues are tied up with it. The forces of progress will have to gather swift strength, or they will feel the crunch of the Iron Heel." -John Kenneth Turner, Hands Off...

Die Systematische Reinigung und Entw�����sserung der St�����dte: Mit besonderer Ber�����cksichtigung der Schwemm-Canalisation und Berieselungs-Anlagen (1880) von Johann Kaftan ist ein Buch, das sich mit der Reinigung und Entw�����sserung von St�����dten...

This volume explores several issues related to foreign affairs in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives for understanding national, regional and global issues in the region from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

Frederik Hendrik and the Triumph of the Dutch Revolt describes a crucial period in European history. During the early seventeenth century the Dutch, led by Frederik Hendrik, were engaged in a struggle for independence from the mighty Spanish Empire. But...

Forgeries ~ 18th Century Style Fake News "I do not really wish for independence. I hope there are few who do," George Washington, June 18, 1776. Did General Washington write these words, which newspapers published? Was this propaganda and disinformation...

The year 1857 is a milestone in the political and cultural history of India. Since the independence of the country, 1857 is called as the first war of independence or national movement. Because the military coup which started from Meerut nearly hundred...

In the first complete Marxist history of the Roman Republic, Alan Woods provides a gripping and accessible analysis of the titanic struggles that shaped the Roman world, and continue to resonate today.Spanning more than a thousand years of development,...

Leon Trotsky's Writings on Britain span one of the most tumultuous periods in British history. The first decades of the 20th century were a time of crisis on all fronts for British capitalism. The country was rapidly sinking to a second-rate position...

The revolutions of 1848 which broke out across the world are among the landmark events of the nineteenth century. The experiences of this tumultuous period helped to crystallise and sharpen the ideas of Marx and Engels.Written in the midst of events, in...

"Let there be no blinking the question. These are not the times to be nice about mere words: the fact is that there is but one mode of obtaining the Charter, and that is by insurrection." George Julian HarneyChartism was the first time ever that...

Following the October Revolution of 1917, a revolutionary wave swept across Europe. In this period, Leon Trotsky, along with Lenin, was pivotal in setting up the Third (Communist) International, which represented a world party of the working class. The...

Tired of the boring current system? Fed up with the government taking your hard-earned money and squandering it like a drunken sailor? Wish you could just run your lemonade stand without a permit?Read this fascinating primer on the system of the past and...

Jonathan Sperber's Revolutionary Europe 1780-1850 is a history of Europe in the age of the French Revolution, from the end of the old regime to the outcome of the revolutions of 1848. Fully revised and updated, this second edition provides a...

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. . . .As its title promises, this brief chapter establishes the era in which the novel takes place: England and France in 1775. The age is marked...

The War of American Independence, 1763-1783: Falling Dominoes addresses the military, maritime and naval, economic, key personalities, key societal groups, political, imperial rivalry, and diplomatic dynamics and events from the post-Seven Years' War era...

Education in Revolutionary Struggles introduces us to the fascinating world of Latin American educational thought in the third quarter of the 20th century. It discusses the contributions of three of the most distinguished intellectuals of the period -...

"... C'est ainsi qu'on pourra juger du changement que la révolution a opéré dans notre pays. Elle n'a pas seulement donné une nouvelle forme à la société, elle a métamorphosé le système administratif de la France, ou, pour mieux dire, elle a précipité...

Ce livre raconte la Commne insurrectionnelle de Paris à la fin du XVIe siècle où l'autorité municipale improvisée usurpa le gouvernement, dirigea les opérations de la défense, et voulut contraindre tous les habitants à prendre les armes contre leurs...

«La Révolution russe vue par une Française» est paru en 1918 au retour de Marylie Markovitch de Russie. C’est la somme remaniée des reportages qu’elle a fait début 1917 pour la «Revue des deux...

Die tragische Gestalt des schottischen Prinzen Charles Edward Stuart faszinierte schon zu Lebzeiten die Gemüter seiner Mitmenschen. Gerade 24 Jahre alt ging er begleitet von einer Handvoll Getreuer an Bord eines kleinen französischen Schiffes und machte...

2014 Reprint of 1934 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. "The Civil War in France" was a pamphlet written by Karl Marx as an official statement of the General Council of the International...

""I Libri Commemoriali V3: Della Republica Di Venezia Regesti (1883)"" di Predelli, Riccardo ����� un libro che raccoglie una serie di documenti ufficiali della Repubblica di Venezia, noti come ""Regesti"". Questi documenti coprono un periodo di circa...

In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties? How have activists influenced public attention via visual symbols, images, and protest performances in that period? And how do mass media cover and frame...

'You are either alive and proud or you are dead ... and your method of death can be a politicizing thing' - Steve BikoFounder of the Black Consciousness Movement, Steve Biko was a natural target for the South African authorities. On 13 August 1977, Steve...

Conversations About History, Volume 1, includes the following 5 wide-ranging Ideas Roadshow Conversations featuring eminent historians. This collection includes a detailed preface highlighting the connections between the different books. Each book is...

Many people are too young to have witnessed what the United States did when revolution erupted in Cuba. Others from a previous generation remember the effort to snuff out the Cuban Revolution, while U.S. support of Chiang Kai-shek against the Chinese...

En ce mois de novembre 2018, il m' a semblé opportun de publier ces travaux réalisés en 2009, car cette première moitié du XVIIè s. se caractérise par une "envolée" du montant des taxes et impôts très divers, ainsi que de leur multiplication, qui causa,...

As early as 1892, Moncure Conway, the author of the first scholarly Paine biography, noted that whilst Paine's life up to 1809 was certainly fascinating, his subsequent life - that is, his afterlife - was even more thrilling. Vilified by Theodore...

The massacre of Igbos/Biafrans across the Northern Nigeria started way back in 1945 in Jos, where more than 150 Igbos/Biafrans were brutally slaughtered for no reason. That is about thirty-one years after the fraudulent amalgamation of Islamic north and...

Time was running out for Romania's biggest dissident, László Tökés in the western Romanian city of Timisoara. The Reformed Church Minister had been using his pulpit every week to preach to packed congregations about the brutal living conditions in the...

For years no one has known the exact location of Fort Trial or Fort Mayo in Virginia, from the Revolutionary War period. Many have speculated, but the author takes you through the research process with the deeds, wills, and probates that deal with the...

The Soviet Colossus revisits the turning points in Russia's modern history, from the fall of the tsarist regime to the establishment of the Bolshevik dictatorship and Stalinist totalitarianism; the reforms and counter-reforms of Khrushchev and Brezhnev...

David has brought the streets and buildings of London alive to the real history of the city and the struggles of ordinary people. Anyone reading this will walk the streets of our city with a different view of the world, and what people can do when they...