These are the essential writings of a man who inspired a new, egalitarian socialist regime in the Middle East, which is currently fighting for survival against religious extremism and state violence.
This concise people's history of Europe tells the story of the last hundred years of a very old continent and the ordinary people that shaped the events that defined it from World War I to today.
Este libro presenta y pone en discusión, en primera persona, las diversas vivencias, lecturas y análisis que tanto actores como detractores, recopiladores y estudiosos de las consultas populares y del referéndum de autodeterminación de Cataluña, ofrecieron acerca del proceso independentista catalán, señalando sus inicios y reflexionando sobre su desarrollo y perspectivas a mediano plazo.
Written in 1957, when North African independence movements were gaining momentum, The Colonizer and the Colonized studies the enduring legacy, political as much as psychological, of colonisation throughout the world.
From the author of 'Edge of Empire' comes a fascinating, thought-provoking and alternative history of the American Revolution - that of those Americans who remained loyal to the British Empire.
Colombia's recent past has been characterized by what its Nobel laureate Gabriel Garca Marquez once called "e;a biblical holocaust"e; of human savagery.
Mientras en Francia Napoleón III conduce a la restaurada monarquía a la república del Segundo Imperio y Cavour y Garibaldi remodelan el mapa de una Italia unificada, Bismarck, con su Ejército, domina tanto Alemania como el firmamento europeo.
Colombia's recent past has been characterized by what its Nobel laureate Gabriel Garca Marquez once called "e;a biblical holocaust"e; of human savagery.
Este magistral estudio, que ahora presentamos en una nueva edición revisada y actualizada, aborda la compleja historia de Palestina, una tierra habitada hoy por dos pueblos con identidades nacionales distintas.
Over sixteen extraordinary days in October and November 1956, the twin crises of Suez and Hungary pushed the world to the brink of a nuclear conflict and what many at the time were calling World War III.
Rough Crossings is the astonishing story of the struggle to freedom by thousands of African-American slaves who fled the plantations to fight behind British lines in the American War of Independence.
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was an American civil rights activist and writer who led the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Nicht nur Napoleon Bonaparte prägte die Umbruchszeit um 1800 maßgeblich, auch andere Dichter und Denker versuchten, ihre Ansätze in Bezug auf die Verbesserung der Gesamtsituation umzusetzen.
"En esta obra se analizan los hechos de la península ibérica, donde la derrota de los franceses permitió a Fernando VII volver al trono; la reacción neogranadina mediante los movimientos juntistas y sus dificultades para sostener la República; las estrategias de reconocimiento territorial y ocupación por parte del ejército español y la figura principal de Pablo Morillo.
Aunque no fueron pocos los que trabajaron durante el Trienio Liberal con el fin de redimensionar las relaciones entre los amplios territorios de la monarquía hispana y cimentarlas sobre unas bases de reciprocidad y correspondencia, la delicada cuestión del reconocimiento de la independencia, de fuerte componente simbólico y emocional, lastró las negociaciones, imposibilitó el logro de una salida pactada y convirtió ya en prácticamente irreversible el proceso de separación.
In the sequel to his bestselling JFK in Ireland, the Emerald Isle's favourite son delves into his country's past to celebrate the Irish people who through their skills and endeavours helped make the British Isles great.
This is a disturbing account of the campaign to promote fear and hatred of Muslims in the United States and Europe, from the 'War on Terror' to Trump's travel ban.
Winston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career.
In this new book, Liam O Duibhir charts the struggle for independence, both militarily and politically, in Donegal from before the events of Easter 1916 until the truce in 1921.
POLITICIAN * PRISONER * PARENTA portrait of one of the most charismatic, but unknown, world leadersAung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and crusader for democracyin Myanmar, is once again behind bars.
Winston Churchill spent his early childhood in Ireland, had close Irish relatives, and was himself much involved in Irish political issues for a large part of his career.
In this collection of essays on African and Caribbean literature, culture, and politics, Ngugi wa Thiong'o delivers a groundbreaking critique of colonialism and capitalism in postcolonial Africa.
In his short life, the Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution, leading movements in North America, South America, the African continent, and the Caribbean.
Dhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for independence and the rise of Hindu nationalism.
For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history of women's movements in Asia and the Middle East.
Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented.
Essential reading for anyone interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this Very Short Introduction looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented.
The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair's breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.
Julián Trujillo Largacha, quien inició la Regeneración en Colombia, fue un civil transformado en militar que destacó por sus principios liberales y por la defensa de las instituciones democráticas.
Lose yourself in this classic prize-winning memoir of life in 1950s Cyprus on the brink of revolution by the legendary king of travel writing and real-life family member of The Durrells in Corfu.
This is the story of Richard Longfield Vowell, an audacious and intrepid young English adventurer who abandoned his studies at Oxford in 1817 to fight against the Spanish Empire that had ruled Latin America for 300 years.
