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.
Venezuela, Nueva Granada y Quito, La creacion de la Gran Colombia, El Regimen de Santander: Reforma politica y problemas administrativos, Los poderes legislativo y judicial, Los conflictos personales y partidistas entre 1821 y 1826, La crisis fiscal (i): el sistema de rentas, La crisis fiscal (ii): Deudas, deficit y recriminaciones, La deuda externa como expediente fiscal y como controversia politica, Reconstruccion y desarrollo economicos, Politica y practica del comercio exterior, Los liberales y las masas: la esclavitud y el problema indigena, La educacion en el Regimen de Santander, El problema religioso (i): clericales y anticlericales, El problema religioso (ii): las reformas anticlericales 1821-1826, El problema religioso (iii): La Iglesia y el Estado en la Gran Colombia, El ejercito colombiano en la guerra y en la politica, Demandas militares y descontento de los veteranos, El problema venezolano, La dificil situacion del Ecuador, El ano de la crisis: 1826, El regreso de Simon Bolivar y la caida de Santander,
Ved Mehta's brilliant Mahatma Gandhi and his Apostles provides an unparalleled portrait of the man who lead India out of its colonial past and into its modern form.
Ensayo sobre la historia del Perú en el siglo XIX, espacio temporal en el que ocurrió su independencia de España y la consiguiente formación del Estado nacional que hasta ahora nos gobierna.
A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFrom the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of a dictatorship built on violence and persecution.
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) was a Caribbean and African psychiatrist, philosopher and revolutionary whose works, including Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched of the Earth are hugely influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and post-Marxism.
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.
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.
When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today.
When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today.
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.
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.
On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws.
On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws.
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.
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.
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.
A gripping narrative of the most critical years in modern Ireland's history, from Charles TownshendThe protracted, terrible fight for independence pitted the Irish against the British and the Irish against other Irish.
Xavier Mina decidió en 1817 organizar una Expedición militar internacional –una de las primeras intervenciones exteriores en un conflicto interno– en apoyo del general Jose María Morelos, jefe de la insurgencia mexicana.
