Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

Taking the Arab Spring as its case study, this book explores the role of law and constitutions during societal upheavals, and critically evaluates the different trajectories they could follow in a revolutionary setting.

In Twelver Shi'a Islam, the wait for the return of the Twelfth Imam, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mahdi, at the end of time, overshadowed the value of actively seeking martyrdom.

Since the coup of 2013 ended Egypt's brief democratic experiment and retired army chief, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, became president of Egypt, his regime has unleashed mass repression and severe restrictions on an unprecedented scale.

The "e;Arab Spring"e; was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions.

Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East.

Newly available in paperback, this is a full-length, modern study of the Diggers or 'True Levellers', who were among the most remarkable of the radical groups to emerge during the English Revolution of 1640-60.

In this expansive and contemplative history of Cuba, Louis A.

The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany.

A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children.

Nach der Auflösung der Sowjetunion durch die stalinistische Bürokratie sind trotz zahlreicher historischer Detailstudien weder der Charakter der Oktoberrevolution noch die Degeneration und das Scheitern des aus ihr hervorgegangenen Arbeiterstaates einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit klar, obwohl die Existenz der Sowjetunion die gesamte Geschichte des 20.

This 2002 study examines the process of the disintegration of the Soviet state.

The cities of eighteenth-century America packed together tens of thousands of colonists, who met each other in back rooms and plotted political tactics, debated the issues of the day in taverns, and mingled together on the wharves or in the streets.

Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features?

This book investigates the interplay between media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs' quest for more stable and democratic governance models in the aftermath of the Arab Spring uprisings.

Born of clashing visions of empire in England and the colonies, the American Revolution saw men and women grappling with power- and its absence-in dynamic ways.

For five decades John M.

A tearaway young man from Norfolk, Astley Cooper (1768-1841) became the world's richest and most famous surgeon.

A careful analysis of the organisation, tactics and command structure which ensured that the Royal Navy was the undisputed master of the waves.

Through fieldwork centering Syrian voices, this book explores wartime governing authority and the possibilities and limits of Western intervention therein.

This 600-page volume of Luxemburg's Complete Works contains her writings On Revolution from 1906 to 1909 - covering the 1905-06 Russian Revolution, an epoch-making event, and its aftermath.

By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves.

The first truly global history of revolutions and revolutionary waves in the modern age, from Atlantic Revolutions to Arab Spring.

Die Spaltung mit der britischen Workers Revolutionary Party 1985–1986 leitete eine fruchtbare Phase in der Geschichte des Trotzkismus ein, die durch intensive theoretische Arbeit, die Ausarbeitung einer Weltperspektive auf der Grundlage der Prinzipien der permanenten Revolution und des Internationalismus gekennzeichnet war und die Auflösung der stalinistischen Regime vorwegnahm.

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order.

Through Gramsci and Fanon, Salem centers anticolonial politics by exploring the connections between Egypt''s moment of decolonization and the 2011 revolution.

From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution.

Centenary Subjects examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the decade of the 1910s)the peak of arielismoand proposes a new reading of the arielista archive that brings into focus the racial anxieties, epistemological and spiritual fissures, and iconoclastic agendas that structure, and at times smother, the ethos of that era.

This concise biography of the world famous revolutionary Che Guevara provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of his remarkable life, tragic death, and enduring political legacy.

This book studies the confrontation between popular movements and repressive regimes in Central America.

Spanning the years just before (and just after) Nelson Mandela's 1962 arrest, this entirely fresh history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), or Spear of the Nation, and its revolutionary milieu brings to life the period in which Mandela and his comrades fought South Africa's apartheid regime not only with words and protests, but also with bombs and fire.

Es braut sich etwas zusammen in diesem Herbst 1918.

Bosnia enjoyed a special status within the Ottoman Empire.

Tauchen Sie ein in die mystische Welt der chinesischen Mythologie und entdecken Sie die tief verwurzelten spirituellen Traditionen, die eine der ältesten Zivilisationen der Menschheitsgeschichte geprägt haben.

A cultural and political history of youth culture and youth-centric organizations in Lebanon from 1920–1958.

Examines in depth three waves of democratic change that took place in eleven different former Communist nations.

Twentieth Century Guerrilla Movements in Latin America: A Primary Source History collects political writings on human rights, social injustice, class struggle, anti-imperialism, national liberation, and many other topics penned by urban and rural guerrilla movements.

In the late 1990s, John Baker was known as a purveyor of quality rare and old wines.

An in-depth explanation of how the Cuban Revolution dictated Latin American politics and U.

In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers' society.

In October 2019, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Lebanon to protest austerity measures in what became known as the “thawra.

How New York intellectuals interpreted and wrote about Castro's revolution in the 1960sNew York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War-and the Cuban Revolution.

This volume, originally published in 1964, presents a series of slides illustrating the major events of the Russian Revolution.

This book is a fascinating collection of carefully handpicked key texts and speeches from Chile's 1,000 Days of Revolution, previously unpublished in English.

The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence.

Der Band beleuchtet die vielgestaltige Resonanz auf die russische Oktoberrevolution, ein Ereignis, das die fundamentale Veränderung der politischen Koordinaten in Europa und der Welt zur Folge hatte.

A careful analysis of the organisation, tactics and command structure which ensured that the Royal Navy was the undisputed master of the waves.