Updated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War.
Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others around them or, sometimes, inspiring uprisings many years later.
The dilemma felt by Arab youth was captured in Tunisia by the selfimmolation in 2010 of Mohamed Bouazizi, who was frustrated by restrictions on his small street-vending business.
How and why cities have become the predominant sites for revolutionary upheavals in the contemporary worldExamining the changing character of revolution around the world, The Revolutionary City focuses on the impact that the concentration of people, power, and wealth in cities exercises on revolutionary processes and outcomes.
DIE EINZIGARTIGEN AUFZEICHNUNGEN EINES INNSBRUCKER STUDENTEN, DER 1848 "FÜR GOTT, KAISER UND VATERLAND" INS FELD ZOG und seine einschneidenden Erfahrungen zu Revolution und Krieg festhielt.
(Deutsch)Preußen und die Juden, die Juden und Preußen – was markierte, was bestimmte ihr gegenseitiges Verhältnis vor dem Hintergrund der epochalen Umbrüche ab dem Ende des 18.
El 18 de octubre 2019 se detonó en Chile un conjunto de eventos que en pocas semanas cuestionaron, en profundidad, muchas de nuestras certidumbres colectivas.
'The Fenians Were Terrible Men' describes: * The foundation of the Irish Republican Brotherhood and the background to the Rising * The British response: the arrests of the leaders with special emphasis on those who came from Kerry * The work of Talbot and Corydon, the police spies, the latter also a Kerryman * The Rising in detail in Counties Kerry and Limerick * The Erin's Hope: the Fenian Ship which sailed to Ireland and back to America * The Clerkenwell Explosion, a Fenian rescue attempt which, in an effort to free prisoners, blew out the wall of the local jail and a great deal of the surrounding neighbourhood, killing many innocent people
Through detailed exploration of events in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Syria and Yemen, Sean Burns here breaks down the concept of professionalism within the armed forces into its component parts and demonstrates how variation in military structures determines their behaviour.
About eight miles from Paris is the town of Versailles, which was but a poor little village when a great king took a fancy to it and built there a palace.
An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America.
Revolutionen beschleunigen Geschichte, verdichten die Zeit, schaffen ein Diskontinuum und versprechen bei alledem eine Zukunft, die politisch und sozial gerechter ist.
El momento madura, la multitud empuja, se asaltan los centros de poder con loca audacia, las fuerzas represivas vacilan, la conducción del enemigo se divide.
At 4 AM on April 19, 1775, several companies of light infantry from the British Army marched into Lexington, Massachusetts and confronted 77 colonists drawn up on the village green.
A historian examines the evolution of dissenting thought and how it shaped the transformation of England from a rural to an urban, industrialized society.
The Nonconformism Revolution explores the evolution of dissenting thought and how Nonconformity shaped the transformation of England from a rural to an urban, industrialized society.
A "e;meticulously researched and deftly written biography"e; of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution (Midwest Book Review).
A "e;meticulously researched and deftly written biography"e; of the woman behind the famed wax museums, and their origins in the era of the French Revolution (Midwest Book Review).
Die radikaldemokratischen Forderungen des Friedrich Hecker - in diesem Band der »Bibliothek der frühen Demokratinnen und Demokraten« erstmals in einer Textauswahl versammelt.
Vor der »Weltliteratur« kam die Revolution - Theodor Fontanes frühe politische Texte Dass Theodor Fontane heute den bekanntesten Schriftsteller*innen zuzuordnen ist, war zu seinen Lebzeiten lange nicht absehbar.
Die Grundlagen unserer DemokratieNach der Februarrevolution 1848 in Frankreich kam es auch in den Ländern des Deutschen Bundes zu revolutionären Unruhen.
Erinnerungen an den Kampf für Freiheit und Demokratie 1848/1849Die Buchreihe »Bibliothek der frühen Demokratinnen und Demokraten« feiert das Jubiläum der »Deutschen Revolution« von 1848 mit einem Auftaktband, der Emma Herweghs Bericht über das »Abenteuer« der »Demokratischen Legion« sowie ihre Korrespondenz mit anderen »Revolutionären« enthält.
Die Schriften des vergessenen Wegbereiters unserer freiheitlich-demokratischen GrundordnungRobert Blum, einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der deutschen Revolution, wurde am 9.
This is the first comprehensive work in English dealing with the nineteenth-century Armenian revolutionary movement and the subsequent rise of Armenian political parties.
