The Scarlet Pimpernel is a classic play and adventure novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, set during the Reign of Terror following the start of the French Revolution.
'Puts Cavendish back into the literary history books where she belongs' Kate Mosse'Scholarly, articulate, and never less than fascinating' Alice Loxton'Well-written, well-researched, interesting and peppy.
With the Iranian revolution as her focal point, Seliktar offers a systematic analysis of predictive failure in foreign policy at the paradigmatic, policy, and intelligence levels.
Two volumes introduce the history of colonial wars in Africa and illustrate why African countries like the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nigeria, Somalia, and Sudan continue to experience ethnic, political, and religious violence in the early 21st century.
An Egyptian diplomat-turned-scholar provides a detailed analysis of events from the fall of Mubarak through the aftermath of the 2013 military move to oust Egypt's first democratically elected president.
Presenting a continent-wide comparative analysis of ethnic, political, and colonially based insurgencies, this text examines the causes, tactics, outcomes, and key individuals of African insurgent events and assesses a range of foreseeable outcomes in Africa's multiple regions of continuing political instability.
This book, first published in 1977, continues the author's of the Palestinian National Movement from the first volume, The Emergence of the Palestinian-Arab National Movement, 1918-1929.
This book, first published in 1977, continues the author's of the Palestinian National Movement from the first volume, The Emergence of the Palestinian-Arab National Movement, 1918-1929.
The Portuguese revolution marked the closure of the country's five-centuries of imperial history as well as its 48-year authoritarian period, a dramatic moment of political radicalization and social conflict that took place against the backdrop of rapid social transformation in an increasingly globalised world.
The Portuguese revolution marked the closure of the country's five-centuries of imperial history as well as its 48-year authoritarian period, a dramatic moment of political radicalization and social conflict that took place against the backdrop of rapid social transformation in an increasingly globalised world.
In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century examines the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history influenced the thinking of the founding fathers.
While today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal.
Dieses Buch untersucht soziale und wirtschaftliche Kohäsionskräfte des langlebigen frühneuzeitlichen Herrschaftssystems in der alten Eidgenossenschaft.
Lo que todo revolucionario debe saber sobre la represion relata los metodos de la Ojrana, la policia secreta zarista, en visperas de la Revolucion de Octubre en Rusia, da consejos practicos al militante para evitar la vigilancia y expone la justificacion leninista del uso revolucionario de la represion politica.
La estrategia bélica explicada a través de metáforas y eficaces ejemplos, convierte a El arte de la guerra en uno de los más vigorosos libros de psicología aplicada jamás escrito.
Cualquiera que se interese por la guerrilla que encabezó Ernesto Che Guevara en la región sudeste de Bolivia en 1966-67, tendrá que consultar la obra de Carlos Soria Galvarro, testigo cercano a los hechos y personas de ese intento revolucionario, quien además lleva muchos años investigando aquella gesta.
