Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts is a wide-ranging investigation of the integral role prisoners of war (POWs) have played in the economic, cultural, political, and military aspects of American warfare.
A seven volume set of books containing all the known published writings and translations of Mary Wollstonecraft, who is generally recognised as the mother of the feminist movement.
This unusual autobiography "e;The Story of My Experiments with Truth"e;, is a window to the workings of Mahatma Gandhi's mind - a window to the emotions of his heart - a window to understanding what drove this seemingly ordinary man to the heights of being the father of a nation - India.
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.
Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding of the nature of language and history.
After decades of misinformation during the Soviet period, we can today, with historical hindsight and a better grasp of old and new sources, appraise what Lenins government meant for Russia and the world.
'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The TimesThere can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848.
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.
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.
Leveller Manifestoes (1944) is a collection of primary manifestoes issued by the Levellers, the group which played an active and influential role in the English revolution of 1642-49.
A Nation of Change and Novelty (1990) ranges broadly over the political and literary terrain of the seventeenth century, examining the importance of the English Revolution as a decisive event in English and European history.
Leveller Manifestoes (1944) is a collection of primary manifestoes issued by the Levellers, the group which played an active and influential role in the English revolution of 1642-49.
A Nation of Change and Novelty (1990) ranges broadly over the political and literary terrain of the seventeenth century, examining the importance of the English Revolution as a decisive event in English and European history.
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
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.
This book explores how the Muslim scholars of Daghestan, an important Muslim region within Russia, experienced the 1917 Russian Revolution and how they attempted to gain religious and political authority in the new post-imperial environment.
This book explores how the Muslim scholars of Daghestan, an important Muslim region within Russia, experienced the 1917 Russian Revolution and how they attempted to gain religious and political authority in the new post-imperial environment.
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.
