Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

How do militants rationalize violence and what are their motives?

Starting in 1837, rebels in Upper and Lower Canada revolted against British rule in an attempt to reform a colonial government that they believed was unjust.

Starting in 1837, rebels in Upper and Lower Canada revolted against British rule in an attempt to reform a colonial government that they believed was unjust.

How do militants rationalize violence and what are their motives?

This book offers a ten-year perspective on ongoing and evolving practices of digital activism across the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on interviews and ethnographic evidence collected between 2012 and 2022.

This book offers a ten-year perspective on ongoing and evolving practices of digital activism across the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on interviews and ethnographic evidence collected between 2012 and 2022.

El presente libro que tiene en sus manos ha sido elaborado por un conjunto amplio y diverso de académicos y académicas de la Escuela de Psicología de la Universidad de Santiago de Chile, a partir de la irrupción de dos fenómenos sociales inéditos en nuestra historia reciente.

El libro No regresar al pasado refleja la tradición de la historia oral.

In what ways have social movements attracted the attention of the mass media since the sixties?

Putting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the Long 1960s, this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74).

The Provisions of War examines how soldiers, civilians, communities, and institutions have used food and its absence as both a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict.

Histories of Portugal s transition to democracy have long focused on the 1974 military coup that toppled the authoritarian Estado Novo regime and set in motion the divestment of the nation s colonial holdings.

The Arab Spring captivated the planet.

Far from the battlefront, hundreds of thousands of workers toiled in Bohemian factories over the course of World War I, and their lives were inescapably shaped by the conflict.

As in a number of France s major cities, civil war erupted in Lyon in the summer of 1793, ultimately leading to a siege of the city and a wave of mass executions.

Bringing together over forty established and emerging scholars, this landmark volume is the first to comprehensively examine the evolution and current practice of social movement studies in a specifically European context.

The collapse of the Habsburg Monarchy at the end of World War I ushered in a period of radical change for East-Central European political structures and national identities.

Protest is a ubiquitous and richly varied social phenomenon, one that finds expression not only in modern social movements and political organizations but also in grassroots initiatives, individual action, and creative works.

After a brief overview of the origins and development of the city of Odessa on the Black Sea Coast, author Nikolai Ovcharenko turns to its citizens’ ordeal during the Second World War.

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.

Read about the circumstances that led to the King Philip's War.

Sarah Sarzynski's cultural history of Cold War-era Brazil examines the influence of revolutionary social movements in Northeastern Brazil during the lead-up to the 1964 coup that would bring the military to power for 21 years.

In May 1861, Virginian Thomas Henry Carter (18311908) raised an artillery battery and joined the Confederate army.

Jos Mara de Jess Carvajalis both a biography of a Mexican postrevolutionary and a study of the development of a new border between Mexico and the United States during the crucial decades of the early to midnineteenth century.

Different countries carry revolutions differently.

A study of the 1908 Young Turk Revolution from the perspectives of Arabs, Armenians, and Jews.

"So einfach konnte ein Problem nicht zu lösen, eine Diktatur nicht zu beseitigen sein.

On a sunny Fourth of July during World War I, King George V went out to a ball game.

At the time of the Revolutionary War, a fifth of the Colonial population was African American.

World War I began disastrously for the English when the Germans routed them at Mons, Belgium, on August 23 and 24, 1914.

A revealing exploration of political disruption and violence in a rural Chinese county during the Cultural RevolutionA Decade of Upheaval chronicles the surprising and dramatic political conflicts of a rural Chinese county over the course of the Cultural Revolution.

The classic book that restored the voices of ordinary people to our understanding of the French RevolutionThe Coming of the French Revolution remains essential reading for anyone interested in the origins of this great turning point in the formation of the modern world.

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other.

The first comprehensive political history of the communist partyVanguard of the Revolution is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world.

Among the revolutionary movements which shook the nineteenth-century world, the change of government in Japan in 1868 occupies a special place.

A sweeping exploration of revolutionary ideas that traveled the Atlantic in the late eighteenth century Nation-based histories cannot do justice to the rowdy, radical interchange of ideas around the Atlantic world during the tumultuous years from 1776 to 1804.

Post-revolution states often find that once a transition process begins, challenges can arise, such as political polarization and the threat of civil war.

Insurgencies, especially in the form of guerrilla warfare, continue to erupt across many parts of the globe.

Now that the last veterans are gone, the First World War is now a completely historical subject—governed by archaeology and genealogy, battlefield tourism and military history.

"e;The Voice of Revolution"e; is a must-read for anyone interested in the foundations of the United States and the fight for liberty and justice.

This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608-80), Henry Ireton (1611-51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618-92).

This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608-80), Henry Ireton (1611-51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618-92).

The battle for legal contraception challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism.

The battle for legal contraception challenged key tenets of Irish identity: Catholicism, large families, traditional gender roles, and sexual puritanism.

Eine Wissensgeschichte des autoritären Liberalismus um 1800 und der Formierung seines administrativen, ökonomischen und moralischen Subjekts.

El gran historiador inglés, Eric Hobsbawm, en su texto Rebeldes primitivos (1983, p.

Red Flag Wounded brings together essays covering the controversies and debates over the fraught history of the Soviet Union from the revolution to its disintegration.

From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its high hopes, broken promises, repression and intolerance causing national discontent and another socio-political upheaval today, the history of modern Iran has been eventful, unstable and turbulent.

From the rise of constitutionalism during the rule of despotic Qajars, foreign invasions, the Pahlavi regimes' destructive politics, economic, cultural and social modernization efforts and the oil nationalization movement, to the Iranian Revolution, its high hopes, broken promises, repression and intolerance causing national discontent and another socio-political upheaval today, the history of modern Iran has been eventful, unstable and turbulent.