Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

In the mountains and jungles of occupied Burma during World War II, British special forces launched a series of secret operations, assisted by parts of the Burmese population.

The expansion of the English state in the early modern era provoked resistance throughout Britain and Ireland, not least in Cornwall where this intrusion was challenged in a series of dramatic uprisings in the two centuries between 1490 and 1690.

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.

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

This is the first book to study how Haitian authors - from independence in 1804 to the modern Haitian diaspora - have adapted Greco-Roman material and harnessed it to Haiti's legacy as the world's first anti-colonial nation-state.

Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters.

Why did Islamists respond so differently to the Arab Spring?

A major history and interpretation of Russian philosophy from 1830 to 1930.

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

The search for a republican morality provides an exciting new study of an important event in the French Revolution and a defining moment in the career of its principal actor, Maximilien Robespierre, the Festival of the Supreme Being.

Tells the immensely dramatic but neglected story of one of the most sensational plots in British history.

A highly illustrated study of the wars of Central and South America from 1900 through to 1970, featuring many rare and never-before-seen images.

The Arab Spring captivated the planet.

From the fall of the Bastille to the rise of Napoleon, Paris was the stage for most of the greatest crises of the French Revolution.

Retaining well-loved features from the previous editions,The Transformation of China 1936-1997 has been approved by AQA and matched to the new 2015 specification.

In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework.

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

Why did the Gulf monarchies and the UAE in particular - avoid the upheavals and challenges of the Arab uprisings?

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment.

On the night of November 9, 1989, an electrified world watched as the Berlin Wall came down.

Depicts the forces involved in uprisings and border conflicts after the break-up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

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.

In 2021, the Chinese Communist Party celebrated a century of existence.

For some years the author of this work has been collecting materials for writing the history of the French Revolution.

As the nineteenth century drew to a close and epidemics in western Europe were waning, the deadly cholera vibrio continued to wreak havoc in Russia, outlasting the Romanovs.

The Indigenous movement in Ecuador was one of the most influential social movements in Latin America during the 1990s.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des Daoismus – einer der ältesten und tiefgründigsten philosophischen Traditionen Chinas.

For nearly four decades the conflict in Ireland has embittered relations between the communities living there and spoiled relations between the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain.

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Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin.

'Tantalizing prose' - TLSJean Jaures was the celebrated French Socialist Party leader, assassinated in 1914 for trying to use diplomacy and industrial action to prevent the outbreak of war.

The first decade of the twentieth century was the Ottoman Empire's 'imperial twilight'.

Marx held that the progression of society from capitalism to communism was 'historically inevitable'.

This volume explores several notable themes related to political processes in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues in the continent from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

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.

Heinrich Hauser (1901–1955) gehört zu den ungewöhnlichsten Autoren des frühen 20.

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The Venetian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) was Europe's most celebrated artist from the end of the ancien regime to the early years of the Restoration, an era when the traditional relationship between patrons and artists changed drastically.

'James is a titan of twentieth-century politics and culture' Sunday Times'The Black Jacobins is not only a groundbreaking historical work; it is a masterpiece in storytelling and analysis' Gary YoungeThe iconic study of the Haitian revolution, by one of the most important historians of the twentieth centuryC.

Die polemischen Schriften in diesem Band handeln von der vielschichtigen Beziehung zwischen Geschichte, Philosophie und Politik.

The Puritan Revolution escaped the control of its creators.

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 Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 introduced new military technologies, transformed the organization of armies, and upset the continental balance of power, promulgating new regimented ideas of nationhood and conflict resolution more widely.

David Frankfurter richtete die Waffe zu einem Zeitpunkt gegen den Nationalsozialismus, als dieser von den Regierungen vieler Länder weder als Kriegsgefahr noch als genozidale Gewaltherrschaft betrachtet wurde.

Conceived in Crisis argues that the American Revolution was not just the product of the Imperial Crisis, brought on by Parliament's attempt to impose a new idea of empire on the American colonies.

One of the key mission objectives of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) was to disarm and repatriate foreign combatants in the eastern region of the country.