Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

Ireland, 1919: When Sinn Fin proclaims Dil ireann the parliament of the independent Irish republic, London declares the new assembly to be illegal, and a vicious guerrilla war breaks out between republican and crown forces.

Revolution and Civil War in North Russia shines a much-needed light on the establishment and consolidation of Bolshevik power on the civil war periphery and examines the Allied/anti-Bolshevik military and home fronts from a previously uncharted perspective.

A magnificent and timely examination of an age of fear, subversion, suppression and espionage, Adam Zamoyski explores the attempts of the governments of Europe to police the world in a struggle against obscure forces, seemingly dedicated to the overthrow of civilisation.

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.

In December 2004, the world watched as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians gathered to defy the results of a transparently rigged presidential election.

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.

The idea of a Lenin renaissance might well provoke an outburst of sarcastic laughter.

This volume provides an challenging and controversial explanation of the recent events in Russia.

The first major collection of essays to provide a comprehensive examination of the British literature of the French Revolution.

The diaries of Dr Hussein Fakhri al-Khalidi offer a unique insight to the peculiarities of colonialism that have shaped Palestinian history.

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

A lavishly illustrated volume marking the defining point in American history.

We now live with the threat and the reality of political terror and terrorists.

Borders - whether settled or contested, violent or calm, closed or open - may have a direct, and often acute, human impact.

If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you .

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the important and paradoxical relation between women and the French Revolution.

Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the idea of Ukrainian independence did not emerge at the end of the nineteenth-century.

Through Gramsci and Fanon, Salem centers anticolonial politics by exploring the connections between Egypt''s moment of decolonization and the 2011 revolution.

On November 16, 2017, Pope Francis tweeted, "e;Poverty is not an accident.

This book looks at London's provision of financial and military support for parliament's war against King Charles I.

Living the Revolution offers a pioneering insight into the world of the early Soviet activist.

The twentieth century in Europe was characterized by great moments of rupture, such as two world wars, ideological conflict, and political polarization.

From Tahrir Square to Occupy, from the Red Shirts in Thailand to the Teachers in Oaxaca, protest camps are a highly visible feature of social movements' activism across the world.

In response to the upheavals engendered by World War II, revolutions broke out or loomed throughout the world.

__________________________'The universal significance of this historic event becomes ever more relevant in our own turbulent times.

On Thanksgiving night, 1915, a small band of hooded men gathered atop Stone Mountain, an imposing granite butte just outside Atlanta.

A Companion to the French Revolution comprises twenty-nine newly-written essays reassessing the origins, development, and impact of this great turning-point in modern history.

A century before Martin Luther and the Reformation, Jan Hus confronted the official Church and helped to change the face of medieval Europe.

Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans.

This is a book of poems by four veteran Chinese revolutionaries.

The 1848 Revolutions in Europe that marked a turning-point in the history of political thought are examined here in a pan-European perspective.

The Russian Revolutions of 1917 and the Iranian Revolution of 1979 are two examples of dramatic, sudden and extraordinary political upheaval that significantly altered the nature of the state and society in the modern age.

In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu's great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze River.

Following a disastrous campaign in 1777, the alliance between the Six Nations and the British Crown became seriously strained.

Can an individual act of suicide be socially significant, or does it present too many imponderable features?

Because they were Marxists, the Bolsheviks in Russia, both before and after taking power in 1917, believed that the past was prologue: that embedded in history was a Holy Grail, a series of mysterious, but nonetheless accessible and comprehensible, universal laws that explained the course of history from beginning to end.

Two decades have now passed since the revolutions of 1989 swept through Eastern Europe and precipitated the collapse of state socialism across the region, engendering a period of massive social, economic and political transformation.

Beyond the Barricades is an original study of government after the 1848 revolutions.

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.

Egypt is at the axis of the Arab world.

An incisive and spirited portrait of the twentieth cenutry's wiliest political survivor and his fiefdom, Cuba Confidential is the gripping story of the shattered families and warring personalities that lie at the heart of the forty-three-year standoff between Miami and Havana.

'Alive with human detail and acute political judgement, this book marks the arrival of a formidably gifted historian.

The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was France's first trial for crimes against humanity.

A 'decision' of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union occupies a central place in the party and in the Soviet system.