Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history.

The Tupac Amaru rebellion of 1780-1783 began as a local revolt against colonial authorities and grew into the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire-more widespread and deadlier than the American Revolution.

You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same.

The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways.

On Mother's Day, 31 May 1942, a group of women stormed a small grocery store at the intersection of two Parisian market streets, the rue de Buci and the rue de Seine, to protest the food shortages that had become a chronic feature of daily life.

The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin - it changed the course of Irish history.

New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S.

New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S.

The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany.

The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin - it changed the course of Irish history.

Red at Heart conjures a tale of cross-cultural romance from a topic that is normally seen in geopolitical or ideological terms--and thereby offers a new interpretation of twentieth century communism's most crucial alliance.

On Mother's Day, 31 May 1942, a group of women stormed a small grocery store at the intersection of two Parisian market streets, the rue de Buci and the rue de Seine, to protest the food shortages that had become a chronic feature of daily life.

The samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways.

Leon Trotsky was the most important contributor to the development of revolutionary Marxism this century, after Lenin.

This book reinterprets the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century revolutions by composing a constellation of "e;dialectical images"e;: Marx's "e;locomotives of history,"e; Alexandra Kollontai's sexually liberated bodies, Lenin's mummified body, Auguste Blanqui's barricades and red flags, the Paris Commune's demolition of the Vendome Column, among several others.

In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns echoes of the European revolutions of 1848.

The basic discoveries underlying Marx's critique of political economy - labour power, surplus value, use value - are all in some way built upon the concept of need.

Revolt and upheaval in medieval Britain by a brilliant new narrative historian.

Revolution in the Air is the definitive study of how radicals from the sixties movements embraced twentieth-century Marxism, and what movements of dissent today can learn from the legacies of Lenin, Mao and Che.

Toussaint L'Ouverture was the leader of the Haitian Revolution in the late eighteenth century, in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic.

In February of 1917 Russia was a backward, autocratic monarchy, mired in an unpopular war; by October, after not one but two revolutions, it had become the world's first workers' state, straining to be at the vanguard of global revolution.

It was the Autumn of 1969, and Italy exploded.

The Common Wind is a gripping and colorful account of the intercontinental networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the New World.

These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and their clarion calls to insurrection remain some of the most stirring of all time.

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The story of what happened in 1968 in Pakistan is often forgotten, but is yet another proof that the revolutionary moment was global.

In response to the American administration's attempt to isolate Cuba, Fidel Castro delivered a series of speeches designed to radicalize Latin American society.

"e;Only martyrs know neither pity nor fear.

For two hundred years after the French Revolution, the Republican tradition celebrated the execution of princes and aristocrats, defending the Terror that the Revolution inflicted upon on its enemies.

Commissioned by Oliver Stone in 2015 to commemorate the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali's captivating screenplay of the life and times of Vladimir Lenin puts flesh on the bones of the historical record and gets its pulse racing.

The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are central figures in the history of democracy.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the October 1917 uprising, is one of the most misunderstood leaders of the twentieth century.

A Portable A to ZThe ancient art of Feng Shui has been practised in China for thousands of years, and Lillian Too has introduced this art to the millions of people around the world looking to bring good luck and prosperity to their homes.

Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917.

Robespierre's defense of the French Revolution remains one of the most powerful and unnerving justifications for political violence ever written, and has extraordinary resonance in a world obsessed with terrorism and appalled by the language of its proponents.

Since the disastrous Pompidou years, working-class Paris has been steadily nibbled away, either by destruction or more insidiously by a kind of internal colonization.

In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British history.

In the history of European revolutions, the barricade stands as a glorious emblem.

Revolution in the Revolution?

Eric Hazan, author of the acclaimed The Invention of Paris, leads us by the hand in this walk from Ivry to Saint-Denis, passing such familiar landmarks as the Luxembourg Gardens, the Pompidou Centre, the Gare du Nord and Montmartre, as well as little-known alleyways and arcades.

A People's History of Scotland looks beyond the kings and queens, the battles and bloody defeats of the past.

Una conversación íntima entre destacados intelectuales públicos que examina la polémica interacción entre la Revolución Cubana y el imperio estadounidense.

Understand Nazi Germany is an accessible introduction to one of the most controversial and debated periods of history.

Mussolini's Italy is a compelling introduction to this infamous fascist dictator and his extraordinary rule.

An extraordinary work of historical imagination from the double Booker Prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, now a major TV series, this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution.

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