Die radikaldemokratischen Forderungen des Friedrich Hecker - in diesem Band der »Bibliothek der frühen Demokratinnen und Demokraten« erstmals in einer Textauswahl versammelt.
Vor der »Weltliteratur« kam die Revolution - Theodor Fontanes frühe politische Texte Dass Theodor Fontane heute den bekanntesten Schriftsteller*innen zuzuordnen ist, war zu seinen Lebzeiten lange nicht absehbar.
Zwischen 1798 und 1815 stand auf Messers Schneide, ob die Schweiz wie Venedig, Polen und Hunderte deutsche Länder unwiederbringlich von der europäischen Landkarte verschwinden sollte.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Through fieldwork centering Syrian voices, this book explores wartime governing authority and the possibilities and limits of Western intervention therein.
The "e;Arab Spring"e; was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions.
Die Führung der DDR hatte mit allem gerechnet – nur nicht damit, dass Kerzen und Gebete den deutschen Arbeiter- und Bauernstaat zu Fall bringen würden.
Provides a comprehensive overview of 10 major slave revolts and examines how those uprisings and conspiracies impacted slaveholding colonies and states from 1663 to 1861.
This engaging overview of the American Revolution enables readers to consider and understand history with greater intimacy and accuracy through more than 100 primary documents.
Combining reference entries and examination of primary documents from the Russian Revolution, this book gives students a better understanding of how and why political forces fought to reshape the Russian empire 100 years ago-and provides keen insights into the Soviet Union that resulted.
While dramatic changes are taking place on the international scene and among the major powers, Africa continues to suffer from a multitude of violent conflicts.
While dramatic changes are taking place on the international scene and among the major powers, Africa continues to suffer from a multitude of violent conflicts.
Presentamos a los lectores académicos y público en general este trabajo de investigación con pretensiones de abarcar espacios y sociedades que en la globalidad permiten hablar de una unidad del Pacífico del Norte de Suramérica entre Colombia y Ecuador, con sus correspondiente valles interandinos del Cauca, Patía y Chota, con los cuales históricamente ha tenido relaciones que en su especificidad muestran los matices creados por la diversidad del medio y por las diversas formas de adaptación y resistencias de las sociedades negras al medio y a las relaciones conflictivas de dominio que allí se establecieron.
El propósito fundamental de este libro es reconstruir la historia de San Basilio de Palenque como un homenaje a los antiguos cimarrones que tuvieron la capacidad de escapar de la vida en esclavitud.
Desde el nacimiento de los estados-nación europeos hasta la Guerra de los Balcanes pasando por el imperialismo, los nacionalismos en América, el auge de los fascismos y las dos guerras mundiales.
Mayo del 68: la palabra anónima recoge entrevistas realizadas por Nicolas Daum a antiguos miembros del Comité de Acción –hoy diríamos "asambleas de barrio"– de los distritos III y IV de París, uno de los más duraderos.
