Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

A groundbreaking history of nobles in Central Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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This book studies the changes that have marked war in the Western World since the thirteenth century.

This book studies the confrontation between popular movements and repressive regimes in Central America.

This book explores how workers both perceived, responded to and helped shape the outcome of Mexico''s revolution.

This book examines the politics of the French Revolutionary tradition in the early nineteenth century.

Loewenstein explores the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution.

Stone attributes the outbreak of the French Revolution to international/domestic pressures on national leaders.

This 2002 study examines the process of the disintegration of the Soviet state.

Die Erfindung der Monarchie: Eine Analyse der politischen Evolution ist eine tiefgreifende Untersuchung, die das Phänomen der Monarchie in der Menschheitsgeschichte von seinen Ursprüngen bis zur modernen Weltordnung durchleuchtet.

This book provides students and general readers with an introduction to revolutionary France whilst also presenting a clear argument to explain the events of the period.

A Companion to the American Revolution is a single guide to the themes, events, and concepts of this major turning point in early American history.

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It is the story of Paul Kagame, a refugee who, after a generation of exile, found his way home.

What does it mean to have a voice in a formal democracy operating under neoliberal guidelines and with an almost entirely private media system?

What does it mean to have a voice in a formal democracy operating under neoliberal guidelines and with an almost entirely private media system?

The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910-1929 examines the global entanglement of the Mexican labor movement during the Mexican Revolution.

The Global Perspective of Urban Labor in Mexico City, 1910-1929 examines the global entanglement of the Mexican labor movement during the Mexican Revolution.

An "e;erudite"e; translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art offers "e;unsettling observations on civilization"e; (Kirkus Reviews).

In einer Ära des politischen Umbruchs und der religiösen Konflikte stieg Queen Anne als letzte Herrscherin des Hauses Stuart auf den englischen Thron.

Prior to gaining international renown for his definitive biography of Che Guevara and his firsthand reports on the war in Iraq in the acclaimed THE FALL OF BAGHDAD, Jon Lee Anderson wrote GUERRILLAS, a daring on-the-ground account of five diverse insurgent movements around the world: the mujahedin of Afghanistan, the FMLN of El Salvador, the Karen of Burma, the Polisario of Western Sahara, and a group of young Palestines fighting against Israel in the Gaza Strip.

THE TOP FIVE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2025'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' VOGUE'Private Revolutions could be a Netflix series, for family, violence and romance abound' IRISH TIMES'A portrait of China through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them.

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 Johnson s stories bring this history chillingly alive Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An indelible feat of reporting and an urgent read .

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, an acclaimed portrait of Leon Trotsky from one of the finest scholars of modern and Soviet era Russia.

An acclaimed examination of the global history of communism, from one of the finest historians of modern Russia.

'Tragic, touching and terrifying' - The Telegraph'A flat-out masterpiece' - The New York Times Book ReviewEmbark on a death-defying journey through war-torn Afghanistan in this moving travelogue from Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and co-host of the hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.

A fascinating insight into the complexity, history and unpredictability of Iraq from Rory Stewart, bestselling author of Politics on the Edge and host of hit podcast The Rest Is Politics.

The acclaimed biography of Joseph Stalin from Robert Service, world-leading expert in modern and Soviet era Russia.

Lenin is a colossal figure whose influence on twentieth-century history cannot be underestimated.

An interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, cross-historical analysis of three 20th-century non-Western revolutionary societies-China, Mexico, and Iran-that were profoundly impinged upon by European and American imperialism.

A detailed, scholarly reassessment of developments in Cambodia since December 25, 1978, when Vietnamese combat soldiers expelled the ruthless Pol Pot regime.

This provocative analysis of U.

Onwumechili provides an exciting perspective on African military coups and reminds us that democracy is not synonymous solely with Western societies.

This book offers a fresh analysis of the Russian Revolution from a global perspective.

This new collection of documents helps students understand the complex texture of Russian public rhetoric and popular debate during World War I and the 1917 Revolution.

This thorough narrative examines Emiliano Zapata's life, his role in Mexico's revolutionary movement, and his true motivations and beliefs.

This concise biography of the world famous revolutionary Che Guevara provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of his remarkable life, tragic death, and enduring political legacy.

One of the most tumultuous periods in modern Chinese history, the Cultural Revolution affected virtually all Chinese people and all aspects of Chinese life, including art, music and drama, education, factory management, economic planning, and medical care.

The long government service of Francois Boissy d'Anglas from 1789 to 1826 is unique, and his abundant writing provides a new look at the great drama of the French Revolution era.

The interest of Russian intellectuals in the French Revolution demonstrates that some Russian thinkers of the 19th century had begun to question the concept of Russia's uniqueness.

In this volume, Latin Americanist scholars explore the recent evidence relating to the ways in which partial state failure in the continent is interacting with new types of organized violence, thereby undermining the process of democratic consolidation that has characterized Latin America over the past two decades.

The throngs at Woodstock, Jane Fonda in Hanoi, I Have a Dream, burning draft cards, fire in the streets--these images of the 1960s are still very much alive today.

The French Revolution has often been perceived as the dawn of the modern era, the divide between the ancien regime and the contemporary world.

The realities of Iranian life are far more harrowing than most people imagine from the outside.

The Kurds are one of the largest stateless nations in the world, numbering more than 20 million people.

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

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.

Fabled for more than three thousand years as fierce warrior-nomads and cameleers dominating the western Trans-Saharan caravan trade, today the Sahrawi are admired as soldier-statesmen and refugee-diplomats.