Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail.

A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and why they can fail.

The Shi'a-Sunni conflict is one of the most significant outcomes arising from the Arab rebellions.

The Shi'a-Sunni conflict is one of the most significant outcomes arising from the Arab rebellions.

Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution.

Here is a brisk, accessible, and vivid introduction to arguably the most important event in the history of the United States--the American Revolution.

In their long struggle for independence from British rule, Irish republicans had long looked west for help, and with reason.

In their long struggle for independence from British rule, Irish republicans had long looked west for help, and with reason.

Employing an engaging question-and-answer format, The Arab Uprisings explores the revolutionary protests that have rocked the Arab world since late 2010.

Employing an engaging question-and-answer format, The Arab Uprisings explores the revolutionary protests that have rocked the Arab world since late 2010.

Nat Turner's name rings through American history with a force all its own.

In the summer of 1926, an army of Mexican Catholics launched a war against their government.

Peaceful protest is a strong driver for democratization across the globe.

Peaceful protest is a strong driver for democratization across the globe.

In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade.

In April 1917, Lenin arrived at Petrograd's Finland Station and set foot on Russian soil for the first time in over a decade.

If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people?

If democracy liberates individuals from their inherited bonds, what can reunite them into a sovereign people?

'People can only be free in relation to one another.

An extraordinary selection of the letters of Che Guevara'Always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world'Che Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life.

'Powerful and poetic .

'Guerrilla warfare is a war of the masses, a war of the people'First published in 1961, following the successful Cuban Revolution, this is Che Guevara's handbook for guerrilla war.

'Guevara was a figure of epic proportions.

'A tour de force of accessible scholarship' The Guardian'Impressive .

How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our close-knit world - from American 'shooters' and ISIS to Trump, from a rise in vengeful nationalism across the world to racism and misogyny on social media?

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature.

THE TIMES, THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016'Twice I missed my stop on the Tube reading this book.

'This war is not the end but the beginning of violence.

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A vivid chronicle of the first blow in the Irish revolution - by the people who were thereIn 1947 the Bureau of Military History was established by the Irish government to record the experiences of those who took part in the fight for independence.

Written at a time when most of Europe supported the French Revolution, Edmund Burke s prescient and, at the time, controversial denunciation of its mob rule predicted the Terror, began the modern conservative tradition and still serves as a warning to those who seek to reshape societies through violence.

The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world.

In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power.

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.

'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.

What caused the Russian Revolution?

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

To an extraordinary extent everyone in Britain still lives under the shadow of the 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688.

Throughout history, some books have changed the world.

The Ancien R gime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled.

Nineteenth-century France was one of the world's great cultural beacons, renowned for its dazzling literature, philosophy, art, poetry and technology.

The Rebel is Camus's 'attempt to understand the time I live in' and a brilliant essay on the nature of human revolt.

'This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'.

Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear.

Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror.

Ten Days That Shook the World is John Reed s eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution.

One of the great landmarks of modern history writing, Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced.

A groundbreaking history of early America that shows how Boston built and sustained an independent city-state in New England before being folded into the United StatesIn the vaunted annals of America's founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary "e;city upon a hill"e; and the "e;cradle of liberty"e; for an independent United States.

'A fine achievement by a huge new talent' William Dalrymple, Sunday TimesIn 1857 the native troops of the Bengal army rose against their colonial masters.

The author, Igor’ Sdvizhkov, takes a close look at the attempt by the Briansk Front’s Operational Group Chibisov to collapse the northern shoulder of the German drive to the Caucasus - north-west of Voronezh - in July 1942.