Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

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 author of The Yompers details the history of Great Britain's innovation in combatting the German Zeppelin during World War I.

The Battle of the Somme is one of the most famous, and earliest, films of war ever made.

When Britain went to war in 1914 many people rallied to the cause, determined to join the colors or be useful in some other way.

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.

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

The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence.

Contemporary Cuba is opening up to the rest of the world.

In Protectorate Cyprus, education was one of the most effective tools of imperial control and political manipulation used by the British.

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.

In recent decades, African states have developed an impressive infrastructure for training their peacekeepers.

Contemporary Cuba is opening up to the rest of the world.

A chance encounter diverted Abdolreza Ansari from completing his PHD in the US, and set him on a professional journey which mirrored the prolific rise and the precipitous fall of the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi of Iran.

A career soldier, veteran of both World Wars, and British war hero remembers the campaigns he fought-and his worthy foes.

No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

No Fist Is Big Enough to Hide the Sky stands as a key text in the history of the eleven-year struggle against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde.

Jack McCleery was born in Belfast in 1898, the son of a mill owning family.

In the autumn of 1916 the Germans began to equip with the Gotha twin-engine bomber.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh later Lord Dowding was one of the greatest Englishmen of the 20th century.

The Battle of the Somme is one of the most famous, and earliest, films of war ever made.

When Britain went to war in 1914 many people rallied to the cause, determined to join the colors or be useful in some other way.

A history the Welsh volunteer service unit that bravely fought despite suffering heavy casualties during World War I.

A highly illustrated account of the Jewish Revolt against Roman rule in the 1st century AD.

A highly illustrated account of the Jewish Revolt against Roman rule in the 1st century AD.

The classic account and history of the Taos Revolt and the Cheyenne Indians.

The only comparative analysis available of the great navies of World War I, this work studies the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, the German Kaiserliche Marine, the United States Navy, the French Marine Nationale, the Italian Regia Marina, the Austro-Hungarian Kaiserliche und Konigliche Kriegsmarine, and the Imperial Russian Navy to demonstrate why the war was won, not in the trenches, but upon the waves.

A 2022 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: Sunday Times * Irish Times * Spectator * Financial Times * Telegraph * Aspects of History'The history book you need if you want to understand modern Russia' ANNE APPLEBAUM'A magnificent, magisterial thousand year history of Russia .

Struggling under oppressive laws, high taxes, and the heavy hand of King George the Third's rule, the people living in early America longed for freedoms seemingly out of reach.

Discover the untold story of the vital role the Irish played in the American Revolution.

You want a revolution?

In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in the Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance.

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

The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding career of a single, ill-fated leader, Jeremy Seal illuminates a bitterly divided country' Colin Thubron'Read this book if you're interested in Turkey.

'Excellent.

'Lively and engaging' Financial Times'Empathetic and deeply humanising' Peter Pomerantsev, author of This is Not PropagandaEach time Ukraine has rebuilt itself over the last century, it has been plagued by the same conflicts: corruption, poverty, and most of all Russian aggression.

Following the American Declaration of Independence, communities from Boston to Savannah were forced to make a choice: to strike out for an independent republic, or remain true to the British Crown.

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For fans of The Lost Kingdom, Black Sails and Crossbones comes a new rip-roaring history of the Golden Age of Piracy.

This illuminating collection of essays assesses the seventeenth century, interpreting what used to be called 'The Puritan Revolution', the ideas which helped to produce it and resulted from it, and the relation between these ideas and the political and economic events of the day.

A unique modern memoir of growing up in rural China, Colours of the Mountain is a powerful and moving story of supreme determination and extraordinary faith against the most impossible odds.

A sweeping history of Latin American republicanism in the nineteenth centuryBy the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics.

A new history of the United States that turns American exceptionalism on its headAmerican Empire is a panoramic work of scholarship that presents a bold new global perspective on the history of the United States.

A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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.

A major new history of the century-long debate over what a Jewish state should beMany Zionists who advocated the creation of a Jewish state envisioned a nation like any other.