Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions

In Beyond 1776, ten humanities scholars consider the American Revolution within a global framework.

This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete.

Why did the Gulf monarchies and the UAE in particular - avoid the upheavals and challenges of the Arab uprisings?

The Alcoholic Empire examines the prevalence of alcohol in Russian social, economic, religious, and political life.

Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America: Race and Identity in the Crucible of War reconceptualizes the history of the break-up of colonial empires in Spanish and Portuguese America.

The 1979 rebellion in Nicaragua was the first in modern Latin America to be carried out with the active participation and support of Christians.

Reveals how British officials attempted to understand and impose order on northern Belize during the second half of the nineteenth century.

This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home.

Over the course of 66 days in 1967, more than 4,000 "e;class enemies"e;--including young children and the elderly--were murdered in Daoxian, a county in China's Hunan province.

Examines the anarchist networks that connected Florida, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Panama in the early 1900s.

Insolent proceedings brings together leading scholars working on the politics, religion and literature of the English Revolution.

Heinrich Hauser (1901–1955) gehört zu den ungewöhnlichsten Autoren des frühen 20.

Das Jahr 1688 markiert einen der bedeutsamsten Wendepunkte in der Geschichte Englands – die Glorious Revolution.

For too long Egypt s system of government was beholden to the interests of the elite in power, aided by the massive apparatus of the security state.

The 1946 Mexican presidential election signaled the ascent of a new generation of cosmopolitan civilian government officials, led by the magnetic lawyer Miguel Aleman.

In The Revolution Has Come Robyn C.

The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world.

The jeunesse doree, or "e;gilded youth,"e; were a parallel militia recruited from the ranks of minor officials and small shopkeepers.

The political conflict during Mexicos Reform era in the mid-nineteenth century was a visceral battle between ideologies and people from every economic and social class.

In October 2019, hundreds of thousands took to the streets of Lebanon to protest austerity measures in what became known as the “thawra.

Fully illustrated, this book assesses the origins, equipment, and fighting styles of the irregular warfare specialists fighting on both sides during the American Revolutionary War.

Comprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolution's religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to such an extent that it precluded political democracy.

Lars Schoultz offers a comprehensive chronicle of U.

This book explores the eight-month wave of mutinies that struck the French infantry and navy in 1919.

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

Reveals the centrality of women rebels to Fidel Castro''s Cuban insurrection in the 1950s.

Loved Egyptian Night fundamentally reassesses the Arab Spring, refuting the stories the Western powers fed to the world.

In 1740, the French King Louis XV granted his Swedish-led forces the title of Royal Swedish Regiment, for which it received the same privileges as all royal regiments, including the protection of the king, new flags, and ordinance.

Covering two centuries of Russian history, this book shows how a sense of honor has affected Russia''s foreign policy decision-making.

Russland – ein Land der Extreme und Kontraste, das auf einzigartige Weise urbanen Fortschritt und ländliche Tradition vereint.

Russia and Central Asia provides an overview of the relationship between two dynamic regions, highlighting the ways in which Russia and Central Asia have influenced and been influenced by Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

This book shows how Maoism was globalized during the 1949-1976 period, highlighting the agency of both Latin American and Chinese actors.

This volume explores several notable themes related to political processes in Latin America and offers insightful historical perspectives to understand national, regional, and global issues in the continent from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

Arming the Irish Revolution is an in-depth investigation of the successes and failures of the militant Irish republican efforts to arm themselves.

How New York intellectuals interpreted and wrote about Castro's revolution in the 1960sNew York in the 1960s was a hotbed for progressive causes of every stripe, including women's liberation, civil rights, opposition to the Vietnam War-and the Cuban Revolution.

Over the five years following the Russian revolution of 1917 there occurred a brilliant outburst of theory and criticism among Russian intellectuals struggling to comprehend their country's vast social upheaval.

From late 2003 through mid-2005, a series of peaceful street protests toppled corrupt and undemocratic regimes in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan and ushered in the election of new presidents in all three nations.

The State versus The People provides the first detailed account of the role of revolutionary justice in the early Soviet state.

This study examines how debates about history during the French Revolution informed and changed the nature of the British novel between 1790 and 1814.

Drawing on economic theory and several historical cases, this Element explains why reforms in weak states frequently provoke rebellion.

The first book-length analysis of how the Bolsheviks responded to antisemitism during the Russian Revolution.

The Restoration, which re-established Charles II as king of England in 1660, marked the end of "e;God's cause"e;-a struggle for liberty and republican freedom.

An analysis of Russian democracy''s collapse in 1917 through the experiences of ordinary people.

Stalin's Terror of the 1930s has long been a popular subject for historians.

The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space.