Presenting a continent-wide comparative analysis of ethnic, political, and colonially based insurgencies, this text examines the causes, tactics, outcomes, and key individuals of African insurgent events and assesses a range of foreseeable outcomes in Africa's multiple regions of continuing political instability.
This is the first comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals and militant abolitionists on the long road to the failed slave revolt of Harpers Ferry in 1859.
The Portuguese revolution marked the closure of the country's five-centuries of imperial history as well as its 48-year authoritarian period, a dramatic moment of political radicalization and social conflict that took place against the backdrop of rapid social transformation in an increasingly globalised world.
The Portuguese revolution marked the closure of the country's five-centuries of imperial history as well as its 48-year authoritarian period, a dramatic moment of political radicalization and social conflict that took place against the backdrop of rapid social transformation in an increasingly globalised world.
This book presents a historical synthesis of colonial relations between Brazil and Portugal, illuminating the projects that the statesmen of the period formulated for the rich Portuguese territory in America-at first as a colonial domain, then as a potential independent country.
In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century examines the ways in which an understanding of the nature of history influenced the thinking of the founding fathers.
While today's presidential tweets may seem a light-year apart from the scratch of quill pens during the era of the American Revolution, the importance of political communication is eternal.
Dieses Buch untersucht soziale und wirtschaftliche Kohäsionskräfte des langlebigen frühneuzeitlichen Herrschaftssystems in der alten Eidgenossenschaft.
Lo que todo revolucionario debe saber sobre la represion relata los metodos de la Ojrana, la policia secreta zarista, en visperas de la Revolucion de Octubre en Rusia, da consejos practicos al militante para evitar la vigilancia y expone la justificacion leninista del uso revolucionario de la represion politica.
Lenin – Revolutionsführer und Gründer der SowjetunionDer erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold vermittelt strukturiert Basiswissen und erläutert kenntnisreich das Leben und Wirken Lenins als Revolutionsführer und kommunistischer Staatsmann.
Lenin – Revolutionsführer und Gründer der SowjetunionDer erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold vermittelt strukturiert Basiswissen und erläutert kenntnisreich das Leben und Wirken Lenins als Revolutionsführer und kommunistischer Staatsmann.
La estrategia bélica explicada a través de metáforas y eficaces ejemplos, convierte a El arte de la guerra en uno de los más vigorosos libros de psicología aplicada jamás escrito.
El pensamiento del general chino Sun Tzu ha influido en la obra de Maquiavelo, fue decisivo en los planes militares de Napoleón, modeló las ideas políticas de Mao Tse Tung y se apoya en estos dos preceptos: Todo el arte de la guerra se basa en el engaño.
Gebrochene SchicksaleBritische Konzentrationslager und das Leiden der Buren während des Zweiten BurenkriegsElisabeth KrugerKlappentext:In den dunklen Schatten des Zweiten Burenkriegs (1899-1902) verbirgt sich eine der erschreckendsten und am wenigsten bekannten Episoden der britischen Kolonialgeschichte: die Einrichtung von Konzentrationslagern.
This unusual autobiography "e;The Story of My Experiments with Truth"e;, is a window to the workings of Mahatma Gandhi's mind - a window to the emotions of his heart - a window to understanding what drove this seemingly ordinary man to the heights of being the father of a nation - India.
An original account, drawing on both history and social science, of the causes and consequences of the American RevolutionWith America before 1787, Jon Elster offers the second volume of a projected trilogy that examines the emergence of constitutional politics in France and America.
Mourning Glory sheds light on troubled times as it shows how passion and prejudice, grief and denial all contributed to the continuing creation of a revolutionary legacy that still affects our understanding of the nature of language and history.
After decades of misinformation during the Soviet period, we can today, with historical hindsight and a better grasp of old and new sources, appraise what Lenins government meant for Russia and the world.
'One of the best history books you will read this decade' History Today'Fascinating, suspenseful, revelatory, alive' The TimesThere can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848.
Updated and revised from the popular 2002 edition, with full-colour maps and new images throughout, this is a concise study of the American Revolutionary War.
