Political 75

It was like a scene out of a thriller: one morning in April 2012, China’s most famous political activistーa blind, self-taught lawyerーclimbed over the wall of his heavily guarded home and escaped. ……続きを見る

This special 2-book bundle contains a number of perspectives on a man who was arguably Canada’s most famous political leader, a figure of legendary proportions in the history of Canada’s birth and d……続きを見る

Twelve Years a Slave (1853; sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in ……続きを見る

Friedl Volgger (1914-1997) stand als Politiker und Journalist fast ein halbes Jahrhundert an vorderster Front im Kampf um Südtirol. In seinen Memoiren schildert er u. a. die tragische Zerrissenheit ……続きを見る

Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that ……続きを見る

Maurice Joly, son passé, son programme, par lui-même - Maurice Joly Maurice Joly (1829 - 1878) est un avocat du barreau de Paris, journaliste et écrivain français. Il fait des études de droit qu'il ……続きを見る

La Question brûlante - Maurice Joly Maurice Joly (1829 - 1878) est un avocat du barreau de Paris, journaliste et écrivain français. Il fait des études de droit qu'il interrompt en 1849 pour aller à ……続きを見る

As a 16-year old schoolboy from a Parisian banlieu, Jean-Pierre Duteuil became politicised in 1960 over France’s bitter and bloody Algerian war of independence. Already an anarchist, he studied at t……続きを見る

Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two menーPresident Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Rossーwho led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades a……続きを見る

"THE PURPOSE OF POLITICS IS NOT TO DEFEAT YOUR OPPONENT AS MUCH AS IT IS TO PROVIDE SUPERIOR LEADERSHIP AND BETTER IDEAS THAN THE OPPOSITION." ーJACK KEMP The late 1970s were miserable for America. ……続きを見る

El libro del historiador Víctor Muñoz Cortés “Cuando la patria mata. La historia del anarquista Julio Rebosio (1914-1920)” es una biografía social que permite adentrarnos……続きを見る

He was one of America's greatest presidents and certainly our most colorful. Theodore Roosevelt, known to all but his friends as Teddy, was born a sickly child but transformed himself into an outdoo……続きを見る

This revised edition brings to a close the fascinating life story of Jayaprakash Narayan, one of the last outstanding moral and political figures who carried forward Gandhi’s legacy of non-violent m……続きを見る

'Nowzad was a gentle giant when it came to taking treats. He never, ever snatched. To me it was just further evidence that, deep inside, there was a great dog struggling to find his way out' When Pe……続きを見る

With only a short time to live, Foran’s has been a lone voice against the establishment for 40 years before suppressed evidence emerged to prove his innocence. After two false convictions and spend……続きを見る

Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to d……続きを見る

Born in Budapest to a well-to-do assimilated Jewish family, Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) and his family moved to Vienna when he was 18. He studied law before he began writing plays and pieces of journa……続きを見る

Tu as inséré dans ton journal, n°. 233, que la cupidité jointe à l’envie de faire du bruit, m’avoit fait débuter dans la révolution par un faux ; que j’avais profité de la nouvelle de l’assasinat de……続きを見る

When the White House Calls tells the life story of John Price, one of Utah’s most prominent citizens, beginning with his birth in Germany through his years as a successful builder and real estate de……続きを見る

On 9 November 1918 Ebert became Imperial Chancellor as revolution broke out in Berlin. He opposed the radical left, declaring, 'Without democracy there is no freedom. Violence, no matter who is usin……続きを見る

The Greek Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936) was one of the stars of the Paris Peace Conference, impressing many of the Western delegates, already possessed of a romantic view of 'th……続きを見る

The Socialist politician Karl Renner (1870-1950) was prime minister of the government that took power in Vienna after the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He lead the delegation to Paris, wh……続きを見る

The First World War marked the emergence of the Dominions on the world stage as independent nations, none more so than Australia. The country's sacrifice at Gallipoli in 1915, and the splendid comba……続きを見る

The thirteenth of President Wilson's Fourteen Points of 1918 read: "An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputably Polish populations, w……続きを見る

The story of the Indian soldiery in the Great War needs a new telling and one important chapter of it will be about the Maharajah of Bikaner: Dashing, autocratic and a formidable public speaker, Gan……続きを見る

Southeast Asia needs to be dealt with as a whole, because, although the one national delegation from the region (Siam) took a minor part, nationalist movements in several Southeast Asian countries r……続きを見る

Jan Smuts was one of the key figures behind the creation of the League of Nations; Wilson was inspired by his ideas, including the mandates scheme. He pleaded for a magnanimous peace, warning that t……続きを見る

The Italian premier Vittorio Orlando came to Paris as one of the 'Big Four', yet in April 1919 walked out in one of the most dramatic crises of the Peace Conferences. Orlando's failure to win for It……続きを見る

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924). It is September 1919 - a meeting hall in a small mid-Western city. A thin man is speaking to a sceptical audience about peace. He has already met the city fathers and has……続きを見る

Portugal’s poor military performance in the First World War, notably in Africa, restricted Afonso Costa's (1871-1937) ability to secure his diplomatic aims which, in any case, were highly unrealisti……続きを見る