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To a large degree, the story of Texas’ secession from Mexico has been undertaken by scholars of the state. Early twentieth century historians of the revolutionary period, most notably Eugene Barker ……続きを見る

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 Rev……続きを見る

Un análisis profundo y crítico del movimiento zapatista en México que destaca su dimensión social, política e ideológica. Refleja la realidad indígena-campesina y su lucha contra el sistema capitali……続きを見る

Una mirada crítica sobre la militancia femenina en el PRT-ERP durante los años 70, que visibiliza prácticas, tensiones y rupturas con los mandatos de género tradicionales a través del análisis de te……続きを見る

R is for Revolution begins by examining the writings of Machiavelli, Erasmus of Rotterdam, and Sir Thomas More. It explores how Guttenberg's perfection of moveable-type printing, combined with textu……続きを見る

Die Russische Revolution schuf eine neue Welt. Im Februar 1917 stürzte der letzte Zar. Im Oktober ergriffen de Bolschewiki die Macht und begannen, die Verhältnisse radikal zu verändern - aus dem Zar……続きを見る

On January 2, 1959, Fidel Castro, the rebel comandante who had just overthrown Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista, addressed a crowd of jubilant supporters. Recalling the failed popular uprisings of p……続きを見る

Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors le……続きを見る

Jonathan Sperber’s Revolutionary Europe 1780–1850 is a history of Europe in the age of the French Revolution, from the end of the old regime to the outcome of the revolutions of 1848. Fully revised ……続きを見る

Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait : Un an ne s’est pas écoulé depuis le jour anniversai……続きを見る

Peter Arshinov first met and befriended Nestor Makhno in prison in 1911, a friendship that continued after their release following the February Revolution in 1917. In 1919 Arshinov became Makhno's s……続きを見る

José Peirats's 'The CNT in the Spanish Revolution' is a landmark in the historiography of the Spanish Civil War. Without it, the role of anarchism in that conflict could never be reconstructe……続きを見る

The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing bring together updated essays from Middle……続きを見る

War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians. It is a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the……続きを見る

Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts wurde eine französische Kommission beauftragt die politische, militärische und administrative Korrespondenz von Napoleon Bonaparte herauszugeben. Diese Kommission legte ei……続きを見る

Charles Tilly is among the most influential American sociologists of the last century. For the first time, his pathbreaking work on a wide array of topics is available in one comprehensive reader. T……続きを見る

The Christian Right of the 1980s forged its political identity largely in response to what it perceived as liberal 'judicial activism'. Robert Daniel Rubin tells this story as it played out in Mobil……続きを見る

Em "A Vitória Estratégica", o Comandante Fidel relata os acontecimentos daquelas jornadas de luta intensa e decisiva, a partir de suas vivências como protagonista excepcional, depoimentos de combate……続きを見る

Paul Avrich’s The Russian Anarchists records the history and ideas of Russian anarchism from the 19th century through to its brutal suppression by the Bolsheviks in the 1920s. All the major personal……続きを見る

“The man who is shut up in a prison is so far from being bettered by the change, that he comes out more resolutely the foe of society than he was when he went in.” This statement is the animating pr……続きを見る

Revolutionaries, despots and tyrants – over 40 of the most totalitarian leaders in the world. This ebook has been made from the 2007 edition. Want to know which dictator ruled the longest, who added……続きを見る

The American and Latin American independence movements emerged from distinctive settings and produced divergent results, but they were animated by similar ideas. Patriotic political theorists throug……続きを見る

From Deficit to Deluge takes stock of shifts in scholarly investigation of the origins of French Revolution. During the last decade, scholars have moved beyond "revisionist" historians of the 1970s,……続きを見る

The "Arab Spring" was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. The contributors to this volume examine the legiti……続きを見る

The Ottoman revolution of 1908 is a study in contradictionsーa positive manifestation of modernity intended to reinstate constitutional rule, yet ultimately a negative event that shook the fundament……続きを見る

Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre la Revolución francesa, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá: • Pr……続きを見る

On July 23, 1892, Alexander Berkman, an immigrant Russian Jew, idealist, and anarchist, forced his way into the Pittsburgh office of Henry Clay Frick in order to kill him. The assassination was, in ……続きを見る

Chinese Anarchists were inspired by the ideas of Pierre Proudhon, Michael Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin and Elisée Reclus. Many were exposed to Anarchist ideas while they were students in Europe and Anar……続きを見る

Un livre de plus sur les malheurs de la Vendée ? Non. Mais une synthèse accessible au plus vaste public, qui aborde tous les sujets délicats : y a-t-il eu ou non génocide ? Etait-ce une guerre civil……続きを見る

Sam Dolgoff, editor of the best anthology of Bakunin's writings, has now produced an excellent documentary history of the Anarchist collectives in Spain. Although there is a vast literature on the S……続きを見る