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El britànic George Orwell és un clar exemple d'escriptor compromès amb la llibertat i ho deixà ben palès lluitant contra el feixisme com a milicià del POUM. Homenatge a Catalunya, on expressa la sev……続きを見る

Le Nouveau Paris (1798) est un ouvrage publié par l'écrivain français Louis-Sébastien Mercier (1740 – 1814). Composé de courts chapitres indépendants les uns des autres (anecdotes, portraits, réflex……続きを見る

Recuerdos de la guerra de España se publicó en 1943, en pleno apogeo del nazismo y pocos años después de la victoria de las tropas de Franco en la Guerra Civil. La inquietud de George Orwell por la ……続きを見る

In the years following the fall of Slobodan Milosevic, Serbian social, cultural and political responses to the wars of the 1990s have fallen under intense scrutiny. In Ethnic Conflict and War Crimes……続きを見る

A masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophers France before 1789 traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of……続きを見る

This study presents an alternative story of the 2011 Egyptian revolution by revisiting Egypt's moment of decolonisation in the mid-twentieth century. Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt explores the co……続きを見る

Conosciamo John Reed essenzialmente per il libro "I dieci giorni che sconvolsero il mondo" (1919) - l'appassionato reportage sulla Rivoluzione d'Ottobre che Lenin stesso raccomandò "agli operai di t……続きを見る

Gaetano Bresci fu l'anarchico che uccise a Monza, la sera del 29 luglio 1900, re Umberto I di Savoia sparandogli tre colpi di pistola. Il sovrano stava rientrando in carrozza dopo una premiazione in……続きを見る

The period of Industrial Revolution is marked with railroads, steel and big businesses. There were factories and machines working to build a more concrete nation. But the Industrial Revolution also ……続きを見る

In 1797, Revolutionary France, with the dynamic young General Bonaparte in command of its armies, set upon the conquest of Europe, both by taking territory and by spreading the new ideology. Pope Pi……続きを見る

The latter half of the eighteenth-century saw Irish opposition movements being greatly influenced by the American and French revolutions. This two-part, six-volume edition illustrates the depth and ……続きを見る

Randall Swingler (1909–67) was arguably the most significant and the best-known radical English poet of his generation. A widely published poet, playwright, novelist, editor and critic, his work was……続きを見る

Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 'A remarkable achievement' Spectator In the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, on……続きを見る

Anarchists who supported the Cuban War for Independence in the 1890s launched a transnational network linking radical leftists from their revolutionary hub in Havana, Cuba to South Florida, Puerto R……続きを見る

Andet bind i ungarske Péter Nádas hovedværk, Parallelle historier, der nu endelig kan læses i dansk oversættelse. Parallelle historier er et fascinerende og provokerende romanværk og et panorama ove……続きを見る

The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 reverberated across the Middle East and Europe and ushered in a new era for the Ottoman Empire. The initial military uprising in the Balkans triggered a constitutio……続きを見る

O trabalho de Eduardo Navarro Stotz torna-se uma referência tanto histórica quanto teórica e metodológica para o estudo do sindicalismo brasileiro dos anos 1930. Sua reflexão se remete diretamente a……続きを見る

« LA MERE » est un roman socialement engagé de l’écrivain russe soviétique Maxime Gorki (1868-1937) considéré comme un des fondateurs du réalisme socialiste en littérature et un homme engagé politiq……続きを見る

Living On The Town Line is a book that documents fourteen years of successes and failures, in a story form, searching for the exact location that Justin Morgan had settle at when he came to Vermont.……続きを見る

Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a political force on the world stage, the beginning of marke……続きを見る

In swift, witty chapters that flawlessly capture the pace and character of New York City, acclaimed diarist Edward Robb Ellis presents his masterpiece: a thorough, and thoroughly readable, history o……続きを見る

Through the last three presidential administrations and two wars with Iraq, no one has personally witnessed, influenced, or fueled news over more history-making events than Joseph Wilson. The last A……続きを見る

**The dramatic story of the interconnected revolutions that shattered the old European order and transformed the continent “A fully nuanced portrait of a tumultuous year.” ーWall Street Journal** In……続きを見る

**A bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner offers a compelling case for the necessity of resistance in our turbulent times, and shows how rebellionsーhowever quixotic or irrational they seemー……続きを見る

Rum arguably shaped the modern world. It was to the eighteenth century what oil is to the present, but its significance has been diminished by a misguided sense of old-fashioned morality dating back……続きを見る

Author Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of America's war against the Barbary pirates, our first war against terror and the nations that support it. The Barbary pirates, a Muslim ene……続きを見る

All school children know the story of the fatal duel between Hamilton and Burr - but do they really? In this remarkable retelling, Thomas Fleming takes the reader into the post-revolutionary world o……続きを見る

From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our id……続きを見る

Aunque el siglo XIX, en el terreno de la teoría política, habría de caracterizarse por la doctrina del liberalismo, otros fenómenos y corrientes de pensa- miento tornan el panorama de esta centuña m……続きを見る

El romanticismo generó dos tendencias estéticas: el moder- nismo (en Brasil se siguió el modelo francés y se designa este movimiento con el nombre de simbolismo) y el realismo natu- ralista. El mode……続きを見る