F - Revolutionary 1

Charles Walker examines the largest rebellion in the history of Spain's American empire, led by Latin America's most iconic revolutionary, Tupac Amaru, and his wife. It began in 1780 as a multiclass……続きを見る

OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE 2016 'The mos……続きを見る

The 115,000 priests on French territory in 1789 belonged to an evolving tradition of priesthood. The challenge of making sense of the Christian tradition can be formidable in any era, but this was e……続きを見る

Marxist historian F. A. Ridley’s account of the revolt led by, among others, Thracian gladiator Spartacus, one of the prominent escaped slave leaders of the Third Servile War against the Roman Repub……続きを見る

Of the great incidents of History, none has attracted more attention or proved more difficult of interpretation than the French Revolution. The ultimate significance of other striking events and the……続きを見る

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. Breaking point came on 25 January 2011. But sever……続きを見る

Borders and boundaries are porous, especially in the context of political revolutions. Historian Julian F. Dodson has uncovered the story of postrevolutionary Mexico’s attempts to protect its northe……続きを見る

Spain 1923-1948, Civil War & World War was originally published in England, 1948 to add context to the conduct of Spain under Franco during the Spanish Civil War. Arthur Loveday targeted the British……続きを見る

Dans son ouvrage intitulé 'Les grands orateurs de la Révolution', F.-A. Aulard met en lumière les discours enflammés qui ont marqué cette période tumultueuse de l'histoire française. L'auteur analys……続きを見る

In Unfriendly to Liberty**, Christopher F. Minty explores the origins of loyalism in New York City between 1768 and 1776, and revises our understanding of the coming of the American Revolution.** Th……続きを見る

The book is created by the witness and participant of the Ti-Ping revolution in China and contains interesting historical facts and observations, including the author's personal observations and rem……続きを見る

Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important es……続きを見る

The Arab Spring uprising of 2011 is portrayed as a dawn of democracy in the region. But the revolutionaries wereーand saw themselves asーheirs to a centuries-long struggle for just government and th……続きを見る

Of the great incidents of History, none has attracted more attention or proved more difficult of interpretation than the French Revolution. The ultimate significance of other striking events and the……続きを見る

Giuseppe (Joseph) Garibaldi was born at Nice on July 4, 1807. Nice is now, and has been since 1860, a French town, but between these dates it was included in the kingdom of Piedmont, and its Italian……続きを見る

Muḥammad (d. 632), hailed by the white separatist Michael H. Hart as the “the most influential person in history,” introduced Islam to the world in the seventh century CE as a new religion and state……続きを見る

Toen Johan van Oldenbarnevelt op 29 augustus 1618 door Maurits van Nassau werd gearresteerd, was dat niet dan na een fikse pamflettenstrijd, waarin de Landsavocaat en Raadpensionaris zich ook zelf -……続きを見る

In 2011, capital's crisis erupted in Egyptian society. This eruption, and subsequent politics, have been misrepresented as revolutionary, as the working class was – and is increasingly so – devalued……続きを見る