Revolutionary groups and movements Books
University of California Press Hotel Mexico
Book SynopsisIn 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. In this study of the afterlives of the '68 Movement, the author explores how urban spaces - material but also literary, photographic, and cinematic - became an archive of 1968, providing a framework for de facto modes of justice for years to come.Trade Review"In this skillful work of interdisciplinary rigor Hotel Mexico is the first study to situate the ’68 movement within urban culture and space by using the methodologies of collective memory and cultural studies. ... In this refreshing study, Flaherty employs an impressive array of sources to weave a deeply more complex narrative of 1960s Mexico than academics tend to tell in similar books." * Planning Perspectives *"Flaherty understands students’ 'spatiopolitical imaginations' as offering counterhegemonic visions of their rights to the city (136). Hotel Mexico rightly argues that urban space was a constant site of political struggle." * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments introduction 1. city of palaces 2. revenge of dust 3. urban logistics and kinetic environments 4. gestures of hospitality 5. satellites 6. mobilization and mediation 7. dwellings Notes Bibliography Index
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Cambridge University Press The Crisis in Kashmir
Book SynopsisThis book traces the origins of the insurgency in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. The first theoretically-grounded account, it is based on extensive interviews. Professor Ganguly's central argument is that the insurgency can be explained by political mobilisation and institutional decay.Trade Review'Scholarly discourse on Kashmir is mostly confined to two broad schools of thought: one favours the Indian-held Muslim majority province's goal of secession from India, while the other confronts the issue of secessionism and its legality, with the aim, very often, of providing support for the purpose of keeping Kashmir in the Indian federation. ≤umit Ganguly's Crisis in Kashmir is a welcome departure from the dual approach to the problem. … The core of the book is a balanced picture of the ongoing Kashmiri uprising since the late 1980s. What I found especially interesting is the chapter on strategies and Options for Resolving the Crisis. Ganguly's book is also noteworthy for the inclusion in the appendix of four important documents that have shaped the history of modern Kashmir.' Commonwealth and Comparative Politics'This volume represents social science at its best.' Foreign Affairs'The conflict in Kashmir … has precipitated two interstate wars and retains the potential to be the cause of another - this time between a nuclear-armed Pakistan and India. ≤umit Ganguly's brief study provides a dispassionate examination of the conflict.' Current History'Ganguly's book is a cool, controlled survey of Kashmir's recent political history, expressed in the vocabulary of political mobilization theory, followed by a review of feasible solutions.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'Essential for India specialists, political scientists, ethnicists, international theorists, and all levels of students, it can also be appreciated by general readers.' Choice'≤umit Ganguly has produced the fullest account yet of the causes and character of the Kashmir rebellion on the 1990s. Without dogma or predisposition, his analysis illuminates the sources and structure of a neglected, dangerous conflict.' Washington PostTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Maps; 1. The Kashmir conundrum; 2. Political mobilization and the onset of the insurgency; 3. The past as contrast; or, the dog that didn't bark; 4. Another war and Mrs. Gandhi's legacy; 5. The proximate causes: the Rajiv-Farooq accord and the outbreak of the insurgency; 6. The crisis worsens; 7. Strategies and options for resolving the crisis; Epilogue; Appendices; Index.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd The Worlds Most Dangerous Place
Book SynopsisThe author is among the few to have witnessed at first hand the devastating reality of life in the failed and desperate state of Somalia. In this book, he takes us to the heart of the struggle, meeting everyone from politicians, pirates, extremists and mercenaries to aid workers, civilians and refugees.Trade ReviewOne of the best narratives of discovery I have read for years. The sense of place is acute, the characters and landscapes vivid ... rivals Ryszard Kapuscinski and Robert Byron at their best. -- Robert Fox * Evening Standard *Fergusson has a talent for shedding light in dark places. While most reporters have opted to stay away, Fergusson has risked his life to cover the ground and, an even greater achievement, succeeded in making the Somali mess understandable and relevant. It is this insight, alongside his harrowing account of life in the grief zone that gives Fergusson's book its power. -- Anthony Sattin * Observer *Essential reading for those who seek to counter the menace. With ingenuity and no little courage he has travelled far and wide, within Somalia and among the Somali diaspora in Britain and America, delving into the soul of a ravaged community. * The Economist *What [Fergusson] has done, with heroic tenacity and no little courage, is to spend much of the last two years wandering from one end of the country to the other, interviewing politicians and presidents, fighters and pirates, foreign advisers and security guards, and above all scores of ordinary Somalis, whose lives have been destroyed by 20 years of carnage and whose tales he eloquently recounts. An elegant writer, with a scholarly understanding of history, he brings to terrible light the catastrophe that is Somalia. -- Caroline Moorehead * The Spectator *Fergusson's book is an honest, illuminating and surprisingly funny account of his travels through a lawless land in which the lure of terrorism all too often proves irresistible. * Mail on Sunday *A perceptive and engaging account. * Guardian *Excellent. -- Mark Doyle * Observer *If you meet James Fergusson on your travels, look out, you are most definitely in the wrong place. The writer has earned something of a reputation as a specialist on the dark side of the troubled world in which we live. From the Balkans to Afghanistan and the modern-day hell that is sub-Saharan Africa, the adventurous journalist and best-selling author has put his life on the line to become a global authority on Al Qaeda, the Taliban, boy soldiers in Somalia - and the worst aspects of human behaviour in the most inhospitable and dangerous regions. -- Jim McBeth * Daily Mail *This book is one of the most detailed and illuminating books I have ever read. Comprehensive, detailed, and filled with information, this is an excellent read. Read this book. * Army Rumour Service (ARRSE) *Coruscating reportage... Fergusson is a great journalist, and such truly brilliant investigative work offers the seeds, the suggestions of remedies for the contagion beneath the reporter’s microscope. -- Roger Hutchinson * Scotsman *Riveting ... Fergusson rounds out this invaluable work by noting the glimmers of hope appearing * Publishers Weekly *[A] fine book... With his usual insouciant courage – for this country is not for the faint-hearted – Fergusson takes us on an invigorating journey through Somali life and history... wide-ranging and fascinating. -- Frank Ledwidge * RUSI journal *Exceptional... Fergusson vividly recounts the grotesque horrors of the endless war in Somalia while leavening his account with the gallows humor of some of the war’s participants. -- Nicolas van de Walle * Foreign Affairs magazine *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Paris Commune 1871 Turning Points
Book SynopsisThe Paris Commune was the biggest and last popular revolution in western Europe - ending the cycle of revolutions that started in 1789. The Parisians, reeling from defeat in the Franco-Prussian War set up their own revolutionary administration. Government troops eventually retook the city and took a terrible revenge: thousands died in the bloodbath that followed. The short-lived Commune and its repression cast a long shadow. It exposed deep divisions in French society and became a potent inspiration for the radical left. This stirring new study written with great zest, and a vivid sense of time and place lets the reader experience these tumultuous events at first hand and provides a comprehensive synthesis of recent research in both French and English.Table of ContentsPrologue: The Communes - A Narrative Introduction. 1. Paris bivouac of the revolution. 2. From people's war to people's revolution June 1870-March 1871. 3. `The political form at last discovered'? The Commune as government4. A new revolutionary people? 5. The Last Struggle. 6. Consequences, Representations and Meanings. 7. Conclusion. Guide to Further Reading. Chronology.
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Random House USA Inc Journey from the Land of No A Girlhood Caught in
Book SynopsisAn emotional, evocative coming-of-age story about one deeply intelligent and perceptive girl’s attempt to find her own voice in prerevolutionary Iran “An immensely moving, extraordinarily eloquent, and passionate memoir.”—Harold BloomRoya Hakakian was twelve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daughter of an esteemed poet, she grew up in a household that hummed with intellectual life. Family gatherings were punctuated by witty, satirical exchanges and spontaneous recitations of poetry. But the Hakakians were also part of the very small Jewish population in Iran who witnessed the iron fist of the Islamic fundamentalists increasingly tightening its grip. It is with the innocent confusion of youth that Roya describes her discovery of a swastika—“a plus sign gone awry, a dark reptile with four hungry claws”—painted on the wall near her home. As a schoolgirl she watched as f
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Revolution and CounterRevolution in France
Book SynopsisThe effects of revolution in 19th century FranceFollow the political upheaval and revolutionary atmosphere that marked the first half of the 19th century in France. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in France: 1815-1852 delves into a historic period of change, marked by revolution and its effects. The book takes readers to the end of Napoleonic rule and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815. It then explores the proclamation of the Second Republic and the rise of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.Table of ContentsThe restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy, 1814-1815; the revolution of July 1830; the July monarchy and the February Revolution; the June days; the Bonapartist coup d'etat of December 1851.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The French Revolution
Book SynopsisThis book provides an interpretation of the French Revolution that is both thematic and accessible to the general reader. The discussion includes an analysis of the historiography of the subject, and reviews the range of literature produced around the recent Bicentenary. Insisting that the French Revolution had an important social dimension, Alan Forrest demonstrates that the revolutionaries, even the most extreme of them, were committed to an ordered society. He argues that in destroying the political institutions and the corporate structures of the Ancien Regime, they were conscious of the need to invent a new order of their own, one that would be consistent with their ideology. Chapters focus on the initial crisis of 1789, on the political and social experiments of the revolutionary years, and on the impact of war and counter-revolution. The study covers the period up to 1799, looking forward where appropriate to the Napoleonic Empire. The author''s succinct and penetrating oTable of ContentsList of Figures. Select Chronology, 1787-1799. The Revoluntionary Calendar. 1. Introduction. 2. 1789. 3. Politics. 4. Society. 5. War. 6. Oppositions. Guide to Further Reading. Bibliography and References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd European Revolutions Making of Europe
Book SynopsisProvides a reinterpretation of the last five centuries of European history, a period characterized by war, revolt and contention, by the rise and struggles of states and empires, and by urbanization, enrichment and industrialization. This book focuses on revolutions and their origins in ambition and discontent.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Series Editor's Preface. Preface. Map 1. Europe in 1519. Map 2. Europe in 1992.. 1. Conflict, Revolt and Revolution. Revolution's Return. Revolutionary Situations. Revolutionary Outcomes. Prospect.. 2. Transformations of Europe. Change since 1492. From Segmented to Consolidated States. Struggle Changes. Types of Revolutionary Situation. Consolidation, Nationalism and Revolution. Collective Action Contention and Revolution.. 3. Revolutions, Rebellions and Civil Wars in the Low Countries and Elsewhere. The Low Countries, Home of Bourgeois Revolution. Political Struggle in the Netherlands. From the Southern Netherlands to Belgium. The Bellicose Dutch. Assaying the Low Countries' Revolutions. Iberian Revolutions. The Balkans and Hungary. Comparisons, Connections, Conclusions.. 4. The British Isles. Britain Encounters Revolution. Struggles for Control. Eleven Revolutionary Decades. Hypothetical Revolutions. Revolution's Dulled Edge.. 5. Franc and Other Frances. Bretons vs. Frenchmen. Protestants against Catholics. War, Taxes and Revolutionary Situations. Civil War and Repression. A Consolidating State. Revolutionary Processes. Rule Transformed. Resistance, Counter-revolution and Terror. Other Options. Fifteen-to Twenty-year Regimes. The Long Run of Revolution.. 6. Russia and its Neighbours. Creating Russia. Russian, Polish-Lithuanian and Tatar States. War and Rebellion, Rebellion and war. Nineteenth-century Consolidation. Prospects of Revolution. The 1905 Revolution. Two More Revolutions. Consolidation and Collapse.. 7. Revolutions Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Back to Eastern Europe. Rules of Revolution?. Five Centuries of Revolution. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The French Revolution
Book Synopsisaeo Offers concise, classic interpretation of the causes, course and outcome of the French Revolution. aeo Written by the leading international historian of the period. aeo Provides readers with a critical perspective on the historiography of the subject.Trade ReviewReviews of the parent volume Revolutionary France 1770-1880: "An outstanding work of synthesis and imagination." The Times "This book is the best - and, especially, the best written - history of French politics during these years that I know. Conceived in the analytical tradition of Constant and Tocqueville, written in the narrative, learned, and convincing." Patrice Higonnet, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. 1. The Ancien Régime. 2. The Revolution of 1789: 1787-1791. 3. The Jacobin Republic: 1791-1794. 4. The Thermidorian Republic: 1794-1799. 5. Napoleon Bonaparte: 1799-1814. Appendix I: Chronological Table. Appendix II: The Republican Calendar for Year II (1793-1794). Bibliography. Glossary. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Angela Y. Davis Reader
Book SynopsisFor three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist feminism, critical studies and political struggles.Trade Review"Over the past thirty years Angela Davis has stood as a courageous voice of conscience on matters of race, class, and gender in America. Since her imprisonment in the early 1970s hers has been a voice of principle on behalf of the rights of the incarcerated. Joy James has provided a great service in pulling together and making accessible for the first time in a single volume Angela Davis's seminal writings, revealing at once the considerable range of her insightful intellectual contributions across politics, philosophy, and culture." David Theo Goldberg, Arizona State University "Although Davis's writing in the Reader is at times flat and workmanlike, the anthology gradually reveals her humanistic vision in wonderful gestures and acute observations" Phillip M. Richards "This collection refutes that often-heard statement – that it is impossible today to be both a true intellectual and a true activist. Everyone who is concerned with the life if the mind as it illuminates the struggle for social justice will be provoked, even inspired, by these writings." – Barbara T. Christian, Professor of African-American Studies, University of Californa, Berkeley "Angela Davis has stood as a courageous voice of conscience on matters of race, class, and gender in America. Joy James has provided a great service in pulling together and making accessible for the first time in a single volume Angela Davis’s seminal writings." – David Theo Goldberg, Arizona State University "Long before ‘race/gender’ became the obligatory injunction it is now, Angela Davis was developing an analytical framework that brought all of these factors into play. For readers who only see Angela Davis as a public icon, welcome to this remarkable book and meet the real Angela Davis: perhaps the leading public intellectual of our era." – Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1997) "A truly inspiring collection. Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice." – Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Women’s Studies, Hamilton CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Prisons, Repression, and Resistance:. 1. Excerpts from Angela Davis: an Autobiography. 2. Political Prisoners, Prisons and Black Liberation. 3. Unfinished Lecture on Liberation - II. 4. Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry. Part II: Marxism, Anti-Racism and Feminism:. 5. Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves. 6. Rape, Racism, and the Capitalist Setting. 7. Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism. 8. Joanne Little: The Dialectics of Rape. 9. Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation. 10. The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective. 11. Outcast Mothers and Surrogates: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties. 12. Black Women and the Academy. Part III: Aesthetics and Culture:. 13. For a People's Culture. 14. I Used To Be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality and Domesticity. 15. Photography and Afro-American History. 16. Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia. 17. Meditations on the Legacy of Malcolm X. 18. Black Nationalism: The Sixties and the Nineties. Part IV: Interviews: . 19. Coalition Building Among People of Color: A Discussion With Angela Y. Davis and Elizabeth Martinez. 20. Reflections on Race, Class, and Gender in the USA. Appendix: Opening Defense Statement Presented By Angela Y. Davis in Santa Clara County Superior Court March 29, 1972. Selected Bibliography. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The French Revolution
Book SynopsisThis book presents ten selections from the most important scholarship on the French Revolution over the past quarter century, introduced and contextualized for student readers. Historians typically categorize the historiography of the French Revolution according to each author''s approval or disapproval of the Revolution, political agenda (for example Marxist, liberal, conservative, or feminist), or methodology (for example social, political, or cultural history). This book demonstrates the inadequacy of these categories of analysis for a nuanced understanding of the Revolution and emphasizes the surprising connections between historians typically seen simply as opponents in a debate. In its thorough introduction, The French Revolution: The Essential Readings demonstrates the success of an eclectic, interdisciplinary approach to this central period in modern European history and the larger relevance of the historiography to the humanities more generally.Trade Review"This is an excellent introduction for those seeking to understand the current state of play in the enduring, but increasingly complex, debate over the origins, nature, and significance of the French Revolution. It contains a judicious selection of articles and extracts, which illustrate the different responses to the demise of the Marxist interpretation of this world-historical event, since the revisionist charge was led by François Furet in the 1970s. These challenging and up-to-date contributions to the cultural history of political, society, gender, and religion are expertly introduced by the editor, who is to be congratulated on this helpful and timely collection, which will appeal to scholars and students alike." Malcolm Crook, Keele University "For the study of the Revolution's origins, Schechter has chosen some very good pieces." H-Net Reviews "Schechter provides a good guide through the material ... The collection is stimulating ..." Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsEditors Introduction. Part I: Furet's Challenge. 1. Interpreting the French Revolution. (François Furet). Part II: The Enlightenment, The Public Sphere and The Question of Origins. 2. On the Problem of the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution. (Keith Baker). 3. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution. Roger Chartier. 4. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France. (Robert Darnton). 5. The Great Chain of Buying: Medical Advertisement, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Origins of the French Revolution. (Colin Jones). 6. Luxury, Morality, and Social Change: Why There Was No Middle-Class Consciousness in Pre-revolutionary France. (Sarah Maza). Part IV: Gendering The Revolution. 7. French Feminists and the Rights of "Man": Olympe de Gouge's Declarations. (Joan Scott). 8. The Band of Brothers. (Lynn Hunt). Part V: Religion and The Sacred. 9. Church, State, and the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution: The Debate over the General Assembly of the Gallican Clergy in 1765. (Dale Van Kley). 10. The Revolutionary Festival: A Transfer of Sacrality. (Mona Ozouf). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The French Revolution
Book SynopsisThis book presents ten selections from the most important scholarship on the French Revolution over the past quarter century, introduced and contextualized for student readers. Historians typically categorize the historiography of the French Revolution according to each author''s approval or disapproval of the Revolution, political agenda (for example Marxist, liberal, conservative, or feminist), or methodology (for example social, political, or cultural history). This book demonstrates the inadequacy of these categories of analysis for a nuanced understanding of the Revolution and emphasizes the surprising connections between historians typically seen simply as opponents in a debate. In its thorough introduction, The French Revolution: The Essential Readings demonstrates the success of an eclectic, interdisciplinary approach to this central period in modern European history and the larger relevance of the historiography to the humanities more generally.Trade Review"This is an excellent introduction for those seeking to understand the current state of play in the enduring, but increasingly complex, debate over the origins, nature, and significance of the French Revolution. It contains a judicious selection of articles and extracts, which illustrate the different responses to the demise of the Marxist interpretation of this world-historical event, since the revisionist charge was led by François Furet in the 1970s. These challenging and up-to-date contributions to the cultural history of political, society, gender, and religion are expertly introduced by the editor, who is to be congratulated on this helpful and timely collection, which will appeal to scholars and students alike." Malcolm Crook, Keele University "For the study of the Revolution's origins, Schechter has chosen some very good pieces." H-Net Reviews "Schechter provides a good guide through the material ... The collection is stimulating ..." Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsEditors Introduction. Part I: Furet's Challenge. 1. Interpreting the French Revolution. (François Furet). Part II: The Enlightenment, The Public Sphere and The Question of Origins. 2. On the Problem of the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution. (Keith Baker). 3. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution. Roger Chartier. 4. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France. (Robert Darnton). 5. The Great Chain of Buying: Medical Advertisement, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Origins of the French Revolution. (Colin Jones). 6. Luxury, Morality, and Social Change: Why There Was No Middle-Class Consciousness in Pre-revolutionary France. (Sarah Maza). Part IV: Gendering The Revolution. 7. French Feminists and the Rights of "Man": Olympe de Gouge's Declarations. (Joan Scott). 8. The Band of Brothers. (Lynn Hunt). Part V: Religion and The Sacred. 9. Church, State, and the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution: The Debate over the General Assembly of the Gallican Clergy in 1765. (Dale Van Kley). 10. The Revolutionary Festival: A Transfer of Sacrality. (Mona Ozouf). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The First European Revolution
Book SynopsisThis book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late-tenth to the early-13th centuries. Professor Moore argues that the period witnessed the first true revolution in European society, characterized by a transformation in the economy, in family structures, and in the sources of power.Trade Review"This is a remarkable book... it can function as a synthesis of the best studies for upper-division undergraduates or graduate students. It is so well researched and argued that even though it asks the reader to accept yet one more period as revolutionary, it is entirely convincing." History: Reviews of New Books "A volume which is consistently intelligent and stimulating, not least because it draws on the insights of social anthropology and of other periods and places in history than its own ... it is the essence of a good book that it should open the reader's mind and sharpen his arguments. By that token this is assuredly a good book." Ecclesiastical HistoryTable of ContentsList of Maps and Figures. Series Editor's Preface. Preface. Introduction. Part I: The Approach of the Millennium:. 1. Glad confident morning. 2. The Faithful People. 3. The Gifts of the Saints. 4. An Age of Miracles. Part II: The Powerful and the Poor:. 5. The Urban Revolution. 6. The Crisis of the Carolingian Regime. 7. The End of Affluence. 8. The Shaping of an Agrarian Economy. 9. The Little Community. Part III: Sex and the Social Order:. 10. Family, Land and Power. 11. Vying in Good Works. 12. Chastity, Property and Obedience. 13. Incest, Matrimony and Chivalry. 14. Brothers in Christ. 15. Apostacy and Betrayal. Part IV: The Ruling Culture:. 16. The Highest Learning. 17. The Giant' s Shoulders. 18. New monarchy, new men. 19. Courts and Courtiers. 20. A Governing Passion. 21. Doubt, Hesitation and Pain. Part V: Order Restored:. 22. Pious and Inflexible Severity. 23. The Pursuit of Monopoly. 24. The Community of the Faithful. 25. Exporting the Revolution. 26. The Europe of the New Regime. Table od Dates. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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Simon & Schuster Patriots The Men Who Started the American
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Harvard University Press Making Democracy in the French Revolution
Book SynopsisThis book reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Livesey argues that the European model of democracy was created in the Revolution, a model with very specific commitments that differentiate it from Anglo-American liberal democracy.Trade ReviewAn important and timely book. There has been a stirring among historians of the Revolution to rethink the 1794-1799 period, but James Livesey is the first to examine in any depth its contribution to the making of "modern" democracy. It will be controversial because it significantly advances our knowledge and insight in areas where others failed to tread. What more could we ask? -- Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State UniversityA singularly original study of the French Revolution's ultimately failed project to imagine, articulate, and build a republican democracy. James Livesey obliterates numerous conventional borders and categories in writing about the Revolution. There is much to learn here about the history of ideas, symbolic representations, government debates and policies, and partisan politics. This is a bold and free-ranging work, warranting the oft-abused term "brilliant." -- Isser Woloch, Columbia UniversityThis important book promises to be a landmark in the history of its field. James Livesey's thoughtful claim is that terroristic Jacobinism was not--as has often been assumed--the procrustean mold of French Republicanism. He shows that neo-Jacobin thinking during the Directory in 1795-1799 was a sophisticated and wide-ranging effort to rethink Republican theory and to create a new "language of democracy." This is a striking work that rewrites the history of French Revolutionary politics and locates this period in a frame of North Atlantic thinking that ranges from Scotland and France to Ireland and the New World. -- Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University, author of Goodness beyond VirtueAfter noting that the French Revolution is no longer an inspiration, Livesey...assumes the imposing task of reassessing the revolution to demonstrate that it continues to be relevant for an understanding of modern politics and society. He believes that the revolution created the European model of democracy that established values different from those found in Anglo-American liberal democracy...Livesey develops several case studies focusing on economic, educational, and cultural issues. His discussion of the movement for the breakup of communal land, partage...is especially fascinating. He creatively utilizes archival sources about relatively mundane matters, and exhibits a mastery over a wide range of pertinent secondary literature...Livesey has produced a distinguished intellectual history. -- T. M. Keefe * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Modern Republicanism and Revolution 2. Happiness Universal? Commercial Republicanism and Revolution 3. The Agricultural Republic as Rhetoric and Practice 4. Big Theories and Small Farms 5. Learning to Be Free: The Educational System of the Commercial Republic 6. Dance Like Republican: Public Culture, Religion, and the Arts Conclusion Notes Index
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Harvard University Press The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran
Book SynopsisA 1978 CIA analysis firmly concluded that the shah of Iran would remain on the throne for the foreseeable future. One hundred days later the shah was overthrown by a popular revolution. The CIA was not alone in its myopia, as Kurzman reveals; Iranians themselves considered a revolution inconceivable until it actually occurred.Trade ReviewIn the world of politics, a true revolution is the perfect storm--rare and uniquely destructive. Can the social scientist comprehend and perhaps even predict the course of such a complex phenomenon? Charles Kurzman takes a cool, dispassionate look at the many explanations of the Iranian revolution and finds them inadequate. Drawing on an impressive range of original research, he argues that mass revolutionary movements become viable suddenly--and unpredictably--as perceptions of potential success acquire popular acceptance. This book is a major addition to the literature on the Iranian revolution--and revolution in general. -- Gary Sick, former member of the National Security Council staff, and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia UniversitySociologist Kurzman addresses five familiar sets of explanations about why the Iranian revolution took place--political, organizational, cultural, economic, and military arguments--and finds each valuable but flawed, offering instead an 'anti-explanation' that foregrounds anomaly and characterizes the revolutionary moment as confusing, unstable, and as unpredictable for participants as it is for outside observers. Despite this, optimism is in order; there is, after all, exciting potential in moments in which the unthinkable suddenly becomes thinkable. -- Brendan Driscoll * Booklist *When Elias Canetti, the Nobel-prize winning theorist, spoke of a people's 'propensity to incendiarism,' he had in mind one of the most dangerous traits of mass gatherings: their potential for unpredictable combustibility. Iran's Islamic revolution, like many other uprisings, was a consummate instance of this, Kurzman argues, and he continues in Canetti's tradition by using the Shah's overthrow to engage in his own meditation on crowds and power. Kurzman's investigation propelled him to the Islamic republic, where he conducted countless interviews, in an attempt to chart the eddies and undercurrents of one of the world's most complex and sudden social upheavals...The result is a thought-provoking combination of journalism and analysis that offers an atypical juxtaposition of voices: shopkeepers, lawyers and high school students share their views on what happened, as do academics and policymakers. * Publishers Weekly *[Kurzman's] book examines the Islamic revolution in the light of social sciences. It is a valuable insight into what he considers one of the most far-reaching events of the 20th century. -- Shusha Guppy * Times Higher Education Supplement *Charles Kurzman has presented a meticulous anatomy of the Iranian revolution and has dexterously treated the anomalies usually inherent in revolutions...The author shifts through revolution theories and shows with pages and pages of documentation and references how they related to the Iranian revolution or missed it. Kurzman's opus is certainly a valuable contribution to the historiography and sociological analysis of an important revolution of our age that led to a large scale politicization of Islam in those parts of the world where this religion prevailed. -- Syfi Tashan * Journal of Third Word Studies *Charles Kurzman has produced the definitive account of the Islamic Revolution. No serious historian can write about these events without consulting his 10-page essay on available source material in The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran. * Middle East Quarterly *
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Harvard University Press A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution
Book SynopsisTwo centuries later, the French Revolutionthat event that founded modern democracycontinues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. This volume not only presents the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars on those questions, but also brings one into the heart of the issues still under lively debate.Trade ReviewIt was a splendid idea to compile a critical dictionary of the French Revolution, and the idea has been splendidly executed… A great work. -- Conor Cruise O'Brien * New York Review of Books *A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution is really a manifesto representing the views of François Furet, who is now the most influential historian of the French Revolution in the world… Mr. Furet and his collaborators have revived interest in the philosophical problems of modern democracy and shown the importance of the French Revolution in establishing the limits of modern political debate. -- Lynn Hunt * New York Times Book Review *Not the least merit of Furet and Ozouf’s spectacular Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution is to take declared meaning at face value; to restore, in fact, full historical autonomy to the conflict of ideas. Those not within the guild of self-described ‘professional historians’ may be amazed to hear that such conflicts have ever not been taken seriously in their own right. But it may well have taken this monumental work…to reinstate their full causal power. In the Dictionary, in particular, the play of debate and its intersection with the combat of personalities and the shaping of institutions is given primary significance. The great moments of the French Revolution are rescued from compression into the social structure or burial beneath symbolic bricolage… No praise can really be too high for what this work represents: spectacular scholarship, consistently gripping writing, and intellectual penetration… [It] adds up to a coherent vision of the Revolution (all the more remarkable for being written by more than 20 hands). It is certainly the most enduring book to be published in the bicentennial year. -- Simon Schama * New Republic *In all respects, this Dictionary of more than a thousand pages is a monument of scholarship, and an object of elegant quality, served by original and suggestive illustrations and by a rare quality of writing. -- Michelle Perrot * Libération *A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution has already been hailed as the literary event of the bicentennial… This success has come from the originality of its format. In effect, the entire team of historians, led by François Furet and Mona Ozouf, has broken with the traditional forms: chronological narratives, monographs, biographies…in order to adopt a new style that reconciles these diverse approaches. The work is erudite but unfolds like a historical novel. It is enormous—a thousand pages—but reads like a magazine with ten-page articles illustrating the one hundred ‘key words’ of the Revolution. -- Janick Jossin * Le Nouvel Observateur *This Dictionary represents what I would judge to be one of the most comprehensive statements yet of the new historiography, against Annales; and in so doing, it represents what I would also judge to be one of the clearest interpretations of a renewal of liberal thinking in France which in its distinctiveness, its break from standing conceptions, will be of general interest to all but the most parochial of Anglo-Americans. -- Geoffrey Hawthorn, Cambridge UniversityA spectacular collection of essays covering virtually every aspect of the French Revolution, written by the most powerful minds currently working on its history. As a whole, the book provides a stunning vindication of the centrality of politics to the lasting significance of the event. Some of the essays—Furet on Quinet, Higonnet on the Sans-culottes, Ozouf on Revolutionary Religion—are miniature masterpieces. The bicentennial is unlikely to produce any other work that serves up so rich and nourishing an intellectual feast. -- Simon Schama, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents*1. Events * Chouannerie / Francois Furet * Coups d'Etat / Denis Richet * De-Christianization / Mona Ozouf * Elections / Patrice Gueniffey * Estates General / Ran Halevi * Federalism / Mona Ozouf * Federation / Mona Ozouf * Great Fear / Jacques Revel * Italian Campaign / Denis Richet * King's Trial / Mona Ozouf * Night of August 4 / Francois Furet * The Revolution and Europe / Alan Forrest * Revolutionary Journees / Denis Richet * Terror / Francois Furet * Treaties of Basel and The Hague / Denis Richet * Varennes / Mona Ozouf * Vendee / Francois Furet *2. Actors * Individuals * Babeuf / Francois Furet * Barnave / Francois Furet * Carnot / Patrice Gueniffey * Condorcet / Keith M. Baker * Danton / Mona Ozouf * Lafayette / Patrice Gueniffey * Louis XVI / Francois Furet * Marat / Mona Ozouf * Marie Antoinette / Jacques Revel * Mirabeau / Francois Furet * Napoleon Bonaparte / Francois Furet * Necker / Marcel Gauchet * Robespierre / Patrice Gueniffey * Sieyes / Keith M. Baker * Groups * Emigres / Massimo Boffa * Enrages / Denis Richet * Feuillants / Ran Halevi * Girondins / Mona Ozouf * Hebertists / Denis Richet * Monarchiens / Ran Halevi * Montagnards / Mona Ozouf * Sans-culottes / Patrice Higonnet * Thermidorians / Bronislaw Baczko *3. Institutions and Creations * Army / Alan Forrest * Assignats / Michel Bruguiere * Civil Code / Joseph Goy * Civil Constitution of the Clergy / Francois Furet * Clubs and Popular Societies / Patrice Gueniffey and Ran Halevi * Committee of Public Safety / Denis Richet * Constitution / Keith M. Baker * Departement / Mona Ozouf *Maximum / Francois Furet * National Properties / Louis Bergeron * Paris Commune / Patrice Gueniffey * Revolutionary Assemblies / Denis Richet * Revolutionary Calendar / Mona Ozouf * Revolutionary Government / Francois Furet * Revolutionary Religion / Mona Ozouf * Suffrage / Patrice Gueniffey * Taxes / Gail Bossenga *4. Ideas * American Revolution / Philippe Raynaud * Ancien Regime / Francois Furet * Aristocracy / David D. Bien * Centralization / Yann Fauchois * Counterrevolution / Massimo Boffia * Democracy / Philippe Raynaud * Enlightenment / Bronislaw Baczko * Equality / Mona Ozouf * Feudal System / Francois Furet * Fraternity / Mona Ozouf * Jacobinism / Francois Furet * Liberty / Mona Ozouf * Montesquieu / Bernard Manin * Nation / Pierre Nora * Natural Borders / Denis Richet * Physiocrats / Pierre Rosanvallon * Public Spirit / Mona Ozouf * Regeneration / Mona Ozouf * Republic / Pierre Nora * Revolution / Mona Ozouf * Rights of Man / Marcel Gauchet * Rousseau / Bernard Manin * Sovereignty / Keith M. Baker * Vandalism / Bronislaw Baczko * Voltaire / Mona Ozouf *5. Historians and Commentators * Academic History of the Revolution / Francois Furet * Blanc / Francois Furet * Buchez / Francois Furet * Burke / Gerard Gengembre * Constant / Marcel Gauchet * Fichte / Luc Ferry * Guizot / Pierre Rosanvallon * Hegel / Luc Ferry * Jaures / Mona Ozouf * Kant / Luc Ferry * Maistre / Massimo Boffa * Marx / Francois Furet * Michelet / Francois Furet * Quinet / Francois Furet * Stael / Marcel Gauchet * Thine / Mona Ozouf * Tocqueville / Francois Furet * Contributors * Name Index * Subject Index * Alphabetical List of Articles
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Harvard University Press In Struggle
Book SynopsisWith its radical ideology and tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement in the '60s. This sympathetic yet evenhanded book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white oppression.Trade ReviewNot only an important contribution to the history of the struggle for civil rights; it also enlarges our general understanding of contemporary politics and culture. -- Abigail Thernstrom * New Republic *To anyone who would understand SNCC, this is an essential book. -- James Polk * Newsday *This splendid history of SNCC has successfully captured the dynamic interplay of two parallel but contradictory elements… This is a well-researched, balanced, and analytical assessment of the history of a primarily black student activist group that, with all its failings, made its special contribution to the political awakening of American blacks and to the changing of American institutions and practices. -- Abraham Holtzman * American Political Science Review *In Clayborne Carson SNCC has at last found a scholar capable of probing its radical and fractious nature in a manner both sympathetic and prudently critical… Students of social protest will be deeply in the author’s debt for years to come. -- Francis M. Wilnoit * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One. Coming Together 1. Sit-ins
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Harvard University Press Modernism Revolution Russian Literature in
Book SynopsisThis text examines the innovations and experimentations of modernism in Russian literature during its most turbulent years. Covering artistic prose, poetry and criticism, it analyzes how revolution in the arts and revolution in society and politics related to one another.
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Harvard University Press Revolution Until Victory
Book SynopsisThe PLO is now almost a government in Gaza and the West Bank. In this in-depth account of its ideology, strategy, and tactics, its relationship to other Arabstates, and its confrontations with Israel, Barry Rubin documents how the PLO was transformed from revolutionary organization into the administrator of its own territory.Trade ReviewAs a concise documentary work, [this book] elegantly and thoroughly chronicles the history of the PLO, noting the ideological and operative distinctions between its principal component, Fatah, and other more radical branches. -- David B. Green * New York Times Book Review *Rubin…meticulously traces the agonizingly erratic course by which the PLO finally arrived at the negotiating table. He also seeks to explain the PLO’s seeming inability to abandon maximalist aims—the recovery of all of Palestine and the eradication of the Israeli state… A lucid and concise…account of the PLO leadership’s management of Palestinian fortunes during the era now coming to a close. -- Shaul Bakhash * Newsday *Barry Rubin has a justified reputation as a quick study and a flowing writer… [This] is the best early analysis of the makings of the Israeli–PLO accords. -- Michael Widlanski * Jerusalem Post *Provides an excellent guide to PLO intentions. In compact and readable form, Rubin reliably reviews three decades worth of PLO complexities. More than that, he breaks new ground by getting behind the PLO’s external face—the personality of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and the record of terror—and concentrating on its internal dynamics… In short, if you want to read one study about the elusive organization called the Palestine Liberation Organization, Revolution Until Victory? is the way to go. -- Daniel Pipes * Washington Times *The question remains: why did the PLO choose the path of accommodation rather than that of armed struggle? The answers are found in Barry Rubin’s Revolution Until Victory?…an impressive analysis of that Palestinian umbrella group. -- Sheldon Kirshner * Canadian Jewish News *An excellent and timely analytical political history of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), one which investigates and interprets its political circumstances, strategies, and doctrines from an inception in the late 1950s to the earthshaking events of 1993 culminating in the Rabin–Arafat handshake on the White House lawn. Above all, it provides the reader a vivid portrayal of the seemingly endless twistings and turnings and reversals of PLO policies. -- Robert E. Harkavy * Political Science Quarterly *
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Harvard University Press The Greek Revolution
Book SynopsisThe Greek war for independence (1821–1830) goes missing from the narrative of the Age of Revolutions, yet the overthrow of Ottoman rule was of profound political significance. The Greek Revolution offers short essays detailing the activities, personalities, intellectual underpinnings, and global resonances of a pivotal episode in modern history.Trade ReviewAn outstanding contribution to our understanding of the Greek Revolution and its immense consequences on global history, from an impressive group of distinguished scholars covering an astonishing range of topics on the revolutionary decade of the 1820s. This attractive, monumental work will be indispensable as we reflect on the bicentennial and the significance of the simultaneously old and young nation of Greece. -- Georgios Varouxakis, Queen Mary University of LondonContemporaries saw the Greek Revolution as a liberal beacon in an age of reaction; two centuries later, it seems to anticipate later independence movements, nationalist uprisings, civil wars, and refugee crises. The Greek Revolution magisterially reframes its significance within a global age of revolutions. A more impressive bicentennial tribute would be hard to imagine. -- David Armitage, Harvard University
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Radicalism of the American Revolution Vintage
Book SynopsisIn a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.
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Random House USA Inc A Concise History of the Russian Revolution
Book SynopsisAn authoritative history of the Russian Revolution and the violent and disruptive acts that created the first modern totalitarian regime, portraying the crisis at the heart of the tsarist empireA deep and eloquent condemnation of the revolution and its aftermath. —The New York TimesDrawing on archival materials released in Russia, Richard Pipes chronicles the upheaval that began as a conservative revolt but was soon captured by messianic intellectuals intent not merely on reforming Russia but on remaking the world. He provides fresh accounts of the revolution's personalities and policies, crises, and cruelties, from the murder of the royal family through civil war, famine, and state terror. Brilliantly and persuasively, Pipes shows us why the resulting system owes less to the theories of Marx than it did to the character of Lenin and Russia's long authoritarian tradition. What ensues is a path-clearing work that is indispensable to any unders
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Random House USA Inc Companero the Life and Death of Che Guevara
Book SynopsisBy the time he was killed in the jungles of Bolivia, where his body was displayed like a deposed Christ, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara had become a synonym for revolution everywhere from Cuba to the barricades of Paris. This extraordinary biography peels aside the veil of the Guevara legend to reveal the charismatic, restless man behind it.Drawing on archival materials from three continents and on interviews with Guevara's family and associates, Castaneda follows Che from his childhood in the Argentine middle class through the years of pilgrimage that turned him into a committed revolutionary. He examines Guevara's complex relationship with Fidel Castro, and analyzes the flaws of character that compelled him to leave Cuba and expend his energies, and ultimately his life, in quixotic adventures in the Congo and Bolivia. A masterpiece of scholarship, Companero is the definitive portrait of a figure who continues to fascinate and inspire the world over.
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Princeton University Press From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico Social
Book SynopsisThe description for this book, From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico: Social Bases of Agrarian Violence, 1750-1940, will be forthcoming.Trade Review"Although From Insurrection to Revolution in Mexico pursues a variety of engaging issues, it is firmly organized around a central question: Why did Father Miguel Hidalgo's massive peasant uprising of 1810 fail to transform colonial society and why, by contrast, did the several agrarian movements of 1910 contribute fundamentally to a social revolution? ... Its ambitious scope, original research, convincing contrasts, and direct encounter of theory and primary evidence are qualities that place this book among the best recent contributions to historical sociology."--John Walton, American Journal of Sociology
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Princeton University Press Talaat Pasha
Book SynopsisTrade Review"His book is invaluable, offering a bigger picture than Akçam’s, both of the events that prefigured the massacres of 1915–1917 and of the war. The view from Talaat Pasha’s desk gives a perspective that would be hard to beat."---Mark Mazower, New York Review of Books"This brilliant portrait of Talaat Pasha is in a league of its own. . . . This detailed, well-researched account of his life re-establishes Talaat Pasha as a key figure during the first decades of the 20th Century."---Lisa Kaaki, Arab News"Kieser’s book has fulfilled a very significant gap in the literature."---Mehmet Polatel, Europe Now"Kieser's book is a masterpiece."---Ephraim Nissan, Quaderni di Studi Indo-Mediterranei
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Princeton University Press Revolutionary Lives
Book SynopsisConstance Markievicz (1868-1927), born to the privileged Protestant upper class in Ireland, embraced suffrage before scandalously leaving for a bohemian life in London and then Paris. She would become known for her roles as politician and Irish revolutionary nationalist. Her husband, Casimir Dunin Markievicz (1874-1932), a painter, playwright, andTrade Review"Amid the many books being rushed out to coincide with the centenary of the Easter Rising, Arrington has written a volume of lasting significance, highlighting the complexity of a figure who continues to fascinate."--James Morgan, Times Literary Supplement "[A] fascinating account of a European couple immersed in art, politics and revolution.an engaging book... It not only paints a vivid picture of the diverse public lives of its radical subjects, but also explores the private turmoil of familial relationships."--June Purvis, Times Higher Education "[A] beguiling and thoughtful book."--Roy Foster, Irish TimesTable of ContentsPreface: The Rebel Countess and the Polish Irishman ix 1 Origins 1 2 Bohemia 16 3 The Politics of Art 34 4 Suffrage, Nationalism, and the Daughters of Ireland 50 5 Women's Work? 56 6 Conversion 65 7 Physical Force 75 8 Social Realism 83 9 The Beginning 89 10 The Markieviczes at War 111 11 War and Family Life 138 12 Victory behind Bars 163 13 A Citizen of the Republic 198 14 Counterrevolution 236 15 Reconciliation 252 16 Legacies 264 Selected Bibliography 277 Index 289
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Princeton University Press Stalin Passage to Revolution
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, ASEEES""Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn trust""The book’s strength lies . . . in its excavation of important episodes of the early years. . . . What I took from Passage to Revolution — and I agree with the idea — is that young Stalin was an angry optimist. . . . His hefty, demanding tome emphasizes the effects of changing circumstances that pivoted both Stalin and Russia into a vortex of revolution and civil war."---Robert Service, Washington Post"Joseph Stalin has been the subject of many biographical studies. . . . Ronald Grigor Suny's ‘Stalin: Passage to Revolution’ is a worthy contribution to this continuing enterprise. . . . In highly readable prose Mr. Suny . . . tells the story of the young Stalin's rise."---Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal"A Georgianist as well as a Russianist, equally comfortable with social, cultural and political history, Suny outclasses previous biographers of the young Stalin . . . It is a monumental work of history and its treatment and evocation of the young Stalin will never be bettered."---Geoffrey Roberts, Literary Review"A comprehensive, deeply researched study of one of the world’s most brutal dictators as he took the paths that would lead him to power."---Starred Review, Kirkus"This impressively researched biography provides remarkable and reliable details on the first part of Stalin’s life, along with the many fissures among the Left Communists. An important accomplishment. " * Library Journal, starred review *"Suny, using an abundance of newly available archival material, though there was no secret diary or introspective documents, provides an extraordinary telling, a detailed account, well written and engrossing, of the obscure and multiple layers of experience in Stalin's early life: church school, seminary, outlaw, exile, prison, attraction to Marxism."---Michael Curtis, American Thinker"He [Suny] is a lucid writer and a perspicacious scholar."---Stephen Lovell, Times Literary Supplement"The overriding merit of this book is that it takes Stalin seriously. It explains his life and development without feeling the need to impose a value judgement on the reader on every page."---Andrew Murray, Morning Star"Ronald Grigor Suny has written a massive, extensively researched biography of Josef Stalin’s early years—from his childhood days in Gori, Georgia, to the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917."---Francis P. Sempa, New York Journal of Books"Ronald Grigor Suny has created a detailed and unbiased biography of the first half of Joseph Stalin’s life. . . . one of the best on its subject."---Maria Timofeeva, International Journal of Military History and Historiography IJMH"This is Suny’s magnum opus, the product of decades of scholarly research."---Duncan Bowie, Chartist
£29.75
Princeton University Press Racial Migrations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society""Co-Winner of the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American), Urban History Association""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""It is impossible to do justice to such well-researched, skilfully crafted, beautifully written, and thought-provoking book as Hoffnung-Garskof’s in a short review. . . . Racial Migrations [is] a model of research and writing, and a source for future research."---Antonio Hernández Matos, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"Based on extensive and imaginative research, and written with a wonderful touch, the book offers, as one of its back-cover tributes puts it, a model for how to produce a transnational history of migration and race. . . . Hoffnung-Garskof offers a deep immersion in the world-view of these migrants."---Peter Hulme, New West Indian Guide"A fantastic and important work."---Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe"Racial Migrations is a timely exploration of the political subjectivities and organizing practices of Black and racially-mixed Cuban intellectuals, activists, and workers in their nineteenth-century struggles for freedom, democratic participation, and racial equality. . . . [An] enticing reading."---Ileana María Rodríguez-Silva, CENTRO Journal"Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof’s Racial Migrations employs a microhistorical approach to depict how Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent negotiated with non-Black revolutionaries to secure their full rights as citizens. . . . Racial Migrations eloquently explores how people of African descent from different walks of life and nationalities united under cross-social and multiracial social clubs."---Andrea Carolina Morales Loucil, World History Connected
£35.70
Princeton University Press The Arab Winter A Tragedy
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of The New York Times's 11 Books to Watch For in May""A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice""Fascinating and persuasive."---Robert F. Worth, New York Times Book Review"Feldman argues persuasively that the Arab Spring ushered in a new era, characterized by politics from below."---Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal"[An] important new book."---Daniel Byman, Washington Post"Ambitious and thought-provoking."---Justin Marozzi, Sunday Times"This book is essentially a plea to take the long view of history. Feldman stresses the suffering wrought by conflict, terrorism and renewed dictatorship. But he also highlights the more inspiring aspects of the 'exercise of collective, free political action — with all the dangers of error and disaster that come with it.'"---Michael Peel, Financial Times"Erudite."---Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald"Feldman’s methodical and unemotional analysis of the Arab Winter that has followed the Arab Spring is a valuable aid in understanding the current state of the Middle East."---Jim Blanchard, Winnipeg Free Press"[A] fluid account of how that spring turned into bloody winter."---John Andrews, Project Syndicate"An engaging work. It provides a useful recap of events over the course of the Arab Spring, and offers some original and interesting insights on each of the episodes discussed. . . . It is filled with interesting and insightful observations on the case studies presented; it presents a worthwhile meditation on processes which remain far from completion, and which are of primary importance to prospects for stability and development in the Middle East and beyond."---Jonathan Spyer, Tel Aviv Review of Books"Convincing and logical."---Michaela Domingo, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs"Noah Feldman offers an interpretation of the meaning of the Arab spring and its aftermath in the Arab winter in his superb new book."---Joseph Richard Preville, Informed Comment"Building on a renowned body of work on legal and political theory, Noah Feldman’s The Arab Winter: A Tragedy deftly weaves together case studies of three presidential states, Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia to examine political self-determination during the Arab spring and subsequent Arab winter."---Kathryn Urban, Charged Affairs
£17.09
Princeton University Press Talaat Pasha
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Princeton University Press Stalin
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, ASEEES""Winner of the Deutscher Memorial Prize, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn trust""The book’s strength lies . . . in its excavation of important episodes of the early years. . . . What I took from Passage to Revolution — and I agree with the idea — is that young Stalin was an angry optimist. . . . His hefty, demanding tome emphasizes the effects of changing circumstances that pivoted both Stalin and Russia into a vortex of revolution and civil war."---Robert Service, Washington Post"Joseph Stalin has been the subject of many biographical studies. . . . Ronald Grigor Suny's ‘Stalin: Passage to Revolution’ is a worthy contribution to this continuing enterprise. . . . In highly readable prose Mr. Suny . . . tells the story of the young Stalin's rise."---Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal"A Georgianist as well as a Russianist, equally comfortable with social, cultural and political history, Suny outclasses previous biographers of the young Stalin . . . It is a monumental work of history and its treatment and evocation of the young Stalin will never be bettered."---Geoffrey Roberts, Literary Review"A comprehensive, deeply researched study of one of the world’s most brutal dictators as he took the paths that would lead him to power."---Starred Review, Kirkus"This impressively researched biography provides remarkable and reliable details on the first part of Stalin’s life, along with the many fissures among the Left Communists. An important accomplishment. " * Library Journal, starred review *"Suny, using an abundance of newly available archival material, though there was no secret diary or introspective documents, provides an extraordinary telling, a detailed account, well written and engrossing, of the obscure and multiple layers of experience in Stalin's early life: church school, seminary, outlaw, exile, prison, attraction to Marxism."---Michael Curtis, American Thinker"He [Suny] is a lucid writer and a perspicacious scholar."---Stephen Lovell, Times Literary Supplement"The overriding merit of this book is that it takes Stalin seriously. It explains his life and development without feeling the need to impose a value judgement on the reader on every page."---Andrew Murray, Morning Star"Ronald Grigor Suny has written a massive, extensively researched biography of Josef Stalin’s early years—from his childhood days in Gori, Georgia, to the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917."---Francis P. Sempa, New York Journal of Books"Ronald Grigor Suny has created a detailed and unbiased biography of the first half of Joseph Stalin’s life. . . . one of the best on its subject."---Maria Timofeeva, International Journal of Military History and Historiography IJMH"This is Suny’s magnum opus, the product of decades of scholarly research."---Duncan Bowie, Chartist
£21.25
Princeton University Press Revolutionary Lives
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Amid the many books being rushed out to coincide with the centenary of the Easter Rising, Arrington has written a volume of lasting significance, highlighting the complexity of a figure who continues to fascinate."---James Morgan, Times Literary Supplement"[A] fascinating account of a European couple immersed in art, politics and revolution.an engaging book. . . . It not only paints a vivid picture of the diverse public lives of its radical subjects, but also explores the private turmoil of familial relationships."---June Purvis, Times Higher Education"[A] beguiling and thoughtful book."---Roy Foster, Irish Times
£23.80
Princeton University Press Fears of a Setting Sun
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Wall Street Journal Best Politics Book of the Year""A World Magazine Best Book of the Year""Very illuminating. Much recommended."---Jamelle Bouie, New York Times columnist"An astute discussion of the American founders’ suspicions that the republic they had created wouldn’t, in the end, make it. . . . Gracefully written and fair in its judgments. . . . Timely."---Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal"Written in simultaneously accessible and brilliant prose, Rasmussen crafts a flowing narrative built on the writings of the founders themselves. This narrative is further illuminated by his commentary and mastery of the secondary literature. This book can (and should) be enjoyed by nonspecialists, but this does not diminish the originality of the work."---Kenly Stewart, Los Angeles Review of Books"Fascinating."---Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor"An illuminating account of how the founding fathers worried about the future of America. . . . This standout history provides useful context for understanding the roots of contemporary political turmoils and may comfort those who fear that American democracy is in dire peril." * Publishers Weekly, starred review *"Making the striking argument that all but one of the major founders of the U.S. died disillusioned with their creation, Rasmussen nevertheless offers hope for our current predicaments . . . an authoritative and convincing argument in disarmingly artful prose." * Kirkus Reviews *"Rasmussen has produced a well-researched study that is a salutary read. He writes accessibly, explaining what motivated and worried each of [the founders]. Concern for future generations and the fate of the republic is a recurring theme, and will also resonate with many readers today." * Library Journal *"Magisterial . . . creative and thought-provoking at every turn . . . a delightful book. . . . Rasmussen has superbly placed the story of the Founders’ growing ideological concerns about their creation in the context of their own often eccentric personalities."---John O. McGinnis, Law & Liberty"On my history book of the year short list."---Marvin Olasky, World"Drawing on reams of personal correspondence between the Founders, Rasmussen persuasively argues that the vast majority of America’s Founders—including the likes of Washington, Adams, Hamilton, and Jefferson—went to their death beds disillusioned with the political order they had created."---Thomas Koenig, The Dispatch"Very timely . . . a fascinating and completely new perspective on the Founders and their view of the country they helped create . . . highly engaging and thought-provoking, showing the very human side of politics in early America."---Jerry D. Lenaburg, New York Journal of Books"Compelling and compulsively readable. . . . In putting leading founders’ disillusionment with the Constitution at the center of his thoughtful scholarly analysis, Rasmussen vividly brings to light the fact that the founders themselves were often the Constitution’s most perceptive and powerful critics."---George Thomas, American Political Thought"Rasmussen’s book also offered me some new insights and interesting facts. . . . Fears of a Setting Sun helps in understanding some of the roots of our contemporary political struggle and the fear of the decay of American democracy."---Pia Herzan, H-Soz-Kult"Fears of a Setting Sun is an engaging, indeed fun, read, nicely written and deftly argued. More than that, it is a useful reminder at this political moment that while things ain’t what they used to be, they never were in the first place."---Steven Conn, Origins
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Princeton University Press ISIS
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Princeton University Press Racial Migrations
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Book Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society""Co-Winner of the Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book (North American), Urban History Association""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year""It is impossible to do justice to such well-researched, skilfully crafted, beautifully written, and thought-provoking book as Hoffnung-Garskof’s in a short review. . . . Racial Migrations [is] a model of research and writing, and a source for future research."---Antonio Hernández Matos, European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies"Based on extensive and imaginative research, and written with a wonderful touch, the book offers, as one of its back-cover tributes puts it, a model for how to produce a transnational history of migration and race. . . . Hoffnung-Garskof offers a deep immersion in the world-view of these migrants."---Peter Hulme, New West Indian Guide"A fantastic and important work."---Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller, Estudios Interdisciplinarios de America Latina y el Caribe"Racial Migrations is a timely exploration of the political subjectivities and organizing practices of Black and racially-mixed Cuban intellectuals, activists, and workers in their nineteenth-century struggles for freedom, democratic participation, and racial equality. . . . [An] enticing reading."---Ileana María Rodríguez-Silva, CENTRO Journal"Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof’s Racial Migrations employs a microhistorical approach to depict how Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent negotiated with non-Black revolutionaries to secure their full rights as citizens. . . . Racial Migrations eloquently explores how people of African descent from different walks of life and nationalities united under cross-social and multiracial social clubs."---Andrea Carolina Morales Loucil, World History Connected
£19.80
Princeton University Press The Arab Winter
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of The New York Times's 11 Books to Watch For in May""A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice""Fascinating and persuasive."---Robert F. Worth, New York Times Book Review"Feldman argues persuasively that the Arab Spring ushered in a new era, characterized by politics from below."---Michael Doran, Wall Street Journal"[An] important new book."---Daniel Byman, Washington Post"Ambitious and thought-provoking."---Justin Marozzi, Sunday Times"This book is essentially a plea to take the long view of history. Feldman stresses the suffering wrought by conflict, terrorism and renewed dictatorship. But he also highlights the more inspiring aspects of the 'exercise of collective, free political action — with all the dangers of error and disaster that come with it.'"---Michael Peel, Financial Times"Erudite."---Steven Carroll, Sydney Morning Herald"Feldman’s methodical and unemotional analysis of the Arab Winter that has followed the Arab Spring is a valuable aid in understanding the current state of the Middle East."---Jim Blanchard, Winnipeg Free Press"[A] fluid account of how that spring turned into bloody winter."---John Andrews, Project Syndicate"An engaging work. It provides a useful recap of events over the course of the Arab Spring, and offers some original and interesting insights on each of the episodes discussed. . . . It is filled with interesting and insightful observations on the case studies presented; it presents a worthwhile meditation on processes which remain far from completion, and which are of primary importance to prospects for stability and development in the Middle East and beyond."---Jonathan Spyer, Tel Aviv Review of Books"Convincing and logical."---Michaela Domingo, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs"Noah Feldman offers an interpretation of the meaning of the Arab spring and its aftermath in the Arab winter in his superb new book."---Joseph Richard Preville, Informed Comment"Building on a renowned body of work on legal and political theory, Noah Feldman’s The Arab Winter: A Tragedy deftly weaves together case studies of three presidential states, Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia to examine political self-determination during the Arab spring and subsequent Arab winter."---Kathryn Urban, Charged Affairs
£12.59
Princeton University Press Popular Politics and the Path to Durable
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A groundbreaking sociological analysis of democratic consolidation. . . . [and] a stellar example of comparative historical analysis that builds on original data and rich case studies."---Sefika Kumral, Social Forces
£25.50
Princeton University Press Popular Politics and the Path to Durable
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A groundbreaking sociological analysis of democratic consolidation. . . . [and] a stellar example of comparative historical analysis that builds on original data and rich case studies."---Sefika Kumral, Social Forces
£80.00
Princeton University Press Fears of a Setting Sun
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A Wall Street Journal Best Politics Book of the Year""A World Magazine Best Book of the Year""Very illuminating. Much recommended."---Jamelle Bouie, New York Times columnist"An astute discussion of the American founders’ suspicions that the republic they had created wouldn’t, in the end, make it. . . . Gracefully written and fair in its judgments. . . . Timely."---Barton Swaim, Wall Street Journal"Written in simultaneously accessible and brilliant prose, Rasmussen crafts a flowing narrative built on the writings of the founders themselves. This narrative is further illuminated by his commentary and mastery of the secondary literature. This book can (and should) be enjoyed by nonspecialists, but this does not diminish the originality of the work."---Kenly Stewart, Los Angeles Review of Books"Fascinating."---Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor"An illuminating account of how the founding fathers worried about the future of America. . . . This standout history provides useful context for understanding the roots of contemporary political turmoils and may comfort those who fear that American democracy is in dire peril." * Publishers Weekly, starred review *"Making the striking argument that all but one of the major founders of the U.S. died disillusioned with their creation, Rasmussen nevertheless offers hope for our current predicaments . . . an authoritative and convincing argument in disarmingly artful prose." * Kirkus Reviews *"Rasmussen has produced a well-researched study that is a salutary read. He writes accessibly, explaining what motivated and worried each of [the founders]. Concern for future generations and the fate of the republic is a recurring theme, and will also resonate with many readers today." * Library Journal *"Magisterial . . . creative and thought-provoking at every turn . . . a delightful book. . . . Rasmussen has superbly placed the story of the Founders’ growing ideological concerns about their creation in the context of their own often eccentric personalities."---John O. McGinnis, Law & Liberty"On my history book of the year short list."---Marvin Olasky, World"Drawing on reams of personal correspondence between the Founders, Rasmussen persuasively argues that the vast majority of America’s Founders—including the likes of Washington, Adams, Hamilton, and Jefferson—went to their death beds disillusioned with the political order they had created."---Thomas Koenig, The Dispatch"Very timely . . . a fascinating and completely new perspective on the Founders and their view of the country they helped create . . . highly engaging and thought-provoking, showing the very human side of politics in early America."---Jerry D. Lenaburg, New York Journal of Books"Compelling and compulsively readable. . . . In putting leading founders’ disillusionment with the Constitution at the center of his thoughtful scholarly analysis, Rasmussen vividly brings to light the fact that the founders themselves were often the Constitution’s most perceptive and powerful critics."---George Thomas, American Political Thought"Rasmussen’s book also offered me some new insights and interesting facts. . . . Fears of a Setting Sun helps in understanding some of the roots of our contemporary political struggle and the fear of the decay of American democracy."---Pia Herzan, H-Soz-Kult"Fears of a Setting Sun is an engaging, indeed fun, read, nicely written and deftly argued. More than that, it is a useful reminder at this political moment that while things ain’t what they used to be, they never were in the first place."---Steven Conn, Origins
£14.39
Taylor & Francis Ltd Recasting East Germany Social Transformation
Book SynopsisThe transformation of east Germany since unification has wrought vast changes in the economy and in society and left deep scars as the types of social protection offered by the centralised socialism of the previous regime gave way to uncertainties and individualised life chances. Social Transformation in Eastern Germany investigates the deep economic and social processes which east Germany has undergone, highlighting the restructuring, the social impacts and the stresses of adjustment experienced by key social groups whose workplace and social context has been recast almost out of recognition since 1990.Table of ContentsThe new East German economy - problems of transition, unification and institutional mismatch, Wendy Carlin; employment, welfare support and income distribution in East Germany, Chris Flockton; the impact of German reunification on the German industrial relations system, Karl Koch; housing situation and housing policy in East Germany, Chris Flockton; the East German family - change and continuity, Mike Dennis; women, work and family in the new Lander - conflicts and experiences, Eva Kolinsky; education transformed? the East German school system since the Wende, Rosalind M.O. Pritchard; political participation of young people in East Germany, Hans Oswald, Christine Schmid; social transformation studies and human rights abuses in East Germany after 1945, Anthony Glees; multiculturalism in the making? non-Germans and civil society in the new Lander, Eva Kolinsky.
£137.75
Manchester University Press The IRA 195669
Book SynopsisAn in depth study of the IRA in the years leading up to the conflict that broke out in 1969. This book explores the internal divisions that existed within the IRA and Sinn Fein in this period.Trade ReviewThis valuable and detailed work by Dáil Éireann researcher Matt Treacy assesses that critical and often neglected period for the Irish Republican Army and Sinn Féin, between the launch of the ultimately futile Border Campaign of 1956-1962 and the outbreak in earnest of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in 1969. -- .Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgements Introduction1. The 1956 - 1962 armed campaign and the reorganisation of the IRA2. The ideology of traditional Republicanism3. Abstentionism and the growth of internal divisions4. The Wolfe Tone Society and the Communists5. 1966 and the revival of the IRA ‘Threat’.6. Towards the National Liberation Front7. The northern crisis and the splitEpilogueBibliography
£76.50
Manchester University Press Workers and Revolution in Serbia
Book SynopsisAnalyses the role of workers both in Titoâs Yugoslavia and in the subsequent Serbian revolution against MiloÅevic in October 2000 -- .Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Tito years 3. Serbia in the world economy 4. Neoliberalism imposed 5. The workers’ movement 6. Serbia’s new period of crisis Serbia timeline References Index
£76.50
Manchester University Press The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern
Book SynopsisThis book reassesses a defining historical, political and ideological moment in contemporary history: the 1989 revolutions in central and eastern Europe. Bringing together experts from a variety of disciplines, the volume examines the rapid dismantling of the communist regimes in the late 1980s and the transition to pluralism in the 1990s. -- .Trade Review'this volume is rich in both theoretical insights and empirical detail'Anna Grzymala-Busse, Slavonic and East European Review Volume 92, no.2 April 2014 -- .Table of ContentsTimeline - Eastern Europe, 1945-91Leaders of East European and Soviet communist parties, 1945-91East European communist parties and their post-communist successors1.The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe: origins, processes, outcomes - Kevin McDermott and Matthew StibbeI. The historical longue durée2. Echoes and precedents: 1989 in historical perspective - Robin OkeyII. The Gorbachev factor3. The multifaceted external Soviet role in processes towards unanticipated revolutions - Mary Buckley4. 'When your neighbour changes his wallpaper': the 'Gorbachev factor' and the collapse of the German Democratic Republic- Peter GriederIII. The East European revolutions: internal and external perspectives5. The demise of communism in Poland: a staged evolution or failed revolution? - Tom Junes6. The international context of Hungarian transition, 1989: the view from Budapest - Lászl? Borhi7. Creating security from below: peace movements in East and West Germany in the 1980s - Holger Nehring8. The demise of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia, 1987-89: a socio-economic perspective - Michal Pullmann9. Discourse and power: the FSN and the mythologisation of the Romanian revolution - Kevin Adamson and Sergiu Florean10. A revolution in two stages: the curiosity of the Bulgarian case - Elena SimeonovaIV. Then and now: continuity and change in the academic and cultural perceptions of the communist era and its aftermath11. A hopeless case of optimism? Jürgen Kuczynski and the end of the GDR - Matthew Stibbe12. Meanings of 1989: right-wing discourses in post-communist Poland - Artur Lipinski13. From the 'thirst for change' and 'hunger for truth' to a 'revolution that hardly happened': public protests and reconstructions of the past in Bulgaria in the 1990s - Nikolai Vukov14 Afterword: the discursive constitution of revolution and revolution envy - James KrapflSelect bibliographyIndex
£81.00
LUP - Voltaire Foundation La Pens233e de labb233 Gr233goire despotisme et
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Le grand mérite de J. Dubray est de montrer les diverses dimensions de la pensée de Grégoire. Surtout il aborde de front l’apparente contradiction qui se trouve au cœur de la pensée et de l’action de l’abbé et examine à nouveau la position paradoxale d’un homme qui était optimiste en ce qui concerne le progrès des Lumières mais pessimiste quant à la nature humaine.'Archives de sciences sociales des religions'Parmi les ouvrages récemment consacrés à l’abbé Grégoire […], l’étude de Jean Dubray se distingue par son ambition de dégager les fondements philosophiques et théologiques, parfois implicites, de cette pensée. La remarquable permanence des positions défendues par l’abbé révolutionnaire a conduit l’auteur à embrasser l’ensemble du corpus grégorien (d’ailleurs partiellement inédit) et à en mettre au jour les principes sous-jacents.'Revue de Synthèse, tome 131, 6ème série, n° 2'Jean Dubray apporte une étude philosophique et théologique très dense, riche, passionnante, nouvelle, profondément érudite, mais avant tout destinée aux spécialistes.'French ReviewTable of ContentsAvant-proposRemerciementsIntroductionI. Les conceptions anthropologiques de Grégoire1. L’enjeu: la nature humaine2. Théologie dogmatique et vision de l’homme3. Jansénisme et rejet de la raison4. La nature humaine, le péché originel et les trois concupiscences5. Concupiscence et faute6. Despotisme, concupiscence et condition pécheresseConclusion de la première partie: l’universalité du despotismeII. L’art social: régénération de l’individu et de la sociétéIntroduction: art social et régénération7. L’art social: essai de définition8. Révolution et conversion culturelle9. Liberté et prédestination10. Vers la démocratie: art social et christianismeConclusion de la deuxième partie: libido et vertuIII. Art social et religion11. Modalités de l’art social12. La religion nécessaire13. La seule solutionConclusion généraleBibliographieIndex des noms propresIndex des thèmes
£95.65
Pluto Press The Politics Of James Connolly
Book SynopsisWhy has the work of James Connolly, leader of the Easter Rising, Marxist and Irish national hero, been so misunderstood?Trade Review'A concise, clear and readable account of Connolly’s politics' -- Marx & Philosophy Review of BooksTable of ContentsAbbreviations Chronology Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Formative Years 2. Building the Irish Socialist Republican Party 3. A Socialist Republican 4. Connolly in America 5. Labour in Irish History 6. 1910-1914: The Tumultuous Years 7. War and the Collapse of the Second International 8. The Road to 1916 9. The Socialist Movement after Connolly 10. Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index
£17.99
Pluto Press Black And Green The Fight For Civil Rights In
Book SynopsisExamines the historic links between the civil rights movements in Northern Ireland and the US.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Historical Links 2. Second class citizens 3. On the march 4. Irish America 5. Backlash 6. Heirs apparent Biographies of key Further Reading Bibliography Index
£22.49
Pluto Press The Dark Sahara
Book SynopsisIs Africa a hotbed of terrorism?Table of ContentsIntroduction The Dossier Missing 1. The Sahara's Bermuda Triangle 2. Reconstructing Tora Bora 3. 'Whodunit' 4. Grounds for suspicion in the Algerian Sahara 5. Grounds for suspicion in the Sahel 6. Who was El Para? 7. Oil and Empire 8. Algeria's black decade 9. Islamists and Eradicators: Algeria's 'Dirty War' 10. The Banana theory of terrorism 11. Preparing the disinformation 12. The nature of US intelligence 13. 'Blowback' and resistance Notes Bibliography Index
£25.19
