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Cambridge University Press The Fascist Revolution in Tuscany 1919 22
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Cambridge University Press Postcommunist Presidents
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Cambridge University Press Postcommunist Presidents
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Cambridge University Press The Crisis in Kashmir
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution
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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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Cambridge University Press The Dynamics of Military Revolution 13002050
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Cambridge University Press Reinterpreting the French Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Deference and Defiance in Monterrey Workers Paternalism and Revolution in Mexico 18901950 88 Cambridge Latin American Studies Series Number 88
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Cambridge University Press Deadly Decision in Beijing
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Cambridge University Press Building Socialism
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Cambridge University Press In Love and at War
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Cambridge University Press In Love and at War
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Cambridge University Press State and SubState Nationalism in Southeast Asia
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Cambridge University Press Endgames
Book SynopsisThe 2011 Arab Spring is the story of what happens when autocrats prepare their militaries to thwart coups but unexpectedly face massive popular uprisings instead. When demonstrators took to the streets in 2011, some militaries remained loyal to the autocratic regimes, some defected, whilst others splintered. The widespread consequences of this military agency ranged from facilitating transition to democracy, to reconfiguring authoritarianism, or triggering civil war. This study aims to explain the military politics of 2011. Building on interviews with Arab officers, extensive fieldwork and archival research, as well as hundreds of memoirs published by Arab officers, Hicham Bou Nassif shows how divergent combinations of coup-proofing tactics accounted for different patterns of military behaviour in 2011, both in Egypt and Syria, and across Tunisia, and Libya.Trade Review'Endgames is a brilliantly informative and compelling comparative study of the troubling role of Arab armies in politics. With profound historical depth spanning more than a century, Bou Nassif skilfully deciphers why and how Arab armies deal with popular dissent and helps both scholars and activists understand officers' political behavior.' Zeinab Abul-Magd, Oberlin College'Bou Nassif has written what is sure to be one of the defining books on the Arab uprisings of 2011. Synthesizing vast amounts of historical detail, he details how the coup-prevention tactics employed by the region's autocrats shaped military responses to protests in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria and Libya. If you want to understand what happened in the Arab Spring, this is essential reading.' Risa Brooks, Marquette University'A refreshing take on military reactions to nonviolent mass protest in the Arab world. Drawing on a historical-institutionalist perspective, the empirically rich case studies generate new insights into the complicated interaction between autocratic leaders, military elites and protest movements during episodes of civic resistance. At a moment when democracy is in decline worldwide and elected civilian leaders in the West threaten peaceful protesters with military force, the understanding of military decisions about whether to support or withhold support from political leaders gains a new significance.' Aurel Croissant, Heidelberg UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Coups, coup-proofing, and military politics in endgames; 2. Coups, coup-proofing, and regime formation in Egypt and Syria; 3. Coups, coup-proofing, and the neoliberal age in Egypt and Syria; 4. How coup-proofing structured military response to protest in Egypt and Syria; 5. How coup-proofing structured military response to protest in Tunisia and Libya.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Recessional
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The University of Chicago Press Spent Cartridges of Revolution An Anthropological
Book SynopsisWhat happens to a revolutionary town after the revolution? This anthropological history studies the Namiquipan peasants, who supported Pancho Villa in the revolution of 1910-1920, but who now consider themselves mere spent cartridges of a struggle that benefitted other classes.
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University of Chicago Press The Long Affair Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution 17851800
Book SynopsisAn examination of Thomas Jefferson through the critical lens of the French Revolution. Conor C. O'Brien argues that Jefferson, though enthralled with the ideology of the French Revolution, still retained a shrewd political pragmatism, exploiting the Revolution's popularity with the American public.
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin I Am Evelyn Amony Reclaiming My Life from the
Book SynopsisMore than 60,000 children were abducted in east and central Africa in the 1990s by the violent rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army and its notorious commander Joseph Kony. Evelyn Amony was one of them. I Am Evelyn Amony tells a harrowing story of heartbreaking loss, unrelenting horror, and courageous survival.Trade Review'I am Evelyn Amony may be the ultimate example of a determined woman using her own powerful voice.'-African Arguments“In addition to the inherent drama of Amony’s voyage, the book uses the immediacy of oral storytelling that transitions well into written form, conveying her observations interspersed with barbed, often poetic analysis.”—International Journal of African Historical Studies
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc The Old Regime and the French Revolution
Book SynopsisThe most important contribution to our understanding of the French Revolution was written almost one hundred years ago by Alexis de Tocqueville.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Anatomy Of Revolution
Book SynopsisThe definitive, hugely influential comparative history of the English, American, French and Russian revolutions from a renowned American scholar. Classic and famous, The Anatomy of Revolution examines the patterns and processes that all revolutions share. Such is [Professor Brinton's] wit and historical knowledge that what might have become a syllogistic hash in lesser hands turns out to be a keen and perceptive exposition and , like a well-conducted seminar, sets the mind of the reader racing off on its owns. --The New Yorker
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The University of Michigan Press From Revolution to War
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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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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Revenge of History
Book SynopsisCallinicos''s new book is a frontal assault on the widely accepted idea that the East European revolutions of 1989 mark the death of socialism. In an attempt to vindicate the classical Marxist tradition, Callinicos argues that socialism in this tradition can only come from below, through the self-activity of the working class. Stalinism from this standpoint was a ''counter-revolution'', erecting at the end of the 1920s a state capitalist regime on the ruins of the radically democratic socialism briefly achieved in October 1917. He further argues that the collapse of Stalinism at the end of the 1980s was only one aspect of a world-wide transition from nationally organized to globally integrated capitalism. The result is likely to be greater economic and political instability. Against this background socialism - in Marx''s sense - is all the more necessary. He concludes that the collapse of Stalinism should be less the moment to abandon socialism than to resume unfinished busiTrade ReviewWINNER of THE DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP BOOK AWARD from the MARXIST SOCIOLOGY SECTION of the AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 'Appears at an ideal time ... it is an easy and enjoyable read.' Socialist Worker Review 'A concise and readable analysis which can serve as an excellent introduction to recent events and future prospects in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union ... this book has a lot to recommend it.' Times Higher Education Supplement 'A spirited assault on the widely accepted view that the East European revolutions of 1989 marked the death of socialism... this is rightly a brief and provocative, and all the better for it.' Political StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. The End of Socialism?. 2. The Ancient Regime and the Revolution. 3. The Triumph of the West?. 4. Beyond the Market. Conclusion. Notes.
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The University Press of Kentucky Revolutionary Pairs
Book SynopsisThese partnerships changed the world.In Revolutionary Pairs: Marx and Engels, Lenin and Trotsky, Gandhi and Nehru, Mao and Zhou, Castro and Guevara, Larry Ceplair tells the stories of five revolutionary struggles through the lens of famous duos.
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University of Arizona Press Indigenous Revolution in Ecuador and Bolivia
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John Wiley & Sons The Best of What We are Reflections on the
Book SynopsisJohn Brentlinger made six trips in seven years to Nicaragua, most recently in 1991-2. In this volume he combines philosophy with reportage in portraying the Sandinista revolution as being less an economic and political phenomenon, than a human struggle for self-realisation.
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Pathfinder Books Ltd Maurice Bishop Speaks The Grenada Revolution and
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Pathfinder Press Somos Herederos de las Revoluciones del Mundo
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Abrams Power to the People The World of the Black
Book SynopsisThis pictorial history tells the story of the revolutionary Black Panther Party in the words of its co-founder, Bobby Seale.Coming toward the end of America's epic Civil Rights Movement, the Black Panther Party was one of the most creative and influential responses to racism and inequality in American history. They advocated armed self-defense to counter police brutality, and initiated a program of patrolling the police with shotgunsand law books.In words and photographs, Power to the People explores the impact and achievements of this revolutionary organization. The words are Bobby Seale's, with contributions by other former party members. The photographs are by Stephen Shames, the Panther's most trusted documentarian. Power to the People is a testament to their warm association, combining Shames's memorable images with Seale's colorful in-depth commentary culled from many hours of conversation.Shames also interviewed major paTrade ReviewAn important new book * The New York Times *We can't stop looking at these unforgettable images of the Black Panthers * Mother Jones.com *important overview * San Francisco Chronicle *
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. What Does Al Qaeda Want?: Unedited Communiques
Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, al-Qaeda has become the most infamous terrorist organization in history. While their actions are deplorable, it remains a populist and idealist movement—and one that continues to spread. Despite heavy media coverage, most people are unaware of the group''s ultimate goals. Sampling from actual al-Qaeda texts, this is al-Qaeda in its own words, rather than another interpretation (which often emphasizes the inflammatory religious rhetoric) offered by the Bush administration and other factions of the Western world. Introductions and commentary provide the historical context necessary to understand fully the interconnection between the religious, social, and political issues that led to the emergence of Osama bin Laden and his jihad against the West. These primary sources enable readers to discern the fundamental convictions underlying the group''s demands, and help answer the question, 'What does al Qaeda want?'
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Monthly Review Press,U.S. Che Guevara: His Revolutionary Legacy
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WW Norton & Co The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of
Book SynopsisExtraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically challenging our preconceptions of the hooded Klansmen responsible for establishing a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South, this “second Klan” spread in states principally above the Mason-Dixon line by courting xenophobic fears surrounding the flood of immigrant “hordes” landing on American shores. “Part cautionary tale, part expose” (Washington Post), The Second Coming of the KKK “illuminates the surprising scope of the movement” (The New Yorker); the Klan attracted four-to-six-million members through secret rituals, manufactured news stories, and mass “Klonvocations” prior to its collapse in 1926?but not before its potent ideology of intolerance became part and parcel of the American tradition. A “must-read” (Salon) for anyone looking to understand the current moment, The Second Coming of the KKK offers “chilling comparisons to the present day” (New York Review of Books). 8 pages of illustrationsTrade Review"The Klan of the 1920s, less violent but far more wide¬spread, is a different story, and offers some chilling comparisons to the present day. . . A thoughtful explanation of the Klan’s appeal in the fast-urbanizing America of the 1920s, which was leaving behind an earlier nation based, in imagined memory, on self-sufficient yeoman farmers, proud blue-collar workers, and virtuous small-town businessmen, all of them going to the same white-steepled church on Sunday." -- Adam Hoschschild - New York Review of Books"A must-read for anyone wondering over the last several months how we ended up as a country—with the first African-American president not even a year out of office—facing a group of golf shirt-wearing young white men marching onto the campus of a prestigious university carrying torches and chanting ‘Jews will not replace us” . . . . Gordon documents not only the mechanics of how the Ku Klux Klan roared back to power, both socially and politically, in the 1920s but why. The parallels between then and now, branding differences aside, could not be more evident. To say it one more time for those who wish it weren’t so, the past isn’t dead and it’s not even past; and those who don’t learn from it are doomed to repeat it. . . . Histories like Gordon’s should help Americans understand the roots of these toxic ideologies, as well as the circumstances that help them flourish, in order to better spot them when they sprout." -- Erin Keane - Salon"The Second Coming of the KKK illustrates how the 1920s reboot of the Ku Klux Klan was regarded as rather ordinary and respectable, much like today's efforts to make everyday racism, sexism, and anti-Semitism acceptable again. . . With the help of a couple of savvy public relations pros, Klan membership spread like wildfire, enveloping Northerners and Westerners in love with the idea of defining themselves by what they were not." -- Deborah Douglas - Vice"Gordon is a thorough and perceptive historian . . . There’s more to The Second Coming of the KKK than grim déja vu. There are lessons too." -- Randy Dotinga - Christian Science Monitor"Sharply argued. . . . [Gordon] encourages readers to draw bold lines between the political milieu of the Second Klan and our current predicament." -- Todd Moye - Texas Observer"Set aside your preconceptions about the Klan, from the era of Reconstruction. As the distinguished historian Linda Gordon demonstrates in this chilling account, the KKK of the 1920s was urban, northern, and modern. Its wizards and dragons used the latest tools of mass advertising to spread their message of ‘true Americanism’: racial purity, religious intolerance, and opposition to immigration. Its members, one in six of whom were women, favored women’s suffrage. Its campaign of terror ended not long after it began, but it left on American politics its dark mark." -- Jill Lepore, author of The Secret History of Wonder Woman"The Second Coming of the KKK reminds us that we Americans bid good riddance to serial aberrations in the civic and social life of our republic repeatedly, only to learn that these phenomena are as American as apple pie. Gordon’s timely, crisply written, indispensable primer helps explain why another aberration is now upon us." -- David Levering Lewis, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography"A first-rate historian can show us the past in a way that clarifies the present. That’s what Linda Gordon does here…[The Second Coming of the KKK] reminds us that the sentiments that powered the reprise of the Klan have never been entirely absent from American life, and cannot be understood as an aberrant strain that might be entirely eliminated from the national character." -- Nicholas Lemann, author of Redemption"An excellent historical treatment of an almost forgotten yet very dangerous period of hate in America. What a history lesson for today’s electorate." -- Morris Dees, founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center"At once thoughtful, fair, and deeply troubling, The Second Coming of the KKK exhibits the analytical wisdom of a master historian who sharply reminds us that popular mass mobilizations can be instruments of depredation." -- Ira Katznelson, author of the Bancroft Prize–winning Fear Itself"As the author amply shows, [the Klan’s] fearful, angry spirit lives on. A revealing, well-researched—and, unfortunately, contemporarily relevant—investigation of the KKK's wide support in the 1920s." -- Kirkus Reviews
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Deluge: A Personal View of the End of Empire
Book SynopsisSir Kennedy Trevaskis was the last High Commissioner of South Arabia - a role he held from 1963-1965, which provided the pinnacle of his career and yet also his ultimate failure. Trevaskis's imperial credentials were impeccable. He was a District Officer in Northern Rhodesia, followed by service in the Rhodesian Regiment in World War II, District Commissioner in the British Administered Eritrea after Italy's defeat, and finally High Commissioner in South Arabia and Aden colony. But here the British ambition to set up the Federation of South Arabia with Aden was ultimately frustrated by the rise of Arab nationalism and the British Labour government's decision to withdraw `East of Suez'. The Deluge is the memoir of a glittering career ending in ultimate failure and ignominy, but full of incident, humour and irreverence. Published for the first time, and with an extensive introduction by Wm. Roger Louis, this unique account sheds significant light on British foreign and imperial policy in the post-war era and particularly the end of empire in the Middle East.Trade ReviewSir Kennedy Trevaskis had an outlook on Africa and the Middle East that differed radically from that of many of his contemporaries... His unvarnished autobiography gives insight into the complex and dangerous problems of the British Empire, especially in the Middle East from the 1940s to the mid-1960s. * W.M Roger Louis *This memoir is monumental, not in the Nietzschean sense of the monumental narrative that can inspire action, but in the sense of a history that will stand as a monument to a vanished world. * Dublin Review of Books *
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Hungarian Revolution 1956
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Reaktion Books Visualizing the Revolution Politics and Pictorial
Book SynopsisThe French Revolution was marked by a wealth of imagery and visual symbolism that inspired the masses to fight for freedom. This book surveys the rich and multifaceted visual culture of this time, exploring its creation and how it conveyed the new revolutionary sensibilities of the era.
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Active Distribution Worth Fighting For: Bringing the Rojava Revolution Home
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Kooperation, Konfrontation, Disruption:
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V&R unipress GmbH Avantgarden der Biopolitik: Jugendbewegung,
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