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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Une exp233rience rh233torique l233loquence de la
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Une des grandes prouesses de cet ouvrage, dont nous n’avons malheureusement pu mentionner que quelques contributions, est d’être parvenu à montrer, avec beaucoup de clarté, de richesse et de précision, la complexité de son objet.'Annales Histoire, Sciences SocialesTable of ContentsFrançoise Douay et Jean-Paul Sermain, PrésentationI. Modes oratoiresL’événementAurelio Principato, Comment restituer l’action oratoire de la Révolution? Peter France, A Tale of two cities: l’éloquence à Westminster et à ParisProcédés: la traditionSylviane Léoni, Laconisme et lieux communs dans les discours de Saint-JustPeter Krause-Tastet, L’Antiquité exemplaire: imitation et émulation dans les discours révolutionnairesIsabelle Martin, Yves-Michel Marchais: l’éloquence de la chaire, de la critique à l’indignationDynamiques interactivesSonia Branca-Rosoff, A propos d’un affrontement entre Maury et Clermont-Tonnerre: peut-on parler de deux modèles de rhétorique politique? Sophie Wahnich, L’émotion en partage: l’Assemblée législative face aux dangers de la patrie (juin 1792) II. Diffractions de l’éloquenceMédiationsHans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Gestes oratoires et représentations iconographiques: transcriptions de l’oralité dans les Tableaux historiques de la Révolution françaiseHerbert Schneider, La rhétorique de la chanson révolutionnaire: le cas du Chansonnier de la MontagneEric Négrel, Le théâtre au service de la Révolution: une rhétorique de l’élogeMaria Giesche, La rhétorique musicale du classicisme: l’antagonisme de Cherubini et de Spontini comme représentants de la Révolution française et de l’EmpireTatiana Smoliarova, Le rôle de la Révolution dans le destin du nom propre: le cas d’Ecouchard Le Brun, dit Le Brun-PindareTraductions-citationsAnnette Keilhauer, L’éloquence révolutionnaire en Allemand: Robespierre traduitIngrid Weber, Die Revolution ist die Revolution’: Georg Forster observateur-propagateur de la Révolution françaiseIII. Réflexions rhétoriquesLes intentions révolutionnairesJacques Guilhaumou, La rhétorique des porte-parole (1789-1792): le cas Sieyès†Brigitte Schlieben-Lange et Jochen Hafner, Rhétorique et Grammaire générale dans les Ecoles centralesJean-Paul Sermain, ‘Les formes ont ici une valeur’: la position singulière de La HarpeJean-Paul Sermain, Une rhétorique républicaine: l’Essai sur l’art oratoire de Joseph Droz (1799)Constructions rétrospectivesPatrick Brasart, Les rendez-vous manqués: Mme de Staël et l’éloquence révolutionnaireMaïté Bouyssy, Bertrand Barère ou l’impossible fuite dans l’encreAnne Vibert, L’éloquence révolutionnaire: modèle ou contre-modèle pour l’éloquence politique au XIXe siècle?Bibliographie, par Eric NégrelIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Pam233la ou La Vertu r233compens233e
Book SynopsisTrade Review'Poirson’s textual apparatus reveals changes that helped keep the author alive; seldom have revisions been undertaken for such high stakes.'Journal of Modern History'Sources, influences, intertextes, avatars, l’auteur ne néglige aucune piste, compare les versions, poursuit les raisonnements de chacun dans les plus profonds retranchements de leur symbolique et s’il aboutit à la conclusion finale que Paméla n’est pas définitivement une pièce révolutionnaire, il permet au lecteur de comprendre à la fois les raisons et l’intention paradoxale de l’auteur.'Revue d’histoire du théâtreTable of ContentsTable des illustrationsRemerciementsAvant-propos: La Révolution est un blocI. Présentation des textes et des contextes1. Introduction2. Généalogie du textei. Contexte général: un théâtre en révolutionii. Circonstances particulières: les apories d’un ‘bréviaire des politiques’iii. L’auteur: portrait de l’artiste en caméléon politique polygrapheiv. Conditions de représentation: un théâtre sous haute tensionv. Conditions de réception: la comédie par laquelle naît le scandalevi. Conditions d’interdiction: requiem pour un ‘sérail impur’vii. Reprises et fortune littéraire: un retour de flamme3. Archéologie du textei. Sources, influences et intertextes: la ‘Paméla française’ii. Ersatz de roman: le retard françaisiii. Avatars de comédie: le retour françaisiv. Une structure dramatique ambivalentev. Tours et détours herméneutiquesvi. Une révolution des affectsII. Paméla, ou la Vertu récompenséePrincipes d’établissement de la présente éditionSigles et abréviations employésPaméla ou la Vertu récompenséePrincipales variantesIII. AnnexesAnnexe 1. Premier discoursAnnexe 2. Lettre aux législateursAnnexe 3. Autres documents autographes de Nicolas François de Neufchâteau relatifs à PamélaAnnexe 4. Documents d’appui relatifs aux conditions de représentation et de réceptionBibliographie sélectiveIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Iconoclasm in Revolutionary Paris the
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMeticulously researched and powerfully argued, this is a significant contribution to our understanding of iconoclasm at one of its most crucial historitical junctures.- French studiesTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Iconoclasm as sign transformation: the Parisian Revolution of 17892. Catholicism and iconoclasm in Paris, 1789-17903. Iconoclasm in Paris in 17914. Iconoclasm in Paris in 17925. Iconoclasm in Paris, 1793-1795ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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LUP - Voltaire Foundation Le Discours radical en GrandeBretagne 17681789
Book SynopsisHistory of British radicalism in the years preceding the French Revolution of 1789.Trade Review'L’ouvrage de Rémy Duthille, élaboré à partir des archives des deux principales sociétés londoniennes, la Revolution Society et la Society for Constitutional Information, ainsi que des écrits de Price et de Cartwright, est une contribution importante à l’histoire du radicalisme britannique au XVIIIe siècle. [... Duthille] se livre à une analyse fouillée du « discours radical », non pas seulement comme production d’idées et de revendications politiques, mais comme une toile mouvante et dynamique, tendue entre les différents pôles.'Myriam-Isabelle Ducrocq, CerclesReviews'Duthille’s Le Discours radical en Grande-Bretagne is an important book, both for its treatment of a neglected subject and for its innovative, complex, and forensically argued claims [...] this book constitutes a significant contribution to the study of English radicalism and of eighteenth-century political thought more generally, and deserves to be widely read.' XVII-XVIIITable of ContentsIntroduction1. Le patriotisme de deux sociétés radicales londoniennes2. Le discours radical, entre droit naturel et constitutionnalisme3. Richard Price, ou les droits de l’homme à l’anglaise (1776-1778) 4. John Cartwright, ou la constitution anglaise normée par le droit naturel5. Le peuple aux urnes, le peuple en armes: tous citoyens? 6. Projets britanniques et solidarités atlantiques7. A Discourse on the love of our country de Richard Price: synthèse du patriotisme radical à l’aube de la Révolution française? Conclusion: Patriotes et citoyens du mondeAnnexe : Position des sept radicaux anglais sur la réforme parlementaire en Irlande (1783) BibliographieIndex
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Pluto Press Dispatches From the Peoples War in Nepal
Book SynopsisLively and enlightening presentation of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal, educating people on the real state of affairs behind the "People's War".Trade Review'Invaluable background to the world's most vigorous Maoist movement, and insight into the theory and practice underlying contemporary Maoism elsewhere in South Asia and globally' -- Gary Leupp, professor of history at Tufts University and Coordinator of the Asian Studies Program'Probably the best, if not only, account of how the Maoists built their organisation and movement, and of how they operate and govern' -- Stephen Mikesell, author of Class, State and Struggle in Nepal: Writings 1989-1995'This is a lively, exciting and enlightening presentation of the true portrait of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal' -- Padma Ratna Tuladhar, independent left leader, senior human rights leader and one of the facilitators in the peace talks between His Majesty’s Government of Nepal and the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Map Preface:1996-2004: Eight Years of People’s War in Nepal Introduction 1. Meeting the People’s Army 2. Villages of Resistance 3. The Raid on Bethan 4. Rifles and a Vision 5. Revolutionary Work in the City 6. General Strike in Kathmandu Carrying the Story Forward: The Problem of Disinformation 7. Land in the Middle 8. Hope of the Hopeless in Gorkha 9. Preparing the Ground in the West 10. Learning Warfare by Waging Warfare in the West Carrying the Story Forward: Revolutionary Policies 11. People’s Power in Rolpa 12. Guns, Drums, and Keyboards 13. Teachers in a School of War Carrying the Story Forward: Children in the War Zone 14. Martyrs of Rolpa 15. Families of Martyrs: Turning Grief into Strength Carrying the Story Forward: The Rising Death Toll 16. Women Warriors 17. New Women, New People’s Power Carrying the Story Forward: The Fight for Women Leaders 18. Magar Liberation 19. Preparing for War in Rukum 20. Starting and Sustaining People’s War in Rukum 21. Camping with the People’s Army 22. Red Salute in the West Notes References Index
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Pluto Press The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings
Book SynopsisAn introductory collection to the drama of the Arab SpringTrade Review'During the Arab uprisings, my first port of call every day was Jadaliyya to understand and interpret the events. This book will be a much-treasured volume' -- Dr Laleh Khalili, SOAS, University of London'The outburst of the Arab Revolutions demands imaginative and novel perspectives on the Arab world, and Jadaliyya has managed to provide a unique forum covering the region with a fresh approach to its issues and problems' -- Fawwaz Traboulsi, author of A History of Modern Lebanon'Jadaliyya has established itself as an indispensable source dealing with the contemporary Arab world. This collection of its pieces on the Arab uprisings is perhaps the best introduction to the political movements that have shaken that region' -- Talal Asad, City University of New York'A primer of importance not only to students of the 'Arab spring', but also to those concerned with protest more generally. Registering both the exhilarating optimism and crushing disappointment of contemporary political life, this volume gives voice to some of the possibilities for and impasses to political transformation' -- Lisa Wedeen, Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and the College,University of Chicago'As contemporary reflections, these writings capture the unfolding of revolutionary events as they happened and convey the uncertainties, hopes and disappointments of collective worlds being remade' -- Timothy Mitchell, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Jadaliyya: Archiving the Revolution Roger Owen Introduction Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer, and Ziad Abu-Rish Section I - Opening Articles 1. Impromptu: A Word - Sinan Antoon 2. Preliminary Historical Observations on the Arab Revolutions of 2011 - Rashid Khalidi 3. Awakening, Cataclysm, or Just a Series of Events? Reflections on the Current Wave of Protest in the Arab World - Michael Hudson 4. Paradoxes of Arab Refo-lutions - Asef Bayat 5. The Year of the Citizen - Mouin Rabbani 6. Three Powerfully Wrong - and Wrongly Powerful - American Narratives about the Arab Spring - Jillian Schwedler, Joshua Stacher, and Stacey Philbrick Yadav Section II - Tunisia 7. The Tunisian Revolution: Initial Reflections - Mohammed Bamyeh 8. Tunisia's Glorious Revolution and its Implications - Noureddine Jebnoun 9. Let's Not Forget about Tunisia - Nouri Gana 10. The Battle for Tunisia - Nouri Gana Section III - Egypt 11. The Poetry of Revolt - Elliott Colla 12. Why Mubarak is Out - Paul Amar 13. Egypt's Revolution 2.0: The Facebook Factor - Linda Herrera 14. Egypt's Three Revolutions: The Force of History Behind this Popular Uprising - Omnia El Shakry 15. The Architects of the Egyptian Uprising and the Challenges Ahead - Saba Mahmood 16. The Revolution Against Neoliberalism - Walter Armbrust 17. Egypt's Orderly Transition: International Aid and the Rush to Structural Adjustment - Adam Hanieh Section IV - Libya 18. The Arabs in Africa - Callie Maidhof 19. Tribes of Libya as the Third Front: Myths and Realities of Non-State Actors in the Long Battle for Misrata - Jamila Benkato 20. Solidarity and Intervention in Libya - Asli U Bali and Ziad Abu-Rish Section V - Bahrain 21. Let's Talk about Sect - Tahiyya Lulu 22. Distortions of Dialogue - Tahiyya Lulu 23. When Petro-Dictators Unite: The Bahraini Opposition's Struggle for Survival - Rosie Bsheer and Ziad Abu-Rish Section VI - Yemen 24. Yemen's Turn: An Overview - Lara Aryani 25. How it Started in Yemen: From Tahrir to Taghyir - Nir Rosen 26. Saleh Defiant - Ziad Abu-Rish Section VII - Syria 27. Why Syria is Not Next...So Far - Bassam Haddad 28. Fear of Arrest - Hani Sayed 29. Syrian Hope: A Journal - Amal Hanano Section VIII - Regional Reverberations of the Arab Uprisings 30. The Political Status Quo, Economic Development, and Protests in Jordan - Ziad Abu-Rish 31. Dissent and its Discontents: Protesting the Saudi State - Rosie Bsheer 32. The Never Ending Story: Protests and Constitutions in Morocco - Emanuela Dalmasso and Francesco Cavatorta 33. Emergencies and Economics: Algeria and the Politics of Memory - Muriam Haleh Davis 34. Iraq and its Tahrir Square - Zainab Saleh 35. Tahrir's Other Sky - Noura Erakat and Sherene Seikaly 36. What is [the] Left? - Maya Mikdashi Epilogue - Parting Thoughts - Madawi Al-Rasheed Notes Index
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Pluto Press 1916 Irelands Revolutionary Tradition
Book SynopsisThis history of modern Ireland follows the thread of 1916’s ‘revolutionary tradition’ as it has unravelled across the century.Trade Review'A fluent, indignant book' -- Neil Hegarty, Irish Times'A vivid and vital account of how class shaped the national movement which arose in the wake of the Rising - and thus shaped the Ireland we live in today' -- Eamonn McCann, Irish journalist, and author of 'War and an Irish Town' (Pluto, 1993)'An essential and unparalleled joy to read' -- Socialist ReviewTable of ContentsPreface 1. Ireland Turned Upside Down 2. 1916: Armed Insurrection 3. The Irish Revolution 4. Republicanism and Counter-Revolution 5. A Most Conservative Country 6. The Rise and Fall of Radical Republicanism 7. From the Ashes a Phoenix Is Born Conclusion Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Pluto Press Burning Country
Book SynopsisA vivid look at a modern-day political and humanitarian nightmare.Trade Review'The most succinct and convincing insider's narrative of the uprising' -- Richard Spencer, Daily Telegraph'Full of fascinating details' -- Robyn Cresswell - The New York Review of Books'Extraordinary ... the book on Syria I was waiting for' -- Molly Crabapple, artist, author, journalist'Gripping ... Cutting through the fog of geopolitics, Burning Country refocuses the conflict with the people at its centre' -- Brian Whitaker, Newsweek'A detailed history of Syria's moderate opposition and a meticulous analysis of the origins of today's violent dynamics' -- New Statesman'Explores how Syria's peaceful uprising gave way to armed insurgency and sectarian jihad... This is an important, honest and insightful book, well worth anyone's time' -- Marc Lynch, Washington Post'Avoids the easy indulgence of indignation; instead, it elicits the voices of many different Syrians involved in the uprising, acknowledging their suffering as well as their courage, intelligence, and humanity, while explaining the terrible choices that have been forced on them' -- Ursula Lindsey, The Nation'Vital' -- Peter Geoghegan - the Herald Scotland'For decades Syrians have been forbidden from telling their own stories and the story of their country, but here Robin Yassin-Kassab and Leila al-Shami tell the Syrian story' -- Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Syrian writer, intellectual, and former political prisoner'By far the best account of the Syrian uprising yet' -- Dr. Yasser Munif, Professor of sociology at Emerson College, co-founder of the Global Campaign of Solidarity with the Syrian RevolutionTable of ContentsList of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Preface Maps 1. Revolution From Above 2. Bashaar’s First Decade 3. Revolution From Below 4. The Grassroots 5. Militarisation and Liberation 6. Scorched Earth: The Rise of the Islamisms 7. Dispossession and Exile 8. Culture Revolutionised 9. The Failure of the Elites 10. The Start of Solidarity 11. Syria Dismantled Further Reading Notes Index
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Pluto Press A Peoples History of Europe
Book SynopsisA concise people’s history of Europe spanning from the First World War to todayTrade Review'A vivid and passionate fresco of a century of tumultuous European social history' -- Pietro Basso, Ca' Foscari University of Venice'Raquel Varela succeeds in explaining the disasters of European neoliberalism, without ever romanticising the social pact that went before it. In a work with a rich sense of historical possibility, she shows how every inch of social progress had to be fought for and how little it ever had to do with the European institutions' -- David Broder, 'Jacobin'Table of ContentsForeword by Kevin Murphy Preface 1. The War of Wars, the Revolution of Revolutions, 1917 2. ‘Man, Controller of the Universe’: The Crisis of 1929, the Revolutions of the 1930s and Nazism 3. Midnight in the Century: The Second World War 4. The 1945 European Social Pact 5. Anti-Colonial Revolutions 6. Crisis and Revolution: From May 68 to the Carnation Revolution 7. The End of the Social Pact (1981–2018) Conclusion Notes Index
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Cornell University Press The North Korean Revolution 19451950
Book SynopsisArmstorng examines the genesis of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) both as an important yet rarely studied example of a communist state and as part of modern Korean history.Trade ReviewArmstrong has carefully gone over all of the newly available documents on the founding of the North Korean regime to ask why Pyongyang, in spite of the appalling suffering of its people, remains one of the last holdouts of 'unreformed' Marxism-Leninism. * Foreign Affairs *Charles K. Armstrong takes advantage of new archival materials to rethink the history and character of North Korea. In considering the critical years of North Korea's development prior to the outbreak of the Korean War, Armstrong's The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950, delivers some surprising, heterodox conclusions. -- John Feffer * Korean Quarterly *Charles K. Armstrong's The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 is a pioneering work.... This eye-catching book offers a wealth of factual information on the genesis of the North Korean state. It introduces a unique comprehensive perspective for the analysis of postcolonial Korean modernization, communist state formation, and creation of new imagined national and social identities and communities in the North. It is a new classic in Korean studies and a must-read for all aspiring students of Korean history and Korean affairs. -- Alexandre Y. Mansourov * Journal of Asian Studies *In a world where the kind of Marxist-inspired, state-directed development embodied by Soviet Russia has long since been discredited as ineffective, the North Korean economy and state management continue to resist the forces of the North Korean people. Armstrong wants to explain this rather counterintuitive longevity of a state whose like can be found nowhere else in the world except in Cuba.... This work will be indispensable for anyone hoping to understand the postwar history of Korea and East Asia. * Choice *This book provides a wealth of factual information and historical background that increases the reader's understanding of North Korea's communist history and present idiosyncrasies. -- Jeffrey J. Kuebler * Military Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of AbbreviationsIntroduction 1.Revolution on the Margins 2. Liberation, Occupation, and the Emerging New Order 3. Remaking the People 4. Coalition Politics and the United Front 5. Planning the Economy 6. Constructing Culture 7. A Regime of Surveillance 8. The People's State ConclusionAppendix A: A Note on Sources Appendix B: Statements of General Chistiakov on the Soviet Occupation of North Korea, Fall 1945 Selected Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press War States and Contention
Book SynopsisFor the last two decades, Sidney Tarrow has explored contentious politicsdisruptions of the settled political order caused by social movements. These disruptions range from strikes and street protests to riots and civil disobedience to revolution. In War, States, and Contention, Tarrow shows how such movements sometimes trigger, animate, and guide the course of war and how they sometimes rise during war and in war''s wake to change regimes or even overthrow states. Tarrow draws on evidence from historical and contemporary cases, including revolutionary France, the United States from the Civil War to the antiVietnam War movement, Italy after World War I, and the United States during the decade following 9/11.In the twenty-first century, movements are becoming transnational, and globalization and internationalization are moving war beyond conflict between states. The radically new phenomenon is not that movements make war against states but that states make war against movementTrade ReviewThe analysis of contemporary U.S. political events will be of interest tothose concerned about the recent abuses perpetrated by the U.S. government in the name of democracy and freedom. However, comparative-historical scholars everywhere will appreciate the breadth of Tarrow'stheoretical vision and applaud his illumination of the knotty relationshipbetween war, contentious politics, and civil rights. -- Ann Hironaka * The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *With Sidney Tarrow's framework, we can ask how things might be different, what our limitations are, and what we can do to shape the future. -- John R. Hall * Trajectories *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. Studying War, States, and ContentionPart 1. War and Movements in the Building of New States2. A Movement-State Goes to War: France, 1789–17993. A Movement Makes War: Civil War and Reconstruction4. A War Makes Movements: The Strange Death of Illiberal ItalyPart 2. Endless Wars5. From Statist to Composite Wars6. Wars at Home, 1917–19757. The War at Home, 2001–20138. The American State of Terror9. Contesting HegemonyPart 3. Internationalization and the New World of Contention10. The Dark Side of InternationalismConclusionsNotes References Acknowledgments Index
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Cornell University Press The Family and the Nation
Book SynopsisThe French Revolution transformed the nation's—and eventually the world's—thinking about citizenship, nationality, and gender roles. At the same time, it created fundamental contradictions between citizenship and family as women acquired new rights...Trade ReviewHeuer's interesting and insightful book stands at the intersection of several fields: the history of revolutionary law, the history of gender and the family, and the political history of the modern nation state. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *Heuer's imaginative and skillful research succeeds in overturning many unexamined clichés about gender and public life during France's transition into political modernity. * H-France *The metaphorical connection between family and nation, embedded in the very notion of la patrie, was subjected to remarkable stresses and strains in the years which led from the French Revolution and Terror through the Restoration. Jennifer Ngaire Heuer's argument highlights the contradictions between independent citizenship status and dependence within the home, given that the Revolution's lawmakers did not address these domains together.... What does it mean, her book asks, to belong to a nation? It is both a cliché and an imperative to point out at the present moment that such quandaries remain not only live issues, but matters of life and death, in and beyond France. * Times Literary Supplement *There is a fundamental contradiction between the republican conception of the citizen as an autonomous individual and the social and political realities of gender and family obligations. Jennifer Ngaire Heuer traces the implications of this contradiction during the first four decades of French citizenship.... Heuer exploits the rich discourse of petitions and court cases to move beyond legislation to ordinary experience and attitudes. Her research is convincing, and Heuer uses it deftly.... This is a thoroughly admirable book, broad in argument and chronological and geographic sweep. * American Historical Review *
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Cornell University Press The North Korean Revolution 19451950
Book SynopsisArmstorng examines the genesis of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) both as an important yet rarely studied example of a communist state and as part of modern Korean history.Trade ReviewArmstrong has carefully gone over all of the newly available documents on the founding of the North Korean regime to ask why Pyongyang, in spite of the appalling suffering of its people, remains one of the last holdouts of 'unreformed' Marxism-Leninism. * Foreign Affairs *Charles K. Armstrong takes advantage of new archival materials to rethink the history and character of North Korea. In considering the critical years of North Korea's development prior to the outbreak of the Korean War, Armstrong's The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950, delivers some surprising, heterodox conclusions. -- John Feffer * Korean Quarterly *Charles K. Armstrong's The North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950 is a pioneering work.... This eye-catching book offers a wealth of factual information on the genesis of the North Korean state. It introduces a unique comprehensive perspective for the analysis of postcolonial Korean modernization, communist state formation, and creation of new imagined national and social identities and communities in the North. It is a new classic in Korean studies and a must-read for all aspiring students of Korean history and Korean affairs. -- Alexandre Y. Mansourov * Journal of Asian Studies *In a world where the kind of Marxist-inspired, state-directed development embodied by Soviet Russia has long since been discredited as ineffective, the North Korean economy and state management continue to resist the forces of the North Korean people. Armstrong wants to explain this rather counterintuitive longevity of a state whose like can be found nowhere else in the world except in Cuba.... This work will be indispensable for anyone hoping to understand the postwar history of Korea and East Asia. * Choice *This book provides a wealth of factual information and historical background that increases the reader's understanding of North Korea's communist history and present idiosyncrasies. -- Jeffrey J. Kuebler * Military Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of AbbreviationsIntroduction 1.Revolution on the Margins 2. Liberation, Occupation, and the Emerging New Order 3. Remaking the People 4. Coalition Politics and the United Front 5. Planning the Economy 6. Constructing Culture 7. A Regime of Surveillance 8. The People's State ConclusionAppendix A: A Note on Sources Appendix B: Statements of General Chistiakov on the Soviet Occupation of North Korea, Fall 1945 Selected Bibliography Index
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Stanford University Press Scripting Revolution A Historical Approach to
Book SynopsisThis volume of essays proposes a new, historical approach to the comparative study of revolutions by exploring the ways in which they create, inherit, or extend recognizable scripts for political action and social action.Trade Review"The comparative study of revolutions has been left to sociologists and political scientists for too long. This book is long overdue and will undoubtedly become a landmark in the comparative study of revolutions and a spur to further research on revolutions."—Darrin McMahon, Dartmouth College"An important and exciting book in several respects, this volume provides a rare opportunity for today's historians to engage in some hard-nosed, systematic comparative history in a highly constructive manner while greatly widening their own personal perspective on the spectrum of modern revolutions. It also makes a splendid teaching tool." —Jonathan Israel, H-France"Keith Michael Baker and Dan Edelstein have edited an important and timely book that reassesses how the concept of revolution has evolved over the past three centuries....[T]he editors are right to insist that humanists can and should get back into the comparative revolutions business."—Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, Journal of Modern HistoryTable of ContentsContents and Abstracts1Did the English Have a Script for Revolution in the Seventeenth Century? chapter abstractThis chapter examines the various resonances the word revolution held in seventeenth-century England. When used in a political context, it rarely meant turning full cycle or returning to the status quo ante, but rather a sudden and dramatic change, a turning quite around, or a regime change. The English commonly used the term revolution (or its plural revolutions) to refer to the political and religious upheavals of the period, and although revolutions did not necessarily have to involve fundamental or radical change, they could do, and by the end of the century there had emerged the notion that these revolutions had been beneficial and desirable because they had delivered England (and Scotland and Ireland) from tyranny. England's script for revolution was linked to the question of how to bring about the desired regime change and thus whether it was possible to resist a monarchy that was deemed absolute. 2God's Revolutions: England, Europe, and the Concept of Revolution in the mid-Seventeenth Century chapter abstractThis chapter explores the early use of the word and concept of "revolution" as deployed during the English Civil Wars and Interregnum. The politicized usage of the word was chiefly adapted from continental sources, reflecting both intensifying parallel political conflicts in several parts of Europe, and increasingly efficient networks for the transnational dissemination of news and information. After the regicide in 1649, the term "revolution" appeared with growing frequency in England, as contemporaries groped for a new vocabulary to describe the churning constitutional instability and change that plagued their polity. Although used in several ways, the word was appropriated with particular enthusiasm by radical puritan republicans, who often invoked it to describe God's providential disruption of established forms and constitutional order. 3Every Great Revolution is a Civil War chapter abstractThe conceptual categories of 'revolution' and 'civil war' are as contested as they are porous. This essay argues that the modern 'script' of revolution was not as original as some scholars have claimed. As a narrative of the violent and transformative reorganization of sovereignty, the revolutionary script developed after 1789 had morphological and genealogical similarities to an earlier and much more enduring script of political change: the Roman script of civil war. The essay traces the various narratives derived in classical and post-classical texts from the Roman experience of civil war and shows how Roman conceptions of civil war shaped later narratives of revolution. It concludes that civil war was the original genus of which revolution was only a late-evolving species. 4Revolutionizing Revolution chapter abstractThis chapter draws on digitized databases and other materials to investigate meanings of the term "revolution" and its cognates in English, American, and French imprints in the century between the Glorious Revolution and the French Revolution. It traces a shift from the notion of revolution as a fact, an expression of change and vicissitude generally recognized ex post facto, to a conception of revolution as a collective political act oriented toward the future. It points to the role of Enlightenment thinking in the revalorization of revolution as long term transformation and, more particularly, to the significance of Raynal'sRévolution de l'Amériquein narrativizing revolution as immediate and ongoing political action. It concludes by examining the emergence of a revolutionary script in the French Revolution. 5Constitutionalism: The Happiest Revolutionary Script chapter abstractTwo "stories" provide the essential script for the major aspects of the American Revolution. One script is a story of colonial resistance to imperial policies. Here the Americans followed familiar arguments about the careful yet calculated ways in which "a long train of abuses" could lead an unjustly governed people to assert their rights, including a right to revolution, against the threat of tyranny. The second story is about the remarkable way in which Americans worked out the central problems of constitution making in the decade after independence. This story provides an ideal happy ending to the complicated dynamics of revolution, by solving problems few other revolutions have mastered. 6From Constitutional to Permanent Revolution: 1649 and 1793 chapter abstractIn early-modern times, the telos of revolution was generally perceived as the ratification of a new constitution. Constitutions provided the foundation for the political authority of the new regime; they derived their own legitimacy as expressions of popular sovereignty. This revolutionary theory was first enacted during the English Civil War; it culminated with the American Revolution. The French Revolution started off during this same path, but in the years 1792-94, a new model of revolution emerged. In a dizzying circuit, it made "revolution" the new source of authority for the revolution, and eschewed constitutionalism for what later theorists (starting with Marx) would refer to as the "permanence" of revolution. This new, future-oriented model could legitimate actions undertaken by the State, rather than just a revolutionary people. 7Scripting the French Revolution, Inventing the Terror: Marat's Assassination and Its Interpretations chapter abstractDespite the deconstruction since the 1960s of many of its dominant historiographical discourses, the French Revolution remains hostage to a script that distinguishes it from contemporary European and American sister revolutions: the myth of the Terror, according to which the Jacobins instituted a centralized dictatorship in Paris, in the hands of Robespierre, and exercised a systematic violence against its opponents. Marat's assassination is a prime example of how pivotal events of the Revolution were immediately integrated into systems of representation and contributed to the construction of the most enduring scripts. By radicalizing and opposing in a Manichean manner the positions of the revolutionary and counter-revolutionary actors, the numerous discourses and emotions surrounding the violent death of l'Ami du peuple thereby participated in forging the simplifying myth of the Terror, producing a distorted image of France, split between a dictatorship of public safety, external war, and civil war. 8The Antislavery Script: Haiti's Place in the Narrative of Atlantic Revolution chapter abstractThe notion that free people of color and slaves in Saint-Domingue might have been acting out a drama first performed elsewhere has a long and troubling history. This essay considers the two most oft-mentioned precedents (the American and French revolutions) and finds that neither explains the manner of Haiti's path out of the Old Regime. Revolutionary-era influences must be balanced against prior experiences and understandings of slavery and racial subordination, including those embodied in colonial law. Such an approach helps to clarify the ambiguities of emancipation as it ultimately took form in Haiti, where liberation from slavery was obscured by the imperatives of independence from France. The very nations that sought to contain Haiti's example would later struggle with their own variations on this Haitian theme. 9Scripting the German Revolution: Marx and 1848 chapter abstractTheCommunist Manifestowas treated by generations of Marxists as an example of scientific class analysis and materialist conception of history. When it was written, it was intended as a set of formulations addressed to a radical German readership. This essay sets theManifestoin the context of previous attempts to characterise the situation of Germany after the French Revolution. Despite the transformative importance of the achievements of German philosophy in the preceding eighty years, the political reality of Germany was disappointing: a docile and obedient people unaffected by the 1830 revolutions in neighbouring countries. After attempting to sketch a German route to revolution in 1844, Marx and his friends left Germany and adopted an abstract and universal discourse embracing the whole of the modern world. The resultingManifesto conjured up a largely imaginary conflict between fabricated entities and proved to be of little value in confronting events in 1848. 10Reading and Repeating the Revolutionary Script: Revolutionary Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century France chapter abstract"Reading and Repeating the Revolutionary Script: Revolutionary Mimicry in Nineteenth-Century France"examines the emergence, transformation, and cultural and political effects of the"discourse of revolutionary mimicry" in nineteenth-century France. First, a reading of Gustave Flaubert's 1869 novelL'Education sentimentaleillustrates how fears regarding the reading and repeating of revolutionary scripts existed not only the political, but also the literary sphere during the Second Empire (1852-1870). The chapter then considers the political effects of this discourse upon the Paris Commune of 1871 and how it directly influenced the day-to-day decisions and actions of the Communards. Together, these analyses strongly suggest that the post-1848 discourse of revolutionary mimicry served to de-legitimize unambiguously positive or romantic conceptions of "revolution," ultimately shaping how nineteenth-century revolutions were not only represented and judged, but also how they were actually performed. 11"Une Révolution Vraiment Scientifique": Russian Terrorism, the Escape from the European Orbit, and the Invention of a New Revolutionary Paradigm chapter abstractFor the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia, terrorism, or the "terrorist revolution," came to trump the revolutionary script that had been received from the West over the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This chapter explains when and why this exchange happened, as well as what made it thinkable. In doing so, the chapter places a special emphasis on the various ways the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia understood history and historical time. The chapter first traces the history of the idea of revolution in Russia, then analyzesthe emergence of the "terrorist revolution" in a set of political proclamations and manifestos from the mid to late nineteenth century, and ends with some conclusions about the ways in which terrorism allowed Russians to theorize an escape from the European revolutionary paradigm. 12Scripting the Russian Revolution chapter abstractThe Russian Revolution witnessed competing and overlapping scripts that contained fundamentally divergent projections of revolutionary change. This chapter outlines the main scripts within the liberal, moderate socialist, extreme left, national, and popular traditions. Historians usually prioritize intellectuals and their visions as driving the agenda of the Russian revolution. It is clear, however, that it was the radical consequences of the people's program of, for example, land distribution from below that pushed Russian politics to the far left, affecting each of the major scripts. It was precisely a peculiar intersection of peasant aspirations and extreme left discourse that produced a triumphant Bolshevik outcome. This hybrid script was riddled with contradictions that isolated and undermined Soviet communism. 13You Say You Want a Revolution: Revolutionary and Reformist Scripts in China, 1894-2014 chapter abstractChinese reformers and revolutionaries have long looked for inspiration to various parts of the world, as well as to China's own past, when carving out positions and seeking support for their stance on how the country needed to and could be best changed. Focusing particular on two periods, around the turn of the last two centuries, this chapter compares and contrasts such things as the significance that Japan's Meiji Restoration and the American and French events of 1776 and 1789, respectively, had for reformers, who sought to maintain some kind of imperial system, and revolutionaries, who sought to establish a republic in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Similarities but also differences between the reform vs. revolution debate then and that of recent decades are also discussed. 14Mao's Little Red Book: The Spiritual Atom Bomb and Its Global Fallout chapter abstractThis chapter explores the metaphor of Mao Zedong Thought as a "spiritual atom bomb," an idea expressed in Lin Biao's famous foreword to the Little Red Book (Quotations from Chairman Mao). By relating this metaphor to other concepts found in the Little Red Book, the chapter argues that Maoism was an expression of and a response to existential anxieties of the atomic age. The discussion proceeds from an exegesis of "The Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains" to the role of voluntarism in the strategy and tactics of people's war; explains the weaponization of ideology and Cultural Revolution ideal of spiritual fission, or the struggle against one's own subjectivity; addresses Maoist denigration of the physical atom bomb as a "paper tiger"; and presents Mao's alternative view of postcolonial global power in the Theory of Three Worlds. 15The Reel, Real and Hyper-Real Revolution: Scripts and Counter-Scripts in Cuban Documentary Film chapter abstractFocused on the work of the black Communist filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s, this chapter argues that the Cuban government interpreted visual, racial and cultural critiques of revolutionary policies as endangering both national security and citizens' trust in the absolute victory of the Revolution over the past. Charged with documenting change and narrating national progress, Guillén Landrián broke with standard techniques meant to guide viewers' understanding of lived reality through "hyper-real" (that is, bigger-and-better-than-life) representations of events by refusing to engage in state-generated scripts, especially the formulaic stories and formats typical of the government-controlled media. For his boldness, Guillén Landrían suffered imprisonment, forced labor and ultimately electro-shock treatments meant to nullify his ability to challenge or disrupt oficial metanarratives, especially those authored by "Commander-in-Chief" Fidel Castro. 16Writing on the Wall: 1968 as Event and Representation chapter abstractThe global upheaval of the Sixties marked a significant transition in scripts of revolution, for which 1968 was both a pivotal year and a trenchant symbol. Contemporaneous consideration of the category of "event" itself, notably by French critical thinkers, emphasized the open-ended and anti-systematic qualities of happenings that year. Since then, endless debate on the multiple meanings and experiences of "1968" has confirmed its representational plurality. Together, reflection on the events and representations of 1968 helps us understand the historic shift from an earlier monolithic notion of violent revolution to new models of pluralistic non-revolutionary social contestation. 17Scripting a Revolution: Fate or Fortuna in the 1979 Revolution in Iran chapter abstractWas the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran part of a divine script, mandated in heaven? Was it a foreign conspiracy by Britain, US, Communists, Seven Sisters? All of the above? Was the Shah's indecision, or his cancer the cause of his downfall? Was the 1979 revolution inevitable, and if so, was Ayatollah Khomeini's eventual hegemony no less unavoidable? "Scripting a Revolution: Fate or Fortuna in the 1979 Revolution in Iran" offers a critical sketch of these scenarios while attempting to map out the endogenous and exogenous factors that contributed to the "perfect storm" that was the revolution of 1979 – as much the result of mangled social engineering as the unintended consequence of utopian ideologies. 18The Multiple Scripts of the Arab Revolutions chapter abstractThis chapter examines the scripts of the Arab revolutions. It argues that, unlike many previous revolutionary movements where ideological debates occurredwithina largely shared revolutionary worldview, such debates during the so-called Arab Spring occurredbetweendifferent revolutionary groups over contradictory visions of the future political system. The chapter then examines the Egyptian and Yemeni revolutions and argues that the different revolutionary groups – secularists, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Salafis – briefly set aside their ideological differences in order to achieve a common goal and overthrow the regime; but, once this was achieved, the fissures between them led to continuing conflict. Finally, the chapter considers how, despite these contradictions and conflicts, the failure for any single revolutionary group to claim revolutionary authority over others may make it possible for genuine popular sovereignty to succeed inadvertently. Afterword: Afterword chapter abstractThe article returns to the themes raised by the editors in the Introduction, analyzing why social scientific approaches have generally prevailed over hermeneutic ones in the comparative study of revolutions. It summarizes the main contributions of the volume, raises questions about the nature of political "scripts," and speculates about various common factors in the "scripts" analyzed in the volume, including appeals to the emotions, the suspension of ordinary constitutional rules, and intellectuals as political actors.
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Stanford University Press The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in
Book SynopsisTrade Review"While encompassing institutional and social history of the Republican Revolution in China, Zheng successfully breaks new ground by conceptualizing the era's political activism—its struggles and passions—around rights, law, and most of all, constitutionalism. This is the story of the birth of modern politics in China, whose historical messages remain valuable to the present day." -- Prasenjit Duara * Duke University *"A major contribution to the historiography of the 1911 Revolution, this book illuminates the events leading to the birth of the Chinese republic in a context wherein the propagation of new ideas prepared both elites and commoners to turn against the Qing government. Zheng depicts, in vivid and compelling detail, the constitutional movement and the 1911 Revolution in Sichuan, without losing sight of nationwide developments." -- Li Huaiyin * University of Texas at Austin *"In this powerful, original analysis, Xiaowei Zheng traces the genealogy of 'constitutionalism' and the transformation of elite consciousness in the last decades of the Qing dynasty. She analyzes both political culture and electoral politics and skillfully tacks between local and national levels. This is the best book on the 1911 Revolution to appear in many years, and it will be the point of departure for all future research on the subject." -- Matthew Sommer * Stanford University *"This study offers an important new framework for understanding China's 1911 Revolution by bringing intellectual change to the fore as the most decisive factor in creating the conditions for revolution." -- Edward McCord * China Review International *"The Chinese Revolution of 1911 toppled the Qing dynasty and established a republic. In this thoughtful, well-written work, Zheng argues that the revolution ushered in a new political culture of respect for the equality and rights of citizens, formed in response to the imperialist threat to the nation." -- K.E. Stapleton * Choice *"The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China should be mandatory reading for all scholars of twentieth- and twenty-first-century China." -- Peter J. Carroll * Twentieth-Century China *"[A] considerable accomplishment in this impressive book....The repeated failures to establish the requisite political and institutional structures to successfully translate the emergence of this potent force into genuine, orderly, and meaningful political participation of the Chinese people in the management of their own country is, indeed, the tragedy of the Chinese revolution." -- Michael Tsin * American Historical Review *"The Politics of Rights and the 1911 Revolution in China is worth the attention of every student of modern China." -- Peter Zarrow * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction: The Political Transformation of 1911 chapter abstractThe rereads the events of 1911 and introduces my key research question. In addition, it asserts the innovativeness of the methodology, the sources, and the lens used in this book. 1Sichuan and the Old Regime chapter abstractChapter One articulates the old regime and its collaborative model between the elite and the state in Sichuan. A rich and self-sufficient region, Sichuan was only fully incorporated into the Qing Empire in the 1850s. Soon after, the collaborative model between the elite and the state was called into question as population growth, foreign invasions, and various new tasks a strained Qing central government had to fulfill generated enormous tension in local society, eroding the established power configurations and destabilizing the old regime. 2The Ideas of Revolution: Equality, the People's Rights , and Popular Sovereignty chapter abstractChapter Two examines the most formative intellectual influences on the Sichuan constitutionalists. Like their cohorts from other provinces, the Sichuan constitutionalists took Liang Qichao as their spiritual leader. Most of them had studied at Hosei University in Japan, where they were also heavily influenced by the French legal tradition, especially its key concepts of rights, equality, and popular sovereignty. Their exposure to radical political thought while studying in Japan, in addition to reinforcing a tradition of elite activism, created a Chinese constitutionalism that was full of contradictions: while claiming to represent the people, these constitutionalists were at the same time the most aggressive agents in imposing state-building projects on local communities. Missing from their thinking was an understanding of the virtues of "limited government." 3The Project: The Chuan-Han Railway Company and the New Policies Reform chapter abstractChapters Three identifies and examines the economic background of the Sichuan constitutionalists and the implication of "rights" in the economic sphere. Acting on the rhetoric of rights, the constitutionalists of Sichuan took over the Chuan-Han Railway Company, but ended up exacting more taxation from Sichuan's people . 4Can Two Sides Walk Together Without Agreeing to Meet? Constitutionalists and Officials in the Late Qing Constitutional Reform chapter abstractChapters Four identifies and examines the political orientation of the Sichuan constitutionalists. Legitimized by the late-Qing constitutional reform and using the same rhetoric of rights, these constitutionalists strove to be the true power holders of the newly enhanced state. Via the Sichuan Provincial Assembly, they obtained both a political reputation that was unmatched by any other group and a solid organizational foundation.. 5The Rhetoric of Revolution: the Rights of the Nation, Constitutionalism, and the Rights of the People chapter abstractChapter Five scrutinizes the rhetoric created by the Sichuan constitutionalists as they took their struggle to the streets. By deploying political concepts like the rights of the nation, constitutionalism, and the rights of the people, and by creating a common purpose "to protect the railway and break the treaty," the movement leaders drew ordinary people into collective action. Combining a new political repertoire with old cultural symbols, they effectively mobilized people from different walks of life against powerful opponents. 6The Practice of Revolution: Organization, Mobilization, and Radicalization chapter abstractChapter Six analyzes the mechanisms by which the Railway Protection movement spread beyond the provincial capital and throughout the entire province. Unlike in most other provinces, in which the 1911 Revolution took place in the cities and happened in a matter of days, the movement in Sichuan involved tens of thousands of people throughout the province and spanned more than six months. How was solidarity created within the movement? What were the social networks and cultural symbols of the movement? 7The Expansion and Division of Revolution: Democratic Political Culture in Action chapter abstractChapter Seven chronicles the expansion and division of the revolution. During the revolution, the newly crafted political culture with rights at its core was practiced by a large group of activists; this lent the revolution strength and legitimacy. 8The End of Revolution: the Rise of Republicanism the Failure of Constitutionalism chapter abstractChapter Eight explores the end of the revolution. In Sichuan, the emergence of popular sovereignty as a new source of power created opportunities for nonactivists to join the revolution and control its politics. This chapter suggests that it was precisely the valorization of the people and the public opinion that prevented the creation of a stable constitutional order. Conclusion: The Legacy of the 1911 Revolution chapter abstractThe Conclusion evaluates the long-term impact of the revolution. Marking the rise of a new political consciousness, thousands of men and women gained firsthand experience in the public arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways; they voted, protested, and joined political parties. After 1911, the old, imperial political culture was abandoned in favor of a popular republicanism in which elected assemblymen, students, intellectuals, and other members of society collaborated and competed in creating a new Chinese nation.
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MP-OKL Uni of Oklahoma The Garza War in South Texas
Book SynopsisIn the first detailed military history of the Garza War, Thomas Ty Smith reveals how an armed insurrection against a foreign government, conducted on American soil, drew the US Army into a uniquely complex conflict whose repercussions would be felt on both sides of the US-Mexico border for generations to come.Trade ReviewCol. Thomas T. “Ty” Smith has long been the premier historian of the old Army in Texas. With this new volume, he takes readers on a wild and delightful ride with the US military into the heart of the Garza War that engulfed South Texas from 1891 to 1893. This remarkable and exceptionally well researched volume is certain to captivate readers." - Jerry Thompson, author of Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas"Ty Smith presents another massive exposition of meticulously researched archives to unearth historical milestones of Texas history. As Smith concludes, the significance of this minor rebellion—initiated by one man—is that it ‘was the smoldering harbinger of a growing anti-Diaz resentment that burst into a full flame in 1910.’ It is no less than Smith’s homage to the Tejano families for the courage, ideology, and legacy of the Insurrectos." - AndrÉs Tijerina author of Tejanos and Texas Under the Mexican Flag, 1821–1836
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Northwestern University Press Cement European classics
Book SynopsisGleb, a soldier hero, returns from the revolution to a world in transition, as demonstrated by the reorganisation of the local cement factory for the massive national effort. A classic of socialist realism, Cement became a model for Soviet fiction in the decades following its publication in the early 1920s.Trade ReviewWritten with push and power, its action develops quickly and effectively, at times with real dramatic swing . . . Gladkov describes the life and customs of the Communist milieu with perfect realism and without idealization." —New York Times"The result is unnerving, fascinating, and in its unflinching way, magnificent. It is a fierce modern epic, born in troubled times, but it breathes with an immense energy." —Spectator
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University of Pennsylvania Press Rebellion and Savagery The Jacobite Rising of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Rebellion and Savagery brings forth a stimulating and persuasive argument that could well present an implicit corrective to late eighteenth-century British colonial history." * Canadian Journal of History *"An ambitious study, in line with recent demands for scholarly investigations which would chart the interrelations between the decline of Jacobitism and Britain's colonial project." * Journal of British Studies *"Historians surrendered the '45 to romance novelists and tourists long ago. Plank has rescued it from their clutches and given cause for us to reevaluate its significance, for both the eighteenth-century British empire and the problems that plague our own time." * H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. THE RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS Chapter 1. Rebellion: Criminal Prosecution and the Jacobite Soldiers Chapter 2. Savagery: Military Execution and the Inhabitants of the Highlands Chapter 3. The 1745 Crisis in the Empire PART II. CUMBERLAND'S ARMY AND THE WORLD Chapter 4. Cumberland's Army in Scotland Chapter 5. Cumberland's Army in the Mediterranean Chapter 6. Cumberland's Army in North America Epilogue: Cumberland's Death and the End of the Officers' Careers Notes Index Acknowledgments
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MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida The Iranian Revolution
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MP-VIR Uni of Virginia Rumors of Revolution
Book SynopsisAnalyses documented observations made in Paris and in New Orleans about the exercise of royal power over French subjects and colonial Louisiana stories that laid bare the arbitrary powers and abuses that the government could exert on its people against their will.Trade Review“Clearly and concisely executed, Rumors of Revolution makes an important contribution to the study of French writing about the Louisiana colony in the 1700s. There has not been a book like this published for more than fifty years.” - Gordon Sayre, University of Oregon, co-editor of The Memoir of Lieutenant DumontTable of Contents Introduction 1. The Regent's Seduction 2. Enlightenment Travelers: Scientific Description as a Critique of Monarchy 3. Louisiana Finds Its Voice: The Revolt of 1768 4. The Sentimental Aftermath of the Revolt 5. In the Age of Revolutions Conclusion
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New York University Press Renegade Revolutionary The Life of General
Book SynopsisIn November 1774, a pamphlet to the "People of America" was published in Philadelphia and London. It forcefully articulated American rights and liberties and argued that the Americans needed to declare their independence from Britain. This book features a portrait of one of the most complex and controversial of the American revolutionaries.Trade Review"Mr. Papas argues that Lee's contributions to the winning of American independence, both as a propagandist and as a soldier, deserve recognition . . . [a] soundly researched and readable book that can be recommended." * Wall Street Journal *"Renegade Revolutionary is a revisionist book which corrects historical misimpressions of Charles Lee as bizarre, opinionated, abrupt, and morose to the neglect of his erudition, intellectual courage, social radicalism, and capacity for military professionalism. But it is revisionism with a light touch. Almost every paragraph exhibits the author's determination to understand and explore Lee's characterincluding his bipolar mood swingsand to respect the readers' curiosity and capacity for balanced judgment. Alternately calling his subject 'Charles' when presenting instances of his complex humanity and 'Lee' when reporting objective fact, Phillip Papas strikes the kind of balance that Charles Lee unsuccessfully sought to exhibit to his contemporariesespecially the American people whose Revolution mattered more to him that personal vindication that he knew he could do little to garner." -- Robert M. Calhoon,author of Political Moderation in America's First Two Centuries"Did General Charles Lee or General George Washington have the right strategy to win the Revolutionary War? Readers may end up debating the question with the passion that divided the Americans of 1776. But this much is certain. With deft touches and shrewd insights, Phillip Papas has restored to vivid life a major figure in Americas past." -- Thomas Fleming,author of Liberty! The American Revolution"In this beautifully written biography of General Charles Lee, Papas has rescued a fascinating and important figure from the sidelines of American Revolutionary history and given him the centrality he deserves. Papas draws a compelling portrait of a complex and contradictory 18th century man: an aristocrat more democratic than most native born revolutionaries; a humanist more comfortable with his dogs than with people; and a feminist in a patriarchal world. Charles Lee emerges from these pages as one of the few men bold enough to challenge George Washington's judgment and one of the most articulate visionaries of the future that was possible for America." -- Carol Berkin,Presidential Professor of History, Emerita, Baruch College & The Graduate Center, CUNY"InRenegade Revolutionary, Phillip Papas, in hopes of resuscitating Lee and situating him alongside more celebrated English immigrant, Thomas Paine, provides a sympathetic and nuanced context for Lees role in the Revolutionary War. He creates a full portrait of the man who failed to win the hearts of the revolutionaries." * American Historical Review *"While admitting Lees faults, the author rehabilitates the much-maligned general and shows that in many ways he was ahead of his time, advocating for independence much earlier than most leaders and recognizing that the war could not be won with traditional European tactics unsuited to American conditions. Thoroughly researched and documented." * Choice *"Papas does an exceptional job portraying this complicated personality, mostly through the correspondence of those who knew him. But far from being limited in scope, Renegade Revolutionaryoffers a vivid insight into the politics and strategies of the American Revolution. Whether readers finish feeling Lee was more scapegoat than scoundrel, they will feel it was worth the journey of discovery." * Journal of America's Military Past *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments IntroductionPart I: The World of Charles Lee, 1731-1764 1. Colonel Lee's Son 2. Early Encounters and Life Lessons on the American Frontier 3. An Ambitious OfficerPart II: The Last Asylum of Liberty, 1765-1775 4. Absolute Power Is a Serpent 5. The Brutality of Love and War 6. The Greatest Son of Liberty in America 7. The Dogs of WarPart III: Unfortunate Son of Liberty, 1776-1778 8. The Key to the Continent: New York 9. Angels of Indecision: Virginia 10. Lee's Southern Glory 11. Lee's Northern Disillusionment 12. The Idol of the Officers 13. The King's Famous PrisonerPart IV: The End of a Soldier's Life, 1778-1782 14. Monmouth 15. Washington's Scapegoat? 16. The Bitter EndNotesBibliographyIndexAbout the Author
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University of Arizona Press U.S. Central Americans
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University of Minnesota Press 1989 Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals
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University of Georgia Press Revolting New York How 400 Years of Riot
Book SynopsisFrom the earliest European colonization to the present, New Yorkers have been revolting. Hard hitting, revealing, and insightful, Revolting New York tells the story of New York’s evolution through revolution, a story of near-continuous popular (and sometimes not-so-popular) uprising.Trade ReviewLike a woke dog zapped by an invisible electric barrier whenever it tries to leave the yard, I now recognize the real reason I can’t escape this place. Revolting New York is an electrifying compendium of tales of four centuries of the energetic insubordination that is so completely foundational to our character. While the causes and constituencies have varied all over our map, the constant has been taking to the streets, fomenting an unending festival of resistance. I couldn’t be prouder than to discover that my homes downtown have been at uprising’s very epicenter. You can’t scare me; I’m sticking to the Union Square!"- Michael Sorkin, author of What Goes Up: The Rights and Wrongs of the City"Revolting New York takes you on a whirlwind tour of Indian wars, riots, slave revolts, strikes, protests, and police rampages, from Dutch New Amsterdam to Occupy Wall Street. The sheer number and ferocity of past disorders, and the strangeness of so many of them, will leave you seeing the history of New York as you never did before."- Joshua B. Freeman, author of Working-Class New York: Life and Labor Since World War II"Urban unrest, observed Alain Locke after the Harlem Riots of 1935, is like ‘a revealing flash of lightning’ that illuminates larger dynamics. Using this insight as premise and guide, Revolting New York reveals how the entire social history of the city can be narrated through those frequent moments, over the past four centuries, when the tensions of urban life, and the violence of inequality, have boiled over in its streets. This volume’s creators, led by two of our foremost urban geographers, show that you can’t understand social change or urban history without examining the ‘flashpoints’ through which the city is fought for—and sometimes even won—by people desirous of a life here that’s not revolting at all."- Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, coeditor of Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas
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Ohio University Press Civil War Congress and the Creation of Modern
Book SynopsisDrawn from a wide range of historical expertise and approaching the topic from a variety of angles, these essays explore the changes in life at home during the Civil War that led to a revolution in American society and set the stage for the making of modern America.Trade Review“Illustrations and footnotes abound in this slender yet excellent volume. This work is part of the Ohio University Press’s ‘Perspectives on the History of Congress, 1801–1877’ series, which is currently a seven-volume series that examines the U.S. Congress during the antebellum and Civil War eras. It rightly reminds us how the Civil War remains to this day the foremost event in U.S. history. Its essays specifically illustrate how the war brought forth a revolution in the size and scope of America’s national government that, along with a consequential change in culture and society, still resonates into the 21st century.” * Civil War News *“A refreshing, nuanced take on a topic that has rarely received sustained attention. The book is well suited for public historians, as well as graduate students who are studying the specific topic of Congress and the Civil War and the impact of congressional legislation.” * H-Net Reviews *
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University of Pittsburgh Press Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patocka to Havel The
Book SynopsisAviezer Tucker examines how the political philosophy of Jan Patocka (1907-1977), founder of Charter 77, influenced the thinking and political leadership of Vaclav Havel as dissident and president.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Intimate Enemies
Book SynopsisIntimate Enemies examines the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leading up to Stalin's seizure of power.
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University of Pittsburgh Press Overtaken by the Night
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Fordham University Press Now What Quandaries of Art and the Radical Past
Book SynopsisA profound and affecting meditation on art and revolutionTable of ContentsIntroduction: Being Afterward | 1 1 Lupe at the Mic After January 1959, Havana, Cuba, in Tatlin’s Whisper #6 | 11 2 The Tenuous Moonlight of an Unrequited Past After September 11, 1973, Santiago de Chile, in The Battle of Chile, Chile: Obstinate Memory, and Nostalgia for the Light | 35 3 Something That Opens a Wish and Closes a Door After December 1989, Romania, in Videograms of a Revolution, Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu, and 12:08 East of Bucharest | 63 4 Whoever Knows the Truth Lies After October 1977, West Germany, in Germany in Autumn and October 18, 1977 | 123 Conclusion: The Undersong of Our Histories | 161 Acknowledgments | 183 Notes | 185
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MP-NMX Uni of New Mexico Remembering a Massacre in El Salvador The
Book SynopsisIn January 1932, thousands of peasants in western El Salvador rose up in armed rebellion. In response, the army and paramilitary killed thousands of citizens, most of them innocent of any involvement in the rebellion. This work examines national and international historical memories of these events and the factors that determined those memories.
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University of Tennessee Press Making Haiti
Book SynopsisIn 1789 the French colony of Saint Domingue was the wealthiest and most flourishing of the Caribbean slave colonies. The slave revolt of 1791 set in motion the colony's struggle for independence as Haiti. Carolyn Fick argues that the slaves were the principal architects both of their own freedom and of the successful movement toward independence.
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East European Monographs Remember Hungary in 1956 Essays on the Hungarian
Book SynopsisConsisting of five essays examining the American portrayal of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, this title examines depictions in the New York Times, history, textbooks, fiction, prose, art, and memoirs of diplomats.
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Johns Hopkins University Press Respectable Folly
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1975. The French Revolution generated a wave of popular piety and religious excitement in both France and England, where millenariansprophets of the millenniumattempted to interpret the Revolution as the fulfillment of the predictions of Daniel and St. John the Divine. This study discusses the millenarian ideal in the context of the intellectual and religious attitudes of the time. Rejecting interpretations of millenarianism that chalk it up to class struggle or mass hysteria, Garrett stresses the interaction between politics and religion, viewing the phenomenon as the interpretation, by a varied assortment of individuals, of coincident political events in eschatological terms. Faced with a change as significant as the French Revolution, people found in the prophetic books of the Bible an understanding of what was happening to them. If the Revolution was God's will, if its development had been foretold, then surely the final outcome would be beneficial, at leastTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction. Historians and the MillenniumChapter 1. Millenarian Currents in Eighteenth-Century FranceChapter 2. A Prophetess in PerigordChapter 3. A Respectable FollyChapter 4. The Popular Piety of Catherine TheotChapter 5. The Mystical InternationalChapter 6. The Millenarian Tradition in English DissentChapter 7. The Land of the Learned PigChapter 8. A Methodical MadnessChapter 9. Brothers, Southcott, and the "Chiliasm of Despair"ConclusionIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Ultraroyalism in Toulouse
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1973. Ultraroyalism in Toulouse examines in detail the origins of ultraroyal hostility to the social and political changes rendered by the French Revolution. France has produced a variety of theories of decline, corresponding to the nation's changing political fortunes in Europe and the world. The Revolution represented another, at least temporary, victory of the state apparatus over local community and privilege, and it stimulated the longing, apparent in all parts of the country after the fall of Napoleon, for a return to older forms of society and government that were essentially provincial and rural. The stevedores of Marseille, the fisherman of Brittany, and the peasants of the Auvergne saw plainly enough that the Revolution had not solved the problems of poverty and economic distress. Like the nobles, the ex-parlementarians, and the descendants of local oligarchies, they were hostile to the ascendancy of Paris. On all levels of French society were those whTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Sketch-map of Restoration Toulouse Introduction Chapter 1. Lous Seignous Chapter 2. The Revolution: Sans Religiou Chapter 3. From Bonaparte to the Bourbons Chapter 4. Restoration Toulouse and the Ultras Chapter 5. Local Government and the Ultras Chapter 6. Law, Order, and the Ultras in Toulouse, 1815-1830 Chapter 7. The Ulba Mind Chapter 8. The July Revolution and Legitimism in Toulouse Appendices Bibliography Index
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University of Toronto Press Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799
Book SynopsisDeeply influenced by Enlightenment writers from Naples and France, Vincenzo Cuoco (1770–1823) was forced into exile for his involvement in the failed Neapolitan revolution of 1799. Living in Milan, he wrote what became one of the nineteenth century’s most important treatises on political revolution.In his Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799, Cuoco synthesized the work of Machiavelli, Vico, and Enlightenment philosophers to offer an explanation for why and how revolutions succeed or fail. A major influence on political thought during the unification of Italy, the Historical Essay was also an inspiration to twentieth-century thinkers such as Benedetto Croce and Antonio Gramsci.This critical edition, featuring an authoritative translation, introduction, and annotations, finally makes Cuoco’s work fully accessible to an English-speaking audience.Trade Review'Thanks to this edition of the Historical Essay on the Neopolitan Revolution of 1799... English-speaking readers finally have access to a lynchpin of the great history of Italian political thought.' -- Danilo Breschi European History Quarterly vol 47:01:2017Table of ContentsIntroduction: Vincenzo Cuoco and the Nature of Revolution and Constitutionalism (by Bruce Haddock and Filippo Sabetti) Principal Events in Vincenzo Cuoco's Life Translator's Note: The Words and Structures of Cuoco's Revolution (by David Gibbons) Maps Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799 Appendix 1: Fragments of Letters Written by Vincenzo Cuoco to Vincenzio Russo Appendix 2: Neapolitan Patriots Who Died on the Scaffold
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Romanticism and Revolution
Book SynopsisRomanticism and Revolution: A Readerpresents an anthology of the key texts that both defined the debate over the French Revolution during the 1790s and influenced the Romantic authors. Presents readings chronologically to allow readers to experience the unfolding of the debate as it occurred in the 1790s Provides anaccessible and in-depth sampling of the major contributors to the Revolution debate, from Price, Burke, and Paine to Wollstonecraft and Godwin Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements. A Note on the Texts. Introduction. 1. Richard Price, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country. [What has the love of their country hitherto been among mankind?] [A narrower interest must give way to a more extensive interest]. [Every degree of illumination … hastens the overthrow of priestcraft and tyranny]. [The principles of the Revolution]. [Be encouraged, all ye friends of freedom and writers in its defence!] 2. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London relative to That Event. [All the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction]. [The public declaration of a man much connected with literary caballers]. [The two principles of conservation and correction]. [The very idea of the fabrication of a new government, is enough to fill us with disgust and horror]. [Our liberties, as an entailed inheritance derived to us from our forefathers]. [Their blow was aimed at an hand holding out graces, favours, and immunities]. [A profligate disregard of a dignity which they partake with others]. [The real rights of men]. [But the age of chivalry is gone. – That of sophisters, oeconomists, and calculators, has succeeded]. [The real tragedy of this triumphal day]. [We have not … lost the generosity and dignity of thinking of the fourteenth century]. [Society is indeed a contract]. [The political Men of Letters]. [We do not draw the moral lessons we might from history]. [By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little]. [Old establishments … are the results of various necessities and expediencies]. [Some popular general … shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself]. 3. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke. Advertisement. [I have not yet learned to twist my periods, nor … to disguise my sentiments]. [I perceive … that you have a mortal antipathy to reason]. [The champion of property, the adorer of the golden image which power has set up]. [Misery, to reach your heart, I perceive, must have its cap and bells]. [In reprobating Dr. Price's opinions you might have spared the man]. [The younger children have been sacrificed to the eldest son]. [The respect paid to rank and fortune damps every generous purpose of the soul]. [The spirit of romance and chivalry is in the wane; and reason will gain by its extinction]. [Reason at second-hand]. [This fear of God makes me reverence myself]. [The cold arguments of reason, that give no sex to virtue]. [What were the outrages of a day to these continual miseries?]. 4. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. [The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave]. [Mr. Burke has set up a sort of political Adam, in whom all posterity are bound for ever]. [Mr. Burke does not attend to the distinction between men and principles]. [The Quixote age of chivalry nonsense is gone]. [Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity]. [We are now got at the origin of man, and at the origin of his rights]. [The natural rights of man … the civil rights of man]. [Governments must have arisen, either out of the people, or over the people]. [Titles are but nick-names … a sort of foppery in the human character which degrades it]. [Toleration is not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it]. [The church with the state, a sort of mule animal]. Miscellaneous Chapter. Conclusion. [In mixed Governments there is no responsibility]. [The Revolutions of America and France, are a renovation of the natural order of things]. [It is an age of Revolutions, in which every thing may be looked for]. 5. Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. To M. Talleyrand-Périgord, Late Bishop of Autun. [The prevailing notion respecting a sexual character was subversive of morality]. Introduction. [I shall disdain to cull my phrases or polish my style]. Chap. II The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed. [The grand end of their exertions should be to unfold their own faculties]. [To endeavour to reason love out of the world, would be to out Quixote Cervantes]. [Surely she has not an immortal soul who can loiter life away]. Chap. III The Same Subject Continued. [It is time to effect a revolution in female manners]. Chap. IV Observations on the State of Degradation to Which Woman Is Reduced by Various Causes. [Their senses are inflamed, and their understandings neglected]. Chap. V Animadversions on Some of the Writers Who Have Rendered Women Objects of Pity, Bordering on Contempt – Sect. i [Rousseau]. [Is it surprising that some of them hug their chains, and fawn like the spaniel?]. [Let us then … arrive at perfection of body]. Sect. ii [Dr. Fordyce's sermons]. [Why are girls to be told that they resemble angels; but to sink them below women?]. Chap. VI The Effect Which an Early Association of Ideas Has upon the Character. Chap. VII Modesty. – Comprehensively Considered, and Not as a Sexual Virtue. [Those women who have most improved their reason must have the most modesty]. Chap. VIII Morality Undermined by Sexual Notions of the Importance of a Good Reputation. [If the honour of a woman … is safe, she may neglect every social duty]. [The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other]. Chap. IX Of the Pernicious Effects Which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society. [How can a being be generous who has nothing of its own? or virtuous, who is not free? [I really think that women ought to have representatives]. Chap. X Parental Affection. Chap. XI Duty to Parents. [They are prepared for the slavery of marriage]. Chap. XII On National Education. [Morality, polluted in the national reservoir, sends off streams of vice]. Chap. XIII Some Instances of the Folly Which the Ignorance of Women Generates; with Concluding Reflections on the Moral Improvement That a Revolution in Female Manners Might Naturally Be Expected to Produce – Sect. ii. [Sentimental jargon]. Sect. vi [Women at present are by ignorance rendered foolish or vicious]. [Let woman share the rights and she will emulate the virtues of man]. 6. Thomas Paine, Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. Preface. Introduction. Chap. I Of Society and Civilization. Chap. II Of the Origin of the Present Old Governments. Chap. III Of the Old and New Systems of Government. [Republicanism]. [Monarchy … is a scene of perpetual court cabal and intrigue]. Chap. IV Of Constitutions. [Government … has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties]. [The bill of rights is more properly a bill of wrongs]. [The sepulchre of precedents]. [Europe may form but one great Republic]. Chap. V Ways and Means of Improving the Condition of Europe, Interspersed with Miscellaneous Observations. [I have been an advocate for commerce, because I am a friend to its effects]. [When … we see age going to the workhouse and youth to the gallows, something must be wrong in the system of government]. [The aristocracy are … the drones, a seraglio of males]. [The plan is easy in practice]. [Active and passive revolutions]. [In what light religion appears to me]. [What pace the political summer may keep with the natural, no human foresight can determine]. 7. William Godwin, An Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness. Preface. Book I Of the Importance of Political Institutions – Chap. i Introduction. Chap. ii History of Political Society. Chap. iv Three Principal Causes of Moral Improvement Considered – I. Literature. [Truth … must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind]. II. Education. III. Political Justice. Chap. vi Human Inventions Capable of Perpetual Improvement. [Let us not look back]. Book II Principles of Society – Chap. i Introduction. Chap. ii Of Justice. Chap. iv Of the Equality of Mankind. Chap. v Rights of Man. [The impossibility by any compulsatory method of bringing men to uniformity of opinion]. Chap. vi Of the Exercise of Private Judgment. [Punishment inevitably excites in the sufferer … a sense of injustice]. Book III – Chap. vii Of Forms of Government. Book IV Miscellaneous Principles – Chap. ii Of Revolutions – Section I. Duties of a Citizen Section II. Mode of Effecting Revolutions. Section III. Of Political Associations. [There is at present in the world a cold reserve that keeps man at a distance from man]. Section IV. Of the Species of Reform to Be Desired. Chap. iv Of the Cultivation of Truth – Section II. Of Sincerity. [A gradation in discovery and a progress in the improvement, which do not need to be assisted by the stratagems of their votaries]. Chap. v Of Free Will and Necessity. [Mind is a topic of science]. [That in which the mind exercises its freedom, must be an act of the mind]. [So far as we act with liberty … our conduct is as independent of morality as it is of reason]. Book V Of Legislative and Executive Power – Chap. xiii Of the Aristocratical Character. [The principle of aristocracy is founded in the extreme inequality of conditions]. [Is it sedition to enquire whether this state of things may not be exchanged for a better?]. Book VI Of Opinion Considered as a Subject of Political Institution – Chap. i General Effects of the Political Superintendence of Opinion. Book VII Of Crimes and Punishments – Chap. i Limitations of the Doctrine of Punishment Which Result from the Principles of Morality. [The abstract congruity of crime and punishment]. Book VIII Of Property – Chap. vii Of the Objection to This System from the Principle of Population. 8. William Godwin, Enquiry concerning Political Justice, and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Preface to the Second Edition. [No man can more fervently deprecate scenes of commotion and tumult, than the author of this book]. Book VIII Of Property – Chap. viii Appendix. Of Cooperation, Cohabitation and Marriage. [Our judgement in favour of marriage]. Further Reading. Index.
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New York University Press The Traumatic Colonel
Book SynopsisInAmerican political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historicaland mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler andEd White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in thespecifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative elementsclustered around them. From the revolutionary era through the 1790s, the Founderstook shape as a significant cultural system for thinking about politics, race,and sexuality. Yet after 1800, amid the pressures of the Louisiana Purchase andthe Haitian Revolution, this system could no longer accommodate the deepanxieties about the United States as a slave nation.Drexlerand White assert that the most emblematic of the political tensions of the timeis the figure of Aaron Burr, whose rise and fall were detailed in theliterature of his time: his electoral tie with Thomas Jefferson in 1800,the accusations of sedTrade ReviewThe Traumatic Colonelis a significant and unique contribution to early US studies, deftly synthesizing the recent historiography on the political economy of slavery in the construction of the US hemispheric empire. Innovative and original, White and Drexler locate Aaron Burr as the symbolic pivot for the representations that emerge politically around the repression of slavery. -- Dana Nelson,author of Bad for DemocracyBy considering how both neglected and familiar literary materials 'propose an Africanist presence as the object cause of desire,' White and Drexler expand existing notions of the contours of early American studies. In so doing, they provocatively decode the ways in which the 'Founders' functioned as a system of structuring fictions for the nascent Republic. The Traumatic Colonelis one of the most innovative interventions into our sense of early US cultural development in quite some time. It will have a major impact on the field, and profoundly shape work written in its wake. -- Duncan Faherty,author of Remodeling the NationStudies of early America should be emboldened by Drexler and Whites attempt to approach questions of racial violence from such a refreshingly idiosyncratic angle. * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments xi Burrology-Extracts xiii Introduction 1 1 The Semiotics of the Founders 15 2 Hors Monde, or the Fantasy Structure of Republicanism 42 3 Female Quixotism and the Fantasy of Region 74 4 Burr's Formation, 1800-1804 102 5 Burr's Deployment, 1804-1807 135 Conclusion 168 Notes 181 Index 201 About the Authors 207
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University of Toronto Press Building That Bright Future
Book SynopsisBuilding that Bright Future examines letters and memoirs of Finnish North Americans to provide a rare glimpse of daily life in the 1930s from the edge of the Soviet Union.Trade Review"Saramo’s scrupulous respect for these hitherto buried voices has real value." -- Charlotte Gray * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsMap of Karelia Introduction 1. The Question of Karjala: Contextualizing the Karelian “Fever” 2. Our Comrades Are Leaving Again: Moving to Soviet Karelia 3. ... Of Course Not Like There: Karelian Living Conditions as Experienced by Finnish North Americans 4. The Golden Fund of Karelia: Childhood in Finnish North American Karelia 5. Isn’t It a Different Land, This Sickle and Hammer Land?: Working in Soviet Karelia 6. All Kinds of Hustle and Bustle: Social Life, Community Involvement, and Leisure 7. Karelia Is Soaked in the Blood of Innocent People: Writing about the Great Terror Conclusion Bibliography
£47.60
University of Toronto Press Giuseppe Mazzinis Young Europe and the Birth of
Book SynopsisThis book explores the influence of Young Europe an international alliance founded by Giuseppe Mazzini in 1834 on the Polish, Slovak, Czech, and Ukrainian intelligentsia in the first half of the nineteenth century.Trade Review"Anna Procyk’s monograph represents decades of thorough research, much of it archival. It demonstrates that Ukrainian intellectuals, while divided between the Russian and Austrian empires, cultivated strong ties with their Italian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Balkan counterparts. Its value, however, goes beyond its important contributions to our knowledge of modern Slavic nationalism. At a time when nationalism has degenerated into chauvinism and consequently fallen into disrepute, it reminds us that it in its original form, nationalism not only united those who shared an ethnic and linguistic heritage, but embraced all peoples seeking independence in fraternal equality." -- Andrew Sorokowski * The Ukrainian Weekly *"Procyk valuably draws our attention to a broad cast of characters little known beyond specialists of this subject. By placing them in a broad international context that extends beyond eastern Europe, Procyk helps to break down the intellectual boundaries that have long compartmentalized the study of individual east European nations, as well as the sharper divisions between west and east European history. In so doing, Procyk offers a model of transnational east European history well worth developing further." -- Jared Warren * H-Poland *"This is an absorbing history of the emergence of national consciousness and the desire for independence in the Slavic lands of the Russian and Austrian empires in the 1830s and 1840s. Anna Procyk provides a richly detailed account that involves fascinating characters of all sorts—émigré Polish militants, Greek Catholic priests, poets, conspiratorial organizations, and […] martyrs to the cause of national liberation." -- David G. Rowley, University of Wisconsin-Platteville * The Russian Review *"If one compares historical research to a jigsaw puzzle, Procyk’s study is a corner piece. In our field, many excellent studies are being published that enlighten us about the region’s past, its popular politicians, ignored intellectuals, and admired activists. Yet few studies deserve the predicate of ‘outstanding’ for their wide scope and scholarly depth. Procyk’s Mazzini is outstanding because the author convincingly explains how Young Europe activists contributed to the revolutionary activities after 1815, thereby preparing the Spring of Nations of 1848." -- Josette Baer, University of Zurich UZH * Slavic Review *"Based on documentary materials – which, along with correspondence and memoirs, also includes interrogations and court records – Anna Procyk sheds light on the leading figures of conspiratorial networks active on Galician soil, on both the Austrian and Russian side. She highlights the importance of women in the spread of revolutionary literature; these women came often from the ranks of the nobility and were particularly active in Polish conspiratorial networks." -- Marta Verginella * The American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Young Europe as an Idea: The Impact of Exile on the Revolutionary Thought of Giuseppe Mazzini 2. The Risorgimento and the Great Polish Emigration: A Pact Sealed in Heaven or a Marriage of Convenience? 3. Reception of Mazzini’s Ideas in East Central Europe 4. East Galicia: The Testing Ground of Young Europe’s Ideals 5. Young Poland’s Revolutionary Underground in Russian-Ruled Lands 6. Sprouts of Young Europe in Ukraine: The Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood 7. Young Europe: The Ideological Roots of "The Spring of Nations" in the Slavic World Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£47.60
University of Toronto Press Holding On and Holding Out
Book SynopsisStudying the diary as a genre, this book examines Jewish diary entries written in Occupied France.Trade Review“Her book is engrossing, emotional, and enlightening.” -- Ludivine Broch, University of Westminster * Central European History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Narratives of Identity Introduction: The Experience of Identification A Pronoun Tells Its Stories: "We" Stories of Performance The Slender Thread of Memory 2. The Place of the Self: Raymond-Raoul Lambert Introduction A Jew of France A Place in Books 3. Making It Last: Benjamin Schatzman Introduction I Am Unrecognisable Writing Making It Last 4. Narratives of Time Introduction: The Experience of Time An Adverb Tells Its Stories: "Already" Stories of Waiting i. Saül Castro’s Worry Beads ii. Jean Oppenheimer’s Tartine iii. The Posthumous Life of Hélène Berr Coda: The Self in History Endnote Appendix Bibliography
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University of Toronto Press Building That Bright Future
Book SynopsisIn the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers’ society. They were recruited by the Soviet leadership for their North American mechanical and lumber expertise, their familiarity with the socialist cause, and their Finnish language and ethnicity. By 1936, however, Finnish culture and language came under attack and ethnic Finns became the region’s primary targets in the Stalinist Great Terror. Building That Bright Future relies on the personal letters and memoirs of these Finnish migrants to build a history of everyday life during a transitional period for both North American socialism and Soviet policy. Highlighting the voices of men, women, and children, the book follows the migrants from North America to the Soviet Union, providing vivid descriptions of daily life. Samira Saramo brings readers into personal contact with Finnish North Americans aTrade Review"Saramo’s scrupulous respect for these hitherto buried voices has real value." -- Charlotte Gray * Literary Review of Canada *Table of ContentsMap of Karelia Introduction 1. The Question of Karjala: Contextualizing the Karelian “Fever” 2. Our Comrades Are Leaving Again: Moving to Soviet Karelia 3. ... Of Course Not Like There: Karelian Living Conditions as Experienced by Finnish North Americans 4. The Golden Fund of Karelia: Childhood in Finnish North American Karelia 5. Isn’t It a Different Land, This Sickle and Hammer Land?: Working in Soviet Karelia 6. All Kinds of Hustle and Bustle: Social Life, Community Involvement, and Leisure 7. Karelia Is Soaked in the Blood of Innocent People: Writing about the Great Terror Conclusion Bibliography
£20.69
University of Toronto Press Holding On and Holding Out
Book SynopsisStudying the diary as a genre, this book examines Jewish diary entries written in Occupied France.Trade Review“Her book is engrossing, emotional, and enlightening.” -- Ludivine Broch, University of Westminster * Central European History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction 1. Narratives of Identity Introduction: The Experience of Identification A Pronoun Tells Its Stories: "We" Stories of Performance The Slender Thread of Memory 2. The Place of the Self: Raymond-Raoul Lambert Introduction A Jew of France A Place in Books 3. Making It Last: Benjamin Schatzman Introduction I Am Unrecognisable Writing Making It Last 4. Narratives of Time Introduction: The Experience of Time An Adverb Tells Its Stories: "Already" Stories of Waiting i. Saül Castro’s Worry Beads ii. Jean Oppenheimer’s Tartine iii. The Posthumous Life of Hélène Berr Coda: The Self in History Endnote Appendix Bibliography
£24.29
University of Toronto Press Giuseppe Mazzinis Young Europe and the Birth of
Book SynopsisGiuseppe Mazzini’s Young Europe and the Birth of Modern Nationalism in the Slavic World examines the intellectual currents in Eastern Europe that attracted educated youth after the Polish Revolution of 18301. Focusing on the political ideas brought to the Slavic world from the West by Polish émigré conspirators, Anna Procyk explores the core message that the Polish revolutionaries carried, a message based on the democratic principles espoused by Young Europe’s founder, Giuseppe Mazzini. Based on archival sources as well as well-documented publications in Eastern Europe, this study highlights that the national awakening among the Czechs, Slovaks, and Galician Ukrainians was not just cultural, as is typically assumed, but political as well. The documentary sources testify that at its inception the political nationalism in Eastern Europe, founded on the humanistic ideals promoted by Mazzini, was republican-democratic in nature and that the clandestine grouTrade Review"This is an absorbing history of the emergence of national consciousness and the desire for independence in the Slavic lands of the Russian and Austrian empires in the 1830s and 1840s. Anna Procyk provides a richly detailed account that involves fascinating characters of all sorts—émigré Polish militants, Greek Catholic priests, poets, conspiratorial organizations, and […] martyrs to the cause of national liberation." -- David G. Rowley, University of Wisconsin-Platteville * The Russian Review *"Anna Procyk’s monograph represents decades of thorough research, much of it archival. It demonstrates that Ukrainian intellectuals, while divided between the Russian and Austrian empires, cultivated strong ties with their Italian, Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Balkan counterparts. Its value, however, goes beyond its important contributions to our knowledge of modern Slavic nationalism. At a time when nationalism has degenerated into chauvinism and consequently fallen into disrepute, it reminds us that it in its original form, nationalism not only united those who shared an ethnic and linguistic heritage, but embraced all peoples seeking independence in fraternal equality." -- Andrew Sorokowski * The Ukrainian Weekly *"Procyk valuably draws our attention to a broad cast of characters little known beyond specialists of this subject. By placing them in a broad international context that extends beyond eastern Europe, Procyk helps to break down the intellectual boundaries that have long compartmentalized the study of individual east European nations, as well as the sharper divisions between west and east European history. In so doing, Procyk offers a model of transnational east European history well worth developing further." -- Jared Warren * H-Poland *"If one compares historical research to a jigsaw puzzle, Procyk’s study is a corner piece. In our field, many excellent studies are being published that enlighten us about the region’s past, its popular politicians, ignored intellectuals, and admired activists. Yet few studies deserve the predicate of ‘outstanding’ for their wide scope and scholarly depth. Procyk’s Mazzini is outstanding because the author convincingly explains how Young Europe activists contributed to the revolutionary activities after 1815, thereby preparing the Spring of Nations of 1848." -- Josette Baer, University of Zurich UZH * Slavic Review *"Based on documentary materials – which, along with correspondence and memoirs, also includes interrogations and court records – Anna Procyk sheds light on the leading figures of conspiratorial networks active on Galician soil, on both the Austrian and Russian side. She highlights the importance of women in the spread of revolutionary literature; these women came often from the ranks of the nobility and were particularly active in Polish conspiratorial networks." -- Marta Verginella * The American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Young Europe as an Idea: The Impact of Exile on the Revolutionary Thought of Giuseppe Mazzini 2. The Risorgimento and the Great Polish Emigration: A Pact Sealed in Heaven or a Marriage of Convenience? 3. Reception of Mazzini’s Ideas in East Central Europe 4. East Galicia: The Testing Ground of Young Europe’s Ideals 5. Young Poland’s Revolutionary Underground in Russian-Ruled Lands 6. Sprouts of Young Europe in Ukraine: The Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood 7. Young Europe: The Ideological Roots of "The Spring of Nations" in the Slavic World Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£21.59
University of Toronto Press Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Volume 4
Book SynopsisThis set of four volumes is an indispensable reference work for the study of modern Russia in general and Soviet Communism in particular. Ever since its foundation on the eve of the twentieth century, the organization now called the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has been embodying its major policies in documents called 'resolutions and decisions.' These form a much more continuous and extensive record of the evolution of Soviet Communism than the writings of any single leader, and the standard Soviet anthology of these materials has gone through eight editions over a fifty-year period. Yet most of this essential material has been available only in Russian, and even in that language the standard editions have been marred by selectivity and editorial comment that is often politically motivated.At last students of modern Russian studies have access to a multi-volume work that not only presents the most important Communist Party resolutions and decisions in English, but als
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University of Nebraska Press Last Seasons in Havana
Book SynopsisExplores the intersection between Cuba and America's pastime from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, when Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. César Brioso takes the reader through the triumph of the revolution in 1959 and its impact on professional baseball in the seasons immediately following Castro's rise to power.Trade Review"Last Seasons in Havana is a much-needed addition to baseball history. . . . The complete history of Cuban baseball may never be known, but Brioso has cracked open the door with some valuable information and insights."—Bob D’Angelo, Sport in American History"Focusing on the final three seasons of the Cuban League (1958–61) and the final two seasons of the Havana Sugar Kings (1959–60), Last Seasons in Havana explores how Castro’s rise to power forever altered Cuba and the course of a sport that had become ingrained in the island’s culture over the course of almost a century."—Jason Schott, Brooklyn Fans"In the 1950's, baseball was at the height of its popularity in Cuba, in both terms of spectator attendance and the quality of baseball played. However, once Fidel Castro overthrew Fulgencio Batista and took control of the island's government, the fate of the sport changed. These changes which led to the end of the Cuban League and the presence of minor league baseball in Cuba are captured in this interesting book by Cesar Brioso."—Lance Smith, Guy Who Reviews Sports Books“A well-told history of the swan song of Cuban professional baseball, caught between two dictatorships, Batista’s and Castro’s.”—Roberto González Echevarría, author of The Pride of Havana and Cuban Fiestas“Tommy Lasorda, Carl Yastrzemski, Luis Tiant, and Fidel Castro are among the cast of characters in César Brioso’s rich account of the last days of the professional game in Havana. A must-read for baseball and history fans.”—Tim Wendel, author of Castro’s Curveball and Summer of ’68“Last Seasons in Havana is a well-researched examination of the Marxist sociopolitical upheaval that convulsed the island of Cuba in the early 1960s and altered baseball in the Caribbean for the remainder of the century.”—Lou Hernández, author of Manager of the Giants: The Tactics, Temper and True Record of John McGrawTable of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. The House That Bobby Built 2. Winds of Change 3. Golden Age 4. “This Was a Shipwreck” 5. Year of the Pitcher 6. New Year’s Revolution 7. Caribbean Spice 8. “Bullets Were Falling . . . Like Hailstones” 9. Title Town 10. Regarding Cienfuegos 11. The Last Series 12. International Tensions 13. The Last Season 14. Casualty of the Revolution Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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Cornell University Press Unfriendly to Liberty
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRevolutionary War historian and digital documentary editor Christopher F. Minty provides provocative and unexpected answers to these questions in his new monograph, Unfriendly to Liberty. Starting with the groundbreaking 1768 New York colonial elections, Minty recounts the next eight years of New York City's increasingly intense and polarized political environment. * Journal of the American Revolution *
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Cornell University Press Gideons Revolution
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