Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions Books

Book SynopsisOn February 21, 1803, Colonel Edward (Ned) Marcus Despard was publicly hanged and decapitated in London before a crowd of 20,000 for organizing a revolutionary conspiracy to overthrow King George III. His black Caribbean wife, Catherine (Kate), helped to write his gallows speech in which he proclaimed that he was a friend to the poor and oppressed. He expressed trust that the principles of freedom, of humanity, and of justice will triumph over falsehood, tyranny, and delusion. And yet the world turned. From the connected events of the American, French, Haitian, and failed Irish Revolutions, to the Anthropocene's birth amidst enclosures, war-making global capitalism, slave labor plantations, and factory machine production,Red Round Globe Hot Burningthrows readers intothepivotal moment of the last two millennia. This monumental history, packed with a wealth of detail, presents a comprehensive chronicle of the resistance to the demise of communal regimes. Peter Linebaugh's extraordinary Trade Review“Peter Linebaugh is acknowledged as a chronicler with a left-wing view. He is also described as a historian of genius. His book presents us with the facts, and what a glorious luxury that is. But of course we have a choice about which facts we want to examine, and he assiduously takes us up neglected side roads on a journey to America, England, Haiti, Honduras, Ireland and Nicaragua. And to prison. In Red Round Globe Hot Burning he invites us to benefit from his lifetime of reading and writing.” * Irish Times *“Offers unconventional biography and unconventional history. Linebaugh goes where biographers and historians are often taught not to go: to places where there are no archival records and where a writer has to be inventive and imaginative. . . . Few tomes are as much fun to read." * Counterpunch *"Red Round Globe Hot Burning is a disturbing and challenging book. It kept me awake and note-taking through a whole night. . . . Linebaugh’s exploration of the assault on the Commons and how our antecedents struggled to resist the depredations is an invaluable education." * International Socialism *"While it is nearly impossible to convey the flow of subjects embodied in Red Round Globe Hot Burning, the sweep of interracial history, the place of seemingly ordinary people in challenging the very basis of class society, will be understood better by those reading this worthy volume." * Truthout *“Peter Linebaugh has produced another masterful history ‘from below' . . . . In language that is sometimes visceral, imaginative and often sublimely eloquent he analyses the conditions in which people were living and working, making connections, while leaving the reader with a global overview of the struggle against colonial and imperial power.” * Socialist Review *“Once more, Peter Linebaugh highlights uncomfortable truths.” * Monthly Review *“An erudite work by a scholar who adapted classic ‘history from below’ to more diverse subjects, while integrating environmental history and literary studies . . . Red Round Globe Hot Burning will hold the interest of a wide array of historians. The vignettes collected in the book display the burning power of ideas in a period of tumultuous change.” * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *“Red Round Globe Hot Burning is [Linebaugh's] greatest masterpiece yet in a lifetime of triumphs. It is a mind-blowing contribution to his lifelong quest for the commons. . . . You have a writer of such extraordinary power that reading him can move you to tears (and will always lift your spirits).” * Independent Left *"A live, immediate, textured portrait." * World History Connected *“Far-ranging and fascinating. . . . It is impossible to summarize briefly the enormously rich content of this work.” * Fifth Estate *"Very occasionally a book comes along that anyone with an interest in history and politics must read, and this is such a book. . . . An immensely rewarding book and worth the effort to accompany Linebaugh on his journey through history." * Irish Marxist Review *“Astonishing . . . . Builds on decades of research and investigation, the meticulous sifting of popular archives that span the Atlantic and combine political broadsheets, scientific tracts, and folksongs.. . . . Reading the book as the murder of George Floyd sparked the Black Lives Matter movement into a global reckoning with legacies of slavery, war, colonialism and empire, it was hard not to feel a tingle on the back of the neck." * Antipode *"It is a treat to have a wonderfully erudite scholar determined to instruct and entertain readers. . . . In an historiographical world in which historians are expected to be balanced and practise cool ironic detachment, it is fun to read a book where the writer’s heart is always on his sleeve. Linebaugh gives a marvellous portrait of one of the most interesting periods in British and Irish history, taking the side of the disadvantaged against those who wanted to keep the disadvantaged in their place." * English Historical Review *"Red Round Globe Hot Burning is a culmination of Linebaugh’s lifework. . . .impressionistic and multi-layered, an approach…that advances rather than occludes understanding of such a richly overlayered and conflicted world." * The European Legacy *"Hypnotic and compelling. . . .Red Round succeeds in evoking the textures and feverish emotional pitch of radicalism in the 1790s, as well as the crushing disappointments of the early nineteenth century." * Journal of Modern History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Foreword Introduction PART ONE • THE QUEST SECTION A • THE QUEST 1 • The Grave of a Woman 2 • Quest for the Commons SECTION B • THANATOCRACY 3 • Despard at the Gallows 4 • Gallows Humor and the Gibbets of Civilization 5 • Apples from the Green Tree of Liberty SECTION C • UNDERGROUND 6 • The Anthropocene and the Stages of History 7 • E. P. Thompson and the Irish Commons PART TWO • ATLANTIC MOUNTAINS SECTION D • IRELAND 8 • Habendum and the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy 9 • Hotchpot, or Celtic Communism 10 • “That’s True Anyhow” 11 • A Boy amid the Whiteboys 12 • The Same Cont. SECTION E • AMERICA 13 • America! Utopia! Equality! Crap. 14 • Cooperation and Survival in Jamaica 15 • Nicaragua and the Miskito Commons 16 • Honduras and the Mayan Commons SECTION F • HAITI 17 • Haiti and Thelwall 18 • Ireland and Volney 19 • A Spot in Time 20 • Their Son SECTION G • ENGLAND 21 • “A System of Man-Eaters” 22 • The Goose and the Commons, c. 1802 23 • “The Den of Thieves” 24 • Commons or True Commons PART THREE • LOVE AND STRUGGLE SECTION H • THE "BUSINESS" 25 • “The Business” 26 • The Kiss of Love and Equalization 27 • Criminalization in the Labor Process 28 • Irish Labor, English Coal SECTION I • PRISON 29 • In Debt in Prison 30 • In Prison without a Spoon: The Commons of the Meal 31 • Rackets in King’s Bench Prison: The Commons of Play 32 • Catherine Despard Confronts the Penitentiary SECTION J • TWO STORIES 33 • “The Whole Business of Man” 34 • The Red Cap of Liberty 35 • The Red-Crested Bird and Black Duck 36 • What Is the Human Race? Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThe global legacy of mutiny and revolution on the high seas. Mutiny tore like wildfire through the wooden warships of the age of revolution. While commoners across Europe laid siege to the nobility and enslaved workers put the torch to plantation islands, out on the oceans, naval seamen by the tens of thousands turned their guns on the quarterdeck and overthrew the absolute rule of captains. By the early 1800s, anywhere between one-third and one-half of all naval seamen serving in the North Atlantic had participated in at least one mutiny, many of them in several, and some even on ships in different navies. In The Bloody Flag, historian Niklas Frykman explores in vivid prose how a decade of violent conflict onboard gave birth to a distinct form of radical politics that brought together the egalitarian culture of North Atlantic maritime communities with the revolutionary era's constitutional republicanism. The attempt to build a radical maritime republic failed, but the red flag thatTrade Review"The 1789 mutiny aboard the Bounty remains the most famous maritime uprising of its era, and perhaps of all time. But in The Bloody Flag, Niklas Frykman portrays an era of lower-deck turbulence of far greater magnitude. . . . Most uprisings, according to this slender, informative volume, embodied a radical maritime culture that would not again arise on such a spectacular scale until the 20th century." * Wall Street Journal *"Frykman breathes life into his subject in this vividly written tale of an oft-underrepresented history. Readers interested in maritime, naval, labor, and Atlantic history will greatly enjoy." * Library Journal *"A significant contribution to Atlantic labor history." * Boston Review *"As Frykman takes his reader on a whirlwind ride across the Atlantic Ocean during the Era of Revolution, he weaves a compelling narrative that draws on material cultural, ideology and mariner’s biographies. Although numerous studies of the Era of Revolution abound, Frykman’s book employs a novel methodology that connects this age with the Communist Revolution." * Northern Mariner *"In an extraordinary exercise of archival legwork, the author incorporates material from multiple British, French, Dutch, and Swedish archives. Collectively, his multilingual evidentiary base conclusively demonstrates the striking degree of transnational camaraderie driving many of these mutinies. The Bloody Flag brings to the fore the ways sailors conversed and collaborated across the era's political and cultural barriers to effect change. . . . Frykman thus provides important inspiration for the present in his insightful treatment of the past." * Journal of American History *"[An] important new book. . . .The Bloody Flag leaves little doubt that the convergence of great power militancy, scarce maritime labor, and the growth of radical republicanism account for a crucial phase in the formation of a cohesive Atlantic working class." * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Like a Ship on Fire Chapter 1 • Barbaric Industry Chapter 2 • Who Will Command This Empire? Chapter 3 • Demons Dancing in a Furnace Chapter 4 • A Revolution in the Fleet Chapter 5 • To Clear the Quarterdeck Conclusion: The Marine Republic Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe effects of revolution in 19th century FranceFollow the political upheaval and revolutionary atmosphere that marked the first half of the 19th century in France. Revolution and Counter-Revolution in France: 1815-1852 delves into a historic period of change, marked by revolution and its effects. The book takes readers to the end of Napoleonic rule and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy in 1815. It then explores the proclamation of the Second Republic and the rise of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte.Table of ContentsThe restoration of the Bourbon Monarchy, 1814-1815; the revolution of July 1830; the July monarchy and the February Revolution; the June days; the Bonapartist coup d'etat of December 1851.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the dramatic and sometimes violent events which accompanied the fall of the Russian czars and the creation of the Soviet nation. In drawing upon the most recent research, especially on the nature of the popular movement during 1917, Beryl Williams examines how and why Bolsheviks came to power in October 1917. She considers the different interpretations of the nature of the revolution among the various revolutionary parties and among the Bolsheviks themselves, and explores how the Bolsheviks consolidated their control over the country. She concludes by asking to what extent their visions of a new society and a `new soviet man'' were fulfilled by 1921.Table of Contents1. Introduction. 2. Democratic Russia. 3. Soviet Power. 4. The Debate on October. 5. The Battle on a Military Front. 6. The Battle on a Cultural Front. 7. Conclusion. References and Glossary. Guide to Further Reading.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an interpretation of the French Revolution that is both thematic and accessible to the general reader. The discussion includes an analysis of the historiography of the subject, and reviews the range of literature produced around the recent Bicentenary. Insisting that the French Revolution had an important social dimension, Alan Forrest demonstrates that the revolutionaries, even the most extreme of them, were committed to an ordered society. He argues that in destroying the political institutions and the corporate structures of the Ancien Regime, they were conscious of the need to invent a new order of their own, one that would be consistent with their ideology. Chapters focus on the initial crisis of 1789, on the political and social experiments of the revolutionary years, and on the impact of war and counter-revolution. The study covers the period up to 1799, looking forward where appropriate to the Napoleonic Empire. The author''s succinct and penetrating oTable of ContentsList of Figures. Select Chronology, 1787-1799. The Revoluntionary Calendar. 1. Introduction. 2. 1789. 3. Politics. 4. Society. 5. War. 6. Oppositions. Guide to Further Reading. Bibliography and References. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Only one--volume encyclopedia in English on this event. aeo Authoritative articles on all aspects of the background, events and aftermath. aeo Alphabetical listing and notes on major characters involved. aeo c. 80 illustrations.Trade Review"Well written and richly illustrated, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of the Russian Revolution can be read as a concise, authoritative, account of events that have profoundly influenced the course of twentieth-century history." Richard Pipes, Times Literary Supplement "A distillation of the best in recent scholarship on the Russian Revolution." International History Review "Strongly recommended for both public and academic libraries at all levels." Choice "A treasure house of information ..." Times Educational SupplementTable of ContentsPreface. Acknowledgements. List of Contibutors. Editorial Notes. Part I: . Introduction. Historical Interpretations of the Revolution. The Revolutionary Movement. The Road To Revolution. 1917 and After: Political Developments. Post-October Institutions. Spreading the Revolution. The Cultural Impact of the Revolution. Part II: . Bibliographies A-Z. Index.

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Book SynopsisProvides a reinterpretation of the last five centuries of European history, a period characterized by war, revolt and contention, by the rise and struggles of states and empires, and by urbanization, enrichment and industrialization. This book focuses on revolutions and their origins in ambition and discontent.Table of ContentsList of Figures. List of Tables. Series Editor's Preface. Preface. Map 1. Europe in 1519. Map 2. Europe in 1992.. 1. Conflict, Revolt and Revolution. Revolution's Return. Revolutionary Situations. Revolutionary Outcomes. Prospect.. 2. Transformations of Europe. Change since 1492. From Segmented to Consolidated States. Struggle Changes. Types of Revolutionary Situation. Consolidation, Nationalism and Revolution. Collective Action Contention and Revolution.. 3. Revolutions, Rebellions and Civil Wars in the Low Countries and Elsewhere. The Low Countries, Home of Bourgeois Revolution. Political Struggle in the Netherlands. From the Southern Netherlands to Belgium. The Bellicose Dutch. Assaying the Low Countries' Revolutions. Iberian Revolutions. The Balkans and Hungary. Comparisons, Connections, Conclusions.. 4. The British Isles. Britain Encounters Revolution. Struggles for Control. Eleven Revolutionary Decades. Hypothetical Revolutions. Revolution's Dulled Edge.. 5. Franc and Other Frances. Bretons vs. Frenchmen. Protestants against Catholics. War, Taxes and Revolutionary Situations. Civil War and Repression. A Consolidating State. Revolutionary Processes. Rule Transformed. Resistance, Counter-revolution and Terror. Other Options. Fifteen-to Twenty-year Regimes. The Long Run of Revolution.. 6. Russia and its Neighbours. Creating Russia. Russian, Polish-Lithuanian and Tatar States. War and Rebellion, Rebellion and war. Nineteenth-century Consolidation. Prospects of Revolution. The 1905 Revolution. Two More Revolutions. Consolidation and Collapse.. 7. Revolutions Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Back to Eastern Europe. Rules of Revolution?. Five Centuries of Revolution. References. Index.

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Book Synopsisaeo Offers concise, classic interpretation of the causes, course and outcome of the French Revolution. aeo Written by the leading international historian of the period. aeo Provides readers with a critical perspective on the historiography of the subject.Trade ReviewReviews of the parent volume Revolutionary France 1770-1880: "An outstanding work of synthesis and imagination." The Times "This book is the best - and, especially, the best written - history of French politics during these years that I know. Conceived in the analytical tradition of Constant and Tocqueville, written in the narrative, learned, and convincing." Patrice Higonnet, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. 1. The Ancien Régime. 2. The Revolution of 1789: 1787-1791. 3. The Jacobin Republic: 1791-1794. 4. The Thermidorian Republic: 1794-1799. 5. Napoleon Bonaparte: 1799-1814. Appendix I: Chronological Table. Appendix II: The Republican Calendar for Year II (1793-1794). Bibliography. Glossary. Index of Names. Index of Subjects.

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Book SynopsisFor three decades, Angela Y. Davis has written on liberation theory and democratic praxis. Challenging the foundations of mainstream discourse, her analyses of culture, gender, capital, and race have profoundly influenced democratic theory, antiracist feminism, critical studies and political struggles.Trade Review"Over the past thirty years Angela Davis has stood as a courageous voice of conscience on matters of race, class, and gender in America. Since her imprisonment in the early 1970s hers has been a voice of principle on behalf of the rights of the incarcerated. Joy James has provided a great service in pulling together and making accessible for the first time in a single volume Angela Davis's seminal writings, revealing at once the considerable range of her insightful intellectual contributions across politics, philosophy, and culture." David Theo Goldberg, Arizona State University "Although Davis's writing in the Reader is at times flat and workmanlike, the anthology gradually reveals her humanistic vision in wonderful gestures and acute observations" Phillip M. Richards "This collection refutes that often-heard statement – that it is impossible today to be both a true intellectual and a true activist. Everyone who is concerned with the life if the mind as it illuminates the struggle for social justice will be provoked, even inspired, by these writings." – Barbara T. Christian, Professor of African-American Studies, University of Californa, Berkeley "Angela Davis has stood as a courageous voice of conscience on matters of race, class, and gender in America. Joy James has provided a great service in pulling together and making accessible for the first time in a single volume Angela Davis’s seminal writings." – David Theo Goldberg, Arizona State University "Long before ‘race/gender’ became the obligatory injunction it is now, Angela Davis was developing an analytical framework that brought all of these factors into play. For readers who only see Angela Davis as a public icon, welcome to this remarkable book and meet the real Angela Davis: perhaps the leading public intellectual of our era." – Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Yo’ Mama’s DisFunktional!: Fighting the Culture Wars in Urban America (1997) "A truly inspiring collection. Angela Davis offers a cartography of engagement in oppositional social movements and unwavering commitment to justice." – Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Women’s Studies, Hamilton CollegeTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction. Part I: Prisons, Repression, and Resistance:. 1. Excerpts from Angela Davis: an Autobiography. 2. Political Prisoners, Prisons and Black Liberation. 3. Unfinished Lecture on Liberation - II. 4. Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry. Part II: Marxism, Anti-Racism and Feminism:. 5. Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves. 6. Rape, Racism, and the Capitalist Setting. 7. Violence Against Women and the Ongoing Challenge to Racism. 8. Joanne Little: The Dialectics of Rape. 9. Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation. 10. The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-Class Perspective. 11. Outcast Mothers and Surrogates: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties. 12. Black Women and the Academy. Part III: Aesthetics and Culture:. 13. For a People's Culture. 14. I Used To Be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality and Domesticity. 15. Photography and Afro-American History. 16. Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia. 17. Meditations on the Legacy of Malcolm X. 18. Black Nationalism: The Sixties and the Nineties. Part IV: Interviews: . 19. Coalition Building Among People of Color: A Discussion With Angela Y. Davis and Elizabeth Martinez. 20. Reflections on Race, Class, and Gender in the USA. Appendix: Opening Defense Statement Presented By Angela Y. Davis in Santa Clara County Superior Court March 29, 1972. Selected Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents ten selections from the most important scholarship on the French Revolution over the past quarter century, introduced and contextualized for student readers. Historians typically categorize the historiography of the French Revolution according to each author''s approval or disapproval of the Revolution, political agenda (for example Marxist, liberal, conservative, or feminist), or methodology (for example social, political, or cultural history). This book demonstrates the inadequacy of these categories of analysis for a nuanced understanding of the Revolution and emphasizes the surprising connections between historians typically seen simply as opponents in a debate. In its thorough introduction, The French Revolution: The Essential Readings demonstrates the success of an eclectic, interdisciplinary approach to this central period in modern European history and the larger relevance of the historiography to the humanities more generally.Trade Review"This is an excellent introduction for those seeking to understand the current state of play in the enduring, but increasingly complex, debate over the origins, nature, and significance of the French Revolution. It contains a judicious selection of articles and extracts, which illustrate the different responses to the demise of the Marxist interpretation of this world-historical event, since the revisionist charge was led by François Furet in the 1970s. These challenging and up-to-date contributions to the cultural history of political, society, gender, and religion are expertly introduced by the editor, who is to be congratulated on this helpful and timely collection, which will appeal to scholars and students alike." Malcolm Crook, Keele University "For the study of the Revolution's origins, Schechter has chosen some very good pieces." H-Net Reviews "Schechter provides a good guide through the material ... The collection is stimulating ..." Times Higher Education SupplementTable of ContentsEditors Introduction. Part I: Furet's Challenge. 1. Interpreting the French Revolution. (François Furet). Part II: The Enlightenment, The Public Sphere and The Question of Origins. 2. On the Problem of the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution. (Keith Baker). 3. The Cultural Origins of the French Revolution. Roger Chartier. 4. The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France. (Robert Darnton). 5. The Great Chain of Buying: Medical Advertisement, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Origins of the French Revolution. (Colin Jones). 6. Luxury, Morality, and Social Change: Why There Was No Middle-Class Consciousness in Pre-revolutionary France. (Sarah Maza). Part IV: Gendering The Revolution. 7. French Feminists and the Rights of "Man": Olympe de Gouge's Declarations. (Joan Scott). 8. The Band of Brothers. (Lynn Hunt). Part V: Religion and The Sacred. 9. Church, State, and the Ideological Origins of the French Revolution: The Debate over the General Assembly of the Gallican Clergy in 1765. (Dale Van Kley). 10. The Revolutionary Festival: A Transfer of Sacrality. (Mona Ozouf). Index.

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Book SynopsisThis volume comprises nine articles on the Russian Revolution, covering the background to the Revolutions of 1917; movements and personalities; and issues of class, gender and ethnicity. The book offers an aid to understanding the themes and arguments on this major turning-point in modern history.Trade Review"Professor Miller has succeeded in putting together an admirable collection of important articles on the Russian revolutionary experience, and has linked them together with an excellent set of introductions." Reginald E. Zelnik, Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley "Miller has collected some of the best writing from a brilliant field." Times Higher Education Supplement "This collection of essays should prove a useful guide for students: the editor has provided a sound introduction to the book and gives a good introduction to the book and gives a good introduction to each peice, setting them each in their historiographical context. The book enables us to achieve a clear understanding of the state of the debate that surrounds 1917 as we enter the twenty-first century" Peter Waldron, University of Sunderland "[It] will be of great use to all those teaching the history of Revolutionary Russia...Miller has brough together some of the best journal articals on 1917." Geoffrey Swain, University of the West of England - Revoltuionary Russia, Vol. 15/June 2002Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Editor's Introduction: The Russian Revolution at the Millennium: Martin Miller. Part I: On the Eve: Toward Revolution:. 1. The Battleground: Edward Acton. Part II: Parties, Movements and Personalities in the Revolutions of 1917:. Introduction: Martin Miller. 2. Russia's Second Revolution: The February 1917 Uprising in Petrograd: E. N. Burdzhalov. 3. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and its Language in the Village: Orlando Figes. 4. The Bolsheviks come to Power: Alexander Rabinowitch. Part III: Issues of Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Revolution:. Introduction: Martin Miller. 5. Russian Labor and Bolshevik Power: Social Dimensions of Protest after October: William Rosenberg. 6. Ascribing Class: The Construction of Social Identity in Soviet Russia: Sheila Fitzpatrick. 7. Bolshevik Women: Barbara Evans Clements. 8. State Building and Nation-Making: The Soviet Experience: Ronald G. Suny. Part IV: Conclusions and Prospects: . 9. Writing the History of the Russian Revolution after the Fall of Communism: Steve Smith. Index.

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Book Synopsis* A well--balanced collection of key articles on the Russian Revolution commonly used in courses. * Helpful introductions provide the context and framework for understanding the articles. * The first student--friendly collection to trace the development of historical writing on the Russian Revolution over the last half century.Trade Review"Professor Miller has succeeded in putting together an admirable collection of important articles on the Russian revolutionary experience, and has linked them together with an excellent set of introductions." Reginald E. Zelnik, Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley "Miller has collected some of the best writing from a brilliant field." Times Higher Education Supplement "This collection of essays should prove a useful guide for students: the editor has provided a sound introduction to the book and gives a good introduction to the book and gives a good introduction to each peice, setting them each in their historiographical context. The book enables us to achieve a clear understanding of the state of the debate that surrounds 1917 as we enter the twenty-first century" Peter Waldron, University of Sunderland "[It] will be of great use to all those teaching the history of Revolutionary Russia...Miller has brough together some of the best journal articals on 1917." Geoffrey Swain, University of the West of England - Revoltuionary Russia, Vol. 15/June 2002Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Editor's Introduction: The Russian Revolution at the Millennium: Martin Miller. Part I: On the Eve: Toward Revolution:. 1. The Battleground: Edward Acton. Part II: Parties, Movements and Personalities in the Revolutions of 1917:. Introduction: Martin Miller. 2. Russia's Second Revolution: The February 1917 Uprising in Petrograd: E. N. Burdzhalov. 3. The Russian Revolution of 1917 and its Language in the Village: Orlando Figes. 4. The Bolsheviks come to Power: Alexander Rabinowitch. Part III: Issues of Class, Gender and Ethnicity in the Revolution:. Introduction: Martin Miller. 5. Russian Labor and Bolshevik Power: Social Dimensions of Protest after October: William Rosenberg. 6. Ascribing Class: The Construction of Social Identity in Soviet Russia: Sheila Fitzpatrick. 7. Bolshevik Women: Barbara Evans Clements. 8. State Building and Nation-Making: The Soviet Experience: Ronald G. Suny. Part IV: Conclusions and Prospects: . 9. Writing the History of the Russian Revolution after the Fall of Communism: Steve Smith. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book reasserts the importance of the French Revolution to an understanding of the nature of modern European politics and social life. Livesey argues that the European model of democracy was created in the Revolution, a model with very specific commitments that differentiate it from Anglo-American liberal democracy.Trade ReviewAn important and timely book. There has been a stirring among historians of the Revolution to rethink the 1794-1799 period, but James Livesey is the first to examine in any depth its contribution to the making of "modern" democracy. It will be controversial because it significantly advances our knowledge and insight in areas where others failed to tread. What more could we ask? -- Christopher H. Johnson, Wayne State UniversityA singularly original study of the French Revolution's ultimately failed project to imagine, articulate, and build a republican democracy. James Livesey obliterates numerous conventional borders and categories in writing about the Revolution. There is much to learn here about the history of ideas, symbolic representations, government debates and policies, and partisan politics. This is a bold and free-ranging work, warranting the oft-abused term "brilliant." -- Isser Woloch, Columbia UniversityThis important book promises to be a landmark in the history of its field. James Livesey's thoughtful claim is that terroristic Jacobinism was not--as has often been assumed--the procrustean mold of French Republicanism. He shows that neo-Jacobin thinking during the Directory in 1795-1799 was a sophisticated and wide-ranging effort to rethink Republican theory and to create a new "language of democracy." This is a striking work that rewrites the history of French Revolutionary politics and locates this period in a frame of North Atlantic thinking that ranges from Scotland and France to Ireland and the New World. -- Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University, author of Goodness beyond VirtueAfter noting that the French Revolution is no longer an inspiration, Livesey...assumes the imposing task of reassessing the revolution to demonstrate that it continues to be relevant for an understanding of modern politics and society. He believes that the revolution created the European model of democracy that established values different from those found in Anglo-American liberal democracy...Livesey develops several case studies focusing on economic, educational, and cultural issues. His discussion of the movement for the breakup of communal land, partage...is especially fascinating. He creatively utilizes archival sources about relatively mundane matters, and exhibits a mastery over a wide range of pertinent secondary literature...Livesey has produced a distinguished intellectual history. -- T. M. Keefe * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Modern Republicanism and Revolution 2. Happiness Universal? Commercial Republicanism and Revolution 3. The Agricultural Republic as Rhetoric and Practice 4. Big Theories and Small Farms 5. Learning to Be Free: The Educational System of the Commercial Republic 6. Dance Like Republican: Public Culture, Religion, and the Arts Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA 1978 CIA analysis firmly concluded that the shah of Iran would remain on the throne for the foreseeable future. One hundred days later the shah was overthrown by a popular revolution. The CIA was not alone in its myopia, as Kurzman reveals; Iranians themselves considered a revolution inconceivable until it actually occurred.Trade ReviewIn the world of politics, a true revolution is the perfect storm--rare and uniquely destructive. Can the social scientist comprehend and perhaps even predict the course of such a complex phenomenon? Charles Kurzman takes a cool, dispassionate look at the many explanations of the Iranian revolution and finds them inadequate. Drawing on an impressive range of original research, he argues that mass revolutionary movements become viable suddenly--and unpredictably--as perceptions of potential success acquire popular acceptance. This book is a major addition to the literature on the Iranian revolution--and revolution in general. -- Gary Sick, former member of the National Security Council staff, and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia UniversitySociologist Kurzman addresses five familiar sets of explanations about why the Iranian revolution took place--political, organizational, cultural, economic, and military arguments--and finds each valuable but flawed, offering instead an 'anti-explanation' that foregrounds anomaly and characterizes the revolutionary moment as confusing, unstable, and as unpredictable for participants as it is for outside observers. Despite this, optimism is in order; there is, after all, exciting potential in moments in which the unthinkable suddenly becomes thinkable. -- Brendan Driscoll * Booklist *When Elias Canetti, the Nobel-prize winning theorist, spoke of a people's 'propensity to incendiarism,' he had in mind one of the most dangerous traits of mass gatherings: their potential for unpredictable combustibility. Iran's Islamic revolution, like many other uprisings, was a consummate instance of this, Kurzman argues, and he continues in Canetti's tradition by using the Shah's overthrow to engage in his own meditation on crowds and power. Kurzman's investigation propelled him to the Islamic republic, where he conducted countless interviews, in an attempt to chart the eddies and undercurrents of one of the world's most complex and sudden social upheavals...The result is a thought-provoking combination of journalism and analysis that offers an atypical juxtaposition of voices: shopkeepers, lawyers and high school students share their views on what happened, as do academics and policymakers. * Publishers Weekly *[Kurzman's] book examines the Islamic revolution in the light of social sciences. It is a valuable insight into what he considers one of the most far-reaching events of the 20th century. -- Shusha Guppy * Times Higher Education Supplement *Charles Kurzman has presented a meticulous anatomy of the Iranian revolution and has dexterously treated the anomalies usually inherent in revolutions...The author shifts through revolution theories and shows with pages and pages of documentation and references how they related to the Iranian revolution or missed it. Kurzman's opus is certainly a valuable contribution to the historiography and sociological analysis of an important revolution of our age that led to a large scale politicization of Islam in those parts of the world where this religion prevailed. -- Syfi Tashan * Journal of Third Word Studies *Charles Kurzman has produced the definitive account of the Islamic Revolution. No serious historian can write about these events without consulting his 10-page essay on available source material in The Unthinkable Revolution in Iran. * Middle East Quarterly *

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Book SynopsisCombining the history of the Enlightenment, Atlantic history, and the history of the French Revolution, this title explores the political economy of globalization in eighteenth-century France. It presents an interpretation of the relationship between capitalism and the French Revolution.Trade ReviewA fascinating, thoroughly researched, and beautifully written intellectual history depicting the emergence of the novel eighteenth-century 'science of commerce.' A major asset of the work is that while Montesquieu serves as its central figure, the reader learns about so much more, including the relationship between commerce and statecraft, the prevalence of social-scientific comparisons between absolutism and republicanism in the century before the American and French revolutions, and the birth of philosophical history. Cheney shows great skill in elucidating the sometimes dense works of eighteenth-century economists in language that is at once remarkably spare and vivid. Lucid, lively, and informative, this book was truly a pleasure to read. -- Mary D. Lewis, author of The Boundaries of the RepublicThis engaging book powerfully conveys the dual sense of opportunity and risk felt by the thinkers, politicians, and merchants who experienced the eighteenth century's global revolution in commerce. With sensitive and precise attention to the language and concerns of the writers he treats, Cheney makes an excellent case for rejecting conventional narratives such as the transition from a mercantilist to a laissez-faire phase of French economic thought. This is a signal contribution to the emerging literature about the place of colonies and global commerce in French revolutionary politics. -- Jennifer Pitts, author of A Turn to EmpireIn this ambitious and timely book, Cheney argues that the pressures of globalization strained French political institutions and social structures, issuing in the revolutionary transformations of the 1790s. By focusing on the economic thought of the old regime, which was preoccupied with the challenges of international competition, he shows how globalization became central to political debate. Revolutionary Commerce makes a major contribution to the intellectual history of the old regime and to debates on the origins of the French Revolution. -- John Shovlin, author of The Political Economy of VirtueThe very intelligent, novel, and meaningful achievement of this book is to show how and why France's eighteenth-century colonies--in the Caribbean mostly--mattered critically to the French reading and writing public's understanding of their country's economic and political place in the world. -- Patrice Higonnet * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisTwo centuries later, the French Revolutionthat event that founded modern democracycontinues to give rise to a reevaluation of essential questions. This volume not only presents the reader with the research of a wide range of international scholars on those questions, but also brings one into the heart of the issues still under lively debate.Trade ReviewIt was a splendid idea to compile a critical dictionary of the French Revolution, and the idea has been splendidly executed… A great work. -- Conor Cruise O'Brien * New York Review of Books *A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution is really a manifesto representing the views of François Furet, who is now the most influential historian of the French Revolution in the world… Mr. Furet and his collaborators have revived interest in the philosophical problems of modern democracy and shown the importance of the French Revolution in establishing the limits of modern political debate. -- Lynn Hunt * New York Times Book Review *Not the least merit of Furet and Ozouf’s spectacular Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution is to take declared meaning at face value; to restore, in fact, full historical autonomy to the conflict of ideas. Those not within the guild of self-described ‘professional historians’ may be amazed to hear that such conflicts have ever not been taken seriously in their own right. But it may well have taken this monumental work…to reinstate their full causal power. In the Dictionary, in particular, the play of debate and its intersection with the combat of personalities and the shaping of institutions is given primary significance. The great moments of the French Revolution are rescued from compression into the social structure or burial beneath symbolic bricolage… No praise can really be too high for what this work represents: spectacular scholarship, consistently gripping writing, and intellectual penetration… [It] adds up to a coherent vision of the Revolution (all the more remarkable for being written by more than 20 hands). It is certainly the most enduring book to be published in the bicentennial year. -- Simon Schama * New Republic *In all respects, this Dictionary of more than a thousand pages is a monument of scholarship, and an object of elegant quality, served by original and suggestive illustrations and by a rare quality of writing. -- Michelle Perrot * Libération *A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution has already been hailed as the literary event of the bicentennial… This success has come from the originality of its format. In effect, the entire team of historians, led by François Furet and Mona Ozouf, has broken with the traditional forms: chronological narratives, monographs, biographies…in order to adopt a new style that reconciles these diverse approaches. The work is erudite but unfolds like a historical novel. It is enormous—a thousand pages—but reads like a magazine with ten-page articles illustrating the one hundred ‘key words’ of the Revolution. -- Janick Jossin * Le Nouvel Observateur *This Dictionary represents what I would judge to be one of the most comprehensive statements yet of the new historiography, against Annales; and in so doing, it represents what I would also judge to be one of the clearest interpretations of a renewal of liberal thinking in France which in its distinctiveness, its break from standing conceptions, will be of general interest to all but the most parochial of Anglo-Americans. -- Geoffrey Hawthorn, Cambridge UniversityA spectacular collection of essays covering virtually every aspect of the French Revolution, written by the most powerful minds currently working on its history. As a whole, the book provides a stunning vindication of the centrality of politics to the lasting significance of the event. Some of the essays—Furet on Quinet, Higonnet on the Sans-culottes, Ozouf on Revolutionary Religion—are miniature masterpieces. The bicentennial is unlikely to produce any other work that serves up so rich and nourishing an intellectual feast. -- Simon Schama, Harvard UniversityTable of Contents*1. Events * Chouannerie / Francois Furet * Coups d'Etat / Denis Richet * De-Christianization / Mona Ozouf * Elections / Patrice Gueniffey * Estates General / Ran Halevi * Federalism / Mona Ozouf * Federation / Mona Ozouf * Great Fear / Jacques Revel * Italian Campaign / Denis Richet * King's Trial / Mona Ozouf * Night of August 4 / Francois Furet * The Revolution and Europe / Alan Forrest * Revolutionary Journees / Denis Richet * Terror / Francois Furet * Treaties of Basel and The Hague / Denis Richet * Varennes / Mona Ozouf * Vendee / Francois Furet *2. Actors * Individuals * Babeuf / Francois Furet * Barnave / Francois Furet * Carnot / Patrice Gueniffey * Condorcet / Keith M. Baker * Danton / Mona Ozouf * Lafayette / Patrice Gueniffey * Louis XVI / Francois Furet * Marat / Mona Ozouf * Marie Antoinette / Jacques Revel * Mirabeau / Francois Furet * Napoleon Bonaparte / Francois Furet * Necker / Marcel Gauchet * Robespierre / Patrice Gueniffey * Sieyes / Keith M. Baker * Groups * Emigres / Massimo Boffa * Enrages / Denis Richet * Feuillants / Ran Halevi * Girondins / Mona Ozouf * Hebertists / Denis Richet * Monarchiens / Ran Halevi * Montagnards / Mona Ozouf * Sans-culottes / Patrice Higonnet * Thermidorians / Bronislaw Baczko *3. Institutions and Creations * Army / Alan Forrest * Assignats / Michel Bruguiere * Civil Code / Joseph Goy * Civil Constitution of the Clergy / Francois Furet * Clubs and Popular Societies / Patrice Gueniffey and Ran Halevi * Committee of Public Safety / Denis Richet * Constitution / Keith M. Baker * Departement / Mona Ozouf *Maximum / Francois Furet * National Properties / Louis Bergeron * Paris Commune / Patrice Gueniffey * Revolutionary Assemblies / Denis Richet * Revolutionary Calendar / Mona Ozouf * Revolutionary Government / Francois Furet * Revolutionary Religion / Mona Ozouf * Suffrage / Patrice Gueniffey * Taxes / Gail Bossenga *4. Ideas * American Revolution / Philippe Raynaud * Ancien Regime / Francois Furet * Aristocracy / David D. Bien * Centralization / Yann Fauchois * Counterrevolution / Massimo Boffia * Democracy / Philippe Raynaud * Enlightenment / Bronislaw Baczko * Equality / Mona Ozouf * Feudal System / Francois Furet * Fraternity / Mona Ozouf * Jacobinism / Francois Furet * Liberty / Mona Ozouf * Montesquieu / Bernard Manin * Nation / Pierre Nora * Natural Borders / Denis Richet * Physiocrats / Pierre Rosanvallon * Public Spirit / Mona Ozouf * Regeneration / Mona Ozouf * Republic / Pierre Nora * Revolution / Mona Ozouf * Rights of Man / Marcel Gauchet * Rousseau / Bernard Manin * Sovereignty / Keith M. Baker * Vandalism / Bronislaw Baczko * Voltaire / Mona Ozouf *5. Historians and Commentators * Academic History of the Revolution / Francois Furet * Blanc / Francois Furet * Buchez / Francois Furet * Burke / Gerard Gengembre * Constant / Marcel Gauchet * Fichte / Luc Ferry * Guizot / Pierre Rosanvallon * Hegel / Luc Ferry * Jaures / Mona Ozouf * Kant / Luc Ferry * Maistre / Massimo Boffa * Marx / Francois Furet * Michelet / Francois Furet * Quinet / Francois Furet * Stael / Marcel Gauchet * Thine / Mona Ozouf * Tocqueville / Francois Furet * Contributors * Name Index * Subject Index * Alphabetical List of Articles

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Book SynopsisWith its radical ideology and tactics, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was the cutting edge of the civil rights movement in the '60s. This sympathetic yet evenhanded book records for the first time the complete story of SNCC's evolution, of its successes and its difficulties in the ongoing struggle to end white oppression.Trade ReviewNot only an important contribution to the history of the struggle for civil rights; it also enlarges our general understanding of contemporary politics and culture. -- Abigail Thernstrom * New Republic *To anyone who would understand SNCC, this is an essential book. -- James Polk * Newsday *This splendid history of SNCC has successfully captured the dynamic interplay of two parallel but contradictory elements… This is a well-researched, balanced, and analytical assessment of the history of a primarily black student activist group that, with all its failings, made its special contribution to the political awakening of American blacks and to the changing of American institutions and practices. -- Abraham Holtzman * American Political Science Review *In Clayborne Carson SNCC has at last found a scholar capable of probing its radical and fractious nature in a manner both sympathetic and prudently critical… Students of social protest will be deeply in the author’s debt for years to come. -- Francis M. Wilnoit * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part One. Coming Together 1. Sit-ins

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Book SynopsisThis text examines the innovations and experimentations of modernism in Russian literature during its most turbulent years. Covering artistic prose, poetry and criticism, it analyzes how revolution in the arts and revolution in society and politics related to one another.

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Book SynopsisOn October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. This book presents an eyewitness account and an history of the uprising in Hungary that heralded the future liberation of Eastern Europe.Trade Review"Based on his own experiences, Lendvai adds a sharp focus to understanding of one of the most important events of the 20th century, the spontaneous Hungarian uprising. He maintains a balanced account of the causes and consequences of this heroic but tragic revolt, including the nonassistance of the Western nations, especially the U.S."--T.M. Racz, Choice "Lendvai's approach and style make this book a particularly welcome addition to the scholarship on the Hungarian revolution... Though the entire book has a great deal to offer the reader ... [the] final chapters, evaluating the legacy of the 1956 uprising, are the ones where Lendvai offers his most striking additions to the history of the revolution."--Eliza Ablovatski, Austrian History Yearbook "Lendvai has produced a sophisticated narrative of complex events, interweaving political, international, military, social, personal, and intellectual history into a thick fabric of historical text. Importantly, he argues that 1956 is an important year in Hungarian, and Western, heritage. Commendably, Lendvai shows his intellectual debt to Hungarian scholars throughout the text. One Day That Shook the Communist World is one of the most readable and best English language accounts of the Hungarian 1956 Uprising."--Laszlo Borhi, Historian "The detail in this work is impressive, the narrative engaging, and the judgments considered."--David W. Lovell, European LegacyTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1: A Day That Shook the Communist World 5 Chapter 2: The Road to Revolution 25 Chapter 3: A Night of Cataclysmic Decisions 45 Chapter 4: The Legend of the Corvinists 55 Chapter 5: Wrestling for the Soul of Imre Nagy 67 Chapter 6: Deadlocked 75 Chapter 7: A Turnaround with a Question Mark 83 Chapter 8: The General, the Colonel, and the Adjutant 89 Chapter 9: The Dams Are Breaking 101 Chapter 10: The Condottiere, the "Uncle," and the Romantics 109 Chapter 11: Decision in the Kremlin: The End of Patience 119 Chapter 12: Double Dive into Darkness 127 Chapter 13: The Puppeteers and the Kadar Enigma 139 Chapter 14: Operation Whirlwind and Kadar's Phantom Government 149 Chapter 15: The Yugoslav-Soviet Conspiracy 163 Chapter 16: The Second Revolution 173 Chapter 17: The Moral Bankruptcy of the U.S. Liberation Theory 185 Chapter 18: Worldwide Reactions 195 Chapter 19: The Barbarous Vendetta of the Victors 211 Chapter 20: 1956-1989: Victory in Defeat? 225 Epilogue: Whose 1956? 241 Acknowledgments 247 Chronology 249 Notes 255 Bibliography 279 Index 285

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Jon Elster] has managed to plumb the depths of archives and combine that with his penetrating insight into human behaviour. The result is a very different picture of the motivations for the revolution instead of the usual ‘let them eat cake’ variety of history."---Siddharth Singh, Open Magazine"[France before 1789] has a cool, clear style."---Hamish Gobson, Think Scotland

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Enriching book."---David Sultan, Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs"In Martyrs and Tricksters, Walter Armbrust contributes to the emerging literature introducing the trickster as a central actor in the political field through an ethnographic analysis of the rise of Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to power in Egypt. Suggesting that political ambivalence can itself be a source of power and rejecting attempts to understand trickster figures through traditional models of hegemony-building, this book will be as useful to students of political sociology as it is to those of revolution, history and the ethnography of the Middle East."---Hesham Shafick, LSE Review of Books

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“In Martyrs and Tricksters, Armbrust examines the public surfaces of the Egyptian revolution of 2011, linking them to deeper political, economic, and social structures operating on local, regional, and global scales. This ambitious and well-researched book demonstrates once again the author’s deep fluency in Egyptian popular culture and history.”—Gregory Starrett, University of North Carolina, Charlotte “Martyrs and Tricksters offers an original, compelling framework for comprehending the 2011 uprisings in Egypt and their aftermath. With encyclopedic knowledge of Egyptian popular culture and sophisticated mass media analysis, Armbrust shows how these liminal figures embody the tensions of political change. This book is crucial reading for anyone seeking to understand the downfall of Mubarak and the resurgence of authoritarianism in Egypt, and the role of liminality in revolutions more generally.”—Jessica Winegar, Northwestern University

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Book Synopsis"First published in French, under the title 'Quatre-vingt-neuf, ' in 1939 under the auspices of the Institute for the History of the French Revolution, University of Paris, in conjunction with the National Committee for the Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the French Revolution"--Colophon.Trade Review"Simply the best introduction to the study of the French Revolution available anywhere."--Nation "A pleasure to read... Lefebvre sets forth clearly the many causes of that insurrection and explains the influences exerted by the various classes and factions--the nobles and the clergy, on the one side, and the bourgeoisie and the peasantry on the other."--New Yorker "Much more than a history of 1789... [A] synthesis, conveying a philosophy of the Revolution as a whole, such as could be written only by a seasoned scholar."--American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction by Timothy Tackett vii Note to the Princeton Classic Edition xxxi From the Translator's 1988 Preface xxxiii Prologue 1 PART I: THE ARISTOCRATIC REVOLUTION Chapter 1: The Aristocracy 7 Chapter 2: The Crisis of the Monarchy 21 PART II: THE BOURGEOIS REVOLUTION Chapter 3: The Bourgeoisie 39 Chapter 4: The First Victory of the Bourgeoisie 49 Chapter 5: The Estates-General 73 PART III: THE POPULAR REVOLUTION Chapter 6: The Mobilization of the Masses 93 Chapter 7: The Paris Revolution of July 14 108 Chapter 8: The Municipal Revolutions in the Provinces 121 PART IV: THE PEASANT REVOLUTION Chapter 9: The Peasantry 129 Chapter 10: The Agrarian Revolts and the Great Fear 142 PART V: THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND CITIZEN Chapter 11: The Problem of the Privileges 153 Chapter 12: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 167 PART VI: THE OCTOBER DAYS Chapter 13: The Revolutionary Solution in the Balance 183 Chapter 14: The Popular Agitation 190 Chapter 15: The October Days: Confirmation by Violence 196 Conclusion 207 Appendix I: Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen 219 Appendix II: Other Books by Georges Lefebvre 223 Index 225

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Scottish Research Book of the Year, The Saltire Society""Whatmore’s magnificent account of the New Geneva experiment in Waterford . . . offers such a new vantage point. . . . [A] fascinating historical study."---Andreas Hess, Dublin Review of Books"An astounding story, masterfully told by a historian at the top of his craft."---Max Skjönsberg, Intellectual History Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018""A . . . successful example of big think history. If war built the state, it also helped build the Communist Party. Vladimir Lenin's faction, the Bolsheviks, was particularly aided by World War I. And Communism, once in power, reversed Clausewitz’s famous dictum and made politics war by other means. The party often attacked the people--first in the Russia of Lenin and Stalin, but most especially in Mao Zedong’s China, from the Hundred Flowers movement to the Great Leap Forward and then the Cultural Revolution, killing untold millions of people. It’s a lively if depressing story."---Thomas E. Ricks, New York Times Book Review"The historiography on Marxism, as well as communist movements in general, is notoriously inaccessible; McAdams delivers a lucid and beautifully written volume that defies the norm, providing a highly readable study of the party." * Publishers Weekly *"Important. . . . Brilliant. . . . It's been nearly a decades since Robert Service’s Comrades presented readers with a history of Communism on a global scale, and although the idea is still as dead as Jacob Marley, McAdams finds even more to tell about it, and is fascinating and judicial the whole time he does so."---Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Monthly"A brilliant and sweeping introduction to one of the most provocative political institutions of our times. . . . Vanguard of the Revolution provides intellectual provocation, historical breadth and an inspiration to take better care of our fragile democracies."---Yvonne Howell, Times Higher Education"It is a broad, comparative history of communist parties in power, one which required a tremendous amount of knowledge to write, and subtly but successfully undermines the easy equation of communism with totalitarianism that has been a liberal talking point for far too long."---Patrick Iber, Los Angeles Review of Books"The book excels in explaining the repertoire of methods whereby the new communist regimes that came to power after the Second World War tried to maintain their momentum. . . . Carefully plotted."---Stuart Macintyre, Sydney Morning Herald"Impressive."---Joshua Muravchik, Commentary"McAdams wrestles with a . . . profound puzzle: How was it, given the failure of Marx’s prophecies, that his ideas continued to animate communist parties and eventually led them to power in 24 countries?"---Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs"A groundbreaking book, Vanguard of the Revolution is a terrific read. . . . A magnificent book on [communism's] history and impact."---Andrew Fedynsky, Ukrainian Weekly"[Vanguard of the Revolution] offers an important new historiography of the idea not just of the Communist party but of Communism in the twentieth and now twenty-first century."---Bill V. Mullen, Russian Review"[T]his remains a compelling and necessary book."---George Bodie, Slavonic & East European Review"Vanguard of the Revolution is a very readable synthesis of the history of the communist party, from Marx and Engels’s manifesto to the collapse of the USSR. McAdams handles both the global sweep and the local details of each case he covers with an impressive assurance and levelheadedness, all while keeping his distance from the tired Cold War polemics that usually surround this subject."---Tony Wood, The Nation"McAdams explores the societal conditions that brought Communist movements to power. Ranging over the particular histories of Russia, China, Cuba, and many places in between, he deftly describes the upheavals wrought by modernization, war, and colonial oppression to explain Communism’s appeal. . . . McAdams is a master of classification and discerning difference. . . . As we now focus on ever darker challenges—illiberalism and xenophobic nationalism, environmental degradation, and religious fundamentalism—we run the risk of seeing Communism as a benign, quaint bête noire of the twentieth century. Fortunately, Vanguard of the Revolution reminds us otherwise."---Catherine Epstein, American Historical Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Wayne S. Vucinich Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies""Lively and often entertaining prose."---Catriona Kelly, Times Literary Supplement"Much has been written about the Soviet Union’s war on religion and its vigorous efforts to set up atheism and the Bolshevik revolutionary project as a new faith. Most such accounts treat religion and atheism as simple opposites. Smolkin describes a more nuanced and variable relationship between them."---Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs"[The] historical backdrop of Russia’s remarkable journey from Orthodoxy to atheism, and back again, is chronicled in Victoria Smolkin’s A Sacred Space is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism. It is the first full account of Soviet atheism, from the Bolshevik revolution in 1917 to the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. This engaging book is full of striking analysis and counterintuitive insights."---Gene Zubovich, Religion & Politics"Smolkin’s profound book . . . allows us to see not only the struggle of atheists against religion in the Soviet Union, but also to formulate some important conclusions about the Soviet society. This is one of the decade’s most successful and important scholarly works on this topic."---Nikolay Mitrokhin, Bremen University"Victoria Smolkin’s important new study of the history of Soviet atheism places the state’s fluid, quasi-adaptive approaches to eradicating religion at the center of a story about the communist party’s failure to fully win over the hearts and minds of ordinary people. This book beautifully fills an empty space, and will be of great value to scholars and students across all disciplines in our field."---Yvonne Howell, University of Richmond"Learning about atheism is a fascinating way to enrich one’s knowledge of religion, and vice versa; Smolkin reminds us that the boundaries between conceptual social categories are more porous than we often realize or admit . . . . Smolkin’s impressive first book broadens our perspective on what qualifies as “sacred,” and educates us on the power and limitations of human conviction in driving the great cycles of historical change."---Anais Garvanian, The Graduate Journal of Harvard Divinity School"Delivered in a highly readable narrative, [Smolkin’s] cogent analysis and challenging conclusions offer much to historians of religion and the Soviet Union: there is also no doubt that students and the interested general public will find the work intriguing and illuminating."---James M. White, European History Quarterly"The book is written in an accessible way . . . Smolkin offers highly interesting insights from her research in Eastern European archives and interviews, conducted in Russia and Ukraine during 2008 and 2013, relevant not only for scholars of religion and history, but also for an interested audience."---Christian Föller, Religion and Society in Central and Eastern Europe"Atheism appears to be a straightforward concept, but for Soviet communists it was not. Victoria Smolkin’s A Sacred Space Is Never Empty: A History of Soviet Atheism explores how the meaning and implementation of atheism were debated and redefined over the course of the entire history of the Soviet Union. . . . Like many recent monographs on Soviet history, this book provides a new answer for why Soviet communism failed. But Smolkin does not provide one piece to that puzzle; she provides the piece. For atheism’s failure in the Soviet Union was intrinsically entwined with communism’s. . . . This beautifully written book—which addresses universal themes such as why there is a need for religion in a modern society—will be of interest to a wide array of readers in any field."---Laurie Manchester, American Historical Review"Smolkin makes a major contribution to the study of religion and of ideology in the late Soviet period. She demonstrates effectively that ideology did matter to the Soviet project, even—indeed especially—in the Brezhnev era, and that religion served as the barometer of ideological health. . . . A real strength of Smolkin’s analysis is precisely the connection she makes to the broader ideological problem of indifference and commitment. Whereas several recent works have rightly sought to bring Soviet antireligious measures into the broader scholarly discussion of secularization and state secularism, Smolkin rightly demonstrates that secularization in the sense of removal of religion from public life or indifference to religion was not the objective of the Soviet regime. Rather, the goal was belief in a sacred antireligion, a convinced atheism. This important book should be read by all scholars interested in religion in the USSR, ideology in the late Soviet period, and secularization and secularism in the twentieth century."---Heather J. Coleman, Journal of the American Academy of Religion"In her fascinating overview, Smolkin demonstrates the paradoxical nature of the atheistic propaganda in the Soviet Union. . . . Smolkin’s book, which is based on the deep investigation of the variety of documents representing the ideas and spirit of the propagandists of Soviet atheism, considerably supplements our understanding of the interdependence of religion and atheism in the Soviet domain."---Elena A. Stepanova, Journal of Religion in Europe"One of the greatest strengths of Smolkin’s book is the varied and comprehensive nature of the materials she draws on. Having worked in state and party archives, surveyed atheist publications, and interviewed key figures from the Soviet study of religion, Smolkin is able to provide an overview of atheist work that has no parallel in the current literature. This well-written book makes essential reading for anyone interested in the history of Soviet ideology or in comparative histories of modern religion and secularization."---Sonja Luehrmann, Canadian Slavonic Papers

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Books of 2017 in American History""Honorable Mention for the 2018 PROSE Award in U.S. History, Association of American Publishers""Stoutly makes the case that the American Revolution was ‘of immense consequence for America's future and for the rest of globe.’ Though not a new argument, it has never before been made so fully or with such convincing force. . . . Like Israel’s previous books, this bravura, complex, learned interpretation of 75 years of revolutionary history is sure to stir debate." * Publishers Weekly *"An impressively broad scholarly history whose readability and smooth organization make it a joy to read." * Kirkus Reviews *"A fascinating global look at how the American Revolution didn't simply conclude with the independence of 13 colonies from Great Britain, and the creation of the United States of America. . . . The author offers a compelling overview of how the American Revolution impacted on the rest of the world well into the 19th century and beyond." * American Magazine *"The Expanding Blaze is studded with interesting facts. . . . An important, necessary and convincing argument overall."---Elizabeth Cobbs, Times Higher Education"This book’s wide-angle account of the nineteenth-century spread of revolutionary democratic ideals makes it impossible to see the American founding as simply a national event; it was, in reality, nothing less than a battle of ideas played out on a global stage."---G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs"The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World 1775-1848 offers a full blast of Israel from its very first page."---Catherine O'Donnell, Journal of Southern History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Foreign Affairs' Picks for Best of Books 2018"

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians""Winner of the Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography, Virginia Museum of History & Culture (Virginia Historical Society)""[An] expertly constructed work, one of the handful of books on Turner destined to become essential reading for understanding the events of August 1831."---Douglas R. Egerton Le Moyne, American Historical Review"[In the Matter of Nat Turner] succeeds in challenging established assumptions about Turner’s intellectual world, and it is likely that, with its publication, historians will be much more inclined to pay more attention to the importance of religion in Turner’s rebellion."---Enrico Dal Iago, Journal of American History"A major achievement. Tomlins is a brilliant historian, and his study is full of many new insights that make significant contributions to our understanding. Most importantly, Tomlins is one of the only historians to pay careful attention to the mind of the rebel leader. . . . Tomlins has given us a well-researched, always interesting and intellectually stimulating new book on Nat Turner. We should be deeply grateful for this extraordinary, sparkling work of history."---Kenneth S. Greenberg, Journal of the Early Republic"You can peel off layers, break off pieces and grab chunks out of In the Matter of Nat Turner, A Speculative History by Christopher Tomlins and have what I call a good book chew. Indigestion only comes because it makes you think about what you’re chewing."---Arelya J. Mitchell, The Mid-South Tribune"In the Matter of Nat Turner offers a new reading of the well-known and much written-about document purporting to record the confession of the leader of an 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia, set in the context of a thick reconstruction of the local legal and political debates about slavery and representation. Christopher Tomlins makes the argument that previous interpreters have failed to take Turner seriously as a religious thinker, reducing his visionary religious narrative to nothing more than a cover for his political objectives. . . . In the Matter of Nat Turner is a very ambitious and complex book."---Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Journal of the American Academy of Religion"An ambitious and deeply researched intellectual achievement…In the Matter of Nat Turner stands as an exemplar and benchmark of both the depth and imagination with which we ought to engage Nat Turner and the perils imposing our own facticity upon him in the process."---M. Cooper Harriss, Religious Studies Review"[In the Matter of Nat Turner] is a book about the Nat Turner revolt as much as it is about the craft of writing history. By framing his arguments in Benjaminian terms, Tomlins succeeds in addressing questions of subaltern voices, archival silences and the limits of historical narrative . . . Tomlins makes a compelling case."---Sebastian Jobs, Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature"[A] remarkably interesting book…[In the Matter of Nat Turner is] endlessly fascinating . . . [Chris Tomlins] takes us on an illuminated mystery tour of this most mysterious of events and much else besides. . . . Enriching."---Paul Harvey, Church History"In the Matter of Nat Turner is a tour de force. . . . Tomlins’s book shows how historical speculation and conjecture can be done in a way that is nonetheless solidly grounded in biblical, philosophical, anthropological, and historical context."---Angela Fernandez, Legal History"For those looking for a provocative set of speculations about Turner’s religiosity, [In the Matter of Nat Turner] provides much about which to think and argue."---Vanessa M. Holden, Journal of Social History"[A] profound new book…In the Matter of Nat Turner is a book teeming with insight. Tomlins’ provocative analysis of Turner’s own ideas will no doubt generate fruitful debate and have to be reckoned with by scholars in a variety of fields. But beyond that, Tomlins provides us with a powerful model for how to write history that both links individual biography with broader structural analysis and that centers the perspective of those long excluded."---Aziz Rana, Legal Form"Christopher Tomlins’ In the Matter of Nat Turner offers new insights into the thinking of Nat Turner and then employs those insights to meditate upon the discipline of history itself. Through his searching study of the actors and events of 1831, Tomlins interrogates contemporary historians’ own thinking and practice, their blind spots and erasures, their commitment to a disciplinary machine that yields often crushingly familiar answers. For these reasons, In the Matter of Nat Turner deserves a readership not only among historians of the antebellum South, but also among all interested in history as a modern knowledge form."---Kunal Parker, Radical Philosophy"An important, 'speculative' work of intellectual history for all academic collections." * Choice Reviews *"This book is not only tremendously enjoyable, but also a very useful addition to the field of slavery and the history of resistance and rebellion in the Americas."---Laura Sandy, Slavery and Abolition"In the Matter of Nat Turner provides a master class in what it means to explore the unwritten, to engage with the fragmentary, and to expand the potentialities of historical research."---Honor Sachs, Law and History Review"[A] brilliant and challenging book. . . . Tomlins crafts a new major interpretation in this ‘intellectual history of Nat Turner,’ centered on a compelling account of Turner’s faith and its collision with the emerging political and economic order of antebellum Virginia. . . . A richly rewarding book."---Randolph Scully, Journal of Southern History"A skillful reading and imagining of the sources . . . [and] a compelling retelling of Nat Turnerʼs life, beliefs, and intellect as well as the political significance of his rebellion."---Tamika Nunley, William & Mary Quarterly"Tomlins has succeeded in writing a distinctive sort of intellectual history. . . . In the Matter of Nat Turner offers much more than a new analysis of Turner’s Confessions."---Bradford J. Wood, North Carolina Historical Review"An incredibly complex, erudite, and thought provoking book."---Bruce E. Baker, Journal of Religious History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians""Winner of the Richard Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography, Virginia Museum of History & Culture (Virginia Historical Society)""[An] expertly constructed work, one of the handful of books on Turner destined to become essential reading for understanding the events of August 1831."---Douglas R. Egerton Le Moyne, American Historical Review"[In the Matter of Nat Turner] succeeds in challenging established assumptions about Turner’s intellectual world, and it is likely that, with its publication, historians will be much more inclined to pay more attention to the importance of religion in Turner’s rebellion."---Enrico Dal Iago, Journal of American History"A major achievement. Tomlins is a brilliant historian, and his study is full of many new insights that make significant contributions to our understanding. Most importantly, Tomlins is one of the only historians to pay careful attention to the mind of the rebel leader. . . . Tomlins has given us a well-researched, always interesting and intellectually stimulating new book on Nat Turner. We should be deeply grateful for this extraordinary, sparkling work of history."---Kenneth S. Greenberg, Journal of the Early Republic"You can peel off layers, break off pieces and grab chunks out of In the Matter of Nat Turner, A Speculative History by Christopher Tomlins and have what I call a good book chew. Indigestion only comes because it makes you think about what you’re chewing."---Arelya J. Mitchell, The Mid-South Tribune"In the Matter of Nat Turner offers a new reading of the well-known and much written-about document purporting to record the confession of the leader of an 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia, set in the context of a thick reconstruction of the local legal and political debates about slavery and representation. Christopher Tomlins makes the argument that previous interpreters have failed to take Turner seriously as a religious thinker, reducing his visionary religious narrative to nothing more than a cover for his political objectives. . . . In the Matter of Nat Turner is a very ambitious and complex book."---Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Journal of the American Academy of Religion"An ambitious and deeply researched intellectual achievement…In the Matter of Nat Turner stands as an exemplar and benchmark of both the depth and imagination with which we ought to engage Nat Turner and the perils imposing our own facticity upon him in the process."---M. Cooper Harriss, Religious Studies Review"[In the Matter of Nat Turner] is a book about the Nat Turner revolt as much as it is about the craft of writing history. By framing his arguments in Benjaminian terms, Tomlins succeeds in addressing questions of subaltern voices, archival silences and the limits of historical narrative . . . Tomlins makes a compelling case."---Sebastian Jobs, Annual Bulletin of Historical Literature"[A] remarkably interesting book…[In the Matter of Nat Turner is] endlessly fascinating . . . [Chris Tomlins] takes us on an illuminated mystery tour of this most mysterious of events and much else besides. . . . Enriching."---Paul Harvey, Church History"In the Matter of Nat Turner is a tour de force. . . . Tomlins’s book shows how historical speculation and conjecture can be done in a way that is nonetheless solidly grounded in biblical, philosophical, anthropological, and historical context."---Angela Fernandez, Legal History"For those looking for a provocative set of speculations about Turner’s religiosity, [In the Matter of Nat Turner] provides much about which to think and argue."---Vanessa M. Holden, Journal of Social History"[A] profound new book…In the Matter of Nat Turner is a book teeming with insight. Tomlins’ provocative analysis of Turner’s own ideas will no doubt generate fruitful debate and have to be reckoned with by scholars in a variety of fields. But beyond that, Tomlins provides us with a powerful model for how to write history that both links individual biography with broader structural analysis and that centers the perspective of those long excluded."---Aziz Rana, Legal Form"Christopher Tomlins’ In the Matter of Nat Turner offers new insights into the thinking of Nat Turner and then employs those insights to meditate upon the discipline of history itself. Through his searching study of the actors and events of 1831, Tomlins interrogates contemporary historians’ own thinking and practice, their blind spots and erasures, their commitment to a disciplinary machine that yields often crushingly familiar answers. For these reasons, In the Matter of Nat Turner deserves a readership not only among historians of the antebellum South, but also among all interested in history as a modern knowledge form."---Kunal Parker, Radical Philosophy"An important, 'speculative' work of intellectual history for all academic collections." * Choice Reviews *"This book is not only tremendously enjoyable, but also a very useful addition to the field of slavery and the history of resistance and rebellion in the Americas."---Laura Sandy, Slavery and Abolition"In the Matter of Nat Turner provides a master class in what it means to explore the unwritten, to engage with the fragmentary, and to expand the potentialities of historical research."---Honor Sachs, Law and History Review"[A] brilliant and challenging book. . . . Tomlins crafts a new major interpretation in this ‘intellectual history of Nat Turner,’ centered on a compelling account of Turner’s faith and its collision with the emerging political and economic order of antebellum Virginia. . . . A richly rewarding book."---Randolph Scully, Journal of Southern History"A skillful reading and imagining of the sources . . . [and] a compelling retelling of Nat Turnerʼs life, beliefs, and intellect as well as the political significance of his rebellion."---Tamika Nunley, William & Mary Quarterly"Tomlins has succeeded in writing a distinctive sort of intellectual history. . . . In the Matter of Nat Turner offers much more than a new analysis of Turner’s Confessions."---Bradford J. Wood, North Carolina Historical Review"An incredibly complex, erudite, and thought provoking book."---Bruce E. Baker, Journal of Religious History

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the Scottish Research Book of the Year, The Saltire Society""Whatmore’s magnificent account of the New Geneva experiment in Waterford . . . offers such a new vantage point. . . . [A] fascinating historical study."---Andreas Hess, Dublin Review of Books"An astounding story, masterfully told by a historian at the top of his craft."---Max Skjönsberg, Intellectual History Review

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Winner of the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association""The most important new book on revolutions to appear in decades."---Jack A. Goldstone, Mobilization

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Book SynopsisA masterful new account of old regime France by one of the world's most prominent political philosophersFrance before 1789 traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid portrait of the ancien regime and its complex social system in the decades before the French Revolution. Jon Elster writes iTrade Review"[Jon Elster] has managed to plumb the depths of archives and combine that with his penetrating insight into human behaviour. The result is a very different picture of the motivations for the revolution instead of the usual ‘let them eat cake’ variety of history."---Siddharth Singh, Open Magazine"[France before 1789] has a cool, clear style."---Hamish Gobson, Think Scotland

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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