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Rowman & Littlefield China in Revolution: History Lessons
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Rowman & Littlefield Contemporary Latin American Revolutions
Book SynopsisThis clear text extends our understanding of revolutions with critical narrative analysis of key case studies. Becker analyzes revolutions through the lens of participants and explores the sociopolitical conditions that led to a revolutionary situation, the differing responses to those conditions, and the outcomes of the political changes.
£64.80
Rowman & Littlefield Contemporary Latin American Revolutions
Book SynopsisThis clear text extends our understanding of revolutions with critical narrative analysis of key case studies. Becker analyzes revolutions through the lens of participants and explores the sociopolitical conditions that led to a revolutionary situation, the differing responses to those conditions, and the outcomes of the political changes.
£23.75
Rowman & Littlefield Rethinking Revolutionary Change in Europe: A
Book SynopsisReconsidering the English, French, and Russian Revolutions, this book offers an important new approach to the theoretical and comparative study of revolutions. Bailey Stone proposes an innovative “neostructuralist” integration of competing structuralist and postmodernist theory. Providing a balanced and nuanced critique of both sides, he presents new ways of understanding radical change in the European polities that created the concept—and the dramatic realities—of modern revolution. He focuses on the central issues of modernizers versus traditionalists, old regime bourgeoisies, regicides, terror, and state legitimacy. By reconciling political and cultural theories of revolutionary causation and process, Stone’s synthesis marks a critical advance in our understanding of revolution.Trade ReviewWhat a terrific book! While rigidly ‘structuralist’ and ‘postmodernist’ scholars of revolutions have vehemently attacked each other, leading to narrow and sometimes illogical views, Stone is able to keep a balanced perspective of both sides. Keeping close to the details of what actually occurred in key cases, Stone offers nuanced criticism of both views and produces a creative synthesis. This is the most important book in the theoretical and comparative study of European revolutions that I have seen in years. -- Jack A. Goldstone, George Mason UniversityA worthy companion to theBailey Stone’s The Anatomy of Revolution Revisited, this provocative book makes a strong case for taking a balanced, ‘neostructuralist’ approach to the English, French, and Russian Revolutions by applying it to five critical issues that have arisen in the recent literature. Accessible to general readers while engaging specialists, the book provides illuminating revisits of long-debated matters, such as the role of the bourgeoisie, as well as fascinating tours of less-familiar territory, such as the juridical foundations of revolutionary regicide. -- Thomas Kaiser, University of Maryland and emeritus, University of Arkansas at Little RockTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Structuralism, Postmodernism, and—Neostructuralism? 1 Modernizers versus Traditionalists in the European Revolutions 2 In Search of the Elusive Ancien Régime Bourgeoisie 3 To Kill a Monarch: From Proceduralism to Revolutionary Raison d’État 4 Circumstances versus Ideas in the Revolutionary “Furies” 5 Crises of Revolutionary Legitimacy: Thermidorian Outcomes Conclusion: Neostructuralism and the Postrevolutionary State as Historical Problem Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index
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Basic Books A New World Begins: The History of the French
Book SynopsisThe principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution that puts the reader in the thick of the debates and the violence that led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of a new society. We meet Mirabeau, Robespierre, and Danton, in all of their brilliance and vengefulness; we witness the failed escape and execution of Louis XVI; we see women demanding equal rights and black slaves wresting freedom from revolutionaries who hesitated to act on their own principles; and we follow the rise of Napoleon out of the ashes of the Reign of Terror.Based on decades of scholarship, A New World Begins is the definitive treatment of the French Revolution.
£17.09
Basic Books The Russian Revolution: A New History
Book SynopsisA “powerful revisionist history” (Times UK) illuminating the tensions and transformations of the Russian Revolution In The Russian Revolution, acclaimed historian Sean McMeekin traces the events which ended Romanov rule, ushered the Bolsheviks into power, and introduced communism to the world. Between 1917 and 1922, Russia underwent a complete and irreversible transformation. Taking advantage of the collapse of the Tsarist regime in the middle of World War I, the Bolsheviks staged a hostile takeover of the Russian Imperial Army, promoting mutinies and mass desertions of men in order to fulfill Lenin’s program of turning the “imperialist war” into civil war. By the time the Bolsheviks had snuffed out the last resistance five years later, over twenty million people had died, and the Russian economy had collapsed so completely that communism had to be temporarily abandoned. The first comprehensive history of these momentous events in over two decades, The Russian Revolution combines cutting-edge scholarship and a fast-paced narrative to shed new light on one of the most significant turning points of the twentieth century.
£16.99
Black Rose Books 1968: On the Edge of World Revolution
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£20.70
Black Rose Books On the Barricades of Berlin: An Account of the
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£51.19
Black Rose Books On the Barricades of Berlin: An Account of the
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£18.90
Broadview Press Ltd Reflections on the Revolution in France: An
Book SynopsisThis abridgement of Reflections on the Revolution in France preserves the dynamism of Edmund Burke's polemic while excising a number of detail-laden passages that are of less interest to modern readers. Brian R. Clack's introduction offers a compelling overview of the text and explores the consistency and coherence of Burke's views on revolution. Burke's critique of revolutionary politics is illuminated further by the extensive supplementary materials collected in a number of themed appendices. These include a selection of background material essential for an understanding of the Reflections, an overview of Burke's response to the American Revolution, a sampling of his earliest and later views on the French Revolution, selections from Burke's writings on reform, passages from A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, and a representative sampling of contemporary critical responses to the Reflections.Table of Contents Appendix A: Background Materials 1. Sir George Savile, Marquis of Halifax, from The Character of a Trimmer (1688) 2. The Bill of Rights, 1689 3. Edmund Burke, from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) 4. Declaration of the Rights of Men and of Citizens (1789) 5. Richard Price, from A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789) 6. Congratulatory Address from the Revolution Society to the National Assembly of France, Nov. 4, 1789 Appendix B: Burke and the American Revolution Appendix C: Burke's First Responses to the French Revolution: "Gazing with Astonishment" 1. From a Letter to the Earl of Charlemont, 9 August 1789 2. From a Letter to Charles-Jean-François Depont, November 1789 3. From "Substance of the Speech on the Army Estimates", 9 February 1790 Appendix D: Burke's Later Thoughts on the Revolution: "At War with an Armed Doctrine" 1. From Thoughts on French Affairs(1791) 2. From "Remarks on the Policy of the Allies" (1793) 3. From Letters on a Regicide Peace (1795-1797) Appendix E: Burke on Reform and Innovation 1. From "Speech on St. George's Fields Massacre", 8 March 1769 2. From Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) 3. From "Speech on the Bill for Explaining the Powers of Juries in Prosecutions for Libels", March 7, 1771 4. From "Speech on Presenting to the House of Commons (on the 11th February, 1780) a Plan for the Better Security of the Independence of Parliament, and the Economical Reformation of the Civil and other Establishments" (1780) 5. From "Speech on a Motion Made in the House of Commons, May 7, 1782, for a Committee to Inquire into the State of the Representation of the Commons in Parliament" (1782) 6. From An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791) 7. From "A Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe on the Subject of the Roman Catholics of Ireland" (1792) 8. From "A Letter to a Noble Lord" (1796) Appendix F: Burke on Rousseau and the "Philosophy of Vanity" 1. From "A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly in Answer to Some Objections to his Book on French Affairs" (1791) Appendix G: Contemporary Responses to Burke's Censure of the French Revolution 1. The Mercer-Burke Correspondence, February 1790 2. Philip Francis, from a Letter to Edmund Burke, 3 November 1790 3. Frances Burney (Madame D'Arblay), from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay (1778-1840) 4. Richard Price, from A Discourse on the Love of our Country (Fourth edition) (1790) 5. Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) 6. Catherine Macaulay, from Observations on the Reflections of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke on the Revolution in France (1790) 7. Joseph Priestley, from Letters to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke Occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) 8. Thomas Paine, from Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution (1791) 9. Jane Burke, from a Letter to William Burke, 21 March 1791 (documenting King George III's reaction to Burke's Reflections) 10. Thomas Jefferson, from a Letter to Benjamin Vaughan, 11 May 1791 11. James Mackintosh, from Vindiciae Gallicae: Defence of the French Revolution and its English Admirers, against the Accusations of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1791) 12. The Mackintosh-Burke Correspondence, December 1796 Appendix H: "Delivered Over to Infamy at the End of a Long Life" 1. Selections from Burke's two speeches on the Quebec Bill, May 1791
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North Atlantic Books,U.S. What Does Al Qaeda Want?: Unedited Communiques
Book SynopsisIn the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, al-Qaeda has become the most infamous terrorist organization in history. While their actions are deplorable, it remains a populist and idealist movement—and one that continues to spread. Despite heavy media coverage, most people are unaware of the group''s ultimate goals. Sampling from actual al-Qaeda texts, this is al-Qaeda in its own words, rather than another interpretation (which often emphasizes the inflammatory religious rhetoric) offered by the Bush administration and other factions of the Western world. Introductions and commentary provide the historical context necessary to understand fully the interconnection between the religious, social, and political issues that led to the emergence of Osama bin Laden and his jihad against the West. These primary sources enable readers to discern the fundamental convictions underlying the group''s demands, and help answer the question, 'What does al Qaeda want?'
£8.54
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sandinistas: The Party and the Revolution
Book SynopsisSandinistas is about the Nicaraguan revolution and the party that leads it, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN). In the early chapters of the book, author Dennis Gilbert tell who the Sandinistas are and what they believe. He probes the inner workings of the FSLN and the party's relations with the organized masses, the military and the revolutionary state. The second half of the book examines the Sandinistas in action, as they deal with peasants, businessmen, Christians, and Yankees. The final chapter covers the history of US-Nicaraguan relations from 1855-1988. Sandinistas is a balanced, sophisticated, readable account of the most significant revolutionary experience of our day.Table of ContentsHistorical Introduction - from Sandino to Sandinistas. Part I Sandinistas: the ideology of the FSLN; the party; the party in the state and mass organizations. Part II The party and the Revolution: peasants - Sandinista agrarian policy; the bourgeoisie and the Revolution; Christians - the Church and the revolution; Yankees and Sandinistas; Conclusion - the vanguard and the Revolution.
£37.95
Markus Wiener Publishing Inc Holy City on the Nile: Omdurman During the
Book SynopsisThe late nineteenth century of the Common Era also marked the end of the thirteenth Islamic century, a time when millions of Muslims - especially in sub-Saharan Africa - fervently expected the arrival of a Mahdi, a 'divinely guided one', who would fill the world with justice and equity and defeat the enemies of Islam. The Sudanese holy man Muhammad Ahmad, proclaiming himself to be the Expected Mahdi, famously led an uprising against Turco-Egyptian rule that culminated in the capture of Khartoum in 1885. Following his sudden death, his successor, Khalifa Abdallahi, ruled Sudan for 13 tumultuous years from Omdurman - 'the Mahdi's city' - opposite Khartoum on the Nile. A self-consciously holy city, a place of pilgrimage, Omdurman was also Sudan's market center and political capital. Its history during this era of holy war and martyrdom reveals the complexities and compromises that accompany revolutionary times and addresses the question: how should one live day-to-day in a 'holy city' at the End of Time? In our contemporary world of Islamist revolt and resurgent millennialism, Omdurman's history is particularly instructive.
£29.40
Markus Wiener Publishing Inc The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and
Book SynopsisThis book's central focus is General China, the most important but controversial leader of the notorious Mau Mau rebellion that exploded in Kenya colony during the 1950s. We read the story through the lens of China, his memoirs - now published for the first time outside of Kenya -and archival sources, to understand important themes in African history: how Africans fought for the end of colonial rule, and the complex histories of nationalist movements; how Britain tried to handle such resistance; the wider moment of decolonisation on the world stage; and how past conflicts still have contemporary relevance.
£91.20
Thunder's Mouth Press The French Quarter
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£18.50
Human Rights Watch Angola: Arms Trade and Violations of the Laws of
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£12.30
Dalkey Archive Press Sentimental Journey: Memoirs 1917-1922
Book Synopsis"One would be hard pressed to decide whether the book is more notable for what it says or for how it says it . . . Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental Journey is highly recommended." Library JournalTrade ReviewOne would be hard pressed to decide whether the book is more notable for what it says or for how it says it... Viktor Shklovsky's A Sentimental Journey is highly recommended. -- Library Journal
£9.49
Bold Type Books Marx and Marxism
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Berghahn Books, Incorporated The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and
Book Synopsis The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little that had not already been challenged and altered in the late fifties and early sixties. The workers' strikes led to fewer working hours and higher wages, but these reforms reflected the secular demands of the French labor movement. "May 1968" was remarkable not because of the actual transformations it wrought but rather by virtue of the revolutionary power that much of the media and most scholars have attributed to it and which turned it into a symbol of a youthful, renewed, and freer society in France and beyond.Trade Review CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2005 "Seidman’s work is a solid and detailed piece of research based on the most diverse sources and especially on new institutional archives that allow a greatly nuanced assessment, even a refutation of many received ideas about the events of May 1968." · Le Débat “[the book] offers a meticulous and appropriately dispassionate account of the French events of May 1968. Contributing to a more complete picture of what occurred, the book would be worthwhile reading in courses on comparative experiences of the 1960s.” · Journal of Modern History "All and all, this is a terrific book written in a lively narrative. Seidman provides us with a breadth and depth of knowledge and a balanced analysis that make his version of May 1968 usable for scholarly study as well as for the classroom." · H-France ReviewTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: May 1968—a Rupture? Chapter 1. Sex, Drugs, and Revolution Chapter 2. Making Desires Reality Chapter 3. Incendiary Occupations Chapter 4. Workers Respond Chapter 5. The Spectacle of Order Conclusion: A Modest or Mythical May? Chronology Glossary Bibliography Index
£89.10
Berghahn Books, Incorporated The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and
Book Synopsis The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning point in the Western world. The author takes a critical look at "May 1968" and questions whether the events were in fact as "revolutionary" as French and foreign commentators have indicated. He concludes the student movement changed little that had not already been challenged and altered in the late fifties and early sixties. The workers' strikes led to fewer working hours and higher wages, but these reforms reflected the secular demands of the French labor movement. "May 1968" was remarkable not because of the actual transformations it wrought but rather by virtue of the revolutionary power that much of the media and most scholars have attributed to it and which turned it into a symbol of a youthful, renewed, and freer society in France and beyond.Trade Review CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC BOOK OF THE YEAR 2005 "Seidman’s work is a solid and detailed piece of research based on the most diverse sources and especially on new institutional archives that allow a greatly nuanced assessment, even a refutation of many received ideas about the events of May 1968." · Le Débat “[the book] offers a meticulous and appropriately dispassionate account of the French events of May 1968. Contributing to a more complete picture of what occurred, the book would be worthwhile reading in courses on comparative experiences of the 1960s.” · Journal of Modern History "All and all, this is a terrific book written in a lively narrative. Seidman provides us with a breadth and depth of knowledge and a balanced analysis that make his version of May 1968 usable for scholarly study as well as for the classroom." · H-France ReviewTable of Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: May 1968—a Rupture? Chapter 1. Sex, Drugs, and Revolution Chapter 2. Making Desires Reality Chapter 3. Incendiary Occupations Chapter 4. Workers Respond Chapter 5. The Spectacle of Order Conclusion: A Modest or Mythical May? Chronology Glossary Bibliography Index
£26.55
Boydell & Brewer Ltd A Show of Hands for the Republic: Opinion,
Book SynopsisA fresh perspective on rural responses to the French Revolution, using sedition investigations to reveal how villagers took their place on the political stage. In the French village of Segonzac in 1796, weaver Thomas Bordas spoke out during a municipal ceremony. Frustrated by how stifling the politics of the Revolution had become, he proposed a show of hands: who wants a republic, and who wants a king? Soon after, he was arrested and charged with attempting to reestablish the monarchy. Drawing on archival sources ranging from village council minutes and reports of government spies to investigations into sedition and seditious speech, A Show of Hands for the Republic provides a new account of the politicization of the French peasantry from the early eighteenth century through the Revolution. Jill Maciak Walshaw demonstrates here that villagers were well-informed and outspoken on political issues. In addition, though the political authorities characterized peasants as ignorant and easily manipulated, Walshaw shows that the ruling elite also carefully monitored and suppressed their opinions, revealing a contradiction in the governing practices of the state. By documenting the lively political forum that existed in eighteenth-century rural France, this study challenges not only the bourgeois nature of the public sphere, as defined by Jürgen Habermas, but also the notion that it was predominantly urban. A Show of Hands for the Republic presents a fresh understanding of rural political culture, one in which villagers responded to revolutionary change with their own agenda and came to play a new role on the political stage. Jill Maciak Walshaw is assistant professor of history at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.Trade ReviewThis book . . . is a very considerable achievement that will have durable value. . . .It is a beautifully and carefully produced volume that does credit to the fine contents. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *[Walshaw's] book is a lively guide to the issues and her new evidence is instructive and also tantalizing. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Walshaw's book is meticulously researched, with evidence gathered from eight different departmental archives in different areas of France. She treats her sources with care, recognizing the difficulty in drawing conclusions about peasants from sources produced and/or mediated by government officials. * H-NET REVIEWS *Walshaw's study makes important and original contributions to ongoing debates on rural politicization, peasant participation in the Revolution and counter-Revolution, and the nature of the eighteenth-century public sphere. * Jeremy Hayhoe, professor of history, Université de Moncton *A Show of Hands for the Republic offers an excellent overview of French rural society and the changing dynamics between center and periphery in the eighteenth century. Walshaw's careful analysis of prosecutions for seditious speech in southwestern villages supplies fresh insights into peasant responses to the Revolution and, just as important, the state's increasing awareness of peasant agency. * Liana Vardi, professor of history, University at Buffalo, *[A] valuable book that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of how the Revolution was received and communicated in the countryside and how certain villagers expressed their political opinions in an enlarged public sphere. Walshaw should be congratulated for a fine and detailed study of rural politicization in the eighteenth century. * H-FRANCE *Table of ContentsIntroduction La France Profonde? News and Political Information in the Village From Émotion Populaire to Seditious Words: Rural Protest in the Ancien Régime Bringing Them into the Fold: The Struggle against Ignorance and Dissent in the French Revolution "Long Live Louis XVII": The Prosecution of Seditious Speech during the French Revolution Tricksters, Dupes, and Drunkards: Truth and Untruth in the Search for Rural Political Opinion Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£92.00
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Understanding the Venezuelan Revolution: Hugo
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£71.51
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Che Guevara: His Revolutionary Legacy
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£73.24
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Che Guevara: His Revolutionary Legacy
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£17.15
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Mexico's Revolution: Then and Now
Book SynopsisWritten to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the first predominantly anti-capitalist revolution in the world, Mexico's Revolution Then and Now is the perfect introductory text and one that will also sharpen the understanding of seasoned observers. Cockcroft provides readers with the historical context within which the revolution occurred; explains how the revolutionary process has played out over the past ten decades; tells us how the ideals of the revolution live on in the minds of Mexico's peasants and workers; and critically examines the contours of modern Mexican society, including its ethnic and gender dimensions. Well-deserved attention is paid to the tensions between the rulers and the ruled inside the country and the connected tensions between the Mexican nation and the neighboring giant to the north. Mexico's Revolution Then and Now also explores the possibility of Mexico's revolutionary history finally bearing the fruit long hoped for by the country's disenfranchised-a prospect kept alive by the unyielding struggle of the last one hundred years. This is the definitive introduction to one of the most important events of the twentieth century.
£12.34
Monthly Review Press,U.S. Mexico's Revolution: Then and Now
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£74.90
PublicAffairs,U.S. The Wonga Coup: Guns, Thugs, and a Ruthless
Book SynopsisEquatorial Guinea is a tiny country roughly the size of the state of Maryland. Humid, jungle covered, and rife with unpleasant diseases, natives call it Devil Island. Its president in 2004, Obiang Nguema, had been accused of cannibalism, belief in witchcraft, mass murder, billiondollar corruption, and general rule by terror. With so little to recommend it, why in March 2004 was Equatorial Guinea the target of a group of salty British, South African and Zimbabwean mercenaries, travelling on an American-registered ex-National Guard plane specially adapted for military purposes, that was originally flown to Africa by American pilots? The real motive lay deep below the ocean floor: oil. In The Dogs of War , Frederick Forsyth effectively described an attempt by mercenaries to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea , in 1972. And the chain of events surrounding the night of March 7, 2004, is a rare case of life imitating art,or, at least, life imitating a 1970s thriller,in almost uncanny detail. With a cast of characters worthy of a remake of Wild Geese and a plot as mazy as it was unlikely, The Wonga Coup is a tale of venality, overarching vanity and greed whose example speaks to the problems of the entire African continent.
£14.24
Westholme Publishing The Battle of Musgrove's Mill, 1780
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£25.20
Westholme Publishing The Battle of Harlem Heights, 1776
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£22.40
Westholme Publishing United for Independence: The American Revolution
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£24.00
Westholme Publishing South Carolina Provincials: Loyalists in British
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£30.00
Westholme Publishing Journal of the American Revolution 2023: Annual
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£30.00
Westholme Publishing Revolutionary Blacks: Discovering the Frank
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£28.00
Independent Institute,U.S. Che Guevara Myth and the Future of Liberty
Book SynopsisNearly four decades after his death, the legend of Che Guevara has grown worldwide. In this new book, Alvaro Vargas Llosa separates the myth from the reality of Che's legacy, and shows that Che's ideals were a re-hash of notions about centralised power that have long been the major source of suffering and misery in the underdeveloped world. With testimonies from witnesses of Che's actions, Alberto Vargas Llosa's detailed account of the real Che sets the record straight by exposing the delusion at the heart of the Che phenomenon. Vargas Llosa shows that Che's legacy - making the law subservient to the most powerful, crushing any and all dissent, and concentrating wealth under the guise of social equality - is not the solution to poverty and injustice but is the core of the problem.Besides exposing the dark truths of Che's ideology and actions, "The Che Guevara Myth and the Future of Liberty" elaborates on attempts by both the left and right to suppress liberty and examines the manifestation of Latin American spirit throughout the ages, from early indigenous trade to today's enterprising communities overcoming government impediments. In so doing, the book points to the real revolution among the poor - the liberation of individuals from the constraints of state power in all spheres, public and private. Whether you love or hate Che, "The Che Guevara Myth and the Future of Liberty" will not leave you untouched and will provide a powerful, new perspective on how to overcome the challenges facing the Third World.
£11.18
Modern Language Association of America Teaching Representations of the French Revolution
Book SynopsisIn many ways the French Revolution-a series of revolutions, in fact, whose end has arguably not yet arrived-is modernity in action. Beginning in reform, it blossomed into wholesale attempts to remake society, uprooting the clergy and aristocracy, valorizing mass movements, and setting secular ideologies, including nationalism, in motion. Unusually manifold and complicated, the revolution affords many teaching opportunities and challenges. This volume helps instructors seeking to connect developments today-terrorism, propaganda, extremism-with the events that began in 1789, contextualizing for students a world that seems always unmoored and in crisis.The volume allows instructors to teach the revolution's ongoing project across geographic areas (from Haiti, Latin America, and New Orleans to Spain, Germany, and Greece), governing ideologies (human rights, secularism, liberty), and literatures (from well-known to newly rediscovered texts). Interdisciplinary, intercultural, and insurgent, the volume's energy reflects its subject.Trade Review[T]his volume, with its clear, jargon-free prose, welcomes newcomers to the field, especially professors who may be daunted by teaching the French Revolution for the first time."" - Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach
£34.81
Pathfinder Press The Communist Manifesto
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£6.82
Pathfinder Press Manifiesto Comunista
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£7.61
Pegasus Books The Russian Civil War
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£15.26
Nova Science Publishers Inc Political Context Behind Successful Revolutionary
Book SynopsisRevolutionary warfare is a struggle for political power over some defined geographic area regardless of the backdrop. With this in mind, winning the hearts and minds of the population is not necessarily an objective of the insurgents (as the current wars with Islamic extremists adduce). This book also examines how governments can squander their advantages vis-á-vis insurgents. Accordingly, the author applies this framework to three case studies: Vietnam (1955-63), Algeria (1945-62), and Nicaragua (1967-79) to gain a greater appreciation of how government pathologies, and not insurgent strategy, are the major determinant of insurgent success.
£39.74
Haymarket Books The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917: The End
Book SynopsisThe February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 is the most comprehensive book on the epic uprising that toppled the tsarist monarchy and ushered in the next stage of the Russian Revolution. Hasegawa presents in detail the intense drama of the nine days of the revolution, including the workers' strike, soldiers' revolt, the scrambling of revolutionary party activists to control the revolution, and the liberals' conspiracy to force Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate.Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsList of MapsList of Abbreviations Russia and the First World War 1 Russia Enters the War2 The Political Crisis of the Summer 19153 Deepening Gulf: The Government and the Liberals, 19164 Petrograd during the War5 The War and the Workers6 The War and the Revolutionary Parties On the Eve 7 The Tsar, the Tsarina, and the Government8 The Security of Petrograd9 The Liberal Opposition10 The Liberals, Conspiracies, and the Freemasons11 The Workers and the Revolutionary Parties The Uprising 12 The Beginning: February 2313 The Second Day: February 2414 The General Strike: February 2515 Bloody Sunday: February 2616 The Insurrection, February 27 The Petrograd Soviet and the Duma Committee 17 The Formation of the Petrograd Soviet18 The Formation of the Duma Committee19 The First Steps of the Duma Committee20 The Petrograd Soviet and the Masses21 The ‘Transfer’ of Power The Abdication of Nicholas II 22 Nicholas II and the Revolution23 The Duma Committee and the Monarchy24 The Stavka and Counterrevolutionary Attempts25 The Abdication of Nicholas II26 The Duma Committee’s Delegates The Formation of the Provisional Government and the Birth of Dual Power 27 The Formation of the Provisional Government28 Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich’s Renunciation of the Throne29 The Provisional Government, the State Duma, and the Birth of Dual Power30 ConclusionBibliographyIndex
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Haymarket Books Leaflets of the Russian Revolution: Socialist
Book SynopsisWhen workers and peasants rose up across Russia and smashed the centuries old Tsarist autocracy their actions reverberated across the world, and continue to inspire activists to this day. This carefully assembled and expertly translated collection of documents from the Petrograd socialist movement in 1917 provides contemporary readers with a firsthand glimpse into the revolutionary ferment as it unfolds. In Leaflets of the Russian Revolution, Barbara Allen selects and introduces the pamphlets and other agitational material that give life to the debates, disagreements and perspectives that animated the masses during the revolution.Trade Review”An indispensable collection. These texts, and Barbara Allen's expert curation and explication, bring to vivid life the astonishing tussles, turns and transformations of 1917, Russia's revolutionary year.” —China Miéville, author of October "Authentic human voices are what we hear in these leaflets from the Russian Revolution of 1917. The leaflets, emanating from different socialist parties and workers' organizations, recreate all the vividness and excitement of contemporary debates, while the helpful introduction and notes provide the necessary historical context." —Sheila Fitzpatrick, author of The Russian Revolution “In this valuable volume, Barbara Allen furnishes all those interested in the Russian revolution with an important collection of political leaflets reflecting the epoch-defining struggle for power in 1917 Russia. Allen’s fine translations and insightful introductions add to the value of the collection.” —Alexander Rabinowitch, author of The Bolsheviks in Power “The leaflets, nicely translated, take the reader into the fervent debates between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks during the 1917 revolution. Allen pays particular attention to Alexander Shlyapnikov, a level-headed Bolshevik metal worker who was involved in party and union organizing. She also provides clear, comprehensive introductions to the materials. The result is a collection that goes beyond the party luminaries and into the ranks of lower ranking activists. Most of these materials heretofore have been available only in Russian.” —Barbara Clements, author of A History of Women in RussiaTable of ContentsTable of Contents (proposed chapter titles plus subtitles and/or brief descriptions):Preface, Acknowledgements, and Notes Part I: The Revolutionary Year 1917 (Essay) Part II: The Political Struggle - Leaflets of Russian Socialist Parties & Soviets “To the Revolutionary Students of Russia,” December 1916 “The Day of the People’s Wrath is Near,” January 9, 1917 “Only a Provisional Government Can Bring Peace,” January 24, 1917 “For a Provisional Revolutionary Government,” February 1917 “A Day to Prepare for Conquering the Enemy,” February 21, 1917 “For a General Strike Against Autocracy,” February 27, 1917 “Soldiers, Take Power into Your Own Hands!,” March 1, 1917 “Joining Together to Achieve Peace,” March 14, 1917 “Calling for Peace…And Renewed Offensives,” May 2, 1917 “A Bolshevik Appeal Finds an Echo in the Streets,” June 9, 1917 “Responses to the July Days Uprising,” July 3-4, 1917 “The Bolsheviks Retreat in order to Advance,” July 5, 1917 Part III: Worker Militias and Red Guard Project for party militias drawn up by the Petersburg Committee of the RSDRP(b) in mid-April 1917. “Draft Statute of the Worker Guard” of Vyborg District, April 29, 1917 Anonymous, “About the Red Guard” [Menshevik position] April 29, 1917 Alexander Shlyapnikov, “About the ‘Red Guard’” [Bolshevik position] May 5, 1917 Part IV: The Economic Struggle – Documents of the Petrograd Metalworkers’ Union Resolutions of Petrograd metalworkers’ representatives about the political and economic situation in Russia, summer 1917 Alexander Shlyapnikov, “Our Wage Rates Agreement,” August 17, 1917 Alexander Shlyapnikov, “We Should Have Only One Union of Metalworkers,” August 17, 1917 Alexander Shlyapnikov, “Tasks of the Wages Rates Valuation Commissions,” October 1, 1917 Alexander Shlyapnikov, “Once More about the Organization of Unions,” November 9, 1917 Alexander Shlyapnikov, “About the Conference of the Metalworkers’ Union of Moscow Oblast,” November 9, 1917 (excerpt) Epilogue: “To All Workers” from the People’s Commissar of Labor December 22, 1917 Bibliography Index
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Haymarket Books The Red International Of Labour Unions (rilu)
Book SynopsisThe 'Red International of Labour Unions' (RILU) was a central instrument for the spreading of international communism during the inter-war period. This comprehensive history, based on extensive research in the former communist archives in Moscow and East Berlin, sheds significant light on the international trade union movement of the period, tracing the evolution of RILU from its origins to dissolution.Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION 1. FROM TRADE UNION INTERNATIONALISM TO THE INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS 2. IN SEARCH OF A REVOLUTIONARY TRADE UNION INTERNATIONAL 2.1 The International Politics of the All-Russian Central Council of Trade Unions 1917–20 2.2 The Communist International and the Trade-Union Question 2.3 The Impact of the October Revolution on the Revolutionary Syndicalists 2.4 The First Trade Union Contacts: The Question of the International Trade Secretariats and Shliapnikov’s Mission 3. THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION COUNCIL (1920–1) 3.1 Its Foundation 3.2 The Sequel: The Second Comintern Congress and the Trade-Union Question 3.3 The Organisation of the International Trade Union Council 3.4 The Foreign Delegations of the VTsSPS in Autumn 1920: Making Propaganda for the International Trade Union Council 3.5 ‘Amsterdam’ or ‘Moscow’: The Course of the Argument within the IFTU after the Foundation of the International Trade Union Council 3.6 The Syndicalists En Route for Moscow 3.7 The International Trade Union Council, 1920–1: Its Programme, Activities and Organisation 3.8 Towards the Founding Congress: Discussions Between the ITUC and the Delegates 3.9 The Russian Trade Unions and the International Trade Secretariats, 1920–1 4. THE FOUNDING CONGRESS OF THE RED INTERNATIONAL OF LABOUR UNIONS 4.1 The Course of the Congress: The RILU is Established 4.2 Relations Between the Comintern and the RILU 4.3 The Tactics, Organisation and Statutes of the RILU 4.4 The First RILU Congress Draws to a Conclusion 4.5 The Syndicalist Opposition and the Question of the Anarchist Prisoners 4.6 Excursus: The Trade Union Discussion at the Third Comintern Congress 4.7 The Formation of the RILU Leadership: The First Session of the Central Council 4.8 The Creation of the International Propaganda Committees 5. FROM THE FIRST TO THE SECOND CONGRESS OF THE RILU 5.1 Should the RILU Be Disbanded? Resignations and Demands for Liquidation 5.2 The Syndicalists between Moscow and Berlin 5.3 The Development of the RILU as an Organisation and a Political Entity: From the First to the Second Congress 5.4 The International Trade Secretariats and the International Propaganda Committees, 1921–2 5.5 The Second Congress of the Red International of Labour Unions 5.6 Excursus: Organisational Connections Grow Closer: The RILU becomes the Comintern’s International Trade Union Apparatus 6. THE UNITED FRONT THAT DIDN’T HAPPEN IN 1923: THE ROLE OF THE RILU 6.1 From the Hague Congress to the Ruhr Crisis: Fimmen Breaks Ranks 6.2 The Attempt to Achieve the United Front through the International Trade Secretariats 6.3 The Third Session of the Central Council 6.4 A ‘German October’? The Lessons of Defeat 6.5 The RILU as an Organisation at the Beginning of 1924: An Interim Summary 7. THE RILU BETWEEN 1924 AND 1927: IN DANGER OF DISSOLUTION FOR THE SAKE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION UNITY 7.1 The Trades Union Congress Brings About a Turn to the Left in the IFTU 7.2 Moscow Takes the Road to Unity: The Fifth Comintern Congress and the Third RILU Congress 7.3 The Anglo-Russian Committee and the International Movement for Trade Union Unity 7.4 The Fourth Session of the Central Council 7.5 A Way to Gain New Influence? Initiatives Taken by the RILU Leadership in China and Other Countries 8. THE RILU IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ‘ULTRA-LEFT’ POLICY OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM 1928–34 8.1 Trotskyist Opposition in the RILU? The Nin Affair and the Rift with the Dutch Leftists 8.2 The Radicalisation of the RILU’s Course by Lozovsky and the Sanctioning of the New Approach by the Fourth Congress 8.3 The New Line is Applied Across the Board 8.4 The Sixth Session of the Central Council, The Fifth RILU Congress and the Eighth Session of the Central Council 8.5 Organisational Inflation as a Compensation for Political Decline 9. THE END OF THE ROAD: THE RILU FROM 1934–7 9.1 Trade-Union Unity Under the Banner of the Turn to the Popular Front 9.2 The Seventh Comintern Congress and the International Trade Union Discussion 9.3 The Dissolution of the RILU 9.4 The Sequel: The Russian Trade Unions Again Attempt to Enter the IFTU CONCLUSION APPENDICES Appendix 1: Lozovsky and the Bolsheviks before 1920: A Biographical Sketch Appendix 2: Biographies of Other Leading Figures BIBLIOGRAPHY INDICES Index of Names Index of Trade Union Organisations
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Haymarket Books Eyewitnesses To The Russian Revolution
Book SynopsisTells the story of The Russian Revolution with riveting eyewitness accounts. One hundred years ago, workers and peasants in Russia turned the world upside down when they overthrew their Tsar, took over their factories, farms, and schools, and set out to build a new society. In this gripping reader, participants and firsthand observers of the revolution tell the inspiring, heroic, and sometimes tragic story of what happened over the course of 1917. Includes contributions from: Leon Trotsky, Rosa Luxemburg, Vladimir Lenin, John Reed, Louise Bryans, and others.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Todd Chretien Acknowledgements A note on text and sources I. Causes and meaning of the Russian Revolution 1. From the Preface to The History of the Russian Revolution by Leon Trotsky 2. From The Fundamental Significance of the Russian Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg 4. Five Days, scenes from the February Revolution by Leon Trotsky II. The February Revolution 3. The storm bursts by Claude Anet 4. Scene from Five Days by Leon Trotsky III. A springtime of dual power 5. Political parties in Russia and the tasks of the proletariat by V.I. Lenin 6. The Provisional Government prevaricates by Claude Anet 7. Lenin returns to Russia by Fyodor Raskolnikov and Claude Anet 8. April Theses: the tasks of the proletariat in the present revolution by V.I. Lenin 9. Tsereteli’s April Anti-Theses by Claude Anet 10. Kerensky’s first visit to the Army by Alexander Kerensky 11. June 18 Soviet demonstration and the rise of the Bolsheviks by N.N. Sukhanov 12. Bolsheviks on Battleships by Fyodor Raskolnikov IV. The July Days and the Kornilov counterrevolution 13. The July Days by Leon Trotsky 14. The Kornilov Coup by Alexander Kerensky 15. Fight Kornilov, but don’t support Kerensky by V.I. Lenin 16. Use Kerensky as a gun-rest to shoot at Kornilov by Leon Trotsky 17. A peaceful road to All Power to the Soviets? by V.I. Lenin 18. Overview of situation in September of 1917 by Morgan Philips Price V. Debating insurrection 19. Provisional Government and Soviet by Arthur Ransome 20. Marxism and insurrection by V.I. Lenin 21. Bolsheviks vote on insurrection by N.N. Sukhanov and Bolshevik Central Committee 22. Preparing October by Albert Rhys Williams VI. The October Revolution 23. Smolny and the Winter Palace by Louise Bryant 24. Women fighters in the October Revolution by Alexandra Kollantai 25. The Soviets take power by John Reed 26. The intelligenstia desert by Albert Rhys Williams 27. Mensheviks walk out and split by N.N. Sukhanov 28. The October Days by Nadezdha Krupskaya 29. The Congress of the Soviet Dictatorship by Leon Trotksy VII. Workers Power 30. Kerensky is coming! by John Reed 31. The fall of the Constituent Assembly by Isaac Nachman Steinmberg 32. Radek at Brest-Litovsk by William Hard and Col. Ray Robins 33. The Far Eastern Soviet in Siberia by Gertrude M. Tobinson 34. The red convicts of Cherm by Albert Rhys Williams 35. A rural district under the Bolsheviks by John Rickman 36. Cooperatives and life in Moscow by Anonymous 37. Art Under the Bolsheviks by Floyd Dell 38. Religion under the Bolsheviks by Anonymous 39. The origins of workers control in Russia by John Reed 40. Are Soviet Women Nationalized? by Louise Bryan 41. Ministry of Social Welfare by Louise Bryant 42. The First Woman Commissar by Alexandra Kollantai 43. Women Workers and Soviet Russia by Inessa Armand VIII. Characters in the Russian Revolution 44. Profiles by Louise Bryant 45. Sketches by Anatoly Lunacharsky IX. Bolsheviks in America 46. The day of the people has arrived by Eugene V. Debs 47. Lenin’s letter to American workers by V.I. Lenin 48. Bolshevism in America by John Reed 49. 15,000 Bolshevist sympathizers in Madison Square Garden by the New York Call 50. Greetings to Russian workers by Seattle Central Labor Council 51. Bread and roses in Russia and the United States by Rose Pastor Stokes 52. Address to the Jury in the Second Masses Trial by Max Eastman 53. On the anniversary of Revolution by Max Eastman 54. Soviets and Racist Hypocrisy in America by A. Philip Randolph and Chandler Owen 55. A New Crowd –A New Negro by A. Philip Randolph 56. Bolshevism and the “rising tide of color” by Cyril Briggs X. By way of an assessment 57. Retrospective on the Russian Revolution by Albert Rhys Willams Chronology Glossary Further reading
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Haymarket Books Red Petrograd: Revolution in the Factories,
Book SynopsisA deeply engaging study, unmatched in its depth, of factory life in Petrograd over the course of Russia's revolutionary year. When the Russian autocracy fell in February 1917, workers across Petrograd took it as a signal to begin democratising every aspect of their lives, including their working lives. In this classic study, S.A. Smith vividly captures the creation, development, and expansion of the factory councils across the city.Trade ReviewJustly celebrated as a towering, vivid, historically vital work.” China Miéville "The classic study of the role and behavior of Petrograd factory workers during the Great Russian Revolution. Based on thorough study of the relevant sources, Smith presents a nuanced, compelling sense of the ultimately decisive dialectical relationship between the powerful revolution from below and the triumph of Bolshevism in Red Petrograd.” Alexander Rabinowitch, author, The Bolsheviks Come to Power“Justly celebrated as a towering, vivid, historically vital work.” —China Miéville "The classic study of the role and behavior of Petrograd factory workers during the Great Russian Revolution. Based on thorough study of the relevant sources, Smith presents a nuanced, compelling sense of the ultimately decisive dialectical relationship between the powerful revolution from below and the triumph of Bolshevism in Red Petrograd.” —Alexander Rabinowitch, author, The Bolsheviks Come to Power
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Haymarket Books The French Revolution And Historical Materialism:
Book SynopsisIn this stirring and persuasive defence of the classical Marxist view of the French Revolution as a bourgeois and capitalist revolution, Henry Heller lays to rest the stylish revisionism on the subject that still dominates in academic circles. Based mainly on articles published in the journal Historical Materialism, Heller that the rise of a bourgeois capitalist class in France stretches back to the sixteenth century, and that the Revolution itself played a large role in strengthening this nascent class politically and economically.Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1 Introduction: French Revolution and Historical MaterialismChapter 2 JaurèsChapter 3 Review of Paysans et seigneurs en Europe: une histoire comparée, XVIe–XIXe siècle, Guy Lemarchand, Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011 Chapter 4 The Longue Durée of the French BourgeoisieChapter 5 Response to Henry Heller’s ‘The Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie’by William BeikChapter 6 Henry Heller and the ‘Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie’by David ParkerChapter 7 Response to William Beik and David ParkerChapter 8 French Absolutism and Agricultural Capitalism: A Comment on Henry Heller’s Essaysby Stephen MillerChapter 9 Stephen Miller on Capitalism and the Old Regime: A ResponseChapter 10 Marx, the French Revolution, and the Spectre of the BourgeoisieChapter 11 Review of Jeff Horn, The Path Not Taken: French Industrialization in the Age of Revolution, 1750–1830Chapter 12 Bankers, Finance Capital And The French Revolutionary Terror, 1791–4BibliographyIndex
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Seven Stories Press,U.S. A Girl's Story
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Red and Black Publishers The Bolshevik Myth: An Anarchist's Eyewitness Account of the Betrayal and Failure of the Russian Communist Revolution
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PublicAffairs,U.S. The Arab Uprising: The Unfinished Revolutions of
Book SynopsisBarely a year after the self-immolation of a young fruit seller in Tunisia, a vast wave of popular protest has convulsed the Middle East, overthrowing long-ruling dictators and transforming the region's politics almost beyond recognition. But the biggest transformations of what has been labeled as the"Arab Spring” are yet to come. An insider to both American policy and the world of the Arab public, Marc Lynch shows that the fall of particular leaders is but the least of the changes that will emerge from months of unrest. The far-ranging implications of the rise of an interconnected and newly-empowered Arab populace have only begun to be felt. Young, frustrated Arabs now know that protest can work and that change is possible. They have lost their fear- meanwhile their leaders, desperate to survive, have heard the unprecedented message that killing their own people will no longer keep them in power. Even so, as Lynch reminds us, the last wave of region-wide protest in the 1950s and 1960s resulted not in democracy, but in brutal autocracy. Will the Arab world's struggle for change succeed in building open societies? Will authoritarian regimes regain their grip, or will Islamist movements seize the initiative to impose a new kind of rule? The Arab Uprising follows these struggles from Tunisia and Egypt to the harsh battles of Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and Libya and to the cautious reforms of the region's monarchies. It examines the real meaning of the rise of Islamist movements in the emerging democracies, and the longterm hopes of a generation of activists confronted with the limits of their power. It points toward a striking change in the hierarchy of influence, as the old heavyweights- Iran, Al Qaeda, even Israel- have been all but left out while oil-rich powers like Saudi Arabia and"swing states” like Turkey and Qatar find new opportunities to spread their influence. And it reveals how America must adjust to the new realities. Deeply informed by inside access to the Obama administration's decision-making process and first-hand interviews with protestors, politicians, diplomats, and journalists, The Arab Uprising highlights the new fault lines that are forming between forces of revolution and counter-revolution, and shows what it all means for the future of American policy. The result is an indispensible guide to the changing lay of the land in the Middle East and North Africa.Trade ReviewA Foreign Policy "Book to Read in 2012" Robin Wright, author of Rock the Casbah: Rage and Rebellion across the Islamic World"A wonderfully thoughtful book that captures a truly historic juncture in the Arab world. By chronicling the first volatile year of the Arab uprisings, Lynch has provided the essential guide to understanding what happens next - both for the participants living through it and for the anxious outside world surprised by the passions unleashed." Colin Kahl, Associate Professor, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East "If you read only one book about the uprisings sweeping the Arab world, it should be this one. Marc Lynch coined the term "the Arab public sphere" a decade before anyone in the West knew it existed and has been an active observer of and participant in it ever since. He chronicles decades of Arab protests, pan-Arabism, and Arab government repression to provide vital context for present events and draws on his deep country-by-country expertise to map future challenges for American foreign policy across the Arab world." Kirkus "One of the most profound books about the nature of the transformations under way, of the consciousness of the public squares and the new popular anger in today's Arab world." The Economist "Of all the books on the extraordinary events of the past 15 months, this is one of the most illuminating and, for policymakers, the most challenging." Foreign Affairs "informed and engaging" Washington Monthly"Lynch has written a clear-eyed, highly readable guide to the forces in the region that gave rise to the Arab uprisings and the very real challenges they present for the U.S. Indispensably, he presents the material in a way that is neither excessively romantic about democracy's chances nor excessively fearful about the greater role Islamists will no doubt play in a newly empowered Arab public square." "The extraordinary events associated with the Arab Spring have produced a chaotic mix of transitioning democracies, reactionary autocracies, and civil strife. But, as Marc Lynch explains in his brilliant new book, The Arab Uprising, regardless of the fate of individual rulers or the course of particular movements, the nature of politics in the Arab world has been forever transformed. A new generation has leveraged 21st-century technologies and tapped into a sense of interconnectedness and common identity to obliterate the old order. Nobody is better suited to navigate the reader through these turbulent waters than Lynch, one of the world's top Middle East scholars and a pioneer in the study of new media and social activism in the Arab world. Lynch has produced the most comprehensive and balanced account yet written of the origins and implications of the changes currently sweeping this vital region. The Arab Uprising promises to remain essential reading on the subject for years to come." Anne-Marie Slaughter "[Lynch] who has been following recent events closely...reexamines important precedents in mass uprisings that took place in convulsive waves during the Arab Cold War of the 1950s, and were brutally suppressed...[he] also examines the key role initially played by the Al-Jazeera network in coverage of the Tunisia uprising, keenly watched by the Egyptians in convincing them their own efforts could be successful...A timely survey of complex historical and current events." Publishers Weekly "A nuanced, insightful analysis of the Arab insurrections, with ample historical context... In this thought-provoking book, Lynch earns his right to implore U.S. citizens to trust Middle Eastern countries to reshape their political space." Booklist "Lynch, a political scientist and advisor to the Obama administration, analyzes the recent and ongoing political changes taking place in the Middle East and ventures some predictions about what may come...Timely, informative, and recommended for current events and regional history collections." Al-Ghad (Jordan)
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