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Cambridge University Press Resisting Dictatorship Repression and Protest in Southeast Asia
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Cambridge University Press Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Postcommunist World
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Cambridge University Press The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Collective Killings in Rural China During the Cultural Revolution
Book SynopsisAlthough it was one of the monumental events, the Cultural Revolution remains one of the most understudied political mass movements. This book will reshape the scholarship on the Cultural Revolution, both because of its stark treatment of political violence and its focus on events in the Chinese countryside.Trade Review“This is a truly terrific book, and long overdue too, leaving behind the well-trodden ground of the Red Guards in Beijing to focus unflinchingly on the horror of mass killings in the countryside. Yang Su has written a model of rigorous scholarship that squarely places the Cultural Revolution where it should have been all along, in the area of genocide studies on a par with Rwanda, as villagers turned against villagers, slaughtering each other in the hundreds of thousands.” —Frank Dikotter, University of Hong Kong, author of Mao’s Great Famine“Theoretically, this book is the first attempt showing that the development of modern genocide is not only shaped by the ideologically charged nation state, but also by the local actors and structural forces in ways quite unintended by the state actors. Empirically, this book reminds us once again that the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) is one of the greatest tragedies of the modern world. It also turns our attention from the dynamics of the Cultural Revolution in China’s urban settings to the less known stories in rural areas. This book will be on our shelves as an outstanding work in the study of the Cultural Revolution and the politics of the Chinese communist regime, genocide study, and social movement research.” —Dingxin Zhao, The University of Chicago"Su tells a heart-rendering story and contributes new insights to the burgeoning academic literature on contentious politics and genocide." — Andrew J. Nathan, Foreign Affairs"Yang Su deserves great credit for uncovering the collective killings and for his penetrating analysis of their multiple causes"Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University, H-Net ReviewsTable of Contents1. Kill thy neighbor; 2. On the record; 3. Community and culture; 4. Class enemies; 5. Mao's ordinary men; 6. Demobilizing law; 7. Framing war; 8. Patterns of killing; 9. Understanding atrocities in plain sight.
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Cambridge University Press Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
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Cambridge University Press Revolution and Constitutionalism in the Ottoman Empire and Iran
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Cambridge University Press Modern Revolutions
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Cambridge University Press Social Revolutions in Modern World Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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Cambridge University Press The Ethiopian Revolution 1974 1987
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Cambridge University Press Between States
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Cambridge University Press Caste Conflict and Ideology Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in NineteenthCentury Western India 30 Cambridge South Asian Studies Series Number 30
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Cambridge University Press The Fascist Revolution in Tuscany 1919 22
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Cambridge University Press Postcommunist Presidents
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Cambridge University Press Postcommunist Presidents
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Cambridge University Press The Crisis in Kashmir
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Cambridge University Press Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front 19751991 African Studies Series Number 91
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Cambridge University Press Political Movements and Violence in Central America
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Cambridge University Press No Other Way Out
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Cambridge University Press No Other Way Out
Book SynopsisNo Other Way Out provides a powerful explanation for the emergence of popular revolutionary movements during the Cold War era. By comparing more than a dozen countries in Southeast Asia, Central America, and Eastern Europe, Goodwin shows how revolutionaries were able to create opportunities for seizing state power.Trade Review'Jeff Goodwin's No Other Way Out is an outstanding contribution to the sociology of revolutions. It goes beyond the work of his mentor, Theda Skocpol, and will have a profound impact on the literature for years to come.' Misagh Parsa, Dartmouth College (Electronic newsletter of the ECPR-SG on Extremism and Democracy)Table of ContentsFigures, tables and maps; Abbreviations and acronyms; Preface and acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction: 1. Comparing revolutionary movements; 2. The state-centered perspective on revolutions: strengths and limitations; Part II. Southeast Asia: Chronology for Southeast Asia; 3. The formation of revolutionary movements in Southeast Asia; 4. The only domino: the Vietnamese revolution in comparative perspective; Part III. Central America: Chronology for Central America; 5. The formation of revolutionary movements in Central America; 6. Not-so-inevitable revolutions: the political trajectory of revolutionary movements in Central America; Part IV. Further Comparisons and Theoretical Elaborations: 7. Between success and failure: persistent insurgencies; Chronology for Eastern Europe; 8. 'Refolution' and rebellion in Eastern Europe, 1989; 9. Conclusion: generalizations and prognostication; Annotated bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Understanding Popular Violence in the English Revolution
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Cambridge University Press The Crisis in Kashmir
Book SynopsisThis book traces the origins of the insurgency in Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir. The first theoretically-grounded account, it is based on extensive interviews. Professor Ganguly's central argument is that the insurgency can be explained by political mobilisation and institutional decay.Trade Review'Scholarly discourse on Kashmir is mostly confined to two broad schools of thought: one favours the Indian-held Muslim majority province's goal of secession from India, while the other confronts the issue of secessionism and its legality, with the aim, very often, of providing support for the purpose of keeping Kashmir in the Indian federation. ≤umit Ganguly's Crisis in Kashmir is a welcome departure from the dual approach to the problem. … The core of the book is a balanced picture of the ongoing Kashmiri uprising since the late 1980s. What I found especially interesting is the chapter on strategies and Options for Resolving the Crisis. Ganguly's book is also noteworthy for the inclusion in the appendix of four important documents that have shaped the history of modern Kashmir.' Commonwealth and Comparative Politics'This volume represents social science at its best.' Foreign Affairs'The conflict in Kashmir … has precipitated two interstate wars and retains the potential to be the cause of another - this time between a nuclear-armed Pakistan and India. ≤umit Ganguly's brief study provides a dispassionate examination of the conflict.' Current History'Ganguly's book is a cool, controlled survey of Kashmir's recent political history, expressed in the vocabulary of political mobilization theory, followed by a review of feasible solutions.' The Times Higher Education Supplement'Essential for India specialists, political scientists, ethnicists, international theorists, and all levels of students, it can also be appreciated by general readers.' Choice'≤umit Ganguly has produced the fullest account yet of the causes and character of the Kashmir rebellion on the 1990s. Without dogma or predisposition, his analysis illuminates the sources and structure of a neglected, dangerous conflict.' Washington PostTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Maps; 1. The Kashmir conundrum; 2. Political mobilization and the onset of the insurgency; 3. The past as contrast; or, the dog that didn't bark; 4. Another war and Mrs. Gandhi's legacy; 5. The proximate causes: the Rajiv-Farooq accord and the outbreak of the insurgency; 6. The crisis worsens; 7. Strategies and options for resolving the crisis; Epilogue; Appendices; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Political Disaffection in Cubas Revolution and Exodus
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Cambridge University Press Unmodern Men in the Modern World
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Cambridge University Press Revolution and the People in Russia and China A Comparative History The Wiles Lectures
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Cambridge University Press The Constitutional Origins of the American
Book SynopsisUsing the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of constitutional organization. The failure to resolve the resulting tensions led to the thirteen continental colonies seceding from the empire in 1776.Trade Review'Who better than Jack Greene to bring us back to the unfinished business of explaining how conflicting understandings of British law paved the path to revolution? The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution makes clear exactly how uncertainties about the authority of the Crown and Parliament pushed the colonists from conciliation to intransigence.' Joyce Appleby, University of California, Los Angeles'The fruit of half a century of research and reflection, Greene's masterly book restores legal pluralism and constitutional controversy to their proper place among the causes, course, and consequences of the American Revolution.' David Armitage, Harvard University'Jack P. Greene, one of the most gifted and prolific historians of our time, has given us a concise and incisive account of the constitutional origins of the American Revolution. It is a magnificent work of historical analysis - it should shape our understanding of the causes of the Revolution for decades to come.' Richard R. Beeman, University of Pennsylvania'In this book Jack P. Greene shows why he is the dean of the constitutional historians of the eighteenth-century British Empire: he presents us with the most incisive and deeply researched account of the constitutional origins of the American Revolution ever written.' Gordon S. Wood, Brown University'Beautifully executed, it provides a compelling distillation of arguments that Greene has long been developing about the Revolution … [he] has fashioned an invaluable and succinct guide to the constitutional interpretation of the Revolution, one that succeeds in offering a clear alternative to dominant historical interpretations of the period and in placing both law and imperial relations at the heart of the discussion - where they belong.' Journal of American HistoryTable of ContentsPrologue: inheritance; 1. Empire negotiated, 1689–1763; 2. Empire confronted, 1764–6; 3. Empire reconsidered, 1767–73; 4. Empire shattered, 1774–6; Epilogue: legacy.
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Cambridge University Press The Dynamics of Military Revolution 13002050
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Cambridge University Press Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
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Cambridge University Press Reinterpreting the French Revolution
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Cambridge University Press The 1549 Rebellions and the Making of Early Modern England
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Cambridge University Press Political Movements and Violence in Central America
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Cambridge University Press Political Disaffection in Cubas Revolution and Exodus Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
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Cambridge University Press Unmodern Men in the Modern World
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Cambridge University Press A History of Russian Philosophy 18301930
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Cambridge University Press Revolution and the People in Russia and China
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Cambridge University Press Friends of Freedom
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Cambridge University Press Conflict Diaspora and Empire
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Cambridge University Press Women Gender and Rebel Governance during Civil
Book SynopsisHow is rebel governance gendered, and how does women''s participation in rebellion affect the development and execution of governance programs? The author develops a framework for evaluating and explaining rebel governance''s gendered dynamics, identifying four areas where attention to women and to gender helps us better understand these institutions: recruitment and internal organization, program expansion, development of new projects, and multi-layered governance relationships. They explore the context and significance of these dynamics using cross-conflict data on rebel governance institutions and women''s participation as well as qualitative evidence from three diverse organizations. They suggest that it is not only the fact of women''s participation that matters but the gendered nature of social and political relationships that help explain how rebels govern during civil wars. They show how women''s involvement can shape governance content and implementation and how their participation may help rebel groups expand projects and engage with civilian communities.
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Cambridge University Press The Psychology of Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Women Gender and Rebel Governance during Civil Wars
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Cambridge University Press Shapes in Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Protest Walls
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Cambridge University Press Protest Walls
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Cambridge University Press The Pilgrimage of Grace 15361537 and the Exeter Conspiracy 1538
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1915, this book is the first of two volumes describing the popular risings during the reign of Henry VIII known as the Pilgrimage of Grace and the Exeter Conspiracy. Volume One describes the political situation in 1536 that led to the risings.Table of Contents1. The turning-point; 2. Plots and tokens; 3. Affinity and confederacy; 4. Facts and rumours; 5. The rising in Lincolnshire; 6. The failure of Lincolnshire; 7. The insurrection in the East Riding; 8. The Pilgrims' advance; 9. The extent of the insurrection; 10. The musters at Pontefract; 11. The first appointment at Doncaster; 12. The first weeks of the truce; 13. The council at York; 14. The council at Pontefract.
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Cambridge University Press June Fourth
Book SynopsisThe Tiananmen protests and Beijing massacre of 1989 were a major turning point in recent Chinese history. In this new analysis of 1989, Jeremy Brown tells the vivid stories of participants and victims, exploring the nationwide scope of the democracy movement and the brutal crackdown that crushed it. At each critical juncture in the spring of 1989, demonstrators and decision makers agonized over difficult choices and saw how events could have unfolded differently. The alternative paths that participants imagined confirm that bloodshed was neither inevitable nor necessary. Using a wide range of previously untapped sources and examining how ordinary citizens throughout China experienced the crackdown after the massacre, this ambitious social history sheds fresh light on events that continue to reverberate in China to this day.Trade Review'Brown's June Fourth challenges our understanding of the 1989 Tiananmen protests that continue to haunt China today in a vivid account, richly documented, well-told and thoughtfully analyzed. This will be the standard history of Tiananmen for a generation.' Timothy Cheek, author of The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History'In a vivid narrative spanning China of the 1980s to June 4th, 1989 and its aftermath, Jeremy Brown's restrained prose pricks at the conscience of a nation, so that we too ask 'what if' - a question as relevant today as then.' Denise Chong, author of Egg on Mao'Brown re-evaluates sources with a fresh critical eye, illuminates the lives of ordinary people, including minorities and people in the provinces, and shows not just what happened but what might have happened if certain human choices had been different.' Perry Link, author of Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics'In a powerful and sometimes almost personal account of the 1989 protests, Brown retells the story of what happened in Beijing and elsewhere in China using perspectives often overlooked by scholars.' Lev Nachman, L.A. Review of Books'This lucid, thoughtful, and often riveting account by Jeremy Brown, a leading social historian of the People's Republic of China (PRC), revisits almost every dimension of the dramatic upheaval of 1989 and forces us to examine afresh what we thought we already knew.' Andrew G. Walder, Journal of Cold War Studies'Brown's book is of a critical underrepresented genre that I think will be of substantive use to many: a clear, nuanced, and comprehensive accounting of an event that so many of us teach but, because of the sheer amount of information and accounts that exist, don't always teach well.' Gina Anne Tam, Pacific Affairs'Brown skillfully assesses the turbulent June 1989 protests and massacre that occurred in Beijing through a historical rather than a political lens. … Recommended.' S. C. Hart, Choice'Brown's riveting writing takes readers to streets, provinces, and lives that bring the complexity and legacies of 1989 into sharper focus.' Jessica DiCarlo, Eurasian Geography and EconomicsTable of ContentsPart I. China's 1980s: 1. Happy; 2. Angry; 3. China's 1980s: Alternative Paths; Part II. The Tiananmen Protests: 4. The Tiananmen Protests as History; 5. Demands and Responses; 6. Backed into Corners; 7. Workers and Citizens; 8. Protests: Alternative Paths; Part III. Massacre: 9. The Beijing Massacre as History; 10. Authorized Force: Preparing to Clear the Square; 11. Permission to Open Fire; 12. Where Bullets Flew; 13. Inside the Square; 14. Victims; 15. The Massacre Continues; 16. Quiet Reckonings; 17. Massacre: Alternative Paths; Part IV. Nationwide: 18. Han versus Non-han; 19. Outside In; 20. Inside Out; 21. Rage; 22. Rural Actions and Reactions; 23. Alternative Paths Nationwide; Part V. The Aftermath: 24. The Purge as History; 25. 'Rioters'; 26. Don't call it a Yundong; 27. Going through the Motions; 28. Falsehoods and Defiance; 29. Aftermath: Alternative Paths; 30. The Future of June Fourth.
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Cambridge University Press 1989
Book SynopsisThe collapse of the Berlin Wall has come to represent the entry of an isolated region onto the global stage. On the contrary, this study argues that communist states had in fact long been shapers of an interconnecting world, with ''1989'' instead marking a choice by local elites about the form that globalisation should take. Published to coincide with the thirtieth anniversary of the 1989 revolutions, this work draws on material from local archives to international institutions to explore the place of Eastern Europe in the emergence, since the 1970s, of a new world order that combined neoliberal economics and liberal democracy with increasingly bordered civilisational, racial and religious identities. An original and wide-ranging history, it explores the importance of the region''s links to the West, East Asia, Africa, and Latin America in this global transformation, reclaiming the era''s other visions such as socialist democracy or authoritarian modernisation which had been lost in trTrade Review'This is a provocative volume that challenges the liberal Western account of the negotiated transition from Communism in 1989 by stressing the agency of East European reformers and intellectuals. It recontextualises the story as part of the global deradicalisation of socialism and interprets the region as an example of 'in-betweenness', at once part and opposite of the West.' Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill'A remarkable scholarly achievement which compels us to rethink the Eastern Europe transition of 1989 in a global context, dispensing with a Western triumphalist view of the end of the Cold War. Through painstaking detail and incisive analysis, this shows us the ways in which East Europeans continue to navigate their own political paths.' Mary Neuburger, University of Texas, Austin'Laying waste to all lingering clichés of the walled hermit kingdoms of socialist-era Eastern Europe, the authors restore the history of Cold War Eastern Europe to the world, depicting it as a region entangled in global supply chains and transnational lines of political influence long before 1989. The authors refuse simplistic narratives of convergence and help explain the contemporary challenges of nativist nationalism.' Quinn Slobodian, Wellesley College, Massachusetts'This excellent book contributes to the recent trend in bringing together Eastern European and global history, and shows the fruitfulness of collective book writing.' Philipp Ther, Universität Wien'1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe offers a nuanced and sobering account of the global context of the fall of the Eastern Bloc and its role in the construction of post-Cold War Europe … makes a unique and necessary contribution not just to the historiography of the revolutions of 1989, but also to our understanding of the rightward drift in contemporary Eastern Europe.' Nick Ostrum, EuropeNow'A must-read for every historian who deals with Eastern Europe after 1945 and especially after 1968. It shows the importance of history for explaining contemporary situations and inspires historians to draw out their research up to the present and to intervene in the public sphere.' Luboš Studený, Prague Economic and Social History Papers'Using a global approach, this extraordinary book, which was written by four authors, who all teach history at the University of Exeter as specialists of different regions (James Mark/Central Europe, Bogdan C. Iacob/Eastern Europe, Tobias Rupprecht/Latin America, and Ljubica Spaskovska/former Yugoslavia), critiques and revises a number of popular aspects of this Eurocentric myth of 1989 … an important contribution to our understanding of today's world.' Árpád von Klimo, H-Diplo'This ambitious, rich, and necessary book is the first comprehensive scholarly synthesis of the global reach of Eastern Europe from late socialism in the 1970s to the postsocialist transition after 1989 through the illiberal turn following 2008. Cowritten by four specialists on Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union, 1989: A Global History of Eastern Europe is a model for collaborative work melding regional expertise in a genuinely comparative, transnational analysis.' Theodora Dragostinova, The American Historical Review'… rich, thought-provoking account of 1989. Without doubt, the monograph will spark academic discussions and will open new avenues for research on this hotly debated period. It thus will be on the recommended list for any scholar interested in the history of the region, its global context, and its ongoing reverberations.' Ruzha Smilova, Southeastern Europe'… 1989 is probably the best transregional history of 1989 one can read today …' Judit Bodnár, Slavic ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; 0.1 Going global; 0.2 The long transition and the making of transitional elites in global perspective; 0.3 A global history of the other '1989s'; 0.4 The end of the '1989' era?; 1. Globalisation; 1.1 From socialist internationalism to capitalist globalisation; 1.2 Debt and ideological re-orientation; 1.3 The choice of 'neoliberal' globalisation; 1.4 Authoritarian transformations?; 1.5 Transformation from within; 1.6 Conclusion; 2. Democratisation; 2.1 Reforming elites; 2.2 Opposition from the local to the global and back; 2.3 Alternatives to '1989': authoritarianism and violence; 2.4 Disciplining transition and democratic peace; 3. Europeanisation; 3.1 The early Cold War: a divided Europe; 3.2 Helsinki – re-bordering Europe?; 3.3 An anti-colonial Europe: critiquing Helsinki; 3.4 A prehistory of Fortress Europe: civilisational bordering in late socialism; 3.5 Eastern Europe, a buffer against Islam?; 3.6 After 1989: 'Fortress Europe'?; 3.7 Conclusion; 4. Self-determination; 4.1 The rise of anti-colonial self-determination; 4.2 The Soviet withdrawal; 4.3 Peace or violence; 4.4 Reverberations of Eastern European self-determination; 4.5 Conclusion; 5. Reverberations; 5.1 1989 as a new global script; 5.2 Instrumentalising 1989: the West and new forms of political conditionality; 5.3 'Taming' the left; 5.4 Interventionism and the '1989' myth; 5.5 Eastern Europeans and the export of the revolutionary idea; 5.6 From Cuba to China: rejecting '1989'; 5.7 Conclusion; 6. A world without '1989'; 6.1 Towards the West? Ambiguous convergence; 6.2 Who is the true Europe? The turn to divergence; 6.3 Beyond the EU: post-socialist global trajectories; 6.4 Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press East Africa after Liberation
Book SynopsisBetween 1986 and 1994, East Africa''s postcolonial, political settlement was profoundly challenged as four revolutionary ''liberation'' movements seized power in Eritrea, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Uganda. After years of armed struggle against vicious dictatorships, these movements transformed from rebels to rulers, promising to deliver ''fundamental change''. This study exposes, examines and underlines the acute challenges each has faced in doing so. Drawing on over 130 interviews with the region''s post-liberation elite, undertaken over the course of a decade, Jonathan Fisher takes a fresh and empirically-grounded approach to explaining the fast-moving politics of the region over the last three decades, focusing on the role and influence of its guerrilla governments. East Africa after Liberation sheds critical light on the competing pressures post-liberation governments contend with as they balance reformist aspirations with accommodation of counter-vailing interests, historical trajectoriTrade Review'Jonathan Fisher's superb study of post-liberation regimes in Uganda, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Rwanda has much to tell us, not only about the states concerned, but about the legacies of liberation war more widely.' Christopher Clapham, University of Cambridge'this book explains how a new set of revolutionary regimes are reshaping politics in east Africa. Fisher draws on a deep knowledge of the region to tell the fascinating stories of leaders, insurgencies and liberation regimes, and the fraught and often surprising relationships between them, to give us a profound insight into Africa's second-generation post-colonial politics.' Julia Gallagher, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London'A path-breaking piece on African liberation movements exposing the untold story of how these regimes have undermined democracy, promoted patronage politics, and entrenched themselves in power … I recommend this book to all readers of African politics.' Sabiti Makara, Makerere University, Uganda'An authoritative and revealing tour of how liberation struggles shaped the politics of contemporary East Africa. Offering a set of challenging propositions as well as an unrivalled feel for East African political behaviour, this book is required reading for anyone interested in learning how politics in this part of the world really works.' William Reno, Northwestern University'An excellent exploration of the four East African liberation armies that seized state power at the end of the Cold War and sought to remake regional political order in their own image. Fisher teaches us that those who led these movements were neither inflexible ideologues nor calculating political operatives. Rather, like most political actors, they were something in-between. This is a foundational text for understanding the regional politics of East Africa today.' Michael Woldemariam, Boston University'This book represents a model for qualitative social science research. The depth of Fisher's understanding of his cases as armed organisations, political movements, and statesmen as well as his appreciation for the humanity of those lionised as heroes of the liberation movement make this an engaging contribution to our understanding of African politics.' Hilary Matfess, The Journal of Development Studies'Focusing on the maturation of liberation movements that came to power between the mid-1980s and mid-1990s in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Uganda, and Rwanda, this engaging, highly detailed book provides a rare view into the development of regional politics.' M. M. Heaton, Choice'Fisher's excellent political history focuses on the countries in East Africa where the current regimes came to power through successful insurgencies decades ago. His book links the fates of Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda, and Uganda and describes the impact of the many links that leaders in the four countries forged before their rises to power.' Foreign Affairs'East Africa after Liberation is not simply a historical chronology of four liberation movements and their changing faces when they came to power. It is a convincing analysis of the regional security arena through a rare glimpse behind the curtain of elite mindsets and cross-state affinities … it is a must read for scholars and practitioners …' Tim Glawion, Perspectives on PoliticsTable of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. Insurgency: 1. East Africa's post-liberation elite and the legacy of insurgency I: movement, state and society; 2. East Africa's post-liberation elite and the legacy of insurgency II: from rebellion to government; Part II. Liberation: 3. From rebels to diplomats: pragmatism, aspiration and mistrust, 1986–1995; 4. Reinventing liberation: revolution and regret in Congo and Sudan, 1995–2000; Part III. Crisis: 5. The disintegration of the Liberation Coalition,1998–2007; 6. From regional conflict to domestic crisis: regime consolidation and the fragmentation of the Old Guard, 2000–07; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press All for Liberty
Book SynopsisJeff Strickland tells the powerful story of Nicholas Kelly, the enslaved craftsman who led the Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion, the largest slave revolt in the history of the antebellum American South. With two accomplices, some sledgehammers, and pickaxes, Nicholas risked his life and helped thirty-six fellow enslaved people escape the workhouse where they had been sent by their enslavers to be tortured. While Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, and Denmark Vesey remain the most recognizable rebels, the pivotal role of Nicholas Kelly is often forgotten. All for Liberty centers his rebellion as a decisive moment leading up to the secession of South Carolina from the United States in 1861. This compelling micro-history navigates between Nicholas''s story and the Age of Atlantic Revolutions, while also considering the parallels between race and incarceration in the nineteenth century and in modern America. Never before has the story of Nicholas Kelly been so eloquently told.Trade Review'The cruelties of the Old South's criminal justice system are laid bare in this account of the Charleston Workhouse Rebellion of 1849. Strickland resurrects slave rebel Nicholas Kelly and embeds his remarkable yet forgotten uprising within the contexts of South Carolina's largest urban area, the American South, and the broader Atlantic world.' Jeff Forret, author of Williams' Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and His Cargo of Black Convicts'All for Liberty skilfully uncovers a forgotten slave rebellion in Charleston in the summer of 1849. Despite official attempts to downplay the uprising in the Charleston workhouse, sufficient evidence survives to prove that this event will lay to rest any idea that the enslaved were largely pacified between 1831 and 1861.' Tim Lockley, University of Warwick'Jeff Strickland's prodigious research in All for Liberty locates one of the nation's largest yet underappreciated slave insurrections, in Charleston's infamous Work House. His careful excavation of events persuasively links the tortured lives confined there, the impact of the Atlantic Revolutions upon them and South Carolina's response to slave agency: a drive to secession.' Bernard E. Powers, Jr, Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, College of Charleston'… brings the horrors and history of the workhouse front and center.' Harlan Greene, The Post and CourierTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Slave insurrections in the age of revolutions; 2. The slave workhouse; 3. Urban slavery; 4. The legal implications of slave resistance; 5. Rebellion at the workhouse; 6. Investigating the rebellion; 7. The crisis of fear in South Carolina; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Age of CounterRevolution
Book SynopsisThe ''Arab Spring'' has come to symbolise defeated hopes for democracy and social justice in the Middle East. In this book, Jamie Allinson demonstrates how these defeats were far from inevitable. Rather than conceptualising the ''Arab Spring'' as a series of failed revolutions, Allinson argues it is better understood as a series of successful counter-revolutions. By comparing the uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Libya and Yemen, this book shows how these profoundly revolutionary situations were overturned by counter-revolutions. Placing the fate of the Arab uprisings in a global context, Allinson reveals how counter-revolutions rely on popular support and cross borders to forge international alliances. By connecting the Arab uprisings to the decade of global protest that followed them, this innovative work demonstrates how new forms of counter-revolution have rendered it near impossible to implement political change without first enacting fundamental social transformation.Trade Review'The Age of Counter-Revolution provides the most perceptive insights into counter-revolution since the work of Arno Mayer some 50 years ago. It combines a richness of detail alongside a striking command of theoretical debates. The book contains a simple, powerful message: for revolutions to fail, counter-revolutions must succeed. In this way, counter-revolutionary projects, founded on logics of preservation and defence, are just as powerful as revolutions. The book is the hallmark of a skilful, creative operator within the history-theory loop. It is essential reading.' George Lawson, Australian National University'This book is a crucial intervention in the current debates about the Arab uprisings and their aftermath. Allinson brilliantly invites us to question our theoretical toolbox by shifting the attention to the role of counter-revolution in shaping the unfolding of these revolutions. Thoroughly researched, empirically rich, and theoretical compelling, The Age of Counter-Revolution is a must read for anyone interested in the Arab uprisings and theories of revolution more broadly.' Rima Majed, American University of Beirut'This is historical sociology at its very best. Allinson utilises Marxist concepts to offer us a theoretically rich, forensic investigation of the revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Libya, and Yemen. The Age of Counterrevolution carefully documents how these revolutionary movements were defeated by the combined efforts of the armies, the states, the elites, and the regional and international hegemons who conspired against them. It suits the powerful that their central role in smashing revolutions and movements for a better future remains hidden in the shadows; Allinson instead shines a glaring headlight straight at them. And yet one of the main messages of this book leaves us with hope for the future: that neither the success nor failure of revolutions is predetermined; better outcomes were achievable, another world was possible - and will be again.' Mandy Turner, University of ManchesterTable of Contents1. Introduction: Another world was possible?; 2. What is counter-revolution?; 3. The revolutionary situations; 4. Political revolutions and counter-revolutions: Tunisia and Egypt; 5. Militarising counter-revolution: Syria and Bahrain; 6. From revolution to state collapse: Libya and Yemen; 7. Revolutionary states? Isis and Rojava; 8. Conclusion: Where is counter-revolution going?
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