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This is a one-stop introduction to the multifaceted phenomenon of the 'Arab Spring', from the writers of Jadaliyya.
Covering the full range of issues involved in these historic events, from political economy and the role of social media, to international politics, gender, labour and the impact on culture, these firsthand accounts explore the inspirational uprisings in a way unavailable through mainstream Western and Arab media.
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Explore Captivating Stories and Facts about African American History
The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events. The people who dared to stand up and speak out against the systemic cruelty and oppression were often, brutally killed for their efforts. This has created a rich tapestry of defiant and courageous leaders and followers who have gradually pressed for the evolution of thought within the United States of America.
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Este libro es un estudio del intenso período de las Revoluciones en Europa entre 1820 y 1848, unos episodios clave para entender la historia posterior. El liberalismo, pero también un naciente y pujante nacionalismo, fueron movimientos que cuestionaron el sistema de la Restauración, un intento de recuperar el Antiguo Régimen.
Las Revoluciones parecieron fracasar pero en Occidente terminaron por asentarse los Estados liberales, pactando la alta...
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Uno de los grandes temas históricos, el de las revoluciones burguesas en la Edad Media, fue abordado con singular fecundidad por los historiadores liberales, para quienes tales insurrecciones marcaron el lejano inicio de las revoluciones burguesas de Inglaterra en el siglo XVII y de Francia entre 1789 y 1830, o contribuyeron a la formación del capitalismo al impulsar el comercio y los burgos.
La historiografía posterior orilló, sin embargo, el...
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An insightful exploration of history's 30 most influential popular revolutions and a celebration of people power-from Boudicca's uprising in AD 60 to the Arab Spring of 2011 Popular revolution has forged global superpowers, shaken empires, brought a halt to oppression, upended social and political divisions, established the first independent black nation, and given birth to legacies, ideologies, and revolutionary idols that have had a profound impact...
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El año 1808 fue el acontecimiento que precipitó el derrumbe del Antiguo Régimen español. El proceso incluyó el levantamiento de las clases populares urbanas y campesinas, en una explosión antifeudal y en contra el ejército de ocupación francés. Fue también una guerra que transformó el viejo ejército borbónico en los orígenes de un ejército nacional, que elevó a bandoleros, estudiantes, campesinos o curas a héroes populares. Finalmente,...
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If you think you know Delaware, think again. Pirates? Quakers fighting with Pennsylvania? Towns so ugly no one would settle there? With stunning pictures and straightforward storytelling, Dave Tabler opens hidden passages and describes defining moments in this founding American colony. Telling this small state's story gives you a sense of the big picture in American history.
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Mientras en Francia Napoleón III conduce a la restaurada monarquía a la república del Segundo Imperio y Cavour y Garibaldi remodelan el mapa de una Italia unificada, Bismarck, con su Ejército, domina tanto Alemania como el firmamento europeo. En las décadas centrales del siglo xix, Europa experimenta uno de los periodos más convulsos de su historia en el que el nuevo impulso revolucionario pierde fuerza frente a los vestigios del Antiguo Régimen....
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Why are some nations rich and others poor? Is it culture, the weather, geography? Perhaps ignorance of the right policies? Simply, no. None of these factors is either definitive or destiny. Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or lack of it). Based on fifteen years of original research, Acemoglu and Robinson marshall historical evidence from the...
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized African-American regiment, from 1862-1864. Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of...
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It is 1870. French armies are annihilated. Paris is encircled, bombarded, starved and humiliated. A Prussian Emperor is crowned in the Palace of Versailles. French Governments fail their citizens. Paris turns on itself in shame. The Commune is born.
1870 -1871 saw a catastrophic failure of French political and military leadership. 'Paris Falls' examines the war through the eyes of those who were there.
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John Delaney influenced many people but left scarcely any mark in recorded history. Born in Dublin and educated in Limerick, he became a Jesuit in Belgium before going to work in Ceylon. He returned to Dublin in 1913 and during the Easter Week insurrection, 1916, he walked from one point of military activity to another, chronicling all he saw in his diary. This volume contains extracts from his eyewitness accounts of the effects of 1916 on ordinary...
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Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959) was one of the most important twentieth-century historians of the French Revolution. His books include The Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France (Princeton). R. R. Palmer (1909–2002) was professor emeritus of history at Yale University and a guest scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Timothy Tackett is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Irvine.
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Cuando Ángel Perelman escribió este libro, todavía no había pasado una década del nefasto golpe de Estado que derrocó al general Perón. Aquella autodenominada "Revolución Libertadora" -popularmente rebautizada "Revolución fusiladora"- fue sucedida por gobiernos conducidos por civiles y militares que siguieron proscribiendo, persiguiendo y reprimiendo al peronismo. Las acciones de la restauración oligárquica expresada en los distintos gobiernos...
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In Limerick, the workers and their representatives take over running the city and their action is declared a 'Soviet'. The British authorities see it as a serious threat to their rule in Ireland. The workers are protesting against a severe military law that requires them to get special passes and be checked going to and from work. The restrictions follow the IRA shooting of a policeman and the wounding of another, during the rescue of an ill Republican...
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The "Arab Spring" was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. The contributors to this volume examine the legitimacy of these comparisons by exploring whether or not all modern revolutions follow a pattern or script. Traditionally, historians have studied revolutions as distinct and separate events. Drawing on close familiarity with many different cultures, languages,...
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An epic drama of world-changing events revealed through the visionary consciousness of Tatiana, one of the four daughters of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra. This is Tatiana's story, told through her diary: from idyllic childhood in the last royal family of Russia, to brutal imprisonment at the hands of the revolutionaries; from her last-minute escape and secret exile in England, for which, there exists actual historical...
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"Un apasionante recorrido, a través de la literatura de Rimbaud, por una Francia inmersa en la revolución.
La década de 1870, el momento en que el meteoro Arthur Rimbaud, el poeta genial y precoz por antonomasia, cruza el firmamento de la literatura universal para trastornarlo para siempre, suele ser soslayada en el relato convencional de la historia de Europa, y, en particular, de Francia. Sin embargo, fue el momento de dos acontecimientos particularmente...
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