Revolution

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Marilyn Yalom
Compelled To Witness: Women's Memoirs of the French Revolution
From Marie Antoinette during her final days in prison, to Charlotte Robespierre, the sister of the man responsible for ordering hundreds to the guillotine, women on both sides of the revolution were bound together by a common nightmare. Join Stanford professor Marilyn Yalom, as she uncovers first-pe...
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Christopher Hibbert
The Days of the French Revolution: The Real-Life Drama of Napoleon, Robespierre, and Danton―An Illustrated History
Works from Les Misirables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the French Revolution. Now available for the first time in years, The Days of the French Revolution brings to life the events that changed the future of Western civilization. As compelling as any fiction...
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Aaron Eddens
Seeding Empire: American Philanthrocapital and the Roots of the Green Revolution in Africa
In Seeding Empire , Aaron Eddens rewrites an enduring story about the past—and future—of global agriculture. Eddens connects today's efforts to cultivate a "Green Revolution in Africa" to a history of American projects that introduced capitalist agriculture across the Global South. Expansive in...
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Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment (Muslim International)
Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978–1979 endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that the critics are wrong. He declares t...
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Michael Barone
Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers
The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America’s Founding Fathers did not spring from a vacuum. Along with many other defining principles of our national character, they can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in British history—the late-seventeenth-centu...
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Ali Mirsepassi
The Loneliest Revolution: A Memoir of Solidarity and Struggle in Iran (Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World)
In October 1978, a day that started like any other for Ali Mirsepassi – full of anti-Shah protests – ended in near death. He was stabbed and dumped in a ditch on the outskirts of Tehran for having spoken against Khomeini. In this account, Mirsepassi digs up this and other painful memories to as...
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Sigrid Schmalzer
Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China
In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term “green revolution” to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world—and forestall the spread of more “red,” or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could no...
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Rusha Latif
Tahrir's Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution
A gripping, in-depth account of the 2011 Egyptian revolution, through the eyes of its youthful vanguard January 25, 2011, was a watershed moment for Egypt and a transformative experience for the young men and women who changed the course of their nation’s history. Tahrir’s Youth tells the ...
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Marifeli Perez-Stable
The Cuban Revolution: Origins, Course, and Legacy
This timely and provocative study provides a reexamination of the Cuban revolution and places it firmly in a historical context. Beginning with the inauguration of the republic in 1902 and addressing Castro's triumphant entry into Santiago de Cuba in 1959, The Cuban Revolution highlights the facto...
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Sweig
Inside the Cuban Revolution: Fidel Castro and the Urban Underground
Julia Sweig shatters the mythology surrounding the Cuban Revolution in a compelling revisionist history that reconsiders the revolutionary roles of Fidel Castro and Che Guevara and restores to a central position the leadership of the Cuban urban underground, the Llano. Granted unprecedented access t...
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Captivating History
Cultural Revolution: A Captivating Guide to the Cultural Revolution and Mao Zedong (Asian History)
If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cultural Revolution, then keep reading... Two captivating manuscripts in one book: The Cultural Revolution: A Captivating Guide to a Decade-Long Upheaval in China Unleashed by Mao Zedong to Preserve Chinese Communism - Mao Zedong: A Captivati...
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Arthur Scherr
The RICHMOND ENQUIRER and the Haitian Revolution: Unorthodox Journalistic Voices from the Antebellum South
This book studies the approach Thomas Ritchie’s Richmond Enquirer took on the Haitian Revolution. It focuses on the paper's coverage of two major events that most historians have overlooked: Haitian ruler Jean-Jacques Dessalines’ massacres of French colonists in 1804 and President Jean-Pierre ...
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Ada Ferrer
Freedom's Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
During the Haitian Revolution of 1791–1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on the Spanish island of Cuba barely fifty miles distant, the events in Haiti helped usher in the an...
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Paul Zane Pilzer
The Wellness Revolution: How to Make a Fortune in the Next Trillion Dollar Industry
How to make a fortune in the next big boom industry The paperback edition of this revolutionary business book, by bestselling author Paul Pilzer, shows wellness professionals and entrepreneurs how to get in on the ground floor of the booming wellness industry. A legendary entrepreneur and speaker, ...
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Trevor Burnard
Republic and Empire: Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence
A fresh look at the American Revolution as a major global event   At the time of the American Revolution (1765–83), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, Ireland, and Gibraltar. The thirteen rebellious American colonies accounted for half of the ...
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Samuel K. Fisher
The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1783
How did an unlikely group of peoples--Irish-speaking Catholics, Scottish Highlanders, and American Indians--play an even unlikelier role in the origins of the American Revolution? Drawing on little-used sources in Irish and Scottish Gaelic, The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution ...
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Jeremy Popkin
A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution
From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” ( Wall Street Journal ) account of the revolution that created the modern world The French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is more cont...
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Steve Pincus
1688: The First Modern Revolution (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England’s Glorious Revolution to claim that it—not the French Revolution—was the first truly modern revolution For two hundred years historians have viewed England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688–1689 ...
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Pauline Maier
From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain, 1765-1776
"An intellectual interpretation of the American revolution that raises it to a new height of comprehensiveness and significance. A superbly detailed account of the ideological escalation . . . that brought Americans to revolution." ―Gordon S. Wood, New York Times Book Review In this classic acco...
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James L. Hill
Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763–1818 (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies)
Creek Internationalism in an Age of Revolution, 1763–1818 examines how Creek communities and their leaders remained viable geopolitical actors in the trans-Appalachian West well after the American Revolution. The Creeks pursued aggressive and far-reaching diplomacy between 1763 and 1818 to assert...
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