Catálogo de libros: Revoluciones, levantamientos y rebeliones

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  • Rethinking the Age of Revolutions
    Much of the historiography on the age of democratic revolutions has seemed to come to a halt until recent years. Historians of this period have tried to develop new explanatory paradigms but there are few that have had a lasting impact. David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker seek to break through the narrow views of this period with research that reaches beyond the traditional geograp...
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    47,16 €

  • Reflections on the Revolution in France
    Edmund Burke
    Edmund Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France” is considered by many to be a masterpiece of political analysis and a compelling rationale against the French Revolution. Originally written as a letter in response to a young Parisian and later expanded upon and published in book format in January 1790, the work has greatly influenced conservative and classic liberal int...
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    13,61 €

  • My Conquest of Mexico
    Ben Muse
    'Until the adventure that I am about to relate, I had been a tolerably well-behaved North Carolina boy.' In 1914 Ben Muse, then 16 years old and just out of high school, decided he had behaved himself long enough. He left his family home in Durham, North Carolina, and traveled to Mexico City to observe and report on the Mexican Revolution, which was then at its height. While in...
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    8,56 €

  • Savannah, Augusta & Brier Creek
    Daniel McDonald Johnson
    Savannah, Augusta and Brier Creek examines the British conquest of Georgia during the American Revolution from several perspectives. The first part is a narrative history starting with the capture of Savannah by British troops, continuing with the march to Augusta led by Archibald Campbell, and culminating with the British victory at Battle of Brier Creek, which resulted in the...
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    16,13 €

  • Cuba’s Forgotten Decade
    This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the 1970s in Cuba that challenges the prevailing interpretation of the revolution as simply a period of “Sovietization.” Drawing from multidisciplinary perspectives, this book demonstrates that the decade was a time of intense transformation that proved pivotal to the development of the revolution. ...
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    135,93 €

  • Russia
    Ted Grant
    The October Russian Revolution, led by Lenin and Trotsky, swept away landlordism and capitalism and placed the working class in power for the first time. It transformed the idea of socialism from theory into practice. From this point of view, the Bolshevik revolution can be considered the greatest event in history.The revolution changed the course of world history and the last ...
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    26,72 €

  • Bolshevism
    Alan Woods
    Eighteen years after it was first published, Wellred Books proudly presents the second edition of Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution.“The history of the Bolshevik party contains valuable lessons for today’s struggle for socialism, and Alan Woods has performed a service by making this history accessible to a new generation of militants.” Revolutionary HistoryThere have been a mu...
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    24,20 €

  • People’s Resistance to Colonialism and Imperialism in Kenya
    Shiraz Durrani
    This book looks at the third pillar of resistance to British colonialism – people’s resistance, the others being Mau Mau and radical trade union movement. It brings together several aspects of people’s resistance to colonialism and imperialism – before and after independence and includes resistance by nationalities, women, students, peasants and workers in what can only be desc...
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    40,76 €

  • The Red Badge of Courage
    Stephen Crane
    The Red Badge of Courage follows events of the American Civil War, and life of a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a red badge of courage, to counteract his cowardice. When his regiment once again faces the enemy, Henry acts as standard-bearer. ...
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    20,65 €

  • What is to be done?
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    “The pamphlet… outlined a broad plan of organisation in which everyone would find a place for himself, become a cog in the revolutionary machine, a cog, which, no matter how small, was vital to the working of the machine. The pamphlet urged the necessity of intensive and tireless efforts to build the foundation that had to be built if the Party was to exist in deeds and not in ...
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    16,24 €

  • The Federalist Papers
    Alexander Hamilton / James Madison / John Jay
    Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of 'The Federalist Papers', a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. 'The Federalist', as it was previously known, was constructed by American states...
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    24,52 €

  • Sans-Culottes
    Michael Sonenscher
    This is a bold new history of the sans-culottes and the part they played in the French Revolution. It tells for the first time the real story of the name now usually associated with urban violence and popular politics during the revolutionary period. By doing so, it also shows how the politics and economics of the revolution can be combined to form a genuinely historical narrat...
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    60,23 €

  • Landmarks Revisited
    The Vekhi (Landmarks) symposium (1909) is one of the most famous publications in Russian intellectual and political history. Its fame rests on the critique it offers of the phenomenon of the Russian intelligentsia in the period of crisis that led to the 1917 Russian Revolution. It was published as a polemical response to the revolution of 1905, the failed outcome of which was d...
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    40,03 €

  • The Dove Shall Fly
    Judith Austin Mills
    A sprawling novel focuses on the burgeoning revolution in 19th-century     Texas.  …a substantial piece of thoughtful historical fiction.                         —Kirkus Reviews________________________In the Texas Revolution of 1836, fighters and those fleeing after the Alamo and Goliad brace for a last clash. Born in Mexico’s San Antonio, Captain Juan Seguin risks all in champ...
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    16,36 €

  • The Case For Biafra Restoration
    Obi Ukwuoma
    The massacre of Igbos/Biafrans across the Northern Nigeria started way back in 1945 in Jos, where more than 150 Igbos/Biafrans were brutally slaughtered for no reason. That is about thirty-one years after the fraudulent amalgamation of Islamic north and Christian south by the British. Prior to the Civil War in 1966 pogrom, over sixty thousand civilians were brutally murdered be...
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    13,18 €

  • The Internalized Revolution
    Ehrhard Bahr / Thomas P. Saine
    This book, originally published in 1992, traces the discourse on the French Revolution in Germany and its contributors investigate the processes and results of adopting or rejecting the values of the French Revolution in Germany and reinterprets its documents in terms of their internalization. One of the questions discussed is whether the French Revolution is part of Germany’s ...
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    29,78 €

  • Left-Wing Communism
    V. I. Lenin / VILenin
    2018 Reprint of 1920 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  With this now-classic work, Lenin aimed to encapsulate the lessons the Bolshevik Party had learned from its involvement in three revolutions in 12 years—in a manner that European Communists could relate to, for it was to them he was speaking.  He also furthe...
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    7,88 €

  • A History of the Polish Revolution of 1830
    Joseph Hordynski
    After Poland was wiped off the map of Europe in 1794 and divided between Russia, Prussia and Austria the found some redemption with Napoleon. While the Russians attempted to integrate the Poles into the Russian Empire, the Poles longed for their independence. As part of the Congress of Vienna a nominal “Congress Kingdom” was established as an independent area.  With the ascensi...
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    19,91 €

  • The Newspaper Press in the French Revolution
    Hugh Gough
    When the ancien régime collapsed during the summer of 1789 the newspaper press was free for the first time in French history. The result was an explosion in the number of newspapers with over 2,000 titles appearing between 1789 and 1799. This study, originally published in 1988, traces the growth of the French Press during this time, showing the importance of the emergence of p...
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    70,42 €

  • The French Revolution
    Albert Goodwin
    Originally published in 1956, this masterly essay weaves together the results of research with an independence of judgement which could only come from a long-established expert in the field of Revolutionary studies. The book examines the causes of the French Revolution and the economics involved in the weakness of France’s pre-revolutionary form of government as well as the adm...
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    66,74 €

  • The Friends of Liberty
    Albert Goodwin
    This book, originally published in 1979, traces the growth of English radicalism from the time of Wilkes to the final suppression of the radical societies in 1799. The metropolitan radical movement is described in the context of the general democratic evolution of the West in the age of the American and French revolutions, by showing how its direction was influenced by events i...
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    64,80 €

  • France on the Eve of Revolution
    John Lough
    Before the Terror and then the Napoleonic Wars made it impracticable to travel through France, many young British men and women were able to watch at first hand the changes taking place in French society an the agitations that were becoming increasingly loud for reform. This book, originally published in 1987, is a study of France in these crucial years seen through the eyes of...
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    44,34 €

  • The World of the French Revolution
    Robert R Palmer
    This book examines the European world before 1789, recounts the history of the revolution in France itself and then explores its monumental impact on European society. The book focusses on the causes of this impact and discusses the levels of thinking, communication, social, political, and economic conditions in France at the time, which combined to make the revolution possible...
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    68,98 €

  • After Insurgency
    Ralph Sprenkels
    El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador Sánchez Cerén became the country’s second FMLN president. After Insurgency focuses on ...
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    54,05 €

  • Robespierre and the Festival of the Supreme Being
    Jonathan Smyth
    Explores Robespierre’s vision and the events held across France on this day, which he declared a national day of celebration to inaugurate the state religion of the new French Republic, the Cult of the Supreme Being. It redefines the importance of the Festival in the development of the Revolution. ...
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    37,17 €

  • Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle
    This volume focuses on the cultural memory and mediation of the 1964 Zanzibar revolution, analyzing it’s continuing reverberations in everyday life. The revolution constructed new conceptions of community and identity, race and cultural belonging, as well as instituting different ideals of nationhood, citizenship, sovereignty. As the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the...
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    58,07 €

  • Common Sense
    Thomas Paine
    In January of 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense; the book inflamed its readers and ignited the American Revolution. In truth the fires of dissent were already smoldering, but Paine’s impassioned writing gave focus to the many disparate voices and united a country. One cannot over estimate the importance of this book in shaping the destiny of United States of America, as...
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    18,03 €

  • The Ideas of Karl Marx
    Alan Woods
    “Marx was the best hated and most calumniated man of his time. Governments, both absolutist and republican, deported him from their territories. Bourgeois, whether conservative or ultra-democratic, vied with one another in heaping slanders upon him. All this he brushed aside as though it were a cobweb, ignoring it, answering only when extreme necessity compelled him. And he die...
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    16,18 €

  • Women and the Cuban Insurrection
    Lorraine Bayard de Volo
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    38,23 €

  • May Made Me
    Mitchell Abidor
    The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, factories and universities were occupied. At the height of its fervour, it brought the entire national economy to a halt. The protests reached such a point that political leaders feared...
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    147,84 €


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