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  • Revolutionary Passions

    Latin America, Middle East and India

    by Hamit Bozarslan, Gilles Bataillon, Christophe Jaffrelot ...
    Europe has been the chief arena of revolutionary passions since the end of the eighteenth century. During this same period, and right up to the beginning of the twenty-first century, the non-European world, too, has resonated with coup attempts and revolutionary turmoil. How does one begin to understand these revolutionary passions? To what extent are they influenced by European matrices? Have ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • Civil War

    The History of England Volume III

    by Peter Ackroyd ...
    Series Book 3 - The History of England
    Step into the tumultuous age of Stuart England with Peter Ackroyd's enlightening Civil War. Beginning with James I, the first Scottish king of England, it tracks an era of massive upheaval, ending with the dramatic flight of his grandson, James II, into exile.Civil War transports you to the heart of the 17th-century Britain, where you meet figures like James I with his shrewd perspectives on ... Read more

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  • My Crazy Century

    by Ivan Klíma ...
    Translated by Craig Cravens ...
    An intimate, politically vital memoir by the acclaimed Czech author " of enormous power and originality" explores his life under Nazi and Communist regimes ( The New York Times Book Review).In the 1930s on the outskirts of Prague, Ivan Klíma was unaware of his concealed Jewish heritage until the invading Nazis transported him and his family to the Terezín concentration camp. Miraculously, most of ... Read more

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  • Freedom Fighters

    Revolutionaries fighting for the cause

    by Anne Williams, Vivian Head ...
    Throughout the course of history, freedom fighters have been many and varied as have the motivations and the successes of the revolutions they attempted and inspired. Whether their beliefs were correct or misplaced, the courage to fight for the cause has always been the common denominator. They stood alone frequently in the face of enormous adversity and attempted to change the face of the world ... Read more

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  • China, Class Collaboration, and the Killing Fields of Indonesia in 1965

    by James Robb ...
    The documentary film by Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, released in 2012, provides a chillingly intimate portrait of some ageing thugs who, nearly fifty years ago, took part in one of the greatest acts of mass murder of the last century: the 1965-66 slaughter in Indonesia.The principal targets of this act of terror were the workers and peasants of Indonesia, especially those who supported ... Read more

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  • James Larkin: Lion of the Fold

    The Life and Works of the Irish Labour Leader

    by Donal Nevin ...
    This book is a detailed compilation of writings and lectures about the life of James Larkin. It reviews his influence in history and on various movements across the country and abroad. James Larkin: Lion of the Fold includes writing by James Larkin and is a timely reminder of the long road that the Irish people have travelled together. The book considers much of the history of the early Irish ... Read more

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  • A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County (Volume I)

    by Stephen M. Ostrander ...
    A History of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County (Volume I)At the time of his death, in 1885, Mr. Ostrander had completed considerable MS. for a history of the City of Brooklyn and Kings County; had prepared many chronological notes with a view to fuller writing, and had accumulated a mass of material in the form of transcripts, references, newspaper and other reports. It was his own ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Monsoon Revolution

    Republicans, Sultans, and Empires in Oman, 1965-1976

    by Abdel Razzaq Takriti ...
    Series series Oxford Historical Monographs
    The Dhufar revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was the longest running major armed struggle in the history of the Arabian Peninsula, Britain's last classic colonial war in the region, and one of the highlights of the Cold War in the Middle East.Monsoon Revolution retrieves the political, social, and cultural history of that remarkable process. Relying upon a wide range of untapped Arab and British ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • THE GUERRILLA WAR AGAINST FRANCO (1939-1952)

    by Antonio Téllez ...
    The guerrilla struggle against Francoism arose in the days following the army revolt against the Spanish Republic on 18 July 1936. In areas which fell immediately to the mutinous army the principal leader of which was Lieutenant-General Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell (then a refugee in Portugal) with General Emilio Mola Vidal (relieved by the Popular Front government of his post as general-in-chief of ... Read more

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  • Bangladesh, My Bangladesh

    by Sheik Mujibur Rahman ...
    This book presents, in Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s own words, an unusual view of the events and circumstances leading up to the Proclamation of Independence by Bangladesh.  Thirty two speeches and statements made by the Sheikh between October 28, 1970 and March 26, 1971 tell us a story which has been heard in bits and pieces before but never with the continuity and intensity that this volume achieves ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Fidel Castro 10 Speeches That Changed the World

    by Fidel Castro ...
    “A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.”Fidel Castro was perhaps the most charismatic and controversial head of state in modern times.Castro took power on New Year’s Day in 1959 serenaded by the Western media for toppling dictator Fulgencio Batista and promising democracy.He soon revealed that his goal was to impose Communist rule.He exiled clergy, took over ... Read more

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  • Dublin Easter 1916 The French Connection

    The French Connection

    by Bill Mc Cormack ...
    All revolutionary movements since 1789 have looked instinctively to the French model. In this book, Bill Mc Cormack demonstrates that the French influence in Ireland was indeed profound, especially in the years leading up to the Easter Rising. However, it was not the traditions of the Tennis Court Oath or Bastille Day that motivated the Irish rebels, but a new French Catholic nationalism which ... Read more

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