Revolutionary category: 2684 books
The Way of Improvement Leads Home
Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian, one of the most prolific diarists in early America. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in rural New Jersey, he was never quite satisfied with the agricultural life he seemed destined to inherit. Fithian...
Sex among the Rabble
An Intimate History of Gender and Power in the Age of Revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Placing sexual culture at the center of power relations in Revolutionary-era Philadelphia, Clare A. Lyons uncovers a world where runaway wives challenged their husbands' patriarchal rights and where serial and casual sexual relationships were commonplace. By reading popular representations of sex...
The Prophet
The Life of Leon Trotsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Few political figures of the twentieth century have aroused such intensities of fierce admiration and reactionary fear as Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. His extraordinary life and extensive writings have left an indelible mark on the revolutionary consciousness. Yet there was once a danger that...
Between Authority and Liberty
State Constitution-making in Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
In a major reinterpretation of American political thought in the revolutionary era, Marc Kruman explores the process of constitution making in each of the thirteen original states and shows that the framers created a distinctively American science of politics well before the end of the Confederation...
by Derry Nairn
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
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...
WE, THE ANARCHISTS
A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927-1937
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Since the official birth of organized anarchism at the Saint Imier Congress of 1872, no anarchist organization has been held up to greater opprobrium or subjected to such gross misrepresentation than the Federación Anarquista Ibérica. Better known by its initials, the FAI, was a group...
The American Revolution
New Nation as New Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In The American Revolution, 1760 to 1790: New Nation as New Empire, Neil York details the important and complex events that transpired during the creation of the enduring American Republic. This text presents a global look at the emerging nation’s quest to balance liberty and authority before, during,...
The Politics of War
Race, Class, and Conflict in Revolutionary Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
War often unites a society behind a common cause, but the notion of diverse populations all rallying together to fight on the same side disguises the complex social forces that come into play in the midst of perceived unity. Michael A. McDonnell uses the Revolution in Virginia to examine the political...
Gavin K. Watt's Revolutionary Canadian History 6-Book Bundle
Fire and Desolation / Poisoned by Lies and Hypocrisy / and 4 more
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
This special bundle collects six titles by military history specialist Gavin K. Watt. This series has a unique focus: The American War of Independence viewed from the perspective of British operations in the north. The Burning of the Valleys concerns a decisive campaign against the northern frontier...
Hero of Fort Schuyler
Selected Revolutionary War Correspondence of Brigadier General Peter Gansevoort, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014
In August 1777, Peter Gansevoort, Jr., defended Fort Schuyler (also known as Fort Stanwix) during a three-week siege by 1,700 British soldiers, Tories and Indians commanded by Colonel Barry St. Leger. Gansevoort won the distinction of successfully resisting a British siege in a period when every other...
Scripting Revolution
A Historical Approach to the Comparative Study of Revolutions
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
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...
by Steven E. Siry
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
From June 1775 to February 1781, during the American War of Independence, ten patriot generals died as a result of combat wounds. Their service and deaths spanned most of the warÆs duration and geographical expanse. The generals were a diverse group, with six born in America and four in Europe, three...
by José Peirats Valls
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
José Peirats' 'The CNT in the Spanish Revolution' is a landmark in the historiography of the Spanish Civil War. Without it, the role of anarchism in that conflict could never be reconstructed. It is effectively the official CNT history of the war, passionate, partisan but, above all, intelligent....
by José Peirats Valls
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
José Peirats's 'The CNT in the Spanish Revolution' is a landmark in the historiography of the Spanish Civil War. Without it, the role of anarchism in that conflict could never be reconstructed. It is effectively the official CNT history of the war, passionate, partisan but, above all, intelligent....