Revolutionary category: 2684 books

Unfortunately, one of the best known aspects of Alexander Hamilton’s (1755-1804) life is the manner in which he died, being shot and killed in a famous duel with Aaron Burr in 1804. But Hamilton became one of the most instrumental Founding Fathers of the United States in that time, not only in helping...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of A Patriot's History of the United States examines ten current challenges. America is at a crossroads. We face two options: continue our descent toward big government, higher taxes, less individual liberty, and more debt or pull our country back...

Washington, Adams, Henry, Jefferson, Franklin, and Hamilton: their ambitions, intrigues, and jealousies shaped the birth of the nation, but they overcame their foibles and imperfections to throw off the chains of tyranny and form a more perfect union. We think of them now as faces on money or statues...

Twilight at Monticello is something entirely new: an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at the intimate Jefferson in his final years that will change the way readers think about this true American icon. It was during these years–from his return to Monticello in 1809 after two terms as president...

“Lengel’s Washington is the archetypal American soldier—an amateur citizen in arms who struggles to learn an unfamiliar and demanding craft on the job....Outstanding.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Glorious Struggle Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Papers Project  Edward...

Antonio Gramsci: A very short introduction.On November 8th, 1926 Antonio Gramsci, a newspaper editor, Marxist thinker, and elected member of the parliament for the Italian Communist Party was arrested by the Italian Fascist police despite his parliamentary immunity, and sent to the Special...

An English PEN Award–winning collection of personal testimony from participants in the Arab Spring   As revolution swept through the Arab world in spring of 2011, much of the writing that reached the West came via analysts and academics, experts and expats. We heard about Facebook posts and tweeted...

"A stunning biography…[A] truly singular account of the American Revolution." —Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire Through an intimate narrative of the life of painter John Singleton Copley, award-winning historian Jane Kamensky reveals the world of the American Revolution,...

Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all...

Everyone likes a good mystery, be it based in fact or fiction. The history of the United States is full of mysterious facts that are not taught in school, and most people don’t know the untold stories surrounding many historical events. In The Secret History of the United States author Kross brings...

◆歷史傳記暢銷作家張戎：這是一本必讀的書。 ◆少數民族、宗教團體、農民、藝術家、企業家、質疑各項政策的黨員……他們才是受到這場巨大災難影響的普通人，但他們的故事幾乎被歷史淹沒 《周日泰晤士報》年度歷史好書、入圍歐威爾獎 《觀察家報》、《華爾街日報》、《科克斯評論》、《出版人週刊》、《紐約書評》、《時代雜誌》、《衛報》、《金融時報》……推薦！ 以人民視角書寫中國革命史的最新觀點！揭開毛澤東宣傳假面，還原中共建國真相！ 人民發聲的歷史，是正史難以承載的生命重量。來自中國檔案館的大量證據，揭開黃金時代的恐怖真相！ 中國共產黨將1949年的勝利稱作「解放」，看到這個詞，人們通常會聯想到興高采烈的群眾湧上街頭慶祝重獲自由的情景。然而在中國，「解放」和「革命」的故事卻與和平、自由及正義無關，而是充滿了精心策劃的恐怖和有組織的暴力。解放後，廣大中國人民面對的是「一座精心設計的奧許維茲思想集中營」。共產黨政權建立不到十年，已經無人敢反對毛主席。 首當其衝的是地主，共產黨在農村發動的土地改革，其實是黨和窮人之間的血腥交易、一場精心策劃的殺戮，導致兩百萬地主遭到清算。接著是鎮壓反革命的恐怖運動，目地是消滅所有黨的敵人，毛澤東甚至設定了殺人指標。為達成殺人指標，幹部們往往只是隨機挑選殺害對象，最後有將近兩百萬人遇害。然後是少數民族、宗教團體、農民、藝術家、企業家、工商業主、教師、學者，以及對各項政策提出質疑的黨員…… 《解放的悲劇：中國革命史1945-1957（當代中國史學家馮客三部曲）》的主角就是受到這場巨大災難影響的普通人。他們的故事大多被歷史所淹沒，因為官方的宣傳報導中只充斥著大量領導人的談話，而這些談話只是描述了一個他們想要建成的社會，最多只能算是設計藍圖，並不能反映社會現實，而且通常只提到工人和農民中的模範人物，找不到有血有肉的普通人。 當代中國史學家、《文化大革命：人民的歷史1962-1976》作者馮客擷取近年才得以公開的檔案資料。他所蒐集的數百份來自中國各檔案館、從未解密的檔案文件中，包括祕密警察的報告、未經篡改的高級領導人的演講、在思想改造運動中寫的悔過書、對農村反抗事件的調查報告、鎮反運動的詳細統計資料、工人工作條件的調查、普通人的上訪信件等內容。輔以各種回憶錄、信件和日記，以及親身經歷者的記述，勾勒出那些革命的主要參與者和受害者的真實故事。 那些早期的親歷者所留下的證詞，通常被同情共產黨政權的學者所忽視，但他們的描述如今恰可與檔案資料互相參證，對研究歷史的真相幫助很大。透過這群有血有肉的普通人的故事，讀者獲致前所未有的機會，得以穿透中共宣傳的表相，接櫫毛澤東政權下最慘烈的時代悲劇。 ※...

The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned...

"Gaines has a deft understanding of the Washington-Lafayette relationship ... [and] a knack for wielding substantial research with aplomb."—San Francisco Chronicle This book tells the story of the French and American Revolutions in a single, thrilling narrative that shows just how...