Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Band of Giants
The Amateur Soldiers Who Won America's Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Band of Giants brings to life the founders who fought for our independence in the Revolutionary War. Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin are known to all; men like Morgan, Greene, and Wayne are less familiar. Yet the dreams of the politicians and theorists only became real because fighting men were willing...
The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company
A Story of George Washington's Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010
From historian Charles Royster--winner of the Francis Parkman, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes--comes the history of one of eighteenth-century America's most fantastic land speculation deals: William Byrd's scheme to develop 900 square miles of swamp on the Virginia-North Carolina border and create fabulous...
Debating Modern Revolution
The Evolution of Revolutionary Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
Revolution is an idea that has been one of the most important drivers of human activity since its emergence in its modern form in the 18th century. From the American and French revolutionaries who upset a monarchical order that had dominated for over a millennium up to the Arab Spring, this notion...
It’s Not Over
Learning From the Socialist Experiment
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
The path to a better world can’t be found without knowledge of history. /It’s Not Over/ analyzes attempts to supplant capitalism in the past in order to draw lessons for emerging and future movements that seek to overcome the political and economic crises of today. This history is presented through...
Nathanael Greene
A Biography of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer--celebrated as one of three most important generals. Upon taking command of America's Southern...
1775
A Good Year for Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution
In 1775, iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations...
THE GUILLOTINE AT WORK Vol. 1
The Leninist Counter-Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
The Guillotine At Work Vol 1 develops the theme that the Stalinist terror of the 1930s-1950s, the bureaucratisation of Russian society, the imperialist escapades, through to the total disregard for human rights in the Soviet Union and other East European countries under its dominion were not aberrations...
by Rosa Luxemburg
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
The most comprehensive collection of letters by Rosa Luxemburg ever published in English, this book includes 190 letters written to leading figures in the European and international labor and socialist movements––Leo Jogiches, Karl Kautsky, Clara Zetkin and Karl Liebknecht––who were among...
by Stéphane Hessel
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
The astonishing life of the writer named by the New York Times one of the last living heroes of the darkest era of the twentieth century.”
His brief pamphlet Indignez-vous! (Cry Out!) is an international bestseller, calling for a return to the values of his native France’s greatest...
Strange Rebels
1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Few moments in history have seen as many seismic transformations as 1979. That single year marked the emergence of revolutionary Islam as a global political force, the beginning of market revolutions in China and Britain that would radically alter the international economy, and the first stirrings...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
A distinguished international team of historians examines the dynamics of global and regional change in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Providing uniquely broad coverage, encompassing North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and...
by Richard R. Beeman
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
On the eve of the American Revolution there existed throughout the British-American colonial world a variety of contradictory expectations about the political process. Not only was there disagreement over the responsibilities of voters and candidates, confusion extended beyond elections to the relationship...
The Experiment
Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism.
The experience of...
Learning to Stand and Speak
Women, Education, and Public Life in America's Republic
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Education was decisive in recasting women's subjectivity and the lived reality of their collective experience in post-Revolutionary and antebellum America. Asking how and why women shaped their lives anew through education, Mary Kelley measures the significant transformation in individual and social...