Revolutionary category: 2684 books
Commons Democracy
Reading the Politics of Participation in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Commons Democracy highlights a poorly understood dimension of democracy in the early United States. It tells a story that, like the familiar one, begins in the Revolutionary era. But instead of the tale of the Founders’ high-minded ideals and their careful crafting of the safe framework for democracy—a...
From Toussaint to Price-Mars
Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
In From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion in Haitian Thought, Scholar, Intellectual, and Theologian Celucien L. Joseph engages Haiti's intellectual history by focusing on the ideas and writings of Haiti's four most important thinkers and writers: Toussaint Louverture, Joseph Antenor...
Direct Struggle Against Capital
A Peter Kropotkin Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This is the most extensive collection of Peter Kropotkin's writings available in English. Over half the selections have been translated for the first time or salvaged from long-out-of-print pamphlets and newspapers. Both an introduction to classic texts and a recontextualization of Kropotkin from...
Men of Letters in the Early Republic
Cultivating Forums of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, after decades of intense upheaval and debate, the role of the citizen was seen as largely political. But as Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan reveals, some Americans saw a need for a realm of public men outside politics. They believed that neither the nation nor...
The People's Rising
The Great Wexford Rebellion of 1798
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1995
The Wexford Rising of 1798 was the most bloody campaign in Irish history since the Williamite wars. In little than a month, over 30,000 people died. The Rising, which had been launched on a tide of revolutionary optimism, ended in slaughter. After this, the first republican revolt, Irish history was changed forever.
by Lasse Braun
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 3, 2015
The “Handbook of the Sexual Revolution” is a collection of provocative writings by Lasse Braun (a.k.a. LB) who’s known as one of the most enterprising sexual revolutionaries of the last four decades of the 1900s.
Not only he conducted and promoted a liberal heterosexual life from very early...
Legitimacy and Power Politics
The American and French Revolutions in International Political Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This book examines the causes and consequences of a major transformation in both domestic and international politics: the shift from dynastically legitimated monarchical sovereignty to popularly legitimated national sovereignty. It analyzes the impact of Enlightenment discourse on politics in eighteenth-century...
The Common Cause
Creating Race and Nation in the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
When the Revolutionary War began, the odds of a united, continental effort to resist the British seemed nearly impossible. Few on either side of the Atlantic expected thirteen colonies to stick together in a war against their cultural cousins. In this pathbreaking book, Robert Parkinson argues that...
by Thomas Paine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The classic essay that helped ignite the American Revolution. According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Paine (Thetford, England, 29 January 1737 - 8 June 1809, New York City, U.S.) was an English pamphleteer, revolutionary, radical, classical liberal, inventor and intellectual. He lived and worked in Britain...
Ratification
The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Winner of the George Washington Book Prize
When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2019
Co-author of the groundbreaking Empire and Multitude, Michael Hardt examines the Declaration of Independence and other texts by Jefferson, arguing that his powerful concept of democracy provides a biting critique of the current American administration. Introducing this collection of Jefferson’s...
The Whites of Their Eyes
Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Drawingupon new research and scholarship, historian Paul Lockhart, author of thecritically acclaimed Revolutionary War biography The Drillmaster of ValleyForge, offers a penetrating reassessment of the first major engagement ofthe American Revolution. In the tradition of David McCullough’s 1776,Lockhart...
Women, Resistance and Revolution
A History Of Women And Revolution In The Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2014
This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and social-sexual prejudice. Women, Resistance and Revolution...
The End of Protest
A New Playbook for Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Is protest broken? Micah White, co-creator of Occupy Wall Street, thinks so. Disruptive tactics have failed to halt the rise of Donald Trump. Movements ranging from Black Lives Matter to environmentalism are leaving activists frustrated. Meanwhile, recent years have witnessed the largest protests...