Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by Max Nettlau
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Max Nettlau, born in Austria in 1865 and died in 1944 in Amsterdam, was the most important chronicler and guide to anarchism prior to 1930. This 400-page introduction to the history of anarchist ideas and early movements, summarises the author's monumental 9-volume history and several biographies....
by Founding Fathers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
“We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union . . . ” — The U.S Constitution
The U.S. Constitution and Other Key American Writings is part of the Word Cloud Classics series and a collection of the crucial documents that established the United States. In addition...
Making Slavery History
Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Making Slavery History focuses on how commemorative practices and historical arguments about the American Revolution set the course for antislavery politics in the nineteenth century. The particular setting is a time and place in which people were hyperconscious of their roles as historical actors...
Not Your Father's Founders
An "Amended" Look at America's First Patriots
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
The founding fathers-reframed!
Tired of reading about stiff, snooze-worthy revolutionary rebels? How about lackluster wars and mind-numbing laws? Not Your Father's Founders breathes life back into history with dynamic profiles of the politicos, wartime heroes, and lesser-known but equally important...
by Peter Linebaugh, Peter Linebaugh
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
An essential compendium of reflections on the reviled, glorious, and voltaic occasion of May 1st, the international May Day holiday May 1st is a day that once made the rich and powerful cower in fear and caused Parliament to ban the Maypole—a magnificent and riotous day of rebirth, renewal, and...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2018
Fifty-five men from 12 virtually autonomous states came to Philadelphia in 1787 in a brave - some thought foolhardy - attempt to replace a loose and fragile confederation with a strong national government. They were politicians, judges, governors, and Revolutionary War veterans. Thomas Jefferson called...
by Gordon S. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
One of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.--New York Times Book Review
"During the nearly two decades since its publication, this book has set the pace, furnished benchmarks, and afforded targets for many subsequent studies. If ever a work of history...
Towards A Jurisprudence of State Communism
Law and the Failure of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
More than twenty-five years after the collapse of the Socialist bloc, the nature of the regimes in Eastern Europe between 1945 and 1989 continues to evade the attempts of political theorists and scholars of post-communism to define and classify them. Drawing on philosophical inquiry, jurisprudential...
by Richard Labunski
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Today we hold the Constitution in such high regard that we can hardly imagine how hotly contested was its adoption. In fact, many of the thirteen states saw fierce debate over the document, and ratification was by no means certain. Virginia, the largest and most influential state, approved the Constitution...
Our Lost Declaration
America's Fight Against Tyranny from King George to the Deep State
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
New York Times bestselling author and committed constitutional conservative Senator Mike Lee reveals the little-known stories behind the Founder's takedown of a tyrannical king and the forgotten document that created America.
There is perhaps no more powerful sentence in human history, written...
Backwoods Utopias
The Sectarian Origins and the Owenite Phase of Communitarian Socialism in America, 1663-1829
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
The new society that the world awaited might yet be born in the humble guise of a backwoods village. This was the belief shared by the many groups which moved into the American frontier to create experimental communities—communities which they hoped would be models for revolutionary changes in religion,...
Thomas Paine
Britain, America, and France in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was England's greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of Man. No one else combined the roles of activist...
Women of the Republic
Intellect and Ideology in Revolutionary America
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. Previous histories have rarely recognized that the battle for independence was also a woman's war. The "women of the army" toiled in army hospitals, kitchens, and laundries. Civilian women were spies, fund raisers, innkeepers,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The Oxford Handbook of the American Revolution draws on a wealth of new scholarship to create a vibrant dialogue among varied approaches to the revolution that made the United States. In thirty-three essays written by authorities on the period, the Handbook brings to life the diverse multitudes of...