Revolutionary category: 2684 books

In the midst of World War I, the Easter Rising took place in Dublin and throughout Ireland in April, 1916. The revolutionary movement faced many problems from the beginning, including splintered leadership, disorganized support, opposition from moderate supporters of home rule, and prepared retaliation...

This authoritative and complete encyclopedia covers not only the eight years of the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) but also the decades leading up to the war, beginning with the French and Indian War, and the aftermath of the conflict, with an emphasis on the early American Republic. Volumes...

Much of the historiography on the age of democratic revolutions has seemed to come to a halt until recent years. Historians of this period have tried to develop new explanatory paradigms but there are few that have had a lasting impact. David A. Bell and Yair Mintzker seek to break through the narrow...

REVOLUTION: an anarchist perspective: Revolution is a much used term but rarely is it discussed in a way that sheds any light on what the process actually involves. Revolutionaries themselves more often than not refer to it only in passing, or in terms of some historical myth dictated by whatever...

El Salvador’s 2009 presidential elections marked a historical feat: Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional (FMLN) became the first former Latin American guerrilla movement to win the ballot after failing to take power by means of armed struggle. In 2014, former comandante Salvador...

Every war has refugees; every revolution has exiles. Most of the refugees of the French Revolution mourned the demise of the monarchy. Lessons from America examines an unusual group who did not. Doina Pasca Harsanyi looks at the American experience of a group of French liberal aristocrats, early participants...

**Did you ever feel that the state of the world was also your concern? The fact that history has not spoken much of the atrocities of the Romanian Revolution is by no mistake but as a woman who has lived through the incident, I must tell you how my life has changed since being free of the Communist...

This biography of François Buzot, a Girondin leader in both the Constituent Assembly (1789-91) and the National Convention (1792-93), illustrates how his early life in Evreux and his training as a lawyer influenced his ideas and actions during the French Revolution, when he championed individual...

France in the American Revolution is a thorough history of the French involvement before and during the Revolutionary War.

In this book, Edith B. Gelles asserts that Abigail Adams' vivid, insightful letters are "the best account that exists from the pre to the post-Revolutionary period in America of a woman's life and world." Adams' spontaneous, witty letters serve dual purposes for the modern reader: it provides...

A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers is a journal from 1777 to the end of the Revolutionary War, written by the British loyalist John Simcoe.

In 1781, Virginia was invaded by formidable British forces that sought to subdue the Old Dominion. Lieutenant General Charles, Lord Cornwallis, led thousands of enemy troops from Norfolk to Charlottesville, burning and pillaging. Many of Virginia's famed Patriots--including George Washington, Thomas...

The book titled Butuo: The Joke That Was Not Funny, is a compilation of stories and revolutionary poems as witnessed by the author during the Liberian Civil War, which he refers to as the Tayloric Revolution. The fact that he did not go into exile but remained in the country and worked as a reporter,...

This book about the American Revolution is brought to you by the makers of the popular children's educational website Ducksters. Inside the book, you will learn about the history American Revolution including the timeline and events that led up to the war. The book takes you through the major...