Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by K. C. Yadav
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2007
Subhas Chandra Bose, Popularly called Netaji, a revered leader, is indeed one of the most fascinating person in the history of India's struggle for emancipation from the British rule.
by Peter A. Lillback, Jerry Newcombe
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2006
What sets "George Washington's Sacred Fire" apart from all previous works on this man for the ages, is the exhaustive fifteen years of Dr. Peter Lillback's research, revealing a unique icon driven by the highest of ideals. Only do George Washington's own writings, journals, letters, manuscripts, and...
by Roberto Calasso
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
A brilliant new translation of a classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art
The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects—“the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else,” wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983. Hailed as one of those...
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
**A DOCUMENT THAT SHAPED A NATION
An authoritative analysis of the Constitution of the United States and an enduring classic of political philosophy. **
Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers explain the complexities of a constitutional government—its...
Empowering Words
Outsiders and Authorship in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the profoundly social nature of print and its power to influence public opinion. In Empowering Words, Karen A. Weyler explores...
This Violent Empire
The Birth of an American National Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This Violent Empire traces the origins of American violence, racism, and paranoia to the founding moments of the new nation and the initial instability of Americans' national sense of self.
Fusing cultural and political analyses to create a new form of political history, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg...
The Jefferson Bible
Akashic U.S. Presidents Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Acclaimed author Percival Everett will take an atheist’s-eye-view of the little-known Jefferson Bible,” the third president’s response to the King James Bible.
Percival Everett’s novel Erasure won the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and his most recent, A History of the African-American...
Protocols of Liberty
Communication Innovation and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
The fledgling United States fought a war to achieve independence from Britain, but as John Adams said, the real revolution occurred “in the minds and hearts of the people” before the armed conflict ever began. Putting the practices of communication at the center of this intellectual revolution,...
Against Self-Reliance
The Arts of Dependence in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Individualism is arguably the most vital tenet of American national identity: American cultural heroes tend to be mavericks and nonconformists, and independence is the fulcrum of the American origin story. But in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a number of American artists, writers,...
Desert Storm
In This Compelling Blockbuster Guide Discover Chilling Facts About Desert Storm War, Desert Storm For Kids, Desert Shield and More Storm
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2013
Ron Evans takes you Behind the scenes and delivers mouth-watering knowledge about desert storm, desert storm facts, desert storm for kids, desert shield and more.
by Alfonso Borello
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Ernesto Guevara aka El Che: A Very Short IntroductionThe Bolivian authorities wanted to cut his head off and send it to Cuba to verify his identity, or just to send a message; after an exhaustive debate, they amputated his hands at the wrist instead and shipped them in a very special container...
Zapatista Encuentro
Documents from the 1996 Encounter for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
"Why is everyone so quiet? Is this the democracy you wanted?" So ask the Zapatistas, the group of indigenous Mexicans who, on January 1, 1994, mounted a rebellion against the implementation of NAFTA, political corruption, and the slow, unreported genocide of indigenous people worldwide....
My American Revolution
A Modern Expedition Through History's Forgotten Battlegrounds
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
Americans tend to think of the Revolution as a Massachusetts-based event orchestrated by Virginians, but in fact the war took place mostly in the Middle Colonies—in New York and New Jersey and the parts of Pennsylvania that on a clear day you can almost see from the Empire State Building. In My...
by Bertil Lintner
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
In 1988 Burma (now Myanmar) exploded. People rose up against their government in a massive and nationwide expression of outrage at the regime's ruinous economic policies and repressive politics. The protests were suppressed by violence on a scale even more brutal than the Chinese suppression of the...