Political Activism

Argentina’s recently established democracy endured the trauma of four major military uprisings between 1987 and 1990, continuing even after the reb...

Since the first edition of this book appeared in 1982, El Salvador has experienced the most radical social change in its history. Ten years of civi...

The peaceable Pueblo Indians seemed an unlikely people to rise emphatically and successfully against the Spanish Empire. For eighty-two years the P...

One of the few survivors of the German Resistance, von Schlabrendorff traces his anti-Nazi activity from his student days in the 1920s, through Hit...

On June 7, 1640, the viceroy of Catalonia was stabbed to death on a Barcelona beach. By Christmas, several more royal officials of the Spanish prin...

The Nebraska Indian Wars Reader, 1865–1877 provides the first comprehensive look at the Indian Wars in Nebraska, focusing on the years immediately ...

Prior to the 1980s Honduras was an obscure backwater, of little public or policy concern in the United States. With the advent of the Reagan admini...

Revolution within a state almost invariably leads to intense security competition between states, and often to war. In Revolution and War, Stephen ...

Sultanistic regimes, as Juan Linz describes them, are authoritarian regimes based on personal ideology and personal favor to maintain the autocrat ...

Mrs. Stanton's Bible traces the impact of Elizabeth Cady Stanton's religious dissent on the suffrage movement at the turn of the century and presen...

Eva McDonald Valesh was one of the Progressive Era's foremost labor publicists. Challenging the narrow confines placed on women, Valesh became a su...

In the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patter...

The Internet can be a bewildering maze of information, often from questionable sources. This book points the way to reliable information on bioterr...

When Lenin asked, "Who will beat whom?" (Kto kogo?), he had no plan to wage revolutionary class war in culture. Many young Communists thought diffe...

The development of defensive strategies encompassing the fortification and privatization of the city has attracted significant attention during rec...

The reign of the Tokugawa shoguns was a time of statebuilding and cultural transformation, but it was also a period of ikki: peasant rebellion. Jam...

Records of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions provide insight into the nature of the Maya in the colonial period. This book presents five case st...

When Lenin asked, "Who will beat whom?" (Kto kogo?), he had no plan to wage revolutionary class war in culture. Many young Communists thought diffe...

The Internet can be a bewildering maze of information, often from questionable sources. This book points the way to reliable information on bioterr...

There is a long-standing fear of that which is not understood. Since September 11, 2001 the fear surrounding the violent elements of religion has ...

Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and...

Records of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions provide insight into the nature of the Maya in the colonial period. This book presents five case st...

This new study is devoted to understanding how international terrorism is shaped, how it evolves and what we can expect in the future. Drawing upon...

In this informed and enlightening book, Colin Chapman assesses the centrality of Jerusalem in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, tracing its history...