Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions

**Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024**A story of staggering scope and drama, Revolusi is the masterful and definitive account of the ep...

Why do we use the terms left and right to characterize political matters? Left and right in themselves have no political significance. Apparently t...

This title was first published in 2002. As Iran enters into the third decade since the 1979 revolution, the prospect of socio-political unrest rema...

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumula...

Questions surrounding the concept of legitimacythe force that keeps a polity together, and whose absence causes it to shatterare possibly the most ...

There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autono...

Between 1956 and 1963, the United Nations grappled with the Hungarian question; namely, what it should do about the events and aftermath of the cou...

Between 1956 and 1963, the United Nations grappled with the Hungarian question; namely, what it should do about the events and aftermath of the cou...

Prompted by the 25th anniversary of the Soviet collapse, this volume reflects on revolutions and transformations around the collapse of the Soviet ...

A broad, comparative and trans-Atlantic approach to the Age of RevolutionsCutting across disciplines and linguistic borders, this book explores the...

This illuminating book looks beyond the capital and political elites to examine religious and political change in communities across Scotland durin...

Union, war, conquest, revolution, attempted invasions, and armed rebellions: this was an eventful time even by the standards of Scotland's turbulen...

Union, war, conquest, revolution, attempted invasions, and armed rebellions: this was an eventful time even by the standards of Scotland's turbulen...

The relationship between Thomas Jefferson and William Short, the eldest son of an established Virginia family and relative of Martha Jefferson, beg...

When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth o...

The revolution in Nicaragua was unique in that a large percentage of the combatants were women. The Role of Female Combatants in the Nicaraguan Rev...

This book documents the research project on the trauma of the Cultural Revolution in China and its intergenerational effects. It allows the reader ...

Adopting Argentinas popular uprisings against neoliberalism including the 2001-02 rebellion and subsequent mass protests as a case study, The Mobil...

What does it mean to have a voice in a formal democracy operating under neoliberal guidelines and with an almost entirely private media system? How...