Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions

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...

The emerging literature on the so-called Arab Spring has largely focused on the evolution of the uprisings in cities and power centres. In order to...

As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (17641838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (17621853) designed interiors that responde...

As one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, Li Dazhao (18891927) was a key figure in China's transition from empire to republic, from tr...

The book is an intellectual analysis of the political ideas of English radical thinker Thomas Spence (17501814), who was renowned for his Plan, a p...

The story of a poor man and radical activist who fought to revive the French Revolution, and whose failure heralded the republics defeat  Very much...

The story of the English Civil War battle, told from the perspective of the people who witnessed it Soldiers and spies, children and animals. A to...

In 136 BC, in Sicily (which was then a Roman province), some four hundred slaves of Syrian origin rebelled against their masters and seized the cit...

Tartan Gangs and Paramilitaries is a new oral history of the loyalist backlash of the early 1970s in Northern Ireland. In the violent maelstrom of ...

Welcome to Nowhere. Im going to share with you how I got here And what here actually means to me. In this intricate and playful solo show, inspire...

Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: AQA Level/Subject: AS and A Level History First teaching: 2015 First exams...

One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989. --The New York Times Book Review On June 4, 1989, Pe...

What does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question...

This book offers a ten-year perspective on ongoing and evolving practices of digital activism across the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on i...

The Velvet Revolution in November 1989 brought about the collapse of the authoritarian communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia, marking th...

Shanghai's January Revolution was a highly visible and, by all accounts, crucially important event in China's Cultural Revolution. Its occurrence, ...

The siege of London on 12-14 May 1471 is a largely forgotten episode in the Wars of the Roses, but its implications were far-reaching in that it se...

Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and eco...

China's resistance to Imperial Japan was the other great internationalist cause of the 'red 1930s', along with the Spanish Civil War. These despera...

The expansion of the English state in the early modern era provoked resistance throughout Britain and Ireland, not least in Cornwall where this int...