Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions

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...

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 ...