Revolutions, Uprisings, Rebellions

Hilarious and Heartbreaking. Comedy shouldn't take courage, but it made an exception for Bassem. --Jon Stewart The Jon Stewart of the Arabic World...

'Elegantly written, full of wit and charm, this is travel writing at its very best' Orlando FigesIn the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's...

How slave emancipation transformed capitalism in the United States and BrazilIn the nineteenth century, the United States and Brazil were the large...

An important and necessary volume on the role played by Irish men and women in the emergence of the new, modern and independent republics of Latin ...

The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world. The protests ag...

As the Egyptian revolution unfolded throughout 2011 and the ensuing years, no one was better positioned to comment on it - and try to push it in pr...

A landmark collection of documents by the field's leading scholar. This reader includes beautifully written introductions and a fascinating array o...

Samora Machel led FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front, to victory against Portuguese colonialism in 1974, and the following year became indepe...

'He thought he could see, in a flash, the future of the Rougon-Macquart family, a pack of wild satiated appetites in the midst of a blaze of gold a...

The 1916 Irish Rebellion is the companion book to a three-part documentary series to be broadcast worldwide in 2016. Narrated by Liam Neeson, the d...

There is little doubt that the 45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of Culloden in which it ...

Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2016 The wave of unrest which took place in 1840s Wales, known as Rebeccaism or t...

Pathan Rising tells the story of the large-scale tribal unrest that erupted along the North West Frontier of India in the late 1890s; a short but s...

The Easter Rising was arguably the most important event in Irish history. It was an armed insurrection that occurred mainly in Dublin during Easter...

Popular revolution has forged global superpowers, shaken empires, brought a halt to oppression, upended social and political divisions, established...

If the eighteenth century was the age of reason and enlightenment, the nineteenth century was undeniably the age of movement. This tumultuous perio...

Surfing today evokes many things: thundering waves, warm beaches, bikinis and lifeguards, and carefree pleasure. But is the story of surfing really...

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects bu...

The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative use...