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  • The Rise and Fall of the Danish Empire

    by Michael Bregnsbo, Kurt Villads Jensen ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South. Evolving over time, it has included most of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, has shifted from a Western orientation under the Vikings to an Eastern one in the Middle Ages, and from a North Sea Empire to a Baltic Empire. ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Scandinavia in the Age of Revolution

    Nordic Political Cultures, 1740�1820

    by Michael Bregnsbo, Patrik Winton ...
    The 'Age of Revolution' is a term seldom used in Scandinavian historiography, despite the fact that Scandinavia was far from untouched by the late eighteenth-century revolutions in Europe and America. Scandinavia did experience its outbursts of radical thought, its assassinations and radical reforms, but these occurred within reasonably stable political structures, practices and ways of thinking. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • A Wicked Company

    The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment

    by Philipp Blom ...
    The flourishing of radical philosophy in Baron Thierry Holbach's Paris salon from the 1750s to the 1770s stands as a seminal event in Western history. Holbach's house was an international epicenter of revolutionary ideas and intellectual daring, bringing together such original minds as Denis Diderot, Laurence Sterne, David Hume, Adam Smith, Ferdinando Galiani, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • HISTOIRE de la REVOLUTION FRANCAISE

    TOME 4 août 1792-novembre 1792

    by JULES MICHELET ...
    Series Book 4 - REVOLUTION FRANCAISE
    Considéré comme étant l'un des grands historiens du XIXe siècle bien qu'aujourd'hui controversé, Jules MICHELET (1798-1874), pour comprendre la formation de la monarchie a voulu en étudier la ruine en écrivant Histoire de la Révolution Française.Doué d’un immense talent littéraire, Michelet parmi ses œuvres les plus célèbres avait écrit précédemment Histoire de France. La réalisation de cet ... Read more

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  • Apocalypse

    The Great Jewish Revolt Against Rome AD 66-73

    by Neil Faulkner ...
    Ancient Palestine was a ferment of social and ideological conflict. Full-scale insurrectionary revolt exploded in AD 66 and took on a revolutionary character as moderate upper-class leaders were pushed aside and replaced by popular radicals. The war that followed was bitterly fought, and culminated in the five-month siege of Jerusalem in the summer of AD 70. which ended with the fall and ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • China’s Wars

    Rousing the Dragon 1894-1949

    by Philip Jowett ...
    This new history of China's pivotal wars from 1894 to 1949 explains how China was transformed from a isolated and ramshackle medieval empire into a fledgling new world power.China is one of the great powers of the modern world. Yet in the late 19th century China was a ramshackle and isolated medieval empire upon whom the European colonial powers could impose their wishes at will.China's Wars ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • The Mexican Revolution

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Knight ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940. Taking account of these divergent interpretations, this Very Short Introduction offers a succinct ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Dawn of the Arab Uprisings

    End of an Old Order?

    Edited by Bassam Haddad, Rosie Bsheer, Ziad Abu-Rish ...
    This is a one-stop introduction to the multifaceted phenomenon of the 'Arab Spring', from the writers of Jadaliyya.Covering the full range of issues involved in these historic events, from political economy and the role of social media, to international politics, gender, labour and the impact on culture, these firsthand accounts explore the inspirational uprisings in a way unavailable through ... Read more

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  • The Battles of Kings Mountain and Cowpens

    The American Revolution in the Southern Backcountry

    by Melissa A. Walker ...
    Series series Critical Moments in American History
    The American South is so identified with the Civil War that people often forget that the key battles from the final years of the American Revolution were fought in Southern states. The Southern backcountry was the center of the fight for independence, but backcountry devotion to the Patriot cause was slow in coming. Decades of animosity between coastal elites and backcountry settlers who did not ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • THE CNT AT THE CROSSROADS — Extracts

    The Adventures of an Anarchist Heterodox

    by Luis Andrés Edo ...
    Translated extracts from the memoirs of Luis Andrés Edo, an anarchist activist whose life was dedicated to the ‘Idea’ and the struggle for liberty. Throughout his life Luis Andrés Edo remained always both an untiring activist and an intellectual dynamo of the international libertarian movement, constantly provoking thought and developing new anti-authoritarian ideas. His was the voice — the ... Read more

    $3.41 USD

  • REPORTER IN SPAIN

    by Frank Pitcairn ...
    In 1936, Harry Pollitt, the then General Secretary of the Communist Party, asked CPGB member CLAUD COCKBURN (1904-1981) to cover the Spanish Civil War for the Daily Worker. In Spain, under the assumed name of Frank Pitcairn and endorsed by the CPGB, he joined the Fifth Regiment (formed by the Communist-led Antifascist Worker and Peasant Militias — Milicias Antifascistas Obreras y Campesinas — ... Read more

    $4.09 USD

  • Shays's Rebellion

    Authority and Distress in Post-Revolutionary America

    by Sean Condon ...
    Series series Witness to History
    How an uprising of debtors and small farmers unwittingly influenced the U.S. Constitution.Throughout the late summer and fall of 1786, farmers in central and western Massachusetts organized themselves into armed groups to protest against established authority and aggressive creditors. Calling themselves “regulators” or the “voice of the people,” these crowds attempted to pressure the state ... Read more

    $18.89 USD