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2nd Revolution of our Founding Fathers' Noble Vision: Reconstruct Mature Responsible Society
ISBN: 9781434363176 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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160,29 zł |
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Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions
ISBN: 9780521629843 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzing the causes behind thirty six revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present, this text attempts to explain why so few revolutions have succeeded, while so many have failed. The book is divided into chapters that treat particular sets of revolutions including the great social revolutions of Mexico (1910), China (1949), Cuba (1959), Iran (1979)and Nicaragua (1979), the anticolonial revolutions in Algeria, Vietnam, Angola, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe from the 1940s to the 1970s, and the failed revolutionary attempts in El Salvador, Peru, and elsewhere.
Analyzing the causes behind thirty six revolutions in the Third World between 1910 and the present, this text attempts to explain why so few revolutio...
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229,93 zł |
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Commemorating the Dead in Revolutionary France
ISBN: 9780521878500 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the fall of the Bastille in 1789 to the coming of Napoleon ten years later, the commemoration of the dead was a recurring theme during the French Revolution. Based on extensive research across a wide range of sources, this book is the first comprehensive study of the cultural politics of commemoration in Revolutionary France. It examines what remembrance meant to the people who staged and attended ceremonies, raised monuments, listened to speeches and purchased souvenirs in memory of the Revolution's dead. It explores the political purposes these commemorations served and the conflicts...
From the fall of the Bastille in 1789 to the coming of Napoleon ten years later, the commemoration of the dead was a recurring theme during the French...
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453,66 zł |
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Making Waves: Worldwide Social Movements, 1750-2005
ISBN: 9781594514814 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Waves unearths the successive, worldwide waves of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions that have shaken and remade the world from the eighteenth century to the present. It challenges us to rethink not only our limited conceptions of social movements but the very character and possibilities of social movements. The authors show how successive outbursts of global social protest have undermined world capitalist orders and, through both their successes and their failures, provided the basis for long periods of stable capitalist rule across all the zones of the world-economy. The surprises...
Making Waves unearths the successive, worldwide waves of revolts, rebellions, and revolutions that have shaken and remade the world from the eighteent...
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325,25 zł |
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The Russian Revolution: 1917-1921
ISBN: 9780415124379 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has provided fresh perspectives from which to view the Revolution out of which it grew. The Russian Revolution, 1917-1921, by Ronald Kowalski, reviews the ever-changing debate on the nature of the Russian Revolution. This collection of documents and sources includes: * newspapers, memoirs and literature The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 has provided fresh perspectives from which to view the Revolution out of which it grew. The Russian Re... |
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629,62 zł |
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Revolution and Evolution
ISBN: 9780853453536 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a concise and instructive review of the revolutions of the twentieth century, with separate chapters on the Russian, Chinese, Guinea-Bissau, and Vietnamese revolutions, in which the authors seek to extract the principle lessons from each of these struggles and the special course taken by each. In these and in a summary chapter on the dialectics of revolution the authors furnish a picture of the principal aspects of Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, and the other currents of Marxism active in the revolutions of our times. A second section is devoted to the United States, and begins...
This book provides a concise and instructive review of the revolutions of the twentieth century, with separate chapters on the Russian, Chinese, Guine...
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128,60 zł |
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The Kellys of Kingsclear
ISBN: 9780976574330 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kellys of Kingsclear follows the Kelly family from Colonial New Jersey to the shores of the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada, after the American Revolution. John Kelly chose to support the British in the American War of Independence, and this is the story of the consequences of his decision. This comprehensive study of the Kelly family in America and Canada is a documentary compilation of material gathered from dozens of published sources and archives. Numerous family anecdotes and photographs are included. By following the history of this one family, any reader interested in...
The Kellys of Kingsclear follows the Kelly family from Colonial New Jersey to the shores of the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada, after the Ame...
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160,52 zł |
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The Secret War in El Paso: Mexican Revolutionary Intrigue, 1906-1920
ISBN: 9780826346520 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mexican Revolution could not have succeeded without the use of American territory as a secret base of operations, a source of munitions, money, and volunteers, a refuge for personnel, an arena for propaganda, and a market for revolutionary loot. El Paso, the largest and most important American city on the Mexican border during this time, was the scene of many clandestine operations as American businesses and the U.S. federal government sought to maintain their influences in Mexico and protect national interest while keeping an eye on key Revolutionary figures. In addition, the city served...
The Mexican Revolution could not have succeeded without the use of American territory as a secret base of operations, a source of munitions, money, an...
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281,48 zł |
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Revolutions in the Atlantic World : A Comparative History
ISBN: 9780814747889 / Angielski / Twarda / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, colonial and indigenous people rioted and rebelled against their occupiers in violent pursuit of political liberty and economic opportunity, challenging time-honored social and political structures on both sides of the Atlantic. As a result, mainland America separated from British and Spanish rule, the French monarchy toppled, and the world s wealthiest colony was emancipated. In the new sovereign states, legal equality was introduced,... In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, ... |
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341,05 zł |
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2nd Revolution of our Founding Fathers' Noble Vision: Reconstruct Mature Responsible Society
ISBN: 9781434363183 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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105,44 zł |
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Unknown Revolution, 1917-21
ISBN: 9780919618268 / Angielski / Twarda / 717 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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373,15 zł |
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Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light
ISBN: 9780571199891 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today The American and French revolutions presented the world with two very different visions of democracy. Although both professed similar Enlightenment ideals of freedom, equality, and justice and set similar political agendas, there were also fundamental differences. The French sought a complete break with a thousand years of history; the Americans were content to preserve many aspects of their English heritage. Why did the two revolutions follow such different trajectories? And what lessons do they offer us... What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today The American and French revolutions presented the world with ... |
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87,36 zł |
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Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780415997126 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Covering the experiences of various groups including women, native Americans and African Americans, this book explains the crucial events in the history of the United States between 1763 and 1815.
Covering the experiences of various groups including women, native Americans and African Americans, this book explains the crucial events in the histo...
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225,56 zł |
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Hercules of the Revolution: A Novel Based on the Life of Peter Francisco
ISBN: 9780615296357 / Angielski / Miękka / 438 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born into a wealthy family in the Azores Islands in 1760, Peter Francisco would one day change the course of history for the United States of America and the World. This true story will have you hanging on the edge of your seat as Peter is kidnapped by pirates at the age of five and raised as a slave on a plantation in Virginia. By the age of 16, Peter stood 6'6- - a foot taller then the average man - and weighed 260 pounds, but his skin color had him trapped at the bottom of society in the New World. After falling in love with a girl from a wealthy family, Peter realizes that he will never...
Born into a wealthy family in the Azores Islands in 1760, Peter Francisco would one day change the course of history for the United States of America ...
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87,14 zł |
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The A to Z of the 'Dirty Wars'
ISBN: 9780810868120 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The A to Z of the "Dirty Wars" covers the most recent period of military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), Chile (1973-1990), and Uruguay (1973-1985), when national-security regimes waged war against suspected subversives. The chief targets of these regimes were leftists, especially armed guerrillas and their supporters, though the term "subversive" came to include anyone perceived to be a threat to the status quo. Unlike a conventional war fought against a physical enemy, a "dirty war" (guerra sucia) is fought against an ideology. The difficulty of rooting out such an unconventional...
The A to Z of the "Dirty Wars" covers the most recent period of military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), Chile (1973-1990), and Uruguay (1973-1...
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360,98 zł |
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How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?
ISBN: 9781608460670 / Angielski / Miękka / 840 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, the concept of the bourgeois revolution has recently come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this comprehensive rejoinder, Neil Davidson seeks to answer the question, How revolutionary were the bourgeois revolutions? by systematically examining the approach taken by a wide range of thinkers to explain their causes, outcomes, and content across the historical period from the sixteenth-century Reformation to twentieth-century decolonization. Through far-reaching research and comprehensive...
Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, the concept of the bourgeois revolution has recently come in for sustained criticis...
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157,25 zł |
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A Preliminary Analysis of the October 1, 1965 Coup in Indonesia
ISBN: 9786028397520 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although numerous accounts have been published of the genesis and character of the attempted October 1965 coup in Indonesia, many important aspects of that affair still remain very unclear. The fact that in most accounts so much of the picture has been painted in black and white, and in language of categorical certainty, has served only to paper over the enormous gaps in established knowledge of the event.
In his present introduction to the paper here published, Professor Anderson describes the circumstances surrounding its preparation and the reasons why it was not previously published.... Although numerous accounts have been published of the genesis and character of the attempted October 1965 coup in Indonesia, many important aspects of...
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189,45 zł |
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Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global
ISBN: 9781848132078 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a critical and comprehensive overview of one of the most important rebel groups in recent history. In the early hours of January 1, 1994 a guerrilla army of indigenous Mayan peasants emerged in the far southeast of Mexico and declared "Ya basta " -- "Enough ." As elites in North America celebrated the coming into force of the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Zapatista Army of National Liberation declared war against 500 years of colonialism, racism, exploitation, oppression and genocide. The effects of the uprising were profound, and felt far beyond the borders of...
This book provides a critical and comprehensive overview of one of the most important rebel groups in recent history. In the early hours of January 1,...
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445,99 zł |
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Curse of the Tomahawk
ISBN: 9781448664528 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. They had been driven from their homes by Indians and their Tory allies after a cruel battle. Braving sixty miles of wilderness, the survivors struggled to safety, many of them perishing in the unforgiving wilderness. Barely a month later they brave the wilderness and their fierce foes again to reclaim their land-and therefore their lives. Not only do they return, but they strike at the heart of their stunned foes through three hundred miles of untamed wildreness. Read of their struggle against the greatest empire in the world, the British Empire, and the greatest Indian confederacy in North...
They had been driven from their homes by Indians and their Tory allies after a cruel battle. Braving sixty miles of wilderness, the survivors struggle...
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68,75 zł |
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Patriots and Pilgrims
ISBN: 9781450534772 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Book about the Patriots and Pilgrims. Patriots descendened from Dr. Comfort Starr. Also Patriots who are ancestors of the author and Pilgrims who are ancestors of the Author.
Book about the Patriots and Pilgrims. Patriots descendened from Dr. Comfort Starr. Also Patriots who are ancestors of the author and Pilgrims who are ...
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210,92 zł |
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