Kategoria BISAC: History >> Military - Revolutions & Wars of Independence (See Also United States - Rev

"Engineering the Revolution "documents the forging of a new relationship between technology and politics in Revolutionary France, and the inauguration of a distinctively modern form of the technological life. Here, Ken Alder rewrites the history of the eighteenth century as the total history of one particular artifact the gun by offering a novel and historical account of how material artifacts emerge as the outcome of political struggle. By expanding the political to include conflict over material objects, this volume rethinks the nature of engineering rationality, the origins of mass...

Natural right the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are natural in origin is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In "The Terror of Natural Right," Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the enemy of the human race an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls natural...

Clive Bloom mixes extraordinary marginal voices with famous - and infamous - figures, from messiahs like Richard Brothers and Octavia 'Daughter of God'; writers such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton; revolutionaries and radicals like Karl Marx, Beatrice Webb, George Bernard Shaw and Oswald Mosley; madmen like Richard Dadd and Jack the...

The Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 is among the world's most visually documented revolutions. Coinciding with the birth of filmmaking and the increased mobility offered by the reflex camera, it received extraordinary coverage by photographers and cineastes--commercial and amateur, national and international. Many images of the Revolution remain iconic to this day--Francisco Villa galloping toward the camera; Villa lolling in the presidential chair next to Emiliano Zapata; and Zapata standing stolidly in charro raiment with a carbine in one hand and the other hand on a sword, to...

For two hundred years historians have viewed England's Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 as an un-revolutionary revolution--bloodless, consensual, aristocratic, and above all, sensible. In this brilliant new interpretation Steve Pincus refutes this traditional view.

By expanding the interpretive lens to include a broader geographical and chronological frame, Pincus demonstrates that England's revolution was a European event, that it took place over a number of years, not months, and that it had repercussions in India, North America, the West Indies, and throughout continental Europe....