ilość książek w kategorii: 2734
Goodness Beyond Virtue: Jacobins During the French Revolution
ISBN: 9780674470620 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who were the Jacobins and what are Jacobinism's implications for today? In a book based on national and local studies--on Marseilles, Nimes, Lyons, and Paris--one of the leading scholars of the Revolution reconceptualizes Jacobin politics and philosophy and rescues them from recent postmodernist condescension. Patrice Higonnet documents and analyzes the radical thought and actions of leading Jacobins and their followers. He shows Jacobinism's variety and flexibility, as it emerged in the lived practices of exceptional and ordinary people in varied historical situations. He... Who were the Jacobins and what are Jacobinism's implications for today? In a book based on national and local studies--on Marseilles, Nimes, Lyons,... |
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241,35 zł |
Urban Rivalries in the French Revolution
ISBN: 9780691008912 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The reordering of France into a new hierarchy of administrative and judicial regions in 1791 unleashed an intense rivalry among small towns for seats of authority, while raising vital issues for the vast majority of the French population. Here Ted Margadant tells a lively story of the process of politicization: magistrates, lawyers, merchants, and other townspeople who petitioned the National Assembly not only boasted of their own communities and denigrated rival towns, but also adopted revolutionary slogans and disseminated new political ideas and practices throughout the countryside. The... The reordering of France into a new hierarchy of administrative and judicial regions in 1791 unleashed an intense rivalry among small towns for sea... |
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384,41 zł |
Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Insurgents and Regimes Since 1956
ISBN: 9780691023366 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this comparative survey of guerrilla movements in Latin America, Timothy Wickham-Crowley explores the origins and outcomes of rural insurgencies in nearly a dozen cases since 1956. Focusing on the personal backgrounds of the guerrillas themselves and on national social conditions, the author explains why guerrillas emerged strongly in certain countries but not others. He considers, for example, under what circumstances guerrillas acquire military strength and why they do--or do not--secure substantial support from the peasantry in rural areas. In this comparative survey of guerrilla movements in Latin America, Timothy Wickham-Crowley explores the origins and outcomes of rural insurgencies... |
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384,41 zł |
Wars, Revolutions and Dictatorships: Studies of Historical and Contemporary Problems from a Comparative Viewpoint
ISBN: 9780714634524 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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808,63 zł |
Democracy, Revolution, and History
ISBN: 9780801486265 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work of Barrington Moore, Jr., is one of the landmarks of modern social science. A distinguished roster of contributors here discusses the influence of his best-known work, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. Their individual perspectives combine in delineating Moore's contributions to the transformation of comparative and historical social science over the past several decades. The essays in Democracy, Revolution, and History all address substantive and methodological problems, asking questions about the different historical paths toward democratic or... The work of Barrington Moore, Jr., is one of the landmarks of modern social science. A distinguished roster of contributors here discusses the infl... |
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193,02 zł |
Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780806131962 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century" provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Algeria, Cuba, and Viet Nam--not from the perspective of governments or parties or leaders, but from the perspective of the peasant peoples whose lives and ways of living were destroyed by the depredations of the imperial powers, including American imperial power."-"New York Times Book Review" ""Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century" provides a good short course in the major popular revolutions of our century--in Russia, Mexico, China, Al... |
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158,14 zł |
Resisting Rebellion: The History and Politics of Counterinsurgency
ISBN: 9780813191706 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Resisting Rebellion, Anthony James Joes's discussion of insurgencies ranges across five continents and spans more than two centuries. Analyzing examples from North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, he identifies recurrent patterns and offers useful lessons for future policymakers. Insurgencies arise from many sources of discontent, including foreign occupation, fraudulent elections, and religious persecution, but they also stem from ethnic hostilities, the aspirations of would-be elites, and traditions of political violence. Because insurgency is as much a... In Resisting Rebellion, Anthony James Joes's discussion of insurgencies ranges across five continents and spans more than two centuries. Ana... |
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173,45 zł |
Midwives of Revolution: Female Bolsheviks & Women Workers in 1917
ISBN: 9780821412909 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and the ensuing communist regime have often been portrayed as a man's revolution, with women as bystanders or even victims. Midwives of the Revolution examines the powerful contribution made by women to the overthrow of tsarism in 1917 and their importance in the formative years of communism in Russia. Focusing on the masses as well as the high-ranking intelligentsia, Midwives of the Revolution is the first sustained analysis of female involvement in the revolutionary era of Russian history. The authors investigate the role of Bolshevik women and the...
The Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 and the ensuing communist regime have often been portrayed as a man's revolution, with women as bystanders or e...
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125,15 zł |
From Darkness To Light: Class, Consciousness, & Salvation In Revolutionary
ISBN: 9780822957041 / Angielski / Miękka / 488 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this interdisciplinary and controversial work, Igal Halfin takes an original and provocative stance on Marxist theory, and attempts to break down the divisions between history, philosophy, and literary theory.
In this interdisciplinary and controversial work, Igal Halfin takes an original and provocative stance on Marxist theory, and attempts to break down t...
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328,63 zł |
Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology
ISBN: 9780872863514 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revolutionary Romanticism draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collection of writings by artists, scholars, and revolutionaries, the transgressions of the past are recaptured and transvalued for the benefit of the struggles of today and tomorrow. Along the way, new light is shed on the radical sensibilities of Novalis, Friedrich Holderlin, and Friedrich Schlegel and the profoundly oppositional poetics of Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Lord Byron, and William Blake. The social romanticism of Jules Michelet... Revolutionary Romanticism draws on almost two centuries of intertwined traditions of cultural and political subversion. In this rich collect... |
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112,80 zł |
Escaping the Matrix: How we the people can change the world
ISBN: 9780977098309 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moore courageously links the apparently bleak situation of a dominated world directly to a hopeful vision for achieving new sustainable societies. He urges readers to bridge artificially divisive ideological boundaries through a process of community-centered dialog known as harmonization.
Moore courageously links the apparently bleak situation of a dominated world directly to a hopeful vision for achieving new sustainable societies. He ...
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69,33 zł |
Falling Chips: A Deconstruction of the Single-Bullet Theory of the JFK Assasination
ISBN: 9781413475227 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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99,94 zł |
Revolutionaries
ISBN: 9781565846982 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the few genuinely great historians of our century according to the "New Republic," Eric Hobsbawm has produced a canon of landmark booksincluding "The Age of Capital," "The Age of Revolution," "Bandits," and "The Age of Extremes" that has both set the standard for radical scholarship and influenced historical thinking across the political spectrum.
Now back in print after thirty years, "Revolutionaries" is vintage Hobsbawm, written masterfully amid one of the century s most intense periods of political and social upheaval, putting those events in historical context. Few observers... One of the few genuinely great historians of our century according to the "New Republic," Eric Hobsbawm has produced a canon of landmark booksincludin...
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132,69 zł |
Making Waves: Worldwide Social Movements, 1750-2005
ISBN: 9781594514807 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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965,13 zł |
History and Revolution: Refuting Revisionism
ISBN: 9781844671519 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "History and Revolution," a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant in the last twenty years. Ranging from an exploration of the English, French, and Russian revolutions and their treatment by revisionist historiography, to the debates and themes arising from attempts to downplay revolution's role in history, "History and Revolution "also engages with several prominent revisionist historians, including Orlando Figes, Conrad Russell and Simon Schama.
This important book shows the inability of revisionism... In "History and Revolution," a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been domin...
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130,19 zł |
Revolutionary Rehearsals
ISBN: 9781931859028 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Five times in the last 40 years, the working class has posed a radical alternative to the status quo. France 1968: A general strike and factory occupations by millions of workers shake the country. Chile 1972: Workers defending the Popular Unity government set up workers' councils--the cordones--and demand control over production. Portugal 1974: Army officers overthrow the dictator Caetano and release an upsurge of -popular power- whichs last 18 months. Iran 1979: The viciously repressive Shah is toppled and workers set up independent councils, the shoras. Poland 1980:... Five times in the last 40 years, the working class has posed a radical alternative to the status quo. France 1968: A general strike and factor... |
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109,78 zł |
The Explosion: Marxism and the French Upheaval
ISBN: 9780853451020 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the full sweep of Marxist thinking on social change in the light of the 1968 French explosion. Explores the full sweep of Marxist thinking on social change in the light of the 1968 French explosion. |
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97,59 zł |
New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time
ISBN: 9780860919193 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time continues the innovative exploration of major issues concerning democracy and socialism which was staked out in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy. Examining the meanings of social struggle in the context of late capitalism, Laclau situates the re-making of political identities within a framework of democratic revolution. The critical method is one which describes major structural changes in the contemporary world-system at the same time as it theorizes a coherent and radical interpretative form. This marriage of politics and theory allows the book...
New Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time continues the innovative exploration of major issues concerning democracy and socialism which was staked...
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108,45 zł |
The Imaginary Revolution: Parisian Students and Workers in 1968
ISBN: 9781571816856 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " the book] offers a meticulouos and appropriately dispassionate account of the French events of May 1968. Contributing to a more complete picture of what occurred, the book would be worthwhile reading in courses on comparative experiences of the 1960s." - Journal of Modern History "All and all, this is a terrific book written in a lively narrative. Seidman provides us with a breadth and depth of knowledge and a balanced analysis that make his version of May 1968 usable for scholarly study as well as for the classroom." - H-France Review The events of 1968 have been seen as a decisive turning...
" the book] offers a meticulouos and appropriately dispassionate account of the French events of May 1968. Contributing to a more complete picture of ...
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145,81 zł |
The French Revolution Sourcebook
ISBN: 9780340719831 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This selection of original documents in English translation examines the constitutional and political problems of France in the decade 1785-1795 through the writings of contemporaries. Originally published in 1981 but now substantially enlarged to give a much fuller picture of the pre-Revolutionary period, the Constituent Assembly, and the Terror, the collection provides an extraordinarily vivid guide to this key historical period.
This selection of original documents in English translation examines the constitutional and political problems of France in the decade 1785-1795 throu...
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219,06 zł |