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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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87,86 |
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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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104,38 |
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Toussaint's Clause: The Founding Fathers and the Haitian Revolution
ISBN: 9781578067114 / Angielski / Twarda / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic's strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? From 1790 to 1810, the disagreement reverberated far beyond Caribbean waters and American coastal ports. War between France and Britain, the great powers of the time, raged on the seas and in Europe. America watched aghast as its trading partner Haiti, a rich hothouse of sugar plantations and French colonial... In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, an... |
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165,50 |
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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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924,88 |
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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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97,30 |
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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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101,41 |
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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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86,56 |
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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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95,36 |
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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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136,06 |
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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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215,16 |
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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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140,26 |
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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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223,04 |
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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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439,79 |
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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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311,49 |
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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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608,48 |
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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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113,32 |
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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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140,46 |
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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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184,98 |
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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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321,28 |
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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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92,26 |
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