ilość książek w kategorii: 2750
Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917
ISBN: 9780300081060 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive analysis of the political culture of the Russian Revolution. Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii examine the diverse ways that language and other symbols - including flags and emblems, public rituals, songs, and codes of dress - were used to identify competing sides and to create new meanings in the political struggles of 1917. The Revolution was in many ways a battle to control these systems of symbolic meaning, the authors find. The party or faction that could master the complexities of the lexicon of the revolution was well on...
This is the first book in any language to offer a comprehensive analysis of the political culture of the Russian Revolution. Orlando Figes and Boris K...
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387,46 zł |
The French Revolution Debate in Britain: The Origins of Modern Politics
ISBN: 9780333626467 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major figures - Thomas Paine, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and John Thelwall - collectively laid the foundations for political debate for the following century, and longer.
Gregory Claeys explores the reception of the French Revolution in Britain through the medium of its leading interpreters. Claeys argues that the major...
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567,28 zł |
The Russian Revolution: 1917-1921
ISBN: 9780415124386 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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190,76 zł |
Revolution: Critical Concepts in Political Science
ISBN: 9780415201322 / Angielski / Twarda / 2320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This set collects key scholarship on revolution. The set begins with theoretical approaches to the study of revolution, noting some theories of revolution advanced by revolutionaries themselves, and then moves on to major articles about individual revolutions. The text should provide a valuable reference work for social scientists and historians. The articles reprinted here consider the following issues: revolution - concept and theory; explaining the causes of revolution; revolutionary state building and the outcomes of revolutions; revolutionaries theories of revolution; case studies of...
This set collects key scholarship on revolution. The set begins with theoretical approaches to the study of revolution, noting some theories of revolu...
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5414,93 zł |
The Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815
ISBN: 9780415239837 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by an experienced author and expert in the field, Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815 provides a thorough re-examination of the crucial period in the history of France for students of history and military studies. Based on extensive research, and including twenty detailed maps, this study is unique in its focus on the wars of both the French Revolution and Napoleon. Owen Connelly expertly analyzes them both to provide a broader context for warfare. Examining the causes of the wars, and how the practices of warfare during this period were to... Written by an experienced author and expert in the field, Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815 provides a thorough re-exa... |
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696,20 zł |
The Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815
ISBN: 9780415239844 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by an experienced author and expert in the field, Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815 provides a thorough re-examination of the crucial period in the history of France for students of history and military studies. Based on extensive research, and including twenty detailed maps, this study is unique in its focus on the wars of both the French Revolution and Napoleon. Owen Connelly expertly analyzes them both to provide a broader context for warfare. Examining the causes of the wars, and how the practices of warfare during this period were to... Written by an experienced author and expert in the field, Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815 provides a thorough re-exa... |
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195,92 zł |
The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, Civil Warfare, and the Triumph of Anglo-America
ISBN: 9780465013708 / Angielski / Miękka / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The question at the heart of The Cousins' Wars is this: How did Anglo-America evolve over a mere three hundred years from a small Tudor kingdom into a global community with such a hegemonic grip on the world today, while no other European power--Spain, France, Germany, or Russia--did? The answer to this, according to Phillips, lies in a close examination of three internecine English-speaking civil wars--the English Civil War, the American Revolution, and the American Civil War. These wars between cousins functioned as crucial anvils on which various religious, ethnic, and political...
The question at the heart of The Cousins' Wars is this: How did Anglo-America evolve over a mere three hundred years from a small Tudor kingdom...
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157,37 zł |
Provincial Rebellion: Revolutionary Civil Wars, 1560-1660
ISBN: 9780521287128 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660 is a comparative historical study of revolution in the greatest royal states of Western Europe during the sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries. Revolution as a general problem and the causes and character of revolution in early modern Europe have been among the most widely discussed and debated topics in history and the social sciences since the 1940s. Although the subject of social and political unrest and revolution in the early modern period has received much attention, and despite the existence of a very large literature devoted to...
Rebels and Rulers, 1500-1660 is a comparative historical study of revolution in the greatest royal states of Western Europe during the sixteenth and t...
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191,91 zł |
Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917
ISBN: 9780521405850 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Russian Revolution of 1917 continues to be a subject of most intense controversy; and the fundamental questions which have divided observers over the last seventy years still stir fierce debate. In this volume, eighteen leading specialists from different generations, countries and schools of thought, re-examine the key issues and events of that crucial year. Some of the articles examine the unfolding crisis 'from below', describing developments in specific localities or organisations: others put the emphasis on the view as seen 'from above', on Lenin as leader of the Bolshevik party and...
The Russian Revolution of 1917 continues to be a subject of most intense controversy; and the fundamental questions which have divided observers over ...
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245,65 zł |
Taking Power: On the Origins of Third World Revolutions
ISBN: 9780521620093 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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519,30 zł |
Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring
ISBN: 9780553383294 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Turn: Washington's Spies, now an original series on AMC
Based on remarkable new research, acclaimed historian Alexander Rose brings to life the true story of the spy ring that helped America win the Revolutionary War. For the first time, Rose takes us beyond the battlefront and deep into the shadowy underworld of double agents and triple crosses, covert operations and code breaking, and unmasks the courageous, flawed men who inhabited this wilderness of mirrors--including the spymaster at the heart of it all. In the summer... NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Turn: Washington's Spies, now an original series on AMC
Based on remarkable new resear... |
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73,14 zł |
The French Revolution: The Essential Readings
ISBN: 9780631212713 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents ten selections from the most important scholarship on the French Revolution over the past quarter century, introduced and contextualized for student readers.
Historians typically categorize the historiography of the French Revolution according to each author's approval or disapproval of the Revolution, political agenda (for example Marxist, liberal, conservative, or feminist), or methodology (for example social, political, or cultural history). This book demonstrates the inadequacy of these categories of analysis for a nuanced understanding of the Revolution... This book presents ten selections from the most important scholarship on the French Revolution over the past quarter century, introduced and contextua...
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211,44 zł |
Russian Revolution Readings
ISBN: 9780631216384 / Angielski / Twarda / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This indispensable volume comprises the work of nine of the most prominent scholars of the Russian Revolution, with introductions by the editor that help students contextualize and understand each piece.
This indispensable volume comprises the work of nine of the most prominent scholars of the Russian Revolution, with introductions by the editor that h...
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596,86 zł |
The Russian Revolution: The Essential Readings
ISBN: 9780631216391 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This indispensable volume comprises the work of nine of the most prominent scholars of the Russian Revolution, with introductions by the editor that help students contextualize and understand each piece.
This indispensable volume comprises the work of nine of the most prominent scholars of the Russian Revolution, with introductions by the editor that h...
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222,30 zł |
Revolutionary Europe 1783-1815
ISBN: 9780631221906 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new edition of this classic account of Revolutionary Europe brings to life many of the key issues that have fascinated historians since the fall of the Bastille and now includes a new introduction examining RudU's life and works and an updated list of readings.
The new edition of this classic account of Revolutionary Europe brings to life many of the key issues that have fascinated historians since the...
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173,44 zł |
The First European Revolution: 970-1215
ISBN: 9780631222774 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries.
This book provides a radical reassessment of Europe from the late tenth to the early thirteenth centuries.
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168,01 zł |
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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249,44 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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380,00 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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380,00 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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799,34 zł |