This book concerns the role of language in the Indonesian revolution. James Siegel, an anthropologist with long experience in various parts of that country, traces the beginnings of the Indonesian revolution, which occurred from 1945 through 1949 and which ended Dutch colonial r…
In 'History and Revolution', a group of respected historians confronts the conservative, revisionist trends in historical enquiry that have been dominant since the late 1980s.
"A good comparison of Caribbean revolutions, focusing on ideology, history, leadership, and the international situation. Best analysis is on the Grenadian revolution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
"A good comparison of Caribbean revolutions, focusing on ideology, history, leadership, and the international situation. Best analysis is on the Grenadian revolution"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
"Theories of Civil Violence provides both a new look at the origins of civil upheaval and a critical examination of social theory itself. Rule develops an incisive historical analysis of theories of civil violence, beginning with the classic views of Hobbes and Marx and continui…
Contains primary source material.
This text reflects upon the ten years since the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe and looks at what lies ahead for the future. It addresses issues such as liberal democracy and its enemies and modernity and discontent.
In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto, and white men in an attack on Europe's oldest empire, with the goal of creating a nation explicitly defined as antiracist. This boo…
An examination of the tensions between racism and antiracism in Cuba's struggle to become a nation ... Explores the participation of black and mulatto Cubans in nationalist insurgency from 1868 (when the revolution began), until the intervention of American forces in 1898.
In 1848 Europe was rocked by revolution. Most spectacularly, the revolutions swept across the German-speaking lands of Central Europe. This book offers an up-to-date reassessment of these crucial events.
"From the English Civil War to the Fronde, from Masaniello to Robespierre, this book is one of the first attempts to create a European, transnational approach to the problems of the early modern age. It proposes a detailed reconstruction of the main interpretative tendencies tha…
"From the English Civil War to the Fronde, from Masaniello to Robespierre, this book is one of the first attempts to create a European, transnational approach to the problems of the early modern age. It proposes a detailed reconstruction of the main interpretative tendencies tha…