These essays deepen our understanding of Haiti during the period from 1791 to 1815. They consider the colony's history and material culture as well as it 'free people of colour' and the events leading up to the revolution and its violent unfolding.
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This book takes a bold new look at both Spain's and Portugal's New World empires in a trans-Atlantic context. It argues that modern notions of sovereignty in the Atlantic world have been unstable, contested, and equivocal from the start. It shows how much contemporary notions of…
Women of the Republic views the American Revolution through women's eyes. The result of a seven-year search for women's diaries, letters, and legal records, Kerber describes women's participation in the war, evaluates changes in their education in the late eighteenth century, de…
The study o f African history as an academic discipline is a rather new field and one that still has its detractors both w ithin and outside academics. This collection o f articles highlights for students and scholars the modern era in African history. It brings together publish…
The author argues that that the political end of the Qing dynasty in 1911 was less important than the late-Qing government's own Xinzheng or "new systems" reforms.
The author argues that that the political end of the Qing dynasty in 1911 was less important than the late-Qing government's own Xinzheng or "new systems" reforms.
The author argues that that the political end of the Qing dynasty in 1911 was less important than the late-Qing government's own Xinzheng or "new systems" reforms
"This is the first full-length analysis of the Irish revolution in its totality, taking into account the wide range of social, economic and political developments as well as the IRA's campaign of guerrilla warfare and the British response to it. Drawing on previously unpublished…
Many political regimes today draw such legitimacy as they have from a revolution: the destruction of an existing political elite and its replacement by a different group or groups drawn from inside the same society. A large part of the ideological dispute in world politics has c…
An examination of eight major revolutions of the twentieth century.