"Respected human rights activist Nonie Darwish assesses the potential for freedom to succeed following the recent revolutions in the Middle East. The recent powerful wave of Middle East uprisings has fueled both hope and trepidation in the region and around the world as the ulti…
"Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides - the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonizingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and…
World-renowned expert in the fields of counter-terrorism, hostage rescue and VIP protection, Leroy Thompson has now produced the most up-to-date guide to counter-insurgency. His experiences both in the field and in training showcase the latest methods and technologies available …
"Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was England's greatest revolutionary: no other reformer was as actively involved in events of the scale of the American and French Revolutions, and none wrote such best-selling texts with the impact of Common Sense and Rights of Man. No one else combine…
Brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English Revolution, exploring how those events grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of each of the Three Kingdoms--England, Scotland, and Ireland. It captures both a shared British and Irish…
Brings together leading historians of the events surrounding the English Revolution, exploring how those events grew out of, and resonated, in the politics and interactions of each of the Three Kingdoms--England, Scotland, and Ireland. It captures both a shared British and Irish…
Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations.
