"Les techniques issues de la tradition militaire de "contre-insurrection" et d'action psychologique sont aujourd'hui largement banalisées, y compris dans le management d'entreprise, dans nombre de polices du monde, voire dans des groupes mafieux. Mais on ignore souvent ce qu'ell…
In The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development, María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo boldly argues that crucial twentieth-century revolutionary challenges to colonialism and capitalism in the Americas have failed to resist--and in fact have been constitut…
How revolutionary movements in the Americas mirror the language and styles of their opponents who favor traditional development.
For many decades, "social revolutions" have been a major focus of social scientific work. Defined by Theda Skocpol in her classic work States and Social Revolutions as "rapid, basic transformations of a society's state and class structures that are accompanied and in part carrie…
List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- Introduction: revolution and the city -- A spatial theory of revolution -- The growth and urbanization of revolution -- The urban civic revolutionary moment -- The repression-disruption trade-off and the shifting odds of succ…
"For many decades, "social revolutions" have been a major focus of social scientific work. Defined by Theda Skocpol in her classic work States and Social Revolutions as "rapid, basic transformations of a society's state and class structures that are accompanied and in part carri…
"For many decades, "social revolutions" have been a major focus of social scientific work. Defined by Theda Skocpol in her classic work States and Social Revolutions as "rapid, basic transformations of a society's state and class structures that are accompanied and in part carri…
Entre 1577 et 1585, plusieurs villes de Flandre et du Brabant s’instituent en des régimes insurrectionnels que les historiens désignent par le terme de ‘Républiques calvinistes’. Les anciens magistrats sont écartés des rouages du pouvoir, au profit de nouveaux conseils épris d’a…
This book examines the transformation of the French military profession during the momentous period that saw the death of royal absolutism, the rise and fall of successive revolutionary regimes, the consolidation of Napoleonic rule and the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy aft…
In this collection, written between the 1950s and 1980s and published for the first time in English, Guerin not only provides a critique of the socialist and communist parties of his day, he analyses some of the most fundamental and pressing questions with which all radicals mus…
"The present book is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of how the interplay between memory, history, and justice generates insight that is multifariously relevant for comprehending the present and future of democracy without becoming limited to a Europe-centric framew…
