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  • Resolutions and Decisions of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Volume 4

    The Khrushchev Years 1953-1964

    Edited by GREY HODNETT ...
    Series series Heritage
    This set of four volumes is an indispensable reference work for the study of modern Russia in general and Soviet Communism in particular. Ever since its foundation on the eve of the twentieth century, the organization now called the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has been embodying its major policies in documents called 'resolutions and decisions.' These form a much more continuous and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Fort Laurens, 1778-1779

    The Revolutionary War in Ohio

    While the main action of the Revolution swirled along the Atlantic seaboard. Ohio was a no man’s land between the Colonists’ Fort Pitt and the British Fort Detroit. A campaign to neutralize Detroit and win the allegiance of the Indians in Ohio was instigated by General Washington in 1778, and in the fall of that year Fort Laurens was erected on the banks of the Tuscarawas River as the planned ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Polish Revolutionary Populism

    A Study in Agrarian Socialist Thought From the 1830s to the 1850s

    by Peter Brock ...
    Series series Heritage
    Polish populism, which advocated agrarian socialism by either revolutionary or reformist means, emerged first among the émigrés who had left Poland after the Russians defeated the nationalist uprising of 1830. In exile they came into contact with the ideas of French ‘Utopian’ socialists such as Babeuf, Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Cabet, and they attempted to adapt these ideas to the very different ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution Vol. II

    by Hal Draper ...

    $26.99 USD

  • States and Social Revolutions

    A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia and China

    by Theda Skocpol ...
    State structures, international forces, and class relations: Theda Skocpol shows how all three combine to explain the origins and accomplishments of social-revolutionary transformations. From France in the 1790s to Vietnam in the 1970s, social revolutions have been rare but undeniably of enormous importance in modern world history. States and Social Revolutions provides a new frame of reference ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Reflections on the Revolution in France

    by Edmund Burke ...
    Burke's seminal work was written during the early months of the French Revolution, and it predicted with uncanny accuracy many of its worst excesses, including the Reign of Terror. A scathing attack on the revolution's attitudes to existing institutions, property and religion, it makes a cogent case for upholding inherited rights and established customs, argues for piecemeal reform rather than ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Vanguard

    The Early Years of the Communist Youth International 1914-1924

    Series series Heritage
    The monolithic nature of the communist movement during the Stalinist period overlay pluralist tendencies. These were suppressed in the 1920s, though they were to re-emerge after Stalin's death.The history of the Communist Youth International is revealed in this volume as an important example of the 'autonomist' tendencies in the communist movement after the First World War. The experience of the ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Shah of Shahs

    This journalist’s portrait of life in Iran just after the Revolution is “a book of great economy and power [with] a supreme sense of the absurd” (New Republic).Iran, 1980: the revolutionaries have taken charge. In a deserted Teheran hotel, Ryszard Kapuściński tries to make journalistic and human sense out of the mass of notes, tapes, and photographs he had accumulated during his extended stay in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fists of Righteous Harmony

    A History of the Boxer Uprising in China in the Year 1900

    A British historian recounts the armed, violent Chinese insurrection near the end of the Qing dynasty at the dawn of the 20th century.The Boxers were a fanatical secret organization who were incited by anti-foreign elements in the Chinese Government to commit wide-scale deportations against foreign missionaries and their Chinese converts. The Boxers had the tacit support of the Dowager Empress Tzu ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630–1789

    The Legacy for Contemporary Politics

    by Joshua Miller ...
    The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America describes and explores the emergence of a directly democratic political culture in America, the Federalists' theoretical campaign against that culture, and the legacy of the struggle over democracy for politics today. The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America traces the rise of democracy in America beginning with the Puritans of New England; ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Storm Gathering

    The Penn Family and the American Revolution

    by Lorett Treese ...
    Series series Keystone Books
    Treese's book provides a popular history of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary period from the vantage point of the heirs of William Penn.Most Pennsylvanians are familiar with the story of William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a haven for religious dissenters. But few may know what became of Penn's enterprise (the "proprietorship") in the years after his death in 1718. And ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Soldier: 1775-1783

    Series series Illustrated Living History Series
    Has 85 full-page plates of hand-lettered text and meticulously detailed drawings that bring to life the day-to-day pleasures and privations of the Revolutionary soldier. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Patriots and the People

    The Rebellion of 1837 in Rural Lower Canada

    by Allan Greer ...
    Series series Heritage
    The Lower Canadian Rebellion of 1837 has been called the most important event in pre-Confederation history. Previously, it has been explained as a response to economic distress or as the result of manipulation by middle-class politicians. Lord Durham believed it was an expression of racial conflict.The Patriots and the People is a fundamental reinterpretation of the Rebellion. Allan Greer argues ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Legacies of Fear

    Law and Politics in Quebec in the Era of the French Revolution

    Series series Heritage
    Many people assume that a French-English cleavage has always existed and historians have been uncertain as to just how it unfolded. This book provides the answer. Greenwood re-creates a Quebec in which trust between French and English Canadians was an early casualty of the execution of Louis XVI and the descent of the French Revolution through terror into war. Fearing invasion, the English ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Road to Delhi

    by M. Sivaram ...
    Although the peaceful struggles of Mahatma Gandhi are well known in the West, the armed resistance of many Indians during World War II is far less understood; this epic drama ads an important layer to the history of India and the British Empire.The east Asian battlefronts serve as the backgrounds for this story of the attempt by patriotic Indians to drive the British out of their Motherland and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution, while his Rights of Man sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. This collection brings together Paine's most powerful political writings in the first fully annotated edition of these works. - ;`An army of principles will penetrate where an army ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (LOA #76)

    Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / pamphlets, articles, and letters

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Thomas Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume brings together his best-known works: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, along with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine's American years. “I know not whether any man in the world,” wrote John Adams in 1805, “has had more influence on its ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The People's Rising

    The Great Wexford Rebellion of 1798

    by Daniel Gahan ...
    The Wexford Rising of 1798 was the most bloody campaign in Irish history since the Williamite wars. In little than a month, over 30,000 people died. The Rising, which had been launched on a tide of revolutionary optimism, ended in slaughter. After this, the first republican revolt, Irish history was changed forever. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • “Civilizing” Rio

    Reform and Resistance in a Brazilian City, 1889–1930

    by Teresa Meade ...
    A massive urban renewal and public-health campaign in the first decades of the nineteenth century transformed Brazil's capital into a showcase of European architecture and public works. The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, widened streets, modernized the port, and improved sanitation, lighting, and public transportation. These changes made life worse, not ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Formation of the Soviet Union

    Communism and Nationalism, 1917–1923, Revised Edition

    by Richard Pipes ...
    Series Book 13 - Russian Research Center studies ;
    Here is the history of the disintegration of the Russian Empire, and the emergence, on its ruins, of a multinational Communist state. In this revealing account, Richard Pipes tells how the Communists exploited the new nationalism of the peoples of the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Volga-Ural area--first to seize power and then to expand into the borderlands.The Formation ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), A Life

    The Definitive Short Biography of the Founding Father of Irish Republicanism

    by Henry Boylan ...
    The definitive short biography of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), the founding father of Irish republicanism Originally published in 1981 as part of the groundbreaking Gill's Irish Lives series, Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763–98), A Life remains the most concise, accessible and authoritative introduction to one of Irish history's most seminal figures. Theobald Wolfe Tone, founder of the United Irishmen, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Daughter Of Midnight - The Child Bride of Gandhi

    by Arun Gandhi ...
    Kastur Kapadia was betrothed to the mighty Mahatma Gandhi, father of modern India, when they were both just seven years old. The couple married when they were thirteen and Kastur had five children, the first of whom was born when she was sixteen. Though Gandhi's name has become synonymous with asceticism, this biography reveals that he enjoyed a sensuous, loving relationship with Kastur. Daughter ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914

    “A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty.” —Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard University ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Facundo

    Or, Civilization and Barbarism

    Translated by Mary Peabody Mann ...
    Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization of Latin America, and a protest against the tyranny of the government of Juan Manuel de ... Read more

    $12.99 USD