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  • A New World Begins

    The History of the French Revolution

    by Jeremy Popkin ...
    From an award-winning historian, a “vivid” (Wall Street Journal) account of the revolution that created the modern worldThe French Revolution’s principles of liberty and equality still shape our ideas of a just society—even if, after more than two hundred years, their meaning is more contested than ever before. In A New World Begins, Jeremy D. Popkin offers a riveting account of the revolution ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Forgotten History of America

    Little-Known Conflicts of Lasting Importance from the Earliest Colonists to the Eve of the Revolution

    “Introduces us to extraordinary men and women and landmark events that shaped the American character and the future of the nation.” —Thomas J. Craughwell, author of Failures of the Presidents and Stealing Lincoln’s BodyToday Americans remember 1776 as the beginning of an era. A nation was born, commencing a story that continues to this day. But the War of Independence also marked the end of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings

    Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others

    Edited by Bob Blaisdell ...
    Series series Dover Thrift Editions: Political Science
    This concise anthology presents a broad selection of writings by the world’s leading revolutionary figures. Spanning three centuries, the works include such milestone documents as the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789), and the Communist Manifesto (1848). It also features writings by the Russian revolutionaries Lenin and Trotsky; Marat and Danton of the ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Liberty or Death

    The French Revolution

    by Peter McPhee ...
    A strinking account of the impact of the French Revolution in Paris, across the French countryside, and around the globeThe French Revolution has fascinated, perplexed, and inspired for more than two centuries. It was a seismic event that radically transformed France and launched shock waves across the world. In this provocative new history, Peter McPhee draws on a lifetime’s study of eighteenth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magna Carta

    The Birth of Liberty

    by Dan Jones ...
    **"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." —Antonia FraserFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Plantagenets, a lively, action-packed history of how the Magna Carta came to be—by the author of Powers and Thrones.**The Magna Carta is revered around ... Read more

    $7.99 USD $6.99 USD

  • The Gunpowder Plot: History in an Hour

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.‘Remember, remember, the fifth of November’. The gunpowder plot is a famed tale of treachery that continues to fascinate and capture the imagination four hundred years on.The Gunpowder Plot in an Hour reveals the elaborate background to the infamous plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament and James I, the ultimate act of treason. This ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Red Flower of China

    An Autobiography

    by Zhai Zhenhua ...
    This “candid memoir of the author’s participation in China’s Cultural Revolution” reveals how an ordinary woman was driven to violence by politics (Kirkus Reviews).“Compelling in its brutal honesty,” this is a chilling document that explores how ideological extremism and zealotry can destroy lives, told by a Chinese woman swept up during her teenage years in Mao Zedong’s Red Guard (San Francisco ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lenin's Brother: The Origins of the October Revolution

    by Philip Pomper ...
    The gripping untold story of a terrorist leader whose death would catapult his brother—Lenin—to revolution.In 1886, Alexander Ulyanov, a brilliant biology student, joined a small group of students at St. Petersburg University to plot the assassination of Russia’s tsar. Known as “Second First March” for the date of their action, this group failed disastrously in their mission, and its leaders, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Murder of the Romanovs

    by Andrew Cook ...
    The overthrow and execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial family is a cause célèbre of 20th century history. Andrew Cooks re-investigation of the story finally solves one of the greatest mysteries of world history. The author draws upon new forensic evidence and newly discovered British and Russian Secret Service records reveal the truth about the familys murder, the proposed ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Boston Massacre

    A Family History

    by Serena Zabin ...
    “Historical accuracy and human understanding require coming down from the high ground and seeing people in all their complexity. Serena Zabin’s rich and highly enjoyable book does just that.”—Kathleen DuVal, Wall Street JournalA dramatic, untold “people’s history” of the storied event that helped trigger the American Revolution.The story of the Boston Massacre—when on a late winter evening in 1770 ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Reflections on the Revolution in France

    by Edmund Burke ...
    The eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish MP and philosopher offers his opinion on the early days of the French Revolution and his expectations of its outcome.The French Revolution began in 1789. In the following year, Edmund Burke, a member of Great Britain’s House of Commons, wrote one of the most famous arguments against the rebellion. The work started off as a letter to a friend of Burke’s family who ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guests of the Ayatollah

    The Iran Hostage Crisis: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam

    by Mark Bowden ...
    The New York Times–bestselling author of Black Hawk Down delivers a “suspenseful and inspiring” account of the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979 (The Wall Street Journal).On November 4, 1979, a group of radical Islamist students, inspired by the revolutionary Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini, stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran. They took fifty-two Americans captive, and kept nearly all of them ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Handful of Hard Men

    The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia

    A biography of a Special Forces soldier who battled the forces of Mugabe and Nkomo, earning a reputation as a military maestro.During the West’s great transition into the post-colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s, fought back almost alone against Communist-supported elements that it did not believe would deliver proper governance. During this ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The State and Revolution

    Translated by Robert Service ...
    In July 1917, when the Provisional Government issued a warrant for his arrest, Lenin fled from Petrograd; later that year, the October Revolution swept him to supreme power. In the short intervening period he spent in Finland, he wrote his impassioned, never-completed masterwork The State and Revolution. This powerfully argued book offers both the rationale for the new regime and a wealth of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Thief's Justice

    A completely gripping historical mystery

    Series Book 2 - A Company of Rogues
    London, 1716. Revenge is a dish best served ice-cold…’An immersive, action-packed thriller with intrigue in the air and threats around every corner’ The Herald’Great fun ... the language is colourful and the action never stops’ Laura Shepherd-RobinsonThe city is caught in the vice-like grip of a savage winter. Even the Thames has frozen over. But for Jonas Flynt – thief, gambler, killer – the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Acquiescence

    The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power

    by Steve Fraser ...
    A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished.From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The House of Government

    A Saga of the Russian Revolution

    by Yuri Slezkine ...
    On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Holocaust: History in an Hour

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.The Holocaust, in which 11 million people died, was the largest atrocity of the 20th century and perhaps the hardest to understand. Approximately 6 million Jews and 5 million others including Roma people, Poles, Russian prisoners of war, political prisoners, homosexuals, people of colour, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various other minorities were ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Revolutions: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From 1789 in France to 2011 in Cairo, revolutions have shaken the world. In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and have at times won miraculous victories, though at other times suffered devastating defeat. This Very Short Introduction ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions?

    by Neil Davidson ...
    “An impressive contribution both to the history of ideas and to political philosophy.” —Alasdair MacIntyre, author of After VirtueOnce of central importance to left historians and activists alike, recently the concept of the “bourgeois revolution” has come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this magisterial work, Neil Davidson offers theoretical and historical ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Knight ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Mexican Revolution defined the sociopolitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940. Taking account of these divergent interpretations, this Very Short Introduction offers a succinct ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Black Patriots and Loyalists

    Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence

    by Alan Gilbert ...
    A surprising look at the roles of African Americans in the Revolutionary War: “An elegant and passionate writer, Alan Gilbert pulls no punches.”—HistorianWe think of the American Revolution as the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Rogue Republic

    How Would-Be Patriots Waged the Shortest Revolution in American History

    The little-known story of the West Florida Revolt: “One rollicking good book.” —Jay WinikWhen Britain ceded the territory of West Florida—what is now Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida—to Spain in 1783, America was still too young to confidently fight in one of Europe’s endless territorial contests. So it was left to the settlers, bristling at Spanish misrule, to establish a foothold in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Our First Revolution

    The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers

    The ideals of freedom and individual rights that inspired America’s Founding Fathers can be traced directly back to one of the most pivotal events in British history: the late-seventeenth-century uprising known as the Glorious Revolution.In this work of popular history,Michael Barone brings the story of this unlikely and largely bloodless revolt to American readers and reveals that, without the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD