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This book combines social
and institutional
histories of Russia,
focusing on the secret
police and their evolving
relationship with the
peasantry. Based on an
analysis of Cheka/OGPU
reports, it argues that
the police did not
initially respond to
peasant resistance to
Bolshevik demands simply
with the gun--rather,
they listened to peasant
voices.
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This book sheds light on
the Muslim Brotherhood in
Europe specifically,
which has not been much
studied. It shows the
different role of the
Brotherhood in different
European countries and
traces their relationship
with the non-Muslim press
and authorities.
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The Muslim Brotherhood
has become the world's
largest, most
influential Islamist
group. This book examines
the Brotherhood's active
role in Egypt and
throughout the Middle
East and Arab world,
exploring its evolving
position on key issues,
including gender,
religious minorities,
and political plurality,
and analyzes its attempts
at reform.
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Bringing together essays
and primary documents,
helpfully annotated with
headnotes and footnotes,
this title showcases
primary texts written by
African Americans about
the Haitian Revolution.
It attempts to show how
the events in Haiti
served to galvanize
African Americans to
think about themselves
and to act in accordance
with their beliefs.
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Dakota Dawn focuses on
one week in August 1862,
a great paroxysm of
destruction when the
Dakota succeeded, albeit
fleetingly, in driving
out the white man. Some
600 white settlers were
killed in the Sioux
Uprising, the majority
slaughtered in the most
shocking manner. Nowhere
else in the West was
there a record of such
sustained attacks on a
fort
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On 4 July 1918, a new
commandant took control
of a closely guarded
house in the Russian town
of Ekaterinburg. His name
was Yakov Yurovsky, and
his prisoners were the
Imperial family. Thirteen
days later, at
Yurovsky's command, the
family was gunned down in
a blaze of bullets. This
title presents the story
of those murders.
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Brings together several
opposing perspectives on
the Cuban Revolution and
its aftermath. This book
uses different official
documents, speeches,
articles, poetry,
songs, and personal
recollections - to offer
contrasting voices
supportive of the
revolution against those
opposed.
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Presents an account of
the experiences of an
officer of Prince Charles
Edward's army from August
1745, through
Prestonpans and the
taking of Edinburgh, the
march into England to
Derby, the withdrawal to
Scotland and the final
retreat to Drummossie
Moor near Inverness,
where John Maclean was
killed in the Battle of
Culloden.
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Richard Butterwick draws
on diplomatic and
political correspondence,
speeches, pamphlets,
sermons, pastoral
letters, proclamations,
records of local
assemblies, and other
sources to explore a
volatile relationship
between altar, throne,
and nobility in Poland at
the end of Europe's
Ancien Regime.
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Mirbagheri traces the
revival of Islamic/ist
movements, and embarks
on a theoretical study of
some of the fundamental
concepts in Islam and
International Relations
such as the self, Jihad,
peace and universalism.
Contemporary cases of
conflict in the Middle
East are analysed to pose
a challenge to the
universalist discourse of
Western liberalism.
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Covers the events of the
1916 rising on a
day-by-day basis,
starting on Easter Sunday
- the date originally set
for the start - and
continuing through to the
surrender the following
Saturday. This book
locates the rising in the
Irish historical memory,
contrasting its high
ideals with the reality
of the new state to which
it helped give birth.
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How did religion become
opposed to the secular
and modern? If
distinctions between
sacred and secular are
less adequate than
commonly believed, how
do these two categories
interact? This book
addresses these questions
by exploring the
persistence of religious
categories on the
cultural landscape of
early modern France.
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Declared a terrorist
menace yet elected to
government in a free
election Hamas now stands
as the most important
Sunni Islamist group in
the Middle East. But how
did Hamas grow to be so
powerful? Who supports it
and what is its future?
This illuminating study
of Hamas provides
insightful answers to
these pressing questions.
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Declared a terrorist
menace yet elected to
government in a free
election Hamas now stands
as the most important
Sunni Islamist group in
the Middle East. But how
did Hamas grow to be so
powerful? Who supports it
and what is its future?
This illuminating study
of Hamas provides
insightful answers to
these pressing questions.
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Two former paramilitary
leaders - one republican,
one loyalist - speak
about their role in some
of the most appalling
violence of the Troubles
in Northern Ireland.
Their voices are set in
the context of a
narrative by Ed Moloney
of their lives and of the
society they grew up in.
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Presenting a study of
insurrection in Bolivia,
this title traces the
rise to power of Evo
Morales' administration,
whose announced goals are
to end imperial
domination and internal
colonialism through
nationalization of the
country's oil and gas
reserves, and to forge a
system of political
representation.
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The Rockite movement of
1821-1824 was notorious
for its violence.
Originating in County
Limerick, the movement
spread quickly. The
seriousness of the
Rockites' grievances,
the frequency of their
resort to sensational
violence, and their
appeal on such key issues
as rents and tithes
presented a nighmarish
challenge to Dublin
Castle.
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Emiliano Zapata and
Pancho Villa are two of
the best-known figures in
Mexican history. This
dual biography examines
their lives and their
impact on the Mexican
Revolution of 1910 to
1919. Villa was the
Revolution's great
military hero but Zapata
was its soul, aiming to
transform Mexican
society.
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With the outbreak of the
Palestinian Intifadat
al-Aqsa in September 2000
that followed the failure
of the Camp David II
summit, the chain of
belligerent events took
Egypt by surprise. This
study is based primarily
on Egyptian sources as
well as interviews and
conversations with senior
members of the Al-Ahram
Center for Strategic
Studies.
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Useful for those
interested in Che Guevara
and the legacy he left
behind, this book
includes material which
reveals how Che''s death
and example led to the
revolutions of 1968,
particularly in France,
the UK and the USA. It
also includes Fidel
Castro''s speech on
Che''s death, along with
Inti Peredo''s insistence
that the struggle would
continue.
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The first new book in
forty years on the Fenian
Rising, the foundation
of the Irish Republican
Brotherhood and the
background to the Rising,
based on a wide spread
of sources ranging from
the folklore of Uibh
Raitheach to the papers
of Sir Hugh Rose the
Commander of the British
forces in Ireland
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Tracing the gradual
evolution of revolutions,
this title predicts the
relationship between war
and revolution and the
crucial role such
combustive movements play
in the future of
international relations.
It looks at the
principles which underlie
various revolutions,
starting with the
examples in America and
France.
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Shows that the period
from 1940 up to 1968,
generally viewed as a
time of social and
political stability in
Mexico, actually saw
instances of popular
discontent and wide-scale
state repression. This
work features the
struggles surrounding the
Mexican Revolution and
contemporary rural
uprisings such as the
Zapatista rebellion.
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On December 17, 2010, a
Tunisian man set himself
on fire after the police
seized the vegetable cart
by which he earned his
living. This single act
by an unknown figure sent
a wave of revolt through
the Arab world. The
author explains how the
events of the Arab Spring
spread so widely and with
such staggering speed.
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This book is about the
efforts, at times
idealistic but often
self-interested, as well
as frequently
half-hearted, of the
West and the
international community
to first save Liberia and
the region from disaster,
then, having failed,
to bring to justice one
of those whom it deems to
be most to blame for the
turmoil.
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In Omagh, on Saturday,
15 August, 1998, a
massive bomb placed by
the so-called Real IRA
murdered unborn twins,
five men, fourteen women
and nine children. This
title presents an account
of how these families
became internationally
recognised, formidable
campaigners and
surmounted countless
daunting obstacles to win
a famous victory.
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Includes stories of the
IRA's daring escapes and
rescues during the War of
Independence 1918-1921.
This title features the
factual accounts of these
rescues, rescue attempts
and jailbreaks which
raised the morale of
separatist Ireland and
brought world-wide
ridicule and discredit on
the prison and internment
camp systems in Britain
and Ireland.
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Describes how the French
revolutionaries tried to
abolish the nobility,
analysing the
intellectual roots of
hostility to nobles, the
steps by which
revolutionaries turned
against aristocracy, the
impact of persecution,
emigration,
confiscation, and
Terror, and the
long-term consequences of
these developments for
the nobility.
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An introduction to one of
the most important
periods in European
history. It presents the
implacable Robespierre,
the frightened Marie
Antoinette and the iconic
image of the guillotine.
It also demonstrates the
key role the Revolution
played in the development
of European politics.
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This book is about the
efforts, at times
idealistic but often
self-interested, as well
as frequently
half-hearted, of the
West and the
international community
to first save Liberia and
the region from disaster,
then, having failed,
to bring to justice one
of those whom it deems to
be most to blame for the
turmoil.
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Zapatista revolution in
Mexico is lead by the
fair-skinned, urban,
university educated
poet-warrior-spokesman,
Subcomandante Marcos.
Marcos has created a
unique fusion between
'the two Mexicos': the
one white/mestizo and
western, the other
traditional. This book
presents a collection of
Marcos' writings.
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Drawing on extensive
interviews with surviving
members of the George
Jackson Brigade, this
book provides an
inside-out perspective on
the social movements of
the 1970s. It is also a
compelling exploration of
the true nature of crime
and a provocative
meditation on the tension
between self-restraint
and anger in the process
of social change.
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This book answers
readers' questions about
the history and current
state of the Arab world
and addresses all aspects
of the uprisings of 2010
to 2011, including their
causes, the role of
social media, the
diverse paths they have
taken, the role of the
United States and the
uprisings' impact on the
United States, and
possible outcomes.
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The new series of
Spellmount Military
Memoirs provides rare and
sought-after texts for
the collector of classic
historical works,
together with rigorously
selected personal
narratives never before
in print - destined to
become classics in their
own right. Through the
Indian Mutiny is one such
text.
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Blending narrative with
analysis, this book
explores a time of
obscene opulence, mass
starvation, and
ground-breaking ideals;
where the streets of
Paris ran red with blood,
and the numbers
requiring execution
precipitated the
invention of the
guillotine. It considers
the legacy of the
revolution and how it
continues to resonate in
France.
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Argues that the historic
takeover of Cairo's
Tahrir Square was the
culmination of countless
demonstrations over the
past decade by the Arabs.
This book looks at the
roots of pro-democracy
revolutions in the Arab
world and offers an
original analysis of what
went right, why this
moment is paramount, and
how it could all go
wrong.
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The author has been a
student and observer,
and sometimes a
participant, in various
insurgencies since his
"initiation" in Vietnam
in 1969. This book gives
the reader an
understanding of the true
nature of insurgency and
a glimpse at the reasons
why we have not always
dealt with it
effectively.
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Written at a time when
most of Europe supported
the French Revolution,
Edmund Burke's prescient
and, at the time,
controversial
denunciation of its mob
rule predicted the
Terror, began the modern
conservative tradition
and still serves as a
warning to those who seek
to reshape societies
through violence.
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An examination of Lenin's
genealogical and
political connections to
East European Jews. It
reveals the broad
cultural meanings of
indisputable evidence
that Lenin's maternal
grandfather was a Jew. It
also examines why and how
Lenin's Jewish relatives
converted to
Christianity, and
explains how Lenin's
vision of Russian Marxism
shaped his identity.
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The Revolution's
aspiration was summed up
by the phrase "life,
liberty, and the pursuit
of happiness." Yet the
American founding was
also a bid for inclusion
in the community of
nations. According to
Eliga Gould, America
aspired to diplomatic
recognition under
international law and the
authority to become an
Atlantic colonizing power
itself.
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In the past few years,
South America has
witnessed the rise of
leftist governments
coming into power on the
heels of dramatic social
and political unrest.
This new book provides an
inside look into the
populist wave sweeping
South America - and what
it means for the rest of
the world.
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This book provides a
comprehensive analysis of
political violence in
Weimar Germany with
particular emphasis on
the political culture
from which it emerged. It
refutes both the claim
that the Bolshevik
revolution was the prime
cause of violence, and
the argument that the
First World War's
all-encompassing
"brutalization" doomed
post-1918 Germany.
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By July 1981 four
republican hunger
strikers had already died
in Long Kesh Prison. A
fifth, Joe McDonnell,
was clinging to life. To
outsiders, Margaret
Thatcher appeared
unbending; yet, far from
the prying eyes of the
press, her government
was making a substantial
offer to the prisoners.
This book is a sequel to
the bestseller
"Blanketmen".
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The Anglo-Irish war of
1919-1921 was an
international historical
landmark: the first
successful revolution
against British rule and
the beginning of the end
of the Empire. This title
explores the work of
British and American
correspondents in Ireland
as well as other foreign
journalists and literary
figures.
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On 11th April 1919, less
than a year after the
assassination of the
Romanovs, the British
battleship HMS
Marlborough left Yalta
carrying the Russian
Imperial Family into
perpetual exile. The
Russian Court at Sea
vividly recreates this
unlikely voyage, with
its bizarre assortment of
warring characters and
its priceless cargo of
treasure.
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Few individuals have left
as deep an influence on
their time as did
Germaine de Stael, one
of the greatest
intellectuals of her age,
whose works have
influenced entire
cultures, eras, and
disciplines. This book
reflects on the history
of France, and the state
of public opinion in
France at the Accession
of Louis XVI.
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Arguably the most
important event of the
twentieth century, the
Russian Revolution
changed forever the
course of modern history.
Due to the Soviet
clampdown on archives
regarding the Revolution,
many aspects of the
event have been shrouded
in mystery for over
seventy years.
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Stresses the ambiguous
legacy of the revolution,
a legacy that ranges
from liberty and
democracy to slavery.
This title explores the
complex and contested
genesis of the United
States, showing how the
evolution was by no means
inevitable and grew out
the actions and
interactions of many
individuals, both
radical and conservative,
republicans.
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An insider's view into
one of the most important
political parties in the
Middle East. The
resistance group
Hizbullah ('Party of
God') formed in 1982 in
response to Israel's 1982
invasion of Lebanon, and
were instrumental in
eventually forcing Israel
to withdraw its troops
altogether - thus ending
a twenty-two-year-old
military occupation.
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The wave of
anti-authoritarian
political activity
associated with the term
1968A" can by no means be
confined under the rubric
of protest, A" understood
narrowly in terms of
street marches and other
reactions to state
initiatives. Indeed, the
actions generated in
response to 1968A"
frequently involved
attempts of elaborate
resistance within...
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In March 2004 a group led
by Nick Du Toit and
former SAS member Simon
Mann tried to overthrow
the president of
Equatorial Guinea. They
were working for
investors who wanted to
seize control of Africa's
3rd largest oil producer.
This book tells how the
coup was set up and
abandoned at the last
minute, and how the
plotters were seized and
tortured.
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Explores the work of
British and American
correspondents in Ireland
as well as other foreign
journalists and literary
figures. This book offers
a penetrating and
persuasive assessment of
the Irish revolution's
place in a key moment of
world history as well as
the role of the press and
journalism in the
conflict.
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Triggered by a confluence
of fateful events,
Hungarian students led
hundreds of thousands of
their countrymen in an
open revolt against the
Soviet-sponsored
government. A journalist
at Radio Free Europe,
realised he had a
ringside seat and saved
every scrap of news.
Here, he recreates a
picture of what it was
like to live through that
time.
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Che Guevara's death began
a legend and closed an
era. This book shows how,
in theory, immense
disparity in local wealth
combined with the heavy
hand of "Yankee
imperialism" laid the
ground for revolution. It
tells that in practice,
however, circumstances
conspired to thwart the
plans of the
revolutionary guerrillas.
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Portrays the three
indigenous rebellions
that threatened Spanish
control of its South
American colonies more
than a quarter century
before the Wars of
Independence (1808-1825).
This collection includes
maps, a chronology of
the rebellions, and a
glossary of terms.
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In 1886, Alexander
Ulyanov, a brilliant
biology student, joined
a group of students at St
Petersburg University to
plot the assassination of
Russia's tsar. This title
uncovers the story of
Alexander's
transformation from
ascetic student to
terrorist and the impact
his fate had on Lenin,
his younger brother.
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The French Revolution was
a huge, brutal yet
inspiring phenomenon that
changed global political
thinking and action, and
its echoes resound even
in the twenty-first
century. A New Dictionary
is an invaluable aid to
unravelling its
complications, and an
essential companion for
students and general
readers alike.
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The Haitian Revolution
was the only successful
slave revolt in world
history and the first
time people of color
overthrew a European
colonial regime to
establish an independent
country. This book offers
students a concise and
clearly written overview
of the events of the
Haitian Revolution.
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Examines the role and
experiences of the women
of Cumann na mBan and the
Irish Citizen Army, who
marched out with the
Rebels to challenge the
might of the British
Empire on Easter Monday
1916. This book details
the tragedies, triumphs,
politics and conflicts
experienced by Irish
women during the
country's War of
Independence and Civil
War.
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The fiftieth anniversary
of the Easter Rising has
been held responsible for
everything from the
outbreak of conflict in
Northern Ireland to the
alienation of an entire
generation in the
Republic of Ireland. This
book examines the myths
behind the most elaborate
commemoration of the
Rising to date
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Established in 1858, the
Irish Republican
Brotherhood was a secret,
oath-bound movement
dedicated to bringing
about revolution in
Ireland. This book is a
result of a major
conference to mark the
150th anniversary of the
founding of the Irish
Republican Brotherhood
and includes essays on
Fenianism.
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Explores the existence of
conspiracies during the
early months of 1857 and
presents a compelling and
detailed narrative of the
panics and rumours which
moved Indians to take up
arms. Offers a radically
new interpretation of one
of the most controversial
events in the history of
British India.
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1968 witnessed a highly
unusual sequence of
popular rebellions
worldwide. Gerd-Rainer
Horn offers a fascinating
re-assessment of these
turbulent times, arguing
that 1968 cannot be seen
in isolation; it must be
viewed in the context of
a much larger period of
experimentation and
revolt.
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The Irish Republican
movement was one of the
most significant
revolutionary movements
of the twentieth century.
This book focuses on the
issue of republican
splits, which created
the Provisional and
Official republican
movements, and the
subsequent development of
those movements.
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Ernesto Che Guevara, an
Argentinian doctor of
middle-class parents,
rose to fight with Fidel
Castro in the Cuban
revolution and later
tried to spread that
revolution in other
countries in Latin
America and Africa. This
is an account of a man
who became a cultural
icon to a generation.
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The final decade of the
old order in imperial
Russia was a time of both
crisis and possibility,
an uncertain time that
inspired an often
desperate search for
meaning. This book
explores how journalists
and other writers in St
Petersburg described and
interpreted the troubled
years between the Russian
revolutions of 1905 and
1917.
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This guide to the Cuban
revolution analyzes
Castro's drive to oust
Cuban dictator Fulgencio
Batista. The author
describes the causes and
consequences of the
revolt and examines
Castro's efforts to
pursue an independent
foreign policy. Selected
documents supplement the
main points of each
chapter.
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Few characters in history
are as fascinating or
controversial as Nicholas
and Alexandra. From their
passionate love to their
horrifying execution,
they are alternately
viewed as innocent
victims of Bolshevik
assassins or blamed for
causing the Revolution
themselves. This title
tells the story of their
passion and its
consequences for Russia.
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Robespierre's defense of
the French Revolution is
one of the powerful
justifications for
political violence. Yet,
the French Revolution is
celebrated as the event
which gave birth to a
nation built on the
principles of
enlightenment. This title
looks at these
contradictions.
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Some say the French
Revolution was a
catastrophe waiting to
happen. This book looks
at the signals of its
arrival, the mishandling
of the situation by Louis
XVI and the subsequent
events that took place
from the storming of the
Bastille onwards,
through to the horrific
events of the "Terror".
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This classic,
well-respected volume
from the "Seminar
Studies" series has been
fully revised
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The French Revolution was
a huge, brutal yet
inspiring phenomenon that
changed global political
thinking and action, and
its echoes resound even
in the twenty-first
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Revolutionary warfare is
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