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Series
Social history of modern art volume 4
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"This study aims to update a classic of comparative revolutionary analysis, Crane Brinton's 1938 study The Anatomy of Revolution. It invokes the latest research and theoretical writing in history, political science, and political sociology to compare and contrast, in their successive phases, the English Revolution of 1640-60, the French Revolution of 1789-99, and the Russian Revolution of 1917-29. This book intends to do what no other comparative...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 2003, Rachel Aspden arrived in Egypt as a 23-year-old trainee journalist. She found a country on the brink of change. The two-thirds of Egypt's 80 million citizens under the age of 30 were stifled, broken and frustrated, caught between a dictatorship that had nothing to offer them and their autocratic parents' generation, and left clinging to tradition and obedience by a lifetime of fear. In January 2011, the young people's patience ran out. They...
148) Machiavelli on freedom and civil conflict: an historical and medical approach to political thinking
Author
Series
Thinking in extremes volume Volume 2
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
152) South of the border
Publisher
Cinema Libre Studio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Director Oliver Stone visits seven presidents in five countries in South America to gain some understanding about the political and social ideas and the revolutions, and to clear up how people view them. Includes interviews with Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, Argentinean president Cristina Kirchner, Cuban president Raul Castro.
154) Power systems: conversations on global democratic uprisings and the new challenges to U.S. empire
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"In this new collection of conversations, conducted from 2010 to 2012, Noam Chomsky explores the most immediate and urgent concerns: the future of democracy in the Arab world, the implications of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the European financial crisis, the breakdown of American mainstream political institutions, and the rise of the Occupy movement. As always, Chomsky presents his ideas vividly and accessibly, with uncompromising principle and...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"As the British, French and Spanish Atlantic empires were torn apart in the Age of Revolution, Portugal steadily pursued reforms to tie its American, African and European territories more closely together. Eventually, after a period of revival and prosperity, the Luso-Brazilian world also succumbed to revolution, which ultimately resulted in Brazil's independence from Portugal. The first of its kind in the English language to examine the Portuguese...
