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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A masterful history of Ireland's Easter Rising told through the lives of ordinary people who forged a revolutionary generation. On Easter Monday, 1916, Irish rebels poured into Dublin's streets to proclaim an independent republic. Ireland's long struggle for self-government had suddenly become a radical and bloody fight for independence from Great Britain. Irish nationalists mounted a week-long insurrection, occupying public buildings and creating...
Author
Series
Studies in Central European histories volume 54
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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"Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed states, and civil wars. Egypt's epochal transition to democracy ended in a violent military coup. Yemen and Libya collapsed into civil war, while Bahrain erupted in smothering sectarian repression. Syria proved the greatest victim of all, ripped apart by internationally fueled insurgencies and an externally...
Author
Series
Asia local studies/global themes volume 24
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English