Revolutions & Wars of Independence

The French Revolution facilitated the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, but after gaining power he knew that his first task was to end it. In this book William Doyle describes how he did so, beginning with the three large issues that had destabilized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109556Author Dominic LievenFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm...

Why the world's most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolutionRevolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution-such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam-are extraordinarily durable,...

In May 1776 more than two hundred Indian warriors descended the St. Lawrence River to attack Continental forces at the Cedars, west of Montreal. In just three days' fighting, the Native Americans and their British and Canadian allies forced the American...

The Easter Rising of 1916 not only destroyed much of the centre of Dublin - it changed the course of Irish history. But why did it happen? What was the role of ordinary people in this extraordinary event? What motivated them and what were their aims?...

In the 1840s, post-Napoleonic Italy was 'a geographical expression' - not a country, but a patchwork of states, divided between the Austrian-occupied north, and a Spanish-descended Bourbon monarchy, who ruled the south from Naples. Two decades later, it...

On Easter Sunday, 23 April 1916, the seven members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's military council met to proclaim an Irish Republic with themselves as the provisional government. After a week of fighting with the British army on the streets of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262038027Author Julien BesanconFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 114mm * 178mm * 17mm

New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gordon S. Wood elucidates the debates over the founding documents of the United States. The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to...

Fascism's ascent to power across Europe in the 1920s & 30s marks one of the greatest historical defeats of the left in history. Far from inevitable, this catastrophic defeat was resisted at every turn by Marxists of varying stripes who tried,...

Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown'A remarkable achievement' SpectatorIn the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, only a package and the promise of protection. Soon after, an...

This classic book provides a historical overview of feminist strands among the modern revolutionary movements of Russia, China and the Third World. Sheila Rowbotham shows how women rose against the dual challenges of an unjust state system and...

Lucie de la Tour du Pin was the Pepys of her generation. She witnessed, participated in, and wrote diaries detailing one of the most tumultuous periods of history. From life in the Court of Versailles, through the French Revolution to Napoleon's rule,...

A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential "Shore brilliantly captures the contingency, uncertainty, and chaos that was transmuted into the remarkable, seemingly transcendent...

"Power to them meant everything. It was founded on courage, which begot honor. And by this courage and for this honor they fought to the death."The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps tells the thrilling story of the Shinsengumi-the legendary corps of Samurai...

In October 1918, war-weary German sailors mutinied when the Imperial Naval Command ordered their engagement in one final, fruitless battle with the British Royal Navy. This revolt, in the dying embers of the First World War, quickly erupted into a full...

In the 1840s, Italy was a patchwork of states. The North was ruled by the Austrian Empire, the South by the Spanish-descended monarchy of the Two Sicilies. Over the next two decades, after wars led by Savoy/Piedmont and volunteers such as Garibaldi, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780470120156Author Stephen KinzerFormat HardbackPage Count 349Imprint John Wiley & Sons LtdPublisher Turner Publishing Company

A popular concise guide - one of the clearest available on the Russian Revolution.Book InformationISBN 9780582355590Author A. WoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 146gDimensions(mm) 138mm * 216mm...

October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in world history. Even a hundred years after the events that led to the emergence of the world's first self-proclaimed socialist state, debate continues over...

This gripping insider's account chronicles how and why a young woman in 1950s Algiers joined the armed wing of Algeria's national liberation movement to combat her country's French occupiers. When the movement's leaders turned to Drif and her female...

The racist legacy behind the Western idea of freedomThe era of the Enlightenment, which gave rise to our modern conceptions of freedom and democracy, was also the height of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. America, a nation founded on the principle of...

Provides clear and comprehensive factual information across the full range of the Revolutionary period (1787-99).Reviews'authorative and detailed work of reference on all aspects of the Revolution.'Guardian'...will be a godsend; It is a most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783980846684Author Michael HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint IsletPublisher IsletWeight(grams) 621gDimensions(mm) 244mm * 170mm * 21mm

'This is an urgent and compelling account of great bravery and passion. Delphine Minoui has crafted a book that champions books and the individuals who risk everything to preserve them.' Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book In 2012 the rebel suburb...

Malika Moustadraf is a cult feminist icon in contemporary Moroccan literature, celebrated for her uncompromising depiction of life on the margins. Something Strange, Like Hunger presents Moustadraf's collected short fiction: haunting, visceral stories by...

The story of a single family during the Irish Revolution, Four Killings is a book about political murder, and the powerful hunger for land and the savagery it can unleash. 'A vivid and chilling narrative... Confronts uncomfortable questions that...

Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of the Munich Council Republic by one of the most perceptive chroniclers of German history. Victor Klemperer provides a moving and thrilling account of what turned...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750586Author Yang JishengFormat HardbackPage Count 768Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993399305Author Leon De PoncinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Reconquista PressPublisher Reconquista Press

In words and photographs, here is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words are Seale's, with contributions from Kathleen Cleaver and many others; the photographs, which capture range...

The Spectre of Babeuf is a long-awaited introduction to Babeuf written by Ian Birchall. Little known to today's radicals, Babeuf and his conspiracy of equals were in some ways the direct historical precursor of the revolutionary socialist movement. Ian...

A bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth centuryIn 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were...

Three Scottish weavers, James Wilson, Andrew Hardie and John Baird, were hanged and beheaded for high treason in the summer of 1820. Nineteen more men were transported to the penal colony of Botany Bay. Their crime? To have taken up arms against a...

Few individuals made such an impact on nineteenth-century French politics as Louis-Auguste Blanqui (1805-1881). Political organiser, leader, propagandist and prisoner, Blanqui was arguably the foremost proponent of popular power to emerge after the...

An extraordinary new selection of the letters of Che Guevara, from throughout his life, many released for the very first timeChe Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his short but extraordinary life. His letters and diaries are...

Within a year after the triumphal entry into Havana at the beginning of 1959, Che Guevara began to set down the history of the guerrilla war. Fearful that the events would "dissolve into the past" and that an important part of the history of America...

The assault on the Bastille, the Reign of Terror, Danton mocking his executioner, Robespierre dispensing a fearful justice, and the archetypal gadfly Marat - the events and figures of the French Revolution have exercised a hold on the historical...

This heavily illustrated book focuses on the events of the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland, rather than the background and the consequences. In a widely expanded version of the supplement that appeared in The Irish Times in March to commemorate the 90th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351672Author The Invisible CommitteeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 17mm