Revolutions & Wars of Independence
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Revolutionary Spring: Europe Aflame and the Fight for a New World, 1848-1849
$25.00 Read moreNew York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice – From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers comes an epic history of the 1848 revolutions that swept Europe, and the charismatic figures who propelled … [more below]
- Author: Clark, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0525575219
- Language: English
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The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe
$40.00 Add to cartThe essential biography of the controversial rebel, traitor, and only king of Haiti. Henry Christophe is one of the most richly complex figures in the history of the Americas, and was, in his time, po… [more below]
- Author: Daut, Marlene L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0593316169
- Language: English
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1848: Year of Revolution
$22.99 Read moreA “lively, panoramic” history of a revolutionary year (New York Times)
In 1848, a violent storm of revolutions ripped through Europe. The torrent all but swept away the conservative order that had ke- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0465020674
- Language: English
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Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire
$28.99 Add to cartIn a gripping narrative that is all but impossible to put down (Joseph C. Miller), Histories of the Hanged exposes the long-hidden colonial crimes of the British in Kenya. This groundbreaking work tel… [more below]
- Author: Anderson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 039332754X
- Language: English
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Conduct of War PB
$21.99 Add to cartThe Conduct of War is the study of the way in which political and economical changes since the French Revolution have altered both the techniques and the aims of war, and its theme is that war which i… [more below]
- Series: Quality Paperbacks Series
- Author: Fuller, J. F. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0306804670
- Language: English
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The Spirit of 74: How the American Revolution Began
$31.45 Add to cartHow ordinary people went from resistance to revolution: ” A] concise, lively narrative . . . the authors expertly build tension.” —Publishers Weekly
Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and “th- Author: Raphael, Ray
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1620971267
- Language: English
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A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya
$21.00 Add to cartThe recent murder of Anna Politkovskaya is grim evidence of the danger faced by journalists passionately committed to writing the truth about wars and politics. A longtime critic of the Russian govern… [more below]
- Author: Politkovskaya, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 15 2007
- ISBN10: 0226674339
- Language: English
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The Mayflower: A Captivating Guide to a Cultural Icon in the History of the United States of America and the Pilgrims’ Journey from E
$25.99 Add to cartDid you know that not every passenger aboard the Mayflower was a Pilgrim?
In fact, of the 102 passengers on the Mayflower, only about 40 were fleeing England for religious reasons. And if you want to l
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1637163967
- Language: English
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The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward
$10.00 Read moreA decades-long retreat by the working class and unions has come to an end, as owners of capital and their parties shift the burden of their crisis onto working people’s backs. More and more workers– … [more below]
- Author: Barnes, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1604881453
- Language: English
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The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays
$15.00 Add to cartA collection of essays and articles from the Ukranian revolutionary, Nestor Makhno, who fought against encroaching Bolshevik terror during the Russian Revolution. The Struggle Against the State and ot… [more below]
- Author: Makhno, Nestor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1873176783
- Language: English
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Wages of Rebellion
$19.99 Add to cartRevolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movemen… [more below]
- Author: Hedges, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 156858542X
- Language: English
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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China: A History
$21.99 Add to cartA concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers.
The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The B- Author: Silbey, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 09 2013
- ISBN10: 0809030756
- Language: English
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Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence
$40.00 Add to cartSome rebel groups abuse noncombatant populations, while others exhibit restraint. Insurgent leaders in some countries transform local structures of government, while others simply extract resources fo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics (Paperback)
- Author: Weinstein, Jeremy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 430
- Publish Date: October 09 2006
- ISBN10: 0521677971
- Language: English
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The Morning They Came for Us: Dispatches from Syria
$15.95 Add to cartA masterpiece of war reportage, The Morning They Came for Us bears witness to one of the most brutal internecine conflicts in recent history. Drawing from years of experience covering Syria for Vanity
- Author: Di Giovanni, Janine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492950
- Language: English
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Lenin on the Train
$25.99 Add to cartOne of The Economist‘s Best Books of the Year
A gripping, meticulously researched account of Lenin’s fateful 1917 rail journey from Zurich to Petrograd, where he ignited the Russian Revolution and fore
- Author: Merridale, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1250160146
- Language: English
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Strategy and Power in Russia 1600-1914
$34.95 Add to cart“A pioneering effort to trace the evolution of military power and military strategy of tsarist Russia during the rule of the Romanov dynasty.” –Richard Pipes, Baird Professor of History, Harvard Univ… [more below]
- Author: Fuller, William C., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: December 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0684863820
- Language: English
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The Pursuit of Glory: The Five Revolutions That Made Modern Europe: 1648-1815
$25.00 Add to cart“History writing at its glorious best.”–The New York Times
“A triumphant success. [Blanning] brings knowledge, expertise, sound judgment and a colorful narrative style.”–The Economist The New York T- Series: Penguin History of Europe (Viking)
- Author: Blanning, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113895
- Language: English
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History of Pan-African Revolt
$17.95 Add to cartOriginally published in England in 1938 (the same year as his magnum opus The Black Jacobins) and expanded in 1969, this work remains the classic account of global black resistance. Robin D.G. Kelley’
- Series: Charles H. Kerr Library
- Author: James, C. L. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 25 2012
- ISBN10: 1604860952
- Language: English
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Freedom’s Mirror: Cuba and Haiti in the Age of Revolution
$37.00 Add to cartDuring the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, arguably the most radical revolution of the modern world, slaves and former slaves succeeded in ending slavery and establishing an independent state. Yet on… [more below]
- Author: Ferrer, Ada
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: November 24 2014
- ISBN10: 1107697786
- Language: English
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The Enemy Harassed: Washington’s New Jersey Campaign of 1777
$24.00 Add to cartAs few books regarding American history have achieved, Jim Stempel’s The Enemy Harassed brings a previously neglected period of the American Revolution to life.
In late December 1776, the American War- Author: Stempel, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1637586159
- Language: English
