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Hungary 1956 Revisited - The Message of a Revolution - A Quarter of a Century After (Hardcover): Ferenc Feher, Agnes Heller Hungary 1956 Revisited - The Message of a Revolution - A Quarter of a Century After (Hardcover)
Ferenc Feher, Agnes Heller
R2,740 Discovery Miles 27 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1983, is a radical reinterpretation of the Hungarian revolution in the context of world politics and Eastern Europe as a whole. It examines the events and protagonists with a fresh eye, and relies on witnesses and participants for the rigorous documentary backing.

Libya - Qadhafi's Revolution and the Modern State (Hardcover): Lillian Craig Harris Libya - Qadhafi's Revolution and the Modern State (Hardcover)
Lillian Craig Harris
R2,737 Discovery Miles 27 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1986, provides a comprehensive look at the social, cultural, political and economic forces that shaped Libya following the 1969 revolution. Libya's political system under Qadhafi's Third Universal Theory is examined, as are the power structures - military, tribal, economic and religious.

The Ruhr and Revolution - The Revolutionary Movement in the Rhenish-Westphalian Industrial Region 1912-1919 (Hardcover): Jurgen... The Ruhr and Revolution - The Revolutionary Movement in the Rhenish-Westphalian Industrial Region 1912-1919 (Hardcover)
Jurgen Tampke
R3,039 Discovery Miles 30 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1979, analyses the German November Revolution of 1919 and the years and conditions that led to it. It examines the economic, social and political background of the Ruhr up to the coal miners' strike of 1912; how the war aggravated social hardship and rifts in the workers' party; and, in detail, the revolution itself.

Armies in Revolution (Hardcover): John Ellis Armies in Revolution (Hardcover)
John Ellis
R3,046 Discovery Miles 30 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1973, examines seven revolutionary armies ranging from Cromwell's New Model Army to the Red Army of Mao Zedong. In each case it examines the mobilisation and organisation of the army, and the need to balance political ideals and aspirations with military cohesion and discipline, and social stability. This book is an outstanding example of a study of the relationship between the military and society, and shows that no revolution can succeed without an organised army and that few such armies can tolerate for long the ideology that created them.

The People's Republics of Eastern Europe (Hardcover): Jurgen Tampke The People's Republics of Eastern Europe (Hardcover)
Jurgen Tampke
R2,737 Discovery Miles 27 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1983, goes beyond the 'black and white' literature of many East-West observers to offer a more nuanced assessment of the achievements of the Eastern bloc countries of the early 1980s. It covers the emergence of 'Eastern Europe' from revolution and war, the politics and economics of the new countries and their relationships with the West.

Studies in Revolution (Hardcover): Edward Hallett Carr Studies in Revolution (Hardcover)
Edward Hallett Carr
R3,039 Discovery Miles 30 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of essays on the ideological origins of the European revolutionary movement. The first essay in the collection is devoted to Saint-Simon who, though not a revolutionary in the ordinary sense, was the begetter of the many ideas which became stock-in-trade of the nineteenth century revolutionaries. The essays that follow are on Marx and the Communist Manifesto, Proudhon, Herzen, Lassalle and Sorel; on the foundation and early history of the Russian Communist Party; on the histories of the British and German Communist Parties; and on Lenin and Stalin.

The International Crisis in the Caribbean (Hardcover): Anthony Payne The International Crisis in the Caribbean (Hardcover)
Anthony Payne
R2,739 Discovery Miles 27 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1984, presents a comprehensive survey of the forces of change that operate in the Caribbean, an area of political instability at the time. It examines the internal politics of the different countries and considers the roles of the United States, Cuba, the European and new Latin American powers in the political conflicts, coups and revolutions.

Nationalism and Communism - Essays, 1946-1963 (Hardcover): Hugh Seton-Watson Nationalism and Communism - Essays, 1946-1963 (Hardcover)
Hugh Seton-Watson
R3,043 Discovery Miles 30 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1964, collects a number of essays united by the general theme of national and social revolution. They examine features of revolutionary movements, and, particularly, revolutionary leadership in an analysis of the social conditions and personal motives which impel men towards forming revolutionary elites.

Revolution and Reaction - 1848 and the Second French Republic (Hardcover): Roger Price Revolution and Reaction - 1848 and the Second French Republic (Hardcover)
Roger Price
R3,494 Discovery Miles 34 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1975, examines the events of the French Second Republic, the themes of protest and repression in particular. It analyses how popular discontent is mobilised and becomes political protest and revolution, and how the machinery of government operates in a crisis situation.

Black Democracy - The Story of Haiti (Hardcover): H.P. Davis Black Democracy - The Story of Haiti (Hardcover)
H.P. Davis
R3,505 Discovery Miles 35 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1929, examines the history of Haiti and its long struggle for independence. The revolution against the French is treated in some detail, as is the story of the free Haitian republic that followed. Building a new country from slavery was no easy task, and another revolutionary period followed in the early twentieth century, which is also analysed alongside its aftermath.

The Politics of Decolonial Investigations (Paperback): Walter D. Mignolo The Politics of Decolonial Investigations (Paperback)
Walter D. Mignolo
R1,033 Discovery Miles 10 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in its myriad forms from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. Decolonial border thinking allows Mignolo to outline how the combination of the self-fashioned narratives of Western civilization and the hegemony of Eurocentric thought served to eradicate all knowledges in non-European languages and praxes of living and being. Mignolo also traces the geopolitical origins of racialized and gendered classifications, modernity, globalization, and cosmopolitanism, placing them all within the framework of coloniality. Drawing on the work of theorists and decolonial practitioners from the Global South and the Global East, Mignolo shows how coloniality has provoked the emergence of decolonial politics initiated by delinking from all forms of Western knowledge and subjectivities. The urgent task, Mignolo stresses, is the epistemic reconstitution of categories of thought and praxes of living destituted in the very process of building Western civilization and the idea of modernity. The overcoming of the long-lasting hegemony of the West and its distorted legacies is already underway in all areas of human existence. Mignolo underscores the relevance of the politics of decolonial investigations, in and outside the academy, to liberate ourselves from canonized knowledge, ways of knowing, and praxes of living.

A Short History of the World in 50 Lies (Paperback): Natasha Tidd A Short History of the World in 50 Lies (Paperback)
Natasha Tidd
R250 R200 Discovery Miles 2 000 Save R50 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Taking readers on a global journey through human history, Natasha Tidd examines how lies can change the world around us, from Julius Caesar's deceptive PR machine to the cover-ups that caused Chernobyl. From forgeries that created centuries worth of conflict and domination, such as The Donation of Constantine, the Protocols of Zion and the mysterious Testament of Peter the Great, to mass political and press cover-ups including Britain's Boer War concentration camps, a Pulitzer Prize-winning whitewash of the Ukraine Famine and the infamous Dreyfus Affair in France. Alongside these are examinations of how our retellings of history can turn fiction into fact, including The Spanish Inquisition's deceitful legacy. Plus, there is an in-depth look at how historic lies can still impact our lives today, such as the deadly legacy of America's Tuskegee Experiment. Meet incredible people, including Jeanne de Clisson who became the fourteenth century's most feared pirate - all because of a lie. A Short History of the World in 50 Lies details the profound impact of this secretive side of history and shows that the truth really is stranger - and far more dangerous - than any fiction.

Ruptured Lives - Refugee Crises in Historical Perspective (Paperback): Jesse Spohnholz Ruptured Lives - Refugee Crises in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
Jesse Spohnholz; Series edited by Jesse Spohnholz, Clif Stratton
R804 Discovery Miles 8 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Growing directly out of the experiences of a team of historians at Washington State University who designed a new foundational course for WSU's common requirements, the Roots of Contemporary Issues series is built on the premise that students will be better at facing current and future challenges, no matter their major or career path, if they are capable of addressing controversial and pressing issues in mature, reasoned ways using evidence, critical thinking, and clear written and oral communication skills. To help students achieve these goals, each title in the Roots of Contemporary Issues series argues that we need both a historical understanding and an appreciation of the ways in which humans have been interconnected with places around the world for decades and even centuries. Much of the world's politics revolves around questions about refugees and other migrating peoples, including debating the scope and limits of humanitarianism; the relevance of national borders in a globalized world; racist rhetoric and policies; global economic inequalities; and worldwide environmental disasters. There are no easy answers to these questions, but the decisions that all of us make about them will have tremendous consequences for individuals and for the planet in the future. Ruptured Lives works from the premise that studying the history of refugee crises can help us make those decisions more responsibly. Examining conflicts-in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa-that have produced migrations of people fleeing dangers or persecution, it aims to provide an intellectual framework for understanding how to think about the conflicts that produce refugees and the effects that refugee crises have on individuals and societies.

Princesses on the Wards - Royal Women in Nursing Through Wars and Revolutions (Paperback): Coryne Hall Princesses on the Wards - Royal Women in Nursing Through Wars and Revolutions (Paperback)
Coryne Hall
R330 Discovery Miles 3 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Queens and princesses have always shown care and compassion, but many went much further. They were not afraid to roll up their sleeves, work in wards or help in field hospitals and operating theatres, despite their sheltered upbringings. Through wars and revolutions across Europe, their experiences were similar to those of thousands of other nurses, but this is the first time that their involvement in nursing and the extent of their influence on the profession has been detailed in full. Beginning with two daughters of Queen Victoria - Princess Alice and Princess Helena - Princesses on the Wards looks at the difficulties these royals faced while carving a worthwhile role in an age when the place of a well-born woman was considered to be in the home. Empress Alexandra of Russia, Queen Marie of Romania, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, and Princess Alice of Greece (mother of the Duke of Edinburgh) were just a few of Queen Victoria's relatives who set an example of service well beyond that considered necessary for their rank. Not all of them were fully trained nurses, but each made a positive contribution towards alleviating suffering which cannot be overestimated.

Seven Women Against the World (Hardcover): Margaret Goldsmith Seven Women Against the World (Hardcover)
Margaret Goldsmith
R3,041 Discovery Miles 30 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1935, examines the lives of seven revolutionary women: Charlotte Corday, Theroigne de Mericourt, Flora Tristan, Louise Michel, Vera Figner, Emma Goldman and Rosa Luxemburg. The revolutionary impulses of these remarkable women emerge as the natural result of the historical associations of their age, but the author concludes that some sacrifices were made in vain because there was no strong revolutionary movement behind them. This book is a key analysis of the reasons behind the revolt of these women against their systems of society, and why some of them thought it worth while to die if necessary for the principles in which they believed.

The Cyprus Revolt - An Account of the Struggle for Union with Greece (Hardcover): Nancy Crawshaw The Cyprus Revolt - An Account of the Struggle for Union with Greece (Hardcover)
Nancy Crawshaw
R3,949 Discovery Miles 39 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book, first published in 1978, examines the local and international aspects of the struggle for Greek union with Cyprus - Enosis. The revolt against the British colonial power was a struggle in which guerrilla warfare, political action and international diplomacy were integrated to bring about union with Greece under the camouflaged objectives of self-determination and anti-colonialism. This book traces the origins of the dispute from the Greek War of Independence of 1821 and then deals in depth with the revolt and its international repercussions up to Independence in 1960 and the Turkish military intervention of 1974.

The Diligent - A Voyage Through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade (Paperback): Robert W. Harms The Diligent - A Voyage Through the Worlds Of The Slave Trade (Paperback)
Robert W. Harms
R630 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R85 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Diligent began her journey in Brittany in 1731, and Harms follows her along the African coast where her goods were traded for slaves, to Martinique where her captives were sold to work on sugar plantations. Harms brings to life a world in which slavery was a commerce carried out without qualms. He shows the gruesome details of daily life aboard a slave ship, as well as French merchants wrangling with their government for the right to traffic in slaves, African kings waging epic wars for control of European slave trading posts, and representatives of European governments negotiating the complicated politics of the Guinea coast to ensure a stead supply of labour for their countries' colonies. The Diligent is filled with rich stories that explain how the slave trade worked on all levels, from geopolitics to the rigging of ships.

The Shortest History of Europe (Paperback): John Hirst The Shortest History of Europe (Paperback)
John Hirst
R275 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R51 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
A History of Eastern Christianity (Hardcover): Aziz S. Atiya A History of Eastern Christianity (Hardcover)
Aziz S. Atiya
R4,074 Discovery Miles 40 740 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A History of Eastern Christianity (1968) is a scholarly and comprehensive account of the history of the non-Greek churches of Eastern Christendom. Alexandrine and Antiochian Christianity, with their ramifications in Africa and Asia, are the subjects of an overall survey that ranges from their origins to modern times. The author deals with every Eastern Church, Coptic, Ethiopian, Jacobite, Nestorian, Armenian, Indian and Maronite, as well as the vanished churches of Nubia and North Africa. He gives a preliminary outline of each church, followed by an analytical summary of the faith and culture. He deals not only with the hierarchy, rites, ceremonials and monastic rule, but also with music, art, architecture and literature.

Decolonising Europe? - Popular Responses to the End of Empire (Paperback): Berny Sebe, Matthew G Stanard Decolonising Europe? - Popular Responses to the End of Empire (Paperback)
Berny Sebe, Matthew G Stanard
R1,246 Discovery Miles 12 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas, and sociocultural practices across continents but also complex intra-European dynamics at a time of political convergence following the Treaty of Rome. Decolonisation was neither a process of sudden, rapid changes to European cultures nor one of cultural inertia, but a development marked by fluidity, movement, and dynamism. Rather than being a static process where Europe's (former) metropoles and their peoples 'at home' reacted to the end of empire 'out there', decolonisation translated into new realities for Europe's cultures, societies, and politics as flows, ebbs, fluxes, and cultural refluxes reshaped both former colonies and former metropoles. The volume's contributors set out a carefully crafted panorama of decolonisation's sequels in European popular culture by means of in-depth studies of specific cases and media, analysing the interwoven meaning, momentum, memory, material culture, and migration patterns of the end of empire across eight major European countries. The revised meaning of 'decolonisation' that emerges will challenge scholars in several fields, and the panorama of new research in the book charts paths for new investigations. The question mark in the title asks not only how European cultures experienced the 'end of empire' but also the extent to which this is still a work in progress.

New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History - Boundaries, Experiences, and Sensemaking (Paperback): Maja Gildin Zuckerman,... New Perspectives on Jewish Cultural History - Boundaries, Experiences, and Sensemaking (Paperback)
Maja Gildin Zuckerman, Jakob Egholm Feldt
R1,238 Discovery Miles 12 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents original studies of how a cultural concept of Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history came to make sense in the experiences of people entangled in different historical situations. Instead of searching for the inconsistencies, discontinuities, or ruptures of dominant grand historical narratives of Jewish cultural history, this book unfolds situations and events, where Jewishness and a coherent Jewish history became useful, meaningful, and acted upon as a site of causal explanations. Inspired by classical American pragmatism and more recent French pragmatism, we present a new perspective on Jewish cultural history in which the experiences, problems, and actions of people are at the center of reconstructions of historical causalities and projections of future horizons. The book shows how boundaries between Jewish and non-Jewish are not a priori given but are instead repeatedly experienced in a variety of situations and then acted upon as matters of facts. In different ways and on different scales, these studies show how people's experiences of Jewishness perpetually probe, test, and shape the boundaries between what is Jewish and non-Jewish, and that these boundaries shape the spatiotemporal linkages that we call history.

The Essential Guide to Western Civilization (Paperback): Nicholas L. Waddy The Essential Guide to Western Civilization (Paperback)
Nicholas L. Waddy
R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Essential Guide to Western Civilization offers a concise overview of European history developed to suit the undergraduate Western Civilization curriculum. Author Nicholas L. Waddy provides an accessible account of major developments in European history in a flexible format. The book will serve as a core text for instructors wishing to build a syllabus including primary sources, articles, and visual materials of their own choosing. Discussion questions and a list of key terms at the end of each chapter will help to guide conversation and assist students in navigating the Western Civilization survey.

Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds (Paperback): Smriti Srinivas, Neelima Jeychandran, Bettina Ng'weno Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds (Paperback)
Smriti Srinivas, Neelima Jeychandran, Bettina Ng'weno
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It reconfigures the Indian Ocean as a space for conceptual and theoretical relationality based on social science and humanities scholarship, thus moving away from an area-based and geographical approach to Indian Ocean studies. Contributors from a variety of disciplines focus on keywords such as relationality, space/place, quotidian practices, and new networks of memory and maps to offer original insights to reimagine the Indian Ocean. While the volume as a whole considers older histories, mobilities, and relationships between places in Indian Ocean worlds, it is centrally concerned with new connectivities and layered mappings forged in the lived experiences of individuals and communities today. The chapters are steeped in ethnographic, multi-modal, and other humanities methodologies that examine different sources besides historical archives and textual materials, including everyday life, cities, museums, performances, the built environment, media, personal narratives, food, medical practices, or scientific explorations. An important contribution to several fields, this book will be of interest to academics of Indian Ocean studies, Afro-Asian linkages, inter-Asian exchanges, Afro-Arab crossroads, Asian studies, African studies, Anthropology, History, Geography, and International Relations.

Handbook of South Asia: Political Development (Paperback): Europa Publications Handbook of South Asia: Political Development (Paperback)
Europa Publications
R1,260 Discovery Miles 12 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This Handbook brings together essays that introduce the reader to the key issues in South Asian political development. Written by experts in their respective areas, the essays explore key aspects of political economy, political and economic change, and the complex diplomatic and security challenges of individual countries and the region as a whole. Essays discuss topics as wide-ranging as China's growing reach in South Asia, political Islam, SAARC and water politics through the region. This well-researched Handbook is an essential reference tool for students and scholars of Political Science, International Relations and South Asian studies. With an introduction by Harsh V Pant.

Gender in World History (Paperback, 4th edition): Peter N Stearns Gender in World History (Paperback, 4th edition)
Peter N Stearns
R1,178 Discovery Miles 11 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Provides an excellent overview of the major patterns of change in treatments of gender around the globe, showing students the 'big picture' Well-structured for course use and design Sections are a digestible length for undergraduate students Centers women's experiences, while also showing that gender is a system that shapes all human and social relationships Comparative case studies use examples from Asia, Africa, and Latin America to show what historical changes mean for women's status around the world

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