[PDF] Faces Of Revolution eBook

Author : Bernard Bailyn
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2011-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 030779847X

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Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.

Author : James Krapfl
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 18,55 MB
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0801469422

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In this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia’s “gentle revolution,” James Krapfl shifts the focus away from elites to ordinary citizens who endeavored—from the outbreak of revolution in 1989 to the demise of the Czechoslovak federation in 1992—to establish a new, democratic political culture. Unique in its balanced coverage of developments in both Czech and Slovak lands, including the Hungarian minority of southern Slovakia, this book looks beyond Prague and Bratislava to collective action in small towns, provincial factories, and collective farms. Through his broad and deep analysis of workers’ declarations, student bulletins, newspapers, film footage, and the proceedings of local administrative bodies, Krapfl contends that Czechoslovaks rejected Communism not because it was socialist, but because it was arbitrarily bureaucratic and inhumane. The restoration of a basic “humanness”—in politics and in daily relations among citizens—was the central goal of the revolution. In the strikes and demonstrations that began in the last weeks of 1989, Krapfl argues, citizens forged new symbols and a new symbolic system to reflect the humane, democratic, and nonviolent community they sought to create. Tracing the course of the revolution from early, idealistic euphoria through turns to radicalism and ultimately subversive reaction, Revolution with a Human Face finds in Czechoslovakia’s experiences lessons of both inspiration and caution for people in other countries striving to democratize their governments.

Author : Robert Armstrong
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 37,48 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Christian democracy
ISBN : 9780896081376

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Two of the leading U.S. experts on Central America provide the definitive study of the history and reality of the situation in El Salvador through the early 1980s.

Author : R F Foster
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 22,82 MB
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0141969563

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OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015 TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BOOKS OF THE YEAR and OBSERVER BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER OF THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION'S MORRIS D. FORKOSCH PRIZE 2016 'The most complete and plausible exploration of the roots of the 1916 Rebellion... essential reading' Colm Tóibín Vivid Faces surveys the lives and beliefs of the people who made the Irish Revolution: linked together by youth, radicalism, subversive activities, enthusiasm and love. Determined to reconstruct the world and defining themselves against their parents, they were in several senses a revolutionary generation. The Ireland that eventually emerged bore little relation to the brave new world they had conjured up in student societies, agit-prop theatre groups, vegetarian restaurants, feminist collectives, volunteer militias, Irish-language summer schools, and radical newspaper offices. Roy Foster's book investigates that world, and the extraordinary people who occupied it. Looking back from old age, one of the most magnetic members of the revolutionary generation reflected that 'the phoenix of our youth has fluttered to earth a miserable old hen', but he also wondered 'how many people nowadays get so much fun as we did'. Working from a rich trawl of contemporary diaries, letters and reflections, Vivid Faces re-creates the argumentative, exciting, subversive and original lives of people who made a revolution, as well as the disillusionment in which it ended.

Author : Jim Tuck
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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A parallel biography of early twentieth-century revolutionaries Pancho Villa and John Reed, discussing the influences in their lifes, and looking at how the two very different men rose to a cause, crossing paths briefly in Mexico in 1913, and went on to fall at the hands of their enemies.

Author : Maureen Alice Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,3 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781606351826

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This collection of images assigns faces to an un-illustrated war and tells the stories of our nation's Founding Fathers and Mothers. It is a much-needed contribution to the history of the American Revolution, the history of the early Republic, and the history of photography.

Author : Randi Reisfeld
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9781490019444

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During America's war for independence, ordinary people were forced to risk everything against enormous odds. Meet the leaders, rabble-rousers, visionaries, and everyday heroes who beat the odds and helped make America a land of freedom and opportunity.