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The Abolition Of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, And Legislators In The French Revolutionby John MarkoffISBN 027102478X (0-271-02478-X)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Abolition Of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, And Legislators In The French Revolution'Book summary:One of the most important results of the French Revolution was the destruction of the old feudal order, which for centuries had kept the common people of the countryside subject to the lords. In this book, John Markoff addresses the ways in which insurrectionary peasants and revolutionary legislators joined in bringing "the time 0f the lords" to an end and how, in that ending, scigncurial rights came to he central to the very sense of the Revolution. He traces the interaction of peasants and legislators, showing how they confronted, challenged, and implicitly negotiated with one another during the course 0f events.Contrary to many historians who see the source of revolutionary change in elite culture, Markoff argues that peasant insurrection was a crucial element of the transformation of France. Of particular importance to the study is Markoff's analysis of the unique cahiers de do/dances, the lists of grievances drawn up in 1789) by rural communities, urban notables, and nobles alike, These documents are invaluable for understanding the Revolution, but until the pioneering work of Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, they had not been studied systematically at the national level. In addition to an unprecedented quantitative analysis of the cabin's, Matkoff staces the ehh and flow of peasant insurrection across half a decade of revolutionary turbulence. He also offers qualitative analysis through his use of the records of the legislative debates as well as the memoirs and journals of the legislators.The Abolition of Feudalism breaks new ground in chatting patterns of grievance and revolt in one of the most important social and political upheavals in history. [via]
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The Affair Of The Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, And Satanism At The Court Of Louis Xivby Anne SomersetISBN 0312330170 (0-312-33017-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Arendt, Camus, and Modern Rebellionby Jeffrey C. IsaacISBN 0300060548 (0-300-06054-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independenceby Anatol LievenISBN 0300060785 (0-300-06078-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Banditsby E. J. HobsbawmISBN 0297178504 (0-297-17850-4)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Beyond Philadelphia: The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterlandby William Pencak, John B. FrantzISBN 0271017678 (0-271-01767-8)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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The Big Fellowby Frank O'ConnorISBN 0312182937 (0-312-18293-7)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Big Fellow : Michael Collins and the Irish Revolutionby Frank O'ConnorISBN 0312180500 (0-312-18050-0)
Softcover, Picador
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Acclaimed writer Frank O'Connor, a man who himself fought in the Irish Civil War, traces Collin's life from the day he returned to Dublin to the day a young Irish soldier shot him dead on a country road.
The Big Fellow achieves a narrative both probing and poetic as it chronicles the life of a man so charismatic that he made people "aware of his presence even when he was not visible, through that uncomfortable magnetism of the very air, a tingling of the nerves."More editions of The Big Fellow : Michael Collins and the Irish Revolution:
Black Night, White Snow ; Russia's Revolutions, 1905-1917by Harrison Evans SalisburyISBN 030680154X (0-306-80154-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Black Oxenby Elizabeth KnoxISBN 0312420498 (0-312-42049-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The Bolsheviks in Russian Society: The Revolution and the Civil Warsby Vladimir N. BrovkinISBN 0300067062 (0-300-06706-2)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-Eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprisingby Dan KurzmanISBN 0306805332 (0-306-80533-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Burning Plain, and Other Storiesby Juan RulfoISBN 0292701322 (0-292-70132-2)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Burning Plain, and Other Stories'Book summary:A major figure in the history of post-Revolutionary literature in Mexico, Juan Rulfo received international acclaim for his brilliant short novel Pedro Paramo (1955) and his collection of short stories El llano en llamas (1953), translated as a collection here in English for the first time. In the transition of Mexican fiction from direct statements of nationalism and social protest to a concentration on cosmopolitanism, the works of Rulfo hold a unique position. These stories of a rural people caught in the play of natural forces are not simply an interior examination of the phenomena of their world; they are written for the larger purpose of showing the actions of humans in broad terms of reality. [via]
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The Che Handbookby Gareth Jenkins, Hilda Barrio, Andres Castillo BernalISBN 0312322461 (0-312-32246-1)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Che Handbook'Book summary:The Che Handbook gives new life to the values and thinking of the Che Guevara behind the legend, a man who was at once sensitive, passionate, and determined to pursue his socialist dreams to their conclusion. A unique collection of intimate photographs and Che's own words, this book provides an accessible and authentic portrait of one of the most significant revolutionary figures of the 20th century.[via]
The Che Handbook includes:
--Over 250 images, many never published before
--More than 100 quotations from Che Guevara's writings, personal correspondence, and speeches
--Newly-published interviews with Che's close friends and allies
--A collection of remarkable iconic posters and artwork
--A time-line giving the chronology of Che's life and career
--A map of Che's revolutionary route through Cuba
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The Children of Menby P. D. JamesISBN 0307275434 (0-307-27543-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Chinese Revolution in Historical Perspectiveby John E. SchreckerISBN 0275936465 (0-275-93646-5)
Softcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Chinese Revolution in Historical Perspective'Book summary:"Instead of applying Western concepts of historical analysis to China, [Schrecker] seeks to understand modern history, both of China and of the West, through Chinese historiographical categories. The reader will appreciate not only the Chinese historiographical tradition but also the way this tradition enriches one's understanding of world history. An ambitious, much needed study." Akira Iriye, Harvard University, Past President, American Historical Association "John Schrecker has written a historical narrative certain to be of great value to students of politics and society. It is at once lively and engaging and theoretically sophisticated. By adopting a Chinese perspective and applying it not only to China itself but also to the interventions of the West, Schrecker opens the way for a new comparative history." Michael Walzer The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton [via]
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Complete Works of Saint Thomas Moreby Thomas MoreISBN 0300009828 (0-300-00982-8)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works of Saint Thomas More'Book summary:Although numbers as Volume 4, this is the second of the Complete Works to appear, following The History of King Richard III. The Latin text is based on the editions of 1516, 1517, and 1518, fully collated and with the variant readings; the parallel English text is a thoroughly revised version of the translation by G. C. Richards. Also included are the letters on the book exchanged by More and his friends, their tributes, and the marginal glosses of the early editions. The text is followed by a commentary on the relation of Utopia to its own age and as it has been interpreted by scholars. The editors' Introduction included an outline of the genesis and composition of Utopia, edited by Father Surtz, will also appear in the Yale Paperbound format. Father Surtz is professor of English at Loyola University, and Mr. Hexter is professor of history at Yale University. Previously announced.[via]More editions of Complete Works of Saint Thomas More:
Cubaby Stephen CoontsISBN 031220521X (0-312-20521-X)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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A Cultural History of the French Revolutionby Emmet KennedyISBN 0300050135 (0-300-05013-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburgby Jane LangtonISBN 0312301863 (0-312-30186-3)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolutionby Mark D. Steinberg, Vladimir M. Khrustalev, Elizabeth TuckerISBN 0300070675 (0-300-07067-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution'Book summary:The story of the arrest, captivity, and execution of the last tsar of Russia and his family during the revolution of 1917-1918 has been recounted - and romanticized - for decades. This study explores the full range of events and reveals the thoughts, perceptions and judgments of the individuals involved - Nicholas and Alexandra, their children, and the men who guarded and eventually killed them. The book is based on documents and photographs from recently opened Russian archives and from Western collections. The documents, which appear for the first time in English (the language in which some of them were originally written), include correspondence between Nicholas and Alexandra during the February 1917 revolution; portions of their diaries; minutes of government meetings, telegrams, and other official papers concerning the arrest, confinement, and execution of the Romanovs; letters written by the captive tsar and his family to friends and relatives; appeals from Russian citizens concerning the fate of the Romanovs; and testimonies by the revolutionaries who guarded and executed them. [via]
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The Fire of Libertyby Esmond WrightISBN 0312292015 (0-312-29201-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Guerrilla Wars of Central America: Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemalaby Saul LandauISBN 0312103735 (0-312-10373-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Guevara, Also Known As Cheby Paco Ignacio TaiboISBN 0312155395 (0-312-15539-5)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guevara, Also Known As Che'Book summary:Taibo, whose extensive contacts within Latin American political activism have given him unprecedented access to hitherto untapped sources, probes Che Guevara's life with a storyteller's pen and an historian's judgment, investigating the mystery and myth surrounding Che's life, careers, and ideals. [via]
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Guevara, Also Known as Cheby Taibo, Paco Ignacio, II, Martin RobertsISBN 0312206526 (0-312-20652-6)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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The Handmaid's Taleby Margaret Atwood, Valerie MartinISBN 0307264602 (0-307-26460-2)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaid's Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time.
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.
Like Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant. [via]More editions of The Handmaid's Tale:
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The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinetteby Carolly EricksonISBN 0312361505 (0-312-36150-5)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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History of Russiaby G. VernadskyISBN 0300002475 (0-300-00247-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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How Did American Slavery Begin: Readingsby Edward CountrymanISBN 0312182619 (0-312-18261-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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I.R.A.by Tim Pat CooganISBN 0269026894 (0-269-02689-4)
Hardcover, Pall Mall Press
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Intellectual Foundations of the Nicaraguan Revolutionby Donald C. HodgesISBN 0292738439 (0-292-73843-9)
Softcover, Univ of Texas Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Intellectual Foundations of the Nicaraguan Revolution'Book summary:In this critical study of the thought of Augusto Cesar Sandino and his followers, Donald C. Hodges has discovered a coherent ideological thread and political program, which he succeeds in tracing to Mexican and Spanish sources. Sandino's strong religious inclination in combination with his anarchosyndicalist political ideology established him as a religious seer and moral reformer as well as a political thinker and is the prototype of the curious blend of Marxism and Christianity of the late twentieth-century Nicaraguan government, the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.
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Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917by Orlando Figes, B. I. KolonitskiiISBN 0300081065 (0-300-08106-5)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jeffersonby Gore VidalISBN 0300105924 (0-300-10592-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inventing A Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson'Book summary:Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history, turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In "Inventing a Nation", Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls and the salons of Washington, Jefferson, Adams and others. We come to know these men, their opinions of each other, their worries about money and their concerns about creating a viable democracy. [via]
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The Iraby Tim Pat CooganISBN 0312294166 (0-312-29416-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radicalby Shane ClaiborneISBN 0310266300 (0-310-26630-0)
Softcover, Zondervan
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Islam and Revolution in the Middle Eastby Henry MunsonISBN 0300046049 (0-300-04604-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Kabulby M.E. HirshISBN 0312301731 (0-312-30173-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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The King's Commissarby Duncan KyleISBN 0312455844 (0-312-45584-4)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandraby Alexandra, Wolfson, Laura Esther (AFT), Vladimir M. Khrustalev, Vladimir A. Kozlov, Alexandra Raskina, Timothy D. SergayISBN 0300072120 (0-300-07212-0)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra'Book summary:The last Tsaritsa of Russia, Alexandra Feodorovna, was murdered with her family on the night of 16-17 July 1918 by agents acting on behalf of the revolutionary Bolshevik government. The story of the demise of the Romanov dynasty has been recounted many times. This book - the recently declassified 1918 diary of Alexandra - aims to provide something no other account could do: a glimpse of the Tsaritsa's thoughts and activities from 1 January 1918 until the night of her death. As the granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alexandra wrote in English, though her native language was German and she became fluent in Russian after her marriage to Nicholas. The 1918 diary takes us into her private world, revealing the care she lavished on her children during this period of revolutionary turmoil, how she felt towards her husband, Tsar Nicholas, and what she imagined about the profound struggle - between past and present, old and new worlds, the sacred and the profane - then occurring over the destiny of Russia. The diary reveals that even in her most intimate reflections, she remained the representative of a great system of belief that had prevailed for hundreds of years in Russia and that she and Nicholas hoped to perpetuate. We see in detail the daily confrontation between this system of belief and the reality of the modern world that had, in every sense, broken free of her and Nicholas's control. The Tsaritsa's diary is accompanied by an introduction by Robert Massie. A biographical portrait of Alexandra, the introduction places her in the historical context of the revolution, her marriage to Nicholas, and the events that encompassed her, her family, and her nation. [via]
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The Lost Fortune of the Tsarsby William ClarkeISBN 0312146728 (0-312-14672-8)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Marie Antoinette: The Journeyby Antonia FraserISBN 0307277747 (0-307-27774-7)
Softcover, Anchor Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Marie Antoinette: The Journey'Book summary:In the past, Antonia Fraser's bestselling histories and biographies have focused on people and events in her native England, from Mary Queen of Scots to Faith and Treason: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot. Now she crosses the Channel to limn the life of France's unhappiest queen, bringing along her gift for fluent storytelling, vivid characterization, and evocative historical background. Marie Antoinette (1755-93) emerges in Fraser's sympathetic portrait as a goodhearted girl woefully undereducated and poorly prepared for the dynastic political intrigues into which she was thrust at age 14, when her mother, Empress Maria Theresa, married her off to the future Louis XVI to further Austria's interests in France. Far from being the licentious monster later depicted by the radicals who sent her to the guillotine at the height of the French Revolution, young Marie Antoinette was quite prudish, as well as thoroughly humiliated by her husband's widely known failure to have complete intercourse with her for seven long years (the gory details were reported to any number of concerned royal parties, including her mother and brother). She compensated by spending lavishly on clothes and palaces, but Fraser points out that this hardly made her unique among 18th-century royalty, and in any case the causes of the Revolution went far beyond one woman's frivolities. The moving final chapters show Marie Antoinette gaining in dignity and courage as the Revolution stripped her of everything, subjected her to horrific brutalities (a mob paraded the head of her closest female friend on a pike below her window), and eventually took her life. Fraser makes no attempt to hide the queen's shortcomings, in particular her poor political skills, but focuses on her personal warmth and noble bearing during her final ordeal. It's another fine piece of popular historical biography to add to Fraser's already impressive bibliography. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Michael Collins: A Biographyby Tim Pat CooganISBN 0312295111 (0-312-29511-1)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asiaby James C. ScottISBN 0300021909 (0-300-02190-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Notes on the State of Virginia: With Related Documentsby Thomas Jefferson, David WaldstreicherISBN 0312257139 (0-312-25713-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Notes on the State of Virginia: With Related Documents'Book summary:Thomas Jefferson published one book, Notes on the State of Virginia; and ever since, it has been the touchstone for understanding Jefferson's ideas about Republican government, the environment, education, race and slavery, and Native-white relations. The author's unique analysis of Jefferson's thoughts on these crucial issues and their impact on the formation of the United States make this edition of the Notes the first to present these issues as fundamentally inseparable. A collection of lively letters and other documents related to the Notes accompanies them, and charts the evolution of the book in the revolutionary crucible and during the heady early days of the new nation. An introduction by David Waldstreicher places the work in the contexts of the Revolution and the social and cultural history of Jefferson's Virginia, with particular attention to developing ideas about race and nature. A chronology of the life and career of Thomas Jefferson and selected bibliography also add to the pedagogical benefits of this volume.[via]More editions of Notes on the State of Virginia: With Related Documents:
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On the Social Contract With Geneva Manuscript and Political Economyby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0312694466 (0-312-69446-6)
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander SolzhenitsynISBN 0275623009 (0-275-62300-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Pavn: People's Army of Vietnamby Douglas PikeISBN 0306804328 (0-306-80432-8)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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A Place of Greater Safetyby Hilary MantelISBN 0312426399 (0-312-42639-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Place of Greater Safety'Book summary:As 19th-century novelists Alexandre Dumas and Charles Dickens both discovered, the French Revolution makes for great drama. This lesson has not been lost on Hilary Mantel, whose A Place of Greater Safety brings a 20th-century sensibility to the stirring events of 1789. Mantel's approach is nothing if not ambitious: her three main characters, Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, and Camille Desmoulins, happen to have been major players in the early days of the revolution--men whose mix of ambition, idealism, and ego helped unleash the Terror and brought them eventually to their own tragic ends. As Mantel points out in her forward, none of these men was famous before the revolution; thus not a great deal is known about their early lives. What would constrain the biographer, however, is an open invitation to the fiction writer to let the imagination run wild; thus Mantel freely extrapolates from what is known of her protagonists' personalities and relationships with each other to construct their pasts.
This is a huge, complex novel, but the author has done her homework. Though Danton, Robespierre, and Desmoulins are at the center of her story, they are by no means the only major characters who populate the novel. Mantel uses historical figures as well as fictional ones to provide different points of view on the story. As she moves from one to the next, her narrative voice changes back and forth from first to third person as she sometimes grants us access to her characters' deepest thoughts and feelings, and other times keeps us guessing. A Place of Greater Safety is a happy marriage of literary and historical fiction, and a bona fide page-turner, as well. --Margaret Prior [via]
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The Politics of English Jacobinism: Writings of John Thelwallby Gregory Claeys, John ThelwallISBN 0271013486 (0-271-01348-6)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Populism and Feminism in Iran: Women's Struggle in a Male-Defined Revolutionary Movementby Haideh MoghissiISBN 0312120680 (0-312-12068-0)
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Printing Scienceby Frederick Pateman, Laurence Carvan YoungISBN 0273400312 (0-273-40031-2)
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Puritanism and Revolution: Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the 17th Seventeenth Centuryby Christopher HillISBN 0312174330 (0-312-17433-0)
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Puritanism and Revolution: Studies in Interpretation of the English Revolution of the Seventeenth Centuryby Christopher HillISBN 0312174349 (0-312-17434-9)
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Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolution Through the Eyes of Those Who Fought and Lived Itby George F. Scheer, Hugh F. RankinISBN 0306803070 (0-306-80307-0)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Representations of Revolutionby Ronald PaulsonISBN 0300039301 (0-300-03930-1)
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Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Bretonby Mark PolizzottiISBN 0306807726 (0-306-80772-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andre Breton'Book summary:Aptly described by playwright Eugene Ionesco as "one of the four or five great reformers of modern thought", Andre Breton (1896-1966) was the founder and prime mover of Surrealism, the most influential artistic and literary movement of the 20th century. Poet and theorist, artistic impresario and political agitator, Breton was a man of paradoxical character: inspiring one moment, crushingly tyrannical the next; embracing friends like Brunuel, Dali, Duchamp, Miro, Man Ray, Aragon and Eluard, only to exile them as enemies later. From its emergence from Dada after World War I through its culmination in the 1960s, here is the Surrealist world in detail. [via]
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Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iranby Nikki R. Keddie, Yann RichardISBN 0300026110 (0-300-02611-0)
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Rural Revolution in South China: Peasants and the Making of History in Haifeng County, 1570-1930by Robert B. MarksISBN 0299095304 (0-299-09530-4)
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San Jose De Gracia: Mexican Village in Transitionby Luis GonzalezISBN 0292775717 (0-292-77571-7)
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Shelley and the Chaos of History: A New Politics of Poetryby Hugh RobertsISBN 0271016418 (0-271-01641-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shelley and the Chaos of History: A New Politics of Poetry'Book summary:What is the role of poetry in bringing about change? This book explores that question in the writings of Percy Bysshe Shelley, examining his fascination with the role of contingency in physical and historical processes. In considering the long-standing debate over Shelley's philosophical stance, Hugh Roberts turns to the poet's reading of Lucretius to show how Shelley developed an alternative approach to the issues of history, change, time, and process one that incorporates the most compelling features of skepticism and idealism. He sheds new light on the importance of De rerum natura to Shelley's thought, and through extended readings of The Revolt of Islam and The Triumph of Life he shows the poet struggling with the intellectual limitations of Romanticism and the Enlightenment and moving beyond them.
Roberts then deploys some of the key concepts from the new science of chaos theory to illuminate the wider implications of Shelley's approach. He shows how with the help of this new paradigm much that has seemed baffling about the poet falls into place most notably a new understanding of political process that allows us to better comprehend Shelley's claim that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."
Readings of a number of Shelley's poems and prose works demonstrate the wide-ranging implications of this approach for our understanding of his entire oeuvre. Shelley and the Chaos of History presents a Shelley whose investigations into the nature of history and the role of poetry lead us beyond contemporary deconstructionist-historicist debates. It shows that the complexity of Shelley's engagement with the major philosophical issues of his time has been greatly underestimated. [via]More editions of Shelley and the Chaos of History: A New Politics of Poetry:
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Society, Theory and the French Revolution: Studies in the Revolutionary Imaginaryby Brian C.J. SingerISBN 0312739249 (0-312-73924-9)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Spirit of Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution As Told by Participantsby Richard B. Morris, Henry Steele CommagerISBN 0306806207 (0-306-80620-7)
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Surrealist Women: An International Anthologyby Penelope RosemontISBN 029277088X (0-292-77088-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Surrealist Women: An International Anthology'Book summary:"This is a very fine volume; it is inclusive, superbly researched, and the introductions are clearly written. . . . It should become a standard text of surrealism." --Stephen Eric Bronner, Professor of Political Science and Comparative Literature, Rutgers University Beginning in Paris in the 1920s, women poets, essayists, painters, and artists in other media have actively collaborated in defining and refining surrealism's basic project-achieving a higher, open, and dynamic consciousness, from which no aspect of the real or the imaginary is rejected. Indeed, few artistic or social movements can boast as many women forebears, founders, and participants-perhaps only feminism itself. Yet outside the movement, women's contributions to surrealism have been largely ignored or simply unknown. This anthology, the first of its kind in any language, displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism. Letting surrealist women speak for themselves, Penelope Rosemont has assembled nearly three hundred texts by ninety-six women from twenty-eight countries. She opens the book with a succinct summary of surrealism's basic aims and principles, followed by a discussion of the place of gender in the movement's origins. She then organizes the book into historical periods ranging from the 1920s to the present, with introductions that describe trends in the movement during each period. Rosemont also prefaces each surrealist's work with a brief biographical statement. [via]
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To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinetteby Carolly EricksonISBN 0312322054 (0-312-32205-4)
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Married to the maladroit, ill-mannered Dauphin, Antoinette found pleasure in costly entertainments and garments. She spent lavishly while her overtaxed and increasingly hostile subjects blamed her for France's plight. In time Antoinette matured into a courageous Queen, and when their enemies finally closed in, Antoinette followed her inept husband to the guillotine in one last act of bravery.
In To the Scaffold, Carolly Erickson provides an estimation of a lost Queen that is psychologically acute, richly detailed, and deeply moving.More editions of To the Scaffold: The Life of Marie Antoinette:
Ukraine's Orange Revolutionby Andrew WilsonISBN 0300112904 (0-300-11290-4)
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher StoweISBN 0312446519 (0-312-44651-9)
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Under the Frogby Tibor FischerISBN 0312278713 (0-312-27871-3)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Frog'Book summary:Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship.[via]More editions of Under the Frog:
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Utopiaby Thomas MoreISBN 0300002386 (0-300-00238-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Utopia'Book summary:First published in 1516, Saint Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most important works of European humanism. Through the voice of the mysterious traveller Raphael Hythloday, More describes a pagan, communist city-state governed by reason. Addressing such issues as religious pluralism, women's rights, state-sponsored education, colonialism, and justified warfare, Utopia seems remarkably contemporary nearly five centuries after it was written, and it remains a foundational text in philosophy and political theory. Precminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this new translation. Professor Miller includes a helpful introduction that outlines some of the important problems and issues that Utopia raises, and also provides informative commentary to assist the reader throughout this challenging and rewarding exploration of the meaning of political community. [via]
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Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faithby Rob BellISBN 0310273080 (0-310-27308-0)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith'Book summary:We have to test everything. I thank God for anybody anywhere who is pointing people to the mysteries of God. But those people would all tell you to think long and hard about what they are saying and doing and creating. Test it. Probe it. Do that to this book. Don't swallow it uncritically. Think about it. Wrestle with it. Just because I'm a Christian and I'm trying to articulate a Christian worldview doesn't mean I've got it nailed. I'm contributing to the discussion. God has spoken, and the rest is commentary, right? [via]
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Waldenby Henry D. Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer, Denis DonoghueISBN 0300110081 (0-300-11008-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:This handsome, affordable paperback edition of Walden is the most authoritative version of Henry David Thoreaus classic American literarymasterpiece to date. Jeffrey Cramers newly edited text is based on the original 1854 edition of Walden, with emendations taken from Thoreaus draft manuscripts, his own markings on page proofs, and notes in his personal copy of the book. An elegantly produced paperback, it has been priced especially with the student market in mind. An introduction by Denis Donoghue places Thoreaus life and achievement in context. Also included here are notes on the text, an afterword by the editor, and a helpful selected bibliography.[via]More editions of Walden:
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Waldenby Henry David Thoreau, J.S. CramerISBN 0300104669 (0-300-10466-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walden'Book summary:This is the authoritative edition of an American literaru classic: Henry David Thoreau's Walden, an elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living. With this edition, Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer has meticulously corrected errors and omissions from previous editions of Walden and here provides illuminating notes on the biographical, historical, and geographical contexts of the great nineteenth-century writer and thinker's life.Cramer's newly edited text is based on the original 1854 edition of Walden, with emendations taken from Thoreau's draft manuscripts, his own markings on the page proofs, and notes in his personal copy of the book. In the editor's notes to the volume, Cramer quotes from sources Thoreau actually read, showing how he used, interpreted, and altered these sources. Cramer also glosses Walden with references to Thoreau's essays, journals, and correspondence. With the wealth of material in this edition, readers will find an unprecedented opportunity to immerse themselves in the unique and fascinating world of Thoreau.Anyone who has read and loved Walden will want to own and treasure this gift edition. Those wishing to read Walden for the first time will not find a better guide than Jeffrey S. Cramer. [via]
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White Crow: The Life and Times of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich Romanov 1859-1919by Jamie H. CockfieldISBN 0275977781 (0-275-97778-1)
Hardcover, Praeger Pub Text
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The Wilding of America: How Greed and Violence Are Eroding Our Nation's Characterby Charles DerberISBN 0312132905 (0-312-13290-5)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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With Snow on Their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War Iby Jamie H. CockfieldISBN 0312220820 (0-312-22082-0)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'With Snow on Their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I'Book summary:In 1916, in an exchange of human flesh for war material, the Russian government sent to France two brigades to fight on the side of their French allies. By the end of World War I, these two brigades had experienced their own form of the Russian Revolution, had been isolated at a southern training post in a discipline move by the French government, had battled against each other in what was one of the first confrontations of the Russian Civil War, and had emerged from the conflict as a single force, the Russian Legion of Honor, which would remain loyal to France until the end of the war. The remarkable story of these Russian soldiers has been overlooked by historians until now. Jamie Cockfield here explores the journey and transformation of these men, and in so doing, he examines the impact of the revolution on the Russians who were caught in the middle of wartime alliances and nationalist ardor.[via]More editions of With Snow on Their Boots: The Tragic Odyssey of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France During World War I:
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Words to Outlive Usby Philip Boehm, Michal GrynbergISBN 0312422687 (0-312-42268-7)
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