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Como consecuencia de los festejos por el bicentenario de la Revolución Francesa y de las transiciones democráticas en América Latina, a comienzos de la década de 1990 resurge el interés tanto en las interpretaciones de la revolución como en la historia política e institucional de los países latinoamericanos. Esto da lugar a una extraordinaria renovación historiográfica vinculada al debate sobre las rupturas revolucionarias de independencia...
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The "Arab Spring" was heralded and publicly embraced by foreign leaders of many countries that define themselves by their own historic revolutions. The contributors to this volume examine the legitimacy of these comparisons by exploring whether or not all modern revolutions follow a pattern or script. Traditionally, historians have studied revolutions as distinct and separate events. Drawing on close familiarity with many different cultures, languages,...
3) A people's history of the American Revolution: how common people shaped the fight for independence
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[This book] view[s] the revolution through the eyes of common folk. Their stories have long been overlooked in the mythic telling of America's founding, but are crucial to a comprehensive understanding of the fight for independence. Now, the experiences of farmers, laborers, rank and file soldiers, women, Native Americans, and African Americans - found in diaries, letters, memoirs and other long-ignored primary sources - create a gritty account of...
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L'homme, Louis XVI, qui accède au pouvoir en mai 1774, jeune, inexpérimenté, plein de bonne volonté, bon époux et bientt bon père, est conscient de ses limites. Il sait qu'il lui faut réformer ce vieux pays glorieux dont il est le nouveau roi, la France. En suivant son parcours, de 1774 jusqu'à la proclamation de la République, en passant par sa déchéance en août 1792, l'auteur tente, sans dogmatisme, d'y voir plus clair, de débroussailler...
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Essays on nationalism, revolution, and other relevant topics from the author of The Origins of Scottish Nationhood.
Prize-winning scholar and author Neil Davidson explores classic themes of nation, state, and revolution in this collection of essays.
Ranging from the extent to which nationalism can be a component of left-wing politics to the difference between bourgeois and socialist revolutions, the book concludes with an extended discussion of...
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Americans know about the Boston Tea Party and "the shot heard 'round the world," but sixteen months divided these two iconic events, a period that has nearly been lost to history. The Spirit of '74 fills in this gap in our nation's founding narrative, showing how in these mislaid months, step by step, real people made a revolution.
After the Tea Party, Parliament not only shut down a port but also revoked the sacred Massachusetts charter. Completely...
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