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Book Synopsis Windows into a Revolution by : Alpa Shah
Download or read book Windows into a Revolution written by Alpa Shah and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Windows into a Revolution edited by Alpa Shah and Judith Pettigrew, the first book in the series offers glimpses into the spread of Maoism in India and Nepal by tracing some of its effects on the lives of ordinary people living amidst the revolutions. Weaving through the nostalgic reflections of former Bengali Naxalites; the resurgence of ancestral conflicts in the spread of the Maoists in the remote hills of western Nepal; the disillusionments of dalits of central Bihar in the policies of the cadres; to the complexities of the interrelationship between non-aligned civilians and insurgents in central Nepal, the book offers a series of windows into different stages of mobilization and transformation into what are, were or may become, revolutionary strongholds. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Book Synopsis Windows Into a Revolution by : Alpa Shah
Download or read book Windows Into a Revolution written by Alpa Shah and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives by : Sue Wilkes
Download or read book Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives written by Sue Wilkes and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working families in Victorian Lancashire had few choices. Work; starve; or face the workhouse and the break up of their family. Narrow Windows, Narrow Lives recreates everyday life for textile workers, canal boat families, coalminers, metal workers navvies and glassblowers using contemporary eyewitness accounts and interviews. It depicts the dire state of towns and the dreadful hazards workers faced on a daily basis. Who was the 'knocker-upper'? Why did families eat 'tommyrot'? Why couldn't 'Lump Lad' sleep soundly in his bed? Men, women and children endured incredibly long working hours in appalling conditions – but their toil helped make Britain 'Great.'
Book Synopsis Anthropologies of Revolution by : Igor Cherstich
Download or read book Anthropologies of Revolution written by Igor Cherstich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. What can anthropological thinking contribute to the study of revolutions? The first book-length attempt to develop an anthropological approach to revolutions, Anthropologies of Revolution proposes that revolutions should be seen as concerted attempts to radically reconstitute the worlds people inhabit. Viewing revolutions as all-embracing, world-creating projects, the authors ask readers to move beyond the idea of revolutions as acts of violent political rupture, and instead view them as processes of societal transformation that penetrate deeply into the fabric of people’s lives, unfolding and refolding the coordinates of human existence.
Book Synopsis Witness to the Revolution by : Bette W. Oliver
Download or read book Witness to the Revolution written by Bette W. Oliver and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the least likely survivors of the Jacobin purge of the National Convention in early 1793 was Jean-Baptiste Louvet, the author of the popular eighteenth-century romance Les Amours du Chevalier de Faublas. Had it not been for the upheaval caused by the revolution in 1789, Louvet undoubtedly would have continued to build his promising literary career. Few of his readers could have imagined that this frail, young man would be elected as a deputy in the national assembly, where he dared to oppose powerful Jacobin leaders like Robespierre. His limited formal education and background as a bookstore clerk set Louvet apart among his legally trained friends in the Brissotin/Girondin faction; yet his intelligence, courage, and loyalty led them to appreciate his skills and friendship. Louvet would be the only one among the group to survive the proscription of the Girondins and life as a fugitive. He returned to Paris following the Jacobins’ downfall in July 1794, to serve again in the National Convention and then in the newly elected government of the Directory.
Book Synopsis Reflections on the Puritan Revolution by : A.L. Rowse
Download or read book Reflections on the Puritan Revolution written by A.L. Rowse and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on the Puritan Revolution (1986) examines the damage done by the Puritans during the English Civil War, and the enormous artistic losses England suffered from their activities. The Puritans smashed stained glass, monuments, sculpture, brasses in cathedrals and churches; they destroyed organs, dispersed the choirs and the music. They sold the King’s art collections, pictures, statues, plate, gems and jewels abroad, and broke up the Coronation regalia. They closed down the theatres and ended Caroline poetry. The greatest composer and most promising scientist of the age were among the many lives lost; and this all besides the ruin of palaces, castles and mansions.
Book Synopsis Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution by : Tsuyoshi Hasegawa
Download or read book Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution written by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russians from all walks of life joyously celebrated the end of Nicholas II’s monarchy, but one year later, amid widespread civil strife and lawlessness, a fearful citizenry stayed out of sight. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa offers a new perspective on Russia’s revolutionary year through the lens of violent crime and its devastating effect on ordinary people.
Book Synopsis Russia in War and Revolution by : Gary M. Hamburg
Download or read book Russia in War and Revolution written by Gary M. Hamburg and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fyodor Sergeyevich Olferieff (1885&–1971) led a remarkable life in the shadows of history. This book presents his memoirs for the first time, translated and annotated by his granddaughter Tanya A. Cameron. Born into a noble family, Olferieff was a Russian career military officer who observed firsthand key events of the early twentieth century, including the 1905&–7 revolution, the Great War, the collapse of the imperial state, and the civil wars in Ukraine and Crimea. Olferieff wrestles with moral and political questions, wondering whether his own advantages could be justified—and whether, if born a peasant, he might have thrown himself into the revolution. As Gary Hamburg writes in an illuminating companion essay, Olferieff wrote "to understand himself and to record his broken life for posterity" as a privileged observer of a bloody, historically pivotal era.
Book Synopsis Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution by : A. Potofsky
Download or read book Constructing Paris in the Age of Revolution written by A. Potofsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the social and political history of workers and entrepreneurs engaged in constructing the French capital from 1763-1815, this book argues that Paris construction was a core sector in which 'archaic' and 'innovative' practices were symbiotically used by guilds, the state, and enterprises to launch the commercial revolution in France.
Book Synopsis Modernization and Revolution in China by : June Grasso
Download or read book Modernization and Revolution in China written by June Grasso and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extensively revised and updated, this popular text conveys the drama of China's struggle to modernize against the backdrop of a proud and difficult history. Spanning the years from China's humiliating defeat in the Opium Wars to its triumphant hosting of the 2008 summer Olympics, the authors narrate the major developments of that journey: the breakdown of imperial China in the face of Japanese and Western encroachments; Sun-Yatsen and the founding of the Chinese republic; the early struggles between the ideologies and armies of Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong; China's bitter and costly war with Japan; the final shootout that sent Chiang to Taiwan and Mao to Beijing; the turbulent first decades of the People's Republic; and the dramatic shift to a globalizing economic strategy. This edition features all new analysis of issues facing China's leaders today, including environmental challenges, rural economic developments, corruption, the current economic climate, China's relations with its neighbors and the United States, the latest Tibet crisis, and the reelection of Hu Jintao. The authors have also incorporated some of the latest scholarship on Chinese historical events, making this the best and most up-to-date brief text on modern China currently available.
Book Synopsis Russia in Revolution by : Stinton Jones
Download or read book Russia in Revolution written by Stinton Jones and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine by :
Download or read book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Renegades of the Empire by : Michael Drummond
Download or read book Renegades of the Empire written by Michael Drummond and published by Three Rivers Press (CA). This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Competing in the high-tech computer market is a lot like a war -- especially if you work at Microsoft. Bill Gates's gladiators -- his engineers, evangelists, and programmers -- were famous for seizing new terrain and new technology, converting nonbelievers, and always winning . . . no matter what the cost. No one took the lessons of Microsoft more to heart than Craig Eisler, Eric Engstrom, and Alex St. John, a trio of software engineers who were willing to do almost anything to conquer a market of their own, even if that meant disregarding procedure and protocol. Michael Drummond gained exclusive access to their story, and the result -- in this updated edition -- is a revealing glimpse into the world's most successful company. Renegades of the Empire isn't just a tale of technology and power -- it's a story of fascinating science, of high-tech boys and their toys. Even more, though, it's a tantalizing, behind-the-scenes look at how three engineers conquered an empire.
Book Synopsis In the Shadow of Revolution by : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Download or read book In the Shadow of Revolution written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asked shortly after the revolution about how she viewed the new government, Tatiana Varsher replied, "With the wide-open eyes of a historian." Her countrywoman, Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, expressed a similar need to take note: "I want to write about the way those events were perceived and reflected in the humble and distant corner of Russia that was the Cossack town of Korenovskaia." What these women witnessed and experienced, and what they were moved to describe, is part of the extraordinary portrait of life in revolutionary Russia presented in this book. A collection of life stories of Russian women in the first half of the twentieth century, In the Shadow of Revolution brings together the testimony of Soviet citizens and émigrés, intellectuals of aristocratic birth and Soviet milkmaids, housewives and engineers, Bolshevik activists and dedicated opponents of the Soviet regime. In literary memoirs, oral interviews, personal dossiers, public speeches, and letters to the editor, these women document their diverse experience of the upheavals that reshaped Russia in the first half of this century. As is characteristic of twentieth-century Russian women's autobiographies, these life stories take their structure not so much from private events like childbirth or marriage as from great public events. Accordingly the collection is structured around the events these women see as touchstones: the Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-20; the switch to the New Economic Policy in the 1920s and collectivization; and the Stalinist society of the 1930s, including the Great Terror. Edited by two preeminent historians of Russia and the Soviet Union, the volume includes introductions that investigate the social historical context of these women's lives as well as the structure of their autobiographical narratives.
Book Synopsis Turkey in Revolution by : Charles Roden Buxton
Download or read book Turkey in Revolution written by Charles Roden Buxton and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the Revolutions in Europe by : Christophe Koch
Download or read book History of the Revolutions in Europe written by Christophe Koch and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Truth of the Russian Revolution by : Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev
Download or read book The Truth of the Russian Revolution written by Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and its aftermath, newly translated into English. Major General Konstantin Ivanovich Globachev was chief of the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police, in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) in the two years preceding the 1917 Russian Revolution. This book presents his memoirstranslated in English for the first timeinterposed with those of his wife, Sofia Nikolaevna Globacheva. The generals writings, which he titled The Truth of the Russian Revolution, provide a front-row view of Tsar Nicholas IIs final years, the revolution, and its tumultuous aftermath. Globachev describes the political intrigue and corruption in the capital and details his offices surveillance over radical activists and the mysterious Rasputin. His wife takes a more personal approach, depicting her tenacity in the struggle to keep her family intact and the familys flight to freedom. Her descriptions vividly portray the privileges and relationships of the noble class that collapsed with the empire. Translator Vladimir G. Marinich includes biographical information, illustrations, a glossary, and a timeline to contextualize this valuable primary source on a key period in Russian history.
