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Allons enfant de la Patrie, le jour de gloire est arrivé! 'Arise children of the Fatherland, the day of glory has arrived!' These opening lines to La Marseillaise, France's famously stirring and evocative national anthem, capture perfectly the passion, fear, and frenetic energy of Republicanism's sanguinary birth on French soil. Through the violence of the Revolutions (yes, there were many) the reign of the Bourbon monarchy came to an end and modern...
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François Mignet's 'Histoire de la révolution française' is a study of the events that caused a huge shift of power in France around the turn of the 19th Century. This was primarily a study of the theories and ideologies behind the events, rather than a factual record.
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In Limerick, the workers and their representatives take over running the city and their action is declared a 'Soviet'. The British authorities see it as a serious threat to their rule in Ireland. The workers are protesting against a severe military law that requires them to get special passes and be checked going to and from work. The restrictions follow the IRA shooting of a policeman and the wounding of another, during the rescue of an ill Republican...
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An epic drama of world-changing events revealed through the visionary consciousness of Tatiana, one of the four daughters of the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra. This is Tatiana's story, told through her diary: from idyllic childhood in the last royal family of Russia, to brutal imprisonment at the hands of the revolutionaries; from her last-minute escape and secret exile in England, for which, there exists actual historical...
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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,...
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Cuando Ángel Perelman escribió este libro, todavía no había pasado una década del nefasto golpe de Estado que derrocó al general Perón. Aquella autodenominada "Revolución Libertadora" -popularmente rebautizada "Revolución fusiladora"- fue sucedida por gobiernos conducidos por civiles y militares que siguieron proscribiendo, persiguiendo y reprimiendo al peronismo. Las acciones de la restauración oligárquica expresada en los distintos gobiernos...
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La memoria es un espacio de lucha: el recuerdo no es algo que el poder pueda dejar sin gobernar, sobre todo el recuerdo de un momento que cambió el curso de las vidas y la realidad misma. En mayo de 2008 se cumplirán 40 años del célebre movimiento de Mayo del 68, la mayor huelga general de la historia de Francia y la única insurrección generalizada que ha experimentado el mundo "desarrollado" en la segunda mitad del siglo xx. La "memoria reactiva"...
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Las revueltas estudiantiles de 1968 constituyen uno de los principales acontecimientos históricos del siglo XX y marcan, de algún modo, el fin de un periodo. Siempre bajo la sombra de la controversia, ese mes de mayo abrió para unos las puertas de una anhelada libertad. Para otros, sin embargo, fue el caldo de cultivo de buena parte de la crisis actual.
Cuando se cumplen cincuenta años de las protestas, Josemaría Carabante ofrece aquí una breve...
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Georges Lefebvre (1874–1959) was one of the most important twentieth-century historians of the French Revolution. His books include The Great Fear of 1789: Rural Panic in Revolutionary France (Princeton). R. R. Palmer (1909–2002) was professor emeritus of history at Yale University and a guest scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Timothy Tackett is professor emeritus of history at the University of California, Irvine.
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"Un apasionante recorrido, a través de la literatura de Rimbaud, por una Francia inmersa en la revolución.
La década de 1870, el momento en que el meteoro Arthur Rimbaud, el poeta genial y precoz por antonomasia, cruza el firmamento de la literatura universal para trastornarlo para siempre, suele ser soslayada en el relato convencional de la historia de Europa, y, en particular, de Francia. Sin embargo, fue el momento de dos acontecimientos particularmente...
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A new look at a contentious period in the history of the Atlantic world
Within just a half century, the American, French, Haitian, and Spanish American revolutions transformed the Atlantic world. This book is the first to analyze these events through a comparative lens, revealing several central themes in the field of Atlantic history. From the murky position of the European empire between the Old and New Worlds to slavery and diaspora, Wim Klooster...
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La Revolución francesa fue un conflicto social y político, con diversos periodos de violencia, que convulsionó Francia y, por extensión de sus implicaciones, a otras naciones de Europa que enfrentaban a partidarios y opositores del sistema conocido como el Antiguo Régimen. Se inició con la autoproclamación del Tercer Estado como Asamblea Nacional en 1789 y finalizó con el golpe de Estado de Napoleón Bonaparte en 1799. Si bien después de...
73) Buried heart
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Court of Fives trilogy volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
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"Jessamy is at the crux of a revolution forged by the Commoner class hoping to overthrow their longtime Patron overlords, but when enemies from foreign lands attack the kingdom, she must find a way to defend their home and all the people she loves, Efean and Saroese alike"--
74) Three kings
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Absurdly comic tale set after the end of the Gulf War, when three American soldiers looking to plunder stolen gold become involved in an uprising.
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Also referred to as the Revolution of 1789, the French Revolution was an event which quaked France. It is also one of the fiercest revolutions in the West. Even though the French Revolution began in 1789, the effects were quite noticeable a couple of years before. The Revolution lasted a decade and ended only in 1799. Monarchy of France was overthrown during this revolution and people faced much political turmoil.
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El valor histórico de la Revolución Francesa es incuestionable. Fue el periodo perfecto para decir que marcó un antes y un después en la historia de la humanidad, de ahí que merezca ser conocido y analizado de modo riguroso y didáctico.
La Revolución francesa conmocionó y transformó el mundo. Denunció un tipo de sociedad y construyó otra, anticipó la modernidad con la voluntad de instaurar un progreso permanente. Se erigió en modelo para...
77) The Cultural Revolution: A Captivating Guide to a Decade-Long Upheaval in China Unleashed by Mao
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If you want to discover the captivating history of the Cultural Revolution, then keep reading...The Cultural Revolution, known in full as the "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution," was launched by Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Communist Party of China, as a means of quashing capitalism in China. He wanted to ensure that the desire for a communist government would remain strong in the country long after his death. Like other previous leaders who...
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Saints and spies, pirates and philosophers, artists and intellectuals: they all criss-crossed the grey North Sea in the so-called "dark ages," the years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of Europe's mastery over the oceans. Now the critically acclaimed Michael Pye reveals the cultural transformation sparked by those men and women: the ideas, technology, science, law, and moral codes that helped create our modern world. This is...
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This is popular history about one of the most feared men in history, a man who is still venerated in much of his homeland and who played such a large part in shaping the political landscape of the modern world. Up to sixty million people perished under Stalin's murderous rule and his life and crimes will fascinate the general reader.
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"Until the adventure that I am about to relate, I had been a tolerably well-behaved North Carolina boy." In 1914 Ben Muse, then 16-years-old and just out of high school, decided he had been behaving himself for too long. He left his family home in Durham, North Carolina, and head for Mexico City to observe and report on the Mexican Revolution, then at its height. While there he managed to meet the Primer Jefe, Venustiano Carranza, and watched his...
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