Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848 (Beecher Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848 (Beecher Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

The revolution of 1848 has been described as the revolution of the intellectuals. In France, the revolution galvanised the energies of major romantic writers and intellectuals. This book follows nine writers through the revolution of 1848 and its aftermath: Alphonse de Lamartine, George Sand, Marie

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 (Israel Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from the Rights of Man to Robespierre (Israel Jonathan)(Paperback)

How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French Revolution Historians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers--that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment. Yet in recent decades, scholars have

The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775-1848 (Israel Jonathan)(Paperback)

A major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding Blaze is a sweeping history of how the American Revolution inspired revolutions throughout Europe and the Atlantic world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin's Russia (Schneer Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

During the spring and summer of 1918, with World War I still undecided, British, French and American agents in Russia developed a breathtakingly audacious plan. Led by Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, a dashing, cynical, urbane 30-year-old Scot, they conspired to overthrow Lenin's newly established

In Pursuit of Politics: Education and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France (O'Connor Adrian)(Pevná vazba)

Sheds new light on the cultural origins and practical ambitions of the French Revolution through an analysis of debates over education in eighteenth-century

Stripped and Script - Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution (Tillman Kacy Dowd)(Pevná vazba)

Female loyalists occupied a nearly impossible position during the American Revolution. Unlike their male counterparts, loyalist women were effectively silenced--unable to officially align themselves with either side or avoid being persecuted for their family ties. In this book, Kacy Dowd Tillman

French New Wave: A Revolution in Design (Nourmand Tony)(Pevná vazba)

The definitive celebration of the visual imagery of the French New Wave with its explosive and groundbreaking poster artThe French New Wave of the 1950s and 1960s is one of the most important movements in the history of film. Its fresh energy and vision changed the cinematic landscape, and its

French Revolution - From Enlightenment to Tyranny (Davidson Ian)(Paperback / softback)

A clear and fast-paced account of how and why the French Revolution descended into the

Hamilton: Portraits of the Revolution (Lehrer Josh)(Pevná vazba)

The photographer Josh Lehrer's up-close-and-personal document of the evolution, and revolution, that is Hamilton: An American Musical. Only the second official book, Hamilton: Portraits of the Revolution invites Hamilfans to experience the award-winning show in a brand-new and intimate way through

Tale of Two Cities (Dickens Charles)(Pevná vazba)

Dickens's classic story of the French Revolution. While the turmoil of the Revolution rages around them, the lives of the members of the Evremonde family are profoundly affected by the actions of one man - Sydney Carton. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form,

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution (Allsopp Niall)(Pevná vazba)

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the traditional language of allegiance in newly

The French Revolution (Carlyle Thomas)(Paperback)

Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends with Napoleon suppressing the insurrection of the 13th Vendemaire. Both in its form and content, the work was intended as a revolt against history writing itself, with Carlyle exploding the

Atlas of the Irish Revolution(Pevná vazba)

The Atlas of the Irish Revolution draws together existing and ongoing new research into the revolutionary period in a broad ranging and inclusive manner. It includes contributions from leading scholars across a range of

The Wars of the French Revolution: 1792-1801 (Esdaile Charles J.)(Paperback)

The Wars of the French Revolution, 1792-1801 offers a comprehensive and jargon-free coverage of this turbulent period and unites political, social, military and international history in one volume. Carefully designed for undergraduate students, through twelve chapters this book offers an

Citizens - A Chronicle of The French Revolution (Schama Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of

The French Revolution, 1789-1799 (McPhee Peter)(Paperback)

This book provides a succinct yet up-to-date and challenging approach to the French Revolution of 1789-1799 and its consequences. Peter McPhee provides an accessible and reliable overview and one which deliberately introduces students to central debates among historians.The book has two main aims

How the Old World Ended: The Anglo-Dutch-American Revolution 1500-1800 (Scott Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

A magisterial account of how the cultural and maritime relationships between the British, Dutch and American territories changed the existing world order - and made the Industrial Revolution possible Between 1500 and 1800, the North Sea region overtook the Mediterranean as the most dynamic part

French Revolution and What Went Wrong (Clarke Stephen)(Paperback / softback)

An entertaining and eye-opening look at the French Revolution, by Stephen Clarke, author of 1000 Years of Annoying the French and A Year in the Merde. The French Revolution and What Went Wrong looks back at the French Revolution and how it's surrounded in a

The Red and the Black: The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic (Featherstone David)(Pevná vazba)

This edited collection explores the inspiration of the Russian Revolution of 1917 for black radicals across the African diaspora. The volume challenges European-centred understandings of the Russian Revolution and the global left and enables new insights on the relations between Communism and

The Glory and the Sorrow: A Parisian and His World in the Age of the French Revolution (Tackett Timothy)(Pevná vazba)

An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution. What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory and the Sorrow, eminent historian Timothy Tackett

A New World Begins: The History of the French Revolution (Popkin Jeremy)(Pevná vazba)

From an award-winning historian, a magisterial account of the revolution that created the modern world The principles of the French Revolution remain the only possible basis for a just society -- even if, after more than two hundred years, they are more contested than ever before. In A New World

James Wong's Homegrown Revolution (Wong James)(Pevná vazba)

A revolution in the garden - a completely new range of fruit and vegetables to grow and eat. Whether it's a window box of homegrown saffron, your very own kiwi vine or a mini green tea plantation on your patio, TV botanist and best-selling author James Wong proves that 'growing your own' can be so

The Jewish Decadence: Jews and the Aesthetics of Modernity (Freedman Jonathan)(Paperback)

As Jewish writers, artists, and intellectuals made their way into Western European and Anglo-American cultural centers, they encountered a society obsessed with decadence. An avant-garde movement characterized by self-consciously artificial art and literature, philosophic pessimism, and an interest