Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030779847X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Faces of Revolution
Author: Bernard Bailyn
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030779847X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030779847X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today.
Revolution with a Human Face
Author: James Krapfl
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801469422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia’s “gentle revolution,” James Krapfl shifts the focus away from elites to ordinary citizens who endeavored—from the outbreak of revolution in 1989 to the demise of the Czechoslovak federation in 1992—to establish a new, democratic political culture. Unique in its balanced coverage of developments in both Czech and Slovak lands, including the Hungarian minority of southern Slovakia, this book looks beyond Prague and Bratislava to collective action in small towns, provincial factories, and collective farms. Through his broad and deep analysis of workers’ declarations, student bulletins, newspapers, film footage, and the proceedings of local administrative bodies, Krapfl contends that Czechoslovaks rejected Communism not because it was socialist, but because it was arbitrarily bureaucratic and inhumane. The restoration of a basic “humanness”—in politics and in daily relations among citizens—was the central goal of the revolution. In the strikes and demonstrations that began in the last weeks of 1989, Krapfl argues, citizens forged new symbols and a new symbolic system to reflect the humane, democratic, and nonviolent community they sought to create. Tracing the course of the revolution from early, idealistic euphoria through turns to radicalism and ultimately subversive reaction, Revolution with a Human Face finds in Czechoslovakia’s experiences lessons of both inspiration and caution for people in other countries striving to democratize their governments.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801469422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
In this social and cultural history of Czechoslovakia’s “gentle revolution,” James Krapfl shifts the focus away from elites to ordinary citizens who endeavored—from the outbreak of revolution in 1989 to the demise of the Czechoslovak federation in 1992—to establish a new, democratic political culture. Unique in its balanced coverage of developments in both Czech and Slovak lands, including the Hungarian minority of southern Slovakia, this book looks beyond Prague and Bratislava to collective action in small towns, provincial factories, and collective farms. Through his broad and deep analysis of workers’ declarations, student bulletins, newspapers, film footage, and the proceedings of local administrative bodies, Krapfl contends that Czechoslovaks rejected Communism not because it was socialist, but because it was arbitrarily bureaucratic and inhumane. The restoration of a basic “humanness”—in politics and in daily relations among citizens—was the central goal of the revolution. In the strikes and demonstrations that began in the last weeks of 1989, Krapfl argues, citizens forged new symbols and a new symbolic system to reflect the humane, democratic, and nonviolent community they sought to create. Tracing the course of the revolution from early, idealistic euphoria through turns to radicalism and ultimately subversive reaction, Revolution with a Human Face finds in Czechoslovakia’s experiences lessons of both inspiration and caution for people in other countries striving to democratize their governments.
The Three Faces of Revolution
Author: Fred Schwarz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Anarchism
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Pancho Villa and John Reed
Author: Jim Tuck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A parallel biography of early twentieth-century revolutionaries Pancho Villa and John Reed, discussing the influences in their lifes, and looking at how the two very different men rose to a cause, crossing paths briefly in Mexico in 1913, and went on to fall at the hands of their enemies.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A parallel biography of early twentieth-century revolutionaries Pancho Villa and John Reed, discussing the influences in their lifes, and looking at how the two very different men rose to a cause, crossing paths briefly in Mexico in 1913, and went on to fall at the hands of their enemies.
Mining Engineers' Handbook
Author: Robert Peele
Publisher:
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Category : Mining engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 2550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mining engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 2550
Book Description
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Author: Matthew Forster Heddle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineralogy
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mineralogy
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 28/29.1879/80. [NBM/Mikrofilm]
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
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Yesterday's Faces
Author: Robert Sampson
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879725143
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In this fifth volume of the Yesterday's Faces series, Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903-1930 pulps. Sparkling brightly among these characters are Terence O'Rourke, Captain Blood, and the ferocious Hurricane Williams. More characters include Peter the Brazen, in China, Sanders of the River, in Africa--and much, much more.
Publisher: Popular Press
ISBN: 9780879725143
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
In this fifth volume of the Yesterday's Faces series, Robert Sampson has selected a host of series characters who adventured throughout the world in the 1903-1930 pulps. Sparkling brightly among these characters are Terence O'Rourke, Captain Blood, and the ferocious Hurricane Williams. More characters include Peter the Brazen, in China, Sanders of the River, in Africa--and much, much more.
The Faces of Power
Author: Seyom Brown
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231096690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
In the new edition of this major work, Seyom Brown brings his authoritative account of United States foreign policy completely up-to-date with analyses of the Truman administration to the Clinton administration. Most notably, Brown provides an insightful overview of the last three presidencies, beginning with an expanded treatment of the Reagan years to the first major scholarly assessment of Bush's foreign policies to Clinton's early ambivalence toward grappling with the dilemmas of the post-Cold War world.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231096690
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
In the new edition of this major work, Seyom Brown brings his authoritative account of United States foreign policy completely up-to-date with analyses of the Truman administration to the Clinton administration. Most notably, Brown provides an insightful overview of the last three presidencies, beginning with an expanded treatment of the Reagan years to the first major scholarly assessment of Bush's foreign policies to Clinton's early ambivalence toward grappling with the dilemmas of the post-Cold War world.
The Medical Critic and Guide
Author: William Josephus Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description