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The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

The World Turned Upside Down: A History of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

$54.07 USD$20.28 USD
Author: Yang Jisheng Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 As a major political event and a crucial turning point in the history of the People's Republic of China, the Great...
Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture

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Author: Sudhir Hazareesingh Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The definitive modern biography of the great slave leader, military genius and revolutionary hero The Haitian Revolution began in...
Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

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Author: Laurence Rees Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 528 The bestselling historian on the dramatic wartime relationship - and shocking similarities - between two tyrants This compelling book...
Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning

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Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 From a decorated Marine war veteran and National Book Award finalist, an astonishing reckoning with the nature of combat and the...
America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s

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Author: Elizabeth Hinton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 416 A New York Times Notable Book Best Books of 2021: TIME, Smithsonian New York Times Book Review * Editors'...
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

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Author: Frank Dikoetter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 _______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear...
A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx

A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx

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Author: Sven-Eric Liedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of...
The Egyptians: A Radical Story

The Egyptians: A Radical Story

$16.89 USD$14.36 USD
Author: Jack Shenker Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 560 The essential book about Egypt and radical politics. Egypt is a nation in turmoil, caught in a cycle of...
Lenin on the Train

Lenin on the Train

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Author: Catherine Merridale Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 368 A gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in...
The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

The Party: The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

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Author: Richard McGregor Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 Richard McGregor's The Party has been established as the book on China and its political leadership. It is indispensable...
Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History

Revolutions in the Atlantic World: A Comparative History

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Author: Wim Klooster Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 247 In the late eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, revolutions transformed the British, French, and Spanish Atlantic worlds. During this time, colonial and...
My Country: A Syrian Memoir

My Country: A Syrian Memoir

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Author: Kassem Eid Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 On 21 August 2013, Kassem Eid nearly died in a sarin gas attack in the town of Moadamiya. At least 1,500...
Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light

Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light

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Author: MS Susan Dunn (Williams College) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy today The American and French revolutions presented...
Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution

Circling the Square: Stories from the Egyptian Revolution

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Author: Wendell Steavenson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 In January 2011, as the crowds gathered to protest Mubarak's three decades of rule in Egypt, Wendell Steavenson went...
Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald

Pretty Young Rebel: The Life of Flora Macdonald

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Author: Flora Fraser Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A SPECTATOR AND SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'So well researched, pacily written and sympathetic to the Auld Cause that it...
The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East

The New Arab Wars: Uprisings and Anarchy in the Middle East

$27.71 USD$11.83 USD
Author: Marc Lynch Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Less than twenty-four months after the hope-filled Arab uprising, the popular movement had morphed into a dystopia of resurgent dictators, failed...
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today

Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today

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Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articulates...
Red Friends: Internationalists in China's Struggle for Liberation

Red Friends: Internationalists in China's Struggle for Liberation

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Author: John Sexton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 China's resistance to Imperial Japan was the other great internationalist cause of the 'red 1930s', along with the Spanish Civil War....
Hidden Hand: Exposing How The Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping The World

Hidden Hand: Exposing How The Chinese Communist Party Is Reshaping The World

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The Arab Uprisings: The People Want the Fall of the Regime

The Arab Uprisings: The People Want the Fall of the Regime

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Russia: Which Way Paradise?

Russia: Which Way Paradise?

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God's Chinese Son: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

God's Chinese Son: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan

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Face to Face with Political Islam

Face to Face with Political Islam

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The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner

The Radicalism of the American Revolution: Pulitzer Prize Winner

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American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

American Spring: Lexington, Concord, and the Road to Revolution

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Poetry Rebellion: Poems and prose to rewild the spirit

Poetry Rebellion: Poems and prose to rewild the spirit

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Author: Paul Evans Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 176 Life in the 21st century is throwing up challenges across the globe. From climate emergency to extreme politics, from women's rights...
Work, Sex and Power: The Forces that Shaped Our History

Work, Sex and Power: The Forces that Shaped Our History

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Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning

Places and Names: On War, Revolution and Returning

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Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Elliot Ackerman's exceptional memoir is a superb, unique and unforgettable story of war and death, fear and cruelty, above all the...
Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

Blood on the River: A Chronicle of Mutiny and Freedom on the Wild Coast

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Author: Marjoleine Kars Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BERBICE SLAVE REBELLION Winner of the 2021 Cundill History Prize Winner of the 2021 Frederick Douglass...
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets'

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets'

$40.55 USD$32.44 USD
Author: Vincent Bevins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 This book is phenomenal ... It's about as good as journalism gets ...The highest praise I can give If We Burn...
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider

$23.65 USD$18.92 USD
Author: Michiko Kakutani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic...
Conspirator

Conspirator

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Author: Helen Rappaport Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 Helen Rappaport's Conspirator is a vivid account of Vladimir I. Lenin's years of exile in Europe, showing that this often-overlooked period...
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

$23.65 USD$18.92 USD
Author: Frank Dikoetter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 _______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear...
Revolution: The History of England Volume IV

Revolution: The History of England Volume IV

$23.65 USD$18.92 USD
Author: Peter Ackroyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with...
Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today

Revolutions: How they changed history and what they mean today

$33.79 USD$27.03 USD
Author: Peter Furtado Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as 'liberty, fraternity, equality', articulates...