Building on the theme of the interaction of self-conscious radicalism and spontaneous popular movements, this title analyzes the social and religious antagonisms of pre-1848 German society and shows how they were politicized by the democratic political opposition.
The 20th Century was an age of revolutions that transformed the nature of politics and social arrangements. This text analyses past and present, and examine a range of cases, from the backward-looking movement of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the magical revolution in progress in Chiapas, Mexico.
The 20th Century was an age of revolutions that transformed the nature of politics and social arrangements. This text analyses past and present, and examine a range of cases, from the backward-looking movement of the Taliban in Afghanistan to the magical revolution in progress in Chiapas, Mexico.
This volume deals with the threat to democracy and the rule of law posed by organised violence in Latin America
This volume deals with the threat to democracy and the rule of law posed by organised violence in Latin America.
Village people in the Punjab have lived with the terror of conflict between Sikh militants and Indian security forces since the attack on the Sikh Golden Temple in 1984. This book presents a human portrait of the struggle. The author uses interviews to present the views of those involved.
Between 1808 and 1825, Latin America was engulfed in a wave of revolution that destroyed that Spanish empire in the Americas. This book studies the process of imperial collapse in one of these Spanish colonies: the Viceroyalty of New Granada, the future Republic of Colombia.
This third edition of this work on the English revolution includes fresh chapters on 20th-century historians' treatments of social complexities, politics, political culture and revisionism, and on the Revolution's unstoppable reverberations.
A text which argues that political Islam's desire to restore a culture distorted by colonization does not necessarily compromise its progress to more democracy and greater tolerance. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between Islam and modernity, Islamism and women, and violence.
Some say the French Revolution was a catastrophe waiting to happen. This book looks at the signals of its arrival, the mishandling of the situation by Louis XVI and the subsequent events that took place from the storming of the Bastille onwards, through to the horrific events of the Terror .