A History Of The Great Revolt

Author : Paul Dowswell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781472968418

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The Great Revolt by Paul Dowswell Pdf

Thrilling historical adventure set during the English peasants' revolt of 1381, by Paul Dowswell, the author of Ausländer, and Wolf Children. It's 1381 and the king, Richard II, has imposed a new tax on the people. In the village of Aylesford, Tilda and her ploughman father were already struggling to make ends meet. As serfs they have no rights to move freely or earn wages for their work. Tilda is desperate for a better life than the village can offer, so when the villagers begin to rebel she is swept up in the excitement. Tilda and her father travel to London with the others to petition the king, but the peaceful rebellion they hoped for soon ignites into violence, mayhem and treachery. Tilda's fight for a better life is only just beginning... This page-turning adventure sheds new light on a period of history which is covered in the KS3 curriculum, and will have readers gripped from start to finish.

Author : Salena Zito,Brad Todd
Publisher : Forum Books
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781524763701

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The Great Revolt by Salena Zito,Brad Todd Pdf

A CNN political analyst and a Republican strategist reframe the discussion of the “Trump voter” to answer the question, What’s next? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY FOREIGN AFFAIRS • “Unlike most retellings of the 2016 election, The Great Revolt provides a cohesive, non-wild-eyed argument about where the Republican Party could be headed.”—The Atlantic Political experts were wrong about the 2016 election and they continue to blow it, predicting the coming demise of the president without pausing to consider the durability of the winds that swept him into office. Salena Zito and Brad Todd have traveled over 27,000 miles of country roads to interview more than three hundred Trump voters in ten swing counties. What emerges is a portrait of a group of citizens who span job descriptions, income brackets, education levels, and party allegiances, united by their desire to be part of a movement larger than themselves. They want to put pragmatism before ideology and localism before globalism, and demand the respect they deserve from Washington. The 2016 election signaled a realignment in American politics that will outlast any one president. Zito and Todd reframe the discussion of the “Trump voter” to answer the question, What’s next?

Author : John William Kaye
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : India
ISBN : 8121201942

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A History of the Great Revolt by John William Kaye Pdf

The saga of 1857 revolt, the First War of Independence is written with painstaking care, and much toil and tears. It is a historian s account of chain of events and their cascading effects, baring the truth lying buried deep under the official positions and unofficial assertions. Recounting the events, the author even risked stirring up of controversy. John William Kaye had mountain of important papers in his possession related to Sepoy War, and to add, promised of further assistance from the surviving actors in the hot scene. The story of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 is, perhaps, the most signal illustration of our great national character ever yet recorded in the annals of our country. It was a vehement and inordinate self-assertion of the Englishman that produced the conflagration, it was the same vehement self-assertion of Indian people showed in the First War of Independence, the Indians cherish even to the date. It is an engrossing and heart-throbbing narration-a must read for the present day generation of Indians.

Author : Guy MacLean Rogers
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300262568

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For the Freedom of Zion by Guy MacLean Rogers Pdf

A definitive account of the great revolt of Jews against Rome and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple “A lucid yet terrifying account of the 'Jewish War'—the uprising of the Jews in 66 CE, and the Roman empire’s savage response, in a story that stretches from Rome to Jerusalem.”—John Ma, Columbia University This deeply researched and insightful book examines the causes, course, and historical significance of the Jews’ failed revolt against Rome from 66 to 74 CE, including the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple. Based on a comprehensive study of all the evidence and new statistical data, Guy Rogers argues that the Jewish rebels fought for their religious and political freedom and lost due to military mistakes. Rogers contends that while the Romans won the war, they lost the peace. When the Romans destroyed the Jerusalem Temple, they thought that they had defeated the God of Israel and eliminated Jews as a strategic threat to their rule. Instead, they ensured the Jews’ ultimate victory. After their defeat Jews turned to the written words of their God, and following those words led the Jews to recover their freedom in the promised land. The war's tragic outcome still shapes the worldview of billions of people today.

Author : Peter B. Levy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108422406

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The Great Uprising by Peter B. Levy Pdf

Offers a rich description of the impact of the 1960s race riots in the United States whose legacy still haunts the nation.

Author : Neil Faulkner
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445612171

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Apocalypse by Neil Faulkner Pdf

If you want a gripping, well-written, detailed story of insurrection against Rome, supported by splendid illustrations, start here.?The Sunday Telegraph

Author : Carleton Beals
Publisher : London ; New York [etc.] : Abelard-Schuman
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B4432314

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The Great Revolt and Its Leaders by Carleton Beals Pdf

Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1436580986

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The Great Revolt of 1381 (1906) by Charles Oman Pdf

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Author : David J. Silbey
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429942577

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The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China by David J. Silbey Pdf

A concise history of an uprising that took down a three-hundred-year-old dynasty and united the great powers. The year is 1900, and Western empires are locked in entanglements across the globe. The British are losing a bitter war against the Boers while the German kaiser is busy building a vast new navy. The United States is struggling to put down an insurgency in the South Pacific while the upstart imperialist Japan begins to make clear to neighboring Russia its territorial ambition. In China, a perennial pawn in the Great Game, a mysterious group of superstitious peasants is launching attacks on the Western powers they fear are corrupting their country. These ordinary Chinese—called Boxers by the West because of their martial arts showmanship—rise up seemingly out of nowhere. Foreshadowing the insurgencies of our recent past, they lack a centralized leadership and instead tap into latent nationalism and deep economic frustration to build their army. Many scholars brush off the Boxer Rebellion as an ill-conceived and easily defeated revolt, but in The Boxer Rebellion and the Great Game in China, the military historian David J. Silbey shows just how close the Boxers came to beating back the combined might of the imperial powers. Drawing on the diaries and letters of allied soldiers and diplomats, he paints a vivid portrait of the war. Although their cause ended just as quickly as it began, the Boxers would inspire Chinese nationalists—including a young Mao Zedong—for decades to come.

Author : Amit Kumar Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317386681

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Nineteenth-Century Colonialism and the Great Indian Revolt by Amit Kumar Gupta Pdf

This book examines the ruptured characteristics of colonialism in nineteenth-century India. It connects the British East India Company’s efforts at the bourgeoisation of India with the Revolt of 1857. The volume shows how the mutiny of Indian sepoys in the British Indian army became a popular uprising of peasants, artisans and discontented aristocrats against the British. Tracing the rationale and consequences of this conflict, the monograph highlights how newly introduced political, economic and agrarian policies as part of industrial Britain’s colonial policy wreaked havoc, resulting in high land revenue assessment and its harsh mode of collection, rural indebtedness, steady immiseration of peasants, widespread land alienation, destitution and suicide. Using rare archival sources, this book will be an important intervention in the study of nineteenth-century India, and will deeply interest scholars and researchers of modern Indian history and politics.

Author : Asoka Mehta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015014188323

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1857, the Great Rebellion by Asoka Mehta Pdf

Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1514264560

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The Great Revolt Of 1381 by Charles Oman Pdf

The Great Revolt of 1381 is a concise history of the Peasants' Revolt in England.

Author : Justine Firnhaber-Baker,Dirk Schoenaers
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134878871

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The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt by Justine Firnhaber-Baker,Dirk Schoenaers Pdf

The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt charts the history of medieval rebellion from Spain to Bohemia and from Italy to England, and includes chapters spanning the centuries between Imperial Rome and the Reformation. Drawing together an international group of leading scholars, chapters consider how uprisings worked, why they happened, whom they implicated, what they meant to contemporaries, and how we might understand them now. This collection builds upon new approaches to political history and communication, and provides new insights into revolt as integral to medieval political life. Drawing upon research from the social sciences and literary theory, the essays use revolts and their sources to explore questions of meaning and communication, identity and mobilization, the use of violence and the construction of power. The authors emphasize historical actors’ agency, but argue that access to these actors and their actions is mediated and often obscured by the texts that report them. Supported by an introduction and conclusion which survey the previous historiography of medieval revolt and envisage future directions in the field, The Routledge History Handbook of Medieval Revolt will be an essential reference for students and scholars of medieval political history.

Author : Robert B. Ross
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780803249417

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The Great Baseball Revolt by Robert B. Ross Pdf

The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the National League’s salary cap and “reserve rule,” which bound players for life to one particular team. Led by John Montgomery Ward, the Players League was a star-studded group that included most of the best players of the National League, who bolted not only to gain control of their wages but also to share ownership of the teams. Lasting only a year, the league impacted both the professional sports and the labor politics of athletes and nonathletes alike. The Great Baseball Revolt is a historic overview of the rise and fall of the Players League, which fielded teams in Boston, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. Though it marketed itself as a working-class league, the players were underfunded and had to turn to wealthy capitalists for much of their startup costs, including the new ballparks. It was in this context that the league intersected with the organized labor movement, and in many ways challenged by organized labor to be by and for the people. In its only season, the Players League outdrew the National League in fan attendance. But when the National League overinflated its numbers and profits, the Players League backers pulled out. The Great Baseball Revolt brings to life a compelling cast of characters and a mostly forgotten but important time in professional sports when labor politics affected both athletes and nonathletes. Purchase the audio edition.

Author : Shireen Moosvi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Delhi (India)
ISBN : 8189487442

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Facets of the Great Revolt 1857 by Shireen Moosvi Pdf

The Revolt of 1857 is being increasingly recognized as one of the major events of the nineteenth century, a turning point in the history of imperialism. The sheer scale of the uprising and its unique place in the narrative of anti-colonial resistance has prompted it to be interpreted on several occasions in the past - by nationalist leaders, historians and officials - and the literature on 1857 has grown in volume as the country observed its 150th anniversary. Recently, there has been an increasing awareness of the need to study, in detail, the ideas of the Rebels regarding their own cause, the varied composition of their ranks and the different understandings of their legacy. The essays in this volume have been written essentially in response to this need, by scholars who have sought to explore much hitherto neglected material on that event. Readers will find much that is refreshing and provocative in this volume, and will get glimpses into the minds of the Rebels who belonged to different areas and classes, as well as their organizational capabilities and the problems they confronted during the Great Revolt.