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Author : Mortimer Jerome Adler,Wayne Moquin
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036423239
Essays and Speeches of the political figures in Colonial America.
Author : James Bertin Webster,A. Adu Boahen,Michael Tidy
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015035304222
Author : William Nester
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781597976749
The creation of American diplomacy and power as an art
Author : David James Smith
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0316122246
Nelson Mandela is well-known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman--the gray-haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president in South Africa. But Nelson Mandela was not always elderly or benign. And, in YOUNG MANDELA, award-winning journalist and author David James Smith takes us deep into the heart of racist South Africa to paint a portrait of the Mandela that many have forgotten: the committed revolutionary who left his family behind to live on the run, adopting false names and disguises and organizing the first strikes to overthrow the apartheid state. YOUNG MANDELA lifts the curtain on an icon's first steps to greatness.
Author : Mary Beth Norton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804172462
From one of our most acclaimed and original colonial historians, a groundbreaking book tracing the critical "long year" of 1774 and the revolutionary change that took place from the Boston Tea Party and the First Continental Congress to the Battles of Lexington and Concord. A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR In this masterly work of history, the culmination of more than four decades of research and thought, Mary Beth Norton looks at the sixteen months leading up to the clashes at Lexington and Concord in mid-April 1775. This was the critical, and often overlooked, period when colonists traditionally loyal to King George III began their discordant “discussions” that led them to their acceptance of the inevitability of war against the British Empire. Drawing extensively on pamphlets, newspapers, and personal correspondence, Norton reconstructs colonial political discourse as it took place throughout 1774. Late in the year, conservatives mounted a vigorous campaign criticizing the First Continental Congress. But by then it was too late. In early 1775, colonial governors informed officials in London that they were unable to thwart the increasing power of local committees and their allied provincial congresses. Although the Declaration of Independence would not be formally adopted until July 1776, Americans had in effect “declared independence ” even before the outbreak of war in April 1775 by obeying the decrees of the provincial governments they had elected rather than colonial officials appointed by the king. Norton captures the tension and drama of this pivotal year and foundational moment in American history and brings it to life as no other historian has done before.
Author : Madame Wei Tao Ming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494055724
This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.
Author : Andrew Grant Jackson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781466864979
A lively chronicle of the year that shaped popular music forever! Fifty years ago, friendly rivalry between musicians turned 1965 into the year rock evolved into the premier art form of its time and accelerated the drive for personal freedom throughout the Western world. The Beatles made their first artistic statement with Rubber Soul. Bob Dylan released "Like a Rolling Stone, arguably the greatest song of all time, and went electric at the Newport Folk Festival. The Rolling Stones's "Satisfaction" catapulted the band to world-wide success. New genres such as funk, psychedelia, folk rock, proto-punk, and baroque pop were born. Soul music became a prime force of desegregation as Motown crossed over from the R&B charts to the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Country music reached new heights with Nashville and the Bakersfield sound. Musicians raced to innovate sonically and lyrically against the backdrop of seismic cultural shifts wrought by the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, psychedelics, the Pill, long hair for men, and designer Mary Quant’s introduction of the miniskirt. In 1965, Andrew Grant Jackson combines fascinating and often surprising personal stories with a panoramic historical narrative.
Author : Josef V. Polisensky
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438416267
The Prague Uprising of 1848 was part of the powerful series of revolutions that shook practically the entire European Continent as the middle classes and urban and rural workers pressed against the rule of aristocrats and monarchs. Czech Marxist historian Josef Polisensky analyzes the general turmoil of revolutionary thought and action in Europe and then focuses on the specific case of the Prague Uprising. By using previously untouched sources—the records of hundreds of noble houses that came under the control of the Czech Archival Administration after World War II—Polisensky is able to show how those of the old social establishment fought the participants in the Uprising and temporarily restored the rule of the aristocracy. With an excellent sense for the dramatic and a thorough knowledge of place, Polisensky tells us who fought and died on the streets of Prague. With the conceptual framework of class conflict and a broad perspective on European events, he proposes reasons for the failure of the Prague Uprising in contrast to other successful revolutions. Aristocrats and the Crowd is the last of Polisensky's trilogy of studies on Czech society and revolution. In The Thirty Years' War and the European Crisis of the Seventeenth Century and Napoleon and the Heart of Europe, Polisensky explored the effects of other European conflicts on Czech society. Aristocrats and the Crowd describes, in his words, “the revolutionary springtime which eventually arrived, full of twists, in Bohemia itself.” Frederick Snider is Assistant Professor of History at the Ohio State University. Josef Polisensky is Director of the Center for Ibero-American Studies at Charles University, Prague.
Author : Soumay Tcheng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Politicians
ISBN : UOM:39015012851161
Reminiscences of the early years of the wife of the Chinese ambassador, Yu-hsiu Wei, to the United States.
Author : Sinéad McCoole
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0299195007
"Constance Markievicz had some advice for women activists: 'Leave your jewels in the bank, and buy a revolver.' Most of the women who became involved in the fight for Ireland's freedom did not have jewels to swap for guns, but the change in their circumstances and lives would be just as radical. Setting aside their roles as dutiful daughters, wives, and mothers, they became dispatch carriers, gunrunners, spies. Guns in hand, they fought alongside their male comrades in arms, displaying a courage and resolution that astonished and sometimes offended public opinion of the time." "What they were doing was considered 'unladylike and disreputable' - a notion that explains why their stories became hidden histories; in many cases families were unaware that their great-aunts and grannies had prison records." "But the evidence is there in their prison diaries and autograph books, in the graffiti that remain on the walls of Kilmainham Gaol, and in the archive lists of women prisoners of 1916, the War of Independence, and the Civil War. From this wealth of material and interviews with survivors, Sinead McCoole has produced a portrait of the girls and women whose indomitable spirit overcame hunger strikes, harsh prison conditions, and the tragedy of huge personal loss."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Eric Baschet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Russia
ISBN : IND:30000004408807
Author : Carine Lounissi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319752891
This book explores Thomas Paine's French decade, from the publication of the first part of Rights of Man in the spring of 1791 to his return trip to the United States in the fall of 1802. It examines Paine's multifarious activities during this period as a thinker, writer, member of the French Convention, lobbyist, adviser to French governments, officious diplomat and propagandist. Using previously neglected sources and archival material, Carine Lounissi demonstrates both how his republicanism was challenged, bolstered and altered by this French experience, and how his positions at key moments of the history of the French experiment forced major participants in the Revolution to defend or question the kind of regime or of republic they wished to set up. As a member of the Lafayette circle when writing the manuscript of Rights of Man, of the Girondin constellation in the Convention, one of the few democrats who defended universal suffrage after Thermidor, and as a member of the Constitutional Circle which promoted a kind of republic which did not match his ideas, Paine baffled his contemporaries and still puzzles the present-day scholar. This book intends to offer a new perspective on Paine, and on how this major agent of revolutions contributed to the debate on the French Revolution both in France and outside France.
Author : Richard Haese
Publisher : Allen Lane
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Art, Australian
ISBN : 0713913622
Reaction & progress; politics in painting; democracy & modernism; liberalism & anarchism; dissent & division; communism & culture; the season in Hell; patronage & professionalism; cultural reconstruction; the radical diaspora; Contains references to the Angry Penguins.
Author : Kevin Phillips
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780143123996
A groundbreaking account of the American Revolution—from the bestselling author of American Dynasty In this major new work, iconoclastic historian and political chronicler Kevin Phillips upends the conventional reading of the American Revolution by debunking the myth that 1776 was the struggle’s watershed year. Focusing on the great battles and events of 1775, Phillips surveys the political climate, economic structures, and military preparations of the crucial year that was the harbinger of revolution, tackling the eighteenth century with the same skill and perception he has shown in analyzing contemporary politics and economics. The result is a dramatic account brimming with original insights about the country we eventually became.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010213986
