Tag: Revolution

Free Download Tea: Consumption, Politics, and Revolution, 1773-1776 by James R. Fichter
English | December 15th, 2023 | ISBN: 1501773216 | 402 pages | True EPUB | 39.35 MB
In Tea, James R. Fichter reveals that despite the so-called Boston Tea Party in 1773, two large shipments of tea from the East India Company survived and were ultimately drunk in North America. Their survival shaped the politics of the years ahead, impeded efforts to reimburse the company for the tea lost in Boston Harbor, and hinted at the enduring potency of consumerism in revolutionary politics.

Free Download Atef Shahat Said, "Revolution Squared: Tahrir, Political Possibilities, and Counterrevolution in Egypt"
English | ISBN: 1478025506 | 2023 | 360 pages | PDF | 4 MB
In Revolution Squared Atef Shahat Said examines the 2011 Egyptian Revolution to trace the expansive range of liberatory possibilities and containment at the heart of every revolution. Drawing on historical analysis and his own participation in the revolution, Said outlines the importance of Tahrir Square and other physical spaces as well as the role of social media and digital spaces. He develops the notion of lived contingency-the ways revolutionary actors practice and experience the revolution in terms of the actions they do or do not take-to show how Egyptians made sense of what was possible during the revolution. Said charts the lived contingencies of Egyptian revolutionaries from the decade prior to the revolution’s outbreak to its peak and the so-called transition to democracy to the 2013 military coup into the present. Contrary to retrospective accounts and counterrevolutionary thought, Said argues that the Egyptian Revolution was not doomed to defeat. Rather, he demonstrates that Egyptians did not fully grasp their immense clout and that limited reformist demands reduced the revolution’s potential for transformation.

Free Download Clare Debenham, "Marie Stopes’ Sexual Revolution and the Birth Control Movement"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319716638 | PDF | pages: 169 | 2.8 mb
This book examines the life, work and contraversial achievements of Marie Stopes, author and pioneer of the birth control movement in the interwar period. As the centenary of the ground-breaking publication of Married Love approaches, this study traces and reassesses Marie’s remarkable achievements, considering the literary, scientific and political themes of her life’s work. Clare Debenham analyses how Stope’s personal life led her to turn away from palaeobotany to concentrate on transforming the country’s sexual relationships by writing Married Love. Utilising extensive unpublished archive research, biographies, letters, and interviews with her friends and relatives, Debenham demonstrates that Stopes’s work on sexual relationships has overshadowed her considerable achievements including her scientific career as a paleaobotantist, her literary success in the interwar period, and her work, with help from suffragists, in establishing the first British birth control clinic.

Free Download Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel, "From Arcadia to Revolution: The Neapolitan Monitor and Other Writings (Volume 67) "
English | ISBN: 0866986162 | 2019 | 246 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel was a poet, a political writer, a journalist, and a politician. She was the editor, and virtually the only writer of the Monitore Napoletano (Neapolitan Monitor), the journal in which she recorded the events and debates that took place in the short-lived Neapolitan Jacobin Republic of 1799. She sought to influence both government policy and public opinion. As a political analyst she also put forward with this journal one of the first analyses ever of popular culture and its political implications, and confronted the challenge of trying to implement a revolutionary political project in a situation of abject poverty intertwined with a deeply conservative populist mind-set.

Free Download Emily J. Kirk, "Cuba’s Gay Revolution: Normalizing Sexual Diversity Through a Health-Based Approach "
English | ISBN: 149855766X | 2017 | 182 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Cuba’s Gay Revolution explores the unique health-based approach that was employed in Cuba to dramatically change attitudes and policies regarding sexual diversity (LGBTQ) since 1959. It examines leaders in the process to normalize sexual diversity, such as the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) and the National Center of Sexual Education (CENESEX). This book is written for scholars interested in LGBTQ issues, Cuba, and Latin America.

Free Download Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service
English | November 9th, 2023 | ISBN: 1529065828 | 496 pages | True EPUB | 7.27 MB
‘A terrific book about a terrifying subject by the best historian of Russia working today’ – Michael Burleigh, author of The Third Reich

Free Download Ayelet Brinn, "A Revolution in Type: Gender and the Making of the American Yiddish Press"
English | ISBN: 147981766X | 2023 | 328 pages | PDF | 15 MB
A fascinating glimpse into the complex and often unexpected ways that women and ideas about women shaped widely read Jewish newspapers

Free Download Michael Ignatieff, "The Rights Revolution"
English | 2000 | pages: 172 | ISBN: 0887846564 | EPUB | 1,8 mb
"Since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, rights have become the dominant language of the public good around the globe. This revolution is being watched around the world. Are group rights to land and language jeopardizing individual rights? When everyone asserts their rights, what happens to responsibilities? Michael Ignatieff confronts these questions head-on in The Rights Revolution, defending the supposed individualism of rights language against all

Free Download Robert Gardiner – Navies and the American Revolution 1775-1783 (Chatham Pictorial Histories)
Naval Institute Press | 1996 | ISBN: 155750623X | English | 200 pages | PDF | 123.08 MB

Free Download Roger Hutchinson, "Martyrs: Glendale and the Revolution in Skye"
English | 2016 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1780273223 | EPUB | 2,5 mb
In the 1830s and 1840s the district of Glendale on the island of Skye was swamped by immigrants cleared from other north Skye estates. The resultant overcrowding and overuse of land caused simmering discontent – not against the incomers, but against the landowners, who regarded their tenants as no more than chattels. This book is a definitive account of what happened when the powder-keg erupted and a full-scale land-war ensued. Pitched battles with police, factors and bailiffs, military intervention, arrests, trials, imprisonment and the personal intervention of the Prime Minister were to have huge consequences for crofters all over the Highlands, who, ultimately, were the victors. At the heart of the rising was a man named John MacPherson of Lower Milovaig in Glendale, a courageous, charismatic and articulate crofter who was twice imprisoned for leading a rebellion against a system which kept all but the wealthiest in a state of bitter servitude. MacPherson quickly became known as ‘the Glendale Martyr’. Martyrs tells the story of John MacPherson, his comrades, his allies, his enemies and his final success.