This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution. Zapata quickly rose from his position as a peasant leader in a village seeking ...(展开全部)

Festivals and the French Revolution--the subject conjures up visions of goddesses of Liberty, strange celebrations of Reason, and the oddly pretentious cult of the Supreme Being. Every history of the period includes some mention of festivals, although most historians have been content either to ridicule them as ineffectual or to bemoan them as repugnant examples of a sterile, o...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) is familiar to readers as the author of Democracy in America, the most-quoted book written about the United States. The Old Regime and the Revolution is Tocqueville's great meditation on the origins and meanings of the French Revolution. One of the most profound and influential studies of this pivotal event, it remains a relevant and stimulatin...(展开全部)

哈里•狄金森，爱丁堡大学荣休教授、荣誉院士，自1980-2006年一直担任理查德•洛奇英国史讲席教授；曾经担任爱丁堡大学历史学系主任，爱丁堡大学研究生委员会主席。他是英国高等教育学会会员，两次担任英国皇家历史学会副主席（Vice-President）以及英国历史学会常务副主席，英国艺术和人文研究委员会历史研究组主席。研究领域是18世纪英国政治史，主要关注议会政治、大众政治和政治思想史，也研究这一时期的军事和海军史。其代表作有：《英国激进主义与法国大革命1789-1815》（British Radicalism and the French Revolution 1789-1815）、《沃尔波尔与辉格党的优势》（Walpole and the Whig Supremacy, London, 1973)）、《财产与自由》（Liberty and Prop...(展开全部)

Joseph W. Esherick was born in Marin County, north of San Francisco, in 1942 and studied Chinese history at Harvard (B.A., 1964, summa cum laude) and UC Berkeley (Ph.D., 1971). He taught at the University of Oregon from 1971 to 1990, when he moved to the University of California at San Diego, where he is now a Distinguished Professor in the History Department. Having participat...(展开全部)

“Roll over Derrida: Literature and Revolution is back in print. Nothing in the postmodern canon comes close to the intellectual grandeur of Trotsky’s vision of art and literature in an age of revolution, or his extraordinary meditations on the popular ownership of culture.”—Mike Davis “Re-reading Trotsky on literature 40 years later is a delight.”—Tariq Ali Leon Trotsky p...(展开全部)

埃里克·纳尔逊（Eric Nelson）哈佛大学政府学院罗伯特·M.贝伦讲席教授。研究领域集中于欧美现代早期政治思想史及其在当代政治理论中的应用，代表作有《希伯来共和国：欧洲政治思想的转变及其犹太根源》（The Hebrew Republic: Jewish Sources and the Transformation of European Political Thought, 2010）；《共和思想中的希腊传统》（The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought, 2004）。

Generations of students have been taught that the American Revolution was a revolt against royal tyranny. In this revisionist account, Eric Nelson argues that a great many of our "founding fathers" saw themselves as rebels against the British Parliament, not the Crown. The Royalist Revolution interprets the patriot campaign of the 1770s as an insurrection in favor of royal powe...(展开全部)

The dramatic pictures record with brutal accuracy the panorama of everyday life crowded markets; stark, dusty landscapes; an execution wall a unique record that includes some of the most famous and powerful images by this great photographer.