Routledge Library Editions: Revolution
About the Book Series
This collection gathers together 31 previously out-of-print titles focusing on revolution – the political, economic, military and social aspects of the overthrow of state power. Ranging from nineteenth-century France to late-twentieth-century Caribbean, these books analyse the forms of revolt and the aftermaths of revolution, examining the types of government that result and the reactions of international opinion.
Neither War Nor Peace: The Struggle for Power in the Post-War World
1st Edition
By Hugh Seton-Watson
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1960, is an analysis of the turbulent and revolutionary world politics of the 15 years following the Second World War. It examines the main themes of revolutionary forces, totalitarianism and imperialism, including, in detail, the social questions that lie behind them....
Profit and Poverty in Rural Vietnam: Winners and Losers of a Dismantled Revolution
1st Edition
By Rita Liljeström, Eva Lindskog, Nguyen Van Ang, Vuong Xuan Tinh
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1998, studies the social impact of Doi Moi, a policy of economic renovation, on the living conditions in state forest enterprises and agricultural cooperatives in northern Vietnam. It compares the authors’ findings with those of 1987, before the formal adoption of the ...
Revolution and Reaction: 1848 and the Second French Republic
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Price
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1975, examines the events of the French Second Republic, the themes of protest and repression in particular. It analyses how popular discontent is mobilised and becomes political protest and revolution, and how the machinery of government operates in a crisis situation....
Revolutionary Afghanistan: A Reappraisal
1st Edition
By Beverley Male
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1982, examines the reality of the so-called revolution in Afghanistan. It focuses on the career of Hafizullah Amin, considered in the West as a near-genocidal mass murderer, intent on establishing a personal fiefdom in Afghanistan. However, this book argues that he was...
Revolutions and Peace Treaties 1917–1920
1st Edition
By Gerhard Schulz
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1972, is an analysis of popular movements, political convulsions and settlements that led to and resulted from the climax of the First World War and its aftermath. It considers the aims, achievements and failures of both the Allied and Central Powers, the major ...
Seven Women Against the World
1st Edition
By Margaret Goldsmith
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1935, examines the lives of seven revolutionary women: Charlotte Corday, Théroigne de Méricourt, Flora Tristan, Louise Michel, Vera Figner, Emma Goldman and Rosa Luxemburg. The revolutionary impulses of these remarkable women emerge as the natural result of the ...
Studies in Revolution
1st Edition
By Edward Hallett Carr
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1962, is a collection of essays on the ideological origins of the European revolutionary movement. The first essay in the collection is devoted to Saint-Simon who, though not a revolutionary in the ordinary sense, was the begetter of the many ideas which became ...
The Body and the French Revolution: Sex, Class and Political Culture
1st Edition
By Dorinda Outram
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes to the event. It was not simply a series of events with worldwide repercussions, but also represented the foundation of the middle-class domination of social, ...
The Challenge Road: Women and the Eritrean Revolution
1st Edition
By Amrit Wilson
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1991, analyses the role of women in the Eritrean struggle for independence. Emerging from a semi-feudal world, these women – peasants and pastoralists, student activists and workers from the cities – participated fully in the Eritrean revolution. They have organized ...
The Cuban Revolution and Latin America
1st Edition
By Boris Goldenberg
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1965, is a scrupulously fair study of the origins and evolution of Castroism and an assessment of the impact of the Cuban revolution and of Castro’s subsequent domestic and foreign policies on the rest of Latin America. In this analysis it takes into account the great ...
The Cyprus Revolt: An Account of the Struggle for Union with Greece
1st Edition
By Nancy Crawshaw
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1978, examines the local and international aspects of the struggle for Greek union with Cyprus – Enosis. The revolt against the British colonial power was a struggle in which guerrilla warfare, political action and international diplomacy were integrated to bring about...
The International Crisis in the Caribbean
1st Edition
By Anthony Payne
August 15, 2023
This book, first published in 1984, presents a comprehensive survey of the forces of change that operate in the Caribbean, an area of political instability at the time. It examines the internal politics of the different countries and considers the roles of the United States, Cuba, the European and ...