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“houman barekat”

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  • Arms and the People

    Popular Movements and the Military from the Paris Commune to the Arab Spring

    Edited by Mike Gonzalez, Houman Barekat ...
    This collection examines the relationship between mass movements and the military. Some argue that it is impossible to achieve and protect a revolution without the support of the army, but how can the support of the army be won?Arms and the People explores the impact of social extremes on the solidarity within the state’s military, and on the changing loyalties of these soldiers. The authors ... Read more

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  • Politics by Other Means

    Selected Criticism from Review 31

    Edited by Houman Barekat, Alison Hugill ...
    Launched in October 2011, the online literary journal Review 31 - www.review31.co.uk - enjoys a growing reputation as one of the most intelligent and thoughtful literary resources on the web. Publishing accessible and informed reviews of the most interesting new titles, Review 31 covers non-fiction books on politics, history, art & culture, as well as literary fiction. This volume is a collection ... Read more

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  • Revolutions

    A Very Short Introduction

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  • My House in Damascus

    An Inside View of the Syrian Crisis

    by Diana Darke ...
    How did Syria’s revolution reach this its current boiling point? And what’s next? This updated edition of My House in Damascus offers an insider’s view on these questions and the darker recesses of Syria’s history, politics, and society.Diana Darke, a fluent Arabic speaker who moved to Damascus in 2004 after decades of regular visits, details how the Assad regime, and its relationship to the ... Read more

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  • Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution

    The Remarkable True Story of the American Capitalists Who Financed the Russian Communists

    by Antony Cyril Sutton ...
    Why did the 1917 American Red Cross Mission to Russia include more financiers than medical doctors? Rather than caring for the victims of war and revolution, its members seemed more intent on negotiating contracts with the Kerensky government, and subsequently the Bolshevik regime.In a courageous investigation, Antony Sutton establishes tangible historical links between US capitalists and Russian ... Read more

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  • A City in Wartime – Dublin 1914–1918

    The Easter Rising 1916

    by Pádraig Yeates ...
    This fascinating history looks at how the lives of ordinary Dubliners were affected by these three major events Why did so many working-class Dublin men join the British Army? How did the city's 92,000 Protestants fare in this turbulent time? Dubliners fought on both sides in the Easter Rising. What were their motivations? How did Sinn Féin and the Catholic Church marginalise Labour in the battle ... Read more

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  • Ancien Regime and the Revolution

    by Alexis de Tocqueville ...
    Translated by Gerald Bevan ...
    The Ancien Régime and the Revolution is a comparison of revolutionary France and the despotic rule it toppled. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59) is an objective observer of both periods – providing a merciless critique of the ancien régime, with its venality, oppression and inequality, yet acknowledging the reforms introduced under Louis XVI, and claiming that the post-Revolution state was in many ... Read more

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  • A Short History of the Irish Revolution, 1912 to 1927

    From the Ulster Crisis to the formation of the Irish Free State

    by Richard Killeen ...
    The years of the Irish revolution were the crucible of modern Ireland. Richard Killeen's authoritative survey of the period is an ideal introduction to this tumultuous time. The Irish revolution began with the Ulster crisis of 1912 followed by the Irish Nationalist Party securing the passage of the Home Rule Act in 1914. By then, however, the Great War had broken out: the Act was suspended for the ... Read more

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  • The Cyprus Conspiracy

    America, Espionage and the Turkish Invasion

    by Brendan O'Malley, Ian Craig ...
    In 1974 the Greek colonels ousted the Greek-Cypriot leader of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, and Turkey retaliated by invading and seizing a third of the island. Cyprus remains split in two, like Berlin before the wall came down, bristling with troops and spying bases, and permanently policed by the United Nations. Henry Kissinger claimed he could do nothing to stop the coup because of the Watergate ... Read more

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  • A City in Turmoil – Dublin 1919–1921

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    Dublin was the cockpit of the Irish Revolution. It was in the capital that Dáil Éireann convened and built an alternative government to challenge the authority of Dublin Castle; it was where the munitions strike that crippled the British war effort in 1920 began and it was where rival intelligence organisations played out their deadly game of cat and mouse. But it was also a city where ambushes ... Read more

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  • Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Thomas Paine was the first international revolutionary. His Common Sense was the most widely read pamphlet of the American Revolution, while his Rights of Man sent out a clarion call for revolution throughout the world. This collection brings together Paine's most powerful political writings in the first fully annotated edition of these works. - ;`An army of principles will penetrate where an army ... Read more

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