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Using eyewitness accounts, reportage photography, and contemporary paintings to capture the spirit of revolution, Mark Almond examines the causes, events, and often colossal repercussions of each revolution. The book opens with a discussion of all aspects of revolution in general and looks at the ideologies and personalities of the great revolutionaries (and in their quarrels with one another), the romance and language of revolution, and its terrible human cost, before looking in turn at each of the great revolutions that have defined their time. Taking a unique, themed approach to history, Revolution is a compelling read for anyone interested in our turbulent past.
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Mark Almond is Lecturer in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford and Fellow of the Institute for European Defence and Strategic Studies, London.
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This eye-catching album from a reputable British historian should inspire students to investigate further whatever particular revolution transfixes them. Almond sets forth generic qualities of political revolutions, including causes, tensions between radicalization and reaction, leaders, ideological underpinnings, and ramifications for neighboring countries. Powerful propagandistic images buttress Almond's typology, which then segues into a narrative history that begins with the Dutch rebellion against the Spanish Hapsburgs, the English Glorious Revolution, and the mother of all modern revolutions, the great French Revolution. During the first half of the nineteenth century, revolutions developed as liberal and nationalistic outbursts; as examples of these, Almond profiles the fizzled European revolutions of 1848. Disappointment with those failures changed the next 100 years' worth of revolutions into somewhat more planned rather than purely spontaneous events, guided by Leninist-type communist parties whose efforts were emulated by fascist ones. Almond affords a robust introduction to the bundle of social instability, injustice, utopian overreaching, ghastly brutality, and romantic exhilaration characteristic of most revolutions. Gilbert Taylor
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- PublisherDe Agostini
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1899883746
- ISBN 13 9781899883745
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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