From the American Revolution to the current war in Ukraine, a fundamental force in world politics has been revolutionary nationalism. This pathbreaking book examines revolutions in southern ...
The Bastille looms large in the revolutionary imagination. When Paris crowds seized the French king’s fortress in July 1789, they unwittingly created a model for every subsequent upheaval. From the ...
A new history by Christopher Clark on the 1848 revolutions. In the final pages of Revolutionary Spring, the historian Christopher Clark writes that “the revolutions of 1848 seemed as old as ancient ...
In “Age of Revolutions,” the CNN host promises to shed light on four centuries of social upheavals and to offer insights on the global fractures of the present. A scene from the Glorious Revolution of ...
Indeed, in her book On Revolution, political philosopher Hannah Arendt went so far as to assert that “neither the spirit of [the American Revolution] nor the thoughtful and erudite political theories ...
The years immediately following the First World War are said to have been the arena for a “great international revolutionary wave”. If we are to believe some commentators, it was the most serious ...
Today, we are witnessing another military revolution, driven not by muskets but by machines. First-person view drones are changing the calculus of battle, placing surveillance and precision strikes in ...