Revolutioner, opstand og oprør

This book offers a ten-year perspective on ongoing and evolving practices of digital activism across the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on interviews and ethnographic evidence collected between 2012 and 2022. It examines the shifting narrative around digital activism in the region, from the wake of the 2011 uprisings to the 2019 series of protests coined 'the second wave of the Arab Spring'. It considers how media activists navigate the transition from the emergent to the mainstream in a climate of contentious politics, following the civil mobilisations of the pro-revolutionary youths in Tunisia, Egypt, and Lebanon. It outlines the particularities of these three different political contexts and media environments, featuring case studies of the Tunisian blogosphere, online campaigning in the Egyptian elections and interviews with social media activists. In light of this empirical evidence, the book offers a critique of the increasing prevalence of a security perspective through which online activism has been viewed and its deleterious effect on digital political engagement in the region.

This book looks at Chinäs May Fourth Movement and how it has been contextualized in modern Chinese history. Tracing the roots of the movement and of modern Chinese literary and intellectual traditions it analyses how it transformed ideas, culture and social practices in the country.

--Benditos seamos los mexicanos, de derrota en derrota hemos abierto las puertas de la victoria definitiva. Se inicia la era de la razaon, nuestro Siglo de las Luces. --AY por cuaanto tiempo? --preguntao Guillermo Prieto, el airecillo ramplaon de la tarde le sacudaia la cabellera leonada. Ignacio Ramairez, llamado por sus amigos y enemigos El Nigromante, dudao; durante un instante se mesao la dispareja barba de chivo. Prieto no lo dejao seguir pensando: --Perdaon por mi ataque de pesimismo. AAcaso importa? Un segundo de fulgor, diez minutos, dos aanos... Y luego a volver a empezar. ANo es ese el destino de un pueblo sabio?, Apelear eternamente? En tan saolo 15 aanos Maexico se vio sacudido por la Revoluciaon de Ayutla, que acabaraia con la dictadura de Santa Anna; la batalla por la Constituciaon de 1857, el golpe militar y la Guerra de Reforma; la intervenciaon anglo-franco-espaanola, la agresiaon militar francesa y la guerra de guerrillas contra el imperio de Maximiliano. Los protagonistas de la resistencia, de la repaublica armada, fueron una generaciaon de ciudadanos endiabladamente inteligentes, agudos, esforzados, laboriosos; personajes terriblemente celosos de su independencia y espairitu craitico, honestos hasta la absoluta pobreza. Los liberales puros, los llamados rojos. Una daecada de exhaustiva investigaciaon culmina en esta obra de tres tomos en la que Paco Ignacio Taibo II consigue retratar las simpataias y enemistades, los errores y las genialidades de uno de los periodos maas decisivos y fundacionales de nuestra historia nacional: los aanos que van de 1854 a 1867. Un pasado que ilumina el presente.

A bold new history of the global class war

A remarkable account of the only large-scale attempt in history to create a democratic, non-authoritarian, fullysocialist society.

"Between 1643 and 1645, Basing House in Hampshire, England, was besieged three times. Its owner, the Marquess of Winchester, reportedly had the motto Love loyalty etched into the windows. Winchester refused all terms of surrender. As royalist strongholds crumbled around the country, the Winchesters--and Basing House--stood firm. 'Loyalty House', as it was known, became the king's principal garrison. But the drum of the parliamentary army beat ever louder--and closer--and in October 1645, Oliver Cromwell rolled in the heavy guns. The Siege of Loyalty House tells the story of these dramatic events, not only recounting the sallies and skirmishes, but the experiences of the men, women, and children caught in the crossfire"--

The Communist Manifesto is recognised as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle and the problems of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production.

Thomas Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common folk in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government. It was published anonymously in 1776 at the start of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation.

Examines visual representations of and by persons defined as Creole, the term applied to white, Black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century.

An authoritative history of the French nation that can be read for novelistic pleasure, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Discovery of France and Parisians.