History of Revolutions

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  Reflections on the Revolution in France

  This abridgement of Reflections on the Revolution in France preserves the dynamism of Edmund Burke’s polemic while excising a number of detail-laden passages that may…

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  Spanish American Independence Movements: A History in Documents

  The independence movements of Spanish America in the early nineteenth century constitute one of the main junctures in Latin American history. Not only did they…

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  Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings

  This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the…

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  The Stamp Act of 1765: A History in Documents

  When Parliament sought to raise funds through the passing of the Stamp Act in 1765, they did not anticipate the protests and staunch opposition to…

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  The Trial of Charles I: A History in Documents

  In January 1649, after years of civil war, King Charles I stood trial in a specially convened English court on charges of treason, murder, and…

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  Rights of Man

  Advocating equality, meritocracy, and social responsibility in plain language, Thomas Paine galvanized tens of thousands of readers and changed the framework of political discourse with…

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  Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura

  Based on Leonora Sansay’s eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret History is a vivid account of race…

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  The Idea of Being Free

  Mary Hays (1759-1843) is often best remembered for her early revolutionary novels The Memoirs of Emma Courtney and The Victim of Prejudice. In this collection,…

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  The Communist Manifesto

  L.M. Findlay’s elegant new translation is a work of textual and historical scholarship. Few books have had as much of an impact on modern history…

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  Bug-Jargal

  Victor Hugo’s Bug-Jargal (1826) is one of the most important works of nineteenth-century colonial fiction, and quite possibly the most sustained novelistic treatment of the…

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  Common Sense

  When Common Sense was published in January 1776, it sold, by some estimates, a stunning 150,000 copies in the colonies. What exactly made this pamphlet…

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  Letters Written in France

  Helen Maria Williams was a poet, novelist, and radical thinker deeply immersed in the political struggles of the 1790s. Her Letters Written in France is…

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  The Vindications: The Rights of Men and The Rights of Woman

  The works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) ranged from the early Thoughts on the Education of Daughters to The Female Reader, a selection of texts for…