Author: Robert L. Blackburn
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532022794
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Charley Black is relatively contentfor a sixty-three-year-old reclusive revolutionary stuck in Frankfort, Kentucky. With his wife, house, friends, and money now gone, Charley has nothing to lose as he carries out his personal mission to change the world. While holding down a state job, Charley has been conducting a one-man revolution of reason in virtual anonymityor so he thinks. Without his knowledge, the government has suddenly developed an unnatural interest in the program of the mind he has designed to return an allegedly insane world to sanity. Unfortunately, those who want Charleys program of the mind are not interested in his future revolution or his welfare. After Charley learns the government will go to any length to attain what they want, he becomes immersed in a life-and-death struggle to survive as he attempts to discern whom he can trust and who wants to take him down. In this thrilling tale, a rogue revolutionist is suddenly thrust into the battle of his life after the government decides they want to keep secret his computer program of the human mind.
The Rogue Revolutionist
Author: Robert L. Blackburn
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532022794
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Charley Black is relatively contentfor a sixty-three-year-old reclusive revolutionary stuck in Frankfort, Kentucky. With his wife, house, friends, and money now gone, Charley has nothing to lose as he carries out his personal mission to change the world. While holding down a state job, Charley has been conducting a one-man revolution of reason in virtual anonymityor so he thinks. Without his knowledge, the government has suddenly developed an unnatural interest in the program of the mind he has designed to return an allegedly insane world to sanity. Unfortunately, those who want Charleys program of the mind are not interested in his future revolution or his welfare. After Charley learns the government will go to any length to attain what they want, he becomes immersed in a life-and-death struggle to survive as he attempts to discern whom he can trust and who wants to take him down. In this thrilling tale, a rogue revolutionist is suddenly thrust into the battle of his life after the government decides they want to keep secret his computer program of the human mind.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532022794
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
Charley Black is relatively contentfor a sixty-three-year-old reclusive revolutionary stuck in Frankfort, Kentucky. With his wife, house, friends, and money now gone, Charley has nothing to lose as he carries out his personal mission to change the world. While holding down a state job, Charley has been conducting a one-man revolution of reason in virtual anonymityor so he thinks. Without his knowledge, the government has suddenly developed an unnatural interest in the program of the mind he has designed to return an allegedly insane world to sanity. Unfortunately, those who want Charleys program of the mind are not interested in his future revolution or his welfare. After Charley learns the government will go to any length to attain what they want, he becomes immersed in a life-and-death struggle to survive as he attempts to discern whom he can trust and who wants to take him down. In this thrilling tale, a rogue revolutionist is suddenly thrust into the battle of his life after the government decides they want to keep secret his computer program of the human mind.
Rogue Revolutionaries
Author: Vanessa Mongey
Publisher: Early American Studies
ISBN: 0812252551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In Rogue Revolutionaries, Vanessa Mongey revives a lost and fleeting world of cosmopolitan radicalism through the stories of "foreigners of desperate fortune" who sought to ignite revolutions and create their own independent states. Their quest for recognition clashed with the growing power of nation-states and a new international order.
Publisher: Early American Studies
ISBN: 0812252551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
In Rogue Revolutionaries, Vanessa Mongey revives a lost and fleeting world of cosmopolitan radicalism through the stories of "foreigners of desperate fortune" who sought to ignite revolutions and create their own independent states. Their quest for recognition clashed with the growing power of nation-states and a new international order.
The Revolutionists
Author: Lauren Gunderson
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822237687
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It's a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822237687
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Four beautiful, badass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the extremist insanity in 1793 Paris. This grand and dream-tweaked comedy is about violence and legacy, art and activism, feminism and terrorism, compatriots and chosen sisters, and how we actually go about changing the world. It's a true story. Or total fiction. Or a play about a play. Or a raucous resurrection…that ends in a song and a scaffold.
The Coming Revolution
Author: Janet Smith
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1431410373
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
What do the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) stand for? How do they propose to nationalize mines, banks, and land? Is Julius Malema, the founder of the EFF, equipped to legislate or to lead? These tough questions are asked in The Coming Revolution: Julius Malema and the Fight for Economic Freedom. Malema is tackled on his tax woes and on the "tenderpreneur" label by Janet Smith, an executive editor of the Star. Smith asks Malema to explain, contextualize, and motivate his political agenda and the genesis of the new party. Hard-hitting and informative, The Coming Revolution disrupts the dominant South African political narrative.
Publisher: Jacana Media
ISBN: 1431410373
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
What do the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) stand for? How do they propose to nationalize mines, banks, and land? Is Julius Malema, the founder of the EFF, equipped to legislate or to lead? These tough questions are asked in The Coming Revolution: Julius Malema and the Fight for Economic Freedom. Malema is tackled on his tax woes and on the "tenderpreneur" label by Janet Smith, an executive editor of the Star. Smith asks Malema to explain, contextualize, and motivate his political agenda and the genesis of the new party. Hard-hitting and informative, The Coming Revolution disrupts the dominant South African political narrative.
“The” French Revolution
Author: Hippolyte Taine
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Fascism and Social Revolution
Author: R. Palme Dutt
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434405729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434405729
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Red Star
Author: Alexander Bogdanov
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025301350X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
“An Earth-man’s journey to the planet Mars, where he is treated to a wondrous vision of a communist future, complete with flying cars and 3D color movies.” —Wonders & Marvels A communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets is the subject of this arresting science fiction novel by Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), one of the early organizers and prophets of the Russian Bolshevik party. The red star is Mars, but it is also the dream set to paper of the society that could emerge on earth after the dual victory of the socialist and scientific-technical revolutions. While portraying a harmonious and rational socialist society, Bogdanov sketches out the problems that will face industrialized nations, whether socialist or capitalist. “[A] surprisingly moving story.” —The New Yorker “The contemporary reader will marvel at [Bogdanov’s] foresight: nuclear fusion and propulsion, atomic weaponry and fallout, computers, blood transfusions, and (almost) unisexuality.” —Choice “Bogdanov’s novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it.” —Slavic Review
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025301350X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
“An Earth-man’s journey to the planet Mars, where he is treated to a wondrous vision of a communist future, complete with flying cars and 3D color movies.” —Wonders & Marvels A communist society on Mars, the Russian revolution, and class struggle on two planets is the subject of this arresting science fiction novel by Alexander Bogdanov (1873–1928), one of the early organizers and prophets of the Russian Bolshevik party. The red star is Mars, but it is also the dream set to paper of the society that could emerge on earth after the dual victory of the socialist and scientific-technical revolutions. While portraying a harmonious and rational socialist society, Bogdanov sketches out the problems that will face industrialized nations, whether socialist or capitalist. “[A] surprisingly moving story.” —The New Yorker “The contemporary reader will marvel at [Bogdanov’s] foresight: nuclear fusion and propulsion, atomic weaponry and fallout, computers, blood transfusions, and (almost) unisexuality.” —Choice “Bogdanov’s novels reveal a great deal about their fascinating author, about his time and, ironically, ours, and about the genre of utopia as well as his contribution to it.” —Slavic Review
Patriot Pirates
Author: Robert H. Patton
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307390551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, naval warfare, and international political intrigue set on the high seas during the American Revolution. Patriot Pirates highlights the obscure but pivotal role played by colonial privateers in defeating Britain in the American Revolution. American privateering-essentially legalized piracy-began with a ragtag squadron of New England schooners in 1775. It quickly erupted into a massive seaborne insurgency involving thousands of money-mad patriots plundering Britain's maritime trade throughout Atlantic. Patton's extensive research brings to life the extraordinary adventures of privateers as they hammered the British economy, infuriated the Royal Navy, and humiliated the crown.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307390551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this lively narrative history, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the World War II battlefield legend, tells a sweeping tale of courage, capitalism, naval warfare, and international political intrigue set on the high seas during the American Revolution. Patriot Pirates highlights the obscure but pivotal role played by colonial privateers in defeating Britain in the American Revolution. American privateering-essentially legalized piracy-began with a ragtag squadron of New England schooners in 1775. It quickly erupted into a massive seaborne insurgency involving thousands of money-mad patriots plundering Britain's maritime trade throughout Atlantic. Patton's extensive research brings to life the extraordinary adventures of privateers as they hammered the British economy, infuriated the Royal Navy, and humiliated the crown.
Provincial Patriot of the French Revolution
Author: Bette W. Oliver
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 073919691X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This biography of François Buzot, a Girondin leader in both the Constituent Assembly (1789-91) and the National Convention (1792-93), illustrates how his early life in Evreux and his training as a lawyer influenced his ideas and actions during the French Revolution, when he championed individual rights and the rule of law in a republic. A provincial leader who distrusted the increasingly centralized government in Paris, Buzot worked tirelessly to defend departmental interests, which led his Jacobin opponents to accuse him of federalism. Buzot became an active participant in the factional disputes dividing the national assembly in 1792-93, which led to frequent attacks against him and his cohorts by the radical press and demands for their impeachment. Consequently, Buzot and twenty-nine other Girondin deputies were expelled from the assembly in June 1793 and placed under house arrest. While Buzot and some of his friends escaped and fled to Caen, those Girondins who had remained in Paris were executed that October. After their attempt to form a large departmental force to march against the government in Paris had failed, Buzot and his friends fled to St. Emilion, where they survived as fugitives, often hiding in abandoned stone quarries, until June 1794. Buzot’s memoirs, written when he was on the run in 1793-94, provide an unusual contemporary account of the difficult and dangerous period known as the Terror. In addition, letters to and from his friends, notably Madame Roland, with whom he shared a romantic relationship, offer a more personal view of Buzot than can be found in most texts. Although Buzot was honored as a local hero by the citizens of Evreux in 1789, by the summer of 1793 the authorities had declared him a traitor and ordered his home demolished, and its furnishings sold at auction. Honored again during the centennial celebration of the French Revolution, by 1989 he had almost been forgotten. This first biographical treatment in English of François Buzot, a “bourgeois gentilhomme,” provides a new dimension to the story of an important revolutionary leader.
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 073919691X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
This biography of François Buzot, a Girondin leader in both the Constituent Assembly (1789-91) and the National Convention (1792-93), illustrates how his early life in Evreux and his training as a lawyer influenced his ideas and actions during the French Revolution, when he championed individual rights and the rule of law in a republic. A provincial leader who distrusted the increasingly centralized government in Paris, Buzot worked tirelessly to defend departmental interests, which led his Jacobin opponents to accuse him of federalism. Buzot became an active participant in the factional disputes dividing the national assembly in 1792-93, which led to frequent attacks against him and his cohorts by the radical press and demands for their impeachment. Consequently, Buzot and twenty-nine other Girondin deputies were expelled from the assembly in June 1793 and placed under house arrest. While Buzot and some of his friends escaped and fled to Caen, those Girondins who had remained in Paris were executed that October. After their attempt to form a large departmental force to march against the government in Paris had failed, Buzot and his friends fled to St. Emilion, where they survived as fugitives, often hiding in abandoned stone quarries, until June 1794. Buzot’s memoirs, written when he was on the run in 1793-94, provide an unusual contemporary account of the difficult and dangerous period known as the Terror. In addition, letters to and from his friends, notably Madame Roland, with whom he shared a romantic relationship, offer a more personal view of Buzot than can be found in most texts. Although Buzot was honored as a local hero by the citizens of Evreux in 1789, by the summer of 1793 the authorities had declared him a traitor and ordered his home demolished, and its furnishings sold at auction. Honored again during the centennial celebration of the French Revolution, by 1989 he had almost been forgotten. This first biographical treatment in English of François Buzot, a “bourgeois gentilhomme,” provides a new dimension to the story of an important revolutionary leader.
The Age of Atlantic Revolution
Author: Patrick Griffin
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030020633X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history "A fresh and illuminating framework for understanding our past and imagining our future. Powerfully argued and engagingly written, Patrick Griffin's timely account of revolutionary regime change and reaction shows how a world of empires became our world of nation-states."--Peter S. Onuf, coauthor of Most Blessed of the Patriarchs "When we speak of an age of revolution, what do we mean? In this synoptic, compelling book, Patrick Griffin asks the difficult questions and invites readers to reconsider the answers."--Eliga Gould, author of Among the Powers of the Earth The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an individual, of how to define a citizen versus a subject, of what states should or should not do, of how labor, politics, and trade would be organized, of the relationship between the church and the state, and of our attachment to the nation all derive from this period (c. 1750-1850). Historian Patrick Griffin shows that the Age of Atlantic Revolution was rooted in how people in an interconnected world struggled through violence, liberation, and war to reimagine themselves and sovereignty. Tying together the revolutions, crises, and conflicts that undid British North America, transformed France, created Haiti, overturned Latin America, challenged Britain and Europe, vexed Ireland, and marginalized West Africa, Griffin tells a transnational tale of how empires became nations and how our world came into being.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030020633X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
A bold new account of the Age of Revolution, one of the most complex and vast transformations in human history "A fresh and illuminating framework for understanding our past and imagining our future. Powerfully argued and engagingly written, Patrick Griffin's timely account of revolutionary regime change and reaction shows how a world of empires became our world of nation-states."--Peter S. Onuf, coauthor of Most Blessed of the Patriarchs "When we speak of an age of revolution, what do we mean? In this synoptic, compelling book, Patrick Griffin asks the difficult questions and invites readers to reconsider the answers."--Eliga Gould, author of Among the Powers of the Earth The Age of Atlantic Revolution was a defining moment in western history. Our understanding of rights, of what makes the individual an individual, of how to define a citizen versus a subject, of what states should or should not do, of how labor, politics, and trade would be organized, of the relationship between the church and the state, and of our attachment to the nation all derive from this period (c. 1750-1850). Historian Patrick Griffin shows that the Age of Atlantic Revolution was rooted in how people in an interconnected world struggled through violence, liberation, and war to reimagine themselves and sovereignty. Tying together the revolutions, crises, and conflicts that undid British North America, transformed France, created Haiti, overturned Latin America, challenged Britain and Europe, vexed Ireland, and marginalized West Africa, Griffin tells a transnational tale of how empires became nations and how our world came into being.