In their pursuit of social justice, revolutionaries have taken on the assembled might of monarchies, empires, and dictatorships. They have often, though not always, sparked cataclysmic violence, and have at times won miraculous victories, though at other times suffered devastating defeat.This Very Short Introduction illuminates the revolutionaries, their strategies, their successes and failures, and the ways in which revolutions continue to dominate world events and the popular imagination. Starting with the city-states of ancient Greece and Rome, Jack Goldstone traces the development of revolutions through the Renaissance and Reformation, the Enlightenment and liberal constitutional revolutions such as in America, and their opposite¿the communist revolutions of the20th century. He shows how revolutions overturned dictators in Nicaragua and Iran and brought the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and examines the new wave of non-violent "color" revolutions¿the
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Documentary film can encompass anything from Robert Flaherty''s pioneering ethnography Nanook of the North to Michael Moore''s anti-Iraq War polemic Fahrenheit 9/11, from Dziga Vertov''s artful Soviet propaganda piece Man...
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Though the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788, its impact on our lives is as recent as today''s news. Claims and counterclaims about the constitutionality of governmental actions are a habit of American politics. This document, which its...
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