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Humanities & Social SciencesJuly 2026The promise of violence
Collective memory and the making of revolutionaries in Iran
by Younes Saramifar
Revolutionaries in Iran choose to identify memories of the Iran-Iraq War as their 'collective' memory to mark the war era as the temporal reference in history - the time of times, or sometimes even a time beyond time. Can a sole event and its violence truly become - for some - the all-encompassing, constituting element of history and memory? This book pursues this question and follows revolutionaries in the maze of 'collective' memory to offer a temporal account of the breakdown of happenings - as well as the mending of happenings through the force of remembrance.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2025Transnational solidarity
Anticolonialism in the global sixties
by Zeina Maasri, Cathy Bergin, Francesca Burke
Transnational solidarity excavates the forgotten histories of solidarity that were vital to radical political imaginaries during the 'long' 1960s. It decentres the conventional Western focus of this critical historical moment by foregrounding transnational solidarity with, and across, anticolonial and anti-imperialist liberation struggles. The book traces the ways in which solidarity was conceived, imagined and enacted in the border crossings - of nation, race and class - made by grassroots activists. This diverse collection draws links between exiled revolutionaries in Uruguay, post-colonial immigrants in Britain, and Greek communist refugees in East Germany who campaigned for their respective causes from afar while identifying and linking up with wider liberation struggles. Meanwhile, Arab immigrants in France, Pakistani volunteers and Iraqi artists found myriad ways to express solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Neglected archives also reveal Tricontinental Cuban-based genealogies of artistic militancy, as well as transnational activist networks against Portuguese colonial rule in Africa. Bringing together original research with contributions from veteran activists and artists, this interdisciplinary volume explores how transnational solidarity was expressed in and carried through the itineraries of migrants and revolutionaries, film and print cultures, art and sport, political campaigns and armed struggle. It presents a novel perspective on radical politics of the global sixties which remains crucial to understanding anti-racist solidarity today. With a foreword by Vijay Prashad.
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Humanities & Social SciencesDecember 2000Revolutionary Britannia?
Reflections on the threat of revolution in Britain, 1789–1848
by Edward Royle
Europe was swept by revolution in the period from 1789 to 1848. Britain, alone of the major western powers, seemed exempt from this revolutionary fervour. The governing class attributed this exemption to divine providence and the soundness of the British Constitution. This view has been upheld by historians for over a century. This book provides students with an alternative view of the potential for revolution and the resources of conservatism in early industrial Britain which challenges many of the common assumptions. Incorporates quotations from primary sources to give the reader a critical sense of why revolution was taken seriously by people at the time. Shows how the revolutionaries were defeated by the government's propaganda against revolutionary sentiments and the strength of popular conservatism. ;
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January 2012Plötzlich war ich im Schatten
Mein Leben als Illegale in Deutschland
by Aslan, Ela; Vattrodt, Veronika
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2023Time and radical politics in France
From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War
by Alexandra Paulin-Booth
This book investigates how people have thought about and experienced time, and how their ideas about time have shaped their political views and actions. Using French thinkers and activists of the radical left and right between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War as a case study, it argues that time provides an important means of exploring how concepts such as nationalism, revolution and social change were understood at the turn of the century. Attending to different experiences of time - the speed at which it was perceived to move, the extent to which the future was near and graspable, the ways in which the past was seen to impinge on the present - opens up exciting new possibilities for analysing politics, ideologies and worldviews.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2007Religion in Revolutionary England
by Christopher Durston, Judith Maltby
This book offers a collection of essays tightly focused around the issue of religion in England between 1640 and 1660, a time of upheaval and civil war in England. Edited by well-known scholars of the subject, topics include the toleration controversy, women's theological writing, observance of the Lord's Day and prayer books. To aid understanding, the essays are divided into three sections examining theology in revolutionary England, inside and outside the revolutionary National Church and local impacts of religious revolution. Carefully and thoughtfully presented, this book will be of great use for those seeking to better understand the practices and patterns of religious life in England in this important and fascinating period. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesApril 2014Radical democracy
Politics between abundance and lack
by Simon Tormey, Lars Toender, Lasse Thomassen, Jon Simons
Available at last in paperback, Radical democracy brings together original contributions from established and emerging scholars. The contributors discuss the theoretical and practical implications of the two dominant approaches to radical democracy: theories of abundance inspired by Gilles Deleuze and theories of lack inspired by Jacques Lacan. They examine the idea of radical democracy from a wide variety of perspectives: identity/difference, the public sphere, social movements, nature, popular culture, right wing populism and political economy. In addition, the volume relates the work of contemporary thinkers such as Deleuze, Lacan, Derrida and Foucault to classical thinkers such as Spinoza, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche. William Connolly and Ernesto Laclau conclude the volume with two afterwords on the future of radical democracy. With its original contributions, Radical democracy is essential reading for advanced students and scholars who have an interest in the political and theoretical problems of radical democracy. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2026Revolutionary anxieties
Defending privilege in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution
by Liina Mustonen
Revolutionary anxieties sheds light on an unexplored dimension of the 2011 Egyptian revolution: the anxieties experienced by Cairo-based liberal elite, socialites, and cultural actors who opposed the rise of the new political actors, the Muslim Brotherhood. This book provides fresh insights into the failure of the Egyptian revolution by examining the perspectives of those who had a vested interest in maintaining the status-quo. It engages with post-colonial theory and examines the elite milieu in Cairo through the lenses of gender and race. Based on over two years of ethnographic research in various elite locations such as the Cairo Opera House, an Egyptian-European film festival, and an elite sporting club in Cairo, the book illustrates how members of Egyptian liberal upper class insisted on their privilege in a moment when the country's class hierarchies were challenged. By revealing the prevalence of counter-revolutionary sentiment among Cairo's liberal and affluent elite, the book tells an untold story of the Arab Spring.
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2004Subversive Spinoza
Antonio Negri
by Timothy S. Murphy, Gerard Greenway, Michael Hardt, Edward Stolze, Charles T. Wolfe
In Subversive Spinoza, Antonio Negri spells out the philosophical credo that inspired his radical renewal of Marxism and his compelling analysis of the modern state and the global economy by means of an inspiring reading of the challenging metaphysics of the seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher Spinoza. For Negri, Spinoza's philosophy has never been more relevant than it is today to debates over individuality and community, democracy and resistance, and modernity and postmodernity. This collection of essays extends, clarifies and revises the argument of Negri's influential 1981 book 'The Savage Anomaly: The Power of Spinoza's Metaphysics and Politics' and links it directly to his recent work on constituent power, time and empire. ;
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2024Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic since 1917
by David Featherstone, Christian Høgsbjerg, Alan Rice
Revolutionary lives of the Red and Black Atlantic brings to light the life histories of a wide range of radical figures whose political activity in relation to the black liberation struggle was profoundly shaped by the global impact and legacy of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. The volume introduces new perspectives on the intellectual trajectories of well-known figures and critical activists including C. L. R. James, Paul Robeson, Walter Rodney and Grace P. Campbell. This biographical approach brings a vivid and distinctive lens to bear on how racialised social and political worlds were negotiated and experienced by these revolutionary figures, and on historic black radical engagements with left political movements, in the wake of the Russian Revolution.
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Society & culture: generalJuly 2014Radical childhoods
Schooling and the struggle for social change
by Jessica Gerrard
At a time when education appears to be simply reproducing social class relations, Radical childhoods offers a timely consideration of how children's and young people's education can confront and challenge social inequality. Presenting detailed analysis of archival material and oral testimony, the book examines the experiences of students and educators in two schooling initiatives that were connected to two of the most significant social movements in Britain: Socialist Sunday Schools (est. 1892) and Black Saturday/Supplementary Schools (est. 1967). Analysing across time, the author explores the ways in which these two very different schooling movements incorporated large numbers of women, challenged class and race inequality, and attempted to create spaces of 'emancipatory' education independent to the state. It argues that despite appearing to be on the 'margins' of the public sphere these schools were important, if contested and complex, sites of political struggle.
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July 2015Alea Aquarius 1. Der Ruf des Wassers
by Tanya Stewner, Antje Seibel, Tanya Stewner, Guido Frommelt, Alexander Rieß, Laura Maire, Frank Gustavus, Claudia Carls
Kopfüber in ein aufregend neues Leben Alea fühlt seit jeher den Sog des Meeres. Doch sie darf dem Wasser niemals nahekommen - es wäre tödlich für sie! Das jedenfalls hat Aleas Mutter ihrer Pflegemutter gesagt, bevor sie verschwand. Doch eines Tages schließt Alea sich den Kindern der Alpha Cru an, die auf einem Segelboot über die Meere schippern und wird bei einem Sturm über Bord geschleudert. Danach ist nichts mehr, wie es war. Hinreißende Heldin für alle Fans von „Liliane Susewind“ - Abenteuerlich, fantasievoll und lustig mit einer zarten Prise Liebe. Mit eigens komponiertem Titelsong - gesungen von der Autorin! Alle Bände der Reihe auch als CD verfügbar: Band 1: Der Ruf des Wassers Band 2: Die Farben des Meeres Band 3: Das Geheimnis der Ozeane Band 4: Die Macht der Gezeiten (Teil 1 und 2) Band 5: Die Botschaft des Regens (Teil 1 und 2) Band 6: Der Fluss des Vergessens (Teil 1 und 2) Band 7: Im Bannkreis des Schwurs (Teil 1 und 2) Band 8: Der Gesang der Wale (Teil 1 und 2) Weitere Geschichten zur Bestseller-Reihe für jüngere Hörer*innen ab 5: Die Magie der Nixen Ein Lied für die Gilfen Weihnachten mit der Alpha Cru Die Kraft der Wasserkobolde Das erste original Song-Album mit der Alpha-Cru-Musik: Alea Aquarius. Die Songs
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April 2025Die Hüter der flüsternden Schlüssel (2). Ruf des Magitoriums
Actionreiches Fantasyabenteuer ab 10 voller magischer Orte und tierischer Gefährten
by Tanja Voosen, Emma Gillette
Die Magie wurde entfesselt. Das Magitorium gerettet. Doch das größte Geheimnis der Magie ist noch verborgen … Beste Freunde, ein magischer Schlüssel und eine sprechende Katze als Gefährtin – Lenna fühlt sich in der neuen Stadt endlich zu Hause. Genau wie im Magitorium mit all seinen Zaubern. Aber plötzlich erreicht das Magitorium ein Hilferuf von einer unbekannten Key Keeperin und aus einer einfachen Rettungsmission wird eine neue Bedrohung! Denn jemand aus der Vergangenheit ist auf der Suche nach einem gefährlichen Artefakt. Plötzlich stecken Lenna, Rudi, Kimie und Pirro mitten in einer Prüfung, die nicht nur über ihr Schicksal als Hüter entscheidet, sondern auch mit einem großen Geheimnis verknüpft ist. Und die lange verborgene Wahrheit ist vielleicht sogar gefährlicher als ihr Feind … Atemlose Spannung, ein uraltes Geheimnis, neue magische Schauplätze: Tanja Voosen entfesselt mit Band 2 der Hüter der flüsternden Schlüssel ein weiteres magisches Abenteuer! Weitere Bücher von Tanja Voosen: Die Hüter der flüsternden Schlüssel (1). Verlorene MagieDie Hüter der flüsternden Schlüssel (2). Ruf des Magitoriums Die Zuckermeister (1). Der magische PaktDie Zuckermeister (2). Die verlorene RezepturDie Zuckermeister (3). Das letzte Bündnis M.A.G.I.K. (1). Die Prinzessin ist losM.A.G.I.K. (2). Das Chaos trägt Krone
