Summary
Revolutions is a unique collection of rare photographs documenting some of the most important revolutionary upheavals, from the 1871 Paris Commune to the Zapatista rebellion of the 1990s.
The photographs collected in this unique book provide a startling visual documentation of seminal revolutionary events, from the Paris Commune of 1871 through to a series of ‘Unfinished Revolutions’ from May 1968 in France to the Zapatista uprising in the mid-1990s. The immediacy of …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781642591606 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1642591602 |
| Author: | Michael Lwy |
| Publisher: | Haymarket Books |
| Imprint: | Haymarket Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 550 |
| Release Date: | 7 February 2021 |
| Weight: | 842g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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“Revolutions is a major contribution to our understanding of the principal social movements which shape our modern world. It brings us closer to the participants of history, it provides imagery beautiful and haunting, inspiring and brutal. It binds together the unknown agents of history, the ordinary people achieving the extraordinary, and the immortalised heroes of revolutionary movements.” –Aidan Ratchford, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
About The Author
Michael Lwy
Michael Lwy is emeritus research director at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research). His books, On Changing the World and The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development, have been translated into twenty-nine languages.
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