Showing results for "Media And Revolution" in Political Science

A revelatory account of how words and actions combined to destroy Britain's colonial rule and secure Washington's American victory The American Revolution was not only fought on bloody battlefields, it was waged with the ink of pen and print. George Goodwin shows how the leaders of the American...

America’s political and economic systems are failing ordinary people. The two-party duopoly keeps us divided, corporate monopolies pull the strings, and the political machine aggressively encourages us to fight each other instead of fixing the structural rot right in front of us. If you feel completely abandoned by the left and the right, welcome home. You aren't crazy...you're just politically homeless, and it's time to build a tent big enough for the rest of us.We Need a Revolution is a dual-format weekly podcast hosted by Kevin Rosenquist and John Banks. We deliver a calculated blend of ...

Revolution's End fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst's relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, the head of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Not only did the heiress have a sexual relationship with DeFreeze while he was imprisoned, she didn't know he was an informant and a victim of prison behavior modification.

During the pitched battle over slavery in the United States, Black writers - enslaved and free - allied themselves with the cause of abolition and used their art to advocate for emancipation and to envision the end of slavery as a world-historical moment of possibility. 

The Reagan Revolution: A Very Short Introduction identifies and tackles some of the controversies and historical mysteries that continue to swirl around Reagan and his legacy, while providing an illuminating look at some of the era's defining personalities, ideas, and accomplishments.  

In April 1917, as Tsar Nicholas II's abdication sent shockwaves across war-torn Europe, the future leader of the Bolshevik revolution, Vladimir Lenin, was far away, exiled in Zurich. To lead the revolt, Lenin needed to return to Petrograd immediately. But to get there, he would have to cross Germany, which meant accepting help from the deadliest of Russia's adversaries and betraying his homeland.

The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity that paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come. Robert Gerwarth argues here that to view the German Revolution in this way is a serious misjudgment. Not only did it bring down the authoritarian monarchy of the Hohenzollern, it also brought into being the first ever German democracy in an amazingly bloodless way.

The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, this book explores changes in women's status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson.

Conflict journalists James Stout and Robert Evans travel to the jungles of Myanmar to meet Gen Z rebels 3D printing guns and learn about their struggle for democracy.

In less than 60 minutes of listening to this audiobook, you will have heard the original 1776 United States Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson's account of the Declaration, and much more.

Syria: The Inconvenient Revolution (STIR) is a podcast by British-Syrian writer and activist Leila Al-Shami (Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution anda War) and Elia Ayoub (The Fire These Times, Hauntologies) on the history and politics of Syria, and in particular since the 2011 revolution. This is a production of the From The Periphery Media Collective. To support us head out to https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery