Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. 248 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. Every now and then, things explode. Riots, uprisings, revolutions, new and bizarre social groups spring up seemingly from nowhere. Our standard histories tend to treat these as oddities, if treated at all, or as misguided responses to hard times, limited by lack of responsible leadership. Here's a People's History to puncture that balloon. From the Cynics & Spartacus through the Levelers, Diggers & Ranters to the Revolution of the Carnation, the San Francisco Diggers, Red Guard of Shenwulian, Brethren of the Free Spirit, Guevara, the Provos & the Metropolitan Indians. Nearly 100 episodes of revolt and utopia which popped up without a plan or a leader from the ancient Greeks to the present.

Subject

1. Social history
2. Riots > History
3. Social Conditions
4. social history
5. Riots
6. Aufstand
7. Geschichte

Genre/Form

1. History.

Contents

1. The Cynics -- Spartacus -- The Bagaudi -- The Norman Peasant War -- The English Peasants' Revolt: The Great Company -- Los Remensas -- Etienne De La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude -- The Iroquois League -- The Leagues and the Carnival in Romans -- Levellers, Diggers, and Ranters--The English Revolution -- The Ormee -- The French Revolution -- The Paris Commune -- The Cempuis Orphanage -- La Ruche -- The Zapatistas -- The Makhnovshchina -- Spartakus -- The Councils Republic of Bavaria -- The Hungarian Councils Republic -- The Rio Gallegos Workers' Association -- The Spanish Revolution and the Durruti Column -- The Souvenir Album of Buenaventura Durruti -- The People's Uprising in Hungary -- The Red Guards of the Shengwulian -- The San Francisco Diggers -- May '68 -- Christiania -- The Revolution of the Carnations -- Le Larzac.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library