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Cheering revolutionaries in Berlin during the Revolutions of 1848, Berlin Palace in the background. 1848: The Revolutions of 1848 were a wave of failed liberal and republican revolutions that swept through Europe. The French Revolution of 1848 led to the creation of the French Second Republic. The Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states.
December 24 – The literary Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras (born 1744) is arrested by radicals of the French Revolution, charged with plotting to help King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette escape from the country. When convicted of treason and handed his official death sentence by the court clerk, he reads it, shakes his head and says: "I see ...
The list starts in order with the first ten books: the I Ching (an ancient Chinese divination text), the Hebrew Bible (a version of which serves as the "Old Testament" of the Christian Bible), the Iliad and Odyssey, the Upanishads (a collection of ancient Indian philosophical texts), the Tao Te Ching, the Avesta, the Analects, the History of ...
Fictional American Revolutionary War veterans (4 P) Pages in category "Fictional revolutionaries" The following 166 pages are in this category, out of 166 total.
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The selection includes novels, memoirs, history books, and other nonfiction works from various genres, representing well-known and emerging authors. [1] The following are a few of the individuals who contributed to the list. Authors (fiction)
Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm has described the book in 1990 as being "exceptionally stylish and eloquent" and "extremely well-read." Nevertheless, he considered Citizens to be, above all, in his view a wrongful political denunciation of the revolution and a continuation of a tradition in British literature and popular consciousness (in his view established by the writings of Edmund Burke ...
1776 (released in the United Kingdom as 1776: America and Britain at War) [1] is a book written by David McCullough, published by Simon & Schuster on May 24, 2005. The work is a companion to McCullough's earlier biography of John Adams, and focuses on the events surrounding the start of the American Revolutionary War.