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Finally, back in stock at a reasonable price, the first volume of Bookchin's four volume magnus opus: a comprehensive account of the great revolutions that swept over Europe and America during the past three centuries. In this opening salvo, Bookchin begins with the peasant wars that preceded the modern era, then gives vivid accounts of the English Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century, the American Revolution of the 1770s-1780s, and the French Revolution of the closing decade of the eighteenth century. Throughout, the emphasis is on the popular movements that propelled the great revolutions to radical peaks, the little-known leaders who spoke for the people, and the liberatory social forms to which the revolutions gave rise. It brings to the foreground material on the democratic features of the New Model Army in England, the vast network of grassroots committees of safety that constituted the organizing centers of the American Revolution, and the neighborhood popular assemblies of Paris that radicalized the French Revolution. A masterful work of sweeping scope, erudite scholarship,and a true reconstruction of history from below.
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