The Third Revolution - Volume 1: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era

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This text gives a detailed account of the great revolutions that have swept over Europe and America during the last three centuries. The author starts with a look at the peasant wars that preceded the modern era then gives accounts of the English Revolution of the mid-17th century the American Revolution of the 1770s-1780s and the French Revolution. The work emphasizes 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.