Product Description: Two of the world's great Marxist historians present a classic social history of the Great English Agricultural Uprising of 1830. For generation upon generation, the English farm laborer lived in poverty and degradation. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, however, new forces came into play--and when capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside, tensions reached the breaking point...read more

Product Description: In this pathbreaking work originally published in 1980, the late George Rude examines the role played by ideology in a wide range of popular rebellions in Europe and the Americas from the middle ages to the early twentieth century...read more

Product Description: One aspect of the French Revolution that has been largely neglected by historians is the nature of the revolutionary crowd. The present study presents the Parisian revolutionary crowd throughout the period 1787-1795, showing how it behaved, how it was composed, how it was drawn into activity, what it set out to achieve, and how far its aims were realized...read more

Product Description: Book by Rude, George F. E.