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Revolutions

Volume VII, Number 2 | spring 2014

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Crowd Control

Lewis H. Lapham

No Smoke for Camilo

Garret Keizer

Market Corrections

Orlando Figes

Map

Technological Revolutions

Scientific Revolutions

Political Revolutions

Miscellany

Boudicca faces the Romans.

Stendhal on literature and politics.

Che Guevara’s essentials for a revolutionary.

Alexis de Tocqueville honors his ancestor Lamoignon de Malesherbes.

Paul Krugman’s poor prediction.

Jean le Bel chronicles peasant justice.

Aldous Huxley praises a former student.

The funeral of Jean-Paul Marat.

Georges Cuvier develops a theory of revolutions.

“Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

The place to be during the Spanish Civil War.

Remember, remember, the fifth of November.

“To be a Gringo in Mexico—ah, that is euthanasia.”

Augusto César Sandino asks for a fight.

Karl Marx writes about the revolutionary Abraham Lincoln.

You say you want a revolution.

Dawn Powell attends the American Writers’ Conference.

Voices In Time

All Things Renew

1841 | Concord, MA

Anni Mirabiles

1718 | London

Adolf Hitler Writes History

1937 | Berlin

Hit Piece

1860 | London

Getting It Right

1582 | Rome

Turning the Tables

c. 30 | Jerusalem

Questioning the Pope

1517 | Wittenberg

Premeditated Discords

1914 | Philadelphia

Out of the Barrel of a Gun

c. 1945 | China

Class Notes

1976 | Paris

Unholy Trinity

1920 | Vienna

The Reasons Why

c. 330 BC | Athens

The Bourgeois Revolution

1848 | London

Job Requirements

1869 | Geneva

Clear and Present Danger

1919 | Washington, DC

Making a Distinction

1910 | New York City

Property Is Robbery

1840 | Paris

A Body Divided Cannot Walk

491 BC | Rome

No Common Bond

1860 | Columbia, SC

Volunteering His Services

1823 | Greece

The Tree of Liberty

1787 | Paris

Language Police

1923 | Moscow

Attack Plans

1667 | London

Nursed with Great Tenderness

1775 | London

The New Moral Force

1900 | Paris

False Lights

1790 | London

Putting Down the Revolt

c. 460 BC | Athens

His Name Was Spartacus

72 BC | Italy

The Impulse to Preserve

1848 | Normandy

A Terrible Beauty Is Born

1916 | London

All Men Would Be Tyrants if They Could

1776 | New England

Of All Human Rewards

1826 | Lima

The Coming Storm

c. 1930 | Tunis

The Scientific Method

1620 | London

Getting on the Train

c. 1850 | New England

So Many False Arguments

1685 | London

Public-Works Project

1793 | Paris

The Best Fence Against Rebellion

1686 | Netherlands

Nonnegotiable Demands

1792 | Saint-Domingue

Demystifying the Magic Word

1938 | Paris

Missed Opportunity

1921 | West Orange, NJ

A Modest Proposal

1543 | Nuremburg

Charts and Graphs

Working Revolutions

False Starts

Lending a Hand

Dressing the Part

Split Opinions

Internal Divisions

Communication Is Everything

Color-Coded Revolutions

Save the Date

Lag Times

Revolutions per Minute

Contributors

Conversations

Auguste Comte & Timothy Leary

José Martí & Stokely Carmichael

William Wordsworth & John Reed

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