Peasants' Revolt

Peasants Make Their Own History

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The revolt of youth: some historical comparisons.

The existence of a youth problem appears to many a phenomenon peculiarly characteristic of our own time. In fact, in the United States over the past fifty years almost each generation has produced distinctive young rebels-the bohemians before and after World War I, the radicals of the thirties and forties, the beatniks and hipsters of the fifties, and the hippies and romantic anarcho-marxists o...

The United Democratic Front and Township Revolt ^ South Africa

Recent years have witnessed the revival of organised mass opposition to Apartheid. Fighting in the townships, labour unrest, classroom revolts, rent strikes, consumer boycotts, worker stayaways and guerilla warfare all these have become familiar features of South Africa's political landscape since 1976. From the inception of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983, though, radical black oppos...

Princes and peasants. Smallpox in history

existence of Hermes Trismegistus in his De hermetica Aegyptiorum vetere et Paracelsicorum nova medicina of 1648. Borrichius pointed to early evidence of chemical processes through biblical citations. Neither did he doubt that Hermes had lived or that he could rightly be called the originator of chemistry. Conring replied to Borrichius in a greatly expanded version of the De hermetica . . . medi...

Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion, and Political Power