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Revolutions

Volume VII, Number 2 | spring 2014

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Crowd Control

Lewis H. Lapham

Market Corrections

Orlando Figes

No Smoke for Camilo

Garret Keizer

Map

Technological Revolutions

Political Revolutions

Scientific Revolutions

Miscellany

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

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

Dawn Powell attends the American Writers’ Conference.

The funeral of Jean-Paul Marat.

The place to be during the Spanish Civil War.

Augusto César Sandino asks for a fight.

Stendhal on literature and politics.

Georges Cuvier develops a theory of revolutions.

Boudicca faces the Romans.

You say you want a revolution.

Aldous Huxley praises a former student.

Paul Krugman’s poor prediction.

Karl Marx writes about the revolutionary Abraham Lincoln.

Remember, remember, the fifth of November.

Alexis de Tocqueville honors his ancestor Lamoignon de Malesherbes.

Che Guevara’s essentials for a revolutionary.

Jean le Bel chronicles peasant justice.

Voices In Time

Out of the Barrel of a Gun

c. 1945 | China

Class Notes

1976 | Paris

The Bourgeois Revolution

1848 | London

Property Is Robbery

1840 | Paris

Volunteering His Services

1823 | Greece

A Modest Proposal

1543 | Nuremburg

All Things Renew

1841 | Concord, MA

False Lights

1790 | London

The Reasons Why

c. 330 BC | Athens

Demystifying the Magic Word

1938 | Paris

Anni Mirabiles

1718 | London

Making a Distinction

1910 | New York City

Adolf Hitler Writes History

1937 | Berlin

The Coming Storm

c. 1930 | Tunis

A Body Divided Cannot Walk

491 BC | Rome

The Scientific Method

1620 | London

Premeditated Discords

1914 | Philadelphia

Turning the Tables

c. 30 | Jerusalem

Nursed with Great Tenderness

1775 | London

The New Moral Force

1900 | Paris

The Best Fence Against Rebellion

1686 | Netherlands

Public-Works Project

1793 | Paris

Putting Down the Revolt

c. 460 BC | Athens

Clear and Present Danger

1919 | Washington, DC

All Men Would Be Tyrants if They Could

1776 | New England

His Name Was Spartacus

72 BC | Italy

Job Requirements

1869 | Geneva

Getting on the Train

c. 1850 | New England

No Common Bond

1860 | Columbia, SC

So Many False Arguments

1685 | London

Questioning the Pope

1517 | Wittenberg

Attack Plans

1667 | London

The Tree of Liberty

1787 | Paris

The Impulse to Preserve

1848 | Normandy

Getting It Right

1582 | Rome

Unholy Trinity

1920 | Vienna

Of All Human Rewards

1826 | Lima

A Terrible Beauty Is Born

1916 | London

Language Police

1923 | Moscow

Hit Piece

1860 | London

Nonnegotiable Demands

1792 | Saint-Domingue

Missed Opportunity

1921 | West Orange, NJ

Charts and Graphs

Lending a Hand

Revolutions per Minute

Internal Divisions

Color-Coded Revolutions

Lag Times

Save the Date

False Starts

Dressing the Part

Split Opinions

Communication Is Everything

Working Revolutions

Contributors

Conversations

William Wordsworth & John Reed

José Martí & Stokely Carmichael

Auguste Comte & Timothy Leary

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Monumental Mistakes

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Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.

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Thompson of Sunderland makes his mark on Pompey’s pillar.

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