War and Revolution keyword-industry Palestine and Egypt

Palestine and Egypt

religious hierarchs

An essential introduction for the scholar and the student to a body of work that continues to reverberate across the social sciences

ideology and superstition

in which slaves rebelled against their masters and established the first black republic

War and Revolution keyword-industry Palestine and EgyptWar and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians. It is a revisionist tendency discernible in the work of authors such as Ernst Nolte, who traces the impetus behind the Holocaust to the excesses of the Russian Revolution; or Franois Furet, who links the Stalinist purges to an illness originating with the French Revolution. In this vigorous riposte to those who would denigrate the history of emancipatory