The peasants' revolt: in 1381 England witnessed a 'summer of blood' as the lower orders, emboldened by the labour shortages that followed the Black Death, flexed their muscle. Dan Jones tells the story of one of medieval England's most dramatic yet curiously neglected events.(THE PEASANTS' REVOLT) History Today (6/1/2009)
...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Peasants' Revolt terrified its victims and...they know of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381, my guess is that...All That, 'the Pheasants' Revolts ... were thus clearly Romantic...the story of the Peasants' Revolt. It is a complicated one...
A revolutionary Bible? Thomas Muntzer and Gerrard Winstanley: Roland Boer writes on the Peasants' Revolt and the True Levellers.(Essay) Arena Magazine (2/1/2008)
...examples: Thomas Muntzer and the Peasants' Revolt in 16th-century Germany and Gerrard...revolution. Thomas Muntzer and the Peasants' Revolt One of the most famous...on 15 May 1525. Eight thousand peasants had lined up with him, expecting...
Time for a peasants' revolt.(nuclear non-proliferation)(Guest Opinion)(Brief Article)(Column) Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (11/1/1997)
...states are docile and disorganized. It is time for a peasants' revolt. The 130 non-nuclear states should meet and issue...nonproliferation regime unravel before his eyes. If faced by a revolt of the peasants, the United States could hardly do nothing. Should...
Medieval Law in Context: The Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt.(Book Review) Albion (12/22/2002)
...Growth of Legal Consciousness from Magna Carta to the Peasants' Revolt. (Manchester Medieval Studies.) Manchester...of legal consciousness from Magna Car/a to the Peasants 'Revolt treats a critically important topic. Musson considers...
PEASANTS REVOLT.(News) South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales) (4/1/2004)
Byline: By PHILLIP NIFIELD South Wales Echo A modern-day peasants revolt against the way Cardiff council is running the city already has a dozen potential candidates, we can reveal today.ARE YOU UP...
Ethiopia: Power and Protest, Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century. The Historian (3/22/1998)
Ethiopia: Power and Protest, Peasant Revolts in the Twentieth Century. By Gebru Tareke. (Lawrenceville, NJ: Red Sea Press, 1996. Pp. xxi, 272. $19.95.) The study...
Great Tales from English History: Cheddar Man to the Peasants' Revolt.(Brief Article)(Book Review) Contemporary Review (2/1/2004)
Great Tales from English History: Cheddar Man to the Peasants' Revolt. Robert Lacey. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]14.99. 254 pages. ISBN 0-316-72674-5. The author has built this...
The Taiping Peasant Revolt. Monthly Review (10/1/2000)
...expectations? The Taiping peasant revolt was the greatest revolutionary...war to destroy the Taiping revolt was the most terrible in human...Hong Xiuquan, the son of a peasant farmer, who believed he was...Guangxi. A growing number of peasants, miners, and outlaws rallied...
For Chinese, Peasant Revolt Is Rare Victory; Farmers Beat Back Police In Battle Over Pollution The Washington Post (6/13/2005)
...was a rare triumph for the peasants, rising up against the all...spontaneous mass protest. Peasants and workers left behind by...with force. The workers and peasants appear to have nowhere else...origin and unfolding of one revolt that went the other way...
Mau Mau and Kenya: An analysis of a Peasant Revolt. The Historian (3/22/1995)
...intenial contradictions, setbacks and triumphs" of the Mau Mau peasant resistance movement of the 1950s, which preceded independence...political reforms prized out of the British by the failed revolt, spared no opportunity to denounce Mau Mau's atavism and...Kenyatta appeased the settlers while denying land to ...
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