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Political History of Revolutions & Coups

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Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights 1750-1790

By Jonathan Israel (Professor of Modern History, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)

Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions

By Paul E. Lovejoy

Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement

By Alexander Thurston

A Radical History of the World

By Neil Faulkner

History's Locomotives: Revolutions and the Making of the Modern World

By Martin Malia, Terence Emmons

The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest, and Social Change in Egypt

By Chris Toensing, Jeannie Sowers

Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi

By Alison Pargeter

Peasants Against the State: The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983

By Stephen G. Bunker

The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution

By Christopher Hill

Tweets from Tahrir: Egypt's Revolution as it Unfolded, in the Words of the People Who Made it

By Alex Nunns, Nadia Idle

Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity

By Michael J. Mazarr

Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire.

By Maya Jasanoff

Revolution in Zanzibar: An American's Cold War Tale

By Donald Petterson

REVOLUTION AND COUNTER REVOLUTION

By Calvert

Negotiated Revolutions: The Czech Republic, South Africa and Chile

By George Lawson

Cuba and Angola: Fighting for Africa's Freedom and Our Own

By Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Nelson Mandela

Rebels: Voices from the Easter Rising

By Fearghal McGarry

The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europe

By David I. Kertzer (Paul Dupee, Jr. University Professor of Social Science, Brown University)

Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A guide to building a better world

By Klaus Schwab, Nicholas Davis

Making the Arab World: Nasser, Qutb, and the Clash That Shaped the Middle East

By Fawaz A. Gerges

Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: Workers and the Egyptian Revolution

By Anne Alexander, Mostafa Bassiouny

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921

By Antony Beevor

1916: The Easter Rising

By Tim Pat Coogan

If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets'

By Vincent Bevins

Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men

By Lady Antonia Fraser

Nicholas II, The Last Tsar

By Michael Paterson

The French Revolution 1789-1799, Vol 1: From the Storming of the Bastille to the Fall of the Girondins

By Albert Soboul

The French Revolution 1789-1799, Vol 2: From the Jacobin Dictatorship to Napoleon

By Albert Soboul

Unbridled Spirits: Women of the English Revolution, 1640-60

By Stevie Davies

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses

By Helen Rappaport