Immanuel Ness, Trevor Ngwane, and Luke Sinwell, eds.: Urban Revolt: State Power and the Rise of People’s Movements in the Global South (Haymarket 2017)
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“Three 18th-Century Revolutions and why they Matter in 2017”
Russell Shorto on Mike Rapport: THE UNRULY CITY: Paris, London and New York in the Age of Revolution (Basic Books 2017).
“The victory of a revolution is immanent”
“A monument does not commemorate or celebrate something that happened but confides to the ear of the future the persistent sensations that embody the event: the constantly renewed suffering of men and women, their re-created protestations, their constantly resumed struggle. Will this all be in vain because suffering is eternal and revolutions do not survive…