"From their French masters, [the slaves] had known rape, torture, degradation, and, at the slightest provocation, deat…"

"Historians otherwise eager to find evidence of “external” participation in the 1791 uprising skip the unmistakable ev…"

"The slaves burned everything, yes, but, unfortunately, they only burned everything in Haiti. Theirs was the greatest …"

"Like many West Indians of my generation, I have been reading C. L. R. James’s Black Jacobins over and over for many y…"

"It is not by speeches and majority resolutions that the great questions of the time are decided – that was the big mi…"

"Most of what the men of 1848 fought for was brought about within a quarter of a century, and the men who accomplished…"

"1848 was the decisive year of German, and so of European, history: it recapitulated Germany's past and anticipated Ge…"

"The peasants of central Europe also had their social discontents, particularly in Austria where they still lived unde…"

"Nationalism was the great common factor in the central European revolutions of 1848. Indeed it was a spirit never to …"

"In 2010 the pro-Russian leader of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych, opposed any move to take the country closer to NATO or …"