Mark Lause

How war gave birth to revolution in the 19th century The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 introduced new military technologies, transformed the organization of armies, and upset the continental balance of power, promulgating new regimented ideas of nationhood and conflict resolution more widely. However, the mass armies that became a new standard required mass mobilization and the arming of working people, who exercised a new power through both a German social democracy and popular insurgent French movements. As in the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Paris Commune of 1871 grew directly from the discontent among radicalized soldiers and civilians pressed into armed service on behalf of institutions they learned to mistrust. If this militarized class conflict, the brutality of the Commune's subsequent repression not only butchered the tens of thousands of Parisians but slaughtered an old utopian faith that appeals to reason and morality could resolve social tensions. War among nations became linked to revolution and revolution to armed struggle.

The Franco-Prussian War and the Paris Commune

Soldiers of Revolution

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Alfons Cervera

Katixa Agirre

Sarah M. S. Pearsall

María Bonete Escoto

Zaron Burnett III

Un cuestionamiento plural del mito fundacional de los Estados Unidos, una mirada crítica a la imagen del cowboy heroico que ha modelado parte de la cultura pop occidental.

Siete ensayos desde las fronteras del western

El otro oeste

Mark Lause

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